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Flood victims await disaster relief
By Alysia Woods
The Battalion
highest flood level since 1921,
Cangelose said.
As a result of the flooding, 32
Local farmers are piecing to
gether the flood damage handed
to their farmlands in recent weeks
as they wait in hopes of state and
federal relief money.
Brazos County Emergency
Management Coordinator Jake
Cangelose said Brazos County has
been declared a disaster area, and
local officials as well as homeown
ers have applied for relief money.
"The agricultural people have
suffered the most," he said. "It
has affected their crops, cattle and
most of all their land."
Severe flooding has affected
the Navasota and Brazos rivers,
with the Brazos River reaching its
county roads have been barricad
ed.
Cangelose said officials have
estimated agricultural damages
for individual farmers in Brazos
County at $2 million.
The two primary crops affect
ed are cotton and grain.
"We've had damage to fences,
hay and cattle," he said. "Due to
the flooding, farmland is having to
be fertilized all over again and
fences are being rebuilt."
Public assistance losses, or
damages to public property such
as county roads and bridges, has
been estimated at $600,000, Can
gelose added.
The relief money comes in dif
ferent packages because although
the county has been declared a
general disaster area, individual
homes and small businesses af
fected by the flooding can apply
lief s
for relief separately, he said. Pub
lic assistance relief, however, has
not yet been approved.
"I guess you could say the pro
cess for disaster relief is 'in the
mill' right now," Cangelose said.
Additional rains in the past
week have not helped matters.
The Brazos River rose several feet
and agricultural repairs have been
delayed.
In addition, more county
roads were closed.
"We hope it dries up soon so
we can get in there and start re
pairing," Cangelose said.
He said the good news is that
few people needed a place to stay
during the flooding period.
"Along with the Red Cross, we
established a few shelters but only
about eight people needed a place
to stay," Cangelose said.
$270,000 for instruction, research
College of Engineering receives grants
By Gina Howard
The Battalion
Texas A&M's College of Engineering is
over $270,000 richer thanks to various grants
and donations designated to enhance instruc
tion within the college in the coming semester.
The petroleum engineering department re
cently received 100 copies of the 1991 edition of
"Log Interpretation Charts" from Halliburton
Logging Services, Inc. The charts, worth $8,000
to $10,000, will be used by senior lecturer Dr.
Ron Brimhall in his logging and log analysis
courses. Brimhall said the charts are used as an
aid to interpret log data about rock properties.
Hewlett-Packard Company donated a HP
Antenna Measurement System valued at
$67,600 to the Department of Electrical Engi
neering. The system will be used to help the
college's efforts to automate antenna measure
ment in the area of communication technolo
gies.
Dr. J.W. Howse, head of the electrical engi
neering department, said the gift will be used
for both instructional and practical applica
tions.
"Hewlett-Packard is a great friend of Texas
A&M," Howse said. "This type of support is
invaluable to our teaching and research."
Herbert D. Kelleher, chairman of the board
of Southwest Airlines, recently established the
Herbert D. Kelleher professorship in trans
portation. Kelleher began the professorship
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Aggies deliver aid, message to Mexican towns
By Melody Dunne
The Battalion
About 120 members of the
Texas A&M Baptist Student Union
traveled to different parts of Mexi
co from Jan. 2 through 9 for a mis
sion adventure.
The organization has made
mission trips to Mexico for 20
years, but has gone to this part of
Mexico for only four years. The
students were exposed to Third
World conditions, said Drew
Buckner, associate director of BSU.
The group divided itself into
three teams that evangelized, gave
medical care, performed minor
construction work and built rela
tionships with the people, Buckn
er said.
Members of the BSU group
drove to their border destinations
from College Station. One group
went to Piedras Negras during the
day, but bunked at Eagle Pass,
Texas in the evenings. Another
crew was stationed in Acuna,
Mexico, a town about 15 minutes
from the Texas/Mexico border.
Sabinas, Mexico, a city about 90
miles from the border, was the
mission destination for the third
group.
John Herring, a junior manage
ment major from College Station
who went to Piedras Negras, said
his group had a variety of experi
ences during the trip.
"The poverty was tremendous
in certain areas," he said. "We
distributed clothes and passed out
Bibles. We also had some door-to-
door evangelism."
Herring saidthey formed a
medical team with a doctor, pas
tor, two pre-med students and a
girl fluent in Spanish.
The medical team treated
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