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PO BOX 45436 Dallas, tx 75235 H Cbe Battalion College Station, Texas Wednesday, Mar. 24. 1976 Reagan wins; odds improve RALEIGH. N.C. — Ronald Rraiun. 'H tortoua at Iasi, hat won lime (nr an effort to rebuild hit campaign againtt President Ford — but be sdD (aces long odds in hit quetl for the Republican presidential nomination Reagan*• upset over Ford in the North Carolina presidential primary election Tuesday gave the challenger the comeback he needed to silence suggestions that hr withdraw from the White House contest Now his task is to capitalize on that vic tory. It will be a difficult one. particularly during the next five weeks, for the political schedule works to Ford's advantage. While Reagan was dealing the President his first defeat. Democrat Jimmy Carter was winning another runaway. His landslide over George C. Wallace Nett* Analysis left the Alabama governor with only the shadow of a campaign Badly beaten where he once was formidable, Wallace has lost his base and any claim he had to be the campaign voice of the South. Now that he has ham!led Wallace, Carter will have to deal with his national Democ ratic rivals. Sen. Henry M. Jackson of W ashington is waiting for his in New York, which bolds its primary on April 6. So is Rep. Morris k L'dall of Arizona, who also is hard at work in Wisconsin, which votes the same day Ford and Reagan meet again in Wiscon sin. Early polls there ranked the President a heavy favorite. Reagan's victory in North Carolina, where Ford also was fa sored, should help him in the Wisconsin test. But it is not likely to help him enough, and the odds there are still with the President. After that. Reagan draws a primary blank for almost a month. He is not running dele gates in New York, which will have 154 votes at the Republican National C-onvl" lion Nor is he running in Pennsylva*. wh«Te an April 27 primary aw ards 103 C.< delegates. Reagan said all along he would not quit, insisting his real strength lies in states where Republicans have not yet voted, in (See Reagan, page 7) JIM DOZIER Incumbents stress utility rates, zoning bob bell Two incumbent counctlmen are oppos ing each other for Place 6 on the Caillege Station City Council in what should be one of the more interesting council races. Jim Dozwr. who now lioMs Mace 6. is being challenged by Place 3 representative Bob Bell on the April 3 ballot. The situation developed when Bell an- I nounced his resignation as councilman, ef fective March 31, in order to run for Col- |lege Station mayor. Councilman l^an^- Bravenec later en- Itered the mayor’s race and Bell sub sequently withdrew from the race less than an hour before the filing deadline. Bell | then filed for the position held by Dozier. Bell said he withdrew from the mayor's race because ‘‘the energy spent in cam paigning by both candidates can be better spent in service to our community." Bell said yesterday there is "no particular significance in his filing against Dozier rather than any other councilman. He had said at the time he announced for Place 6 that he felt his and Dozier's views of a councilman's duties were farther apart than those of the other two councilmen whose two-year terms are up for election. Bell said he wants to serve a two-year term because he does not want to campaign again next year. This is the third straight year Bell has campaigned for a position on the council. In 1974 he ran for mayor but lost to present Mayor O. M. Holt by 15 votes. Last year he defeated incumbent Don Dale for Place 3 on the council. Dozier, 1005 Walton Dr., is an associate professor df finance at Texas A6cM. The 52-year-old has a law degree from thq U Di versity of Texas and a master's degree in business administration from A&M. Dozier has served on the council for six years, from 1968 to 1972, and from 1974 to the present. He served as College Station city attorney from 1972 to 1974. The most important consideration facing the city, Dozier said, is to obtain an adequate supply of electricity and water at the most practical rates available. Other priorities Dozier mentioned were: strict enforcement of zoning ordinances and subdivision regulations: and construc tion of a community center and bicycle lanes. Blowing bubbles pays-off for artists Bell, 33, 1006 Madera Cirele, is presi dent of Scott 6c Davis Enterprises, and hopes to establish a new radio station in Brazos County. He is also an independent contractor, associated with Spearman Homes and Realty Bell said the major consideration facing the city is the need to pass the $5 million capital improvements bond issue. He also stressed the need to know what the city's source of water and electricity will be for tlie future and what rates residents will have to pay for them. Bell said a close watch needs to be kept on how the city grows with regard to park land dedication and sidewalks. — Jerry Needham I By KEVIN VENNER "It must be niog W> sit and lifown bubbles | and get paid for it. That is what Jack Shannon and his C nger brother, Jerry, do during working n. I The hubbies, which appear to be the Isoapy. floating type, actually are made of 1 hot glass As the glass cools, it hardens. This waste material is then shattered by 1 tapping the bubbled with a hard object. “That seems to fascinate people more I than anything you can do with glass," says | Jack. The Shannons were hired to make | specialized glass parts for the Chemistry The Shannons were hired to make Ispecilalized glass parts for the Chemistry I Department, but their work expanded and mow includes any glass work needed by any (department on the A&M campus. The> (produce glassware for many research pro jects and will also do work for students who (need it. Although some pieces can l>e nude in (four or five minutes, others may take four |or five days. Jack sa|d The Shannons get the information they (need to make their components from the * (person or department needing assistance, (then begin work in a shop equipped much [like a wood shop. The shop is located in the basement of (the Chemistry building and contains a glass (Uthe. The lathe acts like a pair of large ■ hands It holds large glass objects and ro- Itates them so the heat will be distributed (evenly over the surface. A special type of drill press is used to (make holes in the glass. The press has a Ispecial diamond bit and is lubricated with water during drilling. A band saw is used to make cuts in gUiMs&pacte. *•» -*■*-• «»» The glass is heated with a two-burner head which helps to regulate the amount of methane gas. The gas flows through a line containing seven pounds of pressure. Normal gas lines have only a few ounces. Working temperatures of the glass may get as high as 3,272 degrees Fahrenheit (F), but normal working temperatures are bet ween 1,652 degrees and 2,192 degrees F. When the Shannons finish an object it must be put into an annealing oven. The oven heats the piece and then lets the glass slowly cool. This procedure tempers the glass and prev ents weak spots. The work is sometimes frustrating, say the Shannons. “W'e’ve worked two or three days on a big chunk of glass, then lost it all in one fell swoop." Breakage can occur from heating or cool ing the glass too quickly or from dropping a bead of sweat onto the glass, said lack. “We’ve had people not get out the door with the glass. They bang it on the door while going out." Jerry said this w*as frustrating, but “it’s kind of funny, too, to see the look on their face. Jack came to A&M in 1961 after working in the glass shop of Dow Chemical Co. since 1951. He started to work for Dow in Dallas and finished in Freeport, Texas. Jerry came to help his brother in the A&M glass shop in 1962. The Shannons said that they get enough glass work during the day and do not make things with glass while off duty. "We try to drink out of plastic glasses at home." said Jack. 25 1' *■ m 4 :$ BLOWING BUBBLES Jerry Shannon is one of A&M glassblowers Mxrfo courtetv of K«vta V« If Animal friends Staff photo by 1 eresa Smalley and Olen Chenault, hugging his lamb, participated in the Brazos County Youth Livestock Show in the Animal Pavilion on die A&M campus. The show ended yesterday with an auction of the animals. British, WWII field leader dies ISINGTON, England — Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Britain’s top field commander in World War I! and consi dered by many the greatest British military leader since the Duke of Wellington, died early today after many months of failing health. At 88, Montgomery was one of the last surviving commanders of the war against Nazi Germany, and not many of the others escaped his biting criticism. He died at his home in this Hampshire County hamlet 50 miles southwest of London. The Defense Ministry said because Montgomery was a Knight of the Carter, his funeral will be held in St. George’s Chapel, in Windsor Castle, with full milit ary honors. The date was not immediately announced. The cause of death also was not an nounced. But Montgomery had been con fined to his bed for some time, and his son David said last weekend, "He is an old man, and he’s very tired.” A peppery, austere soldier who carried a Bible on his campaigns and neither drank, smoked nor used profanity, Montgomery turned the tide of the Nazi advance with his victory in 1942 over Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at El Alamein, in the Egyptian desert. He followed this with a 2.000-mile sweep to Tunis which in three months drove the Germans and Italians from North Africa. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the sup reme allied commander, had his disagree ments with Montgomery but still praised him as "one of the greatest soldiers of the war... a figure who will live always not only in British but in world history.” Eisenhower got harsher treatment from the man he called “dear Monty.” In memoirs published in 1958, Montgomery criticized Eisenhower’s leadership in the closing phases of the war and in the postwar period. Knighted during the war, Montgomery was made a v iscount in the first New Year's honors list after the end of the war. He took the title Viscount Montgomery of Alamein in honor of his first great victory. In postwar service, he was chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1946 to 1948 and then spent seven years as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's deputy al lied commander in Europe. He retired from active duty in 1968 sifter 50 years of service, the longest continuous duty for a British officer Bus runs to begin in B-CS Beginning this summer. College Station bus patrons will no longer have to wait outside the U-Tote-M at Eastgate, the pre sent city bus terminal, for the arrival of their buses. Sam J. Enloe Jr., local agent for Greyhound Lines Inc. and Central Texas Bus Lines Inc., announced yesterday that Greyhound will lease a 750-square foot building that will be built to serve as the new College Station bus station. He declined to name the building's owner. The building will be located on Nagle Street, north of University Drive, between the General Telephone substation and B&B Grocery. The lhis station will be In operation by mid-iummer, Enloe said. It will provide package pickup and delivery, baggage checking, ticket sales and a waiting room. "Bus traffic has increased to where we thought a bus station in College Station was necessary.” Enloe said. Thirty per cent of the bus line’s local passenger and freight volume originates in ( ollege Station, much of which is gener ated by Texas A&M University. “We wanted a more centralized location 4 and a more complete bus service in lieu of only a passenger pick up and delivery ser vice in College Station, " Enloe said. The new bus station wfl] be serviced by 14 daily bus routes. There are six buses south, six north and two west. Joe Scamardo ■Kgs iB * / Apartment industry revisin * APARTMENT COMPLEXES CONTINUE TO SPROUT UP IN AREA Apartment units comprise 60 per cent of availaMe housing in CoRege Station By STEVE GRAY and SUZANNE DEATHERAGE : Trends in the local apartment industry affect the lives of many students. More than 15,000 students searched through approx- • imately 3,000 apartment units in College Station this year. Frye years ago. there were only 1,800 ;nt units in College Station. Today, 13,000 units make up almost 60 per cent of existing housing. There are 1.4 apart ments for every bouse in College Station. When studonH begin hunting for apart ments for aext year, they 11 find three grow ing trends. First, many apartment owners will offer nine month leases next year. Second, increasing electrical rtites are causing owners to install meters in indi vidual apartments. Many tenants will then be paying their own electricity bills. Finally., because of the inconvenience of renting nimiture, a few apartment owners are oHVring only unfurnished apartments. Semester-long leases are convenient for students but costly for apartment owners. Second of a four- part series deal ing with the housing situation for students in Bryan-College Station. "Apartment owners won’t go for the ^semester leases),” said Dr. Roy Hann Jr„ president of the Bryan-College Station Apartment Association. Hann said semester leases provide own ers with only eight months income each year. Income during the summer and Christinas breaks drop considerably be cause of low occupancy but expenditures remain about the same, owners say. Robert Martell of Martell Properties compared the seesawing occupancy rates of local apartment complexes to a toast and famine. -w icies “Wliat you really need is a constant rate," said Martell. Converting from semesters to trimesters would be a sure although extreme solution, he said. Such a calendar revision would keep student population and housing demands at a con stant level year-round. Nonetheless, the construction market in Bryan-College Station remains ripe for apartment developers. University officials have said there are no plans to construct additional on-campus tend that the 1 accomodate the increasing gures. College Station has experienced a 15pei cent annual growth rate over the past five years and the number of building permit! for apartments has risen likewise. Com plexes continue to sprout up, seeming!) overnight, in the rapidly expending south east side of the city. Next to the University, apartment con >ere are no plans to construct n-campus housing. They con i’ private building industry will the increasing enrollment fi- r <See 7)