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Moving the tracks ...
Relocation action
awaits first effort
By JERRY NEEDHAM
Battalion Staff Writer
(The following articls is the second in a
series of articles on the railroad situation
in College Station and Bryan.)
Who is interested in a possi
ble relocation of the railroad
tracks?
Texas A&M University Pres
ident Jack Williams apparently
is.
“The railroad tracks used to
mark the outer limits of our
campus. With the growth that
the university and the commun
ity have had, the tracks now de
lineate something inside the
campus, and I hope we can
eventually relocate them,” Wil
liams said last week.
Al Mayo, College Station
City Planner, said Monday that
the relocation of the tracks is
high on the list of needs but has
a low priority because of the
large amount of money in
volved, estimated to run into
the millions of dollars.
Mayo said College Station has
budgeted $100 this year for in
vestigation of relocating the
tracks. He said this would
amount to a few hours work by
the City staff analyzing previous
relocation-related studies.
Brazos County Judge W. R.
Vance Tuesday night said the
Commissioners Court has not
taken any position on relocation
but that one primary element of
the county’s Urban Transporta
tion Study Plan is the study of
relocation.
Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce has
said the Bryan Council has not
taken a position either. “But if
it’s something that A&M needs,
I think we (the area govern
ments) would have an interest
in moving it, ” he said last week.
"The question is how to fi
nance it,” Joyce said.
N. E. Allphin, Southern
Pacific Railroad s local agent,
said last week he doesn’t think
Southern Pacific will initiate
any action to move the tracks.
Southern Pacific officials in
Houston were contacted last
week and said they were not ad
verse to meeting with someone
and discussing a relocation,
“but no one has contacted us.”
But, so far, nothing has offi
cially been done by local gov
ernments to relocate the tracks.
A study was conducted last
fall by a Texas A&M urban
planning class to determine the
actual impact of the railroad on
the university and the sur-
See Railroad, page 6
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Battalion
Vol. 69, No. 22
Copyright © 1075, The Battalion
College Station, Texas Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1975
‘Both guilty of terrorism’
By LORI RAESNER
Battalion Staff Writer
International terrorism operates
through a world-wide network
based in the Arab-Israeli conflict,
Richard Levinson said Tuesday
night.
Levinson is an international af
fairs specialist and military-
intelligence analyst, and has studied
the Middle East problem in depth
in Israel.
“I don’t think taking bombs to the
very symbol of peace (the 1972
Olympics) is any way to conduct
warfare between two countries, ” he
said in reference to Arab terrorism
at the Munich games.
Levinson admitted that he spoke
from a slightly biased point of view.
“I’m against terrorism, and I speak
from that starting point,” he said.
Terrorism is “the only method
Arabs could use to free their coun
try,” and counter-terrorism is "Is
rael’s alternative to committing na
tional suicide, Levinson said.
“No party is clean of this affair. I’ll
say that from the beginning.”
Levinson disputed the traditional
Arab claim that when Israel was es
tablished thousands of Arab Palesti
nians were expelled from their
homeland by the Jews.
“The majority of the Arab popula
tion was driven out by the Arab re
ligious leader,” he said.
Arab leaders told Palestinian
Arabs that when they attacked Is
rael any Arabs they found would be
killed as traitors, he explained.
Levinson stressed that through
out history a large number of Jews
See Levinson, page 6
Crisis Line
future to be
discussed
The Brazos Valley Development Council (BVDC) Board of
Directors will meet Thursday night to discuss the fate of the
Emergency Medical Services Crisis Line.
The meeting is at 7:30 at the LULAC Hall on Sandy Point
Road in Bryan.
“The Crisis Line is no longer wanted by the Brazos Valley
Mental Health and Mental Retardation (MH-MR) Center,”
BVDC Director Glenn Cook said Tuesday uight.
The MH-MR has been paying one-fourth of the costs for the
crisis line.
The other three-fourths of the funds come from the U.S.
Health, Education and Welfare Department, he said.
Cook said the board will be looking for an alternative location
for the Crisis Line.
The BVDC will also discuss the applications of both Bryan and
College Station for U.S. Housing and Urban Development
Dept, funds for urban planning. The applications are being
made to the Texas Department of Community Affairs.
Also on the agenda for the meeting is a review of the Erosion
Control program for Brazos Valley. The funds for the program
come from the Resource Conservation and Development
Committee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The board will also adopt a resolution honoring the Rev. Hugh
Eiland for wark with the Alcohol Advisory Committee of the
BVDC.
The Rev. Mr. Eiland is moving to Florida.
Staff photo by Steve Goble
Green grode goes
Months of green corrosion are rubbed off the statue of
Lawrence Sullivan Ross as cadets Dyrrell Priest (left), 1
Scott Stroud and John Garner, along with other freshmen
from Squadrons 2 and 11, polish the bronze.
Lack of personnel delays projects
Arab World Dancers
The Arab World Dancers performed at
the Brazos County People’s Festival last
weekend. They demonstrated cultural
Arabian dancing before crowds at the
center stage of the Manor East Mall.
Members of the group are Texas A&M
students and staff.
Staff photo by C. T. Reis
“It takes a long time to get the
research done,” said Troie Pruett,
vice-president of student services
for student government.
After meeting with the Student
Services Committee Pruett said
there are many projects in the fire,
but they will take time to develop.
One project that is nearing com
pletion is the recyclable material
collection center at Hensel Park.
The storage area construction is
close to being finished while the ad
jacent cabin will not be ready until
November.
The committee hopes to coordi
nate on-campus, off-campus collec
tion of materials with a group from
the Interservice Council.
“The biggest problem is too many
possible projects and not enough
people to research them and work
out the details, Pruett said.
An example is the car care, gas
co-op. Pruett suggested that the
Sports Car Club take the project
and organize the details.
Other projects that Student Ser
vices is working on are considera
tion of other specifications for stu
dent health insurance and initiating
a personal property insurance.
She also listed investigation of a
Wide Area Telephone Service
(WATS line) for student use, eating
in any of the three board cafeterias,
a day care center or child care co-op,
standardization of the campus map.
improvement of shuttle bus service,
bike paths on sidewalks, a food
co-op, zoning for off-campus stu
dent senators, calculator and gradu
ation robe rental and sales.
A project that could be widely
used is a proposed computer prog
ram to prepare a population density
overlay map of the Bryan-College
Station area.
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“The program is looking costL
right now, but it woidd be useful t v
nearly everyone on campus, sai< I
Pruett. j
All persons interested in workin
on any of the projects mentioned ar >
welcomed to come by the Studen;
Government Office in room 216 c -
the MSC and leave their name an/
phone number or address.
City charter may change
The College Station City Council
will meet Thursday night at 7 to
hear a report from the council’s city
charter revision committee chair-
The council earlier this year ap
pointed a committee to review pos
sible changes in the city’s charter
and make recommendations.
Councilmen will also consider
passing an ordinance formally estab
lishing new increased telephone
rates in the city. General Telephone
Company and the cities of Bryan
and College Station on Friday
reached an out-of-court settlement,
increasing local rates by $496,000.
An ordinance granting the phone
an increase of $219,000 was passed
by the council Sept. 26 but that or
dinance will now be nullified be
cause of the settlement.
The phone company had orig
nally asked for a $1,073,193 increas
from both cities in April.
Also on the agenda will be coi
sideration of the formation of a Civ
Center committee. The committe
will be charged with finding an aj
propriate site for the center fc
which the city has already approve
$25,000 for construction.
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Campus
SUPPORT OF UT at Austin’s student-teacher strike and final reading of
election regulations are top items on Student Government’s agenda tonight.
The senators will meet in room 204 of Harrington at 7:30 p.m. They will
also discuss football ticket allocation, finalize action on the Mosher-Aston-
Krueger senatorship, approve the lease for Student Radio facilities, consider
whether Wadley will run the annual blood drive and make the refrigerator
manager’s contract.
The Senate will also consider campus chest guidelines and decide the
allocation of the remaining blood unit credits at Wadley.
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NEEDED: DRIVERS with commercial drivers’ licenses and/or flatbeds
and gooseneck trailers for use at bonfire. For more information, contact
Collin Andrus, 845-2085 or go to dorm 8, room 203.
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MIKE MARSHALL, student chairman for the Oct. 14 “Sen. Bill Moore
Day activities, has announced that tickets may be purchased for $2.50 on
campus.
A barbecue at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park will honor Moore
with activities getting underway at 5 p.m. Gov. Dolph Briscoe, the Singing
Cadets and Prairie View A&M Band will be taking part in the ceremonies.
Marshall says the tickets, which include both barbecue and drinks, may be
purchased from George Lippe in Puryear Hall (845-5187) or John Hatridge in
Corps Dorm 2 (845-2250)
Tickets are also available at all banks and savings and loans.
Briscoe will deliver a short address at the function and a number of
attending officials will be introduced.
THE BRYAN VIKINGS’ “No. 1 playoff” with Killeen will be broadcast
Tuesday by KAMU-TV (Channel 15), A&M’s educational television station.
The full-game telecast starts at 10 p. m. Halftime and other facets of Bryan’s
28-12 win in the game will be included.
World
Texas
LUBBOCK AGGIES will spread their biannual barbecue Saturday pre
ceding the A&M-Texas Tech grid meeting.
President Jim Clary invited all Aggie football followers to dine within
walking distance of Jones Stadium. The Lubbock A&M Club has set up the
feed at $3.75 a plate.
The 5 p.m. barbecue will be at the Texas National Guard Armory, on West
4th St. Reservations should be made, by phoning either the Association of
Former Students (845-7514) or James King at (806) 799-8547. Clary, a 1962
A&M graduate, stressed that students are invited.
The Lubbock club also will sponsor a Saturday reception for President Jack
K. Williams and the Board of Regents.
National
A SAN FRANCISCO urologist reports that a new surgical technique has
proven effective in reversing vasectomies.
CONGRESS OVERRODE FORD’S veto of the $2.75 billion child nutri
tion bill Tuesday. The bill will require schools to offer 20-cent lunches to
children from families with income below $9,770 per year.
This bill will add $1.2 billion to Ford’s budget, making the program “worse
than the programs we now have. Ford contends that the bill will extend
nutrition programs to non-needy children as well as needy children.
JACQUES COUSTEAU will start scanning the Greek seas this month in
search of lost treasures and the legendary city of Atlantis.
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A TOP CHINESE OFFICIAL has called the Soviet Union “the most
dangerous source of war. ” The denunciation has been followed by charges
that the Russians have “rapid ambitions” to “swallow the whole globe if they
could.”
Charges were also made that Soviet society is plagued by graft, embezzle
ment, profiteering, prostitution, drunkenness, drug addition and juvenile
delinquency.
These charges dispelled the rumors that the two governments might be on
the verge of improvement.
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MORE JOBS WILL be opened to blacks in white-ruled South Africa to
help alleviate the 17 per cent inflation.
Because of the devaluation of the African currency and a slump in the price
of gold, government and business leaders signed a declaration which will
increase job training. This training will upgrade white workers and, in some
cases, replace them with blacks.
THE NORWEIGIAN NOBEL Committee has discussed 50 candidates
for this year’s peace prize. Among them is Spanish Catholic priest Luis Maria
Xirinachs. He has been jailed three times in Spain for campaigning for
restoration of civil rights. He has just been released after a two-year term for
illegal propaganda.
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