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chimney hill bowling center Page 8AThe Battalion/Friday, February 14, 1986 ;40 LANES League & Open Bowling Family Entertainment Bar & Snack Bar 701 University Dr E 260-9184 cut here' Defensive Driving Course Feb. 21 & 22 Mar. 4&5 College Station Hilton Pre-register by phone: 693-8178 Ticket deferral and 10% insurance discount cut here i -presents- Friday - LOCOMOTIVES -60's Rock $4°° cover Saturday - From Houston! TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA original rock & blues $4°° cover SATURDAY NIGHT SI 00 OFF!! TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA * one coupon per customer A new fraternity at Texas A&M will soon be receiving its national charter. We hope the ideas and principles of the fraternity strengthen the characters of all our members for a fulfilling life in the fu ture. Phi Sigma Kappa A Fraternity For The Future Promote Brotherhood Stimulate Scholarship Develop Character For more info call 764-6403 The Aggie Players present: Five actors of England’s Royal Shakespeare Company, performing: Measure for Measure Shakespeare’s beautiful combination of rowdy humour, sexual declet and human understanding. February 19 & 22 An Evening of Samuel Beckett An Entertaining and thought-provoking evening of the works of the Nobel Prize winner. , February 20 These actors, a part of the Alliance for Creative Theatre, Education and Research (ACTER) have played a variety of roles representing nearly all of Shakespeare’s plays. ‘A bravura display of performing miracles’’ Philadelphia Enquirer “This mini-company is eloquent, , coherent and thor oughly entertaining.’’ Los Angeles Herald Examiner 8:00pm Rudder Theatre General Public $7.50 Tickets at Rudder Box Office Students $4.50 Phone 845-1234 CS council passes rezoning plan By CRAIG RENFRO Staff' Writer The College Station City Council Thursday night disregarded the city’s Planning and Zoning Commis sion’s recommendations and voted 5-1 to pass an ordinance allowing for the rezoning of a 55-acre tract of land. As a result of the ordinance a 28- acre tract of land at the intersection of Rock Prairie Road and Texas Avenue will be rezoned from an ag ricultural-open district to a commer cial-industrial district. The other 27 acres will be rezoned from agricultural-open to adminis trative-professional. The commission recommended denying the request Feb. 6 because of conflicts with the city’s compre hensive plan. Mayor Gary Halter said, "The comprehensive plan is like the Bible, it can be interpreted to anyone’s ad vantage.” Originally the applicant had re quested that all 55-acres be rezoned for commercial use. After meeting with the commis sion the applicant reduced the acre age by about 50 percent. According to the city’s compre hensive plan the College Station population figures are projected to grow to 71,000 by the year 2000. The plan states that a population that size would be able to support an additional 550 acres of commercial development. The plan now has 906 acres of zoned but undeveloped commercial tracts. The consultant will investigate whether the city is capable of insur ing itself against claims. The city's general comprehensive liability coverage expired Jan. 1. Liability coverage for city officials will expire Saturday, leaving them without insurance protection against lawsuits. The council also approved tlit nomination of Dr. Malon Souther land, Texas A&M assistant vice pres ident for student services, to the Greater East Texas Higher Educa tion Authority hoard of directors. The commission’s report suggests that it will take years to absorb the vacant retail and office space cur rently on the market and that grant ing a commercial rezoning request is not in compliance with the compre hensive plan. In Wednesday’s workshop the council unanimously agreed to hire an insurance consultant and look into a Texas Municipal League in surance program designed for large cities. City manager William Cole said renewing the city’s total coverage this year would cost $665,000. However, if the city qualifies for an insurance program designated for large cities the cost would be $360,000. In other action the council passed an ordinance allowing the rezoning of two tracts of land near the inter section of Stallings Drive and Har vey Road. On Jan. 16, P&Z recommended rezoning this land from an adminis trative-professional district to a gen eral-commercial district contingent on the extensions of Holleman and Stallings Drive. The council heard the director of College Station’s Parks and Rem ation report on this year’s Super triathlon scheduled for April 25,28 and 27. The event has been designatedh the USA Triathlon Federation as its national championship for staged distance triathlons. The council approved the Load Management Program to be imple mented from Aug. 20 to Sept. 20. In the last two years the prograi has saved the city an estimated $800,000 in lower wholesale electrit costs. The council also passed an ori nance ordering an election to be held April 5 to elect a mayor and three councilmen. Filing for council positions endt Feb. 19. Chagra trial Letter reveals woman delivered murder payoff Associated Press AUSTIN — Jurors at the retrial of Elizabeth Chagra were told Thursday about a letter Chagra wrote the widow of an assassinated federal judge, telling how she deliv ered the payoff money for the 1979 murder. Chagra, in a letter she sent to Kathryn Wood of San Antonio in 1982, said, “I have made my peace with God, I wrote to make my peace with you.” However, Chagra, who is being tried on charges she helped plot the murder of U.S. District Judge John Wood, also told Mrs. Wood, “I never had any part in any plot.” The contents of the letter from Chagra to Mrs. Wood, first revealed in 1982, were read into the current trial’s record Thursday by U.S. at torneys. Mrs. Wood died in 1985. Jimmy Chagra is serving a 47-year prison sentence in connection with Wood’s murder and a concurrent life sentence for his part in an unsuc cessful attempt to assassinate former U.S. Attorney James Kerr of San Antonio. Mrs. Wood testified at the 1982 trial that she heard a shot shortly af ter her husband left for work and found him beside his car, unable to talk and apparently dead. Former Bexar County medical ex aminer Dr. Ruben Santos of McAl len testified Thursday that one rifle shot destroyed Wood’s spinal cord, a major artery from the heart and his liver. Then one day Jimmy asked her to deliver some money to a room in the Jockey Club in Las Vegas. She said in the past she had delivered money for gambling debts for Jimmy but was suspicious. Finally, she said, her husband admitted the money was to pay for Wood’s shooting. He insisted t, sn« she make the delivery, she said. Chagra, 32, was tried previously, but the conviction was overturned and a new trial ordered because of improper instructions to the jury. John Wood was shot in the back with a high-powered rifle on May 29, 1979, shortly before he was to have presided at the trial of Jimmy Chagra, an El Paso attorney and high stakes gambler, who was ac cused of multimillion-dollar drug peddling deals in Florida. More than two years later, Mrs. Wood received the six-page letter from Mrs. Chagra, who said she had become “a newly bom Christian ... I am the new Liz, not the old Liz.” Mrs. Chagra’s letter said she was frying chicken one day in 1979 in her Las Vegas home when her hus band, Jimmy, said, “I am going to kill Judge Wood.” “I said ‘OK, honey’ and never gave any more thought to it,” Mrs. Chagra said in her letter. She said after Wood was killed, she heard Jimmy say several times he had no knowledge of the shoot ing. “I ended up delivering the money for this crime,” Mrs. Chagra said in her letter to Mrs. Wood. “I feel that I am not involved but at the same lime I am.” She asked Mrs. Wood to keep the letter a secret between the two women. Mrs. Wood testified she im mediately turned the letter over to the FBI. Mrs. Chagra is scheduled to testify later in this trial. Her brother-in-law, Joe Chagra, former El Paso attorney, testified Wednesday that she had nothing to do with the plot to kill Wood. “Liz had nothing to do with any of the investigations,” he testified. Joe Chagra, 39, younger brother of Jimmy, is serving 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to help ing plan the death of Wood, who was known as “Maximum John” for the sentences handed out to drug deal ers. Cities among worst water polluters in state Associated Press AUSTIN — Texas cities are among the state’s worst water pollut ers, the Texas Water Commission reported Thursday in its second “best and worst” list. Eleven cities, a river authority and a water district made the worst list in the water quality category. The cities of Garland, Texarkana, Dallas and San Antonio also had been named among the worst in the first lists, is sued last November. Larry Soward, commission exec utive director, said his agency is working with those cities to make im provements. But there are economic and practical constraints, he said at a news conference. or bad jobs in treating water and handling hazardous and solid wastes. “A great number of the problem areas are cities in this state,” he said. “You cannot shut a city down. We have economic problems in this state and that has to be considered also. You cannot shut down necessary public services.” The worst list is made up of those who repeatedly violated their permit regulations, Soward said. Of the re peat “worst” permit holders, he said, “I don’t think it indicates . . . the in ability of those facilities to get into compliance overall. The lists were first compiled in November to bring public attention to entities that did particularly good “It indicates the problems are se rious. It will take either extensive time or extensive efforts to address some of them.” he said. UT head won't take NASA job Associated Press AUSTIN — The chancellor of the University of Texas, a formei top space agency official who was recently mentioned as a successor to National Aeronautics and Space Administration chiefjames Beggs, said he would not accept the job if offered. “I’d like to do the job, but the\ need someone not identified with the space shuttle program" said chancellor Hans Mark, who left the post of NASA deputy director in 1984 to join UT. Mark, 56, told the Austin American-Statesman that he hasn’t been offered the job and wouldn’t take it, although he said someone should be named to re place Beggs. He believes NASA needs strong leadership in the wake of the Challenger disaster. Beggs has been on indefinite paid leave since his indictment Dec. 2 for allegedly trying to hide fit Ic h HI( lacocc head commi “horde and s; fought projec “In gets hi chairn new's < quarte lacc why It del fir the jol But he to a N ment < cost overruns on a defense con tract as an officer of General Dv namics Corp. Beggs’ deputy, William Gra ham, has led the agency through the early stages of the probe into the space shuttle explosion that killed the seven crew members board. Mark said the agency will re quire a strong and objective leader to help it through the diffi cult days ahead. But he saidheis too closely identified with the shuttle program that now is un der scrutiny. “I’m to some extent responsi ble for what happened,” Mart said of the shuttle disaster. It may turn up that something I said or did could be a problem. For that reason, I’m surprised my name even came up.” Governor gains another possible opponent Associated Press AUSTIN — Democratic candi date for governor, Andrew Briscoe III, said Thursday there are enough “protest” votes to defeat incumbent Mark White, including hundreds of thousands of educators, farmers and ranchers. White, seeking re-election in a field of 10 Democrats and Republi cans, got another possible opponent with the announcement that a San Antonio woman would run for gov ernor as a Libertarian. Theresa Doyle, a 42-year-old for mer elementary school teacher, was introduced at a Capitol press confer ence. Doyle, who quit teaching in 1980 and now is a sales representative and consultant for a travel agency, said the theme of her campaign would be, “Think in different terms.” Education is “the parents’ respon sibility, not the state’s, ” Doyle said.“We have found that govern ment solutions to our problems do not work very well, but usually gov ernment is responsible for creating more problems than it solves,” she said. “I don’t think we can say tomor row we’ll close down the public schools,” she said. “What I would like to see is for us to move in the di rection of individual choice in edu cation. We would need to look at ways that this could be accomplished — as first steps, perhaps, through tax credits or vouchers or something of that sort.” Briscoe, a 33-year-old Dallasbusi nessman, and second cousin of for mer Gov. Dolph Briscoe, identified “education-oriented employees" and Farm Bureau members as part of the “bloc vote” that could defeat White in the May 3 Democratic Pam primary. “You have over a million votesout there that are aimed at this present administration and will be aimedat it in the Democratic primary,” Bris coe told a news conference. SUMMER JOBS Interviews with camp owners and directors on Monday, February 17, 1986 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. MSC — Rooms 226-231 All TAMU students are welcome Recruiters representing about 40 camps will be available to visit with you about jobs at their camps this summer. One National Park Service Concessionaire from Colorado is also scheduled to be present for interviews. CAMP DAV Ci cc sic H of c tude Chu nist five resp goer T Hoik lieve that men T tent stud to i tong nity. Tl 210 with mon have SI c. pres ing shov Thu betw fuel pad, T iden signi coul trou N said seen days shov