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Vol. 68 No. 127
College Station, Texas
July 16, 1975
Marijuana arrests
increasing locally
Members of the Aggie Players rehearse for their production of ‘You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown’.
Jointly presented by the MSC Summer Directorate, the play will debut July 31. It will be a dinner
theater production.
By JERRY NEEDHAM
City Editor
The number of arrests so far this
year in Brazos County for posses
sion of marijuana are running far
above arrests for the same period
last year.
John Leflore, Narcotics Officer
for the Bryan Police, said, “As far as
marijuana, I would say the arrests
are probably double over last year.
Throughout the month of April 1
confiscated over 1,000 growing
plants anywhere from people’s
kitchens
tures.
from
to greenhouses to pas-
Meteorology head to retire
Dr. Vance E. Moyer, head of
TAMU’s Meteorology Department
will resign that post Sept. 1 and re
turn to full time teaching.
“Teaching is my first love and the
only reason I got into the business in
the first place,” he said.
He is the only head the depart
ment has had. The Pennsylvania-
born and Penn State-trained profes
sor has been on the TAMU
meteorology faculty 17 years.
It will end a period of strain for
him, but one which Moyer threw
himself into headlong. The period
climaxed in November, 1973, with
the dedication of the Ocean
ography-Meteorology Building.
The former Merchant Marine,
Austin TV weathercaster and Uni
versity of Texas professor was pro
ject coordinator of the 15-story
O&M building. “No other received
as conscientious and concerned at
tention, a close acquaintance re
marked.
"Dr. Moyer gave thought to
every piece of furniture and equip
ment that went into it,” said Jake
Canglose, radar engineer.
Every item in the 414-room
O&M building was Moyer-
checked, down to whether electri
cal outlets were “hot. ” He not only
ordered furniture, but saw that it
went where it was intended, Cang
lose said.
“It was a labor of love, Moyer
said. “I poured my career into it. . .
and came out coated with barnacles
and rust. But I’m damned proud of
the building. Everyone in
meteorology around the country
concedes we have the best. ”
A Penn State faculty member
terms the O&M building “a picture
book facility.”
Seven years went into it. Meet
ings of oceanography-meteorology
committees in Moyer’s old Good
win Hall office began when now re
tired Geosciences Dean Horace
Byers appointed Moyer to chair the
project. They completely designed
the interior arrangement including
121 highly-specialized labs. “The
working plans were eighth genera
tion, Moyer grinned. The building
is topped by antennae of the multif
requency weather radar system.
Along with teaching, normal de
partment head chores and building
duties (“They were outlined in a
handbook given me ”), Moyer has
given 17 years of largely unseen and
unnoticed community service.
As head of the Tornado Warning
Division of the Brazos County Civil
Defense Office, the former Air
Force weatherman puts the radar
into operation when severe weather
threatens, to help protect lives and
property of local citizens.
In reverting to radar section chief
in the department this fall, Moyer
has plans for the first thing seen by
anyone approaching the TAMU
campus.
“We’ve got to modernize the
radar,” Moyer said. “The output
Radio seeks help
The A&M Wheelmen bicycle club will hold a night bi
cycle ride tonight. Interested persons should meet at the
Rudder Tower fountain at 7:00 p.m. The ride will be a social
recreational event over a short distance at a slow pace. For
further information call 845-1179.
Bike ride tonight
Students interested in working with TAMU Student Radio
during the second summer session or next fall should sign up
in the Student Government Office in Room 216, MSC.
Student Radio is a student-run station at 107.5 on the
Midwest Video Cable. Applicants do not need FCC licenses.
For further information call 845-5948 or the station, 693-2434.
Meditation scheduled
The International Meditation Society of TAMU will have
two meetings this week.
The first meeting will be tonight at 7:30 in room 226
of the library. The second meeting will be tomorrow afternoon
at 1:30 in room 226 of the library.
The subject of the meeting will be the revelation of the
research and benefits of transcendental meditation.
Society members also announce that Bob Semands of
Houston will be present in place of their regular instructor
who is in France for further training.
Hearing scheduled
on phone rate increase
The first of two public hearings on
the telephone rate increase being
asked by General Telephone will be
held at the College Station City Hall
tomorrow night at 7.
College Station telephone cus
tomers who desire to give their
opinions of General’s service,
whether pro or con, are requested
to attend the hearing.
The second hearing, to be held in
September, will enable students
and those who miss the first hearing
to air their views.
Bill Erwin, General Telephone’s
division manager, has requested
that all opinions be in writing to
facilitate easier handling.
The City Council has the author
ity to approve an increase in the
phone rates and has requested that
city telephone customers attend to
help the council determine whether
a rate increase is justified on the
basis of services rendered.
The revenues requested by Gen
eral would raise the rate of return on
invested capital on telephone rates
from 5.43 per cent to 8.4 per cent.
The last increase in local telephone
rates was in June 1973.
“Most of the possession charges
come about through routine traffic
violations and are just lid busts.
People don’t really hide it like they
used to,” Leflore said.
A “lid ”, a slang term for an ounce
of marijuana, generally sells for $10
on the streets.
Bobby Yeager, a College Station
detective, said, “We have been fil
ing more cases on misdemeanor
possession of marijuana than a year
ago, but off-hand I would say arrests
haven’t varied more than ten per
cent.”
Commenting on the increased ar
rests, Yeager said, “I think there is
more of it now than there was two
years ago and also people are more
relaxed about it.”
One thing both Yeager and Lef
lore agreed on is that there is a lot
more marijuana in College Station
than in Bryan but more heroin in
Bryan than College Station. The
high volume of marijuana in College
Station is attributed to the high con
centration of college students.
Brazos County Deputy Sheriff
Gary Shaw said, “As far as our de
partment goes, we have been mak
ing fewer arrests this year compared
with last year.” He was unable to
give any reasons for the decline.
Shaw added that most of the ar
rests are for simple possession of
under four ounces and usually occur
while stopping cars for traffic viola
tions.
Leflore said people are taking a
misdemeanor charge lightly and
don’t realize that if they are caught
with any amount of marijuana while
on probation, it is a felony.
“On misdemeanor cases we re
getting anywhere from $300 to $500
convictions and six months in the
county jail probated for a year.
Felonies for marijuana at this time
generally bring ten years proba
tion,” said Leflore.
Last year out of 103 counts
charged in narcotics by the Bryan
Police, only 42 have ever gone to
court. Nineteen of those were dis
missed and 23 were convicted in
cluding probations and fines. The
other 61 have yet to go to court.
Yeager said the prevalent drug in
College Station is marijuana but
that they do run across several cases
of other drug use such as quaaludes,
amphetamines and hallucinogenics.
Firemen to train
at TAMU school
needs to be digitized, with a direct
link to a minicomputer. With this
arrangement and data on magnetic
tape, it can be immediately
analyzed.”
He said the third channel of the
instrument also should be put into
operation. The radar system’s pres
ent scanning capability is at 10 and
3.5-centimeter wavelengths. The
Dr. Vance E. Moyer
third (employing the other small
dish) will be about one centimeter.
The system atop the O&M build
ing became operable last July. The
department s former system at
Goodwin resulted in 56 theses and
dissertations, plus other publica
tions.
Moyer noted with pride that
three National Weather Service of
ficials in Washington, specializing
in hydrology and radar techniques,
came from Texas A&M. So did
Stuart Bigler, NWS region director
in Alaska.
Moyer also shines in relating that
his wife Barbara graduated, cum
laude, here last May with a B. A. in
history. Mrs. Moyer is now a history
graduate assistant.
Bryan takes compromise
on utility rate increase
By JERRY NEEDHAM
City Editor
At their bi-monthly meeting last
Thursday, the College Station City
Council offered the City of Bryan a
second counterproposal for utility
rates.
The new proposal accepted
Bryan’s request for an increase in
electric and sewer service rates and
offered a rate of 38.5 cents per 1,000
gallons of water. Bryan had asked
for an increase to 42 cents per 1,000
gallons.
The new rates went into effect
July 1 and will expire Dec. 31, 1975.
This interim agreement was based
on the understanding that a new
contract will be entered into bet
ween the two cities that will take
effect on Jan. 1, 1976.
College Station residents’ utility
bills for July will include a 12.34 per
cent increase in electric rates, a ten
per cent jump in water prices and a
25 per cent increase for sewer ser
vice.
After a meeting between sub
committees of the two councils two
weeks ago, there were indications a
compromise would be made.
Gary Halter, College Station
Councilman, said, “There was no
willingness on the part of Bryan to
compromise and no desire to submit
the problem to an impartial arbit
rator.
“The Bryan Council, in essence,
told us that if we did not accept the
agreement, they would take us to
court and even if we won they would
cut us off in four years.
“The Bryan Council was willing to
go to court and the majority of the
College Station council was not.
With this new deal we give them six
months to negotiate in good faith.”
Halter said a new contract would
define what cost means. He said,
“My point is that Bryan is wanting to
treat College Station as a single fam
ily in Bryan but they do not main
tain the distribution system, send
bills, read meters and pay for other
services.
“College Station does this after
paying the rate that utilities are de
livered to Bryan residents.”
College Station Councilman Bob
Bell said he felt such a satisfactory
contract could be worked out within
six months. He said, “A long-term
contract is something that I feel sure
the College Station Council will be
willing to discuss.
Halter added, “The controversy
has not been resolved, it has just
been postponed for six months. ”
Firemen begin arriving at TAMU
late this week, for the first of three
one-week training schools.
More than 1,500 fire fighters are
expected to arrive Sunday for the
Municipal Firemen’s Training
School (FTS).
They start classes and fire fighting
exercises Monday, July 21. While
new firemen will fight fires daily at
Brayton Field, the majority of the
first-week participants will be in
classes employing all available cam
pus meeting room space.
TAMU personnel and officials of
the Firemen’s Training Division of
the Texas Engineering Extension
Service will begin computer regist
ration of participants at 9 a.m. Sun
day in the MSC concourse and
rooms 225 and 226.
FTS personnel under Chief
Henry D. Smith are making final
preparations, including coordinat
ing instructors from throughout the
United States, lining up supplies
and checking equipment donations.
After the July 20-25 municipal
school, FTS will conduct the July
27-Aug. 1 industrial school and Aug.
3-8 school for Spanish-speaking
firemen.
Public demonstrations of new
equipment and techniques are
planned on Wednesdays of the first
two schools. The evening sessions at
Brayton Field are designed primar
ily to acquaint fire marshalls, chiefs
and other command personnel with
new developments in fire fighting.
FTS expects visits by members of
the TAMU System Board of Re
gents. The board will be here in
regular meeting next week.
Charles Page of the FTS staff said
a rocket line thrower, the “jaws of
life,” lightwater and helicopter fire
fighting are demonstration items.
Developed by Smith-Wesson,
the rocket line thrower will be used
for evacuating firemen from the drill
tower. Large area-lighting flares,
also a Smith-Wesson product, will
be launched late in the show.
The Firebird helicopter, with
other equipment from Fort Hood, is
tentative.
A tower rescue also is pending for
the demonstration, along with a P4
crash truck for aircraft fire rescue
from Fort Hood.
The “jaws of life is a
hydraulically-operated device for
prying open a wrecked car.
Lightwater, a3M product, will be
boom-applied to a loading terminal
fire. Page noted boom application of
the film-forming foam is a new de
velopment.
A Kynol fire suit, from
Briggs/Weaver, will be shown.
More heat and fire resistant than
other suits, it is a spinoff from NASA
space research.
New extinguishers, including one
that uses a gas which will sustain
human life, will be demonstrated. A
rescue employing an air bag, from
Ernest Holmes Co., to raise a
wrecked truck also is pending.
Redesigned MSC officially opened
The newly remodeled original
building of the MSC was of
ficially opened yesterday with
a ribbon cutting ceremony.
Among those participating in
the ceremony were Vice-Presi
dent for Student Services, Dr.
John Koldus, Ms. N. Jane Lo
gan, president of this year’s
MSC Council and Directorate
and other MSC staff and stu
dent members.
Ms. N. Jane Logan, left, and Dr. John Koldus