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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1977)
THE BATTALION Page 5 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1977 andidates for City Council^ nust file with city secretary ybtlpersons wishing to file for a posi- lallyi j? on the College Station City P er l« unc jl have until Wednesday, )ii fgbe eligible, a person must have dro) ^ College Station at least one 11 ^according to article 3, section 19 : [the city charter. Candidates must ltes “ nlive in the district of their candi es uu )D( *J Candidate cannot be behind in Pa jng city taxes or other liabilities ie the city for a period of 90 days. candidate’s quest for a seat on t City Council begins with a visit 'Florence Neeley, College Station secretary. ,. f eeley said Monday that a list ot (ructions has been provided for rsons filling out the necessary fil- '[•S™ rforms. owes Th e first form a candidate fills out ^ a loyalty affidavit to be signed in presence of a notary public. The loyalty affidavit states that believes in and approves of the to present representative form of (city) government. It states further that the signer will support and defend the government and resist any effort or movement from any source that would destroy it. A petition to be signed by at least 25 qualified voters of College Sta tion is the next form to be com pleted. This petition can be circulated by either the candidate himself or someone else. More than one peti tion can be circulated for the same person at the same time. Every qualified voter signing this petition must sign in the presence of the circulator. At the top of the petition is a statement the candidate must sign certifying that he is a qualified voter in Texas and is eligible for the office of city councilman. On the last form the circulator must sign a statement certifying that all signatures were made in his (the circulator’s) presence. Each circulator must sign a form for each petition submitted, if more than one person is circulating a peti tion for the same candidate. Neeley has 10 days after the filing of the petition to approve it. If for some reason Neeley does not approve the petition(s) she lets the petitioner know what is wrong and what has to be done to correct it. “If we have one or more candi dates for one position there will be a drawing for positions to determine how the names will be listed on the ballot,” Neeley said. Representatives for districts 1, 3 and 5 will be elected in the April 2 election. Larry J. Ringer, 702 Thomas St., and Gary M. Halter, 1204 Ashburn Ave. E., are the only candidates who have filed so far. Halter filed for place 1 and Ringer for place 3. campus activities WEDNESDAY n t Engineers Council will sponsor a . drive for die Red Cross today from 12 t(j in to 6 p.m. at St. Mary's Student Center Nagle Street. ■■U. Annual Texas Public Works Short aco "" 1 ool, College of Engineering, Texas Trans- isuall) tation Institute, Texas Engineering Exten- [OtOM i Service and the Civil Engineering De- Jftment, in cooperation with the Texas Sec- American Public Works Association, _Jer Tower. 10 illlij tfricsn Students Association, African i.MSC Hallway, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. luic Course in Marina Management, ler Tower. x Blood Pressure Screening Clinic, and ten stations near the Post Office. Dance Club, MSC 201, 7:30 p.m. Arts Society, Modem, G. Rollie te286, 7:30 p.m. ophy Club, "The Nature and Value of ihy,” 1500 Gunsmith St., College Sta- 7:30 p.m. 'eterinary Students, Dr. Barbara S. Whit- , veterinarian for Houston Zoological Gar- “Veterinary Medicine at the Houston The Relationship between an Artificial . , a Ironment and Health Problems,” Veteri- ishes, t pMedical Sciences 330, 12 noon, undinjl hysics Colloquim, Dr. Fred H. Poliak, 5 slowtj ^ va University, "Piezo-Spectroscopic lies of Bands and Bonds in Solids," Physics ,4p.m. Mens Volleyball Team, vs. Ambassador lege, Deware Field House, 7 p.m. (no- ► 'gel- I T3C k Bridge Committee, MSC 212, 7 p.m. [113 OPAS, The Acting Company: "Love’s lour Lost,” Rudder Auditorium, 8 p.m. — o-«u-o/ !■» a o-vo-■ iji NIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER “ le wt bad nnj most pi ething i i g to cdl ty to gi« THE PiNK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN" [PG] PANMISWr COLOR by Deluxe United Artists 7:30, 9:35 LAST 2 DAYS! THURSDAY OPAS, The Acting Company: The Way of the World,” Rudder Auditorium, 8 p.m. Free Blood Pressure Screening CKnic, MSC and ten stations near the Post Office. Electrical Engineering Wives’ Club, Real Estate, Zachry 102, 7:30 p.m. Nursing Society, MSC 145, 7 p.m. University Lecture Series, Dr. Milton Blander, Argonne National Laboratory, ‘ On the Origin of Meteorites as Condensates from a Solar Nebula,” Rudder 701, 8 p.m. Brazos County A&M Club, Barbecue Dinner and Talk by Coach Tom Chandler, old Knights of Columbus Hall at Palasota Dr. and Groesbeck St. in Bryan, Dinner 7:30 p.m. So cial Hour starting at 6:30 will feature 10-cent beer. Reservations should be made by calling 845-7514 between 8a.m.and5p.m. weekdays. StageCenter, Agatha Christie’s murder mystery-comedy, “Ten Little Indians, Tick ets are $2.50 for adults, $1.50 for students, $1 for children. So. College and Villa Maria, Bryan. Snow Sid Chib, Rudder 601, 7:30 p.m. Ocean Engineering Seminar, Dr. Roy W. Hann, Jr., Director of the Center for Marine Resources, “The Oil Spill from the Super tanker ‘Metulla’ — Implications for Texas, the United States and Other Countries,” Zachry 342, 3:30 p.m. Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Elmer Lignoul of Frymire Engineering Company of Dallas, “General Commercial Mechanical Contracting,” Zachry 203, 3:30 p.m. Basic Course in Marina Management, Rudder Tower. Cepheid Variables, "Terminal Man, Rud der TTieatre, 8 and 10 p.m. Chemistry Seminar, Dr. R. Powell, “Analysis of Gas Phase Self-Associations,” Chemistry 231, 4 p.m. Chemistry Seminar, Lee Adler, "Scission- Point Model of Nuclear Fission Based on Deformed-Shell Effects,” Cyclotron Confer ence Room. FRIDAY Basic Course in Marina Management, Rudder Tower. StageCenter, Agatha Christie’s murder mystery comedy, “Ten Little Indians,” Tick ets are $2.50 for adults, $1.50 for students, $1 for children. So. College and Villa Maria, Bryan, Annual Industrial Arts Teacher Confer ence and Texas Industrial Arts Association, Dr. Walter C. Brown, Associate Director of Arizona State University’s technology divi sion, “The Pursuit of Excellence in Industrial Arts: Teaching Technology for the Future,” Rudder Theater, 7 p.m. University Lecture Series, Dr. Milton Blander of Argonne National Laboratory, “Applications of Fundamental Ther modynamics of High-Temperature Materials to Energy Technologies,” Zachry 342, 3 p.m. African Students Association, Soccer Match, TAMU Soccer Field, 4:30 p.m.; Cul tural Show, MSC 206, 8 p.m. Physics Colloquim, Dr. Neil Ashcroft, Cor nell University, “The Metallization of Hy drogen and the Structure of Its Metallic State,” Physics 146, 3 p.m. SWC Baseball, A&M vs. Arkansas, Kyle Field, 3p.m. Aggie Cinema, “Race With The Devil,’ Rudder Theatre, 12 midnight. Chemistry Seminar, Gerald Stock, “Uranium and Analytical Chemistry,” Chemistry Annex, 1024, 11 a.m. p.m. SUNDAY Chess Committee, MSC 206, 6 p.m. MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES MANOR EAST MALL IT'S THE MOST HILARIOUS SUSPENSE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE! 2 l o a a s y t s , _ 7 >20,9 145 (jgjgje uHii i«i r 11111 n it West Screen 7:00 Skyway Twin ?, East Screen 7:00 ‘Bod Squad’ Town That Dreaded Sundown’ & (R) & ‘When Women Had Tails’ ‘Small Town in Texas’ Starts Friday ‘Hollywood High’ And ‘Two Minute Warning’ Call For Times Campus 846-6512 | COLLEGE STATION Call For Times Count The Ways (X) k saga 4 Suitcase saK\ "UMPACK THAT ^AG,SAM. Vou'eit) uotTH TO TVi E- 1SV_ACK H/*r T tuatvs W44ERE. , V. IT'S AT! ^,You . wvl’pE A'KEA' L Tum\N On To this imagine TRoM HoCTE. IN ihanica iceni en >n is an BLACK HAT SALOON 807 TEXAS AVE. THuKS: FRA. k SAT. STEVE "FKDMVHDLTZl TOMMY V4U_l_ T2>AvMD Top of the News Campus STUDENTS with a junior class standing and GPR of 3.5 or better are eligible for the University Under graduate Fellows Program. The pro gram offers the opportunity to sub stitute six credit hours of required courses in their curriculum for re search study under the direction of a faculty advisor. Information is avail able from departmental heads or M. Friedman, 845-3251. GRADUATION for 14 students of law enforcement officer training is scheduled for Friday. The stu dents will have completed 240 hours of study in the Law Enforce ment and Security Training Divi sion of the Texas Engineering Ex tension Service. Certification in volves training in patrol procedures, liquor law violations, first aid, the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Texas Family Code and Texas Penal Code. A CAMPUS information office was recently opened by the Peace Corps in Rm 105 of the Agronomy Building. It is cosponsored by the School of Agriculture, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Peace Corps. Students interested may visit with representatives M WF 12-5 p.m. and TTh 9-11 a.m., or call 845-7830. PARSONS Mounted Cavalry, the all-senior special unit of the Corps of Cadets, will participate in the Houston Livestock Show parade and rodeo Friday. The 30-member unit leaves at noon tomorrow and will drill before the grand entry at the rodeo opening. Texas THE SENATE Jurisprudence Committee voted yesterday to ask voters to expand the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which the com mittee hopes will help relieve the backlog in cases the court has to hear. A TORNADO with near hur ricane force winds yesterday pounded Amarillo and similar gusts shattered windows in Lubbock. Eight Spearman businesses were badly damaged and a radio station transmitting tower was toppled. The National Weather Service said winds of up to 70 miles an hour had struck valleys in the Franklin Mountains and issued a high wind warning in the El Paso area. Visibility was cut to a mile or less from El Paso to Dalhart. STRONG opposition from the petroleum industry is expected as a result of a plan endorsed by Lt. Gov. William Hobby to impose a five per cent tax on petroleum products refined in Texas. Lawmak ers who are sponsoring the refinery tax want it to replace property taxes as a method of financing public schools. Petroleum officials say the impact could devastate the state’s petrochemical industry. If ap proved, the plan would require a constitutional amendment abolish ing the property tax for local school maintenance and operation pur poses be submitted to voters in the November, 1978, election. LEGISLATION allowing the substitution of brand name drugs with less expensive generic equiva lents would save Texas consumers more than $25 million, said a spokesman for the American Associ ation of Retired Persons yesterday. The bill would permit pharmacists to choose a less expensive equiva lent drug product to replace a brand name prescription drug. office, is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. EST and will be nationally tele vised. At the President’s first news conference earlier this month, Car ter made no opening statement, but answered a series of questions, primarily on foreign affairs. A PRIVATE airplane with five Fort Worth residents aboard appar ently exploded and fell wingless into a field inside the Springdale, Ark., city limits yesterday, scattering de bris for miles. There were no sur viviors. The victims were identified as the pilot, Nancy Barrett, and passengers James L. Ward, Jimmy Fulkerson, Reed Yowell and Fabe Ingram. Their ages and occupations were not available. National A NEWS conference today, Pres ident Carter’s second since taking A PROJECT VIKING biologist one of three conducting the search for life on Mars has concluded after months of research the red planet is unable to support life. Dr. Vance Oyama bases his theory on just completed laboratory experiments he said indicate a peculiar, oxygen based chemistry preventing forma tion of organic life-precursor com pounds on Mars. He reported his findings yesterday at a special two- day symposium on the Viking exped ition in Denver. SATURDAY Singing Cadets, scheduled for appearance on KPRC-TV "The Eyes of Texas.” The NBC-affUiate is channel 2 in Houston. 6:30 SWC Baseball, A&M vs. Arkansas, Kyle Field, 1 p.m. Aggie Cinema, “The Hindenburg,” Rudder Theatre, 8 and 10:30 p.m. TBWEA CHECKUP IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. Johnny Bench American Cancer Society, i SPRING % CUSTOM PORTRAIT SALE The Entire Month of February Buy The First Print At The Regular Price And Get A Second Print The Same Size Must Be Photographed in February & Ordered by March 15 Appointments Necessary 846-8019 university studio 115 college main NORTHGATE „ How to make jour last two years of coHege mean even more. Take the Army ROTC Two-Year Program. If you’ve just about completed your second year of college, and you’re planning on two more, it’s not too late to take Army ROTC. You start the program with six-weeks of Basic Camp (you’ll be paid for it) between your sophomore and junior years. Then it’s back to school in the fall. Learning how to become an Army officer while you’re working on your college degree. Earning an extra $100 a month, up to ten months a year. And two years later, you’ll graduate with your degree, your com mission as an Army officer, and some real experience at leading and managing people. The last two years of college mean a lot.Take the Army ROTC Two-Year Program and you can make them mean a lot more. Army ROTC FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF THE TWO-YEAR ARMY ROTC PROGRAM, COME BY ROOM 311, MILITARY SCIENCE BUILDING (TRIGON) OR CALL 845-2814