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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1981
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B E IM E F I TTI MB THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
Local
Boom brings employment, growth
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Oil plentiful in Brazos area
By ELAINE ENGSTROM
Battalion Reporter
The largest active oil field in the
world is located in the area from
Bryan-College Station to Gid-
dings. Dr. Robert L. Whiting, a
petroleum engineering professor
at Texas A&M University, said
Thursday night in a presentation
on oil retrieval in the Brazos Val
ley. The presentation, called
“Boomtown, U.S.A.,” was given
at the Brazos Valley Museum in
the Brazos Center.
Whiting, the former head of the
Texas A&M petroleum engineer
ing department, has 43 years of
experience in the oil industry.
Whiting, who has been a con
sultant for almost every major oil
company in the world, said the oil
industry will bring “hundreds of
millions of dollars to this (Bryan-
Giddings) area.”
The oil industry will provide
employment and community
growth, and more money will be
spent in this area as the population
increases, Whiting said. Oil pro
duction adds tremendously to a
city’s tax revenue, he said.
“The oil companies like this
area because it costs $750,000 to
develop a well here compared
with $4 million to $12 million to
develop a well in Colorado or
Wyoming,” Whiting said.
However, Whiting said that the
Bryan-College Station area has
been more resistant to the de
velopment of the local oil indus
try. “Virtually every other com
munity encourages oil produc
tion," Whiting said.
“During the ten years after
‘Doc’
World War II, ^
(namesake of the petroleum*
gineering building) and 11
surveys in this area and <
lot of dry holes, but we knewti
was oil here,” Whiting said |
“Now there are 8,000 andSI
feet oil wells south of College!
tion that, on the average, are!
ducing about $35,000 wortli|
a day.
“The Giddings oil fieldpuj |
about 128,000 barrels ofo
1977. That’s over $5 milliouj |
in one year alone, ” he said
Commission approves rezoning
By RANDY CLEMENTS
Battalion Staff
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission unani
mously recommended approving
rezoning seven acres in the Chim
ney Hill Subdivision from a single
Aggie Auction
featuring Campus Celebrities
to benefit United Way
Monday Oct. 5 11-3
Rudder Fountain
Faculty/Staff
Campus Directories
ARE HERE!!!
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They may be picked up at Room 216, Reed
McDonald Building, anytime between 8 a.m.
and 5 p.m. weekdays. Price is $3.50 each.
DON’T FORGET
This year there are
2!
This first version does not include individual
student listings nor several of the features
involving special groups of students which
will be in the complete book, due for distribu
tion about Nov. 1.
This first version also is not available from
the fee slip. If you paid $2.50 for your Direc
tory at fee checkoff time, that version will be
the complete one, due in about a month. If
you want one of these initial faculty/staff ver
sions you must pay the full $3.50 price.
There are no directory deliveries. All director
ies ordered by departments must be picked
up and appropriate payment made at that
time.
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family district to a townhouse dis
trict.
Mrs. William F. Osborn, 755
Sunny Lane, who opposed the re
zoning, said the area has been
zoned single family for 30 years
and should stay that way.
There will be considerably
more noise, she said, and she will
lose her privacy if the townhouses
are built instead of single family.
“I see no redeeming grace to
the area if the rezoning takes
place,” she said.
J. W. Wood, developer for the
project, said he plans to build six
townhouses per acre with a 40-foot
wide strip of land covered with
trees.
He said the trees, most of them
30 to 40 feet tall, will protect the
neighbors’ privacy and help keep
noise confined to the project area.
A single family zone R-l has a
maximum development of eight
units per acre with a maximum
height of 35 feet.
The townhouse zone R-3 allows
14 dwelling units per acre with the
same height restriction.
In other business, the commis
sion discussed the Woodson Vil
lage project near Holleman Drive,
which calls for the addition of 25
single family lots to the develop
ment. The project was tabled at
the Sept. 17 commission meeting.
The area residents oppose the
project because of the strain they
say the additional lots would put
on the sewer system.
City Engineer Elrey Ash said
there have been reported backups
in the sewer system for several
years.
The city is running a study to
determine the cause of the system
failure but must wait until the area
gets an inch of rain.
Ash said it is costing thej
$1,000 each day it doesn’t raiil
cause the equipment for thesj
is rented.
The equipment, set up itV
manholes in the area, meassl
the flow of the water at vaj
points in the sewer line.
This will show the city
where the water is comingii
line, Ash said.
He said it will take45dayd
the study is completed tobri
the data together and see'
and what the problems are
The commission also postp
granting a conditional use[
for the Maranatha Christian Cl
tei at 313 College Main untilil
ter drawings for the pdl
spaces and building renortl
are brought to the commissnl
Medieval knights and swashbucklers
to duel at 1:30 by Rudder fountain
BY S
Knights in shining armor and
swashbucklers will duel today be
tween 1:30 and 2 p.m. in front of
Rudder fountain.
The MSC Society for Creative
Anachronisms will sponsor the de
monstration as a promotion for
MSC Cepheid Variable’s presen
tation of “Excalibur.” “Excali-
bur,” a glorious and gory tale of
King Arthur’s court, will show Fri
day at 7:30 and 10:15 p.m., and
I Twc
[empla
Saturday at 8 p.m. in Rudder!
ditorium.
Anachronism is defined
over 4
“something out of its proper!!
torical time. Part of MSC!
TJose,
programming concentrates or]
creating medieval and swashb
ling combat.
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the Fi
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G. Gordon f;,
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AGGIE * on politics
-KBL00D DRIVE*
IS COMING!!
Oct. 19-22
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G. Gordon Liddy of Water* 1
infamy will speak Mondayniglij§| rv
8 P .in. in Rudder Theater.
who is sponsored by the
Great Issues Committee, *w) r i ear .
speak on past American politr
Liddy’s contract with MS
pate ir
Great Issues prohibits videi
unden
ing and tape recording during 1 ® ^
presentation. However, pi
graphs may be taken.
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A public reception will be Maid, t;
for Liddy after the presentation rould
145 Memorial Student Center
Tickets for the presentation* , .
available in Rudder box office,® .,
cost 50 cents for students and I
for non-students.
MSC
Cafeteria
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These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods
Each Daily Special Only $2.19 Plus Tax.
“Open Daily”
Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P
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MONDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Salisbury Steak
with
Mushroom Gravy
Whipped Potatoes
Your Choice of
One Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
TUESDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
WEDNESDAY
Mexican Fiesta
EVENING SPECIAL
Dinner
Chicken Fried Steak
Two Cheese and
w cream Gravy
Onion Enchiladas
Whipped Potatoes and
w chili
Choice of one other
Mexican Rice
Vegetable
Patio Style Pinto Beans
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Tostadas
Coffee or Tea
Coffee or Tea
One Corn Bread and Butter
THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL
Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner
SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE
Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing — Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
FOR YOUR PROTECTION OUR PERSONNEL HAVE HEALTH CARDS.
FRIDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
BREADED FISH
FILET w TARTAR
SAUCE
Cole Slaw
Hush Puppies
Choice of one
vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
SATURDAY
NOON and EVENING
SPECIAL
Yankee Pot Roast
(Texas Salad)
Mashed
Potato w
gravy
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
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SUNDAY SPECIAL
NOON and EVENING
ROAST TURKEY DINNER
Served with
Cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Dressing
Roll or Corn Bread - Butter
Coffee or Tea
Giblet Gravy
And your choice of any
One vegetable
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