Tuesday, February 11, 1986TThe Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
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Barton: Law won't 'devastate' economy
Gramm-Rudman in Brazos County
By FRANK SMITH
Staff Writer
Republican Rep.
' told an audience of
Joe Barton
_ 75 in Bryan
1 Monday night that local cuts re-
^ suiting from the new Gramm-
Rudman-Hollings deficit reducr
tion law won’t devastate Brazos
County’s economy.
I Barton’s visit to Bryan was part
of a week-long tour of his 6th
Congressional District. By Friday
he will have visited each of the 14
counties in the district. At each
stop he is delivering his “State of
the District” message and taking
questions from his audience.
I “Now you’ve heard all of the
horror stories about how Gramm-
Rudman is going to really cut
■ ograms, how it’s going to really
cm into muscle, how it’s really
going to hurt people,” he told the
Bryan audience.
■ But what it will really mean for
Brazos County, Barton said, is
||hai the federal government’s
“I think it’s a good law. I
think it will help us. I
don’t think it’s going to
decimate the programs
that we really need at the
federal level. ”
— Rep. Joe Barton
spending for the county will
probably be cut from $148 mil
lion to somewhere between $135
million to $ 140 million.
“There are a lot of programs
that we can do without at the fed
eral level,” he said.
Barton asked his audience how
many of them had rode on pas
senger trains, sought legal serv
ices counseling or tried to get a
loan from the Small Business Ad
ministration in the past year. No
more than two people said they
had done any of those things.
“Those are good programs,”
he said. “But if (the United States
is) running $200 billion a year in
debt . . . we’ve got to do some
thing. And that’s what Gramm-
Rudman does.
“It says that, over the next six
years, we’re going to go from bor
rowing 20 percent of our federal
budget to balancing the budget.”
Barton was an original co
sponsor of the Gramm-Rudman
bill in the House of Representa
tives.
“I think it’s a good law,” he
said. “I think it will help us. I
don’t think it’s going to decimate
the programs that we really need
at the federal level. I do think it
will make us take a closer look at
how we’re spending our money.”
Barton said that overall, Brazos
County’s economic outlook for
1986 is good but not great.
The first-term congressman
from Ennis acknowledged that
plummeting oil prices are taking
their toll on the area’s economy.
But he said other economic in
dicators for the region look good.
“The inflation rate is below 4
percent, the prime (interest) rate
is Q'/a percent, (and) home mort
gage rates are down around 10'/a
percent,” Barton said. “Those are
all lower than they were a year
ago.”
Mexican relief taskforce plans fund-raiser
Associated Press
■USTIN — A state task force try
ing to help Mexico recover from
Tistating September earthquakes
s to send Texas schoolchildren
I groundbreaking for a Mexico
Sty school to dramatize fund-rais-
^fforts.
Bfhe Texas Response-Citizens for
lican Relief set as its original goal
September $15.5 million, or $1
Dn every Texan.
Leaders of the volunteer task
orce estimate that $5 million in
1 'I, goods and services already has
fen donated by Texans, and it is
■Teking another $5 million to build a
■ifStool and a clinic-hospital in Mex-
ofjtity.
It was reported Monday that
18,365 has been donated toward
that goal without an organized fund
raising effort.
The school groundbreaking in
March was presented as an opportu
nity to underscore the campaign to
raise money.
Former congressman Bob
Krueger, co-chairman of the task
force, said Texas already has given
more money to the Mexican earth
quake relief effort than any other
state, and he pledged that Texas
would provide “concrete and visible
symbols” of friendship between the
two countries.
Betsy Todd of the Austin public
relations firm GSD&M said, “We
talked to people in the secretary of
education office (in Mexico) about
having a groundbreaking ceremony
. . . and what we talked about was
bringing some Texas public school-
children to Mexico and having those
children break ground with their
counterparts in Mexico City.
“They were excited about the pos
sibility,” Todd said.
Tom Walker, special assistant to
Gov. Mark White, who organized
the task force, said, “All of this is
somewhat tentative, pending the (of
ficial) response of the secretary of
education in Mexico City, which I
expect we will have this week.”
Krueger said he felt the ground
breaking would be important in “re
viving the consciousness of the peo
ple of Texas.”
According to the task force, earth
quakes on Sept. 19-20 killed over
7,000 people and left 150,000 home
less. In Mexico City alone, 1,132
buildings were seriously damaged
and over 5,000, or 45 percent, of the
city’s hospital beds were destroyed.
Hundreds of schools were dam-
aged ’ • ,
“I wished we could have moved
faster but the need is still great, and
as long as there is a need I think the
people of Texas will respond,”
Krueger said.
Walker, who visited Mexico City
in January, said, “I’m impressed
with the way Mexico is moving for
ward with its reconstruction efforts.”
He said destruction of so many
hospital beds, most of them in down
town Mexico City, had convinced
Mexican health officials to decentra
lize and set up clinics in the “periph
eral areas — get medical services
closer to the people who need
them.”
Commons
snack bar
renovation
approved
By STEVE THOMAS
Reporter
The Texas A&M Board of Re
gents approved a $286,000 renova
tion of the Commons snack bar at its
previous meeting.
Col. Fred Dollar, director of the
Food Services Department, says
most of the snack bar’s equipment
needs to be replaced.
Construction is scheduled to be
gin this summer and the new snack
bar should be completed by the fall
semester. Dollar says.
During the facelift, the snack bar’s
rear wall will be moved back provid
ing more space.
He says the bar will get a new
paint job and brighter lighting to
make it feel “like your favorite fast
food restaurant.”
The menu will also be revised.
Pizza, chicken-fried steak, French
fries and packaged sandwiches and
salads will be added to the menu.
With the new improvements. Dol
lar says, the hours may be extended.
The snack bar currently is open
from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Mon
day through Friday, and from 4
p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and
Sunday.
Dollar says when students come
off a hard day of classes and need a
place to relax and unwind, that place
should be up to date and have an at
tractive atmosphere.
Dollar says another snack bar is on
the drawing board for the northeast
ern part of campus.
There are plans to build a snack
bar in conjunction with the new Civil
Engineering/Texas Transportation
Institute building near the Zachry
Engineering Center, Dollar says.
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