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June 8,
Wanted: Teachers for Texas
United Press International
A shortage of teachers in
Texas has sparked recruiting
trips to the high unemployment
states of Ohio and Michigan,
where a job can be found if in
structors are willing to live in ru
ral parts of the Lone Star State.
Part of the problem is that
most teachers who graduate
from Texas colleges want to live
in the big cities of Houston, Dal
las and San Antonio, education
officials say.
Education throughout Texas
is being hurt by the teacher shor
tage but students in smaller, ru
ral schools are bearing the brunt
of the problem.
Officials of the Texas Educa
tion Agency and school adminis
trators all agree that there is a
serious problem.
“It’s the schools in the small
towns that are hurting,” said D.
Levermann, personnel director
for the San Felipe-Del Rio
School District.
Schools in Del Rio, Odessa,
McAllen and throughout the
Rio Grande Valley have laun
ched recruiting drives in an
attempt to lure teachers from
Michigan and Ohio.
“Most of the graduates from
Texas schools want to teach in
Dallas, San Antonio or Hous
ton,” added Levermann. “I tell
the kids in Michigan to get out a
Texas map and find a small
town and they can find a job.”
The number of new teachers
produced by Texas schools de
creased 47 percent from the
peak number of graduates in
1974 — 16,100 — to the 8,555
who graduated last year, said
Richard Swain, a TEA assistant
commissioner.
Some school districts have re
ceived emergency permits from
the Texas Education Agency to
allow high school graduates and
college-trained but non-
certified instructors to teach.
The agency issued more than
2,000 temporary certificates to
out-of-state teachers in 1981,
while issuing more than 4,000
emergency permits allowing
school districts to hire non-
certified persons or reassign
teachers out of their specialty
areas.
Walk Don’t Shuttle
Condominium living is just a
short walk from campus.
A three minute walk from the
main campus brings you to The
Northgate—condominiums custom
designed for Texas A&.M students.
Fully furnished all the way
down to the forks and knives, The
Northgate lets you step into an
incomparable student lifestyle with
nothing but a suitcase.
The Northgate offers two and
three bedroom floor plans, kitchens
loaded with GE appliances, includ
ing washer/dryer, and convenient
garage parking.
It’s an excellent investment for
parents and alumni who want to avoid
paying four years’ rent for a college
education. And it will remain an
extremely valuable property long
after you’ve graduated.
But best of all, The Northgate
is convenient to the campus. It’s
less than ten minutes walk from the
main library. And excellent shop
ping, dining and banking facilities
are always just around the comer.
The Northgate is available for
occupancy in August, 1982. Call
Mary Bryan at Green & Browne for
more information today. 209 E.
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77840. Office (713) 846-5701
Four men arrested
in angel dust bust
United Press International
DALLAS — Authorities
held four men in lieu of $1
million bond each, along with
enough angel dust concen
trate to “dope up” 300,000
marijuana cigarettes, police
said.
Narcotics officials said
Sunday that more arrests
were likely and the seizure of
$3.7 million worth of liquid
“angel dust” capped a year
long investigation and a four-
state undercover chase.
Narcotics agents swooped
down on a north Dallas neigh
borhood Saturday and
arrested four men.
They said they seized
enough concentrate of phen
cyclidine — a hallucinogen
commonly referred to as PCP
and used to make marijuana
cigarettes that sell for $30 to
$50 each on the west Coast.
Held in lieu of $1 million
bond each were Glenn Ray
Haliburton, 33, of suburban
Plano; Morgan Ernest Black,
45, of St. Louis; Freddie Gene
Cooper, 38, and John Henry
McCovery, 45, both of Los
Angeles.
Department of Public Safe
ty Capt. Wes Crites said Sun
day the four suspects were
being held on charges of pos
session of a controlled subst
ance and more arrests were
expected.
Los Angeles authorities
said the suspects may have
traveled by motor home from
California to Texas to buy a
chemical ingredient needed
to brew PCP. Texas DPS au
thorities said the suspects
were in Texas to escape the
“heat” on the West Coast.
Authorities believetlitfl
operation involved proca
the angel dust for enhamj
marijuana cigarettes,[
ly for West Coast distribil
Authorities said thea
capped a four-day sul
ante operation invola
off icers in Los Angeles,Ail
na, New Mexico andti
It began when six ill
cover Los Angeles officenl
gan following the motork
as it headed east from I
Angeles. Narcotics officti|
Arizona, New Mexico j
Texas took up theunderaJ
surveillance as the vanp
through each state.
It was the first PCPsef
in the Dallas area insixpl
Authorities also seizeM
mobile home, where thel
reportedly was nianij
tured, and a shotgun.
The Northgate
College Station, Texas
Available Fall 1982
Nuclear power plant owner
forced to prove its safety
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A trend setting project of
Texas Development Group.
United Press International
FORT WORTH — A deputy
administrator with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission told the
owners of the Comanche Park
Nuclear Power Plant they must
prove cracks found in the plant’s
concrete containment building
do not weaken the structure.
Karl Seyfrit told the Texas
Utilities Generating Company
that no operating license will be
issued until the company can
sufficiently answer charges of
defects at the $3 billion plant.
Federal hearings for a license
will resume Monday.
Reports obtained by a group
fighting the license indicated
cracks in the concrete at one of
the silo-shaped reactor contain
ment buildings could go all the
way through the 7-foot-thick
walls.
Another report said concrete
was poured on the dome of a
building during a heavy rain
storm in January 1979, and a
crew had to work feverishly to
keep it from slipping off. A
small section of concrete did
wash out and fall to the ground,
the report says.
The general foreman then
made up a new batch to replace
what had fallen off, and the
company was ordered by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commis
sion to have the concrete in
spected, the report said.
The company reported in
October 1981 that a consj
had inspected the concrti
found it acceptable, itsaiil|
reports were made;
the Citizens Association
Sound Energy, an intend
the hearings.
TUGCO has already!
construction license afterl sScott
ings before the Atomici
and Licensing Board. Not
board, appointed by theM
hearing testimony todetci
whether to grant an open
license.
The plant near Glen
southwest of Fort Wortk
have two nuclear react!
supply electricity to Dai
other areas. Itscompletio
has been pushed back to
Beau
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“different spokes for
different folks”
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Oil-rig death hearing
may explain causes
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Hearings
resumed Monday in the deaths
of 84 crewmen on the world’s
largest semi-submersible oil rig
and a congressional subcommit
tee investigated why the
offshore oil industry is so
deadly.
The Ocean Ranger collapsed
under 50-foot waves off the
coast of Newfoundland Feb. 15.
All 84 crewmembers were killed,
although only 22 bodies were re
covered.
A U.S. Coast Guard Marine
Board of Investigation and Na
tional Transportation and Safe
ty Board panel in Boston began
hearing testimony on the sink
ing Feb. 19. Board members la
ter conducted fact-finding trips
to various U.S. and Canadian
Monday on the
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the night of Feb. 14 and morn
ing of Feb. 15 when the rig col
lapsed and sank under the cold
ocean waters. Witnesses, sear
chers and shore personnel in
volved with the rig testified.
The latest hearings will ex
amine the history of the huge
Ocean Ranger which was de
signed in New Orleans, the
headquarters of rig owner
Ocean Drilling and Exploration
Co. International.
The rig was operated by Mo
bil Oil Canada Ltd. when it sank.
In addition to the Ocean Ran
ger hearings, the House sub
committee on manpower and
housing was to hear testimony
offshore oil and gas rigs.
The inquiry was prompu
a study which showed
number of deaths and
on offshore rigs, said suki
mittee counsel Richard Grji_, r —
“It looks like there’s a whallenj
lem there, with an excrffnepro
number of injuries and degsuspecf
Grawey said. “There’s a feponal if
rate 10 times that of thegeitBant.
oil drilling industry. 1 Pros
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sped the rigs, Grawey said nervoi
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industry, including howl poby.”
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believe a large percentaf le boa
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on “Tarzan ropes” from Yi
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those transfers. ii^ ace
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sentatives of the American
roleum Institute, the Intf
tional Association of Di
Contractors, the
Operators Committee
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