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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-
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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.
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Research” is the topic of the third annual lectures, sponsored by
the Department of Plant Sciences at 4 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
THE GROVE: Features the rock classic “The Rocky Horror Picture
Show” at 8:45 p. m. tonight. Admission is 250 with Texas A&M I. D.
FRIDAY
THE GROVE: Features “Midnight Express” at 8:45 p.m. and “Monty
Python and the Holy Grail” at midnight. 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.
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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
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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.
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