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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, March 28, 1984
Student
elections
continue
Today is the last day to vote
in this year’s student body elec
tions.
This year’s three polling
places are:
• the first floor of the Me
morial Student Center
• the first floor of the Pavil
ion
• in front of Sbisa.
The polls close at 6 p.m.
In order to vote, students
must give their I.D. card to the
officials at the poll, who will
punch it with a specially shaped
hole punch to eliminate mul
tiple voting.
Any student can vote at any
poll.
The ballots are computer
forms that must be filled in witjj
a No. 2 pencil which will be sup
plied at the polling place.
No campaign material may
be worn at the polling places.
All campaign signs, flyers and
posters must be taken down by
10 p.m. Thursday.
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Propane pipeline explosion
causes power outage to cili
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MONT BELVIEU — A pres
sured propane pipeline buried
within 75 feet of a petroleum
refinery and a residential
neighborhood exploded and
burst into flames Tuesday,
knocking out power to the city
and damaging at least one
home, authorities said.
There were no reports of in
juries.
The blast, which spewed a
600-foot vapor cloud, initially
threatened several nearby pro
pane storage tanks buried be
neath downtown Mont Belvieu.
The small city, located 30 miles
east of Houston, is built atop a
salt dome where propane and
natural gas are stored.
“We had a Dow Chemical
propane line rupture. It pro
duced a cloud of gas vapor and
it exploded,” Chambers County
Deputy Sheriff Fred Dodd said.
“There were some propane
storage tanks which were in
danger of exploding. Firefight
ers cooled them down and
crews took the pressure off the
line and they stopped the fire,”
Dodd said.
The explosion occured about
1:50 p.m. in an eight-inch pro
pane pipeline running along a
right-of-way near downtown
Mont Belvieu. The pipeline is
bordered by a residential neigh
borhood, the Warren Petro
leum Corp., and a refinery
owned by the Diamond Sham
rock Corp.
Jim Hansen, spokesman for
Dow Chemical USA, which
owned the pipeline, said investi
gators believe the explosion was
caused by a faulty valve on top
of the buried pipeline.
Hansen said the fire was ex
tinguished within 30 minutes of
the explosion after crews cut off
the propane supply feeding the
pipeline. He said propane was
not flowing through the line at
the time of the blast.
The blast caused a power
outtage in the city and shot a
cloud of propane vapor 600
feet into the air and 300 feel
over the ground, said Cham
bers County Constable Jim
Curl, a witness.
Propane, which is heavier
than air, clings to the ground
when it escapes into the atmo
sphere.
Windows were blown out in a
nearby gasoline station. The
fire melted the tar on the street
and charred about an acre of
land surrounding the sited
rupture.
“It formed a cloud
ground,” Chambers Coi
Sheriff C.E. “Chuck" Mt
said.
Morris said the explo
knocked out electrical pu
causing an electrical surge !
fighters blamed the surge
fire in a home located neat
explosion site.
Authorities initially k:
call for every available as
lance in the area, but 1
said there were no repom
juries.
“I'm surprised nobodi
hurt,” said Jack Chamblist
rector of (Chambers Counti
defense.
Board nominates new editors
By PATRICE KORANEK
Staff Writer
Rebeca Zimmermann,- Bill
Robinson and Vannell Lee were
nominated to be editors of The
Battalion and Aggieland by the
Student Publications Board
Tuesday night. The nominees
must be approved by Texas
A&M Provost Gordon.Eaton.
If approved, Zimmermann
will serve as The Battalion edi
tor for both summer sessions
and Robinson will serve next
fall. Lee will take charge of the
Aggieland for the 1984-85
school year.
Zimmermann, a senior jour
nalism major from College Sta
tion who will graduate in Au
gust, is the current editor of
The Battalion. She also has
served as entertainment editor,
news editor and a reporter.
“This semester we started an
Editorial Board that writes daily
editorials,” Zimmermann said.
“The purpose of the editorials
[SO •’Town • rr at .t .
is not to get agreement from all
students — it’s to encourage
students to think about various
issues. I plan to continue this
policy because I think having an
active opinion/editorial page is a
major responsibility of any
newspaper.”
Robinson is a senior journa
lism major from Round Rock
who has three semesters of ex
perience with The Battalion.
He started as a reporter, then
became a copy editor and now is
assistant sports editor.
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Robinson said he
The Battalion’s responsii
provide students withlod;
international news.
“Because most students
only The Battalion we to
responsibility to print
cal and international new
cause they wouldn ’tgftil _
wise,” he said. “We also to
responsibility to print 4
that interest students.”
Lee is a junior petrolem
gineeririg major trom Hon
She has worked lor theA|
land for two years, one
aide and one as the orgt
lions sections editor. She
one of the changes she
make in the Aggieland istb
diton of a “life section"
would include many a
shots.
Lee said she didn’t thit
ing a major much dil
from many Aggieland«
made a difference, butsa*
a plus,
“You could say that it is I
of out in left field fromim
jor, but it allows metodiv
so that I won’t just know
neering when I get out,
said.
Correctioi
The March 26 issue of
Battalion contained an an
on the superconducting
collider that a team of Te®
search scientists are inter®
in seeing built in Texas
story’s lead implied Texas
been chosen as the site to 1
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