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RUDDER EXHIBIT HALL OCTOBER 22 THROUGH NOVEMBER 28,1987
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
LECTURE BY DR. VIVIAN L. PAUL
PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE CAROLINGIAN COURTS
7:30 PM MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER ROOM 201
The exhibition was organized by the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley,
with the participation of the University of California Press, presented by Pro Helvetia,
National Council for the Arts and Culture of Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland.
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live from Rudder Theatre
Friday, November 13
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(AP) — Officials in cities chosen
for new state prison sites were re
joicing Tuesday, but in Childress
County a judge decried what he
said was a selection process weighed
down by politics.
Of seven community finalists in
the competition to lure six prisons
that will hold 8,500 inmates, Chil
dress was the only one not selected
as a prison site Monday by the state
prison board.
“It’s not a happy time in Chil
dress today, because we really had
our hopes up,” Childress County
Judge Dean Decker said Tuesday.
“Childress certainly had as strong a
proposal as anyone else. I felt it did
revert to how much political clout
you had. We have a small commu
nity.”
Amarillo and Gatesville were
awarded maximum security pris
ons, each holding 2,250 inmates.
Also approved were medium se
curity prisons, each holding 1,000
inmates, in Liberty County, Snyder,
Marlin and Woodville.
Childress was the second-small
est city to make the final cut, with a
population of 5,800.
The smallest was Woodville with
a population of 2,800, located 50
miles northwest of Beaumont.
Woodville City Manager Walton
Davis said the town was aspiring to
attract a maximum-security facility.
empty-handed, and that’s the im
portant thing.”
If Childress didn’t have much
political clout, Amarillo had an
abundance of it.
State Sen. Bill Sarpalius, D-Here-
ford, presented letters and per
sonal testimonials from 22 of the
state’s 31 senators recommending
Amarillo as a prison site.
Several opponents from Am-
“It’s not a happy time in
Childress today, because
we really had our hopes
up.”
— Childress County
Judge Dean Decker
in^ 22 state senators endorse the
prison sent a strong signal, Simms
said, adding, “That’s slam-dunk
time.”
The state prisons awarded to
Amarillo and Snyder will be the
first ones in West Texas, and
Simms said he thinks the presence
of those prisons will make it easier
for other West Texas cities to at
tract future facilities.
Each maximimu m-security
prison will provide roughly 750
jobs with a $1.3 million monthly
payroll, officials said.
The medium-security units will
each mean about 250 jobs and a
$400,000 monthly payroll.
Mayor Pro Tern John Ward said-
Gatesville, a town of 6,300 about 25
miles west of Waco, will see great
economic benefits from the maxi-
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“We’re happy over it,” he said. “I
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get the big one,
didn’t leave
arillo attended the meeting to show
that support for a prison was not
unanimous.
Wiley Chaney, an Amarillo resi
dent who lives a mile from the
prison site, told the board, “We
highly recommend the city of Chil
dress.”
Jim Simms, co-chairman of the
chamber of commerce committee
that was behind Amarillo’s prison
proposal, said opponents prompted
the chamber to display as much po
litical might as it could.
“We were getting a signal back
from the (Texas Department of
Corrections): ‘Was there commu
nity support?’ ” Simms said. Hav-
mum-secunty prison.
“We are absolutely elated,” he
said. “It’s the culmination of 2'A
years of intense effort to bring this
together.”
Snyder Mayor Troy Williamson
said he was sitting on the front row
in the Senate chambers when the
board made its decision.
“I was very excited,” he said. “We
feel it will add several million dol
lars a year to the payrolls of people
who live here and increase the tax
base and retail sales.”
Liberty County Judge Dempsie
Henley said he was excited over the
economic benefits of the prison, be
cause his county has about a 14 per
cent unemployment rate.
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