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Texas may get state income tax
Special session discusses
ways to aid public schools
AUSTIN (AP) — The Legis
lature’s special session opened Tues
day amid gloomy forecasts about the
ability to find more money for public
schools and a prediction that an in
come tax might soon be imposed.
“Either cut or tax. Nothing in be
tween,” said Rep. Jim Rudd, D-
Brownfield, head of the budget
writing House Appropriations Com
mittee.
“We need a miracle,” Rudd
added. Tm going to pray a lot.”
Lt.Gov. Bill Hobby said the state’s
financial situation is so tight that an
income tax might be needed before
the year ends.
“It’s not going to happen this (30-
day) session,” Hobby said. “I under
stand that. But I wouldn’t be at all
surprised if it didn’t happen before
this year is out.”
Hobby added that such a tax
would be coupled with a reduction
in property and other taxes.
Lawmakers were called back to
Austin to deal with a Texas Supreme
Court order that the school funding
system is unconstitutional and a fed
eral judge’s ruling that some state ju
dicial elections discriminate against
minority voters.
The session opened just two
weeks before the March 13 prima
ries.
House Speaker Gib Lewis said
lawmakers would have to consider a
tax hike by 1991 at the latest.
“It’s really a very dismal picture,”
said Lewis, D-Fort Worth, citing def
icits in such agencies as the Texas
Department of Health and an in
creasing demand for state services.
"I’d say eventually, if we don’t
pass a tax bill in this special session, it
would certainly be something we will
have to seriously consider in the reg
ular session in 1991,” he said.
Gov. Bill Clements opposes any
new taxes in the 30-day special ses
sion.
Clements called the session after
the Texas Supreme Court gave law
makers a May 1 deadline for chang
ing the school finance system and a
federal judge ruled the county-wide
system of electing judges in nine ur
ban counties is illegal.
Unless the governor’s stand
changes, lawmakers are unlikely to
pass a tax increase this session, Lewis
said. The speaker emphasized he
isn’t pushing a tax hike at this point.
“I have not endorsed a tax bill and
will not until it’s proven to me we
have to have one,” he said. He said
among options expected to be dis
cussed are expanding the sales tax to
food and medicine and creation of a
state personal income tax.
Police Beat
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The following incidents were reported to the
Texas A&M University Police Department between
Feb. 16 and Feb. 21.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF/COMPONENTS OF
EXPLOSIVES/PLACES WEAPONS PROHIB
ITED:
• An officer responded to the Corps area to in
vestigate an explosion that occurred near Duncan
Dining Hall. Investigation revealed that some type
of explosive device had been placed near the bugle
stand. The force of the explosion had blown the me
gaphone approximately 20 feet from its mounting.
The megaphone and the bugle stand sustained ex
tensive damage.
FELONY THEFT:
• Someone reported that a Charolais steer was
stolen from the pasture behind the Beef Cattle Cen
ter.
TERRORISTIC THREAT:
• A woman reported that a threatening note was
placed on her vehicle while it was parked in Parking
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• A man reported that a paper bag filled with
trash had been left on his porch at Ball Street Apart
ments.
• A woman reported that someone broke the left
driver’s side rearview mirror and used a sharp object
to scratch the entire left side of her 1986 Ford Mus
tang while it was in Parking Area 30.
• During foot patrol of the residence hall area, an
officer was notified that someone had struck the
glass portion of a stairway door of Schuhmacher
Hall, causing the glass to crack.
• A man reported that the left rear tail light of his
vehicle was broken. The car was parked in Parking
Area 30.
• A man reported that his driver’s side rear tire
was slashed while the car was parked in Parking
Area 89.
• A man reported that the rear glass of his Ford
truck had been shot out with some type of airgun
while it was parked in Parking Area 25. The investi
gating officer discovered several steel BBs in the in
terior of the vehicle.
CRIMINAL TRESPASS:
• A University of Kansas student and a College
Station resident illegally entered Kyle Field, were is
sued criminal trespass warnings and released.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A man reported the tailgate from his 1983 Ford
truck had been removed in Parking Area 89.
• A woman reported that her 1987 black Suzuki
F-50 moped was stolen from Parking Area 35.
• A College Station man reported the theft of a
gold diamond-and-ruby ring from the Learning Re
sources Department in the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary. The man stated that his girlfriend lost the
ring in the library Feb. 17. Upon realizing the loss,
she checked with personnel m the LRD lost-and-
found and was told that the ring had been located
and could be claimed Monday.
• Two bicycles were stolen in two separate inci
dents around campus.
• A Bryan man reported that the rear license
plate had been removed from his 1986 red Nissan
truck in Parking Area 34.
• Someone reported that the mirror in the stair
well of the Northside Parking Garage was stolen.
PUBLIC INTOXICATION:
• A College Station resident was arrested for
public intoxication and jailed in the Brazos County
Jail.
BURGLARY OF VEHICLE:
* • A man reported that his Sherwood 350 AM/FM
cassette car stereo had been stolen from his 1980
Oldsmobile Omega while it was parked on T-Row of
the Hensel Apartment Complex.
POSSESSION:
• A man was detected in the courtyard of Puryear
Hall with an alcoholic beverage in his possession. He
was issued a citation for MIP.
BURGLARY OF COIN OPERATED MA
CHINE:
• A man reported that the food vending machine
in Cain Hall had been forced open. Investigation re
vealed that the coin box and all food products had
been removed from the machine.
ASSAULT:
• A professor reported that one of his students
had been assaulted. The offender was identified as a
College Station resident. Both parties said that nei
ther one wished to file charges against the other. A
verbal exchange between them resulted in a physical
altercation.
VIOLATION OF UNIVERSITY REGULA
TIONS:
• A College Station man was found to be in pos
session of a quantity of fireworks. The fireworks
were observed in his vehicle during a traffic stop.
THE CRIME PREVENTION UNIT IS AVAIL
ABLE TO ANYONE REQUESTING INFORMA
TION ON COMBATTING CRIME. PLEASE
CALL 845-8900.
TAMU PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
presents
Pam Stoll, CPP
1989 Houston Photographer of the Year
Pam Stoll. Imagemaker Photography
"Creating the Merit Image"
Techniques for selecting and creating
photographs for exhibition and competition
Wednesday, Feb 28
7:00pm MSC 352
Everybody welcome...bring your best photos to be critiqued
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