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Page 4 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980 Water, sewer bills go up by DEBBIE NELSON Battalion Staff Water and sewer rates in College Station will be up on August bills after the city council approved in creases at a special meeting on Wednesday. Water rates are being raised 10 cents, from the present rate of 90 cents per 1,000 gallons to $1 per 1,000 gallons. City Manager North Bardell said the average city house hold uses 6,000-7,000 gallons yearly. Sewer rates were upped 25 cents, from $3.75 a month to $4 per month. Increased revenues will become part of the city’s utility fund. Rates were raised in order to include sev eral items the council desired in the 1980-81 revenue sharing and operat ing budget. As stipulated in the city charter, the final budget must be approved before the council meeting on June 27, Bardell said. The council decided to participate with the Bryan city government in building an animal shelter. Coopera tion with Bryan is desired to share a location and eliminate unneeded ex- PROBLEM PREGNANCY? Are you considering abortion? Free counseling and referrals Call (713) 779-2258 Texas Problem Pregnancy, Bryan, Tx. pense. Up to $25,000 was appropri ated, preferably from revenue shar ing, for the project. Also approved was $1,000 for a grant for architectural design of a bandshell, probably in College Sta tion Central Park, for the summer concert series. The grant would pro vide 25 percent matching funds from the Texas Commission of the Arts. The council also approved sanita tion fund appropriations and the following appropriations from the hotel-motel tax fund (expected at ab out $195,000): — $15,000 basic budget to the Brazos Valley Arts Council. — $10,000 for special art-related stories, with $500 already earmarked for the Community Singers, who participate in various concerts in city parks. — $21,000 to the College Station Chamber of Commerce, with $4,500 scheduled for the Brazos de Dios fes tival and the rest devoted to tourism. — $25,000 for the Information and Hospitality Center. ALTERATIONS' IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS ' DON'T GIVE UP — WFLL MAKE IT FIT!" AT WELCH'S CLEANERS WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE CIALIZE IN ALTERING HAFC TO FIT EVENING DRESSES. TAPERED SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS. WATCH POCKETS. ETC (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) 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Admission is 250 with Texas A&M I.D. VETERINARY SCHOOL: Will hold commencement exercises at 7 p.m. in 212 MSC. SATURDAY THE GROVE: Will present “Diamonds are Forever” at 8:45 p.m. Admission is 250 with a Texas A&M I.D. SUNDAY THE GROVE: Features “Dr. Strangelove” at 8:45 p.m. Admission is 250 with a Texas A&M I.D. MONDAY TAMU SCUBA CLUB: Will hold its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower. State celebrates Emancipation Da Grand jury to investigate border incident next week United Press International Black groups in more than 30 Texas cities are planning “Juneteenth” celebrations today to commemorate the day 117 years ago when slaves in the state learned they had been freed. The Legislature last year passed a bill by Rep. Al Edwards, D- Houston, making Emancipation Day a state holiday for the first time in history. Edwards will participate in a sun rise service today at Ashton Villa in Galveston, the site at which Gen. Gordon Granger, commander of fed eral troops in Texas, issued a procla mation on June 19, 1865, which freed the slaves in Texas. There also will be a ribbon cutting ceremony in the courtyard where slaves gathered to hear Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation, and a Juneteenth parade begins in Gal veston at 10 a. m. Parades, gospel singing, beauty pageants, an Afro-American dance contest, baseball games and a water melon seed spitting contest are among the activities planned for to day’s celebrations. In San Antonio, the featured event in the Juneteenth celebration is a Black history film and book fair at the Institute of Texan Cultures. “I hope the media does not take this to mean a black holidaypei said the Rev. Clifton S. Byrd, of the Texas Emancipation Commission Inc. which spona “Freedom Week” activities Antonio. “We re talking about freeda freedom for everybody, lii saying everybody ought pate. Although it has a see no reason why all peoplesi) not participate.” Thousands of state employee participate in at least a mini fashion — getting the day off! their jobs. Juneteenth parades are soiled in Anderson, Austin, Bryan, D| Fairfield, Fort Worth, Galrej Houston, Marshall, Mexia, SI land, Rosebud, Summerville,Ti Waco and Wharton. The day is not all parties andp des, however. In Bryan, a celebration will be a boothprovil blood pressure checks, anemia screening and ly planning and voter registn information. In pre-Emancipation Day® Wednesday, Secretary of Ci Strake addressed a noon rally! Capitol Rotunda, and noted it five and a half months ford President Lincoln’s Emam Proclamation to reach Texas. United Press International LAREDO — Under pressure from the Mexican government, a federal grand jury is going to con vene next week to investigate an in cident in which a truck load of illegal Mexican aliens was chased by the border patrol and county deputies, causing it to overturn at high speed and kill two occupants. The Mexican Consulate, which in sists that shotguns and other guns were fired at the truck during the chase, is demanding that Jim Hogg County deputies and border patrol officers be held accountable for the MSC DINNER THEATRE 1980 PRESENTS CYOU KNOW *1 CAN T KEAR ^YOU W//E7V THE WATER S THINNING budget Wight '^Thursday ‘June 26 $ 5 Students s 6 Non-students c Door Opens at 6'30pm Serving ^ine Closes at 7-30pm Woom 201 ‘MSC by O B <51 N D R O N two deaths at Hebbronville, Texas, on Feb. 27. Estela Salazar De La Cruz, 6, and Jose Anselmo Rodriguez, 60, both of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, were killed in the wreck and nine other aliens were injured. The child’s parents already have filed a $3 million civil suit against the two agencies in fed eral district court. Government officials at Laredo announced Wednesday a grand jury would be empaneled June 30 to look into the incident and the border pat rol and deputies would be called. Both agencies have denied firing shots during the chase. Immediately after the incident the Mexican Consulate at Laredo charged that the officers fired at the pickup truck carrying 14 illegal aliens, causing it to overturn. The border patrol and the de puties were pursuing the aliens be cause the pickup ran a stop sign and sped away. They denied firing any shots. The Mexican government com plained to the U.S. State Depart ment and demanded an investiga tion. The consulate said it had taken 32 photographs showing markings from a shotgun and bullet holes in the fear buhiper and left rear wheel of the pickup. Officials said attorneys from the Justice Department’s civil rights di vision in Washington, which has been conducting an investigation, would be sent to Laredo to present evidence to the grand jury. Sidogets repriext from mercy kilim SAN FRANCISCO — By order of the court, the state and Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., Sido the mutt won a reprieveb the death sentence pronounced by her late mistress outofkmdm Richard Avanzino, the SPCA director who vowed to gotopri® rather than allow Sido’s death, stood outside the courthouse Tuefe with 3,000 petitions of support from people across the said he was “elated. ” “This is a great day for Sido and all of us who love her,” he sail beaming. To show her appreciation, the 10-year-old collie-sheltie showeduj on the courthouse steps, wagging her tail and licking Avanzino! hand. Sido had lived for eight years with Mary Murphy, a widm Murphy left instructions in her will that upon her death Sido, n than suffer from loneliness, was to be put to sleep. 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