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Monday, April 9, 1984 /The Battalion/Page 3 Incumbents ff By TRAVIS TINGLE Stuff Writer Incumbents Pal Boughton id Lynn Mcllhaney kept kir College Station City Wlrii seats in Saturday’s nunicipal elections, but went ibout it in different ways. Boughton narrowly de bated Terri Tongco to win icr fourth term on the coun- rii. Tongco, a newcomer to wiitics and the city, came fithin 1B5 votes of upsetting for the Place 4 eat. Boughton could not be iundav for coin- it. e race for Place 6 on the :il was not nearly as , Mcllhaney won her sec- iterm in office by captur- [ 65 percent of the vote to odly defeat newcomer Haden. Mcllhaney said she thought the race was going to be closer, but said her formula for success was simple. “I just put the issues before the c itizens of College Station and asked for their support,” Mcllhaney said. Heavy turnout from neig- borhood protection advocates was one reason for Mcllha* ney’s victory and the good showing by Tongco. Both were considered to be “neigh borhood” candidates. But Mcllhaney doesn’t think neighborhoods should be looked upon as factions. "Residents are dependent on businesses and they’re de pendent on the community," she said. "It’s not just a neigh borhood concern, but the council should listen and re spond to that concern." Bob Runnels had no trou- votes ble defeating Rick Puste- . .iHi jovsky for the Place 2 council in the race for Place 7. Both seat. Pustejovsky dropped out candidates will have three of the race, but his name weeks to campaign before the could not be removed from run-off and Stallings said the ballot in time for the elec- he’ll use the time to attain lion. supporters. Mayor Gary Halter ran for "It wilf be a matter of who Station residents that man- Luscombe, d aged to vote. Out of 18,947 date in the r , , registered voters, only 2,601 major role in Stallings’ opi showed up at the polls. ton. SatiirHav’is elerrinns afoi ‘Til talk 1.0 those that d On-campus TV station planned for Spring ‘85 niversity police warn students: stime to pay all parking fines By SARAH OATES Staff Writer estimated 7,800 notices been mailed out by the versity Police Department rning students, faculty and ff that they must either pay tir parking tickets or pay the ice of not paying. The notices state that stu nts will not be allowed to pre mier until their tickets are Preregistration begins to- •e one as a i marketing pi I the ‘Bookol forget to jck with the same thing tion of the M •dical pay [joiJFor students with several mdred dollars worth of tick- swho are not able to pay the Hire amount, weekly payment ans can be arranged with the partment. Until the tickets hat now,” hei m our ope it Id be veryaltfaited )lans.” s f eel about it! very excited, e advance. Fol lip is chosen 1 the hip sped) tie, particulatl best seller." me the Month News a member his beautiful outlining ie zine he hospital al information form them by medical cti s’ techniques. Paramedic oving gallsioiii o me. “Dr. 1 2,000 gi, :. Once he gf can’t put it i ing, a Para® a mustforsot an excitingo) the New comes to a i a class by l thought he ‘Operation lies on, hospi irry about I with my read! ou sign upas ge a hernia of ig a hernia opt )f the alternl KERRVILLE — Officials tests Sunday on bones imd at a remote ranch where ree people were arrested on arges they lured hitchhikers th promises of a hot meal, en kept them in slave labor. Wesley Ellebracht, 53; his n, Wesley Ellebracht Jr., 31; the younger man’s wife yce Ellebracht, 29, were held $100,000 bond each on arges of aggravated kidnap- "g, Kerr Country Sheriff fGreeson said. Greeson said officers were so investigating allegations by of the victims that he was reed to burn the body of a irker who died on the ranch. “Those bones have been sent the crime lab in Austin to see they’re animal or human,” reeson said. “We expect to ive that report Monday.” “If they’re human, our inves- ;ation will intensify,” he said, ureeson said officers armed ;iS( , news editor, eS iitor. cy >ulcl not exceed ® al stafi reserves' and length bill 1 tin the author's gned and misi tone numbered tnd guest editor 1 inquiries tolhei' ion, 216 Reed ^ ■A/ Universitv, b d is entitled esj tion ofallnenst of reproduction 1 ed. at College Sta^ are paid, these people will not he allowed to park on campus and their permits will be scraped off the rear windows of their cars. “I would guesstimate that about 6,000 of those notices af fect people involved with the University,” said Bob Wiatt, di rector of security and traffic for the University Police Depart ment. Wiatt said that about 2,000 notices have been sent to University faculty and staff. No tices have also been sent to Uni versity visitors who have been ticketed. Wiatt said that students with six or more tickets will not be al lowed to register for the fall se mester. Faculty and staff mem bers with six or more tickets will not allowed to buy parking per mits for the next semester. Anyone with six or more tick ets is on the department’s tow list, a computer printout listing license plate numbers and let ters and the number of tickets given to a vehicle’s owner. Some students, faculty and staff have as many as 40 unpaid tickets. “I think the top number so far is 49,” Wiatt said. Wiatt said the University parking patrol officers often recognize cars they have pre viously ticketed and then check the tow list to see if that car is listed. University parking regula tions are in effect 24 hours a day and anyone with six or more tickets can be towed at any time. Wiatt said that people who can’t pay for their tickets right now should at least contact the department to discuss the prob lem. “We will make every effort to accommodate students who come to us and can’t pay,” Wiatt said, “but if a student goes fat- enough to have his car towed, then we probably will make him pay for his tickets right then. “There’s just no sense in playing Russian roulette,” he said. “If we don’t get you now, we’ll get you later.” By ERIN PYLE Reporter On-campus students will soon have a television station of their own, a station that will fea ture shows made by students. The Memorial Student Cen ter Video Committee will start broadcasting to the residence halls in the spring of 1985, says John Beadles, vice chairman in charge of programming. Beadles said the committee received permission from the two local cable companies to use a channel on each cable system. The station will be known as TAMSN, the acronym for Texas A&M Student Network. The station will show classic movies, contemporary movies and student productions. Bea dles said TAMSN will be differ ent from KAMU because it is aimed at students rather than the general public and will be entertainment rather than in formation-oriented. The committee is working on a production for the station called “Gray Blunder,” a satire of the movie “Blue Thunder.” The plot is about an armed at tack blimp that will counteract terrorism at the Olympics. An other feature Beadles thinks will interest students is “Rock World,” an hour-long show sim ilar to MTV. Beadles said the committee has been working on the idea of a student-operated station since 1982. Money from student council and contributions helped finance the production. The committee will test its system in the station’s Rudder Tower studio during the fall se mester and work out any prob lems before airing in the spring. Beadles said the only restriction on the system is that a student must live on campus and have cable in order to get TAMSN. Any student can join the committee and volunteer to work on TAMSN. T:' 5 4£ chimney hill FLORIST and gifts In the Chimney Hill Retail Plaza NOW OPEN Let's Get Acquainted Special DOZEN I LONG STEM RED ROSES ARRANGED $2730 "Bryan/College Stations Full Service Florist" Visa/Master Card/American Express WE OFFER DELIVERY SERVICE 701 University East, Suite 102 A College Station. TX 77840 (409)846-0045 hree charged in Kerrville slavery case United Press International with a search warrant Friday found five men and one woman, ranging in age from mid-20s to the late 40s, living in a barn at the secluded ranch, about 75 miles northwest of San Antonio. “These people allegedly would drive up and down Inter state 10 and pick up hitchhik ers,” he said. “They would offer them a hot meal or something to get them in their pickup.” Leona Ellebracht, mother of the elder Wesley Ellebracht, denied the charges. “Every one of them was fed every day,” she said. “Every one of them was paid every day and they all had a good, warm place to sleep there.” Greeson said the six were used for manual labor, digging ditches and cutting firewood. “They lived in an old barn with a dirt floor and some dirty mattresses thrown around,” he said. “Apparently what food they had they cooked in an old time washpot that was set up outside the barn on some rocks. There were a lot of gallon bean cans thrown around.” Greeson said the six told au thorities chains, guns and cattle prods were used to keep them from leaving. “If they tried to leave they would be chained up at night time,” he said. “It was hard to run. I think there were some held at gunpoint. Some of them said they had cattle prods used on them.” He said one man who had worked on the ranch escaped and fled to Lampasas about 100 miles northeast of Kerrville. On March 28, the man called au thorities, who arranged for a search warrant. Greeson said one of the six, now being kept in protective custody by members of a local church, told officers he had been forced to burn the body of a dead worker. Greeson said ranch records indicated as many as 75 people may have worked there at one time or another, and more charges could be filed in the case. “We are not through investi gating the case yet,” he said. 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