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Page 47The Battalion/Wednesday,October 21,1987
A&M tests engine
for replacements
of shuttle buses
By Jeffrey L. Jones
Reporter
Texas A&M bus operations had a
temporary addition to its fleet last
week. The unusual-looking bus on
the Munson route was being tested
to see if its engine would be suitable
for future replacement buses, Doug
Williams, manager of bus opera
tions, said.
Bus operations plans to purchase
three new buses this fiscal year, Wil
liams said.
While students should expect to
see new buses in the future, they
should not expect any to look like
the demonstration bus used last
week, he said.
Bus operations is satisfied with the
body style of the buses already in
use, he said.
“The buses we get will be very
similar to the ones we already have,”
he said, “but hopefully they’ll have
that particular engine and transmis
sion in them.”
He explained the Detroit Diesel
engine in the demonstration bus is
of a much higher quality than the en
gines in the buses currently used.
Williams said starting this year bus
operations will probably be buying
more buses each year.
“Technically, these aren’t going to
be additional buses,” he said.
“They’re going to be replacement
buses.
“We plan to trade some in, but
we’re going to make sure we have
plenty of others on the routes ready
to go.”
He said this will prevent them
from having to replace the entire
fleet of 35 buses all at one time.
Each bus will cost between
$70,000 and $75,000.
The majority of the money used
to support bus operations comes
from the purchase of bus passes by
the students, he said. In addition, he
said, a smaller amount of the money
used comes from student services.
Aggie Players’show
will spoof problems
on campus in satire
By Sara Mitchell
Reporter
In an effort to broaden their ap
peal to the student masses, Texas
A&M’s Aggie Players have devel
oped Sully’s Satire Theater, a com
edy forum which debuts at noon to
day in front of the Lawrence
Sullivan Ross statue.
Aggie Players President Matt
Hunt said the troupe’s past perfor
mances have been limited to major
stage productions, but the satire the
ater is a student-generated produc
tion that will make fun of just about
everything.
Today’s performance features 11
sketches, said Hunt, a senior theater
arts major from Lindale.
One of the sketches will focus on a
fictional “Faculty Camp,” where new
instructors are taught how to make
classes as difficult as possible for stu
dents, he said.
“We want to spoof campus prob
lems, to have fun,” he said. “We
want it to grow into something fun
for the student body to go to and
laugh at themselves and submit
ideas.
“I wanted to provide some fun
theater with quick rehearsals as am
extracurricular activity for people
who did it in high school and loved
it.”
Vicki McWade, a junior sociology
major from Houston, said the satire
theater will spoof everything from
campus issues to politics.
“Everything is within the realm of
laughter,” McWade said. “Every
body is there to be made fun of.”
Christy Claxton, a senior English
major from Giddings, said Aggie
Players wants students’ ideas.
“If it goes over big with the stu
dent body, we’ll continue it,” Clax
ton said. “We want students to sub
mit their ideas and talents.”
Hunt said anyone with an idea for
a sketch should take it to 144
Blocker.
Besides getting more students to
see their performances, Claxton
said, members also are providing, an
opportunity for students to perform
with them.
Claxton, co-chairman of student
productions for Aggie Players, is
planning an open-stage forum for
students to perform in a relaxed at
mosphere.
“Anything goes,” she said. “So
meone might be sitting in the audi
ence watching a performance and
say, ‘Hey, loan me your guitar. I’ve
got something for you.’ It’s a chance
to be seen.”
Aggie Players also will perform
“The Wind Dancers” from Oct. 30
through Nov. 7.
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AUST IN (AP) — Texans should
move slowly on any major state tax
reforms, in part because it was
poorly planned federal tax changes
that precipitated the stock market
plunge, the House tax-writing com
mittee chairman said Tuesday.
“I don’t see major reform next
session (in the Texas Legislature),”
Rep. Stan Schlueter told the Texas
Association of Taxpayers’ annual
membership meeting. “T ax reform
is something that you need to move
very carefully on.”
The recent drop in the stock mar
ket “is a direct result of ill-conceived
tax policy at the federal level,” the
Killeen Democrat said.
“You can’t shift gears with tax pol
icy as quickly as they did
end level and not expect sail
percussions,” he said.
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East Texas woman celebrates 106th birthdo^cC
LUFKIN (AP) — Leora Jackson is watching
the outside world give itself up to autumn. It’s a
seasonal sight she’s seen before— 106 times now.
Jackson celebrated her 106th birthday last
week with a party at Lufkin’s center for the Re
tired Senior Volunteer Program. Lufkin mer
chants donated gifts and local public officials at
tended the celebration.
Having lived all her life in the Moscow area,
Jackson is now a resident of Pineywood Acres
Nursing Home in Corrigan. Nursing home offi
cials say their records indicate that Jackson
turned 106 Sept. 1.
A blue shawl around her shoulders and a
bright balloon bouquet tied to her wheelchair,
Jackson talked recently about her long life.
Her earliest memory, she said, is of her
mother teaching her to recite “The Lord’s
Prayer.”
“That’s the first thing my mother taught me
when 1 got big enough to talk,” she said, and be
gan to recite it.
She was poor growing up, and life was hard by
today’s standards, but Jackson said she was not
aware of any hardships at the time because it was
all she knew.
She and her family lived in a two-room cabin
made of mud and pine logs that relatives and
neighbors helped theih build. She had plenty of
relatives and friends at one time, she said, but
that has changed. She has outlived two husbands
and her only daughter, as well as all her other
relatives.
“The world ain’t full of ’em now ... I ain’t got
no folks now,” she said. “They’ve all done come
and gone.”
One of the rooms in their home was used fos
cooking when it was too cold to cook outdoors.
Cooking was done on a rack placed over a fire.
Most of their cooking vessels were made of hard
ened mud.
“All we had to eat was what w D : KpPLANT
said. “We raised sweet potatoes, Irish ftare Jessica
corn, collard greens, hogs, chickensi-Bjwas not
We got milk from the cows.” jpman who i
To make cornmeal, Jackson saidlhfyestigators
beat dried corn kernels with a ham#JdTuesday,
were the days when her brotherswouU'Weanwhile
cornmeal, water and butter anclletil®®j con hnue
all morning in the embers ofacampbf'dle i s ngo
they could have corn muffins whenthSwishes pc
for lunch from their work in the fields Janiie Moc
The other room in their hometf-P^ _f° r se '
sleeping. |e accident,
“We slept on the floor, andadirtfl<» , rP artrnent (
she said. “We made our beds outof|®Bp r home,
and leaves. When it was cold wetovfli c M1' ues< ^ a y/
the pine straw and kept the Fire going fcoorton sai
What time was not spent learningfell
iron and wash clothes in a hollowed-® h e was
spent running, jumping, climbing 1 l0 ™ e , to care
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