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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1981
Quonset Huts are available
By JOHN BRAMBLETT
Battalion Reporter
Reserving the Quonset Huts
is as easy as stopping by the Stu
dent Activities Office and sign
ing up.
Dave Bergen, student activi
ties adviser, said the Quonset
Huts are available for use by all
Texas A&M University clubs
and organizations, and are re
served on a first come, first
served basis.
“They can bring in a check
for a deposit and it’s theirs,” he
said.
The Quonset Huts, located
on FM 60, are available every
day of the week. The amount of
deposit depends on when the
huts are rented — $50 for week-
nights, $75 for Friday and
Saturday night.
In addition to the deposit, a
$50 fee is charged for use of the
huts.
Most weekends for the re
mainder of the fall semester are
booked, he said. However,
many dates during the week are
still open.
Groups can begin making re
servations for next semester be
ginning Nov. 16.
If renters leave the Quonset
Huts in the condition in which
they found them — floor swept,
tables and chairs in order and
trash removed — the deposit is
refunded, he said.
Residence halls having mix
ers use the Quonset Huts most,
Bergen said. However, activi
ties ranging from class reunions
to animal science classes are
held in the huts as well.
“We encourage more classes
and clubs to use them, ” Bergen
said. The deposit for classes is
$25, he said, which is also re
fundable.
The Student Activities Office
will also rent a sound system
with a disc jockey to Quonset
Hut users for $70 — $30 for the
sound system and $40 for the
disc jockey.
The University-owned huts
originally were used by the
military to work on large vehi
cles. In 1976 the Department of
Student Affairs and the Resi
dence Hall Association took
over responsibility for the huts.
This summer the Student Acti
vities Office took charge of the
huts.
Second Brilab trial
awaits judge’s review
United Press International
HOUSTON — A federal judge
said he will review the first Brilab
trial before ruling on requests by
Deer Park labor leader L.G.
Moore to dismiss conspiracy
charges against him in the second
Brilab trial.
Moore based his request on the
grounds the government orches
trated the crime.
Mike Ramsey, Moore’s attor
ney, said the government created
an artificial jurisdiction in the Bri
lab case by setting up Moore and
others with government infor
mant Joe Hauser.
Moore’s codefendant Houston
Port Commissioner John Garrett
requested his case be severed
from Moore’s, and he be tried af
ter Moore.
The government charged the
two with conspiracy to influence a
Houston city councilman’s vote on
a health insurance plan. No city
official was named in the indict
ment.
In a brief hearing Monday with
out testimony, U.S. District
Judge Norman Black said he will
peruse tapes and transcripts from
the first Brilab trial involving
Texas House Speaker Bill Clayton
and two Austin attorneys, before
making his decision.
A ruling on the case is expected
in about three weeks.
Texan, one other jump
from Golden Gate Bridge
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — The two
men were strangers, but they
came to the same conclusion from
different directions — they had to
jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.
Both men — one of whom offi
cials said may have been trying
some kind of publicity stunt —
were killed Monday, raising the
total number of known deaths
from leaping off the bridge to 713,
according to the California High
way Patrol.
The San Francisco Coroner’s
office identified the first victim as
Peter A. Wint, 25, of Missouri
City, Texas.
Wint, who was wearing a white
skindiver’s suit, neck brace and
two life preservers, leaped from
the bridge at 7:21 a.m. PDT. The
U.S. Coast Guard said Wint sur
vived the jump but died while
being transported to shore by a
rescue boat.
Authorities said Wint’s clothing
may indicate that he was trying to
survive the jump, but relatives
contacted in Texas said Wint
wasn’t the daredevil type. I
The other jumper, who left two
suicide notes in a coat on the
bridge walkway, was not identi
fied awaiting notification of the
next of kin.
Instructor cleared in drowning
United Press International
DALLAS — A Marine Corps
investigation absolved a water
safety instructor of guilt in the
death of a recruit who drowned
near him, but the boy’s father
charged a “whitewash” and a con
gressman was displeased.
“It’s a whitewash, and about
Nuclear
protests
United Press International
HOUSTON — The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’s low-
rating of the South Texas Nuclear
Project was based on old informa
tion before project owner Hous
ton Lighting & Power Co. cor
rected deficiencies in the plant, a
company spokesman said.
“The information on which the
rating was based was gathered in
late 1979 and early 1980, during
investigation of the project, which
led to review by the NRC and a lot
of work by us to correct deficien
cies,” spokesman Jim Parsons said
Monday.
“We believe that rating reflects
that time period. We have done a
lot of work at the project with the
NRC’s concurrence and believe
Today’s
United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 23,
the 266th day of 1981 with 99 to
follow.
The moon is moving toward its
new phase.
The morning star is Mars.
The evening stars are Venus
and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Libra.
Actor Walter Pidgeon was born
(in Canada) on Sept. 23, 1898.
On this date in history:
In 1779, the USS Bonhomme
Richard, commanded by Amer
ican naval hero John Paul Jones,
defeated the British frigate Sera-
pis in a battle off the coast of Scot
land.
In 1926, Jack Dempsey lost his
heavyweight boxing champion
ship to Gene Tunney in a so-called
“long-count” fight.
what I expected,” said Artie
Christian, father of Randall
Christian who died Aug. 27 in a
Southern California training camp
pool.
“I am not surprised at the re
port. I knew a mistake had been
made — and anybody who talked
project
ratings
that if the project was evaluated
today it would come out consider
ably better.”
The NRC report listed seven of
42 reactor construction sites be
low average and listed none above
average. It said South Texas Pro
ject was “below average” in com
pliance with NRC construction,
quality control and safety stan
dards.
HL&P is manager of the $2.7
billion, 2,500-megawatt plant
scheduled to start operation in
1984 and 1986.
The project has been cited re
peatedly for NRC rule violations
and, in 1980, HL&P was fined
$100,000 for failure to correct
quality control and other deficien
cies.
Almanac
In 1950, Congress adopted the
U.S. Internal Security Act, pro
viding for registration of Com
munists. Communist registration
later was ruled unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court.
In 1974, the House of Repre
sentatives voted 359 to four
against forced retirement before
the age of 70.
A thought for the day: American
naval hero John Paul Jones de
clared, when asked to surrender
during a battle with British forces
in 1779, “I have not yet begun to
fight.”
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to the witnesses and could see all
the facts from a bird’s-eye view
knew that,” Christian said.
Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Texas —
who has urged a congressional in
vestigation of the San Diego,
Calif., death — said the Marine
Corps “wrote around” the ques
tion of water instructor Rudy Rod
riguez.
“If I were in a judgment situa
tion, I would probably transfer
Rodriguez out of the water safety
program as a matter of caution,”
the congressman said. “When
your principal responsibility is to
keep someone from drowning,
and you let them drown, you’ve
got to question that individual’s
capabilities and responsibilities.”
Witnesses said Rodriguez repe
atedly shoved Christian, an
accomplished swimmer and
athlete, away from the side of the
pool and stood nearby as he sank.
The Marine Corps report issued
Monday recommended a review
of water safety procedures, but
cleared Rodriguez of any wrong
doing.
The report stated the drowning
was a “training accident, with no
intentional misconduct, culpable
neglect or grossly improper proce
dure” in the circumstances lead
ing to the drowning.
It said safety procedures dictate
that “at no time will instructors
pull a recruit’s hands from the side
of the tank to make him continue
swimming, ” nor can instructors by
“their presence in the water” keep
swimmers from safety.
Mattox said the order was not
followed by Rodriguez.
“I suspect one of the reasons
why they recommended no action
against him is that he was carrying
out procedures similar to what the
other instructors do,” he said.
Christian’s father, an investiga
tor for the Dallas County district
attorney, said he may take legal
action against the Marines Corps.
“To say it didn’t happen is not
going to make it go away. That
brings me a problem with being
able to accept the Marine Corps
criticism of themselves as valid, ”
he said.
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