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March 23, 1982
Institute to turn out book
about airport ordinances
by Kelli Proctor
Battalion Reporter
The Texas Aeronautics Com
mission has asked the Texas
Transportation Institute to pro
duce a book to provide Texas
cities with guidelines to follow
when making airport ordi
nances, said George Dresser,
program manager of the Texas
A&M transportation planning
program.
The booklet will be designed
to help cities pass ordinances to
protect citizens against airport
noise and to protect airports
from possible height hazards. It
will explain the new state airport
Zoning act passed in September
1981 to enable cities to pass the
airport ordinances at the local
level, Dresser said.
For example, local govern
ment can set restrictions on the
construction of high towers or
buildings within a controlled
area of privately owned airports.
The law allowing control of
height hazards in publicly own
ed airports has been in effect for
some time, Dresser said.
Privately owned airports now
can be protected under the new
zoning act.
Coulter Field in Bryan
already has passed the new
height hazard ordinance and
College Station is currently up
dating the height hazard ordi
nances for Easterwood Airport.
It will be an important step with
all the development taking place
in the area. Dresser said.
City ordinances resulting
from the new act would improve
conditions in privately owned
airports by preventing the con
struction of new buildings or re
placement of old ones in de
veloping areas, Dresser said.
The controlled area includes
land around the airport measur
ing five miles from each end of
the runways and 1.5 miles from
each side of the runways, Dres
ser said.
A new law went into effect
along with the new act which sets
xestrictions on land use within
the controlled area. Residential
areas and schools are not
allowed to build within the area.
but the land can be used for agri
cultural or industrial purposes.
“This way, the city can make
sure what takes place within the
controlled area is compatible
with airport noise,” Dresser said.
The act also provides counties
with municipal zoning powers.
The new act doesn’t actually
set any of the restrictions, but
enables cities to make the ordi
nances. The guideline book
gives cities the steps to follow
when making the ordinances,
Dresser said.
College surveys
liberal arts grads
Information on stolen
$10,000 bike sought
Crime Stoppers is looking
for information this week ab
out the theft of a custom-built
$10,000 motorcycle, one of
400 motor vehicles stolen in
Brazos County last year.
The racing bike was taken
from a rented storage build
ing at 602 Southwest Parkway
in College Station between
Dec. 15 and Feb. 14.
The white 1979 Yamaha
TZ-250 has a red-striped tank
and seat mounted on a
chrome frame. The bike has
suck tires with gold five-spoke
mags and a 250cc water-
cooled engine with white
Briggs and Stratton fuel fil
ters.
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by Debbie Schard
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University liberal
arts graduates earn an average
yearly salary above $12,000,
according to a recent survey
conducted by the College of Li
beral Arts.
Yearly salaries for the gradu
ates range from $1,440 to
$28,000.
“I was extremely encouraged
by the results,” Mary Robertson,
undergraduate adviser in the
college, said. She said the results
should bring more students into
the college, which now has an
undergraduate enrollment of
about 1,500.
The college has been sending
questionnaires to graduates
since December 1979. Approxi
mately 27 per cent of the ques
tionnaires sent out were com
pleted and returned.
Over half of the graduates
from the college find jobs in
their career areas, the survey
showed. And most students got
their jobs through personal con
tacts, Robertson said.
Graduates found jobs mostly
in Houston, Dallas and San
Antonio, because companies
from these cities recruit at the
University, she said.
The survey showed that over
one fourth of the liberal arts gra
duates are in graduate or pro
fessional schools. Approximate
ly 7 percent have temporary
jobs, more than 6 percent have
entered the military and 2.9 per
cent are unemployed.
The general questions asked
in the survey showed most stu
dents who have higher paying
jobs participated in the co-op
program, completed a career-
opportunity minor or took busi
ness courses and utilized the ser
vices of the Career Planning and
Placement Center.
Questionnaires are sent to
students six to eight weeks after
graduation.
Nicaragua missionary
expulsions ‘laughable’
United Press International
DALLAS — Relatives of a
Texas missionary couple expel
led from Nicaragua said the
claims sparking the deportation
would be laughable if the situa
tion were not so serious.
Francis and Angela Wallace
were among 19 Jehovah’s Wit
nesses ordered to pack their
bags and leave the Central
American country Saturday.
A Nicaraguan Interior Minis
try communique said the mis
sionaries were deported for
“carrying out campaigns against
the revolution, manipulating
the religious sentiment of the
people and inciting antipatriotic
activities.”
Wallace, 63, of Whitney — 50
miles south of Fort Worth —
and his wife, 54, were sent to
Panama with 8 other missionar
ies. The additional nine de
ported missionaries were sent to
Costa Rica.
“They have been deported
on the claim that they are anti
revolutionary,” said Katherine
Fedorka, Wallace’s sister in Fort
Worth.
“That is so far from what they
are that it would be laughable it
it were not so serious.
“They have always encour
aged people to patiently obey
the laws of the land — not to
create wars, problems and dis
tress.”
Wallace had been in Nicar
agua since 1946 and considered
it his home, his sister said.
Wallace was among the fin
Jehovah’s Witnesses to gotothtl
country. He met his wife iol
Nicaragua five years later whal
she also was sent to be a mission-l
ary, Fedorka said.
“They’ve been a little bit un
easy ever since the new goven
ment came into power becausenl
had leanings toward commun-j
ism,” she said. “They (commun
ists) do their very best to |
of Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Nicaragua, a Central Amerl
ican nation of 2.5 million, i
ruled by the leftist Sandinis
National Liberation Front whic
took power in July 1979 aftc
ousting former dictator Anastt
sio Somoza, a staunch U.S. alltl
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Beating death draws FBI
United Press International
HOUSTON — Federal offi
cials said Monday that they plan
to look into an investigation in
volving the fatal beating of a
teenager. A Harris County de
puty constable has been charged
with murder and civil rights
violations in the case.
Assistant Lupe Salinas, head
of the U.S. Attorney’s civil rights
division, said his office and the
FBI will look into the beating
death of Steven G. Barnette, 17,
who died early Saturday. Two
Harris County sheriff s deputies
have been relieved of duty with
pay, but whether they are in
volved is unknown at this time.
Harris County Deputy Const
able Billy Hampton McCreight,
44, remained free on $20,000
bond. Friends and relatives de
scribed McCreight, a former
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Pentacostal minister from West
Virginia, as a calm and patient
man.
The two deputy sheriffs re
lieved from duty — William T.
Gordon, 39, and William
Whigham, 40 — refused to com
ment about the case.
“I wish I could give you the
whole statement I gave them (in
vestigators), but I just can’t. I’m
under strict orders not to com
ment,” Gordon said.
Harris County District Attor
ney John Holmes said the two
deputy sheriffs’ involvement in
the death was “not as great — if
any at all.”
Barnette died after under
going emergency surgery at
Hermann Hospital, hospital
spokesman Steve Smith said.
Dr. Joseph Jachimczyk of the
Harris County medical examin
er’s office said an autopsy re
vealed Barnette died of a rup
tured spleen caused by blunt
trauma to the abdomen.
He said a spleen can be rup
tured by a good solid blow or by
running into something force
fully. No bruises or scatches
were on Barnette’s body,
Jachimczyk said.
An arrest affidavit signed by
Assistant District Attorney Ter
ry Wilson, who heads the coun
ty’s civil rights division, said
McCreight struck Barnette with
his hands and fists, knowing his
conduct was unlawful.
Sheriff Jack Heard would not
comment and McCreight’s boa
Constable James L. Dougin
said: “Until I make an investigt
tion myself, the only stand Icai
take is that I don’t think
(McCreight) is guilty.”
Barnette’s aunt said conflict
ing statements were given
family members. She said sh
was told her nephew had suf
fered a heart attack and alsothl
he had overdosed in a holdicl
cell.
Thomas Ray said BarneK
“had a temper if you pushtf
him. He was shy and had an#
girlfriend. He has never beenfl
trouble before except for part
ing tickets.”
Investigators said two youtb
were reported burglarizing
house late Friday in Channd
view, east of Houston. A neigit
bor chased the two youths W
apprehended only Barnette
they said.
The investigators sail
McCreight, who has been a la»
officer about 18 months, Got
don and Whigham, took tl<
handcuffed youth back to tlx
burglarized house for questioc-
ing. McCreight then reported!'
told the other two officers, “Let
take him somewhere where *<
can talk to him,” investigate
said.
The officers took the youth*
a bayou. Barnette allegedly!^
been struck several times inth
chest and abdomen and kid<<
in the groin, investigators sax:
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