Wednesday, January 28, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
ramm: Energy Department to delay
uclear dump completion for 5 years
■ WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.
Phil Gramm said Tuesday the De
partment of Energy will delay the
targeted completion date for the na
tion’s first high-level nuclear dump
for five years to give itself and Con
gress a chance to re-evaluate the
program.
ERep. Larry Cornbest, D-Lubbock,
said the change represented only a
reassessment by the department of
its timetable for completion of the
project and not a rethinking of the
projected goal.
■ Gramm, R-Texas, said, “I have
learned that the Department of En-
ergv will issue an amended mission
E Tm in response to concerns raised
I me and others about the nuclear
waste repository siting.”
■The action, anticipated today,
Hmld move the government’s pro-
Sprted completion date of the waste
Mpository from 1998 to 2003 and
could mean a delay of the entire nu-
■car waste repository program for
ve ye
The DOE could not be reached
for comment Tuesday night.
A nine-square-mile area in the
Texas Panhandle is one of three sites
now being considered by the DOE
for location of the nation’s first high-
to try to ensure the process was car
ried out according to the letter of the
law, which I don’t believe it was.”
Originally, the DOE was required
by Congress to build two dumps, one
in the West and one in the East, but
last year the department announced
“When that whole controversy erupted, DOE said
there was less need for second site. But the law calls for
second site. And I said that if those circumstances have
changed then lefs go back to revisit issue. ”
— Sen. Phil Gramm
level nuclear waste dump. The other
sites are in the states of Washington
and Nevada.
“I don’t see this as stopping the
process,” Cornbest said. “I think they
oegan to reassess their time frame,so
they delayed it. It’s a partial victory
in that any delay gives us the chance
it was dropping those plans and
would only build one repository in
the West.
Gramm said the DOE decided on
the five-year completion delay in or
der to give itself and Congress a
chance to re-study the plan in light
of changes in the nuclear industry
that could make one of the two sites
unnecessary.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, was
instrumental in cutting more than
$200 million from the Energy De
partment’s nuclear waste disposal
program last year and obtained an
opinion from the General Account
ing Office saying the DOE decision
to drop the Eastern site was illegal.
“When that whole controversy
erupted, DOE said there was less
need for second site,” Gramm said.
“But the law calls for second site.
And I said that if those circum
stances have changed then let’s go
back to revisit issue. The five-year
delay will allow us to do that.”
Tne Texas site, just west of Am
arillo in Deaf Smith County, is on an
enormous salt deposit that scientists
believe would be a potentially safe
geological formation to store high-
level nuclear wastes.
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■ Local radio station owner Carolyn
G. Vance announced Tuesday she is
flbing to sell stations KTAM and
§I)RA to San Antonio-based Clear
Channel Communications Inc.
■ “It has been with great love that I
have owned KTAM and KORA, yet
I|am delighted to be able to turn
them over to a quality organization
such as Clear Channel,” she said.
■ Clear Channel Communications
Inc., which owns radio stations in
Kentucky, Louisiana, New’ Jersey,
Oklahoma and Texas, and television
station K28AK in Bryan-College Sta
tion, plans to spend $4.8 million for
the two stations, pending the appro
val of the Federal Communications
Commission.
■ The properties are leading sta
tions in the market and represent
opportunities for continued growth,
said L. Lowry Mays, president and
chief executive officer of Clear
Channel Communications, Inc.
■ Mays, who is a member of the
Texas A&M Board of Regents and
graduated from A&M in 1957, said
he always wanted an investment in
the A&M community and is happy
that Vance is selling the stations to
Clear Channel Communications.
KORA was founded in 1947.
Vance became owner in 1973. At
that time, KORA were the call letters
of both the AM and FM frequencies.
She changed KORA-AM to KTAM
in order to tie the station closer to
the Texas A&M campus, station
manager Ben Downs said.
KTAM is the broadcaster of
Texas A&M football, basketball and
baseball. It contributed over $10,000
to the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation
Center last year and raised $11,000
plus 20,000 toys for needy childeren
through the Radio M.A.S.H. Toy
Drive over Christmas, Downs said.
A northern broadcasting corpora
tion offered to buy the stations from
Vance, but when she mentioned
they served Texas A&M, the cor-
E oration asked what A&M was,
•owns explained. This incident ce
mented the idea to go to Clear Chan
nel Communications.
Vance has had a relationship with
Clear Channel Communications for
the past four years. She told the
company of the other corporation’s
offer and Clear Channel worked out
this arrangement. Downs said.
Bn Advance
OPAS concert offers ‘instant culture’
By Karl Pallmeyer
Music Critic
Get ready for the musical deal
of the century.
To be truly cultured,one needs
to attend a concert of a symphony
orchestra performing tne works
of Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravin
sky, Johann Sebastian Bach,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet,
Johannes Brahms, Frederic Cho
pin and Franz Schubert, to name
but a few.
Spending all that time at the
symphony probably could run
into a lot of bucks and definitely a
lot of boredom. You can save
time, money and thumb-twid
dling by going to see the Cam
bridge Buskers Thursday night
at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
They promise to play many
works by the composers listed
above in only two short hours,
they’re not asking much money
for tickets and they claim to be
funny.
The Cambridge Buskers are
Michael Copley and David Abra
ham Gillespie (Dag) Ingram, two
musicians who play accordion, re
corders, flutes, ocarinas, kazoo,
pan pipes, penny whistle and a
dozen other wind instruments.
They met at Cambridge Uni
versity and began playing, or
busking, for money on the streets
ofLondon.
Their music was uncommon —
few people had ever heard Bee
thoven’s Ninth Symphony per
formed on penny whistle and
accordion, or a medley combin
ing Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nacht-
musik” with Scott Joplin’s “The
Entertainer.”
The duo’s busking on streets
throughout Europe earned them
money from appreciative crowds,
as well as arrests by the not-so-ap-
preciative police.
In Germany, they attracted the
interest of the music industry and
were asked to come in off the
streets to play inside concert halls.
They were offered a recording
contract with Deutsche Grammo-
phon, the largest and most presti-
f ious classical music record label.
ince 1977, they have released
five albums and have played to
sell-out crowds from stages and
on streets around the world.
The Memorial Student Center
Opera and Performing Arts So
ciety will be sponsoring the Cam
bridge Buskers. Tickets are $6.25
for students, $7.25 for non-stu
dents and are available at the
Rudder Box Office.
Austin group seeks to recall mayor, council
AUSTIN (AP) — A businessman launched a
petition drive Tuesday seeking to recall the
mayor and entire Austin City Council for what
he called their failure to get things done.
“The mayor and city council, although person
ally nice people, just are not providing the lead
ership for Austin that we elected them to provide
for tnese critical times,” said Bryan Hardeman,
chairman of Send a Message to City Hall.
Hardeman, an auto dealer, said he is opti
mistic about collecting the 26,000 signatures
needed to force the recall election, which would
force Mayor Frank Cooksey and the six council
members to “run against their own record.”
Hardeman said taxes, utility rates and fees
have increased while services dwindled. He said
promises to protect the environment have been
unfulfilled and little economic progress has been
made during the current council’s term.
“We have heard more about decorating new
city offices . .. than we have heard about jobs,” he
said.
Dick Stanford, spokesman for the recall drive,
said Hardeman’s group believes an overhaul is
needed, so it is pushing the recall rather than
supporting opponents to incumbent council
members, three of whom are up for re-election
in April.
“The problem is not just one member on the
council,” he said. “We want to fire the entire
council for not delivering.”
If a recall election is held, each incumbent
would be listed separately, and one could survive
while another might not, Stanford said.
Cooksey failed to return two calls Tuesday
from the Associated Press.
Council member Sally Shipman said she would
encourage those seeking a recall to run for the
council instead.
“When I ran in 1983, I felt we needed to do a
better job of planning,” she said. “I have my own
opportunity for recall April 4th” when she stands
for re-election.
Council member Mark Rose said he a
leadership has been lacking and said he has
frustrated trying to work with the current coun
cil.
“There’s no question there is a leadership
problem,” said Rose, who also served under for
mer Mayor Ron Mullen.
But Rose, who is seeking re-election, said he’s
not sure if a recall effort is tne answer.
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