Wednesday, September 25,1985/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
Improvement for a price
‘Mud Lot’ no longer free
By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
The 6V4 acres of land some
times known as the Mud Lot,
Rough Lot, Grode Lot or Sur-
face-of-the-Moon Lot are no
longer available for free parking.
The former parking area, lo
cated at the corner of Nagle and
Church streets, was closed Tues
day so construction could begin
to improve the parking lot.
Skipper Harris, 34, who owns a
parking lot maintenance com
pany, said he is leasing the lot
from Boyett Properties and is
planning to create a gravel-cov
ered lot which will be open in 10
to 15 days.
“I’m trying to help everybody
out and give them a better place
to park,” Harris said Tuesday af
ternoon while on location at the
lot. “It’s pretty tacky out here
right now.”
Harris said the lot will be lev
eled off and covered with white
gravel. He said the surface will
look similar to an oil field road.
The charge for parking will be
$1 per day, but some' permits
might be available, Harris said.
Signs giving information on how
to obtain a permit will be put up
inside, he said.
“We’re kind of debating on the
cost (of permits) right now,” he
said. “We’ll have them available
by within five days of the open-
in g”
Harris said attendants will op
erate the lot from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
on weekdays.
“After 9 o’clock we’ll be locked
up and anybody found in the lot
the next morning or during the
night will be towed away,” Harris
said.
He said the lot will be open on
Saturdays during A&M home
football games. St. Mary’s Church
will be in charge of the lot on
Sundays. Patrons of the church
will be allowed to park free on
Sunday, he said.
Harris was at the lot Tuesday
morning and afternoon to pre
vent people from parking tneir
cars. Signs warning potential par-
kers of certain tow away were
placed inside. Harris said any car
parked in the lot past 1 p.m.
Tuesday would be towed. Four
cars were towed.
Currently, only half of the area
is being developed and will hold
360 vehicles, he said.
“I have some details to work
out with the city before I can start
the other half,” he said.
Harris, who worked for the
Texas A&M Range Science De
partment during the early 1970s,
said he saw the area change into
its current status.
In 1952, 10 acres of the area
were used for the Circle Drive-In
theater. The theater closed in
1976,
Since then, part of the original
10 acres was sold to build North
Ramparts and Newport condomi
niums. Another part was used by
the City of College Station for the
development of Church Street.
The majority of the remaining
land has been used for parking.
Harris refused to disclose the
cost of building the new lot.
“I’d rather not discuss the
cost,” he said. “It’s plenty, I guar
antee.”
Killer may have
been posing as
florist, FBI says
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — A banker’s
wife believed killed by an extortion
ist may have been expecting a florist
to deliver flowers the afternoon she
was shot to death at her home, the
FBI says.
Rebecca Jo Patton, 42, wife of
Castle Hills National Bank President
Frank Patton Jr., was called about
two hours before she was found slain
and told to expect flowers, FBI spe
cial agent-in-charge Bill Dalseg said.
Dalseg said Patton was talking to
an acquaintance on the telephone
when she put the acquaintance on
hold to take another call.
He said when Patton returned to
the line to talk to the acquaintance,
she indicated the other call had been
from a florist informing her he
would deliver flowers.
Investigators believe the supposed
florist may have been the killer, Dal
seg said.
Authorities said they believe Mrs.
Patton was shot immediately after an
extortionist called her husband and
demanded money in return for her
safety.
Rep. Loeffler against state income tax
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with the state government’s present
rate of spending, said U.S. Rep.
Tom Loeffler, a candidate for the
Republican gubernatorial nomi
nation, Tuesday night.
Appearing in the Gubernatorial
Series sponsored by the Memorial
Student Center Political Forum com
mittee, Loeffler told the audience
that state government spending has
increased 175 percent in the last de
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to the point where an income tax,
personal, corporate or both, will be
the only way to raise the necessary
revenue to meet the increased
spending. Loeffler said that, as gov
ernor, he would veto any income
tax, personal or corporate, if it were
approved by the Legislature.
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sonal or corporate, you are ripping
out the foundations of the econ
omy,” he said.
Instead, existing programs should
be re-evaluated and streamlined if
necessary to avoid any tax increases,
he said. Contrary to what Gov.
White has said, the state has enough
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needed programs, Loeffler said.
The programs with the highest
priority should be public education,
higher education, law enforcement
— especially prison reforms, high
way and water transportation and
social programs, he said.
If elected, Loeffler said he would
appoint an independent commission
made of people in the private sector
to review all areas of government
and suggest ways to make the pro
grams more efficient.
Loeffler stressed his ability to gar
ner bipartisan support for his pro
grams as an important asset for a
Texas governor in an increasingly
two-party state. His experience
working together with the conserva
tive Southern coalition of Democrats
in the U.S. House of Representatives
could be continued in the primarily-
Democratic Texas Legislature.
The purpose of the Gubernatorial
Series is to allow candidates to pre
sent their views on issues relating to
the election and on politics in gen
eral.
Former Rep. Kent Hance, also
a candidate for the Republican gu
bernatorial nomination, will speak at
Texas A&M on Oct. 9. Former Gov.
William Clements and Gov. Mark
White are expected to appear in the
spring.
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