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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1977 Page 9 Hazen questions safety Motel chain gets rezoning By RUSTY CAWLEY Battalion City Editor A 3.4-acre tract of land on the corner of Live Oak and Texas Av enue was rezoned by the College Station City Council Thursday jnight. The rezoning requested by Richard Smith Co. of Bryan, allows |La Quinta Motor Inns of San An tonio to prepare to build a motel on the land. Hank Stanton, representing the Richard Smith Co. asked the coun cil to make the change. Until last night, the land had been divided into three different zones of commercial, commercial/industrial and single family residential. The council made the entire property commercial. Councilman Jim Dozier argued for changing the zoning to protect surrounding property. “Zoned like it is now, they could put a slaughterhouse or something Cadets undergo special training else back there,” Dozier said. “This property would give less aggravation to surrounding property if it were all commercial. “We’re not doing it for La Quinta motels, but for the surrounding property owners,” he said. City planner Al Mayo told the council the land was scheduled for commercial zoning in the city’s comprehensive plan. Only Councilman Anne Hazen opposed the rezoning. Hazen questioned the safety of putting a motel in that area. “You’ll have cars turning right off of University Drive onto Texas Av enue, then across Texas, left onto Live Oak,” Hazen said. “I don’t see how that can be safe.” Hazen said she and the Safety Committee want to ban left turns at that corner. Stanton said it would not affect the motel’s business. The rezoning was approved 6-1, with Hazen voting against the mo tion. In other action, the council ap proved plans for a new police station and a city warehouse. Construction bids will be taken next month. The council also received $67,488 from the Texas Office of Traffic Safety to fund nine full-time traffic- officers. A similar grant, received last January, had funded three offi- thing Goes last night at the practice field. Battalion photo by Dick Wells o by Susan \Xlmost Anything Goes Sponges, eggs perilous entertainment By CAROLYN BLOSSER Raw egg yolks oozing down the ice, mouthfuls of dirty water, wet ponge bombardments — these 'ere only a few of the hazards in exas A&M s. second annual “Al ios! Anything Goes.” The event, sponsored by the Res- nce Hall Association (RHA), was eld last night on the practice field ehind Kyle Field, and gave some 00 student participants an enjoy- rtises Cin hie, if somewhat perilous, evening n Show, f fun. umpkin® "Almost Anything Goes” is a tli street i d( eo ff f rorn the defunct televi sion squaslU j r j es ^j le same name. Teams VtissPumpi om p r j se( ] 0 f fj ve me n and five 'omen competed in a series of zany ices and events. ned Jad ght ofbt ,uke Sis >wn; tions hie functid s won it i ie year« abricaton xcellent turnout compared to the HI. Steams that competed last year. Ohio, k The teams were divided into nine festival, 1> toups which participated in three wo city ft-CW SYSTEM A MS er About 79 teams competed in this ears “Almost Anything Goes, an preliminary events. The winner from each group then competed in the fourth and final event to deter mine the overall winner. The craziest and most hazardous event of all was “Egg In The Face. Contestants had to catch an egg thrown from 10 feet away, crack it and drop the yolk into a glass held in the mouth of a teammate lying on the ground. Whichever team drop ped the most eggs in the glass won. Unfortunately, not everyone could aim that well. Team members holding the glass often had egg yolk dripping in their eyes, mouth and hair. Cameras were kept busy clicking at the horrified expressions of the unfortunate victims. The other two preliminary events were the “Golf Ball Gobble” where participants bobbed for golf balls in buckets of water, and the “Wicked Walk in which contestants walked backwards on a beam 12 feet long and 4 inches wide while dodging wet sponges being thrown from both sides. The fourth and deciding event was the “Bucket Hustle, a relay race in which buckets of water were hung around the participants’ necks. The team which managed to collect the most water in a trash can won. Everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves at “Almost Any thing Goes, although there were a few drawbacks. With so many people competing, contestants had to wait about half an liour between each event, and the astroturf caused a few skin burns. But on the whole the students said they enjoyed the chance to do something different for a change to get away from the pressures of school. The top three teams each re ceived a trophy of the rear end of a horse. Each member of the winning team will also receive a free dinner at a restaurant in the Bryan-College Station area. By ANDY PENNINGTON Several members of the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University have undergone training this past summer with the “Black Berets”, the U.S. Army’s answer to the commando. The five cadets, all Army ROTC seniors, spent nine weeks this past summer at Fort Benning, Ga., and at Camp J. Earl Rudder in the Florida swamps, undergoing train ing in small unit leadership and tac tics. “We trained with elements of the 75th Infantry regiment,” Cadet James Beal, a senior history major from Bryan, said. “The 75th Infantry has been train ing in the Fort Bliss area over the past two years and they have been handling exactly what the West Germans did last week in Somalia when they rescued the 86 passengers from the German air liner that had been hijacked.” “We have battalions located at Forts Bragg, Stewart and Lewis,” said Lt. Col. Edward Yaugo, com manding officer of the 75th Infantry. “If we had an Entebbe of our own and the Army didn’t call on the Rangers, we would be pretty damn mad.” “Last year the Rangers conducted a series of full scale exercises to ‘res cue’ political hostages. We stormed a desert hideaway in west Texas and freed an American consul who was being held hostage by a group of ag gressor troops from Fort Bliss,” Yaugo said. “When cadets are selected to train with the Rangers, they must meet very strict standards both mentally, physically and academi cally,” Capt. Ray Armour, advisor to the Texas A&M Ranger Company, said. “We only send our best people to Fort Benning. This is the reason that the Aggies have such a good reputation in the Army. Our guys are hard chargers and don’t let down for a minute. “Our cadets are given only a small eaths increase; need iccident ‘missionaries’ United Press International CHICAGO — The National afety Council reports 31,520 eople died in traffic accidents in ie first eight months of 1977, 2 per entmore than the number killed in talTic accidents the first eight lonths of 1976. About 1.1 million people suffered isabling injuries from motor vehi- le accidents during the first eight lonths of the year, the safety coun- il says. The council would like lose persons to advise others about the use of safety belts, defensive driving techniques and slower highway speeds. “It would be a wonderful thing for the American public if these million-plus persons who survived so many terrible accidents could join with us in being missionaries for the cause of traffic safety,” council President Vincent L. 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