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he A&M Consolidated school
board accepted two bids for re
pairing the roof at A&M Con
solidated High School Monday
night.
Olie C. Grauke, Assistant
Superintendent of Finance for
the school district, reported he
received a bid over the tele
phone Monday from All-Amer-,
ican Enterprises of Phoenix,
ona for $133,466.
n April 19, the board re
ceived a bid of $136,500 from
General Coatings, Inc. of Hous
ton.
Grauke recommended the
council accept the bid of All-
American Enterprises.
But trustee Ann Jones ques
tioned Grauke’s method of ac
cepting bids.
• “Is this the way we normally
accept bids?” she asked. “It
seems to give the late bidder an
advantage.”
Grauke said there is usually a
deadline for accepting bids. The
sealed bids are opened at one
time, giving all bidders the op
portunity to be present.
Grauke said this procedure
was not followed because he had
trouble contacting All-American
Enterprises.
| “They were behind through no
fault of their own,” he said.
Trustee William Fitch
suggested the firms be allowed to
rebid through sealed bids in the
usual manner. The suggestion
was voted on and it passed
unanimously.
In other action, a letter from
Joseph U. LeBlanc, a College
Station resident, was presented
to the school board.
According to the letter, people
attending board meetings some
times leave confused because
they do not understand the is
sues on the agenda.
The letter listed poor acoustics
in the meeting room and a lack of
background data on current is
sues as reasons for the public’s
confusion.
Several trustees spoke out
against the public address system
in the meeting room, located in
the Special Services Building at
1300 Jersey St., College Station.
“Since I’ve been on the board
we have continually struggled
with the speaker system,” said
trustee Bill Wasson.
“We have the responsibility
that if the public takes the time
to come, they should be able to
hear what we say,” he said.
Wasson said a way to give the
public more understanding of is
sues would be to include back
ground information on current
issues as part of the agenda.
Trustee Bruce Robeck
suggested setting up a question
and answer period for both the
board and the public to clear up
confusion over board matters.
“If the board ceases to com
municate with the public,” Was
son said, “there is no point in
being here.”
Robeck suggested the board
look for another place to meet.
One possibility, he said, could be
the Oakwood Elementary
School.
Board president John Reagor
suggested putting these sugges
tions on a future agenda.
As the board was about to re
cess, newly elected trustee
Herman Brown, who had been
silent for the entire meeting,
made a sudden outburst.
He said he had been on the
school board for a month and he
still does not know what is going
on.
“I feel very inadequate,” he
said. “I do not have a feel for the
problems.”
Fitch suggested that he wait it
out.
“You’re smarter than l am,” he
said. “By the end of summer you
may figure out what’s going on.
It took me six months.”
On the serious side, Fitch said
this lack of communication and
understanding of problems is the
reason it took so long to get the
roof on the high school repaired.
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lage, Rihan, during similar strikes
Monday. The command again said
only that the targets of the strike
were “terrorist concentrations” with
no further details.
The new Israeli attack came after
Lebanon rejected an Israeli peace
proposal as “blackmail” and Egypt
vowed to go ahead with the peace
process with Israel.
Initial reports by Beirut radio in
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killed and three wounded in Tues
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1979
In the Lebanese capital of Beirut,
Lebanon rejected Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin’s offer of
peace talks in Jerusalem, Beirut or a
neutral place as “blackmail.”
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Battalion Reporter
College students and senior citi
zens are doing it. So are housewives
and professional football players.
But the majority of those doing it
are 25 to 45 year-old middle-income
professionals.
What these approximately 8 mil
lion people are doing is playing rac
quetball, America’s fastest growing
sport.
The game was developed by a
self-made millionaire and avid
handball player named Robert Ken-
dler. He took the game of paddle
racquets, changed the name,
applied the rules of handball and
began promoting it.
And it has caught on. One reason
is because it is that it has few rules
and can be learned in just one les
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Basically, the goal is to hit the ball
with the racquet before it bounces
twice and to prevent the opponent
from doing so.
The game is played on an
enclosed, box-like court, which is
40-by-20 feet and has a 20-foot ceil
ing. With the exception of the
serve, the ball does not have to hit
the front wall first, so often the ball
bounces wildly off the side walls and
ceiling.
The racquets look like a squared-
off, sawed-off tennis racquet with a
string attached. The string prevents
the racquet from flying out of a
player’s hand. Prices for racquets
range from $13.95 to $75, and they
are usually made of light-weight
aluminum. For the more affluent
player, a new graphite racquet
which sells for $150 has just been
made.
The balls are pressurized and hol
low, are usually green or blue and
cost from $2.95 to $4.39 a pair. Last
year alone, an estimated 18 million
were sold.
Most of this activity is taking
place on courts on college cam
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According to an instructor, be
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