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Page 6/The BattalionATuesday, February 3, 1987 Donations help to build new freeways SMILE FOR YOUR FAMILY’S GENERAL DENTAL CARE CLEANING, EXAM & X-RAYS ‘Call For Appointment • Dental Insurance Accepted • Emergency Walk Ins Welcome • Evening Appointments Available • Complete Family Dental Care ^(Anderson Bus) CarePlusstat DALLAS (AP) — Right-of-way donations from developers and pur chases by local governments are pav ing the way for new Texas freeways that otherwise would remain on the drawing board because of high land prices and a tight state budget, offi cials say. “We don’t have sufficient funds to do everything everyone wants to do tomorrow,” said L.E. Clarke, direc tor of the right-of-way division for the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation. Since the use of donated ease ments began about three years ago, the state has received about $74 mil lion worth of right of way from de velopers and local governments, Clarke said. About $62 million was donated in 1986, he said. “We probably have $275 million in right of ways pledged to us,” he said in a telephone interview from his Austin office. “That’s more than some states probably buy in 10 years.” The state sometimes gets cash do nations for right-of-way purchases and other assistance, such as pay ment for consulting engineers to help with construction plans, Clarke said. The highway commission recently approved construction of a 10-mile stretch of State Highway 190 through the east-west corridor of Richardson, Plano, Dallas and Collin County after local officials promised to provide more than $100 million of the $136 million needed for the highway’s right of way. Collin County Judge Bill Roberts said, “It was the only way we were going to get approval.” Landowners donated $80 million of the right of way, while another $25 million to $26 million was pro vided by local governments, Roberts said. That leaves the state’s cost at about $141 million, including $107 million for construction and $34 mil lion for land, according to state fig ures. Officials hope the highway, which will connect State Highway 78 in Garland with Interstate 35E in Car rollton, will ease congestion on other Dallas-area freeways. Clarke said the use of donated easements began about three years ago when the state was considering a three-mile freeway extension in Aus tin. The department originally had budgeted $10 million for purchasing land. While the proposal was being studied, Austin land values ex ploded, driving up the estimated price to $37 million, Clarke said. “The department recognized we didn’t have that kind of funding,” he said. Stumped by the problem, com mission members recalled an earlier case in which the city of San Antonio and major landowners west of that city had offered to donate 10 miles of easements for a freeway. The con tributors also agreed to pay for one service road if the state paid for an other, Clarke said. Commission members suggested that Austin donate land. The state wound up getting more than $20 million for the Austin project and was able to approve the project. Clarke said state officials are not trying to pressure landowners and local governments, but rather give them an alternative to waiting for the state to be able to afford increas ingly expensive projects. “It’s not a threat,” he said. “We’re not saying if you don’t give us the money, we ain’t going to build.” Developers have an obvious mo tive to help with these projects, he said. “They’re not motivated by benev olence,” he said. “There’s a great deal of motivation created by antic ipation of being able to reap profits quicker.” WrlOf S lip Tuesday TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: will meet at 7p.r:| 701 Rudder. PRE-LAW SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Ruddfl SADDLE & SIRLOIN CLUB: w ill meet at 7 p.m. in 115 J berg. MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: Aggiecon-18 workers will J at 8:30 p.m. in 4 10 Rudder. All tlu >se interested inworll on Aggiecon-19 should attend. STUDENT Y: will meet at 6 p.m. in 225 MSC. STUDENT Y — AGGIE FRIENDS: will meet at 7 p.m iJ Rudder. INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entrieJ racquetball singles and team bowling are availableu®| p.m. in 159 Read. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS & ASIi; NAUTICS AND AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHAi CAL ENGINEERS: Col. Leonard YernamontiwilldisJ the National Aero-Space Plane at 7 p.m. in 108 Harni ton. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY: studentseJ will meet at 7:15 p.m. in 103 Soil and Crop Sciences. | ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will men at 7 p.m. in I'TB. MOUNT PLEASANT AREA HOMETOWN CLUB meet at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder. OMEGA PHI ALPHA: will hold a meeting for prospd members at 7 p.m. in 145 MSC. TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: will meet at 0 p.m. in from I Rollie White Coliseum. CAP AND GOWN HONOR SOCIETY: will meetai'l p.m. in 401 Rudder. HUMAN FACTORS SOCIETY STUDENT CHAPTER meet at 7:30 p.m. in 333-B Zachry. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: will meet at 7:30pJ 207 Harrington. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: will mee 1 p.m. Tuesdays in the meditation room in theAUfil Chapel. MSC FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS: -1 bership applications are available through today ini MSC. Wednesday will be Aggie Muster. THE SOCIETY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP ANDV VENTURES: will meet at 7 p.m. in 201 Rudder. CIRCLE K INTERNATIONAL: will meet at 8:30 pii 502 Rudder. GREAT COMMISSION STUDENTS: will meetat7:3()J in 115 Kleberg. DANCE ARTS SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. ml Read. EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 9:30 p.m. on the second J of the Flying Tomato. RACQUETBALL CLUB : will meet at 7 p.m. at coufl j OMEGA PHI ALPHA: will hold a meeting for prosptj members at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC. STUDENT ENGINEERS COUNCIL: will meet at 7 a,i| 341 Zachry. STUDY ABROAD: students interested in the studyatf program will meet at 1 1 a.m. at 251 Bizzell West. AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 342 Zachry OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: are accepting application:i spring semester apartment council presidents. Appif ttons are available in 223 Pavilion. BRAZOS COUNTY RAPE CRISIS L v CENTER: will: training sessions for new volunteers through Fridaytl 6:30 to 9 p.m. Call 776-RAPE for applications and:: mation. TAMU JUDO: will hold practice Monday, Tuesday- Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in 236 C. Rollie White members are welcome, and no experience is necessan INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entrifi slam-dunk, wallyball, pre-season softball and softbai available in 159 Read. SIGMA TAU DELTA: is accepting applications f« members through Feb. 9. Applications are available; English Department office. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Ball; 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working- prior to desired publication date. / for: are enc ing wis I spo ily eve nal ral hea me, dig not late: chil way Hu Del f sho ere; gra DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Laurence Sped 1 speak at 7 p.m. in 207 Harrington. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon inil MSC. STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m.rl Rudder. SULLY’S SYMPOSIUM: will be held at 11:50 am. J Sully statue in front of the Academic Building. The I t el c f TT (go me ele .vis nu pn |P ri e in. Austin art class brings out colo in lives of head-injured student I he he AUSTIN (AP) — Painting with oils has brought color back to the lives of many of the head-injured art students who attend classes at a local Correll, who has been painting for more than a year, has sold many of the 30 landscapes he has painted, Mosely said. “What we need nowisil | she said. “Most oftheshllB wheelchairs” and arei®T:*: recreation center. Theresa Mosely, an Austin artist who teaches the classes, said the stu dents with disabilities have come al ive after a little stroking. “I started out with one student — Dean Correll,” she said. “He was sit ting in a terminally ill unit at a nurs ing home with people waiting to die. Dean was only 29.” A head injury from a motorcycle accident had paralyzed Correll on his right side and impaired his speech, Mosely said. “He could only say ‘Hi’ when I met him, but his lively brown eyes said to me, ‘Give me what you’ve got,’ ” she said. Mosely said that after meeting Correll, she knew she would teach him and other people with disabili ties to paint. “Dean was my teacher, also,” she said. “He taught me how to meet the needs of the people I wanted to help.” Mosely met with Correll and other persons who had suffered head inju ries and began classes in September 1985. Several other students in the class also have sold paintings. Diana Webster, who has been con fined to a wheelchair since 1982, has sold three paintings in the past year. “They ranged between $55 and $85,” she said. “I was even commis sioned to paint a landscape.” Webster, like the other art stu dents in the class, had never taken lessons before meeting Mosely. Don Hachenberg, another stu dent in the class, said, “Theresa is donating her time to us. She has been an inspiration to us and is an excellent teacher.” Mosely said her goal was to teach the students to paint in order to re store their self-worth, and, “My sec ond goal is to help them become self- sufficient by selling their work.” the work needed foranarti Mosely said the studefB fi tely need a permanantf.- and display their paintinp She said the students had dis played their work at the Round Rock professional building in November and at the Shriners circus at the Her itage Center in October. “Right now I must cartB paintings around inmyo'j; there is no place to store said. “It is also inconvenitfl students to lug their art T; hack and forth.” Mosely said herworbTi dents is a labor of love. “My mother had rheat||:; thrills,” she said. “I watet® in bed and wither a#?) II years. That taught meet™ ■ Mosely said Lucy Half I Wheeler and Marcella her with the classes. Mosely, who has beenfj| nine years, said she i A studying portrait pain ® Austin artist John Hobb® said she will be teaching for the Institute of Lift 11 ® ing beginning Feb. ISa 1 '* cock Recreation Center a s ert ess, her acc file Cist Pit oik We n<\ wie pi COI n<n trei 1