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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1977
Maintenance free
New equestrian center for A&M
By JEANNE GRAHAM
Construction is underway for a
new equestrian center for Texas
A&M University.
1 he center, located on a 70-acre
tract of land at the intersection of
f M 2818 and Turkey Creek Road, is
in phase one of its construction.
One barn and an outdoor riding
arena are now being constructed.
Electric power, water and sewer
systems for the project have been
installed.
Plans for the new center began
after A&M received numerous calls
from people seeking advise on how
to build a modern equestrian cen
ter. In 1972, a committee headed by
Dr. Gary Potter of the Animal Sci
ence Department was formed to
plan the center.
State climatologist puts area
weather data on handy card
fhe Office of the Texas State
Climatologist, housed at Texas
A&M s College of Geosciences, is
producing small, billfold-sized cards
that provide more climatological
data about Bryan-College Station
than most people would probably
ever want to know.
A card has been completed for
Bryan-College Station; one is being
done for Houston and a third is
being considered for Dallas-Fort
Worth. The purpose of the cards is
to provide the cities’ with informa
tion on weather to expect at almost
any time of the year.
In Bryan-College Station, there
averages 11 hours of sunshine per
day in August — decreasing to five
hours in December, January and
February. The year-around average
is eight hours per day.
The card provides more than just
weather information. It tells that
the sun reaches its maximum height
above the horizon on June 21, at 83
degrees. Its lowest elevation is 37
degrees on December 21.
Wind, on a yearly average, blows
at four miles per hour from the
south. There are 58 days of precipi
tation a year, including 50 days of
thunderstorms.
That comes to an average of 544
hours of rain per year.
The precipitation mean would
show a prospective resident that he
can exect 3.1 inches of rain in
January (although there has been as
much as 10. 9 inches) and 2.4 inches
in August, even though the August
record is 12.6 inches.
The relative humidity averages 71
per cent year-round. Temperatures
exceed 90 degrees 102 days per
year, and drop below freezing an
average 22 days.
The record low temperature for
Bryan-College Station is -3 degrees
and the record high was 110. The
average daily temperatures range
from 59 in January to 96 in August
with a year-round average of 68 de
grees.
The average annual snowfall
which is a mere half-inch, and only
an average one-tenth inch falls in
December.
But one year the twin cities re
ceived eight inches of snow — with
five inches falling in December.
The cards are produced by the
staff of State Climatologist Dr. John
Griffiths and Texas A&M
meteorologist Glenn Lubins. Cities
providing ample records could have
a card with this climatological data
available to potential tourists and
new citizens.
“The center is being built with
four very important standards in
mind,” Dr. Potter said. The
standards were that the building
should be maintenance-free, con-
tructed of materials that neither
horses nor people can damage.
With automatic water troughs and
possibly a stall-flushing system, the
center should require a minimum
amount of labor and allow safe and
efficient management of horses in a
confined area. And, important to
area residents, the center should be
attractive and acceptable to the
non-horse-owning public.
“It includes all the modern, up-
to-date thinking that could be put
into it. Dr. Potter said.
More barns will be added in the
future to accommodate the Calvary,
Polo Team, Horsemen’s Assn,
horses and Equestrian and Rodeo
Teams.
Construction began earlier this
year when the old riding arena was
replaced with the new baseball
stadium. Completion of phase one is
expected at the end of this semes
ter.
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Symposium
on dredging
British Nun arrested for security breech
The Second International Sym
posium on Dredging Technology to
be held at Texas A&M University
Nov. 2-4 has attracted speakers
from West Germany, the Nether
lands, Norway, United Kingdom,
Australia and Canada.
United Press International
SALISBURY, Rhodesia — An American nun who
investigated allegations that Rhodesian soldiers tor
tured blacks has been jailed on charges of violating
security regulations.
Sister Janice McLaughlin, 39, of Pittsburgh, was
arrested last week along with three fellow members
of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in
Rhodesia, a government spokesman said yesterday.
Ihe three others were released on bail but the nun
was kept in custody, reportedly at the Chikurubi Jail,
because police were investigating “complex’ charges
filed against her, the spokesman said.
A State Department spokesman in Washington
said the U.S. ambassador in South Africa was asked to
investigate her arrest. Washington does not have dip
lomatic relations with Rhodesia’s white minority re
gime.
A spokesman for the U.S. Catholic Conference said
Sister Janice was a Maryknoll Sister, but would not
comment on her arrest.
and its former president, Bishop Donal La moot, was
expelled from Rhodesia in March.
Rhodesian authorities identified the other suspects
as John Deary, 50, the group’s chairman and a
Rhodesian citizen; Brother Arthur Du Pois, 59, a
Canadian-born Rhodesian; and the Rev. Dieter
Bernd Scholtz, a West German.
Officials said the four appeared in court Thursday,
charged with violating the Law and Order Mainte
nance Act and the Official Secrets Act. They were
freed on $1,700 bail pending trial Sept. 30.
The group’s report charged incidents of torture by
Rhodesian soldiers “continue to be the rule, rather
than the exception.”
Defense Minister Hilary Squires labeled the alle
gations “patently absurd.
The report said black schools are “frequent targets
of interrogation campaigns and detailed one torture
method it said was commonly used.
The meeting is sonsored by
BHRA Fluid Engineering of En
gland and by Texas A&M’s Center
for Dredging Studies. It will be held
in Rudder Tower and the Memorial
Student Center, but will include a
field trip to the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers Galveston District.
The subjects of presentations
range from economics and invest
ments, through the use of sophisti
cated electronics in dredging, to
environmental concerns and dispo
sal of wastes.
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worked on a report detailing alleged tortures by
Rhodesian troops.
The report was to be published this week in
Britain. The commission has published two other
reports detailing alleged brutality by Rhodesia’s army
“The students are stripped naked, a towel is put
over their faces and running water is sprayed in their
mouths and noses through a hose. ”
It included photqgraplrs of two black men allegedly
tortured by Rliode^iau tioops. Their names were
withheld to “protect those involved.
One man had “boiling beer” poured on his back
and the other’s ankles were attached to an electrical
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