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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1974)
City Council votes $49,000 for roads In a special meeting Tuesday night the College Station City Council passed a tentative expendi ture program for $96,358 in revenue sharing funds. The council voted to allocate $47,358 for the blanket category of “environmental protec tion,” and $49,000 for the resurfac ing of roads. Bill Lancaster of the Parks and Recreation Committee presented the council with a list of suggested park projects. Lancaster proposed that part of the revenue sharing money be spent on parks. Due to a lack of information and the June 24 deadline on revenue sharing re ports, the council could not give the proposal consideration at Tuesday’s meeting. Mayor-protem Fred Brison stres sed that placing money under a broad heading leaves the council free to determine exact expendi tures at a later date. Councilman Larry Bravenec ex pressed concern that parks were being “slighted” in city expendi tures. He suggested that the city begin a program to acquire more park land and improve existing facilities. Councilman Jim Gardner agreed with Bravenec. He stressed the ad vantages of spending revenue shar- The College Station City Council will meet Monday night at 7 to con sider the proposed budget for fiscal 1974. The public is urged to attend and voice any opinions at the meet- ing. street paving and the extension of a water line. Councilman Don Dale urged the council to accept Bardell’s proposal. In other action the council voted to allow the construction of a family mausoleum in the city cemetery. The structure is to be built by Ryan Memorial Company for the Gentry family of College Station. Cbe Battalion Vol. 67 No. 400 College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 19, 1974 Brazos County Park Proposed park, get last public pavilion hearing Plans for the Brazos County Park were presented at a final public hearing Wednesday night. The park includes a multi-purpose facility, large and small picnic areas, a band shell and 20 acres of land to be left in its natural state. The South-West Planning As sociates plan is the result of three public hearings and input from the county commissioners court and the Bryan-College Station County Chamber of Commerce. County Judge William Vance cal led the term “park” an unfortunate one. According to Vance the county acquired the land to build an “ex position center,” Vance said the ac quisition of extra land made possible the creation of a “park ’site. The only objections voiced at the ing funds for “special” uses rather than “common’ ones. Gardner suggested a possible tax increase as a means of raising money to pave streets, extend water lines and other “every day” items. Gardner suggested the construction of sidewalks on major streets and the purchase of access to Bee Creek Park as possible items for revenue sharing funding. City Manager North Bardell de veloped the original plan calling for Library director named Dr. Irene Braden Hoadley of Ohio State University has been named director of libraries at Texas A&M University. Dr. Hoadley, who will assume her new duties Nov. 1, succeeds John B. Smith who resigned to ac cept a position at State University of New York at Stony Brook. For the past year. Dr. Hoadley has served as Ohio State’s assistant director of libraries with respon sibilities for administrative services. She joined the OSU faculty in 1966 as librarian for general administra tion and research. She previously served in the De partment of Library Science at the University of Michigan, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1966. She had earlier served on the library staffs at Kansas State University, where she earned a Master of Arts degree, and Sam Houston State University. She earned her B.A. degree at the Uni versity of Texas and Master of Arts in Library Science degree at the University of Michigan. silfilPiisssilfi TWO NEW WINGS to the Krueger-Dunn complex now under construction will house an additional 1158 students in the fell of ’75 at a cost of $10 million. Directors award $1.8 million for improvement of campuses meeting were by representatives of the Environmental Action Council. They pointed out that the pavilion will be built on the site of a natural bog. Vance explained that the site chosen was the only one in the park suitable for building. The remain der of the site lies in the flood plain and is ideal for park use. The remainder of the discussion centered around financing. The total estimated cost of the site im provements is $1.5 million. Al though no definite funding program has been proposed, it is possible to obtain a maximum of one half of the total in the form of grants. Two pos sible sources of funding are the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and the Economic Development Ad ministration. According to Vance the remaining $750,000 would probably be obtained through a county bond issue. Access to the park will be by means of an extension of Briarcrest Drive to FM 1179. This is to be a two lane, farm-to-market road. Right of way for the road has already been donated to the county by the landowners. Vance stated that the road would cost about $240,000. This is to be paid for entirely from federal urban transportation funds. Vance said the deeds for the right of way stipulate road construction within two years as a condition for the gift. Vance said that the county will explore the possibilities of contract ing with the city of Bryan for maintenance on the park. Vance views this as the first in a system of Brazos County parks to be built in the future. “The exposition center is very much needed,” said Vance. eOTOfi; COUNTY A LOCATION MAP (above) and the preliminary plans (below) for the proposed Brazos County Park. iWTOSt: FiSPC'&T ~ rcns; m /! Contracts totaling $1,885,377 for campus improvements at Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M Uni versities were awarded Tuesday by the Texas A&M University System Board of Directors. Largest of the awards was $928,600 to Goolsby Building Corp. of Temple for repairs to several facilities at Prairie View. Lew Hammer Inc. of Denver was awarded a $759,077 contract as part of TAMU’s campus landscape project, and a $197,700 award went to Site Development Corp. of Navasota for street renovations at the College Station campus. Appropriations totaling $322,000 were authorized for eight other projects. Included were $160,000 for detailed designs for West Campus streets, drainage and utilities; $47,000 for campus plan ning and additional landscape de velopment; $10,000 for street reno vation and $8,000 for renovation de sign of the Veterinary Medical Ad ministration Building, all atTAMU. An appropriation of $90,000 was ap proved for design of a classroom and laboratory building at the Mitchell But it’s good to be home Campus in Galveston, and a $7,000 allocation was approved for design of interior furnishings for the Arts and Sciences Building at Prairie View. A Department of Rural Sociol ogy was established at TAMU as a joint endeavor of the College of Ag riculture, Texas Agricultural Exper iment Station and Texas Agricul tural Extension Service. The new department will be a non-academic unit and include some of the re search and extension functions now handled administratively through (See DIRECTORS, Page 3) ! ^ X; •K 8 I I Today | Today in the Bait | At the Grove Board action All-American recruit 5 3 11 Weather Partly cloudy and hot today and tomorrow. Both days high 94°. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. Low tonight 73°. I g s I 1 •x 8 VA plans $9 million for A&M The Veterans Administration plans to award $9.6 million to TAMU, in affiliation with Baylor College of Medicine, to support a new medical education program utilizing the VA medical system, Cong. Olin E. Teague informed TAMU officials Wednesday. Teague said the funds would cover a seven-year pilot program, with $2.4 million provided for oper ations the first year. The TAMU-BCM program is part of an overall project stemming from the Veterans Administration Medi cal School Assistance and Health Manpower Training Act of 1972. By RODGER LEWIS In early May we began to wonder if three weeks of singing in an Iron Curtain country was worth hiring ourselves out to do the oddest jobs in Bryan and changing umpteen filthy tires at the House of Tires. How do you tell a prospective summer employer that you just can’t start work until June 18 be cause you’re in this group called the Singing Cadets and you’ll be serenading Romanians until then? Now that it is over though, hardly a one of us can say we regret going. Even if we don’t have a job here, we feel like we did some good for world understanding and we sure learned to appreciate the U.S. At Kennedy airport we transfer red from a Delta jet with stereo headsets for every seat to a char tered Czechoslovakian Airlines fly ing sardine can. The Russian-built plane had gray seats and indoor- outdoor type gray carpeting. We heard a rumor that it could be con verted to a bomber in only a few hours. The stewardesses were ok if you don’t mind hairy legs. Every time I almost got to sleep they were put ting more food in front of me. Have you ever tried to cut a filet of beef only a few inches from your lap while holding your elbows firmly against your ribs? Trip helped understanding. says Cadet While in the plane our knees sel dom lost contact with the seat in front of us. But the vodka, beer and brandy served between meals seemed to make some of the Ags more comfortable. The Romanian news man who filmed an interview with us at the Bucharest airport kept asking why we had chosen to come there. After giving him the usual fine of promot ing friendship, tasting their food and seeing sights the best thing we could say was “why not?” Our guides from the national tourist agency, Mike Leventer and Nona Stanciu took us to our deluxe Hotel Nord, where we promptly bagged it. We stayed in the best hotels during the entire trip, but not one was as nice as a Holiday Inn. The rooms were comfortable, but only a couple had carpets and most were dimly lit. In our hotel room at the Black Sea the whole bathroom comprised the shower. If you weren’t careful you could ruin the whole roll of No. 1 grit toilet paper while showering. We really had it better than most of the natives though. As we whisked through villages in our Mercedes busses we could see that houses were being built of the same materials and sizes as they were in 1920. Most of them had three small rooms with a separate kitchen and outhouse. Romanian highways have two lanes which are shared by horse- drawn carts, pedestrians, trucks and buses. Except in the mountains they are lined with planted trees on both sides. The bus drivers, John and Victor, were such pros at passing on curves and dodging pot holes that they would surely find driving in the U.S. a bore. In the large cities Stanciu would proudly show us apartment build ings that have been built within ten years. Most of them were stark gray or beige, and they were generally alike in shape. The people tried to dress them up with flowers on the porches. There are several things one does not photograph in Romania. They are plainly marked by signs of cameras with X’s. Those places are usually military bases or feats of en gineering like bridges. When somebody asked why pic tures were forbidden, the guide either ignored him or said it wasn’t important. We saw hundreds of people, mostly women, working in the fields with hoes. If they used machinery what would the people have to do? We always found something amusing regardless of conditions like toilets that didn’t flush or fried brains for supper. Randy Nunns had an attractive set of plastic vampire teeth that sent Transylvanian kids howling home. An exciting plan to reveal them to a woman in an elevator was foiled by a broken elevator. At Neptune on the Black Sea a midnight yell practice was cancelled by our guides after some water bal loons came down on us from another gro jp in the hotel. We just thought it was good bull, but the manager was afraid we would retahate. By the end of the second week, Albert Laredo was leading the Whataburger Chorus using music from Handel’s Messiah. A highpoint in the trip was the quadding of our beloved vice presi dent, Bill Reeves, and Mike the guide in a swimming pool of icy water. On the flight home, one of our Delta pilots had the nerve to end his spiel on the altitude and weather with “hook ’em horns.” We were obliged to respond with a four-part version of the Aggie War Hymn. It may sound corny, but more than anything we accomphshed in promoting international friendship through music, we Singing Cadets, will remember how great it was to come home to America. SINGING CADET PRESIDENT James Randolph obliges a young Bulgarian during a two-hour autog raphing session at a music school in Timisoara.