Page 4/The Bat+a I ion/Wednesday, August 10,1983
Repairs will be expensive
Road condidons discussed
by Gwyneth M. Vaughn
Battalion Reporter
The current tax rate is not
enough to maintain deteriorat
ing county roads. Bill Cooley,
county commissioner of Pre
cinct 1, said Monday.
Brazos County roads are de
teriorating because of increased
traffic and heavy truck traffic,
Cooley said. The county roads
were built years ago for light
vehicles and can’t take the stress
of increased travel by heavy
vehicles.
“If we’re to have adequate
roads and bridges, we’re going
to have to raise road and bridge
taxes,” he said.
Newcomers to Brazos County
don’t know how to handle the
gravel roads, he added.
A tax increase will be discus
sed in October.
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B. G. Bockman, resident en
gineer with the State Highway
Department said, “The in
creased oil field activity over the
past few years has damaged and
deteriorated our roads to a great
extent.”
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Bockman also said part of the
problem is that overweight vehi
cles use the roads, sometimes
illegally. Overloaded vehicles
are required to obtain a permit
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before using the roads and must
repair any damage they do to
the roads. However, he said, it is
hard to pin damage on any one
user because the damage often
does not appear until weeks af
ter the road was used.
The Highway Department
currently is engaged in several
construction and reconstruction
projects in Brazos County. The
projects will help the deteriorat
ing road problem, Bockman
said.
Three of these are urban pro
jects and involve widening and
resurfacing major streets.
Holleman Drive will be
changed from an old, narrow
city road to a four-lane street
with curbs and gutters. The cost
of the change will be $497,000,
Bockman said. The reconstruc
tion will run from FM 2154 east
to Winding Road and should be
complete by next summer.
Another project underway is
the reconstruction of Villa
Maria from Briarcrest to FM
158. The total project will cost
$1.5 million and will be com
plete within the next two weeks,
Bockman said. It also involves
changing an old, narrow city
road to a four-lane street with
curbs and gutters.
The other urban project —
actually two projects under one
contract — involves resurfacing
FM 60 and State Highway 30 —
Harvey Road. Harvey Road will
be widened in the vicinity of the
access roads of Highway 6 and
will get a “hot mix overlay”, or a
hot mix asphalt concrete made
of field sand and asphalt.
The hot mix gives an im
proved riding surface, adds to
the life of the road and is less
susceptible to skidding, he said.
Harvey Road also will get two-
way left-turn lanes. The Harvey
Road project will cost $165,000,
Bockman said.
FM 60 also will get the hot mix
overlay in addition to repair of
its base. It will cost $152,000,
Bockman said.
“We should see a decrease in
accidents on 'Harvey Road,” he
said.
Bockman said the Highway
Department’s major project is
replacing the old Brazos River
bridge on Highway 21. That
project, which will take two to
two and a half years to complete,
will cost $5.6 million, he said.
Two bridges will be con
structed — one for the east-
bound lane and one for the west
bound lane. The east-bound
bridge and its approaches
should be finished by Christmas,
he said.
Traffic will be routed over the
bridge while the old one is torn
down and the west-bound
bridge built in its location, he
said.
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by Bill Conaway
Battalion Reporter
A Texas A&M researcher has
patented a process for removing
the bad flavor from soybean
protein products.
One process makes a protein
isolate — a product 90 percent
or higher in protein content.
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Jun^ to Jim Lawhon, a research
engineer with the Food Re
search and Development Cen
ter. Lawhon’s patent covers two
similar processes causing the
Both processes involve a com
plex filtering system, Lawhon
said, but they result in different
qualities of soy proteins.
First, defatted soy flour is dis
solved in a 4.5 Ph solution. The
soy solution then is put through
an ultra-filtration membrane, a
thin, large pore tissue. As the soy
solution passes through the
membrane, smaller unwanted
elements of the solution such as
sugars, salts, and carbohydrates
are filtered out.
protein concentrate — a pro
duct 70 percent or higher in
protein content. The process is
similar to the isolate process ex-
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