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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
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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
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cult days ahead. But he saidheis
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“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.
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