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Battalion/Page 3
September 17, 1982
1982
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Park plans
taking shape
by Tom Dobrez
Battalion Reporter
Lighted soccer fields and
me of “the best little league
slds in the state” are part of a
iillion-dollar renovation
ian under way by the College
ation Parks and Recreation
JredinJepartment.
thatthc; Anderson Park, located at
lope e corner °f Anderson and
vironm olleman, is currently being
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mtsidet
ed meei
's terms,
rane cai
tes.
nflicten
aded and marked off for
, new soccer Fields com-
n as nok| ete w j t j 1 bleachers and team
Steve
arches,
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nches, Director
eachy said. An automatic
and sur irinkler system has been in
reach
lied.
The fields are being built to
nialadi;|t e s P ec ifi ca bons of the Col-
ee Station Soccer Club. The
Eb, which operates youth
d “den a 8 ues ’ ^ as temporarily
’ oved its games to makeshift
p cams jUj al Brother’s Pond Park,
rotest i kg c i u b expects to return to
se. It "i ie Anderson Park complex
as ramp the spring of 1983.
I But, soccer players aren’t
Ie only citizens to benefit
om the renovation plan
ing funded by a 1981 bond
The new Anderson Park
also will have two basketball
courts, a playground, re
strooms and a parking lot.
Complete renovation of the
8.94 acre park will cost
$230,000, Beachy said.
The cost is minor com
pared to the money set aside
to completely reconstruct
Southwood Park southeast of
the city, he said. Located at the
corner of Rio Grande and
Rock Prairie roads, the park
will include lighted fields for
both soccer and baseball.
Bids for the park project,
expected to cost more than $ 1
million, will be accepted be
ginning Jan. 1.
The 44 acres will be remod
eled to include six soccer
fields, six baseball fields, eight
tennis courts, and several bas
ketball courts.
1 p£
id
Waco, Houston and Austin
looking for ideas, and in my
opinion, what we have plan
ned will constitute some of the
best little league fields in the
state,” Beachy said.
Sewer smoke test
\
nears completion
by Brian Boyer
Battalion Reporter
Smoke testing of College Sta
tion sewers should be finished
late next week, Ed McDow, con
sulting engineer for the project,
said.
Crews are currently running
the tests as part of a project to
assess and repair damage to the
city’s sewer system.
The smoke testing should
cause no inconvenience for
homes and businesses with ade
quate plumbing, according to a
flier mailed to College Station
residents before the testing be
gan. The flier advised homeow
ners who get smoke in their
homes during the testing to have
their plumbing repaired.
Smoke testing is the second
phase of the sewer evaluation
survey, McDow said.
The first phase involved plac
ing flow monitors in the system
to measure the amount of in
coming moisture due to rain,
McDow said. He said flow moni
toring is used to determine
which sections of the system
need to be smoked.
In the third and final phase of
the testing, television cameras
will be used to further investi
gate problems revealed by the
smoke and flow monitor testing,
Elrey B. Ash, director of capital
improvements, said. That stage
should be finished by the end of
this month.
Ash said he could not project
the cost of repairs to the sewers
until the results of the survey are
complete.
“I have no idea how major or
how drastic some of these (re
pairs) might be,” he said.
Ash said if the necessary re
pairs are costly enough, they will
have to be approved by the vo
ters before they can be started.
Terminals take over,
cards get phased
out
’Ians approved for
ast Gate Square
by Pam Barnes
: Planning and Zoning Com-
>n’s final approval was
last night for East Gate
are, an approximately four-
l area to be located at the cor-
of Lincoln and Texas
me.
East Gate Square will consist
;nly of entertainment and re
gional type businesses,” buil-
Bill Fitch said.
The commission also
iroved final parking plans
a Red Lobster restaurant to
located in East Gate Square.
i building permit must now
ibtained. Building may begin
he end of the month if the
mit is obtained, said Fitch.
The commission denied the
uest for rezoning of a nine-
e tract, near the intersection
Holleman Drive and Well-
In Road. A possible apart-
[nt project was planned for
I location, had the request
In approved. The tract is pre-
[tly a heavy industrial district.
Commission Chairman Jim
pling opposed the denial and
pgested that the request be
rther investigated and poss-
t/ changed from a heavy in-
[strial area to a lesser indust-
Darea.
iThe commission denied the
toning request of an eight-
re tract on the south side of
hiversity Drive, near the in-
!iin the# sect * on °f Fedmart Drive and
•• Hit it liversit y Drive. The request
c . is to change the tract from a
tally residential district to a re-
ential district including a
mmercial district.
The commission tabled the
testion of amending a zoning
ordinance of a
mercial district.
planned com-
by Brigette Crossland
Battalion Reporter
The Data Processing Center is
phasing out the use of cards as a
means of processing for its com
puter system.
Next September, the center
will not be using keypunching as
a means of input, but there will
still be a card reader available
for those who already have data
on cards.
The center is phasing out the
use of cards in favor of terminals
because the number of card us
ers has become so small.
“The use of cards has been
outdated since the late 1960’s,
we’ve just kept it around to
accommodate people still using
cards, but our last big card user,
the registration system here at
A&M, is also phasing out cards,”
Dr. Dick B. Simmons, director
of the Data Processing Center,
said.
The use of cards is also much
more time-consuming than ter
minals.
In the past, people using
cards were required to go to the
data processing center to
keypunch data into the compu
ter, wait for the work to be done,
then come back to the center la
ter to pick it up.
A student who has rented a
terminal can do the work in his
room. A student also can use any
of the terminals on campus with
out having to walk to the center
to keypunch data in.
“Using cards is like riding a
horse to work when everyone
else is driving a car,” Simmons
said. “Anyone who is still using
cards really needs to update
their system.”
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