C S may get center
in Consol land deal
By TIM JASEK
City Reporter
A proposed community center for
College Station is nearing reality af
ter more than two years of considera
tion by the city council.
The A&M Consolidated School
Board Monday agreed to exchange
its Special Services Building for ap
proximately 21 acres of city pro
perty.
The building, on Jersey Street,
will be renovated and turned into a
continuing education center for
adults and organizations, Council-
woman Pat Bough ton said.
Approximately $500,000 will be
set aside for the project, Boughton
said. Revenue from the city’s hotel-
motel taxes will probably be used in
addition to other funds, she said.
In January, Texas A&M Universi
ty architecture professor Weston
Harper showed the city council
three of the 25 projects his graduate
class had designed with the renova
tion in mind.
Harper’s class made one cost
analysis for redesigning the Special
Services Building and another for
constructing a community center on
the vacant lot at the corner of Holle-
man and Anderson streets.
The class found the cost to the city
would be less if the school building
was purchased and renovated. Har
per said.
Twenty-five proposals were sub
mitted by the class, he said, of which
three were selected by councilman
Gary Halter and Boughton shown to
city council members.
Harper required his class to in
clude organizational meeting rooms,
art exhibit space and a kitchen for
refreshments served at social events,
he said.
Boughton said an architect has not
yet been hired for the project but
she expects quick action since “the
more we (the city council) delay on
the matter, the more it will cost.’’
\Moore, audience miss
candidate program
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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, 1980
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Tickets are now on sale for two
special events being held during
the Brazos de Dios Fiesta.
The Professional Rodeo Cow
boys Association Rodeo will be
held at the Brazos County Pavil
ion April 17-19. The three shows
each will be at 7:30 p.m. Adv
ance reserved seat tickets are
$4.50; preferred locations should
be specified on all requests. Gate
price of the tickets is $5.50.
A Mexican buffet, sponsored
by Santa Teresa’s Catholic
Church, is scheduled for April 17,
from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Included in
the ticket price is an authentic
Mexican dinner and continuous
entertainment featuring flamen
co dancers, a mariachi band and
Mexican classical and folk dance
demonstrations. The buffet will
be held in the Brazos Pavilion.
Advance buffet tickets are avail
able for $6 per person.
Both rodeo and buffet tickets
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in Bryan. Written requests may
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State Sen. Bill Moore wasn’t the
only one absent from Tuesday’s
“Meet the Candidates” program —
the audience didn’t show up, either.
The Bryan-College Station Legal
Secretaries Association had invited
Moore and challenger Kent Caper-
ton to speak about the issues for 15
minutes each and then answer audi
ence questions.
One of Moore’s secretaries had
previously said that neither Moore
nor a spokesman for him would be
able to attend.
Whether it was a lack of publicity
for the program, the rain or just plain
apathy, the only people present
were Caperton, a few representa
tives of the association and a couple
of media members.
Rather than give a 15-minute
speech as planned, Caperton re
sponded to questions from the media
regarding the Permanent University
Fund.
He said Texas A&M’s share of the
MX missiles
called effective
fund, which is shared by the Texas
A&M and University of Texas sys
tems, should be one-half instead of
the one-third it now gets (the UT
system gets two-thirds).
The funds to Texas A&M should
be increased because of the rapid
growth in enrollment, Caperton
said. He said that in 1970 the student
population was 14,221, and in 1979 it
was 31,249.
One of the problems caused by
this increase in enrollment is lack of
space, he said.
“Rapid growth in enrollment has
increased the need for construction
of educational facilities. A&M has a
critical space shortage — almost 1
million square feet in instructional
space.”
Caperton also said faculty and staff
salaries need to be increased because
they have failed to keep pace with
the cost of living.
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retary Harold Brown told Congress
Tuesday the land-based MX missile
system, while not cheap, is the best
and most effective replacement for
the Minuteman.
And, in response to public con
cern over America’s latest intercon
tinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
weapon. Brown said the MX system
“will be minimally intrusive on the
environment and the public.”
“The MX system is designed to
meet a real and serious threat posed
by the Soviets and it will do so with
high confidence,” he told the House
Military Construction subcom
mittee.
Brown said that because of the im
proved accuracy of Soviet ICBMs,
the nation’s Minuteman ICBM force
“will soon lose its ability to survive a
nuclear attack.”
The United States plans to build
200 MX missiles at a cost of $33.8
billion, an estimate which critics say
could go as high as $56 billion be
cause of inflation by the time the first
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