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million Bonds buy power By JERRY NEEDHAM Staff Writer Paul Cunningham, executive chairman of the newly formed Texas Municipal Power Agency (TMPA), told the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce Thursday night that the agency will have $11 million in bonds available in November for construction of a new power plant. Cunningham was the guest speaker in a special program accen- BEAR PAW TURQUOISE & SILVER JEWELRY 331 UNIVERSITY DR. Above Kesami Sandwich Shop Open 1-6 Mon.-Fri. MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER BARBER SHOP is now open and in operation. Six barbers to serve you at your convenience. Open Monday through Friday, 8 a. m. — 5 p.m. “Juptnamka Eddie Dominguez '66 Joe Arciniega 74 Greg Price tuating Bryan’s role in the four-city agency. Other members are De nton, Garland and Greenville. He said money will be used in selecting a suitable site for a new power plant, planning the construc tion and purchasing lignite leases. He said $500,000 has already been spent for a legal advisor for Bryan and will be paid by the agency. After the agency was formed July 31, the Brazos Electric Power Co-op signed a participation agree ment with TMPA on Aug. 22 which formed the Texas Power Pool, Inc. (TPPI). Cunningham said the agency has conducted 11 studies to determine how it would operate. “The TMPA is a local agency with the sole purpose of financing and owning the pool,” Cunningham said. He said theTPPI is in charge of operating the organization. “Traditionally, all over the na tion, publicly owned power has de monstrated itself to be cheaper than privately produced power,” Cun ningham said. He said the power pool is a tax- exempt organization because of a recent law passed by the state legis lature. Cunningham said he understood the newly created Texas Utility Commission will have some effect on the pool but said he is unsure what those effects will be. He said exploration conducted by the agency has located enough lig- ^Uc^Kengie-^BaMwin BUSINESS COLLEBE Inquire About Our Term Starting Sept. 16 Phone 822 6423 or 822-2368 nite coal in the Bryan area to fuel one 400-megawatt power plant for 30 years. He said lignite leases owned by the agency have been concentrated in Grimes County so far. The Dansby Power Plant, now under construction by Bryan, will have generation capabilities of 100 megawatts. An agency owned 400-megawatt plant to use the lignite as a fuel source is expected to be operational by late 1981, Cunningham said. The new plant would be the first joint venture by members of the TMMP. Cunningham said a site for the plant should be found by April 1976. According to a proposal furnished by Cunningham, the plant location will be in the vicinity of Bryan’s new lignite and water supply, located southwest of Bryan. “If nuclear power shows to be less expensive, we plan to have our own nuclear power plant by 1990,” he said. J§ THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1975 Photo by Glen Johnson Staff Photographer The B-CS Chamber of Commerce heard from power-man Paul Cunningham (right) during its meeting Thursday night. Standing with Cunningham is Chamber President B. A. Erwin, division manager for General Telephone. SPECIAL! ENGINEERING GRAPHICS KITS— Only $29.95 Come by and get acquainted! y ews Office Supply Co. 108 College Main • North Gate Oldest profession on air Associated Press DALLAS — “Good morning world! This is Hot Lips and I’m ready for you.” Hot Lips is not a breakfast cereal commercial. She is one of no-telling-how- many prostitutes federal authorities here say are using the air waves to drum up business. Funny? No, says Carl Pyron, district supervisor for the Federal Com munications Commission (FCC). “We’ve had a number of com plaints about this. Unfortunately, none of my men has actually heard one of these broadcasts, but I feel there is something to it. 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Buggerhound got past security guards in federal buildings for nearly three years before they dis covered he was a federal employe posing as a poodle. “It was a case of a wag dogging our security system,” commented an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spokesman Thursday of the false identification card used by Dr. Jan Prager. He said guards will be asked to cheek the cards of visitors and work ers more closely now that Prager has been caught using the dog-eared tag as a joke. The card carries a photo of a silver poodle and the name Phineas T. Buggerhound. It was issued when the National Marine Water Quality Laboratory in West Kingston, R.I., where Prager works, became part of the EPA, Prager came part of the EPA, Prager said. Phineas is the agency’s mascot. Prager was finally collared at EPA in Washington by guard Ronald Small, who did a double take, laughed and confiscated the “dog tag.” But before Small sniffed out the guise, Prager said he had used the card to enter sundry Washington buildings, including EPA, Justice, Agriculture and Interior depart ments and the General Services Administration. his he Prager said he also carried own identification card in case should he caught, but he noted that the one issued to Phineas was also an official card. His reason: “You have to have a sense of humor to work for the gov ernment. The incident apparently ended with an official memo from Prager’s over citizens ban (CB) radio chan nels in violation of a number of regu lations. “Yeah, we’ve had the same re ports,” said a Dallas vice squad of ficer. “I think some of the girls are calling their pimps on these CB radios to get directions on how to get to their next customer. ” Pyron said prostitutes-”I don’t know how many are involved”- invite listeners, many of them truck drivers, to meet at a code-named motel for “fun and games. If the trucker, or whoever it is, knows the code location they’re in business.” Pyron said there are an estimated 16.000 CB radio operators in the Dallas area. “The FCC gets about 200.000 applications a month nationwide for CB licenses. If caught, a prostitute could prob ably be charged with having no CB license, soliciting business and use of the airwaves for “unauthorized purposes,” he said. 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