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Page 5 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1981 SALE fixtures. curtain 'gustine Saturday, 4cycl, iat S46-1612' 1970. In; ion 61), 5. green toi 6:30. for dances, summer weddings, etc. 846- ■1222. 14415 For Sale 12' X 65' mobile home with H7' x 12' addition off living area. Appliances included. $8000, call Andy at 693-4327. 144tl0 New stereo, cassette player, $125. Call ; 846-5517. 146t4 ’76 Yamaha X53660C. Good condition, hel met, rack, faring. 779-0521. 143t5 29 ft. travel trailer suited for single student ■ $4,300. Call 846-7698 after 8:00p.m. 142t5 1950 Chevy HD Pickup, $650, 693-3242. 142t5 Wheels and tires (4) American 13x5.5 Alu minum and Bridgestone 1555R-13 good condition. Fits Mazda $190.00, 696- 8536. 145t2 ’75 Kawasaki 125 good condition, only 3,900 miles. Call 845-5002, 845-8020.14516 For sale 45W receiver, turntable, reel-to- reel. for info., call Hal at 693-6273 after 5pm. 14217 ’75 Mercury 4-door loaded, 32,000 miles, excellent condition, 693-2907. 142tll Halal meat. 846-2663 after 6:00p.m. 142t5 Cities’ policies, residents differ Merger of Bryan, C.S. unlikely ICE TON" Jli RS rderec j, ple< dent Pt: room I and fee alof| : ; wardit For sale 12'x16' mobile home, custom built, Parkwood in excellent condition. Two bedroom, large bath/kitchen, built- in bar & pantry. Wash/dryer hook-ups. Central AC/Heat covered porch, two outdoor storage buildings. After 5pm, 823-0229. I42t6 ROOMMATE WANTED Female roommate needed to share apt. in north DALLAS for summer. Call Paige 845-8385. ’ 145t3 Female roommate wanted for summer, an d/or fall to share two bedroom duplex, near bus, 696-2045. 142t5 Roommates needed to share 5 bedroom 2 bath house, $150/room. Call for addition information 693-2876. 144t5 By LAURA YOUNG Battalion Reporter If you miss the sign that reads “Leaving College Station — En tering Bryan” while traveling down South College Avenue you’d never know you were in a different city. Over the years, Bryan and Col lege Station have grown together so that only a sign marks the line separating them. However, like Siamese twins, the joining has not exactly been a happy one. When College Station incorpo rated in 1938, it was located five miles south of Bryan. A five-mile stretch of trees lay between the two cities. The incorporation of College Station included an area of about two square miles. Included were the residential sections to the south of campus, the west bound aries of railroad properties to the west of campus, the business sec tion to the north and 1,000 feet to the east of the newly built High way 6. Seiko watch FOUND ■ leave message. 696-7313. 143t5 TCTRB’IVS - SEATSjL -nr THREE ACADEMY AWARDS! ROMAN POLANSKI’S ‘TESS’ (PG) 8:00 ONLY CINEMA l&ll 846-6714 ‘EARTHBOUND” (PG) BURL IVES, JOSEPH CAMPANELLA 7:30 & 9:30 20 Hwy. M I Soutli' y be 1981 April 217, First Registered Australian Shepherd pup pies, working stock; Bitch is Texas State Frisbee Champion (4th Place- Cotton Bowl Summer 1980); $75-$ 125, 823-5155 have had shots & been wormed. I44t4 FOR RENT SUMMER APARTMENT FOR RENT: 762 Square feet, washer/dryer, one bed room, backyard, on shuttle bus route, par tially furnished, $235.00 per month. Call 775-6655. 146t3 Summer sub-lease, new 3 bedroom house, 2 bath, 2 car garage, shuttle bus, 693- 6620. 143t5 Apartment partially furnished, $125.00 per month. Boys Only!! Call 846-2154 between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 141tfn Fall apartments available mid-August. 2bedroom, Ibath, studio W/D connection. Villa West Addition. Pre-lease now- lower Deposit. After 5:00pm-775-5641. 139U0 AURORA GARDENS, sublease for sum mer, furnished, excellent location, 3 bed room 2 bath, shuttle bus, rent negotiable, 696-1476. 145t3 For Rent: Completely furnished 3 bedroom 2 bath 14x70 mobile home for 2 students (preferably female) during summer. $200 month + utilities. Ph. 696-8082. 145t2 Summer sublease - Taos. Two bedroom furnished, 1-bath. Close to campus, on shuttle bus route. 693-7677. 145t3 2BR. 1 BA. apt. for rent. Nice, large, quiet area in Bryan. $285/mo. + elect. 779- 6335. 145t9 New two bedroom apartments, Nagle CA, two blocks from university, $280. Leasing beginning May or June. 779-3700. 145t3 Summer apartment 2-bedroom leaving ev erything from linens to dishes. Walking distance 846-6761 $191 + utilities. 144t5 SUMMER STUDENT WORK FOR RENT PROGRAM Vz Apt. or Full Apt. Programs Apt. & Ranch Duties VISIT COURTYARD APTS. FOR DETAILS Stallings Dr. at University Oaks & Hwy 30 693-2772 Mitis Country living 10/min. to campus 2/bedroom mobile home, fully fur nished, fenced yard, washer/dry er, summer only $160/month, 823-0846. i44t4 CAMPUS 210 Un. Dr. 846-6512 Now Showing: ORDINARY PEOPLE Last Four Days! 7:35 9:50 SPECIAL Thurs. Night: Midnight Show All tickets $1.00 Thurs.-Fri.-Sat. Midnight A RALPH BAKSHI FILM UUEARDS Color by DeLuxe® C1979 20TH CENTURY-FOX OOOGOOOOOOOOOOOO FOR RENT U-LOCK-IT STORAGE 10-10 - $20 10-20 - $22 & Up 693-2339 LOST three rings in small straw purse from Nassau. $25 reward no questions asked! Call Mari 846-3637 Sentimental Value. i45t4 PERSONALS ,er»Hy CONGRATULATIONS LINDELL & BRAD The big event is finally going to take place!!! MAY 16, 1981 In the period before World War II, the College Station area was known as the fastest growing city in Texas. Today, this area is within one of the 10 fastest growing areas in the nation. With the city of College Station now nudged up against the city of “A merger between Bryan and College Sta tion would be like merging Texas A&M (University) with the University of Texas,” Richard Smith, mayor of Bryan, said. Bryan, it may seem only natural for the two cities to merge into one. But some people disagree. “A merger between Bryan and College Station would be like merging Texas A&M (University) with the University of Texas,” Richard Smith, mayor of Bryan, said. “The cities are just not going to be merged. You have to show some strong positive benefits from the merger and there’s no strong urge on either side; not with the officials and not with the citizens.” Bryan has proposed the merger several times but College Station has always refused. MANOR EAST 3 MANOR EAST MALL 823-8300 The last push Bryan made to wards merging was in September 1977. College Station refused. A major difference between the two cities is their zoning laws. The city of College Station has strict zoning laws and guides de velopment with a firm hand. Bryan, on the other hand, has let its city grow when and where it wants to. However, the differences be tween the cities may run deeper than zoning laws. The two cities have been working with Brazos County and the Humane Society to build an animal shelter but the project is now in its third year. Gary Halter, mayor of College Station, said: “The attitude values of the council in College Station are much less ‘free enterprise.’ Not that College Station is opposed to free enterprise, but that govern ment regulation has a place to play. Whereas in Bryan, there’s much less support for that idea. ” College Station has also felt that if it merged with Bryan, its gov ernment would be dominated by the larger Bryan government. A merger would require a re ferendum vote in both cities. That means simply that the decision would be up to the residents of the two cities. However, the issue has never reached a vote. “I think one of the reasons it will never be is a fear of the unknown, ” Halter said. “People don’t know what the future brings but they know what the present is. “The only cases that I know of when it happened were very, very small towns. In every case, one city at least or in some cases, both cities had gone down in popula tion ... There has to be something there to motivate it, some reason to bring it about.” Would there be any benefits to the citizens if the two cities were to merge? “In some cases there would be, but overall I’m not sure there would,” Halter said. Many public services could be combined if the cities were to merge. “Nobody is going to be put out of a job,” Halter added. “You’d just change their title. “You could say there would be only one police chief but then there would be six assistants in stead of three.” Dr. Albert Shaffer, professor of sociology at Texas A&M, said, “When two cities or a city and a township have existed historically side by side for a long period of time, they each tend to have their own identity.” Schaffer, along with his wife, Ruth, wrote “Woodruff,” a book about the struggles of a Michigan city and a township when they attempted to merge. “They usually have families and | groups who have been within each municipality that are closely iden tified with the municipality,” Schaffer said. “And they’ll fight like the dickens any proposal to | rearrange the political structure, particularly if it involves a loss of ! identity. “College Station has an identity that’s distinct and different from Bryan and vice versa. These dif ferences are based on differences in economy and differences in population. “Historically in the United States, very few mergers of this kind have taken place. In the North, laws in most of the states are such that it is very difficult for the cities to annex outlying terri tory — whether incorporated or unincorporated. “The pattern that exists here is “HEAVEN’S GATE” 8:00 only “DEATH HUNT” 7:20 9:40 A TRIBUTE TO THE BEST OF THE WORST COMING MAY 8 JOB OPPORTUNITIES How does $290 week sound? I need 10 people to work. Call 846-8446. 14315 LOST Gold chain bracelet vicinity of BSB Library Lot 22, April 22nd, 845-7361 8am-5pm. 146tl Thurs., April 30 7:30 and 9:45 701 Rudder $ I 00 Presented by MSC Cepheid Variable GET INVOLVED!! THERE'S A SPOT FOR YOU ON A UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE Iapplications are open now for STU-I DENT MEMBERSHIP POSITIONS ON UNI-I VERSITY COMMITTEES. APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE IN THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT OFFICE, RM. 216| MSC. DEADLINE: MAY 1 more or less the typical pattern. There’s nothing unusual about it.” There may be basic differences between the residents of Bryan and College Station. College Station has a special group, headed by city bankers, whose main purpose is to bring high technology, electronic and research-oriented firms to the area. “I supect that if we had the latest census data the people of College Station are of a higher socio-economic level than the people in Bryan,” Schaffer said. “Their economies are somewhat different. The industry that Bryan has is different from the industry that College Station has. College Station is working very hard to get what we speak of as technology- type companies. They’re clean, they don’t produce pollution, the people that they hire to some de gree have to have a certain kind of skill. Whereas you’ll find a lot of blue collar industry in Bryan.” In some cases, differences that have taken place over the years “can cause a legacy of bitterness, ” said Schaffer, that may never be resolved. CORNERSTONE FREE WILL RAPTIST CHURCH Temporarily meeting in the Old College Station City Hall at the corner of Wellborn and Church Street, one block from the Northwest corner of the main campus. WEEKLY SERVICES Sunday School 9:45 A.M. Sunday Worship 11:00 A.M. Sunday Evening 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 P.M. We are growing and serving. Come and Worship with us. Pastor - Rev. Wesley Bigelow Phone 846-3811 'MSC AGGIE CINEMA* % STUNTMAN ) 1980 TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FRI. & SAT. MAY 1 & 2 8:00 P.M. RUDDER THEATRE Its a better movie thai^Blazing Saddles' or 'Young Frankenstein • —Rolling Stone w I ,1 ,4 ^twHoLvOh^IL >G l PG. -j FROM CINEMA 5 FRI. & SAT. MIDNIGHT MAY 1 & 2 RUDDER THEATRE Robert Redford ajeremiah Johnson” PG fAKinAl GUIDANCf SUGWSTtO SUN. MAY 3 7:30 P.M. RUDDER THEATRE PIRANHACON II happening next week! MAY 8 WATCH IT TILL ITS HURTS