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Tuesday, January 21, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local 'alter won't run for re-election Chimney Hill Bowling Center "A Family Recreation Center' 40 Lanes — Automatic Scoring League & Open Bowling Bar & Snack Bar Filing for CS elections opens STUDENT SPECIAL MONDAY TO FRIDAY 9 AM to 6 PM , $1. 00 a game student ID required 701 University Dr. East 260-9184 By CRAIG RENFRO Staff Writer Filing for city council elections in Station opened Monday a city council member and a Imer council member seeking the lyor’sjob. arry Ringer, a statistics professor Texas A&M, has filed as a candi- to succeed outgoing mayor r Halter. ^nger, who served as a College City Council member from 6-83, now serves as a member of [A&M Faculty Senate. 1‘When I was a council member, I : people felt I was someone they could talk to and someone who was willing to listen to other people’s ideas. Ringer said. Ringer said he considered filing in 1984, but did not feel like running against Halter. “When Gary (Halter) indicated he wouldn’t run again, I listened to people and felt support in the com munity and decided to run,” he said. If elected, Ringer said he hopes to see many community development programs continued. “I would like to see College Sta tion continue to plan for the future,” Ringer said. “I have no big crusades planned, I just want to continue some current programs and encour age innovative ideas.” Also filing for the mayoral race is Place 6 Councilwoman Lynn Mcll- haney, whose term expires this spring. Mcllhaney, who has served on the College Station City Council for four years, said she understands how the city council works and, if elected, will tackle issues pressing the city. Mcllhaney said if elected, she will be able to put more time into the po sition because she does not have a full-time job. “The mayor’s position is one of working with the council to address problems facing the city,” she said. “We have a public relations aspect in for that we are also responsible keeping the citizens informed.” Halter, a political science profes sor at A&M who has served three terms as mayor said he will not run for re-election, but pursue other in terests. “You begin to lose enthusiasm for it (the mayor position), and I need to do other things with my academic career,” Halter said. Halter said College Station is very efficient from the standpoint of. management and provides good service to the people of the commu nity. The deadline for filing is Feb. 19 and the election is April 5. resents i theau- iephont itmentii! this yea. in proo ve of tilt have «• e turned ” but foi it mattei :ere next tthisde iversitiei y, giving end con 1 KAMI' •gram if n forma- lore rir- been: this wa ige, PBS do have the mo- itutes on nan-ani- lannels It goes: ire spot- ittitudfi untry in United )eveloper jsing safaris o lure tenants Associated Press AUSTIN — An office-retail oject has a new twist that its de- loper hopes will get the atten- m of brokers and potential ten- its — gifts of a safari in Africa, a ip on a French barge canal and Caribbean cruise. The marketing promotion irted by developer Jim Ray has :en offering such added incen- /es to sign leases of 5,000 square et or more at his North Austin roject, The Exchange. Jan Estlow, a broker with enry S. Miller Co., said Ray me up with the idea because he anted to stay ahead as others in- easingly turned to such gim- icks to distinguish projects in a owded real estate market. “I think it’s an added entice- ent because there’s so much ace available,” Estlow said. “E- ryone’s very competitive. And you know, there’s lots of free nt going on.” The Exchange has 27,000 juare feet of office space and 1,000 square feet of retail space, alf the retail space is leased, but ay still hasn’t signed leases for :e office section of the building, hich was finished in November. Ray said he thinks the trips are way to stir interest in his project. His promotion started late in ctober, but no prizes have been warded. He said he will continue util April. Estlow said she has noticed the creased spending by other de- lopers who have held fancy ien houses w-ith money given y each hour and one with a ,000 door prize. She said some e started offering 6 percent mmission for brokers instead the regular 4 percent, or other icentives. Former principal gave alibi without being asked for it Associated Press LIVINGSTON — A former ju nior high school principal accused of killing a football coach over the af fections of a school secretary gave authorities an unsolicited alibi be fore he was charged, prosecutors said Monday. “I wonder why would somebody produce an alibi when he hadn’t been charged,” prosecutor Peter Speers asked the jury of 10 women and two men during opening argu ments. Hurley Fontenot, 48, former principal of Hull-Daisetta Woodson Junior High School, is charged with murder in the shooting death of Billy Mac Fleming, who had coached and taught math and science at the school. Speers contends there was “bad blood” between two men over the relationships with Laura Nugent, 36, a teacher’s aide and school secretary. ‘7 wonder why would somebody produce an al ibi when he hadn’t been charged. ” — Peter Spears, Polk County district attorney. “The motive (for the murder) is jealousy and hatred, but love is not all there is to it,” Speers told about 200 spectators who packed the cour- toom in this tiny East Texas town. According to Fontenots statement, he gave Fleming a ride from the school to his pickup truck and then got gas at a filling station. After stopping at the post office, he drove to Houston’s Hobby Airport, where he was to meet his daughter, Vanessa, and help her move furni ture to Austin, Speers said. But his daughter never arrived, and Fontenot drove across the city to Houston’s Intercontinental Airport, Speers said. When he found his daughter wasn’t there, he made a long-distance call and then left, Speers said. Speers said, however, that Fonte not’s daughter never planned to visit Houston to get any furniture and that he never called her from the air port as he had told authorities. Ms. Fontenot will testify as a prosecution witness, he said. Fontenot’s fingerprint was found on the original bill at a Houston-area motel where Nugent and Fleming had spent the night, the prosecutor said. Copies of the bill, along with “very derogatory” anonymous letters, were mailed in March to Fleming’s estranged wife and members of the school board, Speers said. •Rent as low as $250 •No UTiliTy DEposiis at ScancUa or Taos •Pools, TennIsCourt,ClubbocsE avaIIaWe Ior use • SHutiIe Bus.WaIIv, or Biks to Campus • LAUNdRy FACiliTiEs, Carports; WasIierDrver Connections on some properties SCAMf®(I/A\ XA0S Aurora Gardens 401 ANdeRSON, C.S. 695-6505 1501 HoIIeman, C.S 695-2108 Hours Mon - fri 9drn-6pm Sal 10am - 5pm Sun 1 - Sprr. ^ * ^ *'• * Q ' • J . • * Ly . V ^ Ttr . * *' . •t t- Ex-hostage now willing to discuss ordeal Associated Press FORT WORTH — Navy Cmdr. Robert Engelmann says he turned down most interview requests when he and 51 other Americans were re leased from captivity in Iran so he could return to a normal life and re sume his career. But now, on the fifth anniversary of freedom from the 444-day ordeal at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, it’s easier to talk, he said. “If you wanted to,” Engelmann said, “you could relive the experi ence every time you accept one of these offers to speak, write, or con duct an interview. As you do that, it’s more and more difficult to place it behind you. You have to get on with your life.” His parents, Ardo and Mariam Engelmann of the Fort Worth sub urb of Hurst, steadfastly refused any comment while their son was being held hostage, as well as after his re lease. They also discouraged any lo cal celebrations after he was freed. His parents refused again this week to talk about the situation, but Engelmann granted a telephone in terview with the Fort Worth Star- Telegram from his home near the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Ka- noehe Bay, Hawaii, where he works as a supply officer. Engelmann said the thing he re members most about the first days after the Jan. 20, 1981 release was media coverage that followed the hostages from one parade or cere mony to another. “I don’t think any of the hostages were prepared fnr- uusiages P rea tor the magnitude of the welcome home or the impact the whole Iranian situation had made on the United States,” Engelmann said. He said he returned to a normal life more quickly than he had ex pected after his release. “I was kind of surprised at how easy it was to get back to your job and your life as you left it,” he said. “When you’re experiencing some thing like that in Iran, you think about high moralistic standards and tend to put the material world be hind you.” Upon his return to the United States in 1981, he described the days in captivity as “long hours of tedium occasionally punctuated by moments of sheer terror.” Engelmann said he hasn’t suf fered any harmful psychological ef fects because of the experience. Sigma Nu Year Wedensday . oJanuary 22 ; V K.C. Hall 8-12 for more information call 696-3426 H-i-Jpg*:si--.