Page 8 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1979
Amtrak
suit set
for today
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WICHITA, Kan. — U.S. District
Court Judge Frank Theis will hear
arguments today in a suit filed by
the state of Kansas to block the
cutoff of Amtrak s Lone Star Line,
sceduled for Oct. 1.
Kansas Attorney General Robert
Stephan filed suit in federal court
Aug. 31, seeking a temporary in
junction against Amtrak before the
Lone Star — which operates be-,
tween Chicago and Houston — is
eliminated.
The suit claims that Amtrak vio
lated govermental rules by failing to
conduct hearings in Kansas before
deciding to discontinue train serv
ice. Stephan is seeking the injunc
tion to preserve existing service.
Amtrak service will continue in
Missouri between St. Louis and
Kansas City for another year be
cause the Missouri Legislature de
cided to appropriate $300,000 to
keep it in operation under a cost
sharing arrangement with the fed
eral government.
But Kansas cannot take advantage
of such a plan with the federal gov
ernment, state officials have said,
because it would apparently be un
constitutional.
Stephan’s suit is similar to actions
filed in Texas, Oklahoma and
California.
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CORPUS CHRISTI — There
were indications today the threat of
more oil from the Campeche Bay
blowout had ended for Padre Island,
the 120-mile-long resort beach
which was polluted by tons of crude
oil and tarballs in August.
“It’s been slow the past 10 days,”
said Jerry Hill, a spokesman for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
“We haven’t seen any oil. There
are a few small tarballs scattered on
I the beach. Crews go out maybe
! once every two or three days and
: clean them up. Somebody said the
beaches are cleaner than they usu
ally are.”
A NOAA aircraft flew along the
coast south of Tampico, Mexico, on
Tuesday and spotted no concen
trations of oil in the area, Hill said,
and planned Wednesday to fly from
Corpus Christi to Brownsville look
ing for any signs of the slick.
At its height, the slick containing
thick patches of petroleum-water
emulsion known as mousse
stretched 600 miles from the blown-
out Ixtoc I well to north of Corpus
Christi, threatening to enter ecolog
ically sensitive bays on the South
Texas Coast during August.
But around Sept. 1, a seasonal
shifting of currents from north to
south began and the slick, fed by
more than 2 million barrels of oil
since the well blew out on June 3,
began receding farther south.
“Since Sept. 21, the only oil
sighted offshore by reconnaissance
flights has been in the Bay of Cam
peche southeast of Tampico,” said
Coast Guard spokesman Richard
Griggs.
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Unlike last year, Texas A&M students have been abletoliil
apartments in the Bryan-College Station area this ye;
About 200 students found construction on their apartmei
unfinished when the fall semester began in 1978, but nose
problems have arisen this year. Battalion photo by Samsrt
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Battalion Reporter
Although most apartment com
plexes in Bryan-College Station
have a 90 to 100 percent occupancy
rate, there is still housing for those
who need it, Dena Todd, off-
campus adviser said Friday.
One reason for the improved
housing situation this year is that
many apartments were preleased.
“Half of the aparments were pre
leased by May for this fall,” said
Kathy Evans, a leasing agent for
A&M Apartment Placement Serv-
Last year about 200 .studenl;!| w >th a
to live in hotels, temporary!!| Comm
ments, or with friends i
apartments were finished,
In fact, the only new coii|
built this year was Cripple C« would
Evans said
Apartment hunting is
from April to July, she sa
only one or two people com
daily to look for apartments
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early as March, she said. As a result,
people who waited until summer to
look for an apartment had fewer
choices.
Another reason for the housing
success is that no complexes were
finished late this year.
apartments available,” shesaiil
Apartments which have m|
cancies now may have some ii
tober. Managers of The Oak
Willow Oaks apartments say
will have vacancies around tkl
or the middle of October.
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are those moving off capipp
changing roommates, ” Todd ail 1
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