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United Press International
LAKE CHARLES, La. — The Coast
Guard took advantage of favorable
winds Tuesday to build a makeshift
corral around a 690-foot British
tanker that ran aground, spilling
more than 1 million gallons of crude
oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
The winds blew the oilslick, esti
mated at 11 to 14 miles long and
about 200 yards wide, out into the
Gulf, away from shoreline wildlife
preserves in Louisiana and Texas,
the Coast Guard said Tuesday night.
Thunderstorms raked the area,
but apparently did not change the
direction of the massive slick, head
ing southwest on a course parallel to
the shore, officials said.
The tanker Alvenus, carrying 1.7
million gallons of Venezuelan crude
oil, struck an uncharted shoal or
other submerged object in the ship
channel Monday on its way to port at
Lake Charles.
The ship, with a large crack in its
bow above the waterline, drifted
back to the open gulf and struck bot
tom. Officials said 40,000 barrels of
crude leaked during the first 24
hours.
The Coast Guard said the ship re
mained seaworthy and would be
moved as soon as containment of the
slick progressed. Some crude will be
pumped from the tanker into a
barge, officials said.
Authorities described the corral as
a floating plastic fence designed to
surround the oil while pumps are
used to suck crude off the water sur
face.
Two helicopters, which took 14
crew members to shore, and a Coast
Guard cutter stood by in case the
huge vessel began to take on water.
But some of those 14 were returned
Crosby:
five years
too harsh
United Press International
DALLAS — The prospect of serving
five years in a Texas prison on co
caine and weapons charges dis
tresses musician David Crosby, but
proscutors said Tuesday appeals
may well keep him out of jail for up
to five years anyway.
Crosby, appearing Tuesday on
the “CBS Morning News,” said he
considers the five-year drug sen
tence he received on Aug. 5, 1983,
too harsh because officers caught
him with only a “fingernail of some
substance,” later identified as co
caine.
The 42-year-old musician was also
charged after his 1982 arrest in a
Dallas nightclub with possessing a
loaded .45-caliber automatic and re
ceived a three-year term to be served
concurrently with the drug charge.
Crosby, who is currently touring
the country with Crosby, Still and
Nash, is free on an appeal bond.
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to the vessel by public health officers
who said the crew members had an
undetermined rash, Coast Guard of
ficials said. A crew of 21 remained
aboard.
In Washington, Rep. John
Breaux, D-La., called for the ship to
be unloaded immediately to prevent
its breakup and stop additional spill
age.
The ship belongs to Alvenus Corp.
of London, which assumed responsi
bility for the spill. Conoco Oil Co.
owns the cargo. The owner and its
U.S. agent both have agreed to coor
dinate the cleanup.
Traffic into Lake Charles was lim
ited to vessels with less than 35-foot
drafts.
If the wind shifts, the oil slick —
located 30 miles southeast of Port
Arthur, Texas — would threaten the
Sabine National Wildlife Refuge on
the Texas coast and the Rockefeller
Wildlife Refuge across the Louisiana
line.
The shallow, often swampy coast
along the gulf is vital for shrimp and
oyster production, and provides a
rich habitat for waterfowl, shore-
birds, songbirds, alligators and a
wide range of fur bearers.
Biologists said the only way for
the spill to cause severe damage
would be for a strong south wind to
push the oil into the marshes
through one of the narrow passes
splitting the strip of sandy beaches.
“If we had to have a spill, it
couldn’t happen in a better place,”
said Allen Ensminger, refuge divi
sion chief of the Louisiana Depart
ment of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Around town
Science students must take exam
Any junior or senior in the College of Science who has not pi?,
viously taken the English Proficiency Examination should plan to
take the test August 9 unless they have completed English 301 witha
minimum grade of C. Students in the College of Science are required
to pass either English or the test in order to qualify as a degree candi
date.
The English Proficiency Exam will lie administered by the En
glish Department. Students in the Biology, Chemistry, Mathematic?
and Physics Departments should register for the exam in 313 Biolog
ical Sciences Building before August 8.
Chamber sponsors computer seminar
The Small Business Council of the Bryan-College Station Cham
ber of Commerce will present a seminar on “Microcomputers in
Small Businesses,” Thursday at 7 p.m. in the chamber of commerce
building at 401 S. Washington. The cost is $10 in advance and
$12.50 at the door. Please call the chamber office at 779-2278 forad-
vance registration.
SPCAto hold dog bath and dip Sunday
The Brazos Valley SPCA will !>e having a dog dip on Sunday
from 12 to 5 p.m. in the Manor East Mall parking lot. A Ilea dip will
be given for a donation of $3 and a bath and a dip for $5. For fur
ther information, please contact the Brazos Valley SPCA at 775-
6491.
Driving safety class offered
The Texas A&M After Hours Program will sponsor a driver
safety course Aug. 3-4 and Aug. 10-11. This course may be used to
have certain traffic violations dismissed and to receive a 10 percent
discount on automobile insurance.
Registration is 8-5 Monday through Friday in 216 MSC. For
more information, call 845-9352.
Expansion
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Building also is being designed and
Facilities and Planning will begin ad
vertising for construction bids in
January. The new building will be
located at the intersection of FM 60
(University Drive) and FM 2818 and
will cost an estimated $7.5 million.
Employees working in the current
Systems Administration Building
will be moved to the new administra
tion building. Administrative offi
cials currently working in the Coke
Building will move to the old admin
istration building. Peel said the old
building will be renovated before the
move. The Coke Building will be
used for faculty office space.
Facilities Planning and Construc
tion also is designing a plan to land
scape the western part of the cam
pus. This project will be contracted
for next spring.
Buildings currently under con
struction on West Campus are:
• The Medical Sciences Library,
located at FM 60 is scheduled for
completion in May 1985. The Li
brary is part of the $10 million pack
age for construction of the Medical
Sciences Complex located across the
street from the Veterinary Medicine
Complex and will be used by both
veterinary and medical students.
• The Agricultural Engineering
Research Laboratory, located near
Agronomy Road, will be completed
in February 1985 at a cost of $1.8
million.
There also are several buildings
under construction on the mam
campus. Students and faculty can no
longer drive or park on Spence
Street from University Drive to Ross
Street because it has been closed off
to facilitate construction of the new
Engineering and Physics Building.
Parking Annex 7 was torn down
to make way for this $18.8 million
project. The building should be fin
ished by December 1985.
A short section of Spence Street
from Ross Street south has been
closed for construction of the new
Chemistry Building. The building is
scheduled for completion in May
1987 at a cost of $18 million.
Peel said that eventually most of
the area surrounding this building
will be made into a landscaped mall.
A new Physical Plant, which will be
located at the West Campus, is cur
rently being designed, he said, and
the old building will be torn down. A
2,000 car parking garage will kl
built on that site to compensate fu
the loss of parking in the mall area
A new Civil Engineering -
that would tie into the McNew
neering Lab is being designed. Bt
sides being a classroom site form
engineering students, it will hous
the Texas Transportation InstitB
and the Engineering Design Group
Renovation also accounts In
much of the construction on cat
pus. The buildings being renovaw
are:
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• The Civil Engineering Coia
plex on Spence Street was “indt *
plorable condition,” Peel said, and:
now being renovated.
He said that the building was ok
a veterinary hospital, and that "noil
ing had been done to it” since tk
time. The project, which cost
million, should be completed in Ai l
gust.
• Renovation of the outside c:
the Academic Building will be
ished in November. The projects
$926,000.
• The interior of the Veterinai 1
Medicine Complex also is beingrt
furbished at a cost of $2 million
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