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Tuesday, July 26, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5 tberandn *f the Yea t □fTramt Anne McCauley Hedgcoxe the T,v„« Battalion Reporter ^ eu |n Aug. 13, College Station idents will vote on a series of id |issue propositions that; uld allow the city to continue five year Capital Improve- nts Plan. Hrey Ash, director of capital movements, described the ra issues at a Brown Bag mpar on Friday at the Col- eStation Community Center, he awiii Propositions one through sponsort.;, totaling $23.6 million, deal h expansions and refurbish- nn Davis nts to the utility system. Battle of lifil focus on renovation The changes include con-1 struction of a new water well for j emergency situations, partial re placement of the existing sewer system, improvements to the electric distribution system and acquisition of land for future city facilities. “The first five propositions are all revenue-oriented prop ositions,” Ash said. “As revenue bonds, they will not have an effect on taxes. They could have an effect on utility rates.” Propositions six through 10, totaling $24.6 million, deal with improvements to streets, public buildings, parks and drainage and could increase the adjusted tax rate per $100 by approxi mately 10 to 25 cents, according to a pamphlet published by the city. The tax rate is currently 31 cents per $100. If approved, the tax could increase to between 41 to 56 cents per $100. The expansions incltide con struction of a fire substation, additions to the Central Fire Sta tion and police station, develop ment of parks and recreation facilities and street and drainage improvements. “It is part of a long-range plan,” said College Station Mayor Gary Halter. “We have included those things that we felt were essential in the next five years. “If the program doesn’t occur and things don’t happen, the bonds won’t be sold. We are just asking the voters for author-1 ization to sell these bonds,” Hal ter said. Absentee voting in the Col lege Station Special Election will begin Monday and continue through Tuesday, August 9. Voting will be Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in conference room A at the Col lege Station City Hall. teams fra Tech Uni rew sponsors Titanic lottery United Press International r mwSEW YORK — The crew 0 lard a vessel searching for the Isinkable” Titanic is taking tson when the sunken wreck Board of! 1 be found. egislatim Crew members have begun a on in Tesitery placing bets averaging $5 on thestaifelicting the exact hour and e of Eduujiute a piece of the wreckage MinlMibe found, said expedition fintist Jim Smith in a ship-to- d of Rep'ore phone call Sunday, waspron Rough weather hampered , andmosni vessel’s search with waves ard of Rehashing 20-feet high. Fifty winds damaged camera uipment, said Mike Jahn, a lattalionor'id-based spokesman. The crew, aboard the Robert ————"'Conrad, a Navy research ves- I, got underway July 16. .. Smith said each bet was being Myitched by Jack Grimm, a Qixas oilman who is financing the venture. The total pot is ab out $600. The search is scheduled to conclude Tuesday, but it could be extended until Wednesday if necessary, Jahn said. The crew planned to investi gate four “shiny, reflective” ob jects located earlier, Janh said. Out of 3,000 pictures taken of the northern Atlantic ocean floor since Friday, half have been found to be clear, Jahn said. The crew searching for re mains of the RMS Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage 71 years ago, began scouring an area 400 miles southeast of New foundland, where the ship is be lieved to have gone down. The Titanic was deemed “un- sinkable” because of its water tight compartments and a dou ble-bottom hull. ant K.KK addresses tiation’s problems revenues i meet fetk n builcM 1 board refc UC rep United Press International LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Decemtel Klux Klan is not simply an L&P forJti-black organization but has the projflable solutions” for getting rid Houstor’income taxes, school busing, refusing 1 ®! immigrants and high in- sted rateit rest rates, a Klan chaplain said. n of the 1 ' Thomas Robb of Harrison illionoveijd Sunday the Klan has a ven years’oader outlook than portrayed been hind'j the media and especially by tion in ollywood. ts of Austif “The Klan is quite able to ie prqjecJdress other problems than or a reWt Negroes,” Robb said. nvestmen 1 Niere are very real national toblems that we believe we ive viable solutions for, and we ant to address them to the ablic.” t0 All Americans are suffering l u pm “economic bondage” and ., jjBtical tyranny” because they 1 en IM been betrayed by Republi- ; smis51 j;i and Democrats. Conse- sins 11 lently, “the whole right-wing I., icist movement is growing at a 11 ' s ’..jcmcndous rate,” Robb said. 1 b ° rtiffr wor ki n g f° r the same ever > uj||g ” At a Klan rally near the rkansas delta town of McCrory urday night, mosquitos ive away the 60 Klan mem- and spectators in an hour, said more rallies are plan- in Arkansas this summer. Robb, ordained as a Baptist, is now a member in the Identity church that is closely allied with the Klan and Posse Comitatus. The Klan and the Posse both believe income taxes are uncon stitutional and the Federal Re serve system is a private bank lending money to Americans at “exorbitant interest,” he said. The traditional political par ties are worried about defense while illegal immigrants stream across the southern border of the United States, he said. The federal government — not blacks — is to blame for most of the country’s problems, in cluding school busing, Robb said. “John Doe Negro walking down the street is not the one kidnapping my children and putting them on buses and haul ing them across town,” Robb said. The Klan, he said, simply wants the United States set aside for whites only. “We want a nation for our own people to reflect our ideals, to promote our own interest,” he said. “I believe our children de serve a place in the sun.” Robb said he can gauge the health of the right wing by the reaction of groups that oppose it. fmOYOU KNOWTt B You can walk to the SOUPER SALAD | | within a few minutes for the greatest! ■ soups in Texas. 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Liver asked for second child with rare disease United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — Presi dent Reagan’s weekend plea for a liver to save the life of a dying Texas girl not only sparked hun dreds of calls on the baby’s be half, but brought attention to another child with the same plight. “I have written a letter to the President, and my staff is hand carrying it to the White House to let him know about another child dying of a rare liver disease here in Utah,” said Rep. Dan Marriott in Salt Lake City Monday. “The idea is to keep the ball rolling now, not to let it die,” Marriott said. “It was a great thing to do Saturday. Now we must keep it going.” Marriott said he sent the let ter to make the president aware of Clayton Conger, 4, of Rock Springs, Wyo. Clayton has been under the care of physicians at the Univer sity of Utah Meical Center since July 1. He is dying of a genetic liver defect, and doctors say un less he receives a liver trans plant, he will die within a few weeks. Saturday, Reagan used the occasion of his weekly radio broadcast to make a nationwide plea on behalf of 11-month-old Ashley Bailey, of Clyde, Texas, who is dying of a liver ailment at the University of Minneapolis Hospital. “Right now, somewhere in America, there may be a pair of stunned and grief-stricken pa rents whose own baby has died in an accident or is sadly near death,” Reagan said in his Satur day broadcast. “I know if these parents were aware they could make it possi ble for Ashley to live, they would have no hesitation in saying, ‘Save that Ittle girl,”’ said the president, who said he would dispatch an Air Force jet to transport a liver to the little girl. His broadcast received a tremendous reaction from Americans, who called the White House and the hospital. But no liver has yet been found. 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