Council Sets $350 Ceiling on Budget Of Rides Service

The Student Council last night voted to pump $350 worth of new life into its "Rides Service," again withheld endorsement from the "Flying Tigers' Flights to Europe" group, and quashed a proposal to increase the size of the Council by four members.

The "Flights to Europe" group, organized by two College students to obtain low-cost chartered air transportation, ran one flight despite the Council's refusal to endorse it last spring, and plans expansion this year. The Council's position this fall remained essentially unchanged: endorsement of private enterprise lies outside the Council's domain, and in this case entails too much responsibility.

The plan to expand the Council was defeated, 8 to 4, after parliamentary entanglement. Expansion was considered unnecessary because of the Council's power to appoint additional members.

Stiff opposition to the "Rides Service" budget wilted under extensive debate, the motion passing 14 to 1. Major item on the budget, and major stumbling block to passage, was an estimated $240 needed to pay a dollar an hour, six hours a week, for a permanent director of the service.

Richard Stillman '58, sponsor of the budget, cited the impossibility of obtaining volunteer workers, and the poor quality of personnel available at less than a dollar an hour, as necessitating the expense.