The Tiger 1975-10-16

S£>UT« C&ROLlttA BOOM 1975 October 16,1975 Congressmen discuss economic matters by Steve Matthews represents the district which includes Assistant News Editor Columbia. Mann, a Greenville Democrat, is also "To hell with cutting taxes!". wary of a proposal by President Ford to Congressman James R. Mann stated in cut individual taxes by $8.7 billion and reference to a request by President Ford business taxes by $7.0 billion in addition to asking for a federal spending cut of $28 Fords extension of the 1975 tax rebates. billion from Ford's original budget "I don't favor any tax cuts and I assert proposal of $395 billion. it's nothing but political trash that he Mann, along with Congressman Floyd (Ford) propose a tax cut at this time", Spence, spoke to a group of about 25 Mann declared. "I'm not even sure I want students in a Brackett Hall classroom an extension of the 1975 tax cuts," he Wednesday night. Their speeches, spon- added. sored by the College Republicans, had Unemployment is an extremely im- been scheduled originally to be given in portant factor in attempting to reduce Brackett Hall Auditorium. deficit spending; the federal government "Congress is finally making an effort to loses about $16 billion for each one per cent exercise the power over the purse," of unemployment, Mann related. If Congressman Mann commented. He unemployment dropped to four per cent pointed to the creation of the Budget from its present 8.3 per cent, the federal Control Committee as evidence of this. budget would be balanced, he stated. President Ford has stated that he will Mann did not suggest any ways to reduce not sign a tax bill unless Congress agrees unemployment. Spence also considered to a spending ceiling which would result in the problem of joblessness, and said, "I a federal spending reduction of $28 billion don't know how government can cut down from his proposed $395 billion budget. on unemployment except by helping "To ask us (Congress) to cut federal business to thrive." Spence offered tax spending by $28 billion below some incentives and government decontrol of hypothetical figure is thorough Cromer business as suggestions to stimulate foolishness," Mann said. Ford's budget CONGRESSMEN James R. Mann, a Greenville Democrat and Floyd Spence, a business, and thus to create jobs. proposal is "hypothetical" and his cutback Columbia Republican appeared in Brackett Hall Wednesday night as guests of the Although the main emphasis of the figure is "arbitrary", the fourth district College Republican Club. speeches was on economic issues, the two Congressman commented. flation. Necessities such as keeping a South Carolina Congressmen did touch on Government spending can't be cutback he commented. The greatest cause of strong national security can also not be inflation is excessive government spen- other subjects, both during their talks and easily becuase most expenditures are in separate interviews following their uncontrollable, Mann related. Roughly cutback, he remarked. ding, Spence added. Second Congressional district orations. three quarters of federal money is un- "The Democrats want to cut taxes and representative Floyd Spence disagrees. "I not cut down on spending, while the Spence revealed that his disliking of controlled because of variables such as think that the people are going to start Vice-president Rockefeller has affected unemployment, energy prices, and in- Republicans want to cut down on both," he demanding that we cut back on spending," said. Spence is a Republican who his opinion of President Ford's proposal to decontrol oil prices. "One reason that I'm opposed to this new energy thing that the Fire alarm systems now working President is proposing is because it is Rockefeller's idea." Why his dislike of Rockefeller? "I just In buildings say University officials don't want to see the federal government use his example of how to do business," by Bill Kincaid, Jr. sounds in the dorm but an alarm is set off Spence remarked. Spence is one of very year. few Congressmen who voted against News Writer at the fire department's headquarters. The Owen commented on the danger and Extensive repairs by Honeywell, the alarm immediately tells the firemen on Rockefeller's vice-presidential con- inconvenience of false alarms, "We found firmation. company responsible for installing and duty the section in which the fire is nobody paid any attention to the alarm maintaining the University's fire alarm located. Both Mann and Spence considered the system. Nobody! We'd have an alarm and problem of Congressional oversight of the systems, have corrected malfunctions Upon arrival in the appropriate section everybody would be sitting in their rooms within the systems which are now of the building, firemen then have only to CIA and other intelligence activities, cussing, fussing, and raising cain because many of which were studied by operating at maximum efficiency, ac- check the enunciator panel in the section to the alarm went off. cording to University officials. discover exactly which alarm box has Rockefeller's commission. Both men "They'd (dorm residents) tear the horns agreed that Congress should exert some In its Sept. 11 issue, the Tiger had been tampered with. off the wall or plug them up where you reported that the alarm system in John- Hugh Williamson, electrical supervisor authority over intelligence activities. couldn't hear them. Since silencing the Mann stated that although CIA head stone Hall was in such a state that the only for the University, said this system had not horns we've had very little destruction, way a fire could be located there was for a been working at acceptable levels, as William Colby has not been entirely candid and a lot less alarms pulled." with Congress he should "not necessarily" fireman to travel through the dorm's halls reported by the Tiger, due to vandalism Manning N. Lomax, director of looking for smoke. (possibly over $100,000 worth in recent be fired. residence halls, said, "We have the best Mann, who served on the House The Tiger had also disclosed that Fike years) and operational malfunctions. fire safety program now in this particular Recreation Center and possibly two other The Tiger had stated that the lights on Judiciary Committee and voted to im- dormitory (Johnstone) that we've ever peach former-President Richard M. campus buildings were without func- the enunciator panels had been discon- had. What we have now has come about as tioning alarm systems. nected when the buzzers in the dorm had Nixon, also talked about Watergate. He a result of the events of the past 20 years stated that Watergate was evidence that According to officials, a fully functional been silenced. Williamson explained that that we've been using Johnstone." alarm system is now in operation in Fike, panel lights did not work for the first two "the system works". After Watergate' The officials indicated that with full people should have greater confidence in and, in fact, all University buildings have weeks after the dorm buzzers had been student cooperation the system can func- functioning alarm systems. disconnected, but that this was discovered their political system, Mann commented. tion smoothly and without any hitches, but Mann revealed that his decision to vote Now, according to Lt. Charles Owens, and corrected. if the large amounts of false alarms and head of the University fire department, He said the lights are working now, even for impeachment was not a hard one. destruction to the equipment continues "When the facts were laid out, there was Johnstone's system consists of a series of though the buzzers are still disconnected. then the system can stop working for the alarm boxes located in the halls. When one The reason for silencing the buzzers was only one answer that came to mind," he students and can start working against (continued to page seven) of these boxes is activated, no buzzer the large number of false alarms: 317 last them. THfc TifcfcA For the record It's time to set the story straight. In an interview with the Tiger last week Ad- miral Joseph B. McDevitt, Clemson University's legal adviser, quite openly spoke about the NCAA's investigation of Clemson's basketball program — the result of which was an article written in last Thursday's issue. McDevitt among other things, identified Moses Malone, Phil Ford and Ricky Hunt as players who were involved in several violations. This was the first time such information was printed following Tuesday's announcement that Clemson was placed on three-years probation by the NCAA. However, as local sportswriters attempted to follow up the story, McDevitt's frankness turned into a flurry of denials and contradictions. "No names other than that of Coach Locke, were specifically mentioned by me," McDevitt was quoted as saying in an article appearing in The State's Saturday issue. However, if the Greenville News was your choice of a newspaper for Saturday, you would have read that McDevitt told Sports Editor Dan Foster that he had identified to The Tiger Phil Letters Ford as one of the players involved in recruiting embarrassment to me, and I am my opinion, it is your direct violations. Players need sure to all Clemson men and responsibility to control the Two separate interviews and two different women. With the conduct of your activities of all staff members of stories — not a good showing for a legal counsel. Real theater athletic staff, I feel that we can Clemson University. But the showing gets worse for McDevitt. In If any recent event demon- no longer consider ourselves the I offer this as a severe criticism the State article McDevitt told the reporter that strates the need for expanded "Country Gentlemen".

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