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By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion Reporter
No little green men or flying
aucers with flashing lights heralded
is arrival, but the science fiction
niter from Arlington still managed
o please his audience with a read
ing of one of his short stories.
George Proctor was on the Texas
University campus Monday
light to talk to Cepheid Variable,
he ience fiction club here.
Proctor centered most of his talk
round the reading of the story,
The Night Breeze on Watermelon
Mountain.” The story is about a
irophet looking for a rip in the uni-
eise through which humanity was
lassing; meanwhile, his female
obot was always losing parts of her
matomy.
Hie writer said he has sent the
tory to many magazines, including
malog and Asimov’s Science Fic-
ion Magazine. Proctor said the
Evacuation ‘impossibility’
for Gulf during hurricane
hm
editors usually liked the story, but
they could not fit it into their
magazines’ format.
He also explained how he comes
up with story ideas. He said he loves
to play word games and he gets
many ideas by building stories
around common idioms and cliches.
He gave such examples as “not a
soul in town,” “a killing in the mar
ket” and “he’s the kiss of death.”
One phrase, “he is shot to hell,”
started Proctor on an epic novel.
Proctor also creates science fic
tion artwork and has sold two cover
paintings to Heavy Metal, a science
fiction magazine.
He said he has had no formal
training in art, but he began draw
ing comic book characters in
elementary school, teaching him
self.
“I do not consider myself and ar
tist,” he said. “It is a hobby.” He
said he felt incompetent around
other artists, and he has just learned
what a T-square and triangle are.
He said his artwork is what
motivates him to finish his stories.
“It is one of my incentives to get
through my pages for the day, so
when I get through, I can play with
my colors,” he said.
Proctor is a 1969 graduate of
Texas Tech University with degrees
in journalism and political science.
He worked for the Dallas Morning
News for five years, but decided that
he would rather write fiction and
left the newspaper.
He said he started writing science
fiction during his last year of college
and received two rejection slips for
his stories. Proctor sold his first
story in 1972. He has written one
book, “The Esper Transfer,” and
co-authored an anthology “The
Lone Star Universe.” He has also'
sold 10 novelettes using pen names.
SALT talks continue
United Press International
MOSCOW — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met with Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev on Monday, after reporting some prog
ress toward resolving outstanding issues for a strategic arms pact
between the two superpowers.
Gromyko, earlier in the day, indicated that he expected the
Vance-Brezhnev meeting to be an important one.
U.S. diplomats expected that Vance and the Soviet leaders would
go over the arms talks which have been held during the past two days
in a further effort to narrow differences and prepare the way for a
Soviet-American summit conference.
Before attending a luncheon Monday with Gromyko, Vance said:
“We are closer to agreement today than we were at the end of the
*(SALT) talks in Washington. These talks have been very useful and
very constructive. The problems remain. As I said before, it’s brick
by brick.”
Gromyko smiled and added, “Yes, it’s jump by jump.”
Gromyko also confirmed that Vance would be meeting Soviet Pres
ident Leonid Brezhnev “later in the day.”
Both Gromyko and Vance hedged when they were asked whether
an agreement could come out of the current round of SALT talks.
Vance said he would return to Washington Tuesday even if an agree-
ment4$ not reached.
Total evacuation of Texas Gulf
loast islands during a major hur-
icane is impossible, concludes a
ransportation report prepared by
exas A&M University.
Four-foot tides could cut off resi-
lents of Galveston, South Padre and
lustang Islands as well as Bolivar
'eninsula as soon as 36 hours in ad-
ance of the hurricane’s landfall,
exas Transportation Institute re-
earcher Thomas Urbanik says.
Under the best of conditions al-
ost 13 hours would be required to
vacuate Galveston Island alone,
be Texas A&M University study
iredicts. Also the study estimates it
rould take two hours for Bolivar
dover three for Munstang Island
be evacuated.
The figures did not account for
housands of tourist that visit the
larrier islands during the June 1 to
kt. 15 hurricane season, Urbanik
idds.
The findings were presented last
fiday to the Texas Coastal and
Marine Council meeting on the
Texas A&M campus.
TCMC chairman and state Sen
A.R. “Babe” Schwartz of Galveston
said of the report, “If that don’t
scare the hell outta you, you don’t
live on the coast.”
Although Schwartz and Urbanik
admitted that tourists would be
likely to stay away from recreation
areas during an impending storm,
the report did conclude that vehicle
accidents could be expected when
trying to evacuate the estimated
74,000 permanent residents from
the areas in question.
A normal rate of accidents, not
taking into account higher incidence
of wrecks during rainy weather,
would reduce the evacuation road
capacities by 51 percent, thereby
doubling the best estimated time in
which evacuation could be ex
pected.
Urbanik also told members of the
TCMC that only about a third to
two-thirds of the citizens in an
urban area could be expected to
leave when warned. The percentage
might rise to 100 percent in smaller
rural communities along the coast,
he said.
However, major escape routes
such as Interstate 45 which runs
from Galveston to Houston might
be flooded by rains well in advance
of the threatening four-foot tides.
“If the four-foot tides occur 36
hours or more prior to a storm,” said
Urbanik, “total evacuation of the
barrier islands is not possible, given
existing roadway conditions, storms
and forecasting techniques.”
“We will have to make the (Texas)
highway department give us some
definite measurements under spe
cific weather conditions,” suggested
Schwartz, who recalled sitting out a
past hurricane in his hometown of
Galveston and not being able to
learn anything about open roads
from highway department sources.
Urbanik said the elevated cause
way from Galveston to the mainland
may give residents a false sense of
security, but it’s the access roads to
the causeway which would go under
water with four-foot tides preceding
a major storm.
TCMC took no action on the re
port since the body lacked a
quorum.
Battalion photo by Ed Cunnius
George Proctor, science fiction writer, reads one of his stories.
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