Work sites to include north side
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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1975
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Early next week, limited con- This area includes Hughes, Schumacher and Walton dor- the only construction will be in the
struction will begin in the north Keathley, Fowler, Davis-Gary, mitories. quad just south of the old Hospital,
dormitory area.
Moses, Moore, Mclnnis, Until the present semester ends, east of Hughes Hall and North of
This scene from “Henny Penny” is a part of “Storybook Theater”
which the Aggie Players will present Saturday in Bryan Civic
Auditorium. The Players will perform “Reynard the Fox” at 10:30
a.m. and “Storybook Theater” at 2 p.m. Proceeds from the child
ren’s theater double feature will help to support Sheltering Arms,
the city’s new shelter for neglected children.
Sen. Clower says
Cities at phone company’s mercy
AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas
Supreme Court ruling prohibit
ing two Houston-area cities
from regulating a
metropolitan-type telephone
service leaves possibly hun
dreds of Texas cities “at the
mercy of the phone com-
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panics,” says Sen. Ron Clower,
D-Garland, the sponsor of a bill
to set up a state utility commis
sion.
Clower issued a statement
Wednesday after the Supreme
Court affirmed two separate
lower court rulings forbidding
Alvin and Nassau Bay from reg
ulating “extended metropolitan
area service.”
The service enables residents
of the cities to call neighboring
communities without being
charged long-distance rates.
The Supreme Court said it
could find no reversible error in
lower court decisions that ruled
the service amounted to long
distance phone calls and was not
within the cities’ regulatory
power.
Clower said the ruling
“abolishes municipal regulation
of telephone rates in nearly
every city in Texas with ex
tended metropolitan service
and that includes Dallas, Fort
Worth, Houston, San Antonio,
Austin, virtually all of their sub
urbs, and dozens of other Texas
cities.”
It might even affect hundreds
of cities, he said, and added that
his staff was trying to compile a
total.
“The Texas Municipal
League and those city councils
that have opposed state regula
tion now have what they should
have seen coming,” said
Clower. “They have nothing.
They’re out in the cold, at the
mercy of the phone companies.
Jones Street.
Assistant vice president of stu
dent services, Gen. Ormond R.
Simpson said, “The interference,
with studying will be minimal for
the current semester.”
The construction will not involve
demolition of existing sidewalks,
said Gen. Simpson, so the noise
level will not approach that along
Houston Street (in front of Puryear
Hall) last week. Houston Street is
being repaved.
“We have asked them to be very
careful about making any noise dur
ing dead week and finals,” said As
sociate Director of Student Affairs
Ron Blatchley.
Executive Vice President Gen.
A. R. Luedecke said there will be a
minimum of disruptive activity
j while students are here.
“There will be some noise. You
can’t do anything without noise.”
I The only “heavy equipment” will
be graders and backhoes which will
landscape the area. The inconveni
ence to students is that they will
have to walk around the area rather
than through it. While a safety fence
will be erected around the tract, the
sidewalk just south of the old hospi
tal will be usable.
Gen. Simpson emphasized this
would be the only area where work
will be in progress prior to May 16,
the last day of exams.
Immediately after finals, the con
tractor (the same one reconstructing
the Corps area) will begin work in
the area between Houston Street
and Schumacher and Walton Halls.
The contractor hopes to complete
new sidewalks in this area before
summer school begins on June 2.
From that time on he will move into
the larger quad area where more
extensive work is planned.
This “more extensive” construc
tion in the north dorm area will in
clude demolition of all present
sidewalks where a huge mall will be
built.
Also included will be the “world’s
largest” bicycle rack where a park
ing lot just west of Walton Hall is
presently located.
Gen. Simpson said the plan is de
signed to maintain the maximum
number of existing trees in addition
to many new ones which will be
planted during the work.
The project will take about a year
for completion and Simpson hopes
by the time the fall semester begins
that a significant portion of the
sidewalks will be finished.
“It seems like construction takes
forever, but the end result will be
far better than it looks now.
“It will be very handsome in
deed,” remarked Simpson.
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Architects to hold campout
The American Society of Landscape Architects will have a campout
May 2 on the Brazos River.
The campout will continue through Saturday. There will be free food
and drinks.
Mexican students to meet
The Association of Students from Mexico will meet tonight in the
Rudder Tower at 8 p.m. in Room 504.
The purpose of the meeting is to elect officers and to show slide
presentation of next year’s activities.
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