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Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1979 -CS traffic— double by ’85 By LYLE LOVETT Battalion Staff Shades of the big city: Traffic con gestion in Bryan-College Station is going to get worse before it gets bet ter. Traffic is expected to double in some areas of the city by 1985 and unless transportation improvements are implemented, driving from one end of town to the other will be a slow and tedious process. “If you think traffic congestion is bad now, just look at what’s going to happen in ’85,” said State Highway Engineer D.D. Williamson to the Bryan-College Station Urban Transportaton Study Steering Committee Thursday. The committee, made up of offi cials from Bryan, College Station, Brazos County and Texas A&M University, has been discussing a mass-transit system for the last four years as a way to help ease conges tion. “The biggest problem with the two cities needing public transpor tation,” Williamson said, “is how to own and operate it.” He said that a mass-transit system in Bryan-College Station would op erate at a deficit of approximately $200,000 per year. Half of the defi cit would be federally funded and the other half would be funded by the two cities. Law requires, how ever, that only one city be initially responsible for the deficit. Williamson said that neither city has been willing to assume that respon sibility. “Based on costs involved,” Mayor Richard Smith of Bryan said, “needs and goals of the cities are very dif ferent. I’d love to have one, but to be realistic with problems that we re facing in other areas, I don’t think it’s possible.” SHIRTS Woodstone Center 907 Harvey Rd. 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The computer will monitor traffic and adjust signal timing ac cordingly. He said the system should be ready for installation dur ing the summer. The football team gets its news from the Batt. * HATE DOING * LAUNDRY? | Let Frannie's do it for you -ft Aunt Frannies £ Laundromat * A'Holleman at Anderson 693-658/fv ATTENTION ALL 1979 WHO’S WHO APPOINTEES: Individual photos for the Who’s Who section of the 1979 Aggieland will be taken beginning Monday, February 5. Photos will be taken every half hour be tween the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. MWF, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesdays, and 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Satur days and Sundays. i. To make an appointment, call Student Publica tions at 845-2611. Please be sure to have a choice as where you want your photo taken. 6 t Up Your Alley” Presents IN CONCERT with the Blue Bathroom Humor Band In Concert Friday Jan 26, 1979 Aggieland Inn Ballroom Advanced Tickets Available Budget Tapes and Records 315 University Drive East 846-5515 Aggieland Inn All-day Thursday and Friday January 25, 26 Tickets Available at the Door Doors open at 6:30 P.M. Show starts at 8:30 P.M. Iranian students finally g clearance to head for ho United Press International GRAPEVINE, Texas — About two dozen angry Iranian stu dents, earlier barred from a flight to London by British immigra tion restrictions, Thursday se cured the necessary tickets to France required for passage through England enroute to their homeland. Braniff International spokes man Mike Kaeser said the 25 Iranians would board a flight to England at 6:45 p.m. CDT. “They’ll be holding their tick ets to Paris when they land in London and will immediately board a Caledonian flight to France where, we are told, they will be accepted,” the Braniff spokesman said. The students and some 200 friends and relatives jammed a Braniff International boarding terminal for a flight to London Wednesday but were denied standby status. According to Braniff, the British government announced it did not want any Iranians to ar rive in England unless they had confirmed passage to another country. “We received an order from a government that we serve,” Braniff spokesman Jere Cox said. “We had to refuse them (the Ira nians) transportation.” The Iranian students then began an impromptu demonstra tion which became quite vocal, but remained peaceful. They also began arguing with Braniff em ployees, refused to leave the air port until they were either given passage or the aircraft left with out them. The plane departed at 10 p.m. and the Iranians spent the night at nearby hotels hoping to be able to find passage to a Euro pean country. Thursday morning, all the Ira nians secured tickets to Paris. The students complained Braniff gave them no advance warning that they would be bar red from the aircraft. Several students said they had vacated their Dallas apartments and spent most of their moi® chasing the tickets to Ira had no where else to “Most of us have beenaslil come home by our parent:’ Uni austi lements, ip to Mi _ esident he and th< had proc Sereydon Sanjaghi. “Tliisi lj jens jp and e chance to return. We can our countrymen. The conmj “The p at an economic standstill Kg£] ements can he Ip. ||b rn Wedi Another student, who rtiK nce ptua to give his name, said tit j n to detai dents were attempting torr portillo ar to Iran to help welcomed four issue; religious leader Ayetollall I “I am c meini, who was expectedt neeting turn this week in the abset Jnited St£ the shah of Iran — forcedt their ener the country by rioting. U S. can 1 "We want to be thereki market pr our religious leader is nt said, ing,” the student said. “14 r Clemen can stop us now. Nooneos Carter car this revolution.” ransactic Braniff offered overnip lexico ne commodations at nearby 1 The go\ agreed tc for the students, "but them rejected it and ir? “bracero ’ stayed at the airport," L aliens ter said. Electronics pollute, too mits. Cler governors and Califo CB-TV interference commo der states and other “Our sti to the brai Tod starti lent Lo[ ith this.' iClemen United Press International WASHINGTON — A new kind of pollution — electronic — appears likely to increase during the next few years as the number and kind of space age computers and other gadgets grow. Many consumers are already familiar with interference from citi zens band radio transmissions, which can show up as patterns on television screens or outright voice cut-ins on stereos and radios. The automobile industry is wor ried about the impact of radio and microwave emissions on sophisti cated electronic systems in cars. For example, a fancy electronic fuel in jection system in a car could be shut down by a transmission from a pass ing car equipped with a CB radio. reporter encountered anolk cussions radio broadcast, apparentbi Jorge Dun The National Bureau of Standards and other sources say some cases documented so far border on the unreal: music coming from a bath room medicine chest; a huge oil re finery shut down for the day be cause a hand-held two-way radio signaled the automated equipment to stop working; music from a local radio station emerging from a kitchen toaster; an electric organ hitting more than a few sour notes because of intervening radio signals. case the telephone was ei) r-gas sw T can with a device to increase tbet for a hard-of-hearing pers las taken that may have made it easiei radio transmissions to be picl: Both the Electronics Ini Association, a trade group,! On a recent visit in Illinois this — m ! ill — HALL Of p Friday January 26 ^ The Good Vibration $2.00 per person Saturday, January 27 JANA JAY from Hee Haw and The Countrysides $3.00 per person the Me ’ham” operator or perhaps company dispatcher — cn impany, over the telephone line wbil quest ol was being made. In this pi ements Serendipity Shop (where the unusual is usual) presents Professional Magician Sat. Jan. 27 2:00-5:00 p.m. Demonstration of magic for sale 6:00-5:00 p.m. Magician’s Workshop For the professional & amateur magician. Bring your favorite effect and receive professional tutoring. Laboratories say interferes telephone voice conversat rare, but it can happen, corrected, they said, by a telephone company, whidn stall a filtering device. Similar problems invobi radio interference with TV I and stereo sound can also rected easily in many casest the installation of filters. Tt eral Communications Conn has published a handbook si consumers how to identify!!®' rect such interference. The book, “Radio-TV It! ence Problems,” is $1.50fo Consumer Information C( Pueblo, Colo., 81009. The FCC recently begat quiry into radio frequency it ence. The agency has asked: dustries involved and tbe what the government’s roles be and how big the problem The standards bureau, whic a conference on the subjectli said “electromagnetic interff primarily in the radio at crowave ranges of the spectr becoming more commons sources of radio and micri emissions increase and as mot tronic products, includinf things as home computers, co the market A bureau spokesman saidt ence participants agreed then plan currently that ensures tromagnetic compatibility o( ucts. The spokesman said pert warned the meeting United States “is on thethresi an electronics revolution and! problems will pale beside tk be encountered in the l! 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