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New excuses
help avoid
traffic fines
Associated Press
SAN AN TONIO — Veteran San
Antonio traffic officers say after
having pulled over thousands of
speeding drivers, they’ve heard a lot
of outrageous excuses from people
hoping to get off with a warning.
They admit the more unusual and
outlandish the excuse they hear, the
more likely they are to let the motor
ist off. ^
“I never give a ticket to a person
that has a good excuse,” traffic Sgt.
Charles Dickinson told the San An
tonio Light.
‘‘1 only give them tickets for the
standard excuse. If they tell me they
were speeding because they had to
go to the bathroom, I just write all
the faster. That has to be the oldest
excuse.”
A 15-year veteran traffic officer
said he was left speechless by a story
given him by a harried motorist who
had been dodging through down
town traffic to get home.
“I have to get home quickly,” the
distraught businessman said after
being pulled over for speeding.
“I have to get home to make my
wife pregnant,” he said.
The officer stood there for a min
ute, pondering the man’s story.
The motorist said,“My wife and I
use natural birth control methods.
“She had just taken her tempera
ture and had called me at the office.
It was time.”
“I let him go,” the officer said.
“That was an original excuse — I
had never heard anything like it.”
Patrolman Gerald Marple, a 27-
year veteran of the traffic division,
said he stopped one driver going
100 mph on Loop 410 in San Anto
nio.
He told Marple that he had just
gotten out of the car wash and was
trying to blow dry his car.
“That would nave been all right,
but he was hiding behind a builaing
to avoid me,” Marple said.
Patrolman Mike Beers, a 16-year
veteran of the traffic beat, saia he
had problems convincing himself to
give a ticket to man who had no
hands and drove with his feet.
“All the controls were by the steer
ing wheel,” Beers said.
When he asked the man for his
driver’s license, Beers said, “He
pulled it out from his shirt pocket
with his foot. I just couldn’t take it. I
had to let him go.”
Patrolman Calvin Pullin, who has
worked the streets of San Antonio
for 31 years, says he once stopped a
woman who was eight months preg
nant.
When she got out of the car, her
driver’s license got away from her
and blew away with the wind, he
said.
“I ran after it, and the pregnant
woman was crying and running after
me,” Pullin said. “A motorist passing
by was looking at us and not paying
attention to me road. He rammed
into the car in front of him.
“So I had a major accident, a cry
ing pregnant woman and a lost li
cense on my hands. It was just like
something out of the Keystone
? Cops.”
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Monday
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS;wi 11 meet at the Pavilion 7 pan. to
8:30 pan. for the class and the club will meet 8:30 pan, to
10 pan. New classes will start for anyone who wishes to
learn to square dance.
ALPHA KAPPA PSI: will hold a general meeting at 6 pan, in
226 MSG. There will be a meeting f rom 7 pan. to 8:30 pan.
in 226 MSC for all interested business and economies ma
jors. Informal attire. For more information call 845-9528.
AUDIO ENGINEERING GROUP: will meet at 6 pan. in
Zachry lobby for yearbook picture.
ISSUES AND GRIEVANCES HEARING: will have an o;
forum for complaints about student government. Meet at
pan. in 110 Rudder.
METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT: will hold noon Bi
ble Study in Wesley Foundation Fellowship Hall. Lunch
provided for $]. At 7 pan. the yearbook |3icture will be
taken in Zachrv lobby.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP: will
hold a discussion entitled “Pros and Cons of Various Bible
Translations” at 7 pan. in 104A Zachry.
OFF—CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Zach;
lobby for yearbook picture. Dress casual.
PSI CHI/PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 7 p m. in 3<
Rudder. Dr. Worchef will speak.
TAU BETA PHI: will meet at 7:15 p.m. in Zachry lobby h
yearbook picture. Dress in business attire.
TEXAS A&M ENGINEERS: will hold an organization
meeting at 7 pan. in 342 Zachry. Gall 845-7248 for mo
information.
TAMUJAZZ BAND; will bold rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. in Cor
mons West Piano Room. A keyboardist is needed.
TEXAS A&M ASSOCIATION OF MARTIAL ARTS
meet 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in 267 East Kyle. Everyone welcome.
T uesdav
AGGIE ALLIANCE: will meet at 7 p.m. in 201 MSC- The
will be a guest speaker and discussion of projects for the
tnester.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA; will hold rush beginning at 7 p.m.
224 MSC.
ASIAN—AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7
in 120 Blocker for committee updates and discussion of or
ganteation. Call 846-4197 for more information.
BIG EVENT; will hold a general meeting at 7 p.m. in 7(
Rudder. *
CORPUS CHRISTI AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: will m
at 7 p.m. in 308 Rudder. Activities will Ire discussed a
dues collected. Call 260-5075 for more information.
HEB HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet to discuss activities ft
the spring semester at 7 p.m. in 200 Harrington.
HILLEL FOUNDATION: will hold a lunch with Rabbi T
low from noon tp 1:15 p.m. in the MSC Cafeteria. Tb
will discuss current events and social issues.
MSC AMATEUR RADIO COMMITTEE: will meet at 8 p.
| in 504 Rudder. T
OUTDOOR RECREATION COMMITTEE: will hold a w
eral meeting at 7 p.m. in 225/226 Rudder. Everyone w
come. Call 845-1515 for more information.
PRE—THEOLOGY SOCIETY: will hold a general meed
' at 7:30 p.m. in 503 Harrington. Call 696-7452 for more •
formation.
SAILING TEAM: will meet. at. 7 p.m. in 109 Military
Building to discuss theupconung regatta and set up
- "actices. Call 260-4870 tor more information.
U FLYING CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the clu
>89 for more ‘
house. New members welcome. Call 696-1
formation.
TEXAS A&M ASSOCIATION OF MARTIAL ARTS: will
meet from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in 267 Kyle. Everyone welcome.
TEXAS A&M ROADRUNNERS; will meet at 7 p.m. in 402
Rudder. Call 260-1028 for more information, nv .
TEXAS SURVEYOR’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8 p.t
in 118 Civil Engineering Building. Call 845-2419 for mot
information. :
Item# for What’s Up should be submitted to
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to
Horse race bill may restrict
voting to county, not state
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The Texas Horse
Radng Association, bucking what
Gov. Mark White says he wants, is
pushing a pari-mutuel betting bill
that leaves out a statewide vote.
White has said he would veto any
horse race bill that does not include
a statewide referendum and county
local option elections.
The THRA bill, to be filed next
week by Rep. Hugo Berlanga, has
only the county elections. His 1983
bill had both elections White said he
wants.
“Early next week, without ques
tion, we’re off,” Berlanga said. “We
got nipped at the finish line last
time. It was a photo finish, but we
lost.”
THRA lawyer Dick Ingram said,
“We feel like one vote is enough.”
But he also said there’s a “50-50
chance” the bill will wind up with a
statewide vote.
Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi, and
Ingram spoke Friday to an overflow
crowd of about 600 at THRA’s legis
lative conference.
“All the polls in the world show
the people of Texas want pari-mu
tuel wagering,” said Berlanga.
The THRA backers heard what
they wanted to hear in a report from
accountants hired to gauge the eco
nomic benefit of betting on horse
racing.
Art Cobb of Peat, Marwick and
Mitchell said the bottom line could
be as much as $1.2 billion a year for
the state economy. The new industry
could mean 30,000 new jobs, accord
ing to the Minneapolis accountant.
“It spreads to every corner of the
state of Texas,” said Cobb. “To vir
tually every citizen of the state of
Texas.”
The accountants’ projection is
based on three major Texas tracks,
one each in Dallas-Fort Worth,
Houston and the Austin-San Anto
nio area. It also included revenue
from seven smaller tracks.
Track builders would spend about
$500 million for construction, Cobb
said.
Berlanga predicted major tracks
could be open in Texas within two
years of legislative approval of pari
mutuel betting.
Legislators to propose bill to stop
waste dump plans in South Texas
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Two Texas legis
lators say they will try to thwart plans
of a state agency to locate a low-level
radioactive waste dump 60 miles
south of San Antonio in McMullen
County.
Rep. Ernestine Glossbrenner, D-
Alice, told the Austin American-
Statesman that she and Rep. Larry
Don Shaw, D-Spring, will introduce
a bill Monday to stop purchase of a
dump site until further investiga
tion.
“We don’t want any kind of toxic-
wastes in the watershed,” Glossbren
ner said. “We all drink that water.”
Rick Jacobi, general manager of
the Texas Low-Level Radioactive
Waste Disposal Authority, revealed
Saturday at a meeting of the Texas
Environmental Coalition that the
365-acre McMullen site was the
prime choice of the authority’s staff.
Jacobi told the environmental
group a public hearing would be
held in May in McMullen County be
fore purchase of the land for about
$688,000.
After that, he said, there would be
environmental studies by the state
Department of Health, with the pos-
siblity an operating license for the
dump could be issued by 1988.
Jacobi said the McMullen County
site is attractive because thick clay
under the surface would provide an
excellent seal on materials placed
there.
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Coed Dorms
Tavern on Campus
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