The Battalion
IL 72 No. 187 Wednesday, August 29, 1979 DSPS 045 360
La p a q es College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
Weather
Partly cloudy with widely scattered showers. High
in the mid 90’s and low tonight mid 70's. Winds
will be South Southeast at 5-10 m.p.h. 30%
chance of rain today and 20% for tonight.
)ilslick remains stable
ropical storm has no effect
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — Coast Guard offi-
Tuesday said a stalled tropical depres-
idid not bring huge quantities of oil
re on Texas beaches as feared but a
D-square mile blob of crude approaching
sth Padre Island was threatening to cut
farther on the area’s profitable tourist
Nancy Maynard, a researcher for the Na
sal Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
idon, said the oil glob — about 15 miles
lie and at least 30 miles long — was lo-
tedabout 25 miles south of Brownsville,
she said a reconnaissance plane sent to
sped the tropical depression, which had
reatened to bring more oil to Texas
beaches on Monday, had spotted the huge
concentration of oil.
Maynard said bad weather forced the
plane to return before the crew had deter
mined the length of the patch. She said the
oil was expected to reach Texas beaches in
“a few days.”
“It would be hard to tell (when oil would
hit the shores),” she said. “It will just de
pend on the weather.”
The patch is part of the 1.96 million bar
rels spewed from Mexico’s blown-out Ixtoc
I well in the Bay of Campeche. A spokes
man for Petroleo Mexicanos, the monopoly
that owns the well said engineers have or
dered construction of a giant steel “som
brero to suck up oil at the well.
The spokesman said the “sombrero” —
12 yards in diameter and 6 yards tall — was
being built in the United States and would
divert the spewing oil to storage tanks.
When the tropical depression turned
toward Mexico and stalled Monday, Coast
Guard Lt. Jake O’Neill said government
officials had received "a reprieve.”
“We got good news from the weather.
The tropical depression did us a favor and
went ashore 60 miles into Mexico, ’ he said.
O’Neill said strong winds at Brownsville
and Padre Island had broke some of the
booms stretched across inlets to keep out
oil but no serious damage had resulted.
“Some booms broke loose but they were
second defense containment,” he said.
bM Consolidated offers 'em
Fake extracurricular courses
make student life easier
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Reporter
Hie A&M Consolidated Independent School District is offer-
ig community education courses that may benefit university
dents.
Among the courses offered are cooking for bachelors, powder-
uf mechanics for women, shorthand, and typing.
Registration for the courses will be Tuesday, September 11, at
le A&M Consolidated High School Cafeteria located at 701
fat Loop South. It will be conducted from 7-8 p.m. for College
ton residents, and from 8-9 p.m. for non-residents. Late
tistration is from Sept. 12-14 at the Community Education
lice at 1300 Jersey St. from 9.00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Tuition will vary from class to class, but may be paid during
ifistration. Fees may run anywhere from $25 for welding, to 25
BtsforCardiopulmonary Resuscitation. The average runs from
5410.
The tuition helps pay the $5.50 per hour wage of the instruc-
rs. said Paul Cox, the new director of Community Education.
Money also helps defray some of the program’s cost. The
itire budget for the previous year was $91,995, roughly
14,000 of which came from school district funds, he said. This
tar’s budget should run $106,000.
Roughly 7-8,000 people attended classes last year, he said.
Class times vary, but usually are at night.
Instructors come from different backgrounds, including those
to are Texas A&M University students. Doris Wilding, for
ample, who will teach tumbling to youngsters, is currently
tending Texas A&M, Cox said.
Hie aim of the program, said the director, Cox, is to promote a
David spares
other islands
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help
sense of community identity, and to make better use of school
facilities. He said he is glad to be working with one of the larger
community education programs in the state. “Per capita, it’s
probably the largest in the state,” he added.
Cox, who recently worked for Texas A&M as a consultant on
Community Education programs, has taken over a program that
began in 1975. It was in existence before that, Cox said, but
never did much.
Cox said wants to expand the program and work closely with
the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of College
Station and with various service clubs, such as the Lions Club.
Cox said he does not consider the Consol education program
to be in competition with Texas A&M’s Free University. Free
University features courses that are similar to those given by
Community Education. They start later in the year, however.
“Even in a town with a university with continuing education
programs, there are enough people out there |pr the both of us.
Some people who would not feel at ease going to the university
for courses feel more comfortable in their high school or
neighh» .hood school,” Cox said.
It is His goal to reach as many citizens and students in College
Station as possible, Cox said. He keeps a file of possible instruc
tors and applicants for courses, and tries to find teachers for any
subject in demand.
Though recently some school board members have questioned
spending the district’s funds on community education, Cox said
he feels he can count on administration support.
“I think that Dr. Anderson, the new superintendent, is very
supportive of the concept and accepts the concept as part of his
philosophy of education and community involvement.”
Barbados;
threatened
-ASTRIES, St. Lucia — Hurricane
*id, one of the mightiest storms of the
•tary, thundered past Barbados Tues-
s knocking out communications and
fag air traffic but sparing the island re
fit the full force of its 140-mile-an-hour
forecaster John Hope at the National
■ricane^Center said late Tuesday night
tstorms center was expected to pass
W 40 miles north of the island, raking it
igales and probably” gusts of 75 miles
^tour.
e cannot verify what is happening
'•because they have been out of radio
•let for two hours,” he said. No severe
j ere expected, he said, since the is-
• was south of David’s eye.
Hurricane force winds were expected to
L Lucia Wednesday, he said, when
storm passes north of that mountain-
island nation.
te l e grapb links with
communications for the
r*ii ^T***^’ were broken late Tues-
; All mtematio™, flights to and from
feafaid were halted,
anids winds dropped from 150 to 140
p® "° ur Tu esday night, according to
force reconnassance planes, but
forecasters said it was still “an intense and
extremely dangerous hurricane,” the
worst to threaten the resort islands that
rim the southeast comer of the Carribbean
this century.
At 9 p.m., the San Juan Weather
Bureau centered the hurricane about 90
miles east northeast of Barbados, near
Latitude 13.7 North and Longitude 58.2
West. It was moving on a west northwest
path at about 15 mph, a course it was ex
pected to hold for the next 24 hours.
The double red and black hurricane
warning flags already posted on Barbados,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Martinique and the
Grenadines were extended to the islands
of Guadelopue and Dominica.
At nightfall, the tempest was aimed di
rectly at St. Lucia, a volcanic island 27
miles long and about 14 miles wide, which
has a French heritage but is British in
character. Its population is about 150,000.
Larger Martinique, the “queen of the
Antilles”, lies just to the north, also in the
path of the hurricane’s fury.
The crew of the “hurricane hunter
plane measured barometric pressure in
the eye center of David at a low 27.52
inches of mercury at midday Tuesday, but
it had climbed to 28.17 by nightfall.
“This central pressure indicates that
David is probably the most intense hur
ricane to threaten the Windward Islands
in this century,” the midday advisory said.
“Hurricane David at this moment is
comparable to the great hurricanes in the
history of the Antilles — like the 1831 hur
ricane of Barbados and the 1891 hurricane
of Martinique.
“There were no major breaks in our de
fenses.”
However O’Neill said the depression
was strong enough to send tar balls ashore
at Port Isabel and tarballs and sheen also
were reported in the south jetties of Port
Aransas.
At midday Tuesday rain had ceased and
clear skies were reported. However, the
NWS also reported waves were two feet
above normal at South Padre Island and
winds gusting to 40 mph were forecasted
for the Gulf Coast.
O’Neill said a crew of 40 had returned to
help clean Port Isabel’s beaches. The crew
had been called off while the depression
approached.
Coast Guard Lt. Ed Thompson said a
crew of 90 continued clean up efforts on
Mustang Island.
O’Neill said the beaches of South Texas
would be cleaned as much as possible in
anticipation of the Labor Day weekend, the
last summer holiday where beach mer
chants rely on big profit.
“We’ve got a signflcant amount of
equipment to handle whatever goes on
shore,” he said. "We will make the beaches
as clean as possible for the Labor Day
weekend.”
Laurie Peters, a representative of the
South Padre Tourist Bureau in Port Isabel,
said motel operators probably would have a
50 percent to 60 percent drop in occu
pancy.
“Things are very slow and should con
tinue that way,” she said. “I think it has
more to do with the fact that people are
reacting to the adverse publicity. “The
people that are here are having a good
time.”
Hotels were running at a record occu
pancy rate before oil started washing
ashore.
Clements will
visit A£rM for
state briefings
Texas A&M University on Thursday will
brief Gov. William Clements on major re
search programs at the University, particu
larly those designed to help solve problems
facing the state.
A&M President Jarvis E. Miller said
- Clements and 10 assistants will spend the
day on campus, and hear presentations
from the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, Texas Agricultural Extension Serv
ice, Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion, Texas Engineering Extension Serv
ice, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas
Real Estate Research Center and the Texas
Water Resources Institute.
“Texas A&M has a unique mission —
broad-based research and extension ac
tivities, in addition to its academic
functions,” Miller said.
"Most of our programs are being con
ducted in response to expressed needs or to
alleviate problems anticipated in the state,
and we want the governor have a good
working knowledge of the scope of our ac
tivities and capabilities.”
Texas A&M University President Jarvis Miller addressed the
Brazos County A&M Club Wednesday night in Memorial
Student Center. Miller said the past year was the most suc
cessful in Texas A&M’s history. Miller will join Gov. William
P. Clements on a tour of five Eastern European nations be
ginning Saturday. Battalion photo by Keith Taylor
Miller tells group
A&M on the move.
By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion Staff
Last year at Texas A&M was the most successful in its history. President Jarvis
Miller told members of the Brazos County A&M Club Wednesday night.
"Any way you look at it this University is on the move. During the past year we had
our first faculty member elected to the Natinal Academy of Sciences, Dr. Perry
Adkinson. He is the first person to do all his research and build his reputation at
Texas A&M. We take that as a challenge. We think that he is the first of many.”
Miller also said the University is continuing its rapid growth.
Enrollment may approach 32,000 this year, but will be tapering off with a peak of
34-35,000 in 1983, he said. The Corps will have at least the numl>er of members it
had last year and will possibly be larger, he said.
The University will stress new dimensions with the student body. Miller said.
“We are going to try to groom the students to be scholars. We are starting a new
system of counseling, particularly for bright students. Counselors spend an inordi
nate amount of time with problem students while our bright good student slip
through here with a minimum of input from the counselors.”
He said Texas A&M will try to train talented students to be competitive for
prestigous awards.
“We believe we have the caliber of student that can excell in any kind of competi
tion,” he said.
The club was also reassured that home football games would be played in Kyle
Field.
The planning and facilities department told the Board of Regents Sunday that the
first supports for the third deck of Kyle Field will be placed Sept. 15, and the
University of Houston game can be played there Oct. 13, Miller said.
By Nov. 17, for the University of Arkansas game, the stadium is expected to be
essentially complete,” he said.
Other construction will also continue, with work beginning on another modular
dormitory this fall, he said.
Miller talked about a new public relations program the University has started.
He said Texas A&M had a contract with a New York public relations firm to
promote the image of the University nationwide.
“This is leading us into all kinds of new dimensions. You’re seeing a new dimension
in the national media. You 11 being seeing a good deal more of this (national exposure
about University programs) in the future.”
Miller said Texas Governor William P. Clements will visit the Texas A&M campus
to see how programs at the University can help in the administration of the state.
“We are trying to impress upon him the sources that are available at this institu
tion.”
Miller will accompany Clements on a five-nation tour of Eastern European coun
tries Saturday. The purpose of the trip is to build good will and promote Texas
agricultural products in the countries. Miller said.
Miller and Clements will visit the Soviet Union, Hungary', Czechoslovakia, Poland
and Yugoslavia.
Regents approve budget;
18 percent increase OK’d
lie Texas A&M UniversiU Board of Re-
te approved Monday a $24,787,853 in-
jje in the operating budget of Texas
University fo r t h e 1979.80 school
Tfa new budget totals $206,186,034 for
toWrsjty. The Texas A&M University
budget was increased 18 percent
nrhst > ear to 5379,823,523. This budget
•rail parts of the university system in-
toed in teaching, research, and public
fiber
j f i RegentS Chairman Clyde H
-ji said the increase w as due to a combi-
«*» of inflation, increases enrollment
nore research and extension pro-
irie View A&M University received
ill.028,364 increase bringing its
Brt up to $39,214,079. Tarleton State
renity received a $1,121,469 budget
increase to $10,090,070. Texas A&M Uni
versity at Galveston (formerly Moody Col
lege) will have a 86,315,153 budget, an in
crease of $2,785,260.
The Texas Forest Service received a
$730,510 increase bringing its budget to
$7,601,961. The budget for system offices
and departments will be $5,353,907, up
$92,688.
The new budgets take effect Sept. 1.
Two construction contracts were
awarded by the regents. A $1,318,500 con
tract was awarded to Thurmond and Stuart
of Bryan to renovate the animal industries
building at Prairie View A&M. NuneZ
Construction of Texas City received *
$1,126,100 contract to build small boat
berthing facilities at the Galveston campus
The board also approved the establish
ment of a coal and lignite research labora
tory at Texas A&M.
New Corps members
CharKe Jumper, a junior in engineering technology at left,
and Ray Midlriff, a junior in agricultural engineering, escort
a group of incoming freshmen corps members hack to the
quad sifter a jaunt about campus. The new members wear
T-shirts and blue jeans until they receive their uniforms next
week. This is Freshman Orientation Week for the corps, a
time when freshmen are shown about campus and taught the
proper way to shine brass and leather.