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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.
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BLOWING BUBBLES
Jerry Shannon is one of A&M glassblowers
Mxrfo courtetv of K«vta V«
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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
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Apartment industry
revisin
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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-
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