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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1983)
Gab session Hmmo by Eric Evan Lm Nan El-Sa>ed. right, and Roar Ann Barzak take a Both work in the thesis dissertation office of the break b) Harrington Tower Wednesday afternoon. Sterling G. Evans Library. Student arrested in car stereo theft at Commons crnty .polite I urvlav tea Miltyn Ciregg WHIing- by Gabriel Elliott S—lion RrnorlrT e-tuv m Uni vert arrest t ton. 18. and t harged him with burglar* of 4 motor vehicle nob Wtatt* dirTctor of Texas jity and Trank, was arrested at irking k»t 24 be- I mot is as he broke AAM's Sect said W< 10:45 pm in| hind tne Cor into a car. Wellington, of Fort Worth, is currently enrolled in an instruc tKmal drafting course offered by the engineering graphics de partment at the University. Wiatt said plainclothes poike staked out the parking k>t be cause of several complaints by students that their cars are been tampered widi and three vehicle burglaries last week in which car stereos were stolen. • “We felt that we had to put a stop to the crime before it spreads,** Wiatt Wednesday. He said a $600 stereo believed to have been stolen from a car in the same parking lot Sunday night was recovered from Wel lington." "Wellington was watched for about one hour before he was arrested,^ Wiatt said. “He poike arrested Local street is repair example Crossland BSMISmi Hnurvrr ith College Avenue is ab- to become a iamtliar sight to ‘ngineers across the state be- i cause of the u*e of a new method street rrpy. "Being right here in our own backyard, it * 4 golden oppor tunity for us jo get some good data on this liter glass method." Robert Lytton, a Texas AJcM re scan h engineer, said. The new method involves bymg a strip o! fiberglass fabric over the )oint| in the pavement, gluing it with a special adhesive and then otrrlavtng it with asphalt The procedure will de lay and poMiolv prevent crack ing at the laigu. Prisoners get bland cuisine The method has been tested and used in northern states, but never in Texas “This fabric is the best we’ve ever tested, even better than Pet ro Mac (a similar product distri buted by Phillips Petroleum),” l.yttoa said “It was the only fab- rk that would work up north where the weather is even more severe than here." The method was chosen for use on South College Avenue because it is a street prone to reflection cracking — separa tion at the joints and cracking of the asphalt overlay. The fiberglass strip will hold the joints together and reduce deterioration due to water. Repairs on South 0)1 lege Avenue will serve as a demon stration for other engineers Thundoy. July 21.1983/Th» BqWqfcxVPnps 3| Movie shows Corps life for incoming freshmen Wfjrnrnmffmmm Something f film ab out the Corps of Cadets, offers interested people the chance to see what life in the Corps is really like “Something Extra." is shown twice a week at the Texas A AM student conferences. Corps Commandant. Col. Donald L Burton says. With the movie. Burton says he hopes to show fature what the Corps has to offer, and what is expected of members of the Corps. *1 think it gets a lot of ques tions answered." Burton says of the film. "I think it gets a lot of parents questions answered too.” Many of the questions asked deal with the organtzaoon of the Corps and the average day of a cadet, says Assistant Comman dant. Lt. Col Donald J. John son. Many people also ask what belonging to the organization can do for the student. Johnson says. Burton says that high school students seem to he showing more interest in the Corps lately Corps enrollment Texas AAM is up, as well as nationwide ROTC enrollment. This seems to be because of a change in high school Burton says the high school I frmdua* m looking for option, for has future Whin in the! Corps, a radet can chuour to| earn a commasaion, or remain non -commuuoned and pursue a non-military career. In the Corps. Burton says You get out what you put m." '‘Jototthaa g Extra" was ere ated by CoL James R. Woodall former commandant of the Corps. It was filmed iunng 19x1-82. with the final ndkmg done by Col. Burton and Lt. Col Johnson. The film was com pleted in time for the first sum mer conference ; Riverboat travels overland to become floating club -j ROCKWALL — The 65-ton nverboat Brazos Queen, which for years ferried tourists and di ners around Lake Brazos, kxiked out of place loaded aboard an 80-wheef trailer on a state highway. The nverboat, however, is now a “lakeboat” and will be re named the Texas Queen No longer will it plv the waters near Waco. Its new home will be 1 Rav Hubbard The 105-foot boat was purch ased for $500,(x> 1 by several Dallas businessmen who plan to turn it into a floating supper club. The 65-ton ship, with twin diesel engines and its huge pad dlew beds, made perhaps the strangest trip in the history of the fexas highway department It is without a doubt the only stem-wheeled riverboat ever to navigate overland from Waco to Corsscana to Kaufman to Rock wall with a police escort and a contingent of amazed viewers parked his car next to the one he was about to burglarize, got out, said get into the vktim car and began sits plaint lothes mm. Wellington, now living in Aston Hall, was taken to the Cdunty jail. Burglary of a motor vehkle is a felony crime punishable by a 2-to-lO year prison term. • CALVIN KLEIN ST0NEWASHED JEANS & B0NJ0UR JEANS \ Owens Coming Corp. wanted a plgce to demonstrate the pro dt|rt, so it gave the city of Bryan an.‘$80,(K)0 discount on the prke of the materials. “Owens Corning would not have done that for just anyone," Lytton said. -“They were so im pressed with Bryan operations manager Ed Ilshner, that they weke willing to go down on th<f prke to have him do the job." iOO ‘lO 1 .P* i . • " SWIMWEAR 50% OFF 45* layaway 1422 Texas A?e. So. Redmoad Terrace College StatkM irger ^ tmmmmm w wm. ■ ■ ■■ f l. PASO —- Prisoner, accut- tomed to lobster and shrimp will have to make do on 'SpasM^ turkey pie" apd "theesrhui ole,” the stWrilf tayt.^^^RH Inmates were moved to a new Jul last week and have (hreatened a hunger strike ever ginr hriausr of the bland food being dished out by an lllinois- hased loud services company, In the old pul inmates pre pared and wived their own tneals in a (cook and baker w hoof Occasionally, a. pan of the school, annate, prepared lobster and tHnrnp cocktail Inmates wetr spoiled in that Old place.” Nhenil Mike Davis •aid Tuaadav “They ran that jad Now we ie running this One " However Davis agreed with •he prtaoRnHf. that the prison Care t. bland Next week a spicier Mexican menu will be intro- #uced, he Mm. • The new m*nu witt offer what Davw calk 4 Illinois Mexican LOOKING FOR A CONDO FOR YOUR STAY AT TEXAS A&M? The Condo Mart Is the nawast way to And tha right condominium for you. Salact from hundreds of condos on the market today In Just one slop. 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