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United Press International
HOUSTON — When it was
.built 17 years ago, the Astro
dome was one of a kind, at the
•cutting edge of sports arena
technology. Now it is just the
oldest of several domed sta
diums in America and its age is
.beginning to show.
For example, the Astrodome
is not one of tire many stadiums
in the country, domed or un
domed, that have some sort of
permanent giant-screen televi
sion replay for the fans. It is dir
ty. It has traffic problems. It has
too few restrooms for women.
But the Houston Sports Asso
ciation and Harris County offi
cials plan to spend $50 million
over the next three years to
change some of that.
Some of the money will be
-spent on the adjacent Astrohall
.—convention and exhibit center
— and separate Astroarena,
home for the Houston Livestock
Show and Rodeo.
The total cost, to be financed
with hotel tax revenues and
with hotel tax revenues and
bonds, is significant. The Astro
dome cost only $45.3 million to
build from scratch on the south
Houston flats in 1965.
“Since that time, there’ve
been quite a number of im
provements made in technology
that goes into operation of sta
diums,” Astrodome spokesman
Ben Gillespie said.
“There has been just normal
wear and tear on the facility over
the years. And while there has
been maintenance done, there
are some other things we can do
to restore some of its former
glory.
“We feel there are things that
can be done to make coming to
the Dome a more pleasant ex
perience.”
New graphics are planned
outside the stadium, Gillespie
said. Inside, bids will be taken
for a new giant-screen television
replay for the Houston Astros,
Houston Oilers, University of
Houston Cougars and other
events.
New signs will be erected out
side, he said, along with new
lights to help traffic flow and
new patterns for traffic flow.
“We’ll be doing a lot of things
that aren’t too visible, things like
emergency power systems in
Astrohall, and improve the
sound system in the hall,” Gilles
pie said.
“We will be re-upholstering
every seat — 50,000 for football
and 43,000 for baseball — in the
Dome, and replacing those that
need replacing. We will also be
the
improving signage
Dome.”
And then there are the re
strooms. The designers of the
Astrodome thought women
only needed as many restrooms
as men. There are 66 total, 33
for men and 33 for women. But
over the last 17 years, Astro
dome officials have learned
something.
“I don’t know quite how to
say this, but women apparently
take a little longer in the re
stroom than men do,” Gillespie
said. “So the amount of people
women’s rooms can handle is
not the same as men’s.”
The first step, expansion of
the Astrbarena from 154,000
square feet to 271,000 square, is
underway, but Astrodome man
agers face some juggling in get
ting the work done oyer the next
three years.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —
A food hank founded by an
Episcopal minister has provided
meals to 1 ().()()() jobless and
elderly people with damaged
boxes of biscuits and oatmeal
.that normally would have been
,fed to farm animals.
“These people are devas
tated. Their dignity is gone.
There was a guy last week who
.took food and put it in his pocket
to take and feed his kids,” the
Rev. Jim Bills said.
Judy Garscaddon, who helps
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I’aul Catholic Church, said a
•family with four children came
.two days last week.
, “We gave out lemonade and
the mother poured it into her
baby’s bottle. We got milk for
them the next day. The husband
said he couldn’t find a job,”
Garscaddon said.
Bills said many more would
have flocked to the food lines
but only 23 of the city’s 550
churches have agreed to distri
bute the meals in the four-
month-old program.
“It’s immoral that there are so
many people hungry with so
much food out there,” Bills said
Wednesday. “But many chur
ches are so concerned with keep
ing their own shops in order in
this economy, they really don’t
seem interested in reaching out.
People are apathetic.”
Bills founded the free food
program in June in Chatta
nooga, an industrial city of
175,000 where 2,400 people
have lost their jobs this year.
The Chattanooga Food Bank
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three times a week. The meals
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Grocery stores refuse to
accept the damaged boxes, so
the companies had been selling
the food to farmers for a nickel a
pound. The firms began giving
it away when Food Bank orga
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So far about 2()0i()00 pounds
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10,000 needy people. Bills said
the people receiving food are
not transients, but unemployed.
Scores of the jobless and
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meals at Sts. Peter and Paul
Catholic Church. More than 100
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Food Bank Flxecutive Dire
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Churches and agencies that dis
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Bank 10 cents a pound to keep
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