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Harvey 693-0920 Monday-Saturday 10-9 OPEN SUNDAY NOON-6 Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday August 28,1985 San Antonio to ge new greenhouse beneath ground Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — A half-acre underground greenhouse is under construction near the downtown area at a cost of $6.5 million, the head of the San Antonio Botanical Society announced Tuesday. Hall Hammond, president of the society, said the 90,000 square-foot conservatory, which is scheduled lot completion next fall, will be home for some 20,000 plants and trees. The conservatory is being built mostly underground to provide pro tection for the plant life from the in tense heat and sunlight of South Texas. Designer Emilio Ambasz said, “We had to provide protection for the plants so they wouldn’t bake. So we created a vessel underground, using the earth to cool and protect the plants.” The garden, to be called the Lu- cile Halsell Conservatory, will be visi ble above ground only by glass roofs that will allow in a controlled amount of light, Abasz said. Once the underground green house is complete, it will be handed over to the city for maintenance, Hammond said. Mayor Henry Cisneros, who was on hand for the announcement. said, “It is a major gift,araaioti for the people of San Antoniot joy.” . , “ I his is really going tobej thing special for our dty.'he “It will be one of the trulyJ speaces in any city in theUlA.' The conservatory, CisneraJ “will allow people respectfulof lure to walk through and see ; life not usually seen in SouthTd The plants will include troa palms, rain forest ferns andj cacti. The garden will be built ankl Antonio Botanical Gardens,! run facility on a promontoryn of downtown San Antonio. The botanical society, a lodj port group for the gardens, the funds for the project.Thtil of the money is from theEwinti sell Foundation, which contri $5 million. Hammond predicted thei ground gardens will attractn attention architecturally andii tourism standpoint. Ambasz said San Antonios! and caleche soil createdconsi concern f or designers. “A considerable partoftht^ get went into the foundation, was designed to accoinmodaitj shifting in the soil, he said. Resign (continued from page 1) in Alaska, hasn’t seen it yet. 1 he governor is due back in Austin late Wbdnesday, she said. “The letter did come in today,” she said. “It was two or three sen tences, stating his intention to re sign” Gunn, (if Wichita falls, was ap pointed to the corrections board in 1981 by then-Gov. Bill Clem ents. He has been chairman for about two years but has indicated for some time he didn’t intend to serve out his six-year term. Contacted liy KAUZ-TV, Gunn said Tuesday he was happy about his decision to resign and said it “was a good time for an easy transition” because the cor rections board was “changing in purpose and effort.” Also Tuesday, the Pale 1 lerald-Fress reported thatGd plans to resign immediately. The newspaper said it hadi tained a copy of a letter f sent fellow prison board hers. “1 resign without any hardlil ings and only minimal reyif.l Gunn stated in the letter. In the letter, Gunn notediii the pr ison system has sellleib 13-year-old reform la«s brought by an inmate that: sparked wide-ranging chanpl prison operations. “Actually, it is time, withau administration in place, foran chairman to be installed tol the compliance effort andtoj reel (the prison system)onitsK course, whatever it may be, ! Herald-Press quoted thelettfll sayiny:. Gay Law (continued from page 1) “I think it’s a real turning in our courts,” said Keith Thornton, a den tist and official of Dallas Doctors Against AIDS, a group that includes 46 doctors and dentists. But Judge Irving Goldberg, a member of the three-judge panel that ruled last year, said in the main dissent Monday: “If ever there was a constitutional right to privacy, Texas has violated it by blatantly intruding into the private sex lives of fully con senting adults.” That decision was appealed by Potter County District Attorney Danny Hill and later supported by the Doctors Against AIDS. Elna Christopher, spokeswoman for Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, said that MattoxwouHl no response to the 5th Circuitrf until he has a chance to readil| Coleman said the decisioni surprise him, partly becausd dent Reagan chose thejudget] Six of the nine voting ton the law were appointed by Rei! Dallas lawyer Charles fid who represented Hill, said] viously this was a case somewhat of a liberal-conseif issue. I obviously think theffil of the court is very important. Hill and Bundrensaidl the law will deter homosexin| duct. Bundren said, “Weareven| excited about the opinion, will discourage this type of cot I also believe it will signal totlifj munity at large that this typed duct is unacceptable.” ON THE SIDE OF TEXAS ASM 5 STUDENTS WITH SEPARATE APARTMENTS NEED ROOMMATES! 1 Br's-2 Br's • Furn or Unfurn All Bills Paid Call 693-2614 • Aggieland Apts Di Line forfi DAI backer Dallas! he has Bills. “Sur eran i the t Monda 15-13 Chicag “I’m got he can tel tng mi now, Dick his loc headqt and re medial Buffal Tea Cowbo draft Dicker Did SMU, free ay starter two se; In t guide, scribec big pla linebac Dali Tubbs Dickei in wha contro works “An who r could USED TEXTBOOKS SAVE YOU $$$$ [^BOOKS^ 327 University Dr. 327 University Dr. at Northgate Rear entrance with plenty of parking. i