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KANM
Station searching for local rock band
to compete in national competition
By LISAJANNEY
Reporter
Radio station KANM-FM is
looking for the best progressive
rock’n’roll band in Bryan-College
Station to compete with other
bands across the nation in “Ame
rica’s Best.”
The College Music Journal and
Epic Records are sponsoring “A-
merica’s Best,” the first rock’n’roll
talent search involved exclusively
with college and progressive ra
dio.
KANM Summer Music Direc
tor Georgette Nicolaides says
bands must be unsigned and sub
mit an original song on cassette
by Aug. 15 to be eligible.
Nicolaides says KANM man
agement will pick the best origi
nal song, one exhibiting talent
and potential for success, and
submit it for national competi
tion.
She says all other tapes remain
the property of the artists and will
be returned.
“Bryan-College Station has
some talented bands and we’re
(KANM) looking forward to
hearing their songs,” she says.
Nicolaides says The College
Music Journal will choose the 10
best of all the tapes submitted. Fi
nalists will be asked to submit a
quality reel-to-reel recording of
KANM Summer .1 Music
Director Georgette Nic~
oiaides says bands must be
unsigned and submit an
original song on cassette
by Aug. 15 to be eligible.
The best song will be
picked for the contest. : "
their song to appear on a compi
lation LP of “America’s Best Un
discovered Artists.”
According to The College Mu
sic Journal, the album containing
10 of these Finalist tracks will be
for retail sale and be distributed
promotionally. The promotional
albums will contain ballot cards
allowing listeners to vote for their
favorite song.
Nicolaides says all ballots will
be counted and the winning band
presented with an award during
the New Music Awards Cere
mony in New York Nov. 9.
Nicolaides says the station is
looking forward to the promotio
nal exposure and recognition it
will receive by participating in “A-
merica’s Best.”
“Even if our (local) band isn’t
chosen as a finalist, our name still
will be mentioned in awards liter
ature and in the convention pro
gram guide,” she says.“If our
band is chosen as one of the fi
nalists, KANM management will
receive free tickets to The College
Music Journal convention and
New Music Awards Ceremony.
We’d love that!”
In addition, the 10 stations
submitting finalists will receive
credit on the “America’s Best” al
bum as well as advertisements
and press coverage.
The station submitting the win
ner will be introduced on stage at
the Beacon Theatre and assist in
presenting the award to the win
ning band, she says.
“We’re (KANM) trying to offer
more of a variety to our listeners
by playing rock, jazz, rhythm and
blues and heavy metal,” she says.
She says the station is available
to listeners on cable only, but is
hoping to raise money to move to
an FM channel.
Nicolaides says bands having
any questions about the contest
should call the station at 845-
5923.
“We’re trying to promote the
contest through on-the-air an
nouncements and flyers distrib
uted throughout the community
to maximize local participation,”
she says.
Judge rules HUD policies
promote racial segregation
Associated Press
TYLER — A federal judge has found that the De
partment of Housing and Urban Development’s poli
cies in 36 East Texas counties discriminate against mi
norities in public housing.
U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice said
Wednesday that “a single, uniform policy of knowingly
supporting segregated housing in East Texas,” has
been maintained by HUD.
Justice signed an order giving the agency time to pro-
ose a desegregation plan to settle a lawsuit filed on be-
alf of blacks living in public housing in the 36 counties.
Counties included in the order are Anderson, An
gelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta, Franklin,
Gregg, Hardin, Harrison, Henderson, Hopkins, Hous
ton, Jasper, Jefferson, Lamar, Liberty, Marion, Morris,
Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Panola, Polk, Red
River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Ti
tus, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt and Wood.
HUD, which provides financial support, assistance
and oversight to providers of public housing, now will
be given time to propose a desegregation plan.
Michael Daniel, a Dallas attorney who represented
the plaintiffs in the 5-year-old case, said HUD had
shown little or no effort to resolve the segregation in
East Texas public housing when officials acknowledged
the problem in 1983.
“It’s a strong situation,” he said. “They’re assigning
people on the basis of race. It’s not subtle. It’s Old
South segregation.
“All throughout East Texas, it’s still segregated. Lit
erally, overtly, they assign whites to white housing and
blacks to black housing.”
A Washington, D.C.-based attorney for the Depart
ment of Justice, Arthur Goldberg, said he had not seen
the order and could not comment on it.
The suit was brought in 1980 after a group of public
housing residents alleged that HUD “knowingly main
tained, and continues to maintain, a system of racially
segregated housing in violation of the Constitution and
laws of the United States.”
In his 66-page order, Justice said, “HUD has one
chief function as an agency: to offer public housing.
The public housing it offers in the class action counties
is segregated. Applicants have a choice of white projects
or black projects. Residents live in one or the other.
Clearly, both groups suffer from the policy.”
The document also said HUD’s policy of maintaining
segregated housing “can fairly be characterized as a
general policy of discrimination which manifests itself
in a wide range of HUD practices.”
Couple opens laundry-deli-bar
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Jon and
Brenda Thompson have the remedy
for everyone tired of those boring
hours spent at the laundromat wait
ing for the dryer to stop spinning.
They plan to open Sip N Spin,
San Antonio’s first combination bar-
delicatessen-launderette.
“This is the new wave of the laun
dry future,” Thompson said.
The new business, set to open.
Aug. 12, will be located in a 3,000-
square-foot building in northwest
San Antonio.
A third of the space will be taken
up with the bar-delicatessen, which
will be separated from the laundry
by a glass wall.
Customers will be able to sip wine
or beer, have a soft drink, a sand
wich, or a breakfast roll while still
keeping an eye on the washing ma
chines.
The Sip N Spin also will offer a
play room for children and a wash
and fold service.
“It ought to be a really great way
to do something that’s no fun to do,”
Mrs. Thompson said.
Police beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through Aug. I;
MISDEMEANOR 1 HltT: ; :
• Five wallets were stolen from
various locations on campus. ;
• Five bicycles were stolen
from various locations on cam
pus. .iil":
• A backpack was stolen from
Sterling C. Evans Library.
• A Sony Trinitron television
was stolen from the Veterinary
Medicine Complex.
• Someone removed $91 from
a wallet in 5X7 Harrington
Tower.
BURGLARY OF A MOTOR
VEHICLE;' •.
• A battery was stolen from a
Buick Skylark in Parking Annex
34. .
• Radio equipment was stolen
from a G M C pk k u p in PA 2D, ,
BURGLARY OF A HABITA-.
TION:
• A Radio Shack computer
was stolen from 217 Keathley.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• A man set off a smoke bomb
on the front porch of the Univer
sity Police Department,
• Several trash cans of water
were dumped on the second and
third floors of Dorm 10. *
FALSE ALARM:
• Five false fire alarms were
reported at various dorms on
campus.
FELONY THEFT:
♦A 1979 Datsun was stolen
from PA 15.
• A JVC color video camera
was stolen from 224B Zachry En
gineering Center.
Water consumption
declines in Austin
Associated Press
AUSTIN — As police ticketed vi
olators of Austin’s outdoor watering
restrictions, officials Thursday said
water use plunged by nearly 17 mil
lion gallons after hitting record lev
els earlier in the week.
Outdoor watering restrictions also
were begun in several rural areas as
weather across Central Texas re
mained hot and dry.
Austin’s three water treatment
plants pumped 146.1 million gallons
on Wednesday, the first day police
enforced the watering rules with
tickets. That compared to 162.9 mil
lion gallons used on Tuesday, a re
cord which pushed pumping capac
ity near its limit, officials said.
“We have a high degree of com
pliance,” said Jerry Lawson, director
of the Austin Resource Managee-
ment Department. “People aren’t
opposed to what’s going on.”
The city’s booming population
growth — not waste — appears to be
the culprit behind the high levels of
consumption, he said.
“There are just so many more cus
tomers, even though they are trying
to be conservative,” Lawson said.
“There's been a lot of growth in the
system.”
Lawson also said that because the
heavy consumption has occurred on
weekdays rather than weekends, of
ficials believe business users rather
than homeowners may be responsi
ble for much of the increased de
mand.
City Manager Jorge Carrasco im
posed mandatory conservation mea
sures on Sunday after water use
topped the city’s 150 million gallon
daily limit.
Under the mandatory rules, lawn
watering can be done only once ev
ery five days, based on a rotating sys
tem keyed to the last number of
street addresses. Watering is prohib
ited between noon and 7 p.m. Re
strictions also apply to washing of
cars. Violators can be fined up to
$200, and police said 13 tickets were
issued Wednesday.
Austin, located on the Colorado
River, has a plentiful supply of wa
ter. But the city’s treatment and dis
tribution system has failed to keep
pace with population growth.
Last summer, mandatory restric
tions were imposed from mid-July to
mid-August. Lawson said Thursday
he believes the current restrictions
will remain in place at least through
August.
The Aqua Water Supply Corp.,
which serves some 7,000 customers
in rural areas of five counties, has-
joined Austin in annoucing manda
tory water restrictions.
The company said Wednesday
that customers are restricted from
water use outdoors until Tuesday
and after that will be limited to
hand-held watering Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Jim Trigg, manager of the com
pany with customers in Bastrop,
Travis, Lee, Caldwell and William
son counties, said hot weather had
sparked the increased consumption
that strained the company’s distribu
tion system.
Survey says
people are
buckling up
Associated Press
AUSTIN — More Texans have
been wearing seat belts since com
mercials featuring Gov. Mark White
began airing in advance of a new
state law requiring their use in cars
and pickups, an opinion poll shows.
Gene Fondren, executive vice
president of the Texas Automobile
Dealers Association, said the survey
also indicates that more Texans now
support the law requiring belts to be
worn.
The survey followed television
and radio advertisements in which
the governor urges motorists to
buckle up.
White signed into law a bill that —
beginning Sept. 1 — will require belt
use. The Taw followed pressure from
the federal government, which has
threatened to force automakers to
install airbags unless states require
seat belt use.
At a seat belt conference in Austin
on Thursday, Fondren said the
White commercials have been effec
tive in changing Texans’ attitudes.
“To the best of my knowledge,
Texas is the only state which has had
the good fortune of having its chief
executive step up front and center
and go on the line without any reser
vation or hesitation in favor of seat
belt use and in support of a manda
tory seat belt law,” Fondren said.
Fondren said that according to
the most recent survey, 52 percent
said they frequently wear seat belts,
compared with 43 percent who gave
that response in a poll before the ad
campaign began.
Of the 52 percent who described
themselves as frequent wearers,
Fondren reported that 25 percent
said they wear belts at all times and
27 percent wear them most of the
time.
The survey also showed that the
number of those who said they wear
belts “infrequently” dropped from
54 percent before the ads to 48 per
cent, Fondren said.
And 69 percent now say they fa
vor mandatory seat belt use, up from
51 percent in an earlier poll, he said.
Of the White commercials, Fond
ren said, “They very obviously are
working.”
Speaking at the conference, White
said he is convinced that wearing
seat belts saves lives Ifnd voiced the
hope that more Texans will share his
feeling.
“I am not only persuaded, I’m
convinced that the use of seat belts
will dramatically lower the number
of injuries and deaths occurring on
the roads,” he said.
He urged the news media to re
port in stories about traffic accidents
whether victims were wearing seat
belts, saying that would increase
public awareness.
White also said the survey results
should quiet Republican critics.
Representative
says he’ll run
for railroad
commissioner
Associated Press
AUSTIN — While Railroad Com
missioner Buddy Temple said
Thursday he “definitely” won’t seek
re-election next year, GQP state
Rep. Ed Emmett got into the race.
Temple said he won’t be a candi
date for any office in 1986, but he
did not rule out a future race.
“It’s been a very interesting expe
rience and I’ve enjoyed it,” Temple
said of his term on the three-mem
ber commission. “After six years of it
and eight in the Legislature I’m re
ady to devote more time to my busi
ness interest for awhile.”
Temple, 43, ran for governor in
1982, running second to Gov. Mark
White in the Democratic Primary
and then withdrawing from the run
off.
He said “in all likelihood” any fu
ture race he would enter would be
for governor or U.S. Senate.
“It’s good for people in political
life to get out occassionally and get a
different perspective,” Temple said.
Emmett said he would not have
run if Temple chose to seek another
term. At a Capitol news conference
to announce his candidacy, he prom
ised major changes in the commis
sion’s regulation of trucking.
Emmett, chairman of the House
Energy Committee, failed this year
to win approval for measures he said
would have taken unsafe truckers
off the road. He also favors a truck
ing regulation system that would al
low more competition.
“The Railroad Commission’s reg
ulation of intrastate trucking is ar
chaic,” Emmett said. “The results
are that our highways are more dan
gerous and Texas shippers and con
sumers are forced to pay millions of
dollars in inflated costs.
“Far too many accidents and
deaths are caused by trucks and
truck drivers who should not have
been on our highways. I aim to get
them off the road before the acci
dents.”
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