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Monday, October 21,1985/The Battalion/Page 3 By Jim Earle State and Local “11 all the cars ol the world weie laid end to end, it would happen on our campus!" Jwo National Guardsmen die in Hill Country flooding Debate to be held * on water plan bill, funding proposals l or the sit s have te t hadatiyse [JH win a tel omes to ml er." iur problea never dtl ke the d»| ipany. and Gc t mv mom] ,y day of 4 \nist for ti{ ate. too errq se to anoi® to dig 4 idert ters. Willi* »n Page"' 01 * »put tog* ot be asm 1111 iportantl)’ r reader!'' k out there® different^ papers. First Am" 1 following avealett*! ic a d of cring js and mf wanting 1011 Associated Press ■ The body ol a National Guardsman who drowned when his ■ilitary ambulance was washed a wav ■ flood waters was recovered, end- ■ga24-hour search. ■ Sgt. Marcus A. Mackey , 27. was Ifoiind one mile east of State High- Bay 36, near Henson Creek, at about 1 :30 a.m. Sunday, said Maj. David Bottom, a National Guard spokes- Banat Fort Hood. BMackev’s body was about two miles downstream from where the ambulance left the road, Cottom said. Pvt. 1 |ohnnie L. Hendrix Jr., 21, also was killed in the accident. His body was found at 4 p.m. Saturday on a creek bank about one-half mile from the ambulance, Cottom said. Both were victims of flash flood ing that moved through South, Cen tral and East Texas during the week end after heavy rains. By JENS B. KOEPKE Stall Writer The Texas Water Bill, House Bill 2, and its accompanying constitu tional amendments. Proposition 1 and 2, will be the subject of a debate Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder. Ned Fritz, chairman of the Texas committee on natural resources, and Steve Sagner, executive director of the Texas Water Alliance, will dis cuss the advantages and disadvan tages of the water package in a de bate sponsored by the Texas A&M Regional Studies Club, The Sierra Club and Greenpeace. Dr. Wayne Jordan, the director of the Texas Water Resource Institute, will me diate the debate. “We’re trying to get people to get out and vote, or at least, become a little more aware of the water situa tion,” said Lance Freeman, presi dent of the Regional Studies Club. House Bill 2 is a comprehensive water plan dealing with conserva tion, development, flood control and quality protection of the surface and underground water resources in Texas. The bill also provides for mechanisms to finance the water plan. These financing mechanisms will be voted upon in the Nov. 5 elec tion in the form of Proposition 1 and 2. Proposition 1 would authorize the sale of $980 million in state bonds to finance water projects (including dams and reservoirs, wastewater treatment plants, desalinization plants and flood control projects), establish a bond insurance program to guarantee up to $250 million in bonds issued by local governments and allow the Legislature to create special appropriations for water as sistance programs. Proposition 2 would authorize the Texas Water Development Board to sell up to $200 million in agricultural water conservation bonds. These bonds would fund low-interest loans to farmers buying more water-effi cient irrigation equipment. The bonds may be sold only after appro val by the Legislature and only for four years after passage of the amendment. If both propositions or only Prop osition 1 is approved, then the bill will take effect immediately, but if only Proposition 2 passes, then none of the provisions of House Bill 2 will take effect and the Legislature will have to pass enabling legislation £ or Proposition 2 at a later date. Texas voters have denied compre hensive water plans twice in the last 20 years, Freeman said. In both elec tions West Texas voters ovex whelm- ingly approved the plan, while East Texas voters convincingly voted it down, he added. Freeman said that it will be interesting to see if this de mographic dichotomy holds true in this election. The increased voter turnout in Houston due to the coin cidental mayoral election may also play a major role in the propositions’ success, he said. lorrection In Friday’s paper. The Battalion bcorrectly reported that begin- pg today students no longer will be charged for compute) mm |*hen working on class assign- Vnts. It should have read: Stu- imswill no longer he charged for ijutobatcli computer time when lin king on class assignments. Autobatch is a classification of ingrains that consists of student- |pc jobs that nm 3 seconds or tss The Battalion regrets the errot. First Amendment subject of debate tonight The coordinator of the Moral Majority of Texas and a Texas A&M philosophy professor will de bate the effects of the Religious Right on the First Amendment to night at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder. Fred Mason, coordinator of the Moral Majority of Texas, and Dr. Larry Hickman, associate professor of philosophy, will participate in an informal debate sponsored by the Political Science Society and Pi Sigma Alpha. Topics that will be discussed range from book censorship to prayer in schools, says Neena Sinha, student coordinator for the debate. “The validity of the Religious Right and an interpretation of the First Amendment is the focus of this discussion,” Sinha says. She says the two also will discuss what the Religious Right is trying to do with the First Amendment. Hickman, who received his de grees from Hardin-Simmons Uni- versity and the University of Texas is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way, but he is not offi cially representing these two groups, Sinha said. Mason is the executive director of the Moral Majority of Texas. He received his degree from. Florida State University. Admission is free and audience participation is encouraged, Sinha says. : Opinio in- tion .nferentf al Board ditot iclitor Veivsf^ ; Editor juiip 1 ,oT»* io" :llC iLfiltt nt>' vhouf'r to) lh ^ ..flaw’ 11 ’ , ' V " Probing the Very Frontiers of High Technology. That’s Intelligence. Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics Majors. The National Security Agency is responsible for analyzing foreign communications, safeguarding our government’s vital communications and securing the government’s computer systems. 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