PAGE EIGHT Temp!e U. Fights Tax On Texts By DICK LEIGHTON Temple University's stu dent Council has started what it hopes will be a state-wide drive to abolish the four per cent State sales tax on text books and school supplies. The Council approved a resolu tion condemning the tax and es tablished a committee to press the drive on a state-wide basis. The resolution said: "This tax is an unnecessary 1 financial burden on college stu dents in a period when tuition. room and board and prices of j texts and other supplies have been rapidly risipg.' Student Council President Wil-1 liam D. Sherman called the tax' an "odious" levy. As one of the chief organizers of the effort to get state students to fight the, tax, Sherman said that student; lobbying in the past has been in-; effective because undergraduates! are usually not of voting age. He hopes that a concentrated effort by representatives of all the ; colleges and universities in thei state will get results. He added; that the project has the support! of the National Student Associa-; tion. Sackers of the drive point out that the loss in State revenue would be negligible one es timate put the sum at approxi mately $500,000. They conceded, however, that, the sales tax paid by the indi vidual student is small—probably' no more than four dollars per, year. "This may not seem like a; heavy burden," a Temple Univer sity News editorial said, "but so!, was the straw that broke the! camel's back." Martin O'Malley, corresponding, secretary of the student o,overn-' ment of St. Vincent College in Latrobe, said that a picket line, may be organized to picket the, Senate chambers in Harrisburg. Panofsky to Give Pacer Dr. Hans A. Panofsky, professor. of meteorology, will present a paper Friday, April 21, at the national meeting of the American' Meteorological Society in Wash ington, D.C. His paper will be on the sub ject, "Scale Analysis of Mete orological Motions at Two Me ters." Ne BY EAR? 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