Wednesday, April 22, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State
In Honor
Dr. Robert L. Walker, vice president for devel
opment, and Cadet Col. Garland Wilkinson pre
sented a wreath at the War Memorial rededication
Photo by Sarah Cowan
ceremony Tuesday in front of the Quadrangle.
The memorial honors Aggies who gave tbeir lives
in military service since the end of World War IT
Kyle Field to get new,
By Anthony Wilson
Reporter
Kyle Field is getting a Facelift — a
bright green one with an eight-year
guarantee.
On Monday, workers began re
placing the football field’s eight-
year-old artificial turf at a cost of
about $900,()()(), said Wallace Groff,
associate athletic director for Fi
nance. Of that, the cost of the turf
alone is about $600,000, Groff said.
The field will look virtually the
same, said Billy Pickard, coordinator
of training, equipment and facilities.
said, and the new turf is guaranteed
for eight years.
The field’s resurfacing is sched-
“You don’t fertilize and water it. It’s very minimal care
—just the painting of the lines and the vacuuming of
debris off of it. The reason to have it is for the multi
use. ”
— Billy Pickard, Athletic Department coordinator
Funds for the re-turfing will he
provided by The Aggie Club, an or
ganization which gathers funds for
the Athletic Department to use as it
sees fit.
It will be a brighter green, but the
midfield and endzone designs will be
the same. The fibers of the carpet
will be mounted vertically rather
than at an angle as they are now, he
uled to be completed by August I.
The synthetic track in Kyle Field,
which is plagued with aif pockets,
also will be removed, Pickard said.
“The track essentially will be re-
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Local
Bill puts $1 billion ceiling
on civil suit appeal bonds
Proposal would benefit Texaco in battle
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas lawmak
ers were told Tuesday that a $1 bil
lion cap on appeal bonds rn civil suits
would be good for the state and -the
fact it would benefit Texaco Inc. was
coincidental.
“If is just coincidental and fortui
tous that Texaco and Pennzoil are
involved,” Rep. Charles Evans said.
“I introduced this because it’s a
good bill,” he said.
But Laurence H. Tribe, a profes
sor at the Harvard Law School who
was representing Pennzoil, said the
bill, “would Accomplish nothing but
constitutional mischief.”
The legislative conflict stems from
a 1985 state jury verdict that
awarded Pehnzoil $10.53 billion af
ter determining Texaco unlawfully
interfered with Pennzoil’s attempted
merger with Getty Oil Co.
An appeals courts cut the
judgment to $8.5 billion, but with in
terest the judgment is about $11 bil
lion.
Under present Texas law, the los
ing side fn a court suit must post a
bond roughly equal to the judgment.
The pending bill by Evans, and
placed,” he said. “If you’re sitting in
the stands, iFH look like there’s a
running track. There will be a red
.su,rface with lines painted on it. The
tfaWic itself'wiH.be asphalt with a light
spra}' coat bn top of it. It will not be a
real running track. We wouldn’t
hold a track meet on it. It will be for
physical education classes.”
Pickard pointed Out that artificial
turf, which first was installed in Kyle
Field in 1970, is more practical than
natural grass':
“You don’t fertilize and water it,”
he said. “It’s very minimal care —
just the paihting of the lines and the
vacuuming of debris off of it. The
reason to have it is for the multi-use.
another by Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port
Arthur, would limit that appeals
bond to $1 billion.
The House Judiciary Committee
will not vote on the controversial
proposal until next week, said com
mittee Chairman Mike Toomey, R-
Houslon.
Evans, R-Hurst, asked that the bill
be kept pending until a Senate com
mittee can hear the companion mea
sure next Tuesday.
Evans’ measure also would set up
a new system for providing security
for real estate involved in judgments
until appeals are complete.
Evans told the committee that the
bill, if finally approved, would not be
retroactive for appeals bonds al
ready posted.
Texaco has not posted its appeals
bond and would be affected by a $ 1
billion cap.
“This bill is in the public interest,”
Evans said.
He noted the State Employees Re
tirement Fund and the University of
Texas investment system contains
considerable amounts of Texaco
stock.
We have physical education classes
every day on it from 8 to 4."
Pickard said the turf is not being
replaced because of an outbreak of
injuries.
The old turf will be offered for
sale at 50 cents per souare foot. More
than half of the field has been sold,
Groff said, and anyone interested in
buying a large amount of it should
contact him.
“We’re not interested in selling
little pieces,” he said. “We’re looking
to sell long rolls of it.”
The football team will practice on
the football practice field until the
re-turfing is completed.
Don Baker, an Austin attorney for
Pennzoil, testified, “This bill is a hor
rible example of overkill.
“It would be terrible legislative
policy to legislate like this for special
interests. This hill would just invite
frivolous appeals.”
David Crump, professor at the
South Texas College of Law, said the
$11 billion bond requirement was
unrealistic.
Crump said the worldwide capac
ity of firms that could grant appeals
bonds was $ 1 billion to i| 1.2 billion.
Harry Hubbard, president of the
Texas AFL-CIO, urged approval of
the bill, saying the jobs now held by,
8,500 Texaco union employees
might be affected.
Bernard Weinstein, an economist
at Southern Methodist University,
said, “Approvel of this bill would
help our business climate.”
Joe Jamail, Houston attorney lor
Pennzoil, said, “Texaco is telling the
world it is not going to put up with
rules the way they are and they want
you to change them.
“Texaco could care less for'
Texas.” x
Corrections
A story on Texas A&M’s ex
pected enrollment growth that
appeared in Tuesday’s issue of
The Battalion incorrectly re
ported that the number of fresh
men and transfer students ad
mitted for Fall 1987 was up 30
percent over last year. The cor
rect Figure is 38 percent.
* * * *
In the same issue, a name , was
misspelled in an article oYi the So :
ciety for Creative Anachronism.
The name of a source appeared
in the story as Tammy Hobbes.
The correct spelling is Tammy
Hobbs.
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