Wednesday, February 4, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
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Police Beat
By
Staff Writer
The following were reported
o the University Police Depart-
™~ent from Jan. 26 through Fri-
SDEMEANOR THEFT:
* Nine bicycles were reported
• The Bryan Police Depart
ment recovered three bicycles
ihat were reported stolen.
_ • A student reported that
1 while he was delivering pizzas his
I iicycle was removed from Moses
Hall where he left it. Alxmt
wenty minutes later, the student
Reported that he found his bicycle
the second floor restroom of
oses Hall.
• A student reported that her
ue bag purse was taken from a
rst floor restroom in the Blocker
► A student reported that his
lue jean jacket was taken from a
^ floor washroom of Dunn
• A maroon backpack was re-
aed stolen from the storage
Ives of the Commons Dining
iali.
FELONY THEFT:
• A man reported that he
found the Eli Whitely Park sign in
|ome bushes next to the railroad
mRGLARY OF A HABITA
TION:
• A senior ring was reported
stolen from a dorm room in
Moses Hall
ASSAULT:
• A student reported that,
while walking in a hallway, in As
ton Hall, he was struck in the face
by someone wearing a paisley
shirt and blue jeans.
HARASSMENT:
• A student reported that he
received several phone calls from
about 1:45 to 2:15 a.m. in which
the caller would say nothing and
hang up.
FALSE ALARM:
• Officers responding to a
smoke/Fire alarm in the Sterling
C. Evans Library reported that
they couldn't find any sign of
smoke or fire.
BURGLARY OF A BUILDING:
• A man reported that some
one removed his Nikon 35mm
camera and accessories from an
oflRce in the USDA building.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• A student reported that
someone put two scratches along
the entire length of his 19S6 black
Monte Carlo,
PUBLIC INTOXICATION:
• University police received a
report of a drunk man near Pur-
year Hall. Responding officers
said the man appeared to be in
toxicated and transported him to
the Brazos County Sheriffs of
fice.
nosti
fTexas prisons remain open;
population nears capacity
MUNTSVILLE (AP)
The
! number of inmates in Texas prisons
' c l° ser to a state-mandated 95
percent capacity mark Tuesday as
SU P: more prisoners arrived, a prison
der| : spokesman said.
xl la.'!;I As of midnight Monday, 38,336
b C £ inmates were in the Texas Depart
ment of Corrections, prison spokes-
i |pm Charles Brown said. He said
there were 50 empty beds.
Can ip he inmate count totaled 94.88
whenupercent of capacity, Brown said,
neralfe Unofficial tallies showed that
, e p more than 175 new inmates arrived
Proposed plane
more fuel efficient
than space shuttle
By Christina Caywood-Brennan
Reporter
Around the world in 80 minutes?
Yes, minutes, not days. That’s just
what the proposed National Aero-
Space Plane will be able to do if it is
launched as scheduled in 1993, Col.
Leonard Vernamonti of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
said Tuesday night.
Vernamonti, the guest speaker at
a joint meeting of the American In
stitute of Aeronautics and Astro
nautics and the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, said the pro-
f iosed X-30 aircraft would take off
ike a regular airplane, achieve orbit
and come back to Earth — all on one
tank of hydrogen fuel.
“We want a marriage of space and
aeronautics,” Vernamonti said of the
250,000-pound aircraft, which po
tentially could reach a speed of
Mach 25.
Compared to the 4.4 million-
f jound space shuttle, the much
ighter X-30 will be able to carry the
same 32,000-pound gross weight
payload with greater fuel efficiency.
The shuttle is much heavier than
the X-30 because it requires 1.4 mil
lion pounds of liquid oxygen to get it
into orbit.
■ Some of the features of the plane
will include horizontal takeoff and
landing — much like a regular air
plane — and air-breathing propul
sion for landing.
The greatest feature is that the
plane will be reusable for up to 150
flights.
The plane will combine two flight
regimes, a hypersonic flight reach
ing a speed of Mach 12-to-13 and a
single-staged orbit in which the craft
will use air-breathing engines and
would be able to take off from a run
way.
“Super-computers are allowing
this to happen,” Vernamonti said.
“It couldn’t be done without them.”
The plane will contain an artifi
cially intelligent control system.
Within the system, a pilot association
program will be used to control the
aircraft. The pilot association pro
gram will be like a robot which flies
the X-30 aircraft.
The National Aero-Space Plane
program has many potential bene
fits, Vernamonti says. The most im
pressive of these benefits are the air
craft’s reusability and its efficiency.
Col. Leonard Vernamonti
Photo by Jennifer Friend
Mattox: Out-of-state banks should ‘beware’
Tuesday, with more expected.
About 75 inmates were released
from prison Tuesday, Brown said.
The unofficial figures could push
the inmate population past the 95
percent ceiling, but Brown said TDC
officials would not know the official
count until today.
“Today, we’re kind of projecting
that we would reach or exceed the
95 percent ceiling,” Brown said.
But since the official tally would
not be known until sometime after
noon today, prison doors will remain
open to more arrivals, he said.
AUSTIN (AP) — The new state law permit
ting out-of-state banks to purchase Texas banks
is constitutional, but buyers must beware about
trying to run the Texas institutions, Attorney
General Jim Mattox said Tuesday.
“It’s legal, but they had better be careful,” Mat
tox said after issuing a legal opinion on the law
that took effect Jan. 1.
“They had better abide by the letter of the law,
or we think they will be found to be in violation
of the (Texas) Constitution,” Mattox said.
The Texas Constitution was amended in 1904
to prohibit out-of-state banks from operating
banks in Texas, Mattox said.
In his opinion, Mattox said the interstate bank
ing law approved by the Legislature last summer
“authorizes foreign ownership, not foreign oper
ation” of the Texas institutions.
“Ownership ... of bank stock by an out-of-
state bank holding company does not violate per
se the (constitutional) prohibition against a for
eign corporation exercising banking and dis
counting privileges,” Mattox wrote.
“If, however, the holding company acts in a
way to disregard the separate corporate existence
of individual banks, then we think that courts
would conclude that (the constitution) had in fact
been violated,” he said.
Maximum punishment would be $1,000 per
violation per day and possible revocation of a
bank’s charter, Mattox said.
At a news conference, Mattox refused to say
what specific actions might violate the prohibi
tion against an out-of-state company operating a
Texas bank.
The Legislature passed the bill to allow out-of-
state takeovers after backers of the idea said the
oil price plunge and Texas’ shaky economy had
endangered many of the state’s largest financial
institutions.
Mattox said the new law “very clearly was
passed in an effort to get around (the portion of)
our state constitution that prohibits the conduct
ing of banking services in state by out-of-state
corporations.”
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