THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1977
Page 3
Buck Naked has
amily recreation
United Press International
BUCK NAKED, Tex. —
Daron Moore and his CB bud
dies maintain there’s much to be
said for running around Buck
Naked.
“First of all it’s good clean
fun,” Moore said. “You could
ride all the way to Mineral Wells
20 miles down the road and not
find a more pleasing way to
entertain a family.”
“And secondly, well, everyone
should go through Buck Naked
at least once in their life.”
Buck Naked, population 6,
consists of four farm houses
^ | about a mile off 1-20, enshrouded
— in a cedar thicket and wedged
between the cliff walls of a West
Texas canyon. Until a year ago,
its chief attraction was as a nice,
desolate place for Weatherford
„ teenagers to sneak off and drink
mu
But there were a number of
us concerned about people not
having a place to go off with their
families and just enjoy the coun
tryside, you know, a recreation
center for families that won’t gig
them with all kinds of expensive
•y-comu charges,” Moore said. “So there
/ietnam I was Buck Naked just waiting for
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“You need 200 residents to in
corporate as a real town under
Texas law,” Moore said. “Legally
Buck Naked may never be no
thing more than an old dusty
!p toil jjTexas canyon, but you can’t con-
vince the people around here of
that. It’s the best darn little town
in Texas.”
A second community party
was held in October. Like the
first, invitations were broadcast
only over CB radios. Four
hundred persons appeared.
Everyone had a good time,
Moore said, and “went home and
said they had been running
around Buck Naked.”
“From that point on we knew
we had someting going. And
we’re going to keep it going.”
Moore bought 20 acres of the
canyon and began his promotion.
“I own it but everyone consid-
eres it theirs. This will be a
community thing. We have plans
to build a small arena for goat
roping related activities and the
canyon walls provide a natural
amphitheater. There will be
camping facilities.
“It’s raw land. I believe people
want that so they can get out
there and just have a plain old
good time with the kiddos run
ning around screaming to their
hearts content. There’s so little
land left they can do that on.
“We plan some country music
hoe-downs but no rock shows.
We want clean fun, none of this
drugs and liquor.”
When the area finally opens
for daily use — sometime in 1978
— a small fee will be charged for
entry “just to help in the up
keep, Moore said.
"We don’t want to gig people.
Nobody likes to pay a bunch of
bucks to walk around and then
pay $2 for cokes. It’s not going to
be like that. We didn’t set out on
this thing to gig people and we
are not going to gig people.”
University computers
aid in railroad research
The Department of Transporta
tion is going to be saved some sore
feet by letting Texas A&M Univer
sity’s computers and Texas Trans
portation Institute researchers do
the walking for them.
The Federal Railroad Adminis
tration during the next few years
may be deciding the fate of many
duplicate railroad lines. They will
influence government guaranteed
loans which will, decide effectively
which lines will be upgraded and
improved
The only flaw is that there is al
most no one who has a comprehen
sive picture of all the thousands of
miles of track that make up the na
tion’s rail system.
TTI, under contract from the
FRA, will provide data to be used in
the national rail system analyses.
“Basically we re just building a
file,” said John Sammon, one of the
research leaders. “This data will de
scribe the physical and operating
characteristics of the Class A main
line railway system.”
“The Department of Transporta
tion had produced a report which
classified lines primarily according
to line density (number of trains and
tonnage over a line),” he said.
“While this classification was
adequate for the way legislation was
worded, the FRA (the railroad ad
ministration) was interested in ob
taining more detailed information.”
“Under the recent 4-R Act (Rail
road Revitalization and Regulatory
Reform Act) the Department of
Transportation was given the charge
of classifying the U.S. rail system,”
Sammon said.
The Railroad administration had
divided the country’s track into sec
tions, he said. “Some of the infor
mation we collect will include the
maximum speed that can be
traveled, average curvature and
grade, speed profile on the track,
passing sidings, maximum weight
and clearance restrictions in addi
tion to the number of grade cros
sings, bridges, tunnels and trains per
day.”
Team studies road recycling
Americans are heading for more
expensive highways unless systems
for recycling the old ones can be
perfected.
A team from Texas A&M Univer
sity’s Texas Transportation Insti
tute, headed by Dr. John Epps and
Prof. Bob M. Callaway, are going to
be conducting the laboratory and
field tests to discover what can be
done.
“There has been some reuse of
old paving materials since the 1930s
but in the last five years there has
been a tremendous increase in
interest for the reuse of old road
ways and runways to save our
natural resources,” Epps said.
“A specific benefit of recycling
appears to include reducing the
demand for construction aggregates
at a time when sources near urban
and other high use areas are being
depleted,” he said.
Epps explained that the supply of
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Shasta TV will replace
retired UH Cougar mascot
By LYNN ROSSI
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Texas A&M University got its new
ascot last year, and the University
Houston is getting its new one this
ar. UH has found a baby cougar to
[place Shasta III, the mascot who
s retired from service last fall. The
ily Cougar reported.
(Shasta IV was born Dec. 8 in
nterville, Fla. Right now she is
s vva [ still small enough to fit inside a
ide TLfoofkfji helmet.
T Members of the Cougar Guard,
are jhe organization responsible for car-
terna ‘Jng for the mascots, will fly to
di n f? Florida to retreive the new Shasta
on Jan. 29. She will then stay in the
ie exP'home of a Cougar Guard so that she
Vietn& n g et usec i ^he Guard mem-
that ’ hers.
An addition is being made for
Shasta Ill’s present cage in Lynn
Eusan Park on the UH main cam
pus. The new Shasta will live next
door to the 12-year-old Shasta III.
Coin discovery puzzles an
thropologist
Dr. Jeremiah Epstein, an
thropology professor at the Univer
sity of Texas, is trying to figure out
how a Roman coin minted in 313
A.D. ended up at Round Rock In
dian mound, 20 miles north of Aus
tin, reported The Daily Texan.
Epstein previously had been able
to find evidence to confirm the
theory of transoceanic contact be
fore Columbus’ trip. A Roman coin
discovered in North America is con
sidered good proof of the contact.
The professor heard about the
coin discovery through a student.
Approximately 15 other coins have
been found throughout the United
States.
Epstein is cautious in believing
that the Romans beat Columbus to
the New World. He said there may
be many other explanations for the
find.
One theory involves drift voy
ages. A ship that had lost its crew
occasionally would drift across the
ocean and land on the North Ameri
can coast.
Another theory revolves around
American coin collectors. An early
settler accidently may have dropped
the coin or may have given it to the
Indians.
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rock and other materials is at a low
level because of mining restrictions,
environmental protection regu
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Epps said that old paving material
has been disposed of by buring it.
But concern about land pollution
and the waste of potentially good
aggregate makes this process un
satisfactory.
“As a result,” he said, “ serious
consideration must be given to re
cycling rubble whenever possible.”
The overall objective for Epps
and his crew is to develop realistic
guidelines for the recycling of
pavement materials for the rehabili
tation and reconstruction of existing
pavements.
In a preliminary project, 1,500
feet of U.S. 277 near Abilene was
recycled in place by bulldozing the
surface material, applying softeners,
pulverizing and adding a stabilizing
agent, then recompacting and resur
facing with a hot mix. This was done
without having to truck in tons of
new material.
Epps’ tasks include deciding what
types of pavements (asphalt, ce
ment, etc.) can be economically re
cycled, what kinds of damage can be
repaired by recycling, and what the
life of these recycled roads is.
Hopes are that within a few years
waste will be almost eliminated
from highway building.
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