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High rent forces J.T. McCord’s
out of space in College Station
By Marcena Fadal
Staff Writer
The employees of J .T. McCord’s restaurant in
College Station were shocked last month when
the vice president closed its doors to the public
for the final time without warning.
J.T. McCord’s, at 2232 Texas Ave. in the Bra
zos Square Shopping Center, closed forever at 11
p.m. June 24, assistant general manager Laurie
Moore said.
“It was real sudden,” Moore said. “We were
notified that day that we were closing perma
nently.”
McCord’s, which opened in February 1983,
was not making enough money to pay the rent at
the center, Moore said.
“The rent was too high,” she said. “The land
lords wouldn’t negotiate the rent to help us out.
A couple of others (McCord’s) were not making
it, but their landlords negotiated the rent so they
could stay open.”
Gary Yarbrough, vice president of Banc Home
Savings of Dallas, which owns the Brazos Square
Center, was as surprised as anyone about the
closing.
“We found out Monday,” Yarbrough said.
“We understood that their business was good.
The rent was what they agreed to.”
Moore said J.T. McCord’s corporate office in
Dallas notified them of the closure.
“There were just not enough people going to
eat there,” Jim Fritzius, vice president of
McCord’s, said. “We decided to close on Wednes
day. The managers were notified Thursday and
the employees on Friday.”
Mary Huron, a former restaurant service rep
resentative at McCord’s, said about 60 workers
were laid off.
“Management said we could be relocated at
another McCord’s which is centrally located in
Dallas, but most of the workers were students he
re,” Huron said. “A lot of the workers had to go
home for the rest of the summer.”
The managers at the College Station McCord’s
tried to help the workers find new jobs, Huron
said.
“The managers personally went around and
talked to the managers of other restaurants,”
Huron said. “Some got jobs, but most are still
looking.”
Rumors have been circulating that J.T.
McCord’s closed because of unsanitary condi
tions, but David Jefferson, a registered sanitarian
at the Brazos County Health Department, said
the rumors are false.
McCord’s scored a 98 out of a 100 on a March
28 restaurant inspection report.
“That’s really good,” Jefferson said.
“McCord’s had no major problems. Sanitation
had nothing to do with their closing.”
Huron added that McCord’s was the cleanest
restaurant she ever worked at.
Fritzius said at this point J.T. McCord’s does
not plan on reopening anywhere in College Sta
tion but plans to focus on the Dallas-Fort Worth
area.
Yarbrough said more tenants will move into
the old McCord’s space in the center.
“There will definitely be more tenants,” Yar
brough said. “We are signing with leasing agents
right now.”
Some Texas A&M students said they were dis
appointed that the restaurant closed.
“I used to take my parents there after football
games,” Randy Kemp, a senior horticulture ma
jor from Waco, said. “We have one in Waco and I
like going there a lot. It’s not real fancy, but it’s
not just another burger joint.”
Jackie Flanders, a junior psychology major
from Plano, said, “They closed so unexpectedly.
I wondered what happened. We liked going
there for lunch and happy hours.”
Bush makes pledge to represent Hispanics
DALLAS (AP) — Republican
George Bush on Wednesday prom
ised to name a Hispanic-American to
his Cabinet if elected president, but
he refused to make the same com
mitment to blacks, women or other
minorities.
“Other groups have been rep
resented in the Cabinet and Hispan
ics have not,” the vice president said.
Bush, certain to be the Republican
presidential nominee, made his
pledge before the annual convention
of the League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC), the
largest and oldest Hispanic civic
group. The audience, apparently
dominated by Democrats, gave the
vice president only scattered ap
plause.
Tony Bonilla, an influential Dem
ocrat whom Bush singled out by
name as a person he had tried to re
cruit, was unmoved by the vice presi
dent’s promise.
Bonilla said it was “a little patron
izing” for Bush to offer to put a His
panic in his Cabinet after serving
eight years in the Reagan adminis
tration without one.
“The vice president needs to say
to the president right now, ‘We have
goofed. We have not reciprocated to
the Hispanic community’” for their
support, said Bonilla, a former
chairman of LULAC and the head
of the National Hispanic Leadership
Conference.
Bush said he had discussed the is
sue with President Reagan, but he
added, “I’m not president of the
United States.”
In making his pledge, Bush told
the audience that it was “good to ac
knowledge that some things are, at
this point, owed.” He said his prom
ise was something “I have never
made before, to anyone, to any
group.”
However, he said, “It is time. It is
time and it’s long overdue, and that
is a solemn pledge.”
At a news conference later, Bush
said he would not make similar
promises to other groups and con
sidered it a one-time pledge.
“I will be very open-minded and
broad-based in who I select to serve
in my Cabinet, but I’m addressing
myself to righting a wrong that has
been out there for many years,” he
said.
Asked if he would make a similar
promise to Asian-Americans, Bush
said, “I’d have to go back there and
research that out.”
Bush argued that he was not leav
ing himself open to the same charges
he and Reagan leveled against Dem
ocrat Walter Mondale in 1984 —that
he was going around the country
making promises to special interest
groups.
“If I went around from group to
group doing that, it might be fair to
make that charge, but I’m not going
around from group to group doing
that,” Bush said.
His commitment was a measure of
the political importance of Hispan
ics, particularly in key battleground
states like Texas, California and
Florida which have a large Spanish
speaking population.
In Advance
Beef industry conference begins today
Beef in the American diet and
its profitability to producers are
the focal points of the 1988 Na
tional Beef Industry Conference,
which begins today in Rudder
Theater.
The conference, which lasts
through Friday, will examine the
changes that have occurred in the
beef industry since 1987 and the
impact those changes will have on
producers and consumers.
The conference is divided into
sessions on beef nutrition and
beef production that will begin at
9 a.m.
Nutrition experts will discuss
the latest research on lean beef
and how it may be included in
normal, modified and weight
controlled diets.
Memorial service
for A&M student
to be held Sunday
By Ashley A. Bailey
Staff Writer
A memorial service will be given
at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at St. Mary’s
Catholic Church in College Station
for a Texas A&M student who died
last month From acute leukemia.
Christy Herrera, 28, was just a few
months away from earning his doc
torate in inorganic chemistry before
his death June 10.
Drew Ilger, a graduate student
who had worked with Herrera in the
chemistry department since 1981,
said Chris was a great friend and co
worker.
“He was always friendly and help
ful — even with people he didn’t
know,” Ilger said.
He was also a very hard worker,
he said.
“All of Chris’ research, course
work and preliminary exams were
complete,” Ilger said. “All he had
left before receiving his doctorate in
inorganic chemistry in December
was the actual writing of his disserta
tion.
“So far he has had one article pub
lished as a result of his research and
there are more being published now.
Chris also helped our adviser. Dr.
Zingaro, to develop and patent a
new chemical compound.
“Chris definitely made a great
contribution to chemistry and to all
the people he knew.”
Ilger said Herrera did not know
he was suffering from leukemia un
til last April. He said Herrera had
been ill for a long time and was un
der a doctor’s care, but it wasn’t until
he changed doctor’s that he was di
agnosed as having acute leukemia.
Herrera’s survivors include his
mother, Muriel Herrera of Jackson
ville, Florida; five brothers and two
sisters.
Herrera’s mother said he was a
model person and would be missed
by all who knew him.
“Chris was always a very good
son,” she said. “He was a kind, car
ing person who was always very dil
igent in everything he did. He made
really good grades all the way
through school.
“We all love him and miss him a
lot.”
The service will be given by Ilger,
and friends Beatrice Bravo and Glo
ria Rodriguez. Mass will be said by
Father Kent of St. Mary’s.
Ralph Zingaro, Herrera’s adviser
and a chemistry professor, has be
gun a memorial contribution fund in
memory of Herrera.
Contributions can be sent to the
Texas A&M Development Fund
through the vice president for devel
opment’s office.
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