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Tuesday, July 1, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Iria i« oi opp I rigtiL gh teuc It Soi; line ri t - muvlit: L‘i(l wo; nt riglii led will it at I of pro j e govciJ -fori ass la| ieecti. i hocanoi it be | md win iith refd ghl polr. irantor ■estthtr ,e to ov ;rtheii" ly'Opt: la sems preatfa 1 were iouthi mt $2k ices as: id Amt: : of S ses ou guided: >rmi t • primu .rstries.f 1 old on id is let Africa! purchtl — the t i the tic ibargot satelliic come it fricann re, bv < fine-in! be one-niai blaiila licale N is ri|k litler« l’s on» s when dingh' t step 1 ' perha: aackon s ^as* ts svini Aggie survivor of cor crash dies of pneumonia Monday By Sondra Pickard Senior Staff' Writer A Texas A&M student who was seriously injured in a car accident in Bryan three months ago died ol pneumonia around noon Mon day at St. Joseph Hospital. Richard N. Walker, 22, of 3817 Holly in Bryan, was one of two survivors when a car carrying six A&M students collided with an eighteen-wheeler near the inter section of Highway 21 and FM 2H18 on March 9. Walker, an A&M senior, was listed in critical condition after the accident, but was released from the hospital several months ago. He was readmitted to the hospital last week and died of pneumonia resulting from his in juries. Glenn M. Butterly, a freshman from Fort Worth, was the other survivor He was discharged f rom St. Joseph shortly thereafter. Killed in the accident were Ar thur J. Strom, a freshman from Dallas; John L. Thornton, a soph omore from College Station; Da vid R. Hedegard, a sophomore from Tomball; and Mitchell Smithwick, a sophomore from Richard N.Walker College Station. Walker is survived by his par ents, Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Walker of Brvan; two brothers, Sidney Allen Walker and William Lawrence Walker, and a sister, Rebecca Lynn Walker of Dallas. Dr. Robert Walker is vice presi dent for development at A&M. A memorial service for Walker will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the A&M Church of Christ in College Station. Contributions in Walker’s memory can be made to the School of World Evangelism Fund, care of the A&M Church of Christ, or the Texas A&M De velopment Foundation. Continental’s plan to pay off debts passed by judge HOUSTON (AP) — A federal bankruptcy judge approved a $925 million plan Monday that will allow Continental Airlines to emerge from bankruptcy protection in 60 days. “It feels terrific,” Continental President Phil Bakes said after Judge T. Clover Roberts approved the plan to pay back almost 30,000 creditors. “It feels great.” The plan calls for Houston-based Continental to pay about 30 banks paying $115.4 million in unsecured claims and $50.6 million in em ployee claims. Continental also will pay Ameri can Airlines $50,000 in cash within five business days. American originally filed an in debtedness claim of $470,383. Other payments include $23.7 million to Swissair and $1.3 million to the Bank of Hawaii. Continental will make an initial cash payment of $142 million in 60 days. It will then follow with installment payments to some over the next 10 years with interest. Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks said. Continental filed for reorganiza tion under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on Sept. 24, 1983, saving it was losing $1 million a day and was approximately $1 billion in debt. At the time of its Chapter 11 fil ing, Continental owed $657.8 mil lion in secured debts, $352.7 million in unsecured debts and $18.4 mil lion of accrued interest. The carrier has been paying prin cipal and interest on about 45 per cent of its long-term debt, officials said. Under the reorganization plan submitted last September, the airline would pay up to $200 million of its debt within 30 days of confirmation. But the plan approved by Roberts allows the airline to make its initial cash payment in 60 days. Attorneys will meet again Tues day to discuss the distribution of $ 15 million in outstanding issues, includ ing attorney’s fees. Sister city could boost Midland’s economy Photo by Larry Crumbley Good Bull Dr. Larry Crumbly, an A&M accounting professor, took this pic ture of Rev. Simon Stefanowicz giving the “gig ’em” sign in Jasna Cora, Poland (near Krakow). Crumbly participated in an interna tional study tour sponsored by the University of Texas at San An toni. >. MSC Council approves plan for 1986-87 Broadway season MIDLAND (AP) — Dongying, Midland’s Chinese sister city, could be the key to boosting this West Texas city’s economy, once fueled by a healthy petroleum industry and now feeling the crunch of the oil price slump. Thirty Midland representatives, including Mayor Carroll Thomas, traveled to China June 13. Although no specific business deals were struck, Thomas and his Dongying counterpart, Tang Sheng- hai, signed a general agreement to exchange oil and gas technology and a list of products and services each city can provide. “We see tremendous potential there,” said Thomas, who returned 45 deaths predicted for holiday AUSTIN (AP) — Department of Public Safety officials are hopef ul that traffic accidents over the Independence Day weekend will not erase a slight im provement in Texas’ highway death rate. DPS officials predict as many as 45 people will die in traffic ac cidents between 6 p.m. Thursday and midnight Sunday. Last year, only 25 people died during a 30-hour holiday. Since July 4 fell on Thursday, many people had to be back at work on Friday. This year, there will be a 78-hour holiday period. “ T he mixture of lower gasoline prices and increased travel this summer could prove to be deadly over the July 4 holiday,” said Ad ams. Adams noted this will be the first July 4 holiday since the Texas safety belt law became ef fective. He said 82 percent of those killed last year were not wearing a safety belt. with part of the traveling group Sun day night. Dongying, with a population of 1.6 million that makes it about 15 times larger than Midland, is on the eastern part of the People’s Republic of China, some 200 miles south of Beijing and less than 50 miles from the coast. Thomas said, “It is flat and dusty, like Midland, and both economies are oil-based. I think we’re perfectly matched.” Dongying is on the Shengli oil field, China’s second largest, which accounts for nearly a fourth of that country’s petroleum production, said Richard Dunbar, who markets oil and chairs the Midland Chamber CLEVETAND (AP) — Andrew J. Stofan, director of NASA’s Lewis Research Center for the past four years, was named Monday to oversee the space agency’s space station pro ject. As associate administrator for the space station, Stofan said he will head a staff in Washington to coor dinate the development of the space station at five centers of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion, including Lewis. Lew is is developing the power sys- HOUSTON (AP) — Panhandle Eastern Corp. said Monday it re ceived a $2.25 billion takeover bid from West Texas oilmen Cyril Wag ner Jr. and Jack E. Brown. Panhandle, a diversified energy concern, said the $50-a-share unsoli cited proposal would be weighed by its directors “in due course.” A meet ing of the board had not yet been scheduled, Panhandle spokesman Stanford Wallace said. Wagner and Brown’s wholly- cnvned partnership. Star Partners, of Commerce’s International Affairs Committee. The Permian Basin currently pro duces about 4-5 times as much oil as the Shengli oilfield, said spokesman Roger Dameron of Dameron Petro leum Corporation. Dameron said he does not believe Midland and Dongying are compet itors. “They have a different approach to production because it’s all under one ownership,” said Dameron, who also manufactures equipment used in the oil industry. “Their technol ogy needs improving. I’d say they xe roughly 15 years behind.” Joan Baskin, president of the Midland Chamber of Commerce, tem for the manned space station. The Johnson Space Center in Hous ton had been leading the project. Stofan, 51, said the new manage ment structure was a result of the in vestigation into the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in January. ETe said the Rogers commission crit icized the decentralized manage ment system used for the Challenger project. “On the shuttle, the criticism there w as that people were off doing their own thing, in a way keeping the offered to acquire each of Panhan dle’s 44.9 million common shares outstanding for $30 cash and pre ferred stock designed to have a cur rent market value of $20, Panhandle said. Grant Billingsley, a spokesman for Wagner and Brown in Midland, Texas, declined to elaborate on the offer. The acquisition bid confirmed speculation on Wall Street last week that Panhandle w'as a takeover target and that Wagner and Brown were said, “We have invited them to the oil show in October and we hope they come to see the cutting edge of oil technology.” Two large refineries are being planned in the Shengli field, Dame ron said. “They work in five-year plans,” said Thomas. “Their goal by the 1990s is to increase oil production by 50 percent. They have some areas that need development, so they’ll be a market for oil equipment.” Donying, a growing city incorpo rated tn 1983, also wants to sell its wares to the West, including textiles and agricultural products, Dameron said. problems they came up with inter nally, to their own organizations, rather than having it out,” he said. One factor was the lack of a de fined management framework, he said. “The management structure be ing proposed for the space station will make that very, very clear,” said Stofan. “It will be a strong manage ment function located in Washing ton that will be totally responsible for the space station, so there will be no question about who has responsi- among the likely suitors. The ru mors had sent the price of Panhan dle’s stock sharply higher in heavy trading. But Panhandle’s common stock slipped 37'/s! cents a share to $48.12!/2 in New York Stock Ex change composite trading after the offer was announced. Trading re mained heavy with 2.65 million shares changing hands. Wallace said Panhandle’s manage ment believed that Wagner and Brown already had acquired some of The Memorial Student Center Council Saturday approved recom mendations regarding the 1986-87 Town Hall Broadway season and the Jordan Institute for International Awareness endowment. MSC President Robert Bisor said Town Hah, which was forced to cancel its theatrical productions be cause of scheduling conflicts, pre sented its plan to bring club-style acts to Texas A&M as an alternative to the traditional season. Council ap- bility, or what is the line of author ity.” Stofan said he was offered the job last ETiday by James C. Fletcher, NASA administrator, and accepted the position on Monday. “It was a very difficult decision, in fact the most difficult decision I’ve had to make in my life,” said Stofan. Stofan began his NASA career as a research engineer at Lewis in 1958. In 1978, he was appointed deputy associate administrator for NASA headquarters in Washington. He the company’s shares, but that the size of the stake was not known. If Wagner and Brown bought 5 percent or more of Panhandle’s stock, they would he required to dis close their interest to the Securities and Exchange Commission within 10 days of reaching that threshold. Wall Street speculation that oil man T. Boone Pickens Jr. might join with Wagner and Brown to acquire Panhandle turned out to be wrong. Pickens, the well-known corporate suitor who heads Mesa Limited Part nership, an Amarillo, Texas-based proved the committee’s plan to send a list of nine potential acts to season- ticket holders for feedback. Four of the acts will come to A&M. Council gave the International Programs Committee responsibility for the administration of the Jordan endowment, established to increase student awareness of international cultures. Several specific criteria for the institution’s implementation were approved, Bisor said. New space station project head named Panhandle receives takeover bid from oilmen was named acting associate adminis trator for space science two years later. He returned to Lewis as clirec- tor in 1982. “I’m from northern Ohio, born and raised in this part of the country and so is my wife,” said Stofan. “We came back home when we came back here to Lewis.” He said he liked his job at Lewis. “The job here is exciting, chal lenging and a very, very good job,” he said. “To leave it is very difficult.” energy partnership, had teamed up with Wagner and Brown on some previous takeover attempts. But neither Pickens, Mesa Lim ited nor Mesa Petroleum Co., an en ergy company also headed by Pick ens, are involved in the bid by Wagner and Brown for Panhandle, said David H. Batchelder, president of Mesa Petroleum. 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