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By TERRI COULSON
Battalion Reporter
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These mental images are just
some of the concerns of the
itizens of Navasota over the Texas
Department of Correction’s
e i, M lewest prison under construction
notfrai n Grimes County,
tuson The decision for the new prison
in whli|i n Grimes County goes along with
indabt be $35 million emergency
appropriation that the Texas Sen
ile and House passed for the con-
itruction of correction facilites to
ven'M j|l ev i a te inmate overcrowding.
The new prison will be situated on
B,968 in Grimes County,
hichmi md will house about 4,000 in-
Ives! donates.
Although the new prison will be
rtanttl 1 maximum-security unit, some
x Grimes County residents said
r. they are afraid the TDC will not
ave enough security guards pre-
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m P e ‘ »ent to control the prisoners who
- * ora;: ®vill be housed there.
Over the last 10 years, 140 in-
US belt mates have escaped from the TDC
facilities, said Raye Tilley of the
happu fDC public public affairs office .
“The most recent breakout
occurred on Oct. 20 when three
inmates escaped from the Fergu
son unit, 20 miles northeast of
Huntsville,” Tilley said. “And at
Although the new prison
will be a maximum-
security unit, some
Grimes County residents
said they are afraid the
TDC will not have
enough security guards
present to control the
prisoners who will be
housed there.
the present time, they are still at
large.”
With all breakouts, if the men
are not found in two or three days,
the TDC stops searching, and loc
al, state and possibly federal law
enforcement officers take over,
Tilley said.
“No prison' administrator can
claim to be a 100 percenter,” Sys
tem Director W.J. Estelle said.
“We do have escapees. I cannot
and will not assure you that there
would never be an escape in
Grimes County.”
Additionally, he said, he cannot
assure anyone that someone not
already in prison will not assault a
Grimes County resident. He said
that when an escape does occur, it
becomes top priority to recapture
the escaped prisoner.
Estelle said about 85 percent of
all escapes from TDC end up with
the escapee back in custody within
24 hours, and without his having
committed any crime subsequent
to his breakout.
Another of Navasota citizens’
worries is that the site of the pris
on will take land from the county’s
tax rolls, since state-owned land is
tax exempt. Swank said Grimes
County could lose up to $2,400
annually in property tax.
In addition, some citizens are
worrying about the effect the pris
on will have on the community. In
fact, some of the townspeople are
so upset by the proposed site that
they formed a citizens’ group cal
led Citizens Opposed to Installa
tion of a Prison in Grimes County.
Duane Prestwood, vice chair
man of the group, opposes the site
because, he said, it “would not do
a thing in the world for the
county.”
The group fought the new pris
on site by appealing the court’s
decision to accept the Grimes
County site, and even obtained a
temporary injunction from the 3rd
Court of Civil Appeals in January.
But after the appeals court gave
its endorsement for the prison in
March, the injunction was re
scinded and the group gave up
their fight.
Council to consider site
for honorary donor plaque
By NANCY WEATHERLEY
Battalion Staff
The MSC Council will consider
fonight a proposal for hanging a
plaque in the main lounge honor
ing former students who have
piven large sums of money to the
Jniversity.
The Building Studies Commit-
|ee discussed the plaque — which
commmissioned by the De-
helopment Office — at the Coun
cil meeting Monday. However,
■ction could not be taken until the
Stommittee took a formal vote on
| the issue Tuesday night.
The committee recommended
hat the plaque be hung in the
lounge.
“We consider this an important
ssue and want a complete discus-
ion by all the Council members
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before making a decision,” Doug
Dedeker, Council president, said.
The bill calls for the names of
former students who have given
between $50,000 and $100 million
to be placed on the plaques.
Paul Fisher, vice president for
operations, said some questions
that had come up in the commit
tee meeting Tuesday involved the
proliferation of plaques in the
main lounge.
He said some questions arose
concerning what the Develop
ment Office will do with additional
plaques. The Development Office
already has several plaques in the
lounge. The committee wasn’t
sure where the office will want to
have future plaques hung, he said.
Also, questions concerning the
large size of the plaque — made of
wood and measuring 10 feet 3 in
ches by 15 feet 3 inches — were
brought up, Fisher said.
Some members felt the plaque
might be better somewhere else,
he said. The Development Office
would like the plaque to be hung
on the north wall of the main
lounge.
Dedeker said that after talking
with the Development Office and
the committee, the Council de
cided to call a special meeting so
the Development Office would
have a decision as soon as possible.
The Development Office would
like to unveil the plaque — which
is currently under construction —
at a March 19 banquet honoring
the special donors listed on the
plaque.
Campus Names
William V. Muse
Dr. William V. Muse, dean of
the College of Business Adminis
tration, has been elected vice
president of the Southern Busi
ness Administration Association.
Muse was named dean of busi
ness administration in July 1979.
He came from the University of
Nebraska at Omaha where he also
served as dean and professor of
marketing. In 1977, he coordin
ated a management analysis pro
ject for the U.S. Office of Educa
tion.
Robert W. Sprowls
Dr. Robert W. Sprowls, head of
pathology at the Texas Veterinary
Medical Diagnostic Laboratory’s
Amarillo branch, has become
associate director of the system.
The appointment took effect Dec.
1.
The TVMDL, administered
through the Texas A&M Universi
ty System, is the first line of de
fense in isolating and identifying
animal diseases that threaten the
state’s vital livestock industry.
The laboratory is in College Sta
tion, with a second unit in Amar
illo.
In 1975, Sprowls, 35, went to
the Amarillo laboratory to head
the pathology division, had been
acting associate director of the
TVMDL since May.
He earned an undergraduate
degree, a D.V.M. degree and a
Ph.D. degree in veterinary
pathology, all from Texas A&M.
David W. Rosberg
and J. Roy Quinby
Dr. David W. Rosberg, profes
sor of plant sciences, and J. Roy
Quinby, a plant breeder with the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station, have been named profes
sors emeritus by the Texas A&M
System Board of Regents.
Rosberg initially came to Texas
A&M in 1940, left for the armed
forces and to complete two adv
anced degrees, and returned in
.1949. In 1960, he was named de
partment head of plant sciences.
Quinby graduated from Texas
A&M in 1924 with a bachelor of
science degree, and later earned a
master of science. He served as
superintendent and a plant breed
er at the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station at Chillicothe
from 1925 to 1961, specializing in
grain sorghum genetics breeding.
His work revolutionized the grain
sorghum industry and greatly in
creased grain yields.
David J. Norton
Dr. David J. Norton, professor
of aerospace engineering at Texas
A&M, has been appointed assis
tant director of programs of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, the engineering research
branch of the Texas A&M Univer
sity System.
The appointment, effective Jan.
1, was announced Tuesday by
TEES Director W. A. Porter.
Norton, 41, has been a member
of the aerospace engineering fa
culty since 1970, was promoted to
full professor in September 1980.
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