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Vo!. 87 No. 84 CJSPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, January 29,1988
School to move
football games
Kyle Field
By Drew Leder
Stuff Writer
■ Kyle Field is no longer home to
the A&M Consolidated High School
football team.
■ At the request of Texas A&M’s
Athletic Department, the A&M Con-
Blidated Tigers, who have been
■aying their Friday night games at
flyle Field for the past six years,
will be finding a new playing
l|e, Assistant Athletic Director Wal-
ice Groff said.
I Groff said he, along with Athletic
Director Jackie Sherrill and Billy
■ckard, an assistant director, re
quested after the Fall 1987 season
Hat A&M Consolidated discontinue
Haying at Kyle Field because of the
Hctra workload it was putting on
H&M’s athletic department.
I Employees responsible for pre-
laring the Field and stadium for
l&M games have been putting in
ti tmuch time getting things back in
si ipe after the high school games.
■ 'This is A&M’s facility, not the
Hgh school’s,” he said. “We’re a self-
Hpporting organization and we
Have things to do with our funds and
oir people, and we don’t need to be
supporting a high school team.”
■ Groff said the f ans at high school
Hames would often leave trash
Hroughout the stadium, especially
Hie bathrooms. T his would leave the
Hean-up work and repair costs —for
Hems like damaged plumbing —to
ll&M’s Athletic Department.
And although A&M Consolidated
las paying for its maintenance ex-
Benses— labor, clean-up and light-
|trg — the extra work for the Athletic
epartment employees and the ex-
Itia repair costs made the situation
Jndesirable, Groff said.
Groff would not disclose the
[mount of money A&M ConsoN
lllated paid the Athletic Department
Hor Kyle Field maintenance or the
■xact amount of the extra repair
lasts, but he estimated that the de
partment would spend “a hundred
lollars here and there” for various
fepairs.
The A&M Consolidated Tigers
Originally were to play at Kyle Field
for the 1982 season only, but be-
fause of turf, lighting, seating and
jarking problems with their home
Field, Tiger Stadium, they continued
|o play at A&M.
However, the Tigers soon may
[lave a new home.
If College Station voters pass a
|24.5 million bond issue on Feb. 20,
(he Tigers will get a stadium of their
pwn.
The bond issue would put $1.5
Jnillion toward building an 8,000
Seat football stadium adjacent to the
nigh school on land the school dis
trict already owns. The stadium
would include an all-weather track
and would house soccer games.
Mary Galloway, elections coordi
nator for the College Station School
District, said if the proposition
passes, the stadium should be com
pleted in time for the 1989 football
season.
She said many College Station res
idents are eager to have the Tigers
play in a stadium other than the
massive Kyle Field.
“A lot of people felt that it was
hard to create an atmosphere of
school spirit in an 80,000 seat sta
dium,” Galloway said. “There just
wasn’t a home-team feeling.”
Lloyd Wasserman, A&M Consol
idated’s athletic director, said the
time has come for the Tigers to have
a new home stadium and he is ex
cited about the proposition.
“Every school needs to have its
own facility,” he said. “Something
that the kids can identify with — a
home turf. Right now we have to
travel for practice and for competi
tion in almost all sports at the varsity
level. This (stadium) is something
long overdue for the community.”
Groff said that if the bond issue
passes, A&M would allow the Tigers
to play their 1988-season games at
Kyle Field while the new stadium is
under construction. Otherwise, he
said, Kyle Field will not be the site of
any more high school games unless it
is a playoff situation or a big game.
The stadium construction propo
sition will be on a ballot that, if
passed, also will allocate bond funds
to construct two elementary schools
and one junior high school, and to
renovate, remodel and convert an
existing junior high school into a
middle school.
The $1.5 million to build the new
stadium matches the cost it would
take to repair the dilapidated Tiger
Stadium, Galloway said.
Another $300,000 of the debt
would go toward building a 700-
space parking area around the sta
dium.
Another proposition up for elec
tion on the 20th calls for $800,000 in
bonds to be issued to pay for the
construction of a natatorium, a
building to house an indoor swim
ming pool.
If the propositions pass, College
Station property owners will be in
for a short-term tax increase to pay
for the retirement of the debt. The
proposed hike would gradually in
crease property tax rates over three
years.
The current property tax rate ap
plied toward retiring outstanding
bond debt is 24 cents per $100 ap
praised property value.
The plan calls for an approximate
6-cent increase in 1989, another 6-
cent increase in 1990 and an additio
nal 5-cent increase in 1991.
A classic
Members of the Tokyo String Quartet Peter Oundjian, Kikuei Ikeda,
Kazuhide Isomura and Sudao Harada perform the Quartet in D mi-
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
nor by Mozart at their performance at Rudder Theater Thursday
night.See review on page 3.
Koop plans screening of students
of major U.S. university for AIDS
LONDON (AP) — U.S. Surgeon
General C. Everett Koop said Thurs
day he wanted to screen every stu
dent of a major American university
this spring to help determine the in
cidence of AIDS among young
adults.
Koop also proposed similar mass
AIDS screening at a few high schools
in the United States but said the gov
ernment had made no decision on
either proposal.
He disclosed the plan at a world
meeting on AIDS in London and
gave details in an interview Thurs
day with the Associated Press.
The three-day conference, at
tended by health ministers from 114
countries and senior public-health
officials from 34 others, adopted a
declaration backing the World
Health Organization’s global strat
egy on AIDS control and preven
tion.
Proclaiming 1988 the “Year of
Communication and Cooperation
About AIDS,” the 650 summit dele
gates said they “can and will” slow
the spread of AIDS but offered no
major new strategies.
Koop’s plan for anonymous
screening of students could prove
controversial. Civil libertarians have
argued that anonymous screening is
an invasion of privacy and that
screening of a limited population
could be the forerunner of manda
tory nationwide testing.
The surgeon general said health
officials had yet to choose a univer
sity, but it would likely be one in a
large city with a student body of
around 25,000. Plans call for the
screening to take place some time
this spring, Koop said, and it would
likely be part of a one-day open-air
campus “gala” on AIDS prevention.
“The goal would be to test every
body in that university in such a way
that it’s done out in the open, above
board; everyone knows that the
blood specimen is not in any way
tagged,” Koop said.
“That would give you a pretty
good idea of the prevalence (of
AIDS) in the age group in an urban
setting,” he added.
The incidence of acquired im
mune deficiency syndrome is high
est among 20 to 24 year olds, with
male homosexuals and drug abusers
among those most at risk.
AIDS is caused by a virus that
damages the body’s immune system,
leaving victims susceptible to infec
tions and cancer. It is spread most
often through sexual contact, nee
dles or syringes shared by drug
abusers, infected blood or blood
products, and from pregnant
women to their offspring.
Blood tests can determine the
presence of AIDS antibodies, indi
cating exposure to the virus, but a
positive test does not necessarily
mean a person will develop symp
toms.
Koop said the screening would
probably be conducted under the
auspices of the Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta or the American
Medical Association.
He said anonymity would be guar
anteed and those taking part would
have no way of knowing the results.
Koop said he also hoped that such
screening could be carried out at a
few high schools in diverse parts of
the country. As examples of the
types of places he had in mind, Koop
cited Philadelphia or New York’s
South Bronx in the Northeast and
Evansville, Ind., in the Midwest.
Polygamist clan,
police end standoff
following shooting
America pays tribute to astronauts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
Space workers preparing for re
sumption of shuttle flights paused to
pay silent tribute T hursday to the
seven astronauts who died two years
Bgo in the fiery Challenger disaster.
It was one of many remembrances
around the country.
Tour buses stopped, cafeteria
[ines halted and hundreds of engi
neers, technicians and other workers
poured out of buildings at 11:38
a.m., the moment when Challenger
lifted off on Jan. 28, 1986.
Flags around the Kennedy Space
Center were lowered to half staff,
while workers stood silent for 73 sec
onds, the length of the fatal Chal
lenger flight. The air was chilly, the
sky clear, a grim reminder of the
frigid conditions that contributed to
the space shuttle’s destruction.
At the Johnson Space Center in
Houston, workers held a quiet, 73-
second observance, while officials at
the Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala., encouraged work
ers to observe the anniversary in
their own way.
In Concord, N.H., students at
Concord High School paused at the
beginning of classes to remember
Christa McAuliffe, their city’s social
sciences teacher who died in the
shuttle explosion. She was aboard as
NASA’s first citizen-in-space and
Stone shows positive signs
after third transplant of liver
By Mark Gee
Staff Writer
John Stone, a 1984 graduate of
Texas A&M, remains in serious
condition in the intensive care
unit at Baylor Medical Center in
Dallas, hospital spokesman Susan
Hall said.
Marion Stone, John’s mother,
remains optimistic about the suc
cess of his third liver transplant.
“Johifs had his share of bad luck
but he’s doing better,” she said.
She added Stone’s doctors are
optimistic because he underwent
a successful kidney dialysis on
Wednesday and was removed
from his artificial respirator and
most of his post-operation medi
cation on Thursday. She also said
there were no signs of liver infec-
tion or bleeding.
Stone, 26, lost his second trans
planted liver after 12 days be
cause of bleeding. It was replaced
by his current liver Jan. 17.
The kidney dialysis he under
went Wednesday, his first since
his third liver transplant, was a
significant event because Stone’s
liver did not bleed afterward,
Marion Stone said.
Kidney dialysis is essential after
liver transplants because kidney
function stops during the trans
plant operation.
Stone’s second liver bled after
dialysis. Dialysis will be required
for Stone until his kidneys start
functioning.
Stone’s first transplanted liver,
received Dec. 1 during a nine-
hour operation, was lost after 35
days because of infection.
The infection cropped up after
surgery to stop the liver from
bleeding. The surgery was suc
cessful but an infection devel
oped, said Scott Donahue, chair
man for the John Stone Fund in
Bryan-College Station.
Stone suffers from Alpha-1-
Anti Trypsin Deficiency, a rare
liver disease that keeps his body
from controlling his digestive en
zymes, which have destroyed his
liver. His original liver was unable
to circulate blood properly.
A liver transplant will not cor
rect the deficiency, but it will give
him a new start. The deficiency
will be controlled by medication,
Marion Stone said.
was to have taught lessons from orbit
to schools around the country.
At McAuliffe’s grave overlooking
the New England city, flowers lay
atop the black marble marker; deep
snow partially obscured the inscrip
tion.
At Arlington National Cemetary
near Washington, June Scobee,
widow of Challenger commander
Dick Scobee, placed wreaths at the
Challenger Memorial Plaque and on
Scobee’s grave. With her were a
group of children representing
schools which have raised thousands
for a Challenger Center. She is lead
ing an effort to raise $30 million to
build the science education center.
No Greater Love, a non-profit hu
manitarian organization, also placed
a wreath at the Challenger plaque.
The group runs friendship pro
grams for families, especially chil
dren, of those who have died serving
their country.
In Washington, Sen. John Glenn,
the first American to orbit the Earth
back in 1962, issued a statement in
which he said, “We owe it to the
Challenger astronauts to pursue an
aggressive space program. Their
sacrifice will have meaning only if we
learn from it and move forward.”
A Buddhist temple in Honolulu
planned a memorial service at the
gravesite of Ellison Onizuka, one of
the Challenger crew members.
Tennessee legislators in Nashville
read a poem and passed a resolution
designating Thursday as Astronaut
Remembrance Day.
The seven were Dick Scobee,
Mike Smith, Ron McNair, Judy Res-
nik, Ellison Onizuka, Greg Jarvis
and Christa McAuliffe.
MARION, Utah (AP) — A quick
burst of gunfire Thursday ended a
tense, 13-day standoff between a po
lygamist clan and police, killing an
officer and seriously wounding the
group’s ringleader who was sus
pected of bombing a Mormon cha
pel.
The shooting erupted just after
dawn as police who had secretly in
filtrated the clan’s compound used a
trained dog to try to isolate Adam
Swapp and his brother from the log
house they had left moments before,
officials said.
In the exchange* of shots, the
dog’s police handler was shot in the
abdomen and Swapp fell in the snow
with bullet wounds in the arm and
chest, John T. Nielsen, state public
safety director, said.
“It’s my understanding that the
officer was fired upon first, by
whom we don’t know yet,” Nielsen
said. He said an FBI agent was shot
in the chest, but was unhurt because
he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
“In the succeeding, following mo
ments after the gunfire, the agents
moved in an armored personnel car
rier to evacuate those who were
wounded and they came under ex
tremely heavy gunfire from the . . .
residence,” he said.
However, the shots ended mo
ments later and the clan’s four other
adults and nine children filed from
the house in two groups with their
arms raised above their heads.
“We are very happy to report in
this — : that’s if there’s anything to be
happy about in this tragic situation
— that all of the children are safe,”
Nielsen said. “That was the number
one priority of all of the officers.”
The siege had begun within hours
of the predawn bombing Jan. 16 of
the Mormon Church’s chapel a half-
mile from the compound. That
night, police talked by telephone
with Swapp, who said the bombing
was revenge against the church and
state for the 1979 police slaying of
polygamist patriarch John Singer.
He told others he sought an armed
confrontation to trigger Singer’s res
urrection.
Nielsen said the decision to seize
Swapp, 27, on federal warrants was
made after a family friend delivered
to police Wednesday afternoon a let
ter from Swapp warning he would
use any means to defend his com
pound.
Corps squadron honors
7 victims of Challenger
On the second anniversary of the
Challenger space shuttle explosion,
Taps was played last night for the
seven astronauts who died in the di
saster.
Corps Squadron 7, nicknamed
“Challenger 7” in memory of the
Challenger crew, held the 11 p.m.
ceremony on the Quadrangle.
- Senior aerospace major and
squadron commanding officer Chris
Yancy said the squadron holds the
ceremony to honor the lives lost in
the explosion at a time when many
concentrate on the money involved
or who was at fault.
“It seems that this year, every
body’s more worried about getting
money for the families (of the astro
nauts) or pointing a finger at Mor
ton Thiokol,” he said.
Morton Thiokol is the company
held largely repsonsible for the me
chanical malfunction that caused the
explosion.
“I think people have lost the hu
man aspect of it,” Yancy said.
“There were a lot of brave people
who lost their lives, and that’s what
we’re trying to concentrate on.”