Millican Dam funding
termination requested
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By JERRY NEEDHAM
Battalion Staff Writer
he Environmental Action Council of
os County has voted to ask Congress to
mate funding for the Millican Dam
jject.
he Council (EAC) will soon send letters
IheU. S. House and Senate subcommit-
|es on public works asking for de-
orization of the project.
What concerns us very much is the con
ed statements by the Brazos River Au
nty (BRA) that we need reservoirs on
he Navasota River to meet water needs,”
aid Cornelius Van Bavel, chairman of the
EAC’s water resources committee.
[It is evident that the cities (Bryan-
illege Station) have all the water they
d, and that new reservoirs are not
ided,” he said.
jVan Bavel supported his charge by refer-
igto the dam that the BRA is building on
Navasota River, about 35 miles north of
|eproposed Millican Dam site. (The Mil-
site is located 12 miles southeast of
illege Station.)
jVan Bavel said the other dam has not
ived much publicity.
That dam, which will form Limestone
servoir, is about fifteen per cent com-
ted. The reservoir is to be completed in
The 220,000 acre-feet reservoir, com
parable to Lake Somerville, will be capable
of providing 75,000 acre-feet of water a year
for downstream use. Van Bavel said.
Texas Utilities, a conglomerate including
Dallas Power and Light and Texas Power
and bight, has contracted for 25,000 of the
available 75,000 acre-feet. Van Bavel said.
This leaves about 50,000 acre-feet of un
allocated water for downstream use.
“We have had a number of inquiries
about it, and we are in the process of
negotiating contracts for the remaining wa
ter,” said Colonel Walter Wells, manager
of the BRA.
“There’s a need in the area of the
Navasota River system for water for cooling
purposes for power plants using the lignite
in the area,” Wells said.
He said subsidence (a lowering of the
water table) in the lower Gulf area is also a
major consideration for new reservoirs.
A new reservoir needs to be built as soon
as possible to meet future needs. Wells
said.
He said the 25,000 acre-feet of water
contracted for by Texas Utilities will be
used at two steam-electric generating
facilities located about 10 miles from
Limestone Reservoir.
The Texas Municipal Power Pool
(TMPP), which is composed of Bryan and
three North Texas cities, has mentioned
the possibility of building a lignite-fueled
electric-generating plant in the Navasota
River Basin.
The U. S. Bureau of Mines is now con
ducting tests of the lignite beds in the
proposed Millican Reservoir site. A report
on the quality and amount of lignite in the
reservoir is expected in June or July.
TMPP Board Member Lou Odle, also
city manager of Bryan, said that if Millican
Dam were constructed, the water would
inundate some of the land which is being
exploredorleased by Bryan and TMPP. He
said more than 10,000 acres have already
been leased.
Ray Brogley, Millican coordinator in the
Corps of Engineers, said the Corps has
been studying alternatives to the Millican
site for some time.
He said, however, that if the lignite
could be mined within 40 or 50 years, the
Millican site could still be filled with water.
Wells said the impression he got from
the Corps was that the amount of time for
mining and utilizing the lignite would be so
extensive that it would be impractical to fill
Millican afterwards.
■
Battalion
Vol. 68 N. 85
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, Mar. 3, 1976
Staff photo by Douglu
Mazowsze
The Polish State Song and Dance Company, in the show were acrobatics and versions of the
Mazowsze, delighted the audience in Rudder Audi- famous polonaise and mazurka. Mazowsze was
torium Tuesday night. The group performed tra- presented by OPAS.
ditional songs and dances from Poland. Included
Winship
Still no liquor on campus
‘Z wont recommend it and I’ll never approve it’ — Williams
It
By LeANN ROBY
If your throat is dry, you will still have to
tie for the usual soft drinks and punch
jsently sold at the student center. Jack
Uiams, university president, said no al-
lolic beverages will be sold on this cam-
sat any time in the near future.
I'm not going to get into some semantic
rcise about whether we have whiskey
the campus or not,” Williams said in an
erview last week. “My own feeling about
is that we won’t have it. I won’t recom-
md that we do, and I’ll never approve it.
“I haven’t changed my mind on my opin-
is one way or the other on a pub on
npus or alcoholic beverages being hand-
l under the offices of campus organiza-
ms,” he continued. “I don’t count al-
holic beverages as being conversant with
: purpose or the image of a university of
'her (earning.”
The controversy over a student pub on
eA&M campus was sparked last January
when Texas University completed a stu
dent pub on its campus. The issue was de
bated many times last year, but all results
were negative.
At the time the attitude of administrators
was the reason a student pub at A&M was
such a slim possibility, said Bill Davis
1974-75 Memorial Student Center (MSC)
“We wont have it. I wont re
commend that we do, and 1 11
never approve it.” — Jack
Williams, A&M President
president. He said people in the decision
making process don’t feel liquor belongs on
campus.
Davis also said that he would like to see
liquor sold on campus and would continue
to ask for it. However, he felt efforts at that
time would be “fruitless’ and added,
“Maybe next year.”
Next year has arrived but efforts to open
a pub on campus still seem to be fruitless.
“There are all sorts of things sold and
purveyed very legally in the business
world,” Williams said. “I don’t think that
some of them belong under the business
arm of a campus, though. This is one that I
don’t think belongs here. ”
Williams said that he does not drink “to
speak of’ but said he does serve liquor to
guests at his home. “I’m not interested in
debating one way or the other about that, ”
he said as he agreed that his house is part of
the campus.
“That house is my home where my wife
and I and my family live with our dog, ” he
said. “I don’t count that as the student
center or a classroom or a public building. ”
Williams said he does classify dorms as
public buildings, and when questioned
about the lax policy towards liquor in the
dorms he said that the school doesn’t con
done it or “wink” at it.
He went on to say, “We don’t have the
mechanism if we wanted to do it, to run
around caving in the doors of the dorms to
find out if the students have liquor or not. I
imagine I would find quite a lot if I did,
though,” he added.
“But that doesn’t mean we are going to
take the rule off the books anymore than it
means we ll take the rule off the books that
you can’t smoke in bed in a dorm,’ Wil-
“We dont have the mechanism
to run around caving in the
doors of the dorms to find out if
the students have liquor or not. ”
— Jack Williams
liams said. “When some person is severely
injured in a drunken brawl, I want to have
the rule available in case it’s needed. ”
Williams agreed that the consensus
among other schools in Texas having pubs
on campus is that if the students are going
to drink it is better tor them to drink on
campus and walk back to their dorms than
drink off campus and drive back to them.
“My feelings about this are that at A&M
three-fourths of the student body lives off
campus. Here, it would be worse to have all
of them drive to campus to drink than it
would be for the few on campus to go to a
local bar.’ Williams then added that there
are many places within walking distance of
the campus where students can buy liquor.
Jeff Dunn, student body president, said
he feels this point to be one of the main
reasons the administration is against having
liquor sold on campus. He said that most
people in Student Government (SG) are in
favor of a campus pub, and that SG tries
every year to open one but the administra
tion always blocks it.
Aside from the administration’s point of
view, Dunn added, there are many stu
dents who feel liquor does not belong on
campus, especially in the MSC. He said
they do not wish to see liquor served there
because they look upon the MSC as a
memorial and a place to be treated with
respect.
Last year Greg Moses, 1974-75 Battalion
editor, ran a survey through the Battalion
“If it passed us, it would only be
killed during the next stage.”
— Jeff Dunn, A&M student
body president
to find out how the students felt on the
subject of a campus pub.
“There was almost no response to the
subject either pro or con,” Dunn said. He
then added that the light student response
is one of the main reasons SG has not pur
sued the issue to any great extent this year.
“If the students aren’t interested, why
should we push it?”
(See Liquor, page 7)
SPemo nomination becomes
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Associated Press
BOSTON — Sen. Henry M. Jackson’s
ictory in Massachusetts has turned the
ontest for the Democratic presidential
lomination into a giant game of political
hess — and the next move is up to the
iberal side of the board.
Jackson succeeded in checking the fron-
jthef Jrunner’s gambit of former Georgia Gov.
■immy Carter — at least for a week. That’s
I'ben they meet again, in Florida, in a
bree-way test with Alabama Gov. George
Wallace.
Jackson won in Massachusetts with 23
lercent of the vote — quickly overshadow-
ng Carter’s victory over two other candi-
lates in Tuesday’s Vermont primary.
While they campaign for Florida’s match
it the ballot box, the Democrats who style
hemselves as progressives and liberals
have some maneuvering to do.
It begins with Sen. Birch Bayh of In-
liana, virtually wiped out by his seventh-
ilace, five-per cent showing in Mas-
achusetts.
Bayh was conferring today with his cam-
laign strategists in Washington. “We’re
!oing to together determine what role I
hould play as we continue to pursue the
[oal of electing a Democratic President,”
ie said.
The role could hardly be that of a candi-
tlate, at least not a candidate with a fighting
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chance.
And Rep. Morris K. Udall, who emerged
from the Massachusetts primary with clear
title to the liberal lead, claimed “a victory
beyond reasonable expectations” in losing
to Jackson while running a near deadlock
with Wallace for the second spot.
President Ford swept to victory in Ver
mont, where he was alone on the ballot.
News Analysis
with 84 per cent of the vote; and in Mas
sachusetts, with 62 per cent to Ronald
Reagan’s 35 per cent.
Both were on the ballot, although
neither campaigned personally. But there
was a $200,000 Ford advertising and tele
phone campaign in Massachusetts.
Ford said he was pleased. Campaign
manager Howard H. Callaway said he had
gained momentum for the rest of the race.
President and challenger meet headon in
Florida next Tuesday, and in successive
weeks in Illinois and North Carolina.
Democrat Udall proclaimed himself a
friend and a fan of Birch Bayh, clearly hop
ing that the Indiana senator would with
draw and endorse him. An endorsement
wouldn’t be all that valuable among voters,
but it could be priceless for Udall in the
April 6 New York presidential primary.
The Arizona congressman said if Democ
rats are to have a wider choice than Carter,
‘ Jackson and Wallace, “then only the Udall
campaign offers that choice.”
But it wasn’t quite that simple.
For one thing. Sen. Frank Church of
Idaho is poised to enter the campaign on
March 18, with what he calls a late-late
strategy:
“This strategy is based on the supposi
tion that a number of candidates will knock
themselves out of the race and the oppor
tunity will open up for a late entrant. ”
Church said he might enter a half-dozen
late season primaries.
Furthermore, both Sargent Shriver and
Oklahoma Sen. Fred R. Harris were vow
ing to campaign on, despite defeats in New
Hampshire and Vermont, and twin,
eight-per cent showings in Massachusetts.
Shriver said it wasn’t time to leave the
liberal field to one candidate. Harris pro
fessed optimism, although it was hard to
see why.
And wherever they run, they cut into the
liberal vote Udall might otherwise be able.
to claim.
Carter had moved to the top of the class
with his win in New Hampshire’s first of the
primaries. But he couldn’t make his profes
sed goal of a top-three finish in Mas
sachusetts. “I was overly optimistic there, ”
he said.
(See Liberal, page 8)
Index
A&M Student Body Presi
dent, Jeff Dunn is working for
student representation on the
Board of Regents. PAGE 6.
The Placement Office is stay
ing busy these days. PAGE 9.
The history of the RHA is re
counted. PAGE 10.
SWC launches investigation
into Baylor, Houston and Texas.
PAGE 11.
Sonny Parker and Shelby
Metcalf receive SWC honors.
PAGE 13.
Today is the last day to register
to vote in local elections. PAGE
5.
THE FORECAST for Wed
nesday and Thursday is mostly
cloudy mornings, pardy cloudy
afternoons. Continued warm
and windy both days with temp
eratures in low 80’s.
Officials watching
out for fraudulent
shuttle bus passes
By DENISE EDMONDS
Fraudulent bus passes have become
more popular on the Texas A&M Shuttle
Bus System this semester.
Signs on bus windows warn “Show your
whole pass,” or “No pass, no ride”.
“We have asked bus drivers to be a little
more observant,” said E. C. Oates, shuttle
bus committee chairman in a recent inter
view.
The mock bus passes are easily distin
guishable, said Oates, because each pass is
designed differently. The common trick is
to color last semester’s white pass with a
pink felt tip pen, but the information on the
card is in a different place from one semes
ter to the next.
The deceiving method of pink coloring
has been too bright and the bus design on
the card has changed from maroon to black
since last semester, said Oates.
“We try to get drivers to be as firm and
decent as possible,” said Oates.
Bus drivers chuckle when telling of the
attempts made on them. As bus driver
Mike Hudsonpillar said, “One tried a pink
junior activity card, but it didn’t go too far. ”
“They’ll put it under a dirty picture fol
der in their wallet,” said Dennis Klesel.
“One tried a 1973 fee slip,” added Hud
sonpillar.
“Or they cut them in two and leave half
in the billfold,” said Klesel.
This semester, 3,950 bus passes were
sold compared to the 4,950 last fall.
Also, more $1.50 ride books which allow
10 rides, have been used this semester.
There have been 600 individual ride passes
collected so far, said Oates.
In the past, persistent checking of passes
only lasted the first two weeks, and a book
or two of rides lasted a passenger for a
semester, said Oates.
But now, people have to tear the passes
out of their ride book when boarding, said
Oates.
The number of routes for this semester
differs from last fall.
Last fall, only three routes existed in
cluding the north, south and east. This
semester, the South route was divided into
two: the Doux Chene and Scandia, said
Oates.
There are still 14 buses, which average
10 hours a day, 7 a. m.-10:40 p.m., but this
is expected to change, said Oates.
Some plans, Oates said, for next fall are:
increase supply to 16 buses, divide the
Plantation Oaks Apartments route into two
and possibly extend the transportation
hours if the increase in student population
forces 7 a.m. classes.