The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 25, 1988, Image 5

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The Corps of Cadets will raise
funds for the Brazos Valley
March of Dimes during its annual
March to the Brazos on Saturday.
Corps Cmdr. Patrick Thorn-
asson said the cadets solicit dona
tions from local business, faculty
members, former students and
parents. In the last 1 1 years the
Corps has raised about $250,000
for the March of Dimes.
The 14-mile march, seven
miles out and seven miles back,
originated in 1908 on April Fool’s
Day, he said.
“The cadets were rowdy, so the
school administration organized
an activity to get them out of town
and out of trouble,” he said.
The march was stopped in
1915 because a student drown,
but it was started again 60 years
later as a means of helping the
March of Dimes, he said.
Current company command
ers will announce leadership posi
tions for next year during the
march, he said.
“This day is a big step in a
Corps career,” he said. “Sopho
mores will gain most of the recog
nition, because they are stepping
intojunior positions.”
Jay Kregel, Corps administra
tive sargeant and sub-chairman
for March of the Brazos commit
tee, said, “The seniors will march
out and then will ride back, the
juniors will lead the Corps back
and the juniors, sophomores and
freshman will all be wearing their
new rank and insignias.”
The cadets will compete in a
tug-of-war competition, stretcher
races and foot races.
The Confederate Air Force
will put on an air show and mili
tary reserve organizations will
simulate ground assaults, he said.
A Bradley fighting vehicle, a tank
and an Apache helicopter will be
on display.
The Dallas Cowboy Cheerlead
ers will be there to sign auto
graphs and T-shirts, he said.
A&M to see Mexican-American impact
By Anita Rodriguez
Reporter
A two-day conference on the
“Mexican-American Impact on
Politics,” featuring former Gove-
norof New Mexico Toney Anaya
speaking on the future of politics,
will take place at Texas A&M
Monday and Tuesday.
The conference is sponsored
by CAMAC and will cover in-
depth views concerning Mexican-
Americans by a variety of local
and state politicians, as well as key
figures in Mexican-American or
ganizations.
The conference, which is free
:o the public, will include the fol
iowing programs:
Ernesto Cortez, A&M Class
of'63 and the founder of Citizens
Organized for Public Service, will
speak on “Local Politics” Monday
at 3 p.m. in MSC 206.
• Sen. Hector Uribe of
Brownsville and Sen. Carlos
Truan of Corpus Christi will
speak on the “Texas Legislature”
Monday at 7:30 p.m. in 701 Rud
der. Uribe and Truan will be
available to answer questions at
4:30 p.m. Monday in 206 MSC.
Uribe currently serves as vice
chairman of the Senate Health
and Human Services Committee,
while Truan is involved wit h both
the Finance and Education Com
mittees.
• Tony Bonilla, who serves as
the head of the Texas League of
IroinSi United Latin American Coun
tries, and Andrew Hernandez of
the Southwest Texas Voter Regis
tration will speak on “History”
Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in 206
MSC. LULAC is a non-partisan
organization, which assists needy
Mexican-Americans and has es
tablished educational and com
munity programs. STVR pro
vides voter information on issues
concerning Mexican-Americans.
• Norma Cantu, who serves as
the head of the San Antonio Mex
ican-American Legal Defense
and Education Fund, and Bryan
City Councilman Helen Chavar
ria will speak on “Women in Poli
tics” Tuesday at 3 p.m. in 206
MSC. MALDEF serves to protect
the rights of Mexican-Americans
by providing legal council and de
fense, and to aid Mexican-Ameri
can youths who are studying to
become lawyers.
• Pedro Ruiz Garza, the presi
dent of Policy Research Group,
Inc. and Anaya, who is a former
governor of New Mexico, will
speak on “The Future of Politics”
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 201
MSC. Anaya and Garza will be
available to answer questions
Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in 206
MSC.
Cathy Valenzuela, chairman of
the MSC Committee for the
Awareness of Mexican-American
Culture, said the conference is
unique in that this is the first time
that CAMAC has used outside
funding of approximately $1,500
from individual donations to help
curb program expenses. The do
nation revenue will be used to
supplement the funds from
CAMAC’s MSC budget.
Anniversary ball
marks 50 years
of incorporatbn
By Mary-Lynne Rice
Staff Writer
More than 200 people will help
celebrate College Station’s 50th an
niversary of incorporation at a
golden anniversary ball tonight.
The sold-out formal dinner and
dance, sponsored by the City of Col
lege Station and the College Station
Community Center, will begin at
7:30 p.m. in the center. Decorations
will include depictions of each of the
five decades of the city’s history.
Proceeds from the ball will sup
port a lecture series and historical vi
deo, said Gracie Calbert, supervisor
of the center and ball coordinator.
“We’re looking for people who
lived here in 1938,” she said. “We’d
like to hear the memories of these
people, who were perhaps born on
campus, who went to school during
the military days, who grew up in
that lifetime.”
Television and radio monitors will
record each lecture, which will be
used for a multi-media slide presen
tation, Calbert said.
“That way, we can also include
music and pictures from history and
from the archives while the speaker
speaks,” she said.
The ball is one of several com/
memorations of College Station’s iri
corporation, she said, which include
a calendar of homes and a pictor/1
history book — College Statih,
Texas: 1938-1988 — by DebcAh
Lynn Balliew. Balliew’s book trees
College Station history from th es
tablishment of A&M through^ach
of its administrations to the preent.
Since 1876, when 106 students ar
rived at the Agricultural ai?l Me
chanical College of Texas, College
Station has grown steadily — now
with almost 53,000 resided and a
University student body / nearly
40,000.
With the completion o Highway
6 in 1936, the small colleg town that
began as a railroad dept opened a
future of population ,rowth and
community expansion.
As the college grew so did resi
dential and business ,reas. By the
1930s, residents saw tfe need to cre
ate a municipality tcoffer govern
ment services. Bailie^ writes that in
March of 1938, a goup represent
ing different cormunity and cam
pus interests preseited an incorpo
ration proposal tethe A&M Board
of Directors. If ajproved, they said,
the government ould focus on the
community and not interfere with
the college’s adbnistration.
The benefitsoffered by the cre
ation of a murcipality included the
improvement )f public health and
sanitation sty»dards, regulation of
8-year-old lemonade salesman mey lose business in move
jor tof
£ |FORT WORTH (AP) — Famed 8-year-old
jree' lemonade salesman J.J. Merrick beat City Hall to
keep his lucrative stand open, but he may have
/er; trouble going up against his parents,
lines V
The Merricks must decide in the next few
months whether they want to buy the house they
have been renting on one of Fort Worth’s most-
^ .. traveled residential thoroughfares, or move to
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another home. For J.J., that decisio
the end of his business.
ould mean
J.J. and his brothers, Chip, 15, a<d Ty, 6, have
sold lemonade and homemade ;hocolate-chip
cookies from a stand in front ofcheir home on
Hulen Street for the past three ytirs. Considered
the “driving force” behind the enture, J.J. has
raised money for family vacations and a home
computer through his sales.
This week, JJ- was bringing in about $25 a day
from his stand, which has brought in as much as
$110 in a single day.
Last year, the stand attracted considerable me
dia attention when the city closed the operation
for a zoning violation — operating a commerical
enterprise on residential property. Authorities
later decided the zoning ordinance did not apply
to single-station lemonade stands operated by
children.
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TAX REFORM CHANGES FILING REQUIREMENTS
In the past, tax filing season hasn’t meant much to most college students. Gener
ally, their standard deduction, or “zero bracket amount” as it was called before
tax reform, combined with their personal exemption, relieved most students of
the obligation to file a return, even if they held part-time jobs. When college stu
dents did file a return, it was usually just to obtain a refund of taxes withheld.
Tax time worries were something gladly left to the older generation.
Unfortunately, thanks to tax reform, college students may now join their elders
in grappling with the Internal Revenue Service. This year, millions of collegians
who have never filed a federal tax return before will need to do so, and what’s
worse they’ll probably owe some tax.
Why the change? The answer lies in the dual concepts of personal exemption
and standard deduction. A general rule (with some exceptions) of ufxation is that
a person need not file a federal return until his or her income exceeds the com
bined total of his or her personal exemption and standard deduction. Under the
old rules, a college student, assuming he or she wasn’t married, could claim a
f ersonal exemption of $1,080 plus a standard deduction of $2,480 for a total of
3,560. Thus, as long as the student's gross income remained under that figure,
no tax return was required and the student escaped federal income taxes alto
gether.
Now let’s look at the new rules. First, most college students will no longer be al
lowed to claim their own personal exemption. Under tax reform, anyone who is
claimed as a dependent on another taxpayer’s return may no longer claim his or
her personal exemption. Because most collegians are dependents of their par
ents, their personal exemption is gone.
The situation with the standard deduction is a bit more complicated. The stan
dard deduction of a dependent college student, or any other single dependent
for that matter, is the larger of $500 or his or her earned income, but cannot ex
ceed $2,540, the 1987 standard deduction for single taxpayers who are not de
pendents. Thus, with no personal exemption and reduced standard deduction,
many college students who had no need to file a 1986 return will need to file a
1987 return.
Here’s an example. A sophomore at Dismal Seepage Ag and Tech, we’ll call her
Esmerelda, is dependent on her parents’ tax return. During summer vacation,
she earned $700 working a part time job. She also received $22 taxable interest
from her savings account. Esmerelda’s personal exemption is zero (she’s a depen
dent) and her standard deduction is $700 (the larger of $500 or her earned in
come). What’s left over? The $22 interest income, of course, and she’ll have to
pay tax on that amount. Esmerelda must file a federal tax return, and what’s
more, she’ll pay two dollars tax to Uncle Sam.
Most college students, even if they must file a tax return, will be like Esmerelda—
they won’t actually pay much tax, but they will have the hassle of filing.
For help with your tax return H&R Block has two locations in the Bryan-College
Station area to serve you. At Sears Post Oak Mall we are open seven days a week
during regular store hours and reached by calling 764-0395. We also have an of
fice in Bryan at 1012 Texas Avenue which is also open seven days a week and can
be reached at 823-8241. H&R Block offers appointments but the) are not re
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traffic, provisiot/of police and fire
protection andptablishment of a
school district.
After more /an 60. years of exis
tence, an Oct</er 1938 vote of 217-
39 approvedihe incorporation of
College Sta/>ri. The city’s first
mayor, JohtA- Binney, and five al
dermen we£ elected, all of them
A&M faetty members. In 1939,
Balliew wres, they drew up College
Station’s /rst budget — allotting
$4,320 fq/city expenses.
Althdgh A&M has remained
CollegcStation’s focus in following
decady. it has become more inde-
pend<*t and has taken a less promi
nent ole in municipal affairs, said
Car^Halter, mayor from 1980-1986
andhairman of the Historic Preser-
vatjn Committee.
College Station has gone from a
c/nmunity where the University
is a central focal point for life, so-
/al activity and recreational activity
now playing a much smaller role,”
le said.
“A&M is still a very important
part of the community, but now it is
becoming an independent entity,”
he said. “And College Station is be
coming an independent city with its
own identity.”
Museum owner
in North Texas
dies at 101
McKINNEY (AP) — Bessie
Heard, who endowed her hometown
with a wildlife sanctuary and natural
science museum, has died at the age
of 101, a museum spokesman said
Wednesday.
“She will be missed,” said Steve R.
Runnels, the Heard Museum’s direc
tor of development. A funeral was
scheduled 30 miles north of Dallas
today for Heard, who died Tuesday
night at her home.
In 1964, she endowed the mu
seum that sits on a 266-acre wildlife
sanctuary^ including more than five
miles of nature trails.
Volunteer guides take groups
ranging from Cub Scouts to senior
citizens on one of six different trails
showing native North Texas vegeta
tion, wildlife, geology and ecology,
Runnels said. More than 40,000 visi
tors tour each year.
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