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The proposed Freedom Plaza.
Freedom
planned
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
The Oceanography and Metero-
logy Building will loose its claim as
the tallest building in Brazos County
when Freedom Plaza is completed in
late 1986.
“We have heard that it will likely
be the tallest building between
Houston and Dallas,” said C. Leon
Williamson of Freedom Three Ar
chitects, the designers of the project.
Construction on the 21-story
tower, which will house the Brazos-
Banc Savings Association of Texas,
will begin in early 1985, Briarcrest
Capital Corporation president War
ren Harmon said.
Briarcrest Capital Corporation is
developing the 19-acre tract located
on Briarcrest Drive and Freedom
Boulevard near Viking stadium.
The $200 million development will
include a 800-car parking garage
connected by a covered walkway to
the tower.
The 275,000 square foot, glass-ex
terior building will cost about $30
million. Office space in the tower al
ready is 60 percent leased, Harmon
said. Law firms, insurance agencies,
accounting offices, office supliers,
coffee shops, a laundry cleaners and
Plaza
for ’86
a print shop are expected to fill the
space in the building, he said.
“It will be oriented to the people
working there,” Harmon said.
The printing center will be lo
cated below the parking garage so
the vibrations and noises of the
presses will not bother the employ
ees.
Another feature designed for the
employees benefit will be an outdoor
shaded courtyard. Harmon said the
landscaping of an area is important
to the employees. About five percent
of the project expenses will be spent
for landscaping, Harmon said.
Employees are demanding such
features as covered parking and ex
cellent landscaping from their em
ployers, he said.
“It is a prerequisite of funtional
buildings today,” he said.
Fire safety in a skyscraper also is
important to employees. The tower
will have a many faceted fire alarm
system, Harmon said.
Some of the features will include
elevators that switch to their own
power supply when a fire is de
tected, locks that electronically un
lock, but do not unlatch, and smoke
removal systems. The entire fire
safety system will cost about
$500,000, Harmon said.
'Fun and Frolic' for handicapped
Jaycees sponsor summer camp
By CLARA HURTER
Reporter
About 50 handicapped campers
met this morning at Central Park for
a day at Camp Fun and Frolic.
The 19th annual summer camp
began last Wednesday with an Edu
cation Day for camp counselors. The
camp ends Thursday.
The camp, sponsored by the
Bryan-College Station Jaycees, a
young men’s organization, gives
handicapped children between the
ages of eight and 21 the chance to
enjoy summer camp.
During the week, campers work
with arts and crafts, swim at Thomas
Park, go bowling and horseback rid
ing, see puppet shows, and learn to
reel in a catfish or perch.
The College Station Fire Depart
ment shot water over the heads of
campers Thursday while demon
strating the pumper truck’s ability to
fight fires.
“We give the demonstration to
help kids out,” says Captain Tim
Fickey. “Most kids are scared of am
bulances and firetrucks and this
makes them feel more comfortable.”
Jaycee Director Ed Golden says
the camp is rewarding for those who
care.
“This is my first year to be actively
involved in the camp and it has been
really rewarding,” he says.
The camp counselors, junior high
to college-aged students, work and
play with the campers.
“The counselors stay with the
camper, help them around, help
them get involved with the activities
and provide them with someone
who cares,” Golden says. “That’s
what the camp is all about,” he
added.
Anyone interested in counseling
can show up at Central Park or call
the Jaycees. The camp starts every
day at 8:30 a.m. and continues until
3 p.m.
McGovern soys Hart should seek party unity
United Press International
WASHINGTON — George Mc
Govern said Tuesday he under
stands why Gary Hart is “having
some difficulty letting go of the
prize,” but his aides should stop talk
ing about ‘tainted’ Walter Mondale
delegates and seek party unity.
“I personally think that the longer
this goes on, the more difficult it will
be for us to beat President Reagan in
November,” said McGovern, who
was nominated at the fractious 1972
Democratic presidential convention.
Speaking to reporters following
testimony to the Democratic Plat
form Committee, McGovern said he
is concerned over reports that presi
dential contender Hart has not given
up the idea of challenging the legal
ity of some of Mondale’s national
convention delegates.
“Gary Hart assured me last
Thursday he is not going to play a
divisive role,” the former senator
from South Dakota said.
“I don’t see any point in talking
about ‘tainted delegates.’ If we get
into a bitter head-to-head charge-
countercharge, it’s going to be very
hard to win.”
McGovern was referring to a
statement Monday by Frank Man-
kiewicz, a senior adviser to Hart, that
the campaign of the Colorado sen
ator still may challenge some Mon
dale delegates it considers “tainted.”
Hart has complained some of
Mondales’ delegates were won with
the help of money from indepen
dent political action committees — a
source Mondale renounced for the
financing of his campaign.
“I’m going to wait and see about
Senator Hart,” McGovern said. “I’m
relying on his assurances. I think
he’s going to play a role we can live
with.”
During a question-and-answer ses
sion with the platform committee,
McGovern acknowledged Reagan
will be hard to beat because of the
“Teflon factor” — his ability to pro
tect himself politically from policy
failures.
“The Teflon factor is a very real
fact of life that we’re going to have to
deal with,” he said, citing Reagan’s
ability to deflect blame for the
deaths of U.S. soldiers in Lebanon
and Grenada.
“I’m puzzled about Ronald Rea
gan’s understanding with the Ameri
can public. I don’t understand it.
The worse he does, the higher he
goes up in the polls. Somehow Presi
dent Reagan has the political skill to
finesse problems the rest of us would
have great trouble with,” he said.
McGovern was responding to a
question by delegate and committee
member Billie Carr of Texas, who
said, “The question is not, ‘Where’s
the beef?’ But it’s ‘where’s the out
rage?’ among the American public
toward Reagan.
The committee concluded public
hearings and is preparing to draft
next week a party platform — a set
of positions and ideas — that will be
presented to the Democratic Na
tional Convention in San Francisco
next month.
Mondale, having claimed he now
has enough delegates to win the
Democratic presidential nomination,
is vacationing on New York’s Long
Island.
Hart remained in his Senate office
making phone calls and planned no
public appearances for Tuesday or
Wednesday.
Reagan urged to meet with Soviets
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Two leading
Senate Republicans urged President
Reagan Tuesday to start holding an
nual summit meetings with his So
viet counterpart to discuss world
problems and “figure out some way
not to blow each other up.”
But the White House appeared to
reject their call, saying the president
would only take part in a carefully
prepared meeting where there isas-
surance of “tangible results.”
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Chairman Charles Percy, R-
111., and Senate GOP leader Howard
Baker pressed the idea during an
Oval Office meeting.
“It’s been five years since we met
with our chief adversaries,” said
Percy, referring to the 1979 Vienna
meeting between President Carter
and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev,
when they signed the SALT 2
agreement that was never ratified by
the Senate.
“I think we ought to announce to
day that we ought to be willing no
later than next year to begin regular
annual meetings, without high ex
pectations but to take the agenda as
to what the problems of the world
are right now,” Percy said, adding,
“It’s dangerous not to do it.”
Baker told reporters after the
meeting, “The world is so dangerous
and the Russians are so stubborn
and obstinate right now on coming
back to the table on arms control, we
ought to say, ‘Look, OK, forget
about that. Let’s just get together
and talk about the general world sit
uation because we’ve got to figure
out some way not to blow each other
up.’”
White House spokesman Peter
Roussel said, “The president has
made clear his readiness to meet
with his Soviet counterpart without,
any preconditions as to venue or
schedule.” But he added, “We would
only seek that any such meetings be
carefully prepared and have the
prospect of producing tangible re
sults.”
Roussel said the president is ready
to meet with the Soviets “as soon as
they return to the bargaining table,” -
but he later withdraw that as a condi
tion for a summit.
“Setting a fixed schedule for sum
mit meetings would not in and of it
self solve the very real substantive
problems existing between our two
countries with such different values
and interests,” he said.
A senior administration official
said Reagan wants to keep the issue
focused on a Soviet return to the
arms control talks. “We want to keep
them on the main road and not take
any side roads,” he said.
The issue came up at a time when
Republican campaign strategists are
worried about Reagan’s image on
the war and peace issue. Democratic
presidential candidate Walter Mon
dale has been calling for such sum
mits for months, and Democratic
television ads are playing up the fact
that Reagan is the first president
since the United States recognized
the Soviet Union in 1933 not to meet
with a Soviet chief executive.
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