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Pool open for October
For you Aggies who are year-round swimmers, the College
Station Parks and Recreation Department is offering a special at
the Thomas Park Pool for October.
All A&M students can now swim at the Thomas Park Pool,
located at James Parkway and Kyle Streets in College Station,
for 25 cents with their student I.D. card. The Aggie special
hours are from 1-3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday until the
end of October.
The pool features a children’s pool with a mural on the floor
and sides of the pool painted by Environmental Design students
at Texas A&M. ,
The Department of Environmental Design coordinated a
competition among its E.D. 101 students to design a mural
painting for the floor and walls of the children’s pool. The
competition was funded by the city of College Station.
Gale Macziewski won the contest, held Sept. 10. Second
place went to Geoffrey Hutton. Both students are Environmen
tal Design majors.
The larger 25-meter pool at Thomas Park is open year-round
and during the winter a heated dome is erected that keeps the
water temperature between 82 and 84 degrees.
Regular Fall hours for Thomas Park Pool are:
Weekdays:
6-7:30 a.m. Adult Lap Swim
11-1:00 p.m. Adult Lap Swim
I- 3:30 p.m. Public Swim
6-8:45 p.m. Public Swim
Weekends:
II- 1:00 p.m. Adult Lap Swim
1-7:45 p.m. Public Swim
Children under twelve can swim for 50 cents and adults twelve
and over must pay 75 cents. The sixteen-acre park in College
Station has two soccer fields, a half-mile lighted jogging track,
lighted tennis courts, two basketball courts and an area for flag
football.
All Aggies are urged to take advantage of the Aggie special
and make use of the facility in the future.
Memorial fund for former cadet
A memorial fund has been established here at Texas A&M in the
name of 1st Lt. Kenneth A. Donnelly Jr. (USMC), a former
Texas A&M student and cadet, who was killed in a plane crash
last month.
Donnelly was piloting a plane over the North Sea on Sept. 24
when it crashed into the water.
While in the corps, Donnelly was a member of the Fish Drill
Team and served as deputy corps commander his senior year.
He was also selected as a member of Who’s Who as a senior.
Contributions, which can be sent to the Kenneth A. Donnel
ly Jr. Memorial Fund at the Texas A&M Development Founda
tion, will be used to benefit the Fish Drill Team.
Exhibit features Austin artists
An exhibit by two Austin artists — sculptor David Deming and
Helena de la Fontaine — opened Monday at the MSC Gallery.
Sponsored by the MSC Arts Committee, the exhibit features
scale models of Deming’s modern plate steel sculptures and la
Fontaine’s geometric paintings and collages. The works will be
on display through Nov. 6.
A public reception will be held for the artists in the MSC
Gallery from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 17.
Aggies elected officers of YARC
Three Aggies have been elected officers of the Bryan/College
Station Youth Association for Retarded Citizens. They are: Jes
sica Huddleston, President; Mary Kay Bevans, President-
Elect; and Beth Bevans, Treasurer. All three are special educa
tion majors at Texas A&M.
The association, run by young people, provides social and
recreational programs for mentally retarded youth in the Bryan/
College Station area. All officers must be under the age of 25.
For more information on the Youth Association contact Jessi
ca Huddleston at 260-3495 or Beth and Mary Kay Bevans at
696-0847.
OCA street dance this Friday
There will be dancing in the streets this coming Friday when
the Off-Campus Aggies sponsor their street dance in the Wood-
stone Shopping Center on Highway 30. The dance will start
after the Baylor game and admission is free. Beer will be 50
cents.
Aside from the street dance, the OCA will sponsor a bake sale
on Oct. 14 and 15 and bonfire t-shirts are now being sold by club
members.
Homebuilders to meet
The Texas A&M chapter of the National Association of Home
Builders held an organizational meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 22.
After adopting a constitution, the group elected officers. They
were: Ken Stone, president; Gary Hall, vice-president; Lynann
Yarbrough, treasurer; and Shelayne Chemmer, secretary. All
are building construction majors except Chemmer who is major
ing in environmental design.
The next meeting of the the NAHB will be Tuesday, Oct. 12
at 6:00 p. m. It will be held at the house under construction at the
corner of Southwood and Angelina.
If you have an annoucement or interesting item to submit for
this column, come by The Battalion office in Room 216 Reed
McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611.
October
Bryan BBB wants reports
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by Patti Schwierzke
Battalion Reporter
If strangers offering too-good-
to-be-true schemes contact you, a
report should be filed with the
Better Business Bureau.
The BBB is a private organiza
tion funded through membership
dues of area merchants to aid con
sumers and businesses.
The bureau investigates and
acts on deceptive and unethical
business practices, and advertis
ing that appears to violate regula
tions. When requested by con
sumers, it issues factual reports on
businesses. It also warns about
schemes or frauds that may victi
mize businesses and consumers.
“If people would just call, we
could help,’’ said Leroy Balmain,
executive director of the Bryan
bureau. The bureau, located in
the Varisco Building in downtown
Bryan, is responsible for Brazos
County and 17 surrounding coun
ties.
The bureau has been warning
people about con artists, fake bank
examiners, mail fraud and people
posing as repairmen who
approach unexpecting homeow
ners and the elderly.
Such schemes can be avoided
by not discussing personal fi
nances with strangers, not expect
ing something for nothing, not
withdrawing money from the bank
at a stranger’s suggestion and not
revealing the balance on any bank
account, Balmain said.
The bureau also reports on
charitable and non-profit organi
zations, cooperates with other
bureaus when exchanging infor
mation on schemes and teaches
consumers intelligent buying
practices.
If consumers have problems
with business and can’t solve it
with the management, a written
complaint can be filed with the
BBB, Balmain said.
tied, arbitration is offered. Arbit
ration is a legal process in which
two or more people agree to per
mit a third person to make the
final decision in a dispute.
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If the complaint is legitimate,
Balmain will send a letter to the
business suggesting a fair settle
ment. If the business does not
agree to the settlement, he will
arrange a meeting in his office and
mediate between the two parties.
If the matter remains unset-
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Room #350A — MSC
by Stephanie Fondy
Battalion Reporter
A bonfire safety study com
pleted in September evaluated
the procedures and control mea
sures involved in bonfire that
could be used to prevent acci
dents.
Bonfire coordinators James
Starr and Al Link worked on the
study with Dr. Gary Nelson, a
specialist in safety engineering at
Texas A&M University.
Nelson suggested the study to
Starr and Link because of his con
cern with safety procedures. He
said the study could help alert
people to potential safety hazards.
Nelson outlined three steps for
the study: identifying, evaluating
and controlling hazards. The
study evaluated each task in
volved in building bonfire accord
ing to these steps.
For example, one of the poten
tial hazards is an ax cut. The eva
luation of the hazard is based on
how often it occurs and how se
vere the wound is.
The hazard was evaluated on a
scale of low to high. The report
listed the evaluation of an ax cut as
low to moderate. Control mea
sures are mandatory attendance at
cutting classes and cutting cards,
which are checked on the site by
coordinators.
Starr said the study was benefi
cial because it showed coordina
tors what activities are potentially
the most dangerous and need the
most supervision. Two activities
that have high risks involved are
cutting with chainsaws and mov
ing logs with tractors.
To help prevent chainsaw acci
dents, chainsaw users must read
Nelson’s safety manual. Coordina
tors check to be sure each person
from their dorm or organization
using a chainsaw has read the
manual.
To protect against tractor acci
dents, Starr said they are enforc
ing the no-rider policy.
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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 12, the
285th day of 1982 with 80 to fol
low.
On this date in history:
In 1492, Christopher Col
umbus discovered the New World
known as “America. The first
landing is believed to have been
made in the Bahamas, southeast of
what now is Florida.
In 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev removed one of his
shoes and pounded on his desk
with it during a speech before the
United Nations. General Assem
bly President Frederick Boland
lost his Irish temper and split his
gavel trying to restore order.
In 1973, President Nixon
nominated House Minority Lead
er Gerald Ford for the vice
presidency to replace Spiro
Agnew who resigned two days ear
lier.
A thought for the day: American
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
said, “There is no indispensable
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