Wednesday, September 17, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
&M Ph.D. candidate prepares
r 70-day antarctic expedition
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By Rodney Rather
Stuff Writer
Hejdoesn’t have a weather-beaten
Knd can often be seen sporting
sses Austin Mardon, a Texas
cM doctoral candidate in geog-
)hy, doesn’t look like a tough, ad-
iture-seeking explorer embarking
■ expedition to Antarctica. But
talks like one.
■ographers are not laboratory
ups, says Mardon, a native of
“a who, at 24, is the youngest
ix-member team of scientists
ting Nov. 20 on a 70-day
for meteorites in Antarctica.
|e Indiana Jones, geographers
vel to exotic places and delve into
, dangerous work, Mardon
Onihis expedition, funded by the
itional Science Foundation at a
Jf about $2 million, the scien-
Austin Mardon
tists are going meteorite hunting, he
says.
“ 1 he exact whereabouts of them
(meteorites) are unknown, so they’re
essentially found randomly,” Mar
don says.
The team will find meteorites by
driving snowmobiles across 620
miles of frozen ground, looking for
dark spots in the snow, he says — a
method that often is dangerous.
“You can be going along and just
disappear because you can’t see the
crevasses,” he says.
The crevasses he referred to are
large cracks in the upper surface of
glaciers, which are often covered by
snow.
Mardon’s main objective on the
trip is to take photographs of each
meteorite and its surrounding area,
which will provide a general field
orientation for future research, he
says.
“The primary work I’m doing this
year will be used as the basic inter
pretation key to interpret aerial pho-
tograhs that will be taken in one or
two years,” Mardon says.
The trip also will test the perfor
mance of camera equipment in
frigid conditions, he says.
During his trek to the world’s un
dermost continent, Mardon will
weather chilling winds of up to 80
mph and Fahrenheit temperatures
as low as 30 degrees below zero, he
says.
Because it will be summer, the
team will bask in 24-hour sunlight.
Mardon says the extreme cold, ab
sence of bathing facilities and
cramped housing — small, two-man
tents — don’t bother him because
toughness runs in his family, as do
voyages to Antarctica.
“In my family, the idea that you’re
supposed to do important things is
important,” Mardon says.
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Corrections
held this Thursday.
Also, a story on dormitory ren
ovations in Friday’s issue of The
Battalion incorrectly stated that a
proposed project to renovate the
Corps-style dorms, if approved,
would begin in May 1986. Such a
project actually would not begin
until May 1987.
The Battalion regrets the er
rors.
The following were reported
to the University Police Depart
ment through Monday:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Seven bicycles were stolen.
• Two vacuum cleaners were
stolen from the new Engineering
and Physics building.
BURGLARY OF A BUILD
ING:
• Several rings of master keys
were stolen from an office in the
basement of the Zachry Engi
neering Center.
CRIMINAL TRESPASS:
• Two juveniles were reported
throwing rocks at pedestrians
from the roof of Langford Ar
chitecture Center. Two officers
reported they were unable to find
the juveniles when they went up
on the roof, but another officer
on the ground saw two juveniles
and detained them. Both juve
niles were given criminal trespass
warnings and held until their
guardians picked them up, the
report said.
DRIVING WHILE INTOXI
CATED:
• Police reported pulling over
a driver for speeding. The report
said the officer noticed a strong
odor of alcohol on the man’s
breath. When the man stepped
out of his car, the officer said, he
was unsteady on his feet and was
unable to pass a field sobriety test.
The man was arrested for driving
while intoxicated and was taken
to the Brazos County Jail where
he failed a breath test. He was
then taken to a friend’s home.
PUBLIC INTOXICATION:
• Officers reported they saw a
white male disappear into a ditch
as he was walking toward the
married student housing area.
The officers said the man was try
ing to crawl out of the ditch into
the married student housing
area. As he crawled out of the
ditch, officers said, the man be
gan kicking his legs and waving
his arms. The officers said they
? |uestioned the man, but he re
used to give any answers. He
then was arrested and taken to
the Brazos County Jail and incar
cerated for public intoxication.
Banks post more Hunt property in foreclosure
DALLAS (AP) — Banks targeted
in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit filed
by the Hunt brothers have posted
more of the family’s property for
foreclosure, an attorney says.
Steve Gordon, the Hunt brothers’
attorney, said the posted property
includes a 48-acre tract of land in
Collin County owned by the per
sonal trust funds of Bunker, William
Herbert and Lamar Hunt. The
three brothers are suing 23 banks
for $ 14 billion.
Banks have also posted the Mont
Belvieu, Texas, processing plant
owned by Placid Refining Co., Gor
don said.
Banks, including Bankers Trust
Co. and RepublicBank Dallas, seek
payment on more than $1.5 billion
in loans to Placid Oil Co. and Penrod
Drilling Co-, energy companies
owned by the brothers’ trust funds.
Bunker, Herbert and Lamar
Hunt have three weeks to rework
the loans or seek an injunction, un
der Texas foreclosure laws. If no
agreement is reached, the property
will be auctioned off at the Dallas
County Courthouse.
Last month, Placid Oil and Her
bert Hunt’s personal trust filed for
protection under Chapter 11 of the
U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Senate OKs bill giving governor more budget authority
s, whatever pci:
uncriticallyain®STIN (AP) — The Senate ap-
the Romanem^Bd a bill Tuesday to hold up or
ireus of a druetift budget funds while the Legis-
:ers, the medii3 ure ' snot ‘ n session, prompting an
become a ;«lff ent t0 sa y il would allovv the
jBnor and a few legislators to
is assertions an« (bstitute their wi ,| for lhe wil | of the
is. so that dnfajljty,
icr important k The shift of a single vote would
led to the deleave blocked the measure, which
e or even lhiifl ent t0 the House on a 20-10
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vision inpartM A iwo-thirds vote was needed to
[ripping piCtOiEflugtheijji] before the Senate.
mg situation binH
situation wontB
mve taken«
The bill would allow the gover
nor, if he found an emergency
existed, to propose that certain
funds be impounded or that funds
be shifted among agencies or within
an agency in the budget approved by
the Legislature. The Legislative
Budget Board could approve, reject
or modif y the governor’s proposal.
The governor could approve or
reject any modification by the 10-
member board.
Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur,
said, “What you’re doing now is giv
ing a blank proxy to a governor who
may or may not have the same feel
ings toward your constituencies that
you have. What you’re going to do is
allow governors — if one gets
elected like some we’ve had — to
march us in lockstep backwards, and
we will be 49th and 50th instead of
48th in mental health and things like
that.”
He argued that the bill would al
low the governor and six members
on budget board — or a majority —
“to substitute their feelings about
priorities in this state for those of the
collective will and wisdom of the
Legislature.”
“What you are doing, you are
placing some handcuffs on your
wrists when it comes to exercising
your discretion and your responsibi
lity as a voting member of the Sen
ate, and you’re handing the hand
cuffs to the governor and the key to
the budget board,” Parker said.
“If you want to do that fine, but
this will be another one of those
things where in a few years I’ll be
around to some of you to tell you,
once again, ‘I told you so,’ ” Parker
said.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby was asked
about Parker’s complaints, and
Hobby said, “Budget execution is
something that has been around a
long time. It’s certainly needed since
we have biennial sessions. To avoid
special sessions of the Legislature,
it’s certainly needed, and I think the
procedure that Sen. (Grant) Jones
(D-Temple, the bill’s sponsor)
has ... is as good a procedure as
<can be devised.”
In other action, the Senate:
• Approved on voice vote and
sent to the House a resolution that
would establish a task force to rec
ommend to the 1987 Legislature
what role the state should play in
combating alcohol and drug abuse.
• Approved a bill that would al
low the State Preservation Board to
extend the operation of a Capitol
gift shop through 1988. Royalties
from operation of the shop would go
to the Capitol Restoration Fund.
The measure was sent to the House
30-0.
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