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New line for water will be built
for West Campus research park
By SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
A contract for construction of a wa-
' terline that will provide water for the
Texas A&M University West Cam
pus expansion will be awarded at the
September Board of Regents meet-
i ing, said a facilities and planning of-
| ficial.
Assistant Director Daniel Whitt
said Friday that construction on the
waterline will begin in October.
“It should take about a year to
build it,” he said.
The new waterline will loop
around West Campus, running from
FM 60 (University Drive) to FM
2818, from FM 2818 to Jersey
Street, and from Jersey Street to
Wellborn Road.
The waterline will provide the wa
ter supply for the research park that
will be built behind what is now West
Campus, bound by Jersey Street, FM
60 and FM 2818.
Construction work for the park,
to include an ocean drilling program
building worth $4.8 million, will be
contracted this month.
The new waterline also will supply
water to Easterwood Airport, and
the Firemen’s Training School.
Whitt said the new line will be able to
handle greater water volume and
pressure.
Whitt said work on the waterline
will begin on University Drive near
the West Bypass.
Gen. Wesley Peel, vice-chancellor
! of facilities and planning, said there
“will be occasions when there will be
some temporary traffic interrupt
ions.”
The research park is part of the
ambitious West Campus Expansion
Plan to possibly extend the campus
all the way out to FM 2818.
"We can only expand west be
cause there’s no place else to go,”
Peel said. “Texas A&M owns all that
land.
“The idea is for big companies,
such as Shell, to lease the land from
the University and build pure re
search buildings here.”
The plan also includes construc
tion of a new systems administration
building, a new physical plant, a new
poultry science center and a track
and field events center with adjacent
.intramural fields.
The park will cost an estimated $7
million.
Peel said the park will be com
pletely devoted to research, not aca
demics, although it is probable that
students and faculty will be em
ployed there.
Early plans place the new poultry
science center at the corner of West
Campus bound by FM 2818, near
the sewage treatment plant.
There also are tentative plans for
a track and field events center,
which would be located at the corner
of Beef Cattle Road and Jersey
Street. The center would be funded
by donations.
A new systems administration
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 F M 60 and FM
2818 and will cost an estimated $7.5
million.
Employees working in the current
Systems Administration Building
will move to the old administration
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. The 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 library
is part of the $ 10 million package for
construction of the medical science
complex located across the street
from the Veterinary Medicine Com
plex and will be used by both veteri
nary 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 main
campus. The new engineering and
physics building is being built on
Spence Street between the Doherty
Building and the Cyclotron.
Parking Annex 7 was torn down
to make way for this $18.8 million
project. The building should be fin
ished by December 1985.
Woman arrested
for newborn death
in Dallas airport
United Press International
DALLAS — Murder charges will
probably be filed this week against a
22-year-old woman arrested in the
death of a newborn boy whose body
was found in a trash can at the Dal-
las-Fort Worth Regional Airport, au
thorities said Sunday.
Airport Police Chief Tom Shehan
said a janitor discovered the baby’s
body in a restroom in the Delta Air
lines terminal at 6:40 p.m. CDT Fri
day.
The death was ruled a homicide
after Tarrant County Medical Ex
aminer R.O. Medford said an au
topsy showed the baby died of “as-
phyxiation due to manual
strangulation” shortly after birth.
The Garland, Texas, woman was
arrested Saturday afternoon as she
prepared to board a flight to Baton
Rouge, La.
“She has not formally been
charged,” Shehan said. The woman
was questioned Saturday and re
leased Sunday on a $5,000 writ of
habeas corpus for murder.
“We will probably file formal
murder charges against the lady ei
ther Monday afternoon or Tuesday
morning at the Tarrant County Dis
trict Attorney’s Office,” Shehan said.
He said it was unclear whether the
woman was married and he did not
know why she was going to Baton
Rouge.
“Quite frankly, she didn’t tell us
much of anything,” he said.
He said investigators learned the
woman’s name from airport person
nel who reported that they nad as
sisted a woman found hemorrhag
ing at the airport Friday night.
Shehan said evidence indicted the
full-term infant was born in the res
troom, but they had not determined
why the newborn was killed.
“We’ve got a good suspect,” She
han said. “We don’t know if she
planned to kill the baby. Maybe she
panicked ... that probably is the
case.”
He said the woman “exhibited re
morse,” but he would not elaborate.
Bush commemorates
experiences in WWII
Construction of new chemistry building.
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 West Campus, is cur
rently being designed, he said, and
the old building will be torn down. A
2,000 car parking garage will be
built on that site to compensate for
the loss of parking in the mall area.
A new civil engineering building
that would tie into the McNew Engi
neering Lab is being designed. Be
sides being a classroom site for civil
engineering students, it will house
the Texas Transportation Institute
and the Engineering Design Group.
Uvalde boy second victim of rare meningitis
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO —A 12-year-old
Uvalde boy died Sunday from a type
of meningitis contracted while swim
ming at a state park, a hospital
spokeswoman said, the second death
this summer from the rare disorder.
Ben Wright, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J.C. Wright of Uvalde, had
lieen treated for amoebic menin-
gioencephalitis since July 28, about a
week after he went swimming in the
Frio River in Garner State Park. He
died at 7:40 p.m. Sunday, said Bar
bara Williams, a spokeswoman at
Southwest Methodist Hospital.
“The doctor who was treating
him. Chief of Pediatrics Marshall
Benbow, said that in the last day or
so his heart had slowed and he had
cardiac arrest Sunday night,” Wil
liams said.
“He was in the pediatric intensive
care unit the entire time and most of
that time he was in a coma, on life
support and in isolation,” she said.
Health officials believed the boy
contracted the disease while swim
ming in the untreated river water at
the park and the state parks depart
ment banned swimming there.
The Uvalde boy was the second to
die from the rare disease this sum
mer. Derek Leach, a 3-year-old Ir
ving, Texas, boy, died July 2 after
swimming at Lake Grapevine in sub
urban Dallas.
United Press International
NORFOLK, Va.— The Navy
rolled out its relics and its modern
warships Sunday to honor Vice Pres
ident George Bush, who was
plucked from the Pacific 40 years
ago when his World War II bomber
was shot down.
Bush told a crowd of about 200
Navy brass and spectators at Atlantic
Fleet headquarters “the surest way to
keep the peace is to keep the United
States prepared.”
In his seven-minute speech. Bush
echoed President Reagan’s line that
“no war was ever started because we
were too strong ... a strong and se
cure United States is the best de
fense guarantee of world peace.”
The trip, which he called “a very
moving occasion for me,” was desig
nated as non-political, meaning tax
payers picked up the tab for what
was essentially a photo opportunity
for Bush to hail his war record the
day before he begins a campaign
swing through the South.
At age 20, the youngest bomber
pilot in the American military, Lt.
Bush was shot down over an obscure
island chain held by the Japanese
and bobbed in a life raft six hours
before rescue by a submarine.
Bush stood on a platform at the
end of a pier flanked by the Avenger
torpedo oomber of the type he flew
to glory and the nuclear-powered
submarine USS Finback —namesake
of the diesel sub that rescued him as
he bobbed in the water.
Facing him on either side were the
massive nuclear-powered carriers
USS Nimitz and John F. Kennedy.
Navy Secretary John Lehman, in
introducing Bush, said his exploits
were similiar to Kennedy’s in World
War II. The president’s PT boat was
sunk by the Japanese in the Pacific.
Bush was piped aboard the Fin
back for a tour of its control room
and was lunching with colleagues
from his old air group aboard the
Kennedy.
Noting the contrast between the
technology available to him in World
War II and the modern devices
aboard the carriers. Bush said,
“technological superiority isn’t an
abstract question for our soldiers,
sailors and fliers — its a matter of
life and death.”
A spokesman said the honor was
set up by Navy Secretary John Leh
man to commemorate the shooting
down and the rest of Bush’s career
in public life — congressman, Re
publican national chairman, United
Nations ambassador, envoy to Pe
king, head of the CIA and vice presi
dent.
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