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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1980 Page 3 Speed limit sanctions hurt Western states ■Federal sanctions to enforce the 55 mph speed limit discriminate ■gainst Western states, especially X Texas, says a Texas A&M University researcher. ^ ■ The law assumes that compliance J / can be achieved through law en forcement and that every state has equal opportunity and capability to convince most drivers to obey the 55 n mph limit. Neither assumption appears valid, said Dr. Quinn Brack ett of the Texas Transportation Insti tute. ■iBrackett said his research indi cates that states with high quality Highway systems — designed and built to deliver goods and people at ^erraijc, Higher speeds — also have fewer ted in sos W’way patrolmen per mile, making mg toil; ilerical, OPi^.ijpnforcement more difficult, ble forai»ll^ ates t ^ iat not corn ply with the ri t j K 55 mph federally set percentages are t reallv P 611 ^' 26 ^ hy losing federal highway vaiting foifi e of that km tan sounds funds. States that comply, deter mined by quarterly speed sampling, are to receive bonus funds if Con gress appropriates the money, Brackett said. “Western states have more room for a driver to open up,” the TTI Human Factors Divisions researcher said. “In the East, population densi ty and traffic volume limits traffic and hold speed down.” He pointed out that weather is also a factor. “This all comes into play when speed measures are taken,” Brackett said. “Traffic speeds in Maine in the quarter ending in December are going to be fairly slow, because of 8-foot snowdrifts blocking the highway.” He said the historical precendent may be the most significant factor however. “Some states have always had less than 70 mph speed limits, simply because their highways were not ever good enough to handle higher speed traffic. To make the ad justment from 60 to 55 mph is no major problem. It’s a different mat ter where the change was from 70 to 55 mph.” Student finds grand prize egg By SUSAN HOPKINS Campus Reporter A $60 diamond was awarded to a Texas A&M University senior management major last week for finding the grand prize egg in the MSC Recreation Committee’s Easter egg hunt. Jimmy Crawford, the commit tee’s special projects chairman, said 250 plastic Easter eggs were hidden on the main campus last week. Each egg contained a mes sage telling the finder of the egg that he had won a prize, and that he should find out what it was at the Student Programs Office. Marianne Woods, who found the grand prize egg in front of the System Administration Building, won a diamond and a setting from Diamond Brokers International, Inc. It will be put in her Aggie senior ring, she said. Crawford said clues were given in The Battalion last week as to where the grand prize egg was hidden. He said the egg was found before the third clue was out Thursday. About 25 people were sear ching in front of the System Administration Building late Thursday night, Crawford said. He said one student climbed a flag pole with a flashlight in hand, and another student used a ladder to search for the grand prize egg. Woods said she was at the building Thursday morning to de liver something, and decided to look for the egg before returning home. She said she was on the porch of the building when she glanced down and saw the green plastic grand prize egg. Other prizes included hair cuts, dinners, ice cream and gift certificates, donated by mer chants in the Bryan-College Sta tion area. However, he said, a few prizes, including the diamond, were bought by the committee. The egg hunt was sponsored by the MSC Recreation Committee to promote spirit and participa tion among the students, Craw ford said. ie a pra has bei it in far i advocatai. al Securit f rimary sign-up ended, others open e the now and a on By LAURA CORTEZ iwupsofew City Staff wThe deadline for voter registration for the May 3 primary was Friday, but it is not too late to become eligi ble to vote in the runoff election June 7or in the November 4 general elec tion. ECounty Tax Assessor-Collector .Gerald “Buddy” Winn said voters have until May 8 to register to vote in the runoff election, if there is one, and until October 5 to vote in the general election. ; Winn said there are about 28,500 registered voters in Brazos County; 3,150 have registered since the last part of January. Out of these, Winn estimated that about 80 percent Were on the “strike list. ” | He said the strike list consists of about 7,700 people who had been registered to vote, but moved and did not notify the tax office of an address change. Winn said approxi mately 80 percent of the strike list consists of students. He said if a person does not notify the tax office of an address change, his registration card is returned to the tax office. The voter must then re-register. But Winn said if the voter fails to re-register, he can still vote in the June run-off election by showing up at the polling place and informing the registrar in charge that he is on the strike list. He said the strike list is thrown out June 30, however, so this would not work for the general election. Winn said that once a person is registered, his registration is auto matically renewed each election year. Carter asked move inmate / lis ne and e special shional* flagrant gherf ; in the B j: And ose id^: ■ no oaf* United Press International AUSTIN — The head of a criminal justice reform group asked President Jimmy Carter Monday to transfer in mate David Ruiz from a federal penitentiary in Indiana to one near Austin, his family’s hometown. Ruiz, the lead plaintiff in a suit challenging operations of the Texas Department of Corrections, was transferred to federal custody and placed in the Federal Correctional Institute in Terre Haute, Ind. He is serving 25 years for armed robbery. Charles Sullivan, executive direc tor of Citizens United for Rehabilita tion of Errants, told Carter in a letter Ruiz has twice been denied parole based on incorrect information, the last time March 27 by Texas Gov. Bill Clements. Sullivan contends if Ruiz had been in Texas for a face-to-face meeting with representatives of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, he could have corrected the wrong information in his file. Sullivan did not say what the infor mation was. The Pardons and Paroles Board re commended Ruiz be paroled, but. Clements vetoed the proposal and suggested he may begin an investiga tion to determine if parole proce dures need to be revised. Sullivan said the federal Bureau of Prisons ordinarily attempts to assign an inmate to an institution hear his home. “By being at Bastrop, most of David’s 12 brothers and sisters and their families who reside in Austin would have only a few miles to travel for a visit,” he said in his letter to Carter. ■lUHE/VC * I VI# When you want Quality in a haircut 209 E. University 846-4771 mm- i mm NOW’S THE TIME TO MAKE GREAT DEALS AT CUSTOM SOUNDS THERE’S A WAREHOUSE FULL OF SUPER DEALS — JUST WAITING FOR YOU... 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