iThe Battalion
L|. 72 No. 31
4 Pages
Friday, October 13, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
What’s inside?
• This fine fellow’s picture is on
page 7.
• Cross a possible improvement
of the intersection of Highway
30 and Texas Avenue at a corner
of page 11.
• A Texas A&M professor digs
ancient tools, page 7.
S tries to qualify
or HUD funding
By SCOTT PENDLETON
Battalion Staff
I College
Station officials are investigat-
- low-income housing programs that, if
fdertaken, might help the city start re
living federal Community Development
nds again.
1979 CD block grant would bring
),000 to the city, Community De-
llopment Planner Jim Calloway said.
JCollege Station had been receiving CD
Inds yearly since 1975. But the Depart-
lent of Housing and Urban Development
denied the city the 1978 funds for not
Woviding any low-income housing assis-
■nce in previous years.
[College Station officials had explained to
[UD that no low-income renters could be
Bund to receive rent assistance and that
Bw-income homeowners wanted streets
Built instead.
■ Nevertheless, HUD cut off the 1978 CD
■ock grant worth $300,000.
■“College Station’s own housing assis-
Biceplan indicates that there is a need for
Bntal assistance and owner assistance,"
Ben Danford said.
I Danford is one of two HUD officials who
Bme to College Station last week. He and
Bugene Buss, a HUD lawyer, discussed
Be HUD programs that could help meet
pie city’s housing assistance needs with
Mayor Lorence Bravenec, Councilman
Gary Halter and Calloway.
The HUD officials said College Station
is allowed to redirect unused 1977 CD
funds to housing rehabilitation. They an
swered other questions about housing au
thorities and rent subsidy programs.
The College Station officials also asked
how much and what kind of housing assis
tance the city had to provide in order to be
sure of getting the 1979 CD funds.
“I can’t tell College Station that if you
do this or that (then the application would
be accepted),’’ Danford said in a telephone
interview later.
"We just want College Station to ad
dress its housing problem,” Danford said.
The city’s projects that use CD funds, like
those for street construction, are fine with
HUD, Danford said. But College Station
needs to provide low-income housing as
sistance as well.
You can’t have community develop
ment without housing assistance,” Dan
ford said. The two are tied together under
the Community Development and Hous
ing Act of 1974, he said.
Danford acknowledged that any housing
assistance College Station could provide
"would look good on its grantee perform
ance report,” which HUD studies before
deciding on CD block grant applications.
But he denied making the city any
promises concerning the 1979 CD funds.
Nevertheless, Calloway feels that if Col
lege Station makes “substantial progress”
towards providing low-income housing as
sistance it would favorably influence the
city’s 1979 CD application.
CD funds are used for projects the city
wouldn’t have money for otherwise, Cal
loway said, such as the street construction
projects in low-income neighborhoods.
“Obviously, the funds to those people
are worth any trouble the city could take
(to start receiving them again),” Calloway
said.
Discussion of possible housing assis
tance programs has not yet been placed on
any city council agenda. Calloway said that
he hoped to bring a proposal before the
council by early November. He does not
know yet whether he will present a com
prehensive plan or one dealing only with
housing rehabilitation.
Calloway has been examining the city’s
community development budget for funds
that could be used for housing rehabilita
tion. So far he has found $12,000 under
“code enforcement” and “clearance and
(building) rehabilitation” that has not yet
been programmed.
please turn to page 11
Eleven busted in
Northgate drug raid
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Battalion Campus Editor
■ Eleven men were arrested in College
Itation s Northgate area Thursday night
on drug charges which included delivery
■ marijuana and cocaine, possession of
ethamphetamines, and possession of
er four ounces of marijuana.
At least one of the men is a student at
iexas A&M University. Larry Chasen, of
BOl Puryear, Apartment 272, College
■tation, was charged with delivery of
fiiarijuana.
I Detective Rodney Miller of the College
Itation police department said the arrests
!»ere part of an undercover operation
nich has been in the works since Aug. 4.
Between $400 and $500 worth of drugs
ere seized in the raid. Miller said.
He said the department is still seeking
^2 people in connection with the investi-
Jation.
Miller said the investigation was begun
|« e r the department received complaints
|nat drugs were being sold to young
leenagers in the area.
About 35 officers were involved, he
said, and came from the College Station
and Bryan police departments, the local
Department of Public Safety, and area
narcotics agents.
The College Station police department
requested an undercover agent from the
state Department of Public Safety after the
complaints were made. Miller said.
The men were charged before Justice of
the Peace A. P. Boyett Jr. about 11:30 p.m.
Thursday.
No bond was set for John Stephen Re-
agen, of Route. 3, Franklin, and Danny
Ainsworth, of Route. 1, New Baden. They
were charged with delivery of cocaine, a
second degree felony. Miller said both
men are on probation for previous convic
tions.
David Braswell, of 306 Redmond Dr.,
Apt. 132-C, College Station, was charged
with possession of methamphetamines.
Bond was set at $5,000.
Seven men were charged with delivery
of marijuana, a third degree felony. Their
bond was set at $2,000. They were David
Earl McWhorter Jr., of Route. 3, Box 124,
Bryan; Daniel Lee Mouser, of 1901-A
Highway 21 West, College Station; Paul
A! Gomez Jr., of 906 Commerce, Bryan;
Larry Chasen, of 1601 Puryear, Apt. 272;
Robert Neil Rowe, of Route. 3, Box 265J,
College Station; Carson Pryor Jr., of
Route. 3, Box 265K, College Station; and
Kirk J. Hughes, of 401 Lincoln, Apt. 4A,
College Station.
Milton Leroy Waller, of Route. 2, Box
110, Caldwell, was charged with felony
possession of marijuana. His bond was also
set at $2,000.
Most of the arrests were made in or
around Northgate bars. Miller said.
Rumors of the bust were widespread.
One Texas A&M student said she first
heard them late last week.
Employees of three Northgate bars,
contacted about 1 a.m. today, said they
hadn’t seen any arrests made.
“I’ve been here all day, and was watch
ing, because I’d heard the rumor, you
know. But there weren’t any arrests made
inside that I saw, anyway,” said the man
ager of one bar.
Sec’y of Interior: don’t destroy
laska in the name of progress
., ? not misunderstand me but under
pin me fully when I speak of my infatua-
° n wit u land. I didn’t say that it was mine
. , as I chose, but he who has the
g to destroy it, is the one who created
By SUSAN WEBB
o Battalion Reporter
dnx; < f etai L• ^ Interi °r Cecil D. An-
balan S tou Shest problem is how to
A n ^ e e ^ropeting uses of the land,
dent r rU !’ who was appointed by Presi-
8t T exa d s r r- 1 ?, 77 ’ s P° ke Thursday night
cern w tt/u ^ University about his con-
Ani' . nat * on s natural resources,
i jndrus told about 75 people at the Polit-
with n ri !T P ro 8 ram that he is concerned
minerQ 1 ] 0 en ? S re ^ ate fi to land, water, fuel,
recreation an * rna k’ ^ > ^ ants ’ P 31 ^ 5 an< d
‘‘That sounds like
through it, or a river without a dam might
be the best use of the resources, ” Andrus
said. “We have to improve the conserva
tion of the use of resources.”
One example of conservation is Alaska.
“Alaska is the last opportunity to do
things right,” the secretary said. “Alaska is
the only place left in the country where we
have large healthy herds of animals, of
caribou, that roam freely over hundreds of
miles of continent. Alaska is the only place
left in America where millions of water
fowl and shore birds congregate for nest
ing, where the grizzly bear and bald eagle
are not on the endangered list.”
It is not too late for conservation, An
drus said.
“We have the frontier out there, we can
protect it and do not have to destroy it all
in the name of progress,” he said.
We spell it like we say it
It looks like officialdom has finally recognized the
way Aggies talk — “Engineerin’’. But it’s just a
case of getting tied up, says Joe Wright, assistant
foreman of maintenance. The “g” deteriorated
due to weather and they haven’t had time to take
the sign down. He says they plan to repair the sign
sometime next week.
Battalion photo by Ed Cunnius
Consol enrollment increases
near maximum pupil capacity
By STEVE LEE
Battalion Reporter
Enrollment is currently at the “op
timum” level for A&M Consolidated High
School and is expected to reach “maximum
capacity” by the 1981-82 school year.
This information was included in a re
port for the Long-Range Planning Com
mittee of the A&M Consolidated Board of
Education. The committee held an open
meeting Thursday to discuss ideas for solv
ing the impending enrollment problem.
Committee chairman Rodney C. Hill
defined the optimum figure as represent
ing the maximum enrollment allowable in
keeping with the district’s standard
teacher-pupil ratio. The district attempts
to maintain a low ratio by assigning no
more than 25 students per classroom.
However, high school enrollment is now
at the optimum figure of 1,060.
With the present growth rate of 5 per
cent, high school enrollment will reach a
maximum capacity of 1,200 in three years.
The district has set maximum capacity to
but w"' ‘’" UI1US 1,Ke a laundry list of fun,
is a ^ >out tke natural resources
ago f nc *!; us said. “A hundred years
the’pi! r ore fathers stood on the banks of
^pplv o 0 f m U iVer and SaW an unendin g
^ X ot all these resources.
strong Were a y°ung nation and needed a
thing trwf COn ° rny so we bought the best
to hi.ju 0 was t° develop those resources
And— Str °" g America >” he added.
Idaho’
u se th
rus > w ho served two terms as
governor, said the nation cannot
r.j. e same blueprint today.
River^!!! s tand on the bank of the Potomac
s ®e an 3 j d ^ ook to the west, you don’t
free-fl(w nending su PPly of pure water,
ing n f streams, lots of grass for graz-
You ^ ,e livestock,” Andrus said,
souropc^u * See tke limitless forest re-
Andn. ■!T re ° nce out there.”
can j Sa j Americans have the choice
Leav - how the land will be used.
mou n J ng a forest in its natural state, a
side with no roads running
lilllll
YeU in Houston
Midnight yell practice wift be to-
night ini
“We had some trouble finding a
■ to have ye8 practice,* sdd Jfefi
ock* head yell leader, “out
when we contacted the Astrodome
officials, they were more than happy
lor us to have it there.”
But, can the area take it?
'Aggies have never had yell prac-
tice there before, said Tom Martin;
'rice president of stadium operations.
"I see no problems with having
P ,41 practice to tfed Asttodcmte |Mtfk-
Friday the 13th
IThe club is
run starting a* 12:01 a.m.
hum .1 !
represent the total allowable enrollment,
without impeding the educational process,
Hill said.
The high school faces overcrowding due
to rapid growth since the opening of the
school in the fall of 1972. When the bond
issue for the school passed 10 years ago,
the district was experiencing a zero growth
rate, and even a decline for the 1969-70
school year. Since 1972, however, overall
enrollment for the district has increased
by 28 percent.
Charles £Jreenawalt, principal of the
Consol High School, cited several needs
for expansionTb accommodate the school’s
projected growth. He the school needs
more space for science labs, gym ac
tivities, band and choir, parking, lockers,
cafeteria, auditorium, storage, and classes.
The science labs were equipped for 24
students each, but now they’re holding up
to 28 or 30 students, Greenawalt said.
By the end of the 1978-79 school year,
each class will have an estimated average
of 25.83 students. Figures for the 1981-82
school year indicate an increase to about
32 students per classroom.
Greenawalt said the auditorium is too
small, adding that all students cannot at
tend a program at one time. Also, band
and choir rooms are not acoustically
adequate for the volume of students.
The committee considered suggestions
for expansion, including an idea for a ninth
grade building. However, the committee
said several curriculum and personnel
changes will be needed if the idea is ap
proved.
The committe also discussed an idea for
converting present band and choir space
into classrooms and providing new band
and choir facilities. Other ideas discussed
will be submitted to the board for possible
action.
Optimum and maximum capacity fig
ures are also becoming important for the
elementary schools. The optimum figure
has been surpassed at College Hills
Elementary while the enrollment at South
Knoll Elementary is approaching the op
timum.
By reassigning certain subdivisions in
the district. Hill says enrollment in the
two schools may balance out and expansion
could be postponed until after the high
school expansion.
Living with
the law
If I don’t sell it, can I brew or
distill liquor for my personal con
sumption?
In a word, no. Section 11.01 of
the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code
requires that you first obtain a per
mit to manufacture, distill, sell, ex
port or transport liquor in excess of
four percent alcohol.
Editor’s note: This column is
provided by the students’ legal ad
visers as a service to Battalion
readers. Answers ai*e general and
should not replacle the personal ad
vice of an attorney. Questions for
this column can be addressed to
students’ legal advisers in 211
YMCA.
‘Tiger’ to enter hospital
Teague back at work
U.S. Rep. Olin E. “Tiger” Teague has
returned to work after suffering a mild
stroke on Sept. 4, said a spokeswoman at
his Bryan office.
He returned to bis Betbesda, Md.,
home Thursday to rest and will enter the
hospital this weekend for minor surgery
not related to his stroke. He is expected to
remain in the hospital for “a couple of
days,” she said.
The stroke, the second one that Teague
has suffered, impaired his speech. He now
“talks very well and his voice is very
strong,” she said.
Because of ill health coupled with war
injuries, Teague, 68, announced last year
he would give up his seat as 6th District
representative. He has held the office for
32 years.