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IUD funds for CS. THE BATTALION Page 11 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1978 y conrinued from page 1 l0t her $141,000 from the 1977 Lnds could be used for rehab.l.- 1 Calloway said. The money is lied but not yet contracted, L street construction projects. L officials are also working on a subsidy plan in conjunction The Brazos Valley Develop- elwTn"Rhode, rural bousing dinator for the BVDC, said m promised to rule on an apph- L for rent subsidy binds by rsday. The 150 “assistance un applied for would be divided on mutation basis among Brazos, [eson, Leon, Grimes, Madison, , r tso'n and Washington coun- Rhode said. ,zos County is scheduled to re- 97 subsidies, Rhode said. Col- Station tenants could receive of the subsidies. ,ould the BVDC application be :ted, HUD will still expect Col- 16 Station to provide some form of assistance, Danfprd said, he College Station officials in- Jed about all aspects of forming a ling authority, Such as optimum Ijty of low-rent public housing. Iterance and operation proce- ls, Calloway said. Housing au- Ities build, own, maintain and E low-income housing. As for actually forming a housing authority, We don’t know where we re going yet,” Mayor Bravenec said. In the past, the city council has opposed plans that call for the con struction of additional low-income property. The city council doesn’t want to create new concentrations of low- income households, Calloway said. That could be creating more of the very same problem they are seeking to correct, he said. Jack Stark, a lawyer for HUD, said that a privately owned housing assistance program would be just as acceptable to HUD as a housing au thority. But he commented that “it is difficult to motivate the private sector to come up with a successful public housing project.” 1 he city has to fulfill its housing obligations, whether by forming a housing authority or getting a pri vate assistance program. Stark said. College Station will have two chances to show HUD that it is mak ing “substantial progress.” The first comes on Feb. 28, the city’s dead line for turning in it’s 1978 grantee performance report. Even though the city didn’t re ceive the 1978 CD funds, it must still file a grantee performance re port explaining what it has done with leftover funds from previous years. College Station’s second chance will be after the city applies for the 1977 CD block grant, which must be done by April 7. When HUD re ceives the application, it will send a group of officials, including environmental and equal opportu nity representatives, on a two-day “comprehensive monitoring trip,’ Danford said. the BVDC is proposing, Calloway said. But the city’s plan was closed down because it could not interest applicants. Highway 30, Texas State may help traffic flow The problem, Calloway said, was that the HUD fair market rent schedule was unrealistically low for the College Station market. HUD will approve or reject the application by June 21. Councilman Gary Halter said Col lege Station could have avoided los ing the CD block grant funds in the first place by rehabilitating some houses in low-income neighbor hoods. The city started to do so, he said, but the residents wanted their streets rebuilt instead. “The applicants lost interest when they heard the rent levels because they knew what they would find at that rent level,” Calloway said. Even before the program started, the city told HUD that the rent schedule was too low. But HUD urged the city to start at that schedule, Calloway said. “They were tired of driving in the mud,” Halter said. Though HUD requires a city to get public input on the spending of CD hinds, Halter said College Sta tion probably had listened to the public too much. The housing re habilitation was “something we should have done a long time ago” to keep HUD happy. Councilman Halter said. During regular contact with HUD, city officials continued to say that the schedule was too low and that the program wasn’t working, Calloway said. HUD discussed with the city raising the schedule 20 per cent, but was told that that wasn’t near enough, he said. College Station had for 14 months a rent subsidy plan similar to one At the end of the 1977 fiscal year, the rent subsidy plan was summarily shut down since it had been ineffec tive, Calloway said. Several months later, HUD increased the area-wide rent levels, he said, but College Sta tion wasn’t eligible to re-start the program. By DANNA RICHEY Battalion Reporter A proposal for improving the in tersection at Highway 30 and Texas Avenue was considered by College Station city council members Thursday night. The intersection improvements are part of the new Brazos County- Bryan-College Station Traffic Engi neering Plan that was presented to the council in a special session Sept. 13. City Manager North Bardell said that if the proposal is accepted by the city, construction may begin in October 1979. The proposal includes the con struction of a high type-T intersec tion at Highway 30 and Texas Av enue and installations of com puterized traffic signals. The high type-T intersection design will provide extra lanes on Texas Avenue and Highway 30 specifically for left turns. Traffic passing through the intersection will not be stopped to allow other vehicles to turn left. A spokesman for the State De partment of Highways and Public Transportation said the highway improvements are designed to ac commodate increasing southbound traffic on Texas Avenue. He also said the computerized signal plan will provide an improved continous traffic flow along Texas Avenue. The council also considered a pre liminary plan for the development of Timber Ridge located between Dominik Drive, Munson Avenue and Plantation Oaks Drive. The de velopment will consist of both dup lexes and single family residences. Councilman Anne Hazen ex pressed concern for pedestrian and bicycle traffic in that area. She said there are no sidewalks or bike paths other than a foot trail, which would be eliminated by development. Hazen said the developers should provide some type of facilities for the pedestrians and cyclists to keep them off Highway 30. In other business, the council ac cepted a bid of $34,369 by Young Brothers Inc. for the construction of a parking lot at the College Station Police Department. The job will take about 35 days to complete, but no construction starting date has been set. MAMA'S PIZZA A DELIVERS ocal sun "agents' 04 and I, lefuge awaiting last whoopers 11 A.M.-11 P.M. DAILY emonstrra ms so tl he resultil United Press International interestfjfcsTWELL, — Wildlife officials passed j) e y expect the world’s last 70 114, estiH whooping cranes to arrive at xtensionlA ransas National Wildlife Ref- staff of It Mthjs week. g the puile re expecting them at any 150count|. Ken Butts, an official at the npy refuge nestled on the Texas Coast, said Wednesday, e autumn arrival of the whoop- Icrane —r- a spectacular bird ting 5 feet tall and having a t wing span when full grown flotially brews excitement along [“lOt solate d sa ^ marshes of the ref- PIZZA, SPAGHETTI, LASAGNA, SALADS, & DRINKS f$5.00 MINIMUM) 696-3380 807 TEXAS AVE. I I mystique has grown up around Irama of the whooping crane’s ;gle for survival. Butts said than 100,000 people — two- of the refuge’s annual visitors re expected to tour the area in ES Cardinals move closer to choosing new pope KEE ^ACK ANS 1 United Press International ^ICAN fcrTY — The Roman lolic cardinals who will choose a issor to the late Pope John Paul / they have narrowed their m and are debating the specific l ts a small group of candi- v LA CANS unctio Display hopes of snatching a glimpse of the birds before they return to their Canadian nesting homes in March. Only a few more than a 100 who opers have survived from the thousands which once reportedly darkened the skies in their seasonal migrations. A few dozen live restricted, but protected, lives at the Migratory Bird Research Center at Pautuxet, Md., and in zoos. Another young flock of nine birds is being reared by “foster parent sandhill cranes in Idaho. The rest call Texas home. “We’ve got practically all of the wild flock. Last year we had a total of 70 that survived the winter,” Butts said, “Nine young and 61 adults — which was up only one from the year before. “The year before we had 57 adults and 12 young. So we’re hanging around 70. But this year we re hop ing we’ll get up around 75 or 80. We re supposed to have eight young heading south this year.” The whooping crane. North America s tallest bird, almost disap peared as a species in the late 1800s, diminishing to only 15 in 1883 when they were hunted for sport and farmers and ranchers cleared their nesting grounds. They hovered on the brink of ex tinction for more than a half cen tury. A smaller flock that migrated to Southern Louisiana was deci mated by a hurricane in the 1940s. In 1951, the Texas flock again numbered 15, but since then the whooping crane population has been on a slow upswing. Butt said whooping crane flocks are slow to replenish because who- oper couples will not breed until they are 4 to 6 years old and nor mally will raise only one chick, “so you don’t regain big numbers at that rate.” Ida, the first of New Mexico’s nine adopted whoopers, arrived this week near Bosque Del Apa yN.M., after spending most of the year in Idaho. The cranes are not hard to find at Aransas and tourists can view them from either an observation tower or from boats that pass close to their feeding areas. Refuge officials, however, warn tourists that the whoopers have an absolute distrust of humans — which does not seem all that surpris ing considering their previous run- ins with people — and will fly away if anyone steps from the boats into the marsh. They also give voice to a call that has given the crane its name. The loud “whoop” is produced by a 5-feet-long trachea coiled behind the bird’s breastbone. sin nmniimiiimmimim^^ lurch sources and statements p cardinals themselves indicate "11 cardinals are moving toward isensus: they want a theological jcrvative wht> values traditional tn ne and disfcipline, as well as a man who can control the unwieldy Vatican bureaucracy. American Cardinals John Dear- den of Detroit and John Carberry of St. Louis admitted Wednesday that discussions about specific papal candidates were under way. “Once in a while a name comes up in a friendly way,” Carberry said. “We are all trying to enrich our understanding,” he said. Church experts say two cardinals among the papal candidates who fit that mold are Giuseppe Siri, 72, ar chbishop of Genoa and 25 years a cardinal, and Pericle Felici, 67, pre fect of the Vatican Court of Appeals. The experts cautioned, however, that Cardinal Giovanni Benelli, the powerful former Vatican diplomat most instrumental in electing John Paul, could not be counted out. Also being considered were the so-called “pastoral candidates: Cardinal Corrado Ursi, 70, ar chbishop of Naples, and Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, 60, ar chbishop of Palermo, Sicily. Pappalardo and Ursi were most often mentioned as successors to Pope John Paul immediately after the late pontiffs death, when the newly arriving cardinals said they wanted another pastoral pontiff to lead the church. However, after two weeks of for mal discussions at the Vatican and a weekend of informal and frank talks, the cardinals have been pointing more toward a capable adminis trator than a pastoral archbishop. 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