Wednesday, November 1,1989
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Muppets on parade Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
usan Sedgwich, a fifth year senior, and her dog the Texas A&M Research Park Tuesday af-
ilcox dressed for Halloween as the walked in ternoon. They try to walk at least twice a week.
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fHcials: Voter minority
will decide amendments
r AUSTIN (AP) — If past trends
hold true on election day Tuesday, a
small minority of Texans could de
cide the fate of the 21 constitutional
amendments placed before voters.
|| The amendments range from
such weighty matters as providing
water improvements for the state’s
substandard “colonia” developments
to local issues such as abolishing the
offices of several county surveyors.
If Also at issue is whether the sala-
ries of members of the Legislature
should be more than tripled, to
$23,000-plus, along with a near trip
ling of their daily expense allow
ances.
■ “Unfortunately, history tells us
,that despite the importance of the
•constitutional amendment elections,
they generally yield low statewide
voter turnout totals,” said Secretary
of State George Bayoud.
B Since its adoption in 1876, nearly
500 amendments have been pro
posed to the Texas Constitution, and
H)7 have been adopted.
■ “The issues are too important to
let a small number of people decide
their outcome,” Bayoud said.
During the iyous, the turnout of
voters for amendment elections has
ranged from 11.6 percent to 12.8
percent.
The only exception was 1987,
when the lengthy list of proposed
amendments included a referendum
on legalizing pari-mutuel gambling
on horse and dog races.
That year, turnout was 30.6 per
cent of the 7.34 million registered
voters, said Mark Toohey, a spokes
man for the secretary of state.
Bayoud noted that the small
amendment turnouts are a sharp
contrast to other recent elections.
“Sixty-six percent of registered
Texas voters cast ballots in last No
vember’s presidential election,” he
said. “In years when Texas elects a
governor, the turnout rate usually
hovers around 50 percent.”
While the ballot is long and seve
ral of the propositions have been
criticized as confusing, Bayoud said,
“Any attempt to alter language in
the Constitution is significant and
should be thoughtfully considered
by all Texans.”
One big factor that could boost
In Advance
VISC Great Issues to host animal testing lecture
MSC Great Issues will present
“How Necessary is Animal Tes
ting?” Thursday at 2 p.m. in 201
MSC.
Dr. Neal Barnard, the chair
man of the Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine, will
speak for animal rights. The re
search side will be presented by
Dr. John Howe, president of the
University of Texas Health Sci
ences Center in San Antonio and
president of the Texas Society for
Biomedical Research.
The program is not a debate,
but rather a two-part lecture.
Each speaker will be allotted 30
minutes, followed by a 30-minute
question-and-answer session.
'ivil engineers to hold reunion this weekend
Texas A&M University’s De
partment of Civil Engineering
will hold a reunion Friday and
aturday for faculty, staff, stu-
lents and former students.
Patti Wunneburger, events
ommittee member, said that
vents for the reunion include a
;olf tournament, dinner, a coun
ty fair cookout, tours of the engi-
eering facilities and professional
evelopment programs.
The development programs,
‘Effective Communication Skills”
nd “Understanding and Moti-
ating Self and Others,” will last
90 minutes each and will be
taught by professors from the
College of Business.
Wunneburger said that a spe
cial section has been reserved for
the civil engineering department
for Saturday’s A&M - SMU foot
ball game. She said the tickets,
$15 each, may be purchased
through the Athletic Ticket Of
fice. Reservations and fees are re
quired for many of the events.
For information and reserva
tions contact Johna Smith at 845-
2458 or Donn Hancher at 845-
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turnout is the state’s “no-excuses”
absentee voting law, which allowed
voters to cast ballots during a 17-day
advance period, ending four days
before Election Day.
Another factor on turnout is the
election in Houston, the state’s larg
est city. There, voters will be choos
ing a mayor, city council members
and a successor to Congressman
Mickey Leland, who was killed in a
plane crash in Ethiopia, so the city’s
turnout could be high.
This year, the most pre-election
attention has focused on Proposition
1 and Proposition 11.
Book shines
new light
on LBJ
Author raises questions
about his military career
DALLAS (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize
winning author has written a book
that says former President Lyndon
B. Johnson stretched a 13-minute
ride on a World War II bomber into
a personal legacy of bravery and
honor.
The book, written by Robert A.
Caro, is set for publication next year
and will be the second volume of his
biography of Johnson. This volume
covers Johnson’s “hopelessness and
despair” from 1941 to 1948.
Caro writes that, in the years after
the war, Johnson “portrayed himself
as a war-scarred veteran of many
battles on many fronts.”
Actually, Caro says, Johnson saw
combat in the South Pacific, only as
an observer, “for a total of 13 min
utes,” in a ride on a bomber.
An excerpt of the book “Means of
Ascent” published Monday in the
New Yorker magazine claims that
the Silver Star Johnson bragged of
winning in World War II was merely
a political gesture made by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
“Not only did Johnson accept the
Silver Star,” the New Yorker serial
ization says, “he arranged to accept it
in public. Several times. Buying the
decoration (in an Army-Navy store
in Washington), he took it to Texas,
where, in a number of public ap
pearances, it was affixed to his lapel
as if for the first time.”
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