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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1984)
Enjoy an evening in Island Paradise at the Class of’87 Ball Saturday, March 3 rd 9:00 p.m.-l:00 a.m. MSC Ballroom Tickets are now on sale $12 per couple Music by Debonairs Page 10/The BattalionAThursday, February 23,1984 Nuke waste dump halt discouraged United Press International SAVE ON CONVENTIONAL ECONOMY TIRES B78 * 13 Blaenau Power Streak II Size Blackwall Price Whitewall Price B78X13 *27 90 *31.00 E78X14 *32 85 *35.45 G78X14 *35 80 $38.80 L78X15 $41.00 ALIGNMENT for most domestic ir foreign cars pickup trucks slightly higher $ /^50 Continued by popular demand • ENGINE TUNE • 4cyl. — $26 6cyl. — $29 $34 8cyl. (Note — We do set alignment on Ford I-Beam & small car struts) University Tire (Please Bring Ad) Good thru 2/29/84 Home owned & operated For electronic iginition, others $10 more. Includes: replaced spark plugs, check rotor distributor cap, adjust carbu retor and timing. Allen Scasta, class of ’81 Lonny Scasta, owner 846-1738 3818S. College Ave. (5 blocks north of Skaggs) GOODYEAR WASHINGTON — A nu clear industry official urged the government Wednesday not to delay the planned completion by 1998 of the nation’s first nu clear waste dump, but state offi cials said federal guidelines for the facility are flawed. William Berry of the Ameri can Nuclear Energy Council told Congress an Energy De partment plan to delay the pres ident’s recommendation of a site for the repository from March 31, 1987, to December 1990 was unnecessary. The Energy Department re cently announced it is falling behind schedule in plans to se lect a site for the country’s first permanent storage facility for high-level radioactive waste produced by commercial atomic power reactors. But Berry, president of the Virginia Electric and Power Company, told the House en ergy conservation and power subcommittee that while the process by which the site is cho sen and the facility built is im- E ortant, “the schedule must not e secondary.” “Having the first repository by 1998 is very important, and many intermediate steps must be achieved on a timely basis for this to happen,” Berry said. But state officials worried that the government, to make up for falling behind, will rush ahead in selecting a dump site and brush aside states’ concerns that it be geologically sound. Robert Loux, director of Ne vada’s nuclear waste project of fice, told the House panel that the Energy Department’s site selection guidelines “are techni cally, procedurally, and legally flawed.” “It would be far better to take the time now to ensure that the guidelines ... can be applied in a meaningful, objective and un derstandable manner,” Loux said. Juline Christofferson, rep resenting Utah Cov. Scott Matheson, said the Energy De partment’s “election to proceed at full throttle in order to meet its scheduling deadlines pre sents a grave risk of failure for the entire program .... The process must be slopped and changed.” Richard Paton, senior project director for the Minnesota En vironmental Quality Board, told the subcommittee, “It is clear that, in order to do a satis factory job of locating and con structing a nuclear waste reposi tory, it will be impossible to meet the 1998 deadline.” David Stevens, program di rector of Washington state’s of fice of high-level nuclear waste management, said the “sub stance of the guidelines is infi nitely more important than ini tial schedule achievement.” Steve Frishman, director of Texas’ nuclear waste programs office, said the Energy Depart ment’s decision last spring to proceed with hearings on envi ronmental assessment and site characterization “was made in blatant disregard for the public process.” Policeman suspended for handling of case United Press International SWEETWATER — New Po lice Chief James Kelley said he suspended a lieutenant for three days for his handling of an investigation of the Decem ber slaying of Lloyd Stephen son, 64. SATURDAY CLEARANCE SALE! All Winter Merchandise 60% OFF sweats, warm-ups, windbreakers, ski wear and more Plus: A large selection of shoes from $9" up: all sales final ^Loeker Room no refunds 800 Villa Maria Rd. (Across from Manor East Mall) 779-9484 The Sweetwater Civil Service Commission had investigated complaints about the investiga tion, but said it was up to Kelley to take disciplinary action. Kelley refused to discuss his findings of a review of the in vestigation, saying only that he still was checking on some things. Kelley was named chief earlier this month after former Chief Gerald Byrd resigned. Byrd, who also was a subject of the civil service commission investigation, said he left the police department to take a job as consultant for public safety management. Stephenson’s sister Francis Chapin complained because po lice at first classified the beating death as an accident. Stephen son was found beaten in his home in late December and later died in an Abilene hospi tal. Court officials in Sweetwater report Ricky Wayne Williams pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison for the slaying. Smith, who has been with the Sweetwater Police for 33 years, was expected to return to work Thursday. The suspension was ordered Monday. Smith has said he does not know if he will appeal the suspension to the Civil Service Commission. BOOK SALE •A PRICE LARGE ASSORTMENT AT SALE TABLE WHILE SUPPLY LASTS Around tombu Unitec Aggies to run for Village of Hope FORT Atomic 5 ard hi cussior tht Com wer pk ant cor 'estigatio Peter E Seventeen runners will run 110 miles from the Eternal Flame to the University of Texas SpedalE» Center to benefit the Texas A&M Village of Hope runners will leave Texas A&M at 3 a.m. and willanivt the Special Events Center for the basketball gamebewi the Aggies and the University of Texas Feb. 25. Each net is signing up sponsors and all proceeds will benefit Village of Hope project. Donations will also be accepted the Memorial Student Center until Friday from 10a.ni.tp [atory Co p ni. Brent ag Also at the MSC table, students can register for the Stiver, exat ond Annual Run foi ihc \iisM.mli Lita.iu. aiG.EwaRnsti m t While Coliseum. Entry fee for the five and IGKrunsisSS independ | tave beer three-m< ednesd New finance scholarship available Bloch Unitei |ight lie spra The College of Business Administration recently it ceived funds for a new scholarship. The First Banka Trust Scholarship and Internship Program will give» dents practical experience through internship and finaic LIT II .ml in ili<- I (ii in nf .i m Ik >1.11 ship. kansas g< Toon.dils i he Mudciit must be eligible for adnm'ir [old m-d the College of Business Administration and bealexasis H l ' on ^ dent with a demonstrable career interest in bankln| cations are available in the Finance Department, Building, Suite 340 or in the Student Financial Aid Offi Mountaii Deadline fear applications is March 1. | John < with 36 ; oil exploi After Hours offers driving course IT he _g Fbe After Hours Program is sponsoring a driving course Friday and Saturday and alsoMarch2 3. The course may be used to have certain traffic violai dismissed and to receive a 10 percent discount oncar ance. Registration is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through day in the Memorial Student Center. For moreinfoi call 845-15 14. Patients, families form group jpe iher family members. The main focus of the group is lo id professional and non-professional help and support (»: those living with cancer The group, sponsored by Humana Hospital Bryan-W lege Station and Fbe American Cancer Society will have« first meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Bryan Building at 101 Memorial Drive. The group will nieetoim a month on Thursday evenings. For more information cot tact the American Cancer Society at 846-3797 or roux, director of education, Humana Hospital Bryan-Cd lege Station at 775-4200, ext. 232 in El Do out 75 “Obvic it’s there en in e ceru at kin look h Look th ihone fr “Whet Id-hea busit methir Gray : Indies < that fan through that rich 20,000 1 a* this Volunteers to give free tax help Free tax return help is offered through the Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program Fridays a.m. to noon at the Lieoln Center, 1000 Eleanor, in Cob Station. Volunteers are trained by the Internal Revet* Service in the preparation of 1040EZ, 1040Aand forms. The VI LA program is designed to help those individti; who cannot afford professional tax help. The volume® will assist people with simple tax returns particularly low income elderly, non-English speaking and handicapp® taxpayers. Those interestecl should bring the tax sent by the IRS and all records and documents,indufc the W-2 forms, needed to prepare the return. ThelasidJ for the service will be April 13. Group to discuss current issues “Weapons, Welfare and Wealth. The Federal How Should It Be Handled” is the first topic of discuss this semester for INSIGHT. INSIGHT was organized' semester to promote student and faculty relations by s| soring discussions about current topics. The first disem will he today at 12:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. All students faculty are invited. New York prof to speak about film Professor Joseph Cuneen of Mercy College in i Ferry New York will speak on “Film as Sacred” todayaii p.m. in 607 Rudder. The talk is sponsored by the Phil® phy department, and the public is welcome. MSC Cepheid Variable