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AGGIELAND: Applications for staff positions are available through today out
side 011 Reed McDonald.
DANCE ARTS SOCIETY: will have a general meeting to elect new officers and
socialize at 5 p.m. in 230 MSC. Everyone is welcome.
STUDENT COUNCIL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: will have an awards
ceremony at 7 p.m. in 407 Rudder.
Wednesday
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie Supper at 6 p.m. at A&M
Presbyterian Church.
AGGIE GOP/COLLEGE REPUBLICANS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a support group meeting at 8:30 p.m.
Call the center for the room number at 845-0280.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a support group meeting at noon. Call
the center for the room number.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will have a support group meeting at 7
p.m. in 145 MSC.
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on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Officials question
chance of raising
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — For the
iecond time in four months, Mayor
"enry Cisneros’ property has been
ictimized by a hit-and-run driver,
. Jaithorities said.
A car struck a wooden fence that
kJgJXB-uns alongside the mayor’s yard,
^Mhen fled.
I Moments later, the car that struck
■he fence was involved in a collision
Bvith another automobile about two
Blocks from the mayor’s house.
“Thank God no
playing outside.”
children were
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■ Damage to the fence was esti-
■nated at $375 and Cisneros said
gBunday he was relieved no one was
injured.
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Biappened,” Cisneros said.“Now we
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a residential street,
priving through a fence and up into
Cisneros said that although this
was the second incident in which his
property was damaged in four
months by a motorist driving
through his neighborhood, it
shouldn’t promote a negative reflec
tion on the neigborhood.
“It’s a quiet, residential street, not
a commercial street,” he said.
Maximino Lugo Hernandez, 22,
was arrested one block south of the
Cisneros home about 2 p.m. Friday,
shortly after the accident.
Hernandez was released from the
Bexar County Jail Saturday after
posting a $400 bond on a charge of
leaving the scene of an accident.
Earlier this year, Cisneros chased
down a driver who struck one of his
automobiles that was parked in front
of the Cisneros home.
HOUSTON (AP) — The wrecked
Civil War ship USS Monitor is in
fairly good shape considering it’s
been underwater off the North Car
olina coast for 125 years, but federal
officials are uncertain whether to
raise it, an engineer who has studied
the vessel said Monday.
“Personally, I’d like to make sure
anything done there is done care
fully so we don’t waste the 120 years
that it’s been down there,” said
James Jenkins, a corrosion and met
allurgical engineer with the Navy
Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port
Hueneme, Calif.“We really don’t
know today what could or should be
done.”
Jenkins, speaking at the Offshore
Technology Conference, said $3
million already has been spent on re
search on the ship and estimates of
costs to raise it range from $10 mil
lion to $20 million.
“There are major structural com
ponents, like the armored deck, the
turret, the guns, the engine and the
boilers, that appear to be relatively
intact and probably could be re
trieved,” he said.
The ship is significant for a March
. 9, 1862, battle with the Confederate
vessel Virginia, also known as the
Merrimack, marking the first com
bat between two ironclad ships and
the beginning of the end for wooden
warships.
The battle, at Hampton Roads off
the Virginia coast, ended as a draw,
with neither ship able to inflict se
rious damage on the other.
On New Year’s Eve 1862, the USS
Monitor sank in a storm off Cape
Hatteras, N.C.
The Merrimack, renamed the
Virginia by the Confederates, was
scuttled two months after the battle
with the Monitor when Southern
forces abandoned the Norfolk navy
yard. The Merrimack was discov
ered in 1910, its armored plates re
trieved and sold as souvenirs, Jen
kins said.
“We don’t want that to happen to
the Monitor, to have pieces of it on
the end of keychains,” he said. “We
don’t want people going in and we
don’t want souvenir hunters, a la the
Titanic.”
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ismissed. 1 WAXAHACHIE (AP) — A giant atom-
h herplifl fmasher should be built in Texas because the
ind unj® Lone Star State carries more Capitol Hill clout
il benefit an d can make the project’s financial life a lot eas-
us|v neec |er, a Texas senator said Monday.
“This (congressional) delegation is the largest
f any of the sites under consideration,” U.S.
en. Lloyd Bentsen told a team of Energy De-
artment experts here for an inspection of the
exas site.
“Choose the state, but that will not be enough
in the next few years, you’re going to be facing
budgetary constraints” that Texas congressmen
jcould ease, the Democrat said.
Bentsen joined Gov. Bill Clements, U.S. Sen.
Phil Gramm, other elected officials and more
r)n than 300 residents at ceremonies welcoming the
I federal team to this Ellis County city about 30
miles south of Dallas.
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Local politicians, two high school marching
bands and a Boy Scout troop were on hand, as
well as about 40 second-, third- and fourth-grade
students who were let out of school to attend the
ceremonies.
Six other states are vying to land the $4.4 bil
lion supercollider, a proposed proton accelerator
designed to probe the building blocks of matter
inside a 53-mile underground, oval tunnel.
The project’s hefty pricetag has made it a tar
get for budget cuts as lawmakers struggle to tame
the federal deficit, Bentsen said.
Rep. Martin Frost, D-Dallas, a member of the
House-Senate Conference Committee on the
Budget, said Texas’ selection as a finalist for the
supercollider “could not happen without the co
operation of people on both sides of the aisle.”
The Energy Department’s team, comprised of
more than 25 scientists, has inspected a site in
Arizona and will visit proposed sites in Illinois,
Michigan, Tennessee, North Carolina and Colo
rado before making a recommendation to Presi
dent Reagan in November.
Task force chair Wilmot Hess said the team of
scientists this week will inspect the geology of El
lis County, regional resources that could support
the project, results of an environmental impact
statement, the availability of land for the project,
the absence of natural and man-made barriers to
the construction and water and electric utilities.
Geologists will tour the site by plane, in heli
copters and on foot, and other team members
will visit a science and engineering magnet high
school, the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center and Texas Christian University.
The task force leaves Friday.
DOE spokesman Gary Pitchford said the Ellis
County site’s stature among the seven finalists
will be confidential until Reagan makes the final
selection in January.
“This meeting is to evaluate the state’s propo
sal, to get first-hand information of the site, to
get out and walk the site,” Hess said.
But he acknowledged the role congressional
politics could play in construction of the super
collider: “Politics of necessity will play a role in
getting funds” in Congress.
The supercollider research at the new facility
is expected to have benefits in medicine, industry
and the marketplace, Hess said. Earlier proton
acceleration research has been developed into
treatment for cancer patients.
“But the important reason for doing the SSC is
not for spinoffs, it’s not for industry — it’s for
pure science,” Hess said.
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“Personally, I’d like to
make sure anything done
there is done carefully so
we don’t waste the 120
years that it’s been down
there. ”
— James Jenkins, Navy
Engineering Laboratory
The Monitor was depth-charged
during World War II and suffered
extensive damage when the wreck
mistakenly was believed to be a Ger
man submarine. It was not until
1973 that Duke University research
ers said they believed the wreck was
the Monitor. Photographs made two
years later confirmed the find.
Jenkins last year coordinated a
corrosion survey of the Monitor, us
ing Norwegian-made electronic
probes attached to remote-con
trolled underwater gear.
The probes normally are used to
test the corrosion of offshore dril
ling rigs and the investigation of the
Monitor marked one of the first
times oilfield technology was applied
to marine archeology, he said.
The Monitor is in about 230 feet
of water, upside down, with its two-
gun turret — made of foot-thick
wrought iron and weighing 120 tons
— supporting about 90 feet of the
deck above the sea floor.
Although corrosion has set in,
Jenkins said it’s important to note
that less than one-half inch of
material has been lost.
“Corrosion rates tend to drop
over long periods of time,” he said.
As an engineer, Jenkins said the
wreck is significant because it pro
vides corrosion data over 120 years.
The wreck in 1975 was designated
the first National Marine Sanctuary.
Jenkins said the technology exists
to preserve what is left of the ship or
the debris around the vessel could be
retrieved or officials can take no ac
tion at all.
“We have a lot more plans than
money,” he said.
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re you graduating in May?
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the Cnglish Annex between 9 a.m. and 4:30
p.m., Monday thru Friday - it only costs $3.50