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By ROBERT MCGLOHON
Staff Writer
Mayor Gary Halter has pro
claimed Aug. 20 through Sept. 20
Energy Conservation Month in Col
lege Station.
The signing of that proclamation
was the first order of business at Col
lege Station’s^ regular city council
meeting Thursday night. It was the
first salvo in a public relations blitz
designed to reduce the city’s yearly
peak demand for electricity.
The city’s peak demand, which is
reached within several days of the
start of fall classes each year at Texas
A&M University, determines the
rate the city pays for electricity for
the following 12 months.
City officials hope to reduce that
rate in light of a 30-50 percent in
crease in power costs expected for
the start of 1985.
In other business Thursday night,
the council approved a request for
yearly dues of $15 for the College
Station Teen Center. The council
also approved “Shenanigans” as the
name for the Teen Center.
The center, now under construc
tion next to the College Station
Community Center on Jersey Street,
is expected to open in October. It
will have a capacity of 150 people.
The request was submitted to the
council by Chuck Benedict, chair
man of the Teen Center Advisory
Committee.
Also at Thursday’s meeting, Col
lege Station Community Devel
opment Coordinator Michael Ste
vens submitted for council approval
a statement of objectives and pro
jected uses of funds for the city’s
Community Development Program.
The council unanimously ap
proved the statement, which will be
submitted to the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
Stevens told the council he ex
pects a budget of $955,000 for the
coming fiscal year, $744,000 of
which is a federal letter of credit.
The remaining funds will come
from unencumbered balances and
program income.
The projected uses of funds
breaks down as follows: $440,000,
housing assistance program;
$400,000, street construction pro
gram; $80,000 program administra
tion; $35,000 Northgate revitaliza
tion.
And following an executive ses
sion, the council corrected an over
site in its budget. The council raised
the salaries of both the city’s munici
pal judge and assistant judge. Mu
nicipal judge Claude Davis’s salary
was raised from $900 a month to
$1,200 a month. Assistant Judge
Phillip Banks’s monthly salary was
raised from $200 to $250.
Rabid bat
scratches
Austinite
United Press International
AUSTIN — A woman who was
scratched by a bat that later was
found to be rabid began a series of
five anti-rabies shots Thursday at a
local hospital.
Pam Nolley of the Health Depart
ment said a bat that scratched Austin
resident Cyndi Hughes was a rabies
carrier.
Hughes was scratched by the bat
while leaving the Austin American-
Statesman building, where she
works as a features editor. The
American-Slatesman is located near
an Austin bridge that houses hun-
| deed's of bats.
. Employees of : the newspaper
caught the bat and it was turned
over to the Health Department for
i testing.
Chairman makes no promises on issue
GOP platform committee opposes tax hike
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Republi
can platform committee is drafting
“very strong, positive language” op
posing tax increases but making no
flat promises on the issue, the chair
man of the panel said Thurdsay.
“Nothing is in cement,” Rep.
Trent Lott, R-Miss., told a news con
ference four days before the 106-
member committee convenes in Dal
las next week, where the party opens
its national convention Aug. 20.
The Mississippi Republican said
he is “convinced the president wants
iron-clad language” objecting to tax
hikes in the f ace of Democrat Walter
Mondale saying he will raise taxes to
reduce the budget deficit.
Lott, the House Republican whip,
said that after recent negotiations
with the White House and conserva
tives, he feels “pretty close to having
99 percent” of the platform lan
guage on taxes draf ted.
“I think it will be very strong, posi
tive language saying we are opposed
to tax increases,” he said. “But noth
ing is in cement. I think it will be
very definitive, categorical no-tax
language, but it will say first and
foremost that we think that the
problem, of the deficit should be
dealt with by reducing spending.”
“As we move along, we’re going to
make our position very clear. It’s
going to be clear that Mondale really
wants tax increases and that we
don’t.”
Lott predicted party harmony on
the tax issue despite complaints
from COP conservatives demanding
unconditional, no-tax language.
But Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.,
and six other conservative House
members told another news confer
ence they were prepared to wage a
fight at the Republican National
Convention if the platform does not
reject tax increases. ~
Space shuttle taken to launch pad for third try
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The
space shuttle Discovery, thwarted in
its first two attempts to launch its
maiden voyagG : was hauled back to
the launch pad Thursday for a third
try — with a double payload — Aug.
29.
Mounted atop the space agency’s
ponderous crawler-transporter, it
took about seven hours for the shut
tle to complete the 3-mile trip to the
devated concrete pad after leaving
the huge Vehicle Assembly Building
at 10:36 p.m. Wednesday.
Workers at the Kennedy Space
Center planned to spend the rest of
the day hooking up various electrical
connections between the shuttle and
ground facilities.
Technicians hope to complete
tests over the weekend to make sure
Discovery’s three main engines are
leak-free. A final countdown dem
onstration test is scheduled for Aug.
15.
Discovery’s payload is made up of
what was to have been flown on its
first two missions.
The cargo was combined for the
revised flight because of the shuttle’s
launch abort June 26 and the subse
quent cancellation of what would
have been its second mission.
The payload — two commercial
communications satellites, a military
relay station and an experimental so
lar cell array — was delivered to the
launch pad earlier this week.
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