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East Texas group lobbies
for $100,000 to get collider
Businessmen think area could receive site
By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Senior Staff Writer
Could $100,000 bring the Super
conducting Super Collider to East
Texas? There’s a group of area busi
nessmen who say that it could and
they’re stumping towns and cities
throughout the area trying to raise
the money.
North Bardell chairs a group of
self-appointed community boosters
that calls itself the Brazos Valley Su
perconducting Super Collider Foun
dation. Monday afternoon he ad
dressed the College Station City
Council, selling the possibilty that
Burleson County or a site therea
bouts could strike the U.S. Depart
ment of Energy as the perfect place
for the $4 billion SSC.
Ten states are competing for the
SSC, perhaps the most ambitious
physics experiment ever under
taken. The circular tunnel, some 53
miles in circumference, is expected
to take about eight years to build and
draw 2,500 permanent employees to
the chosen area.
“We cannot afford not to put our
best effort into it,” said Bardell, not
ing that the annual operating budget
for the massive particle accelerator
and collider will be about $282 mil
lion. The $100,000 Bardell is asking
for would go largely toward engi
neering fees for the site evaluation
— a task awarded to the Boston-
based engineering firm Stone and
Webster.
So far the foundation has lined up
about a third of its needs — about
$36,000 in donations and loan com
mitments. The first $20,000 came
from Brenham, populated by a scant
9,000 souls. The small communities
of Caldwell and Somerville have
contributed $5,000 each.
“Of course, we’d love to get
$50,000 from each city,” Bardell said
in suggesting the amount Bryan and
College Station each could contrib
ute.
The task the Brazos Valley SSC
Foundation faces is daunting, not
only because of the complexity of
the proposal expected by the state
selection committee hut also because
of time constraints on the project.
All proposals must be finished and
in Austin by April 20.
College of Geosciences Dean Mel
Friedman, speaking at a Monday
night presentation at the College
Station Hilton, said the Brazos Val
ley site had to prove itself an eco
nomical choice to be competitive
with other sites.
Friedman is talking about uncon
ditional title to 7,490 acres.
The proposal must also demon
strate that a “cut-and-cover” con
struction method — the least expen
sive technique — could be used to
build the tunnel. Cut-and-cover con
struction involves using a dragline, a
big mechanical shovel, to dig the 30-
foot-deep trench.
The most competitive location in
the country, the Fermilab site in
northern Illinois, is disadvantaged in
that the tunnel would have to be
drilled through solid rock, 350 feet
below the densely populated sur
face.
7 Battalion staffers
capture top honors
in SWJC competition
Attorney
seeks delay
of hearing
By Curtis Culberson
Staff Writer
The attorney for three Texas
A&rM football players charged
with the misdemeanor assault of
two women and a University po
lice officer filed a motion Friday
to postpone a hearing set for
Monday.
Attorney Steven Sampson said
he filed a motion of continuance
because he had just recently been
retained by the players. Sampson
said he needs more time to re
view the prosecution’s case
against the players.
He said all three players would
plead not guilty in the case.
Louisa Dunn, court clerk, said
Justice of the Peace Mike Calli-
nam will decide on a new hearing
date.
Freshman defensive back La
fayette R. Turner is charged with
the misdemeanor assault of two
women students and senior de
fensive back James Earl Flowers
is charged with the misdemeanor
assault of a University Police offi
cer.
Sophomore running back
James Howse is charged with the
misdemeanor assault of one of
the women students in an inci
dent that occurred March 11 in
Cain Hall.
Director of University Police
Bob Wiatt said he couldn’t com
ment on the case.
But Wiatt did say the charges
are class C misdemeanors pun
ishable by a maximum fine of
$200.
Seven Battalion staff members
won first-place honors in the 57th
annual Southwestern Journalism
Conference held at the Ramada Inn
in College Station Thursday
through Saturday.
Columnist Karl Pallmeyer and
former editor Cathie Anderson tied
for the top spot in column writing,
Pallmeyer for his piece on the con
flict between members of the Corps
of Cadets and students who tried to
cross Kyle Field during midnight
yell practice Oct. 3, and Anderson
for her column on the Ku Klux
Klan’s candidate for governor. An
derson currently is working for IBM
in Houston.
Mike Sullivan’s article “A&M stu
dent ‘feared for life’ in robbery” re
ceived the first-place award for best
news story. The piece was an inter
view with an A&M student who was
held hostage during a robbery at a
local 7-Eleven store in October. Sul
livan is now the opinion page editor.
News Editor Sue Krenek took the
best newspaper series award for her
three-part story on the possible ef
fects of federal tax reform and the
state budget crisis on financial aid at
A&M.
John Makely wop best photo page
for his feature on the bonfire.
Makely is now a photographer for
the Houston Post.
Best magazine layout went to for
mer At Ease editors Bill Hughes and
Marybeth Rohsner for “Cool Cour
ses,” a story on making the best of
free electives, that appeared in the
Nov. 7 At Ease. Rohsner is now ma
naging editor, and Hughes is a pho
tographer.
Other awards went to:
• The Battalion Editorial Board,
which won an honorable mention
for its editorial on the “dramshop
liability” ruling.
• Makely, who won an honorable
mention in the best sports photo cat
egory.
• Hughes, who took second place
in the best magazine photo category
and received an honorable mention
in best magazine photo essay.
• Homer Jacobs, as assistant
sports editor, who landed third place
in the best sports game category for
his coverage of the Texas A&M-
Southwest Texas State basketball
game. Jacobs is now sports editor.
In addition to the awards, Krenek
was presented with a $150 schol
arship from the SWJC.
The contest covered entries pub
lished in campus publications be
tween Jan. 1, 1986 and Dec. 1, 1986.
Schools were allowed to submit three
entries in each of the categories.
Certificates were awarded for the
top finishers in each category.
Judging for editorials and edito
rial page layouts was handled by
staff members at the New York
Times. Judging for all other contests
was provided by representatives of
the New England Newspaper Asso
ciation.
The Battalion came in fourth with
a score of 53 points in the
sweepstakes competition, in which
points are awarded for prize-win
ning entries. Sweepstakes standings
were determined by awarding seven
points for a first place, five points
for a second, three points for a third
and one point for an honorable
mention.
SWJC is made up of 19 member
schools from Texas, Oklahoma, Ar
kansas and Louisiana.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clem
ents’ no-new-taxes state budget will
be ignored by House budget-writers,
the chairman of the appropriations
committee said Monday.
The 29-member panel went back
to work Monday, starting from
scratch after deciding last week it
had not made sufficient spending
cuts.
Chairman Jim Rudd, D-Brown-
field, said the goal is still to reduce
spending where possible, but the
cuts cannot possibly approach the
level sought by Clements to avoid
another tax bill.
“We just wanted to see what con
cepts he had to get to the bottom li
ne,” Rudd said. “Now that we’ve
looked at it and now that we’ve tried
to go through it and now that we see
how it fits in with what we think is
reasonable, it just won’t work.”
Clements has vowed to veto any
budget that exceeds the bottom line
he has set, which is current spending
plus the $2.9 billion that would be
raised by making permanent the
temporary sales and motor fuels tax
increases now in effect.
Rudd said Clements is “reason
able enough” to realize the gover
nor’s proposed budget would not
build enough prisons and would
force increased local school taxes.
“He just wants us to do all the cut
ting we can, and we will do that,
Rudd said. “But even with the cut
ting, you can’t cut billions out. We’ve
cut billions already. There’s just not
another billion in there to cut out.”
Comptroller Bob Bullock has pro
jected a $5.8 billion 1988-89 deficit if
state spending continues at current
levels without revenue increases.
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