A French petroleum firm and The joint effort will be evalu-
A&M cooperated in putting in ated for two years. The French
new, cheap sulfur-asphalt road outfit hopes to market the pro-
on Highway 69 north of Lufkin. cess in the U.S.
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highways
A French petroleum firm and
A&M got together to test a new
lower-cost road building method in
East Texas.
A test section was put down this
month on Highway 69 north of Luf
kin that handles a traffic load of over
6,000 vehicles a day.
Dr. Claude J. Garriques, director
of technical projects for the Societe
National des Petioles d’Aquitaine,
is working with Prof. Bob Callaway
of the Texas Transportation Insti
tute to evaluate a new sulfur-asphalt
formula for quicker and cheaper
road building.
“The system has already proved
itself in France where we have
tested it in several sites during the
last three years,” said Garriques.
“In our method, sulfur is substi
tuted for 20 to 40 per cent of the
asphalt.
“The advantage here is that the
price of asphalt is skyrocketing
while the price of sulfur continues to
drop, he said. “This is due to the
recovery of sulfur from oil, coal and
even smokestacks.
“Through our research we’ve
found that adding sulfur makes a
superior road-building material,
while being about 15 per cent
cheaper, and needs conventional
paving equipment that is currently
in use, Garriques said.
An evaluation of the process will
extend over the next two years by.
the Federal Highway Administra
tion and the State Department of
Highways and Public Transporta
tion.
TTI with the State of Texas will
monitor and evaluate the road sur
faces.
A color movie sound tracked in
French and English is also being
made of the construction and testing
of the road.
Consol
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livery drives to the rear of the build
ing, both at a cost of $374,()()().
The administrative offices for the
school district would also he either
remodeled and enlarged or rebuilt
at a cost of $408,300.
Hopson said it was becoming im
possible for the school district staff
to operate in the existing cramped
facilities.
He said facilities for the administ-
ration do not include just adminis
trative and maintenance offices hut
also storage space for supplies and
hooks for the schools.
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Voters forbidden
to live in boxes
A voter can’t live in a Post Office box.
However, about 10 per cent of those students at the MSG
registering to vote in Brazos County said that they do.
Bill McLeod, president ofTexas Voting Systems in Bryan
said Tuesday that about 100 students on the registration form
listed a post office box as a temporary address. The company
computerizes voter registration for Brazos County.
“Unless we know where they live, we cannot register them
to vote,” McLeod said.
He said lie is returning all forms listing only temporary
addresses to the A&M Student Government office for correc
tion. If a student remembers listing a box number as an address
it must be changed to a place of residence, McLeod said. He
explained that a residence is the exact location where a person
lives.
The law says we must haVe that. We need it so that we can
put them in the proper precinct,” he said.
The registration form requests a permanent address as well
as a temporary one.
For instance, if a person decides to vote in Brazos County
but has a permanent address in another county he must also list
his Brazos County address as a temporary one.
McLeod said that a box number may be used only as a
mailing address.
“If the students correct the addresses, they will still be able
to vote in the next election (Nov. 4), he added. “We will
register them as of the date they originally signed up.”
The SG office will sponsor another registration campaign
Sept. 29 through Oct. 3. However, those who need to correct
the forms need only to visit the SG office anytime before Oct. 3 if
they want to vote in November.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1975
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1975
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