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Battalion
Vol. 68 No. 130
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 7, 1976
CS City Council enters
new electricity contract
The last lick at the books
Battalion photo by Steve Goble
Cram sessions kept many an Aggie off the
streets Tuesday night as the short summer
session galloped full tilt into Finals Day (Wed
nesday). Without so much as a chance for the
students to catch their collective breath, regi
stration begins tomorrow — followed by the
ever-popular “Stand-in-line-to-pay-your-dues”
game, and the first day of classes, on Friday.
College Station City Councilmen last
week signed an electrical utility contract
with Gulf States Utilities Co.
The agreement was made the day after
College Station voters overwhelmingly
approved Propositions 7 and 8 of the capi
tal improvements bond issues calling for
$5.7 million in electric system improve
ments.
College Station now buys part of its
water supply and sewer service and all of
its electric power from the city of Bryan.
The contract with Bryan expires on Jan. 1,
1979.
The new contract calls for a gradual
changeover to Gulf States Utilities as an
electricity source.
College Station is also seeking to estab
lish an independent water supply. Voters
last week approved $2,475,000 for this
purpose.
The utility rates on the remaining por
tion of the Bryan contract are still to be
negotiated. The contract calls for a yearly
renegotiation of rates, which has yet to
occur this year. But Bryan city officials
presented a proposed rate schedule to
College Station officials in April that calls
for an approximate 30 per cent increase
over current rates. Last year Bryan asked
for and received a 13 per cent increase in
electric rates paid by College Station.
There is expected to be some bickering
over figures when the two cities’ represen
tatives do sit down to renegotiate the con
tract. Bryan officials contend that the in
creases are necessary to defray operating
and amortization expenses, while College
Station officials contend that Bryan is
overcharging and raking too much profit
off the top of College Station’s payments.
No definite date has been set for a dis
cussion.
“I, myself, want them to make a presen
tation before the Council and get this out
before the public, said College Station
Councilman Gary Halter last night.
“Bryan supplies us with utilities, and I
think they should make a public presenta
tion for an increase just like Lone Star Gas
or General Telephone does,” he said.
res. Williams
ill resting
Med school curriculum approved
Texas A&M University President Jack
Williams is continuing to recover at
me from a heart attack sustained after
tering Houston’s Methodist Hospital
ly 31.
A'.C. Freeman, executive vice presi-
it for administration, has assumed some
he president’s official duties during his
ence.
tbs. Nelda Rowell, assistant to the
sident, said that while Williams will be
ible to enter his office until the elevator
the Administration Building is re-
ced, he is recovering satisfactorily at
ne and is in constant touch with his of-
by telephone.
INDEX
Editorial and column. Page 2.
A&M to get new FM radio station.
Page 4.
John Adams takes a look at early ag
riculture at A&M. Page 9.
Sports Editor Paul McGrath
dreams about early American
sports. Page 11.
By LISA JUNOD
Battalion Staff Writer
The Academic Programs Committee has
recommended approval of the proposed
curriculum for the Texas A&M Univer
sity/Baylor College of Medicine Program
in Medical Education.
The program is designed to supply rural
Texas communities with needed physicians
and to create an economical program to
educate such physicians.
It will save the student money by
shortening the time period for receiving
the B.S. and M.D. degrees from the usual
eight to six years. Students will attend col
lege two years before entering medical
school, and at the end of the second year of
med school will receive a BS degree from
A&M. Students will he awarded an M.D.
degree upon completion of six years of
study.
The creators of the program believe that
the shortened time period will prevent
students from becoming burned out in the
lengthy educational process, and will avoid
duplication oi courses given in college and
again in med school. Cutting the amount of
time spent in medical school and in under
graduate training will allow the student two
additional years for service or for graduate
or post-graduate study.
In addition to saving student expenses,
the program will also cut down on money
spent by taxpayers, both by reducing the
length of the educational program and by
providing the facilities and resources for a
medical training program without the capi
tal expense required for the opening of a
traditional school of medicine.
A&M will be spared the expense of con
structing a large physical plant for the med
ical school, and will instead offer the first
two years of basic science teaching on the
A&M campus and the majority of the clini
cal training elsewhere.
The first two years of the professional
program will be taught on the A&M cam
pus in College Station and will include
courses in anatomy, biochemistry,
physiology, psychiatry, pathology, phar
macology, microbiology, immunology,
family and clinical medicine and the
humanities in medicine. The instructors
will attempt to relate the basic sciences to
clinical medicine, in oVder to better pre
pare students for later years of training.
During the entire second year students
will receive the opportunity to practice and
polish clinical skills during a half day each
week. For ten of these weeks, students will
work on the A&M campus in the Univer
sity health center. During the remainder of
the year the afternoon sessions will be con
ducted in the offices of carefully selected
and specially trained physicians in local and
nearby communities.
The third and fourth year programs will
consist of traditional clerkships in general
medicine, neurology-dermatology, pediat
rics and other specialties. The programs
will be conducted at Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston, Scott and White
Hospital and Clinic in Temple, and the VA
hospitals in Temple, Marlin and Waco.
Each student will also spend a minimum of
4 weeks in primary care training under the
guidance of a selected physician in a non-
urban location.
The program is designed to stimulate in
the med student a basic concern for the
patient as a human being in society and an
awareness of a doctor’s social and political
responsibilities. Great care will be taken to
prevent dehumanization of the student,
and to help achieve this goal enrollment in
the program will be limited to a class size of
32 students. The students will be selected
from those satisfying the necessary under
graduate requirements, with primary con
sideration given to Texas residents who are
military veterans. All applicants must qual
ify on the basis of scholastic record, profes
sional aptitude and character consid
erations.
Once a student is admitted to the profes
sional medical curriculum, he must main
tain grades of 70 per cent or higher in all
required courses, and achieve a minimum
score of 75 on the National Board Examina
tion administered at the end of the second
year of training. Failure to meet these con
ditions will result in academic probation or
dismissal from the program.
Rites to he held
for ex-president
of Prairie View
PRAIRIE VIEW — Dr. E.B. Evans, re
tired president of Prairie View A&M Uni
versity, died early Saturday morning in a
Houston hospital after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services are pending for the
82-year-old educator who served as presi
dent of Prairie View from 1946 until 1966.
He joined Prairie View in 1918 upon
graduation from Iowa State with a Doctor
of Veterinary Medicine Degree.
Dr. Evans, who was born in Missouri
but reared near Galveston, was one of the
first black men to be elected to Phi Kappa
Phi, national honorary scholastic society,
and was one of the founders of the South
western Athletic Conference.
He had resided in Prairie View since
retirement.
WOW
Detonation after detonation lit the sky during the Lion’s fire
works display Monday night. Thousands of College Station resi
dents turned out to “ooooh” and “aaaah” the pyrotechnic display.
(The rockets were not exploding as close to the ground as the
photo above indicates — a double exposure was used to bring
the launching and explosion closer together.)
Funds for Millican Lake
included in public works
Battalion photo by Steve Goble
Flags and Scouts and Fourth of July
Youngsters from the College Station scout or
ganizations form part of the color guard, during
pre-ftreworks-display activities at Tiger Field,
Monday night. In its usual inimitable fashion,
the city celebrated the Fourth of July on the
Fifth of July.
A&M student killed in Brazil
A Texas A&M University graduate stu
dent, John Mallory Davis, and his brother
| have been killed and their father seriously
I wounded in an ambush in the backlands of
Brazil, University officials have been in-
f formed.
John Weaver Davis, the father, under
went surgery in Belem, Brazil on Monday,
'according to authorities there. His condi
tion was described as fair.
Davis, his two sons and two employes
were reportedly attacked by a group of
heavily armed farmers after they left their
farmhouse Sunday morning.
Belem police said several farmers had
complained that Davis was taking illegal
possession of land around his farm by
erecting barbed wire fences.
Davis’ two employes were also killed in
the shooting, while two of the farmers
were injured.
The U. S. consul general in Belem said
that the land was owned by Davis, and he
did not know what caused the incident.
Davis and his family own one of the largest
farms in the northern Brazilian state of
Para.
University officials learned of John
Davis’ death from his wife, who was stay
ing in Zachary, La., while her husband
was in South America. They are the par
ents of six children.
The student, who earned B.S. and M.S.
degrees at Texas A&M and was nearing
completion of work for his Ph.D., repor
tedly was in Brazil in connection with the
family land holdings.
Funeral services for the two brothers
were conducted in Brazil. Memorial serv
ices for John were conducted yesterday in
Zachary, La. Silver Taps, Texas A&M’s
traditional memorial service, will be con
ducted at a time yet to be determined.
University officials said.
WASHINGTON D. C. — Several water
and flood control projects of key impor
tance to residents of the Sixth Congres
sional District are included in a public
works appropriations conference report
which passed both Houses Tuesday and is
now on the President’s desk for his signa
ture.
The bill calls for $11 billion in public
works projects to be funded during fiscal
1977. A substantial portion of the overall
bill will fund projects which are of major
importance to the Sixth District. They in
clude:
— Acquilla Lake, $3 million for con
struction
— Lakeview Lake, $1 million for con
struction
— Millican Lake, $435,000 for planning
— Tennessee Colony Lake, $1 million
for land acquisition
Also included is $800,000 for planning on
the Trinity River Project.
Following are timetables and details for
some of the projects.
LAKEVIEW
Lakeview Lake’s new $1 million approp
riation for 1977 is added to the $4.5 million
already in escrow for the project. Part of
the escrow funds will be used for land ac-
quistion, which is the first step toward ac
tual construction of Lakeview.
Currently the Corps of Engineers and
the Trinity River Authority are negotiating
on a recreation contract for the facility.
When these activities are complete a series
of public land acquisition hearings will be
held. Actual acquisition will then begin 90
days following the hearings. Land parcels
will be acquired on an incremental basis,
depending on the availability of funds from
Congress.
From the time land acquisition begins,
the total construction project will take ap
proximately 5-7 years to complete. The
facility, designed for flood control, water
supply and recreation, will have a normal
water supply storage level of 176,900 acre
feet of water. An acre foot of water is de
fined as one foot of water on an acre of
ground. The lake will yield 325,850 gallons
of water per acre foot when completed. It
will provide water supply for Midlothian,
Grand Prairie, Cedar Hill and Duncan
ville, and will provide flood control for
much of Southwest Dallas County.
ACQUILLA
The $3 million appropriated this week
for 1977 for Acquilla Lake will be added to a
total of $2.2 million which was appropri
ated for the project in 1976.
Actual land acquisition can begin im
mediately following the signing of a con
tract between the Secretary of the Army
and the Brazos River Authority on the con
servation storage portion of the project.
The new appropriation is higher than the
$1.4 million requested in the President’s
budget for Acquilla, but is less than the
$5.8 million capability request made by the
Corps of Engineers.
The new lake will have a dependable
water supply yield of 9 million gallons per
day.
The city of Hillsboro — presently the
largest single potential user— has signed a
contract with the Brazos River Authority to
purchase water from the lake and eventu
ally will use up to 3.5 million gallons per
day or more.
Completion was originally scheduled in
September, 1983 but could be somewhat
delayed.
TENNESSEE COLONY
Tennessee Colony Lake, when com
pleted, will cost about $419 million without
the inclusion of a navigation lock, and a total
of $509 million with the lock.
Covering 149,000 acres of land, it will be
the third largest lake in Texas and will
cover portions of Navarro, Henderson,
Anderson and Freestone County. When
filled to maximum capacity, the surfac
area will embrace 98,000 acres.
The project is designed to provide flooc
control, water supply, recreation, wildlife
enhancement and possibly hydroelectric,
generation and navigation.
The huge project will require 15 years t<
construct, placing it in service in 1992. I
addition to serving the four-county area i
which it is to be located, the facility also wil j.
serve future water supply needs of Hous |
ton and Dallas.