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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1978
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United Press International
BELL GARDENS, Calif. —
Gerald Bixler’s neighbors had been
complaining about an alligator walk
ing down their street.
Armed with a search warrant,
animal control officers and-
firefighters raided a swamp near
Bixler’s home Thursday and seized
the wandering alligator, three snap
ping turtles and nine assorted desert
and swimming turtles.
“When I arrived, said Burk Bus-
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Animal Control Shelter, “I thought
I was on the Disneyland jungle
ride.”
Bussiere said the fire department
drained about 3,000 gallons of water
from the swamp before he got a
noose around the alligator and pul
led out the snapping reptile.
Bixler, 35, was charged with vio
lating the Bell Gardens municipal
code by “keeping wild and vicious
animals.” He was not arrested.
what’s up
Monday
SPACE: The Texas A&M Space Topics and Research Society will
hold its second meeting at 7:30 p.m. in room 504,Rudder Tower.
SCUBA CLUB: Christmas trips to Florida and Mexico will be dis
cussed at the TAMU scruba club meeting at 7:30 p.m. in room
502, Rudder Tower.
J-BOARD HEARING: There will be a Student Government Judicial
Board hearing, concerning the Spring ’78 constitutional referen
dum at 7:30 p.m. in room 501,Rudder Tower.
AGGIE CINEMA: “Idi Amin Dada,” about one of the most perplex
ing and chilling dictators of modern times will be shown at 8 p.m.
in Rudder Theater.
Tuesday
MANAGEMENT: There will be a management society organiza
tional meeting at 8 p.m. in room 308,Rudder Tower.
AG ECO: Agri-business tours will be discussed at the Ag Eco meet
ing in room 108, Harrington.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN: A fall barbeque will be held in the Bryan
High School cafeteria, located on 3401, E. 29th St.
SPEECH: “Israel’s Future—Swords or Plowshares,” will be the topic
of a speech by Arthur Avnon at 8 p.m. in room 601, Rudder
Tower.
AGGIE CINEMA: “To Kill a Mockingbird, the tale of a small-town
Southern lawyer who tries to raise his two children in an atmos
phere of prejudice and fear arising from his defense of an accused
black rapist, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall, will be
shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Wednesday
SPEECH: Economist Armen A. Alchian will speak on Tnflation-
-Causes and Effects and How to Deal With It, at 8 p.m. in
Rudder Theater.
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Winter Olympic games
‘reality’ becomes costly
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Organizers of
the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olym
pics (LPOOC) had hoped to stage
the Games for $100 million, but
then “reality struck when the cost
of putting on the games will run as
high as $117 million.
At a hastily called news confer
ence, officials of the Olympic Or
ganizing Committee said the con
struction costs will be $14 million
more than anticipated.
The Rev. J. Bernard Fell, execu
tive director of the LPOOC, noted
the present Olympic budget was
able to “expand or contract” but was
not expected to exceed $117 mill
ion.
Ronald Mackenzie, president of
the LPOOC, said of the additional
$14 million, $9 million is in new
funds "needed to cover additional
items that were not considered at
the time original budgetary projec
tions were made. These items,
MacKenzie said, included addi
tional housing requirements and
improvements to the existing
Olympic facilites.
Also included in the increase is
$2.6 million relating to costs for en
vironmental monitors and the con
struction of a new 70-meter ski
jump. Fell said the new 70-meter
jump was required because en
vironmental advisers had told the
organizing committee that the exist
ing jump was "esthetic-ally unac-
While stressing that he
expect a deficit at the concliw
games
th
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ptable
Fell said if one
he was not sure where theiii
tional funds would come from
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Janelle Overhouse doesn’t look
anything like Smokey Bear, the
famed animal forest ranger who re
minds kids and adults alike: “Oulu
you can prevent forest fires.”
Yet Overhouse, in her job at the
Texas Forest Service headquarters
on the Texas A&M University cam
pus, is a sort of personal secretary to
Smokey and his friend. Woodsy
(give a hoot, don’t pollute) Owl.
She is responsible for seeing that
items about Smokey and his forest
friends, as well as other Texas
Forest Service publications, reach
school children and other interested
people throughout the state.
Overhouse laughs when asked if
she’s the state’s official Smokey. But
the former Friendswood resident
does get Smokey’s mail and there is
a smiling picture of him behind her
desk. A well-worn stuffed bear is
perched on top of a nearby filing
cabinet. In her seven months on the
job, she’s become something of an
authority on the bear.
“The real Smokey died in 1975,"
she said, “but now Smokey Junior
has taken his place.”
Overhouse forwards all mail actu
ally addressed to the bear to bis
headquarters in Washington, D. C.,
where Junior resides in a zoo.
As Smokey’s assistant, Overbouse
mails coloring sheets and comic and
coloring books to children, teachers
and parents throughout Texas.
Overhouse also handles requests
for other Texas Forest Service pub
lications, everything from tree iden
tification guides to highly technical
papers on conservation and forest
management.
Requests are received from more
than 1,600 individuals a year, with
many asking for more than one pub
lication.
“But the Smokey stuff is sort of
special,” she says with a smile.
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