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Local residents participate in Labor Day fund raisings
By MARYBETH ROHSNER
Reporter
(4-10 p.m. DAILY)
696-DAVE
326 Jersey St.
(Next to Bother’s Bookstore)
OPEN 11 a.m.
Daily
iPeace J^utheran Church
] 100 F.M. 2818 (at Rio Grande)
College Station, Texas 77840
Stan Sultemeier, Pastor
409/693-4403
Worship 8:15 & 10:45 a.m.
Study (2 yrs.-adult) 9:15 a.m.
Nursery 9:15 & 10:45 a.m.
A small friendly congregation that offers
new beginnings. Join Us.
A.L.C.
ATTENTION
Aggie Jaycees
Our First Meeting:
Sunday, Sept. 2
7:00 PM
Rudder Tower, RM 504
Be There!
for info: 693-5046
For many Bryan-College Station
residents, Labor Day is more than a
day off from work. It’s a chance to
fight against neuromuscular diseases
through the Jerry Lewis Labor Day
Telethon to benefit the Muscular
Dystrophy Association.
“The telethon is a great way of
getting contributions and recogni
tion for MDA,” says Steve Aldrich,
chairman of the Executive Telethon
Committee for the Brazos Valley
area. “It’s going to be good enter
tainment.”
KBTX-TV Channel 3 will broad
cast the telethon live from Las Vegas
with local updates every hour from
the Brazos Center. The 19th annual
telethon begins at 10:30 p.m. Sun
day and ends at 5:30 p.m. Monday.
Several groups will sponsor fund
raisers throughout the weekend.
Champs Sporting Goods is spon
soring a 10K race at 7:30 a.m. Satur
day. Runners will register tonight at
Champs or Saturday before the race
at the starting line behind Post Oak
Mall.
All 7-1 1 stores are Accepting do
nations for MDA. Radio station
WTAW has broadcast a “roof-a-
thon” from the roof of the 7-11 at
Briarcrest and East 29th Street since
Monday, 7-11 manager Greg Yar
brough says. Items donated by local
cna
merchants will be auctioned Satur
day at 9 a.m.
“We hope to make about
$15,000,” Yarbrough says. “I know
Aggies are going to be the best con
tributors.”
Bryan and College Station fire
fighters will collect donations at the
malls. Local Jaycees will sponsor car
nivals from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon
day at Manor East and Post Oak
malls. Both carnivals will feature
dunking booths and other games.
The Manor East Mall carnival in
cludes a breakdance contest and live
band. Bryhn-College Station Jaycees
President Ron Riggs says they expect
to raise $5,500.
Aldrich says Brazos Valley contri
butions totalled about $83,000 last
year.
“The goal for MDA is always a
dollar more than last year,” Aldrich
says. “We’re putting an emphasis on
health education and research this
year. New drugs are being devel
oped every day.’
Most MDA tunds eo to research
ts go
and patient services: 75.1 percent is
used for program services, 20.1 per-
cent goes to fund-raising efforts,
and 4.8 percent is for management
and general costs, Aldrich says.
MSC, Tower Dining Room renovation
turns sidewalk into obstacle course
By JULIE BAILEY
Reporter
Renovation on Rudder I ower
and the Memorial Student Center
have made walking around the Uni
versity Center like trying to get
through an obstacle course.
The Tower Dining Room win
dows are being replaced and the
roof of both Rudder Tower and the
MSC are being redone.
Dennis Busch, assistant manager
of the University Center, said cur
rent construction on the Power Din
ing Room is preventative mainte
nance.
e gla
floor of the Tower were shaking
during the windstorms last March,
he said.
The windows are being divided
into smaller sections and fastened
with metal frames and rubber
weather insulation for sturdiness
and longer wear. Since the work is
being done outside, the area below
has been roped off.
“I know it’s caused a lot of foot
and bike traffic, but I want the stu
dents to know it’s for their own safe
ty,” he said.
The Tower Dining Room will re
main open during construction
which should be finished in about
two weeks.
However, repair of the MSC and
Rudder rooftops will not be finished
until the end or September.
Busch says the leaky roofs are be
ing fixed by using polyurethane
foam — a fairly new technique. The
foam dries into a hard cement-like
texture in less than one minute and
could damage car paint if wet parti
cles blow down.
Signs are posted behind the MSC
Main Desk advising people not to
park on Lamar Street.
“When it’s all finished students
will walk in here and notice some
thing missing and not know whatit
is," ne said. “It’s the extra garbage
cans that were catching water.’’
The guest rooms in the MSC also
are being remodeled.
Busch said they will have new car
pel and vinyl walls, new bedspreads
and curtains, and the furniture will
l>e reupholstered.
The rooms still will be available
for guests during renovation. He
says they will be finished by
Christmas and rates will not increase
due to the remodeling.
Subcommittee says no to Texas love Canal
United Press International
AUSTIN — Citing a difference of
opinion among experts, a Texas
House subcommittee recommended
Thursday that the state indefinitely
suspend its search for a site for a
low-level radioactive waste disposal
facility.
“We must do everything within
our power to prevent a nuclear Love
Canal in Texas,” said Rep. Gary
Thompson, D-Abilene, chairman of
the House Subcommittee on Low
Level Nuclear Waste.
In a letter to House Speaker Gib
Lewis, Thompson said the panel also
recommended the appointment of a
citizens’ task force to review available
technology for the disposal of low-
level nuclear wastes.
“We are dealing with an issue that
can have profound consequences for
the state for generations,” he said.
Lewis said he would consider the
committee’s recommendation, al
though the panel has no authority to
enforce such a proposal.
The Texas Legislature in 1981
created a state agency to locate an
underground site before a Jan. 1,
1986, deadline for states to form re
gional agreements for the storage of
wastes.
After that date, the federal gov
ernment said the nation’s three
existing low-level dumps in South
Carolina, Washington and Nevada
would not he obligated to accept
wastes from Texas and other states.
But the 1986 deadline is under re
view since few states have moved to
form regional compacts.
Environmentalists told Thomp
son’s committee last week that if
Texas moved ahead with the devel
opment of a storage facility, it could
join the three other states as a na
tional dumping ground.
Experts testifying before the com
mittee also disagreed on whether the
facility should be underground or
above ground.
Texas has reviewed scores of pos
sible sites for a SOQ-acte, $IQ million
underground facifity, but has been
unable to settle on one- However,it
holds an option to buy a 456-acre
site in Dimmit County in Soulli
Texas.
The state produced 27,000 cubic
feet of low-level nuclear wastes in
1983 — mostly from hospitals, uni
versities and industry — but that fig
ure is expected to jump by 500 per
cent with two new nuclear power
plants coming on line in 1990. '
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