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Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, November 17, 1983 Amtrak agent videotapes East Texas derailment United Press International SAN ANTONIO — A vaca tioning Amtrak ticket agent, who videotaped the scene of a fatal train derailment in east Texas, said Wednesday the tape could not prove charges that onlookers interfered with res cue efforts. Agent David Garland, who worked for 10 years as a broad cast journalist, said he began taping about five minutes after the Amtrak train derailed Satur day near Marshall, Texas, kill ing four people and injuring more than 100 others. “I aimed down toward the end of the train, where the three rear cars were on the ground. “I’ve got about 20 minutes (of tape),” said Garland, a passen ger in a sleeping car just two cars behind the locomotive. Charges were made by John Rehor of the National Trans portation Safety Board that onlookers interfered with res cue operations, and made it dif ficult for ambulances to move about. However, Garland said his tape could not prove or disprove Rehor’s charges. “That’s conjecture,” Garland said, adding that the tape does show Department of Public Safety troopers “trying to get ev erybody away from the site. Anytime you have a situation like that, there’s rubber-neckers and onlookers.” Garland said he was not sure if a closer review of the tape would reveal interference from the crowd. Copies of the tape were made available to WFAA- TV in Dallas, KXAS-TV in Fort Worth, Amtrak and the NTSB._ Garland, who was returning from a vacation, has 10 years of broadcast journalism experi ence. He worked for KDFW-TV and KSKY radio in Dallas, and KCLE radio in Cleveland, Texas, before joining Amtrak. ^ First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church School at 9:30AM College Class at 9:30AM (Bus from TAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10AM Northgate 9:15AMI Youth Meeting at 5:00PM Nursery: All Events 1 R TEXAS AVE c > *3 O > < CARTER CREEK PKY First 4- Ptesbyierian • Church “I always take it (video tape camera) on a trip like that,” he said. “Something like that (de railment) doesn’t come along very often. It took close to 45 minutes or an hour before the first television crew showed up. “At first, the scenes were mostly of the equipment, the three cars on the rear of the train. I wanted to get scenes pri marily of the train. Some of the stuff was (shot) before the main rescue effort started. “It was really kind of quite at first. I wasjust kind of surprised at the calmness of everybody I came in contact with. There was no wild screaming or shouting,” Garland said. 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Michael Sanchez, Battaliota Mike Isermann, a junior building construction major near the Academic Building and wander aimlesi! shows Mike Hicks, a junior electrical engineering around campus like old elephants about to die, Bi "" major, an announcement for Elephant Walk. Elephant year, Elephant Walk is scheduled for Nov,! Walk is when seniors gather in front of the flag pole beginning at noon. Former senator says i Firm improperly got bid United Press International FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Texas firm was improperly awarded a $27.5 million con tract to implement the state’s new automated food stamp sys- Marlow Cook charged Wednesday. Cook made his comments during a meeting of the interim Health and Welfare Committee. Cook represented Martin tern, former Kentucky U.S. Sen. Marietta Data Systems of Green- belt, Md., an unsuccessful bid- CUFF BY BOB DODSON There’s a difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good. Memory: the thing we forget with. 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Computers in individual food store outlets for identification purposes won’t come on line un til next fall, however, because of the USDA’s delay. Cook charged that his firm ir^un hief is a d >ut p By accepting the EDS prop} )alifo al. Cook said the state vio own bid specifications,whids eluded requests for “firm Us price bids including all appi As an* wo luz “T1 He said Electronic Data Systems Corp. of Dallas failed to in clude retailers’ tele phone line costs in its proposal. riate costs for communicatioM her a That cost, he said, wouldrfbne pi up to $16 million to the coiil appre the program. IMp* 11 State Social Insurance Cm iefin missioner John Cubine agre that the phone charges werem included in the contract, bull |inia( said the costs would be lessllf you,' $2 million. Cubine said that iftelephoi dippe< r was denied an equal opportun ity to submit a competitive bid because the state illegally allowed EDS to exclude the tele phone line costs. About 19 percent of retail food store outlets in Kentucky do not have telephones and ab- after formal _out 80 percent havejust one line. lines are not available, thoseii tail stores will not take partiui food stamp program. “Somebody’s going to hast pay,” said Rep. Gerta Bend Loui ouisville, who chairs the pani JJ.tljjj; Cubine denied thatthereii ” anything improper about it way the EDS bid was chosen “The Commonwealth has done anything outside of sa laws or federal laws,” hes “Anything we did was in public light.” “It 1 tell ms said, when THE & UNDERGROUND SBISA BASEMENT Potato Chip Special All varieties 89c Regular price $1.39 Nov 14-18 OFFER GOOD TILL THE LAST Bag “The Best Food. The Lowest Price.” Police beat ^ALPHA PHI OMEGA^ FOOTBALL ( Cmums - } MSC th (17) 9-4 f (18) 9-2 m-t (21,22) 9-4 w (23) 9-12 Sbisa & Commons th (17) 11-2,5-7 f (18) 11-2 m-t(21,22) 11-2,5-7 Quad m-t (21,22) Q . th-f (17,18) Prices: $5, 7,9,11,13 FREE On Campus Delivery Saturday - game day 2 Off Campus Pickup Locations The following incidents" reported to the University?(» Department throufl Wednesday: THEFTS: • A AM/FM cassette pi® from 427 Kleberg AnimaU] Food Science Center. • A motorcycle front d Aston Hall bike rack. • A motorcycle from thesj lot west of G. Rollie White • A ceiling tile from the! floor of the Physics Bu • A backpack from Sbisaft ing Hall. The backpackt* tained a calculator, checkbox Texas driver’s license, Te® A&M I.D. card and MpactOf The owner checked bank and discovered that# one had used his Impactcarif withdraw $375. ARREST: • A student was arrested!' driving while intoxicated he drove his vehicle into a l- Chevrolet Caprice, parked South Bizzell Street, Univetf Police said. The student*' taken to Brazos County Jail INDECENT EXPOSURE • A man exposed himself 1 woman in Sterling C. Evanst rary. The man was arrested University Police and taken Brazos County Jail. OTHER: • A student was ticketed University Police for drivini 1975 Chevrolet pickup fake license plate.