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Kennel Club names
scholarship recipients
By CHERYL HELLER
Reporter of THE BATTALION
Three Texas A&M students
were recently named as recipients
of veterinary scholarships from
the American Kennel Club.
Lore Haug, Dawn Brittain and
Guy Mathews Jr. have received
scholarships totaling $4,000 for
the 1992-93 school year. The
scholarships for full-time veteri
nary students, which were based
on financial need, the applicant's
academic achievement or poten
tial, and the applicant's perceived
or demonstrated interest in canine
biology and pure-bred dogs, are
very much appreciated by the stu
dents.
Matthews, a senior veterinary
student, said, "The tuition for
schools is skyrocketing, and
scholarships like these make vet
erinary students' dreams come
true. I'm grateful to the AKC for
helping make my dream come
true."
Haug, a fourth-year veterinary
student who also received an
AKC scholarship, plans to use it
for her veterinary externship, a
period of four-weeks of work in a
veterinary practice. She must
complete the externship before
finishing veterinary school.
"We take out so many loans to
finish school," Haug said, "and
this scholarship will really help
me. I'm doing my externship out
of state, and the scholarship will
help pay for living expenses,
something that the school doesn't
help out with."
A number of A&M students
competed for the national scholar
ships, which they applied for with
a submitted essay on how each
student would benefit dogs in his
or her practice.
Group donates hydrant
to Texas Engineering
Extension Services
By BRANDI JORDAN
Reporter of THE BATTALION
The Big Eight Resource, Con
servation- and Development and
Schlumberger Industries dedicat
ed a new dry hydrant to the Texas
Engineering Extension Service
Tuesday at the Brayton Firemen
Training Jield. The dry hydrant
will aid in training firefighters to
fight fire£ in rural areas.
"We will be able to show fire
men from across the state how to
install and use these hydrants so
they can have easy access to wa
ter, even when they may be as far
as 20 miles from a ready water
supply," said Charles Page, divi
sion head of the Fire Protection
Training Division of TEEX.
The dry hydrant provides a
supply of water from existing
farm ponds, lakes and streams. It
also reduces the distance that fire
fighters must travel to refill the
tanks on their trucks when bat
tling rural fires.
Dry hydrants are simple in de
sign and construction. They are
installed three feet below the low
est level that a body of water
would reach in a dry y£ar.
Pipe runs from the water to an
all-weather road or other accessi
ble spot, and then is capped
above the surface with the dry hy
drant itself.
DARRIN HILL/The fistfafa
Wendi Peck, a sophomore psychology major from Clear Lake, and publicity chairman for the Tamu Sailing Club, hang out on a
and Mike Rolland, a mechanical engineering major from Midland, Hobie 16 Catamaran outside the MSC on Tuesday.
Anti-abortionists defy inj unction
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Anti-abortion
activists on Tuesday protested in
side a 100-foot limit outside an
abortion clinic, but six leaders
from Operation Rescue freed from
jail after violating the order did
not appear at the demonstration.
About 50 local Operation Res
cue supporters showed up outside
a Planned Parenthood clinic near
downtown where abortions are
performed. Some 17 crossed the
court-imposed demonstration line
to kneel in the gutter/pray and
proselytize.
Other demonstrators tried to
give women going into the clinic
biblical tracts as abortion rights
advocates surrounded the women
to escort them inside. Some
demonstrators shouted that the
women would "forever regret"
their decision to haVe an abortion
and would be tortured with "eter
nal damnation."
About 10 Planned Parenthood
volunteers locked arms to "de
fend" the clinic doors from pro
testers while others helped escort
clients from the parking lot past
demonstrators. There were no ar
rests.
State District Judge Eileen
O'Neill issued a restraining order
Aug. 6 prohibiting demonstrators
from coming within 100 feet of
abortion clinic doors or within 25
feet of a patient or worker. The or
der, which anti-abortion demon
strators repeatedly have violatd
during the past month, expire
Thursday unless Ms. O'NeilliS'
sues a temporary injunction.
Planned Parenthood Inc
sought the restraining order aftfl
anti-abortion groups, includinj
Operation Rescue, announced
they would protest clinics durinj
the Republican National Conven
tion, which ended Aug. 20.
Six anti-abortion protester!
jailed for demonstrating too dos
to a clinic were freed.
Trinity Meadows gallops ahead in race for track
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WILLOW PARK — Trinity Meadows
officials and employees were still riding
high Tuesday, one day after taking the
lead in the derby to acquire North Texas'
first Class 1 license.
But that enthusiasm was tempered
with by the fact that hearings examiner
Dudley McCalla's recommendation still
has to win approval from the Texas
Racing Commission.
"We're still in a frame of mind that
we haven't been approved by the entire
commission yet, but we're confident that
the commission will stand by McCalla's
ruling," said Steve Bera, chief operating
officer at Trinity Meadows.
McCalla stunned most observers
Monday when he recommended Trinity
Meadows, which has operated a Class 2
horse racing track since May 1991, over
three Dallas County groups.
McCalla, an Austin lawyer appointed
to review the applications, cited Trinity
Meadows' experience as a factor.
He recommended denial of
applications from Grand Prairie and
Dallas groups.
Bera said McCalla's selection of the
Parker County raceway wasn't a total
shock.
"I don't believe surprise is the right
word because we formed the application
in such a way that Trinity Meadows
would be selected," he said.
"I think if there was surprise element,
it was that we received a lone
recommendation that didn't include one
of the other applicants."
Racing fans shouldn't look for Trinity
Meadows to become another Remington
Park or Louisiana Downs, Bera said.
"Trinity Meadows is going to have an
identity all its own. We have our own
concept of what the facility should look
like," Bera said.
The track has spent $10 million to $15
million building its Class 2 facility, with
$15 million to $20 million more
earmarked for improvements if it
receives Class 1 status.
The grandstand, which lacks air
conditioning, could be renovated by the
expected March 1993 start-up date, Bera
said.
Expanding the racing oval to one
mile that quickly, he said, would be
more difficult.
Trinity Meadows' licensing
application proposes a two-phase
improvement, including a new third
level that features a clubhouse and
sky boxes.
Seating would be expanded to 13,860,
with standing room for about 5,000
more.
The Racing Commission has never
gone against an examiner's
recommendation in awarding pari
mutuel horse licenses. The vote on the
North Texas proposal is expected to
come at an Oct. 2 meeting.
Objections can be filed in the next 10
days by the three other applicants:
Pinnacle Park, which wants to build a
$109 million track in west Oak Cliff;
Lone Star Jockey Club, which wants to
build a $97 million track in Grand
Prairie; and Midpointe Racing, which
wants to build a $96 million facility
across from Lone Star's proposed site.
State racing law limits Class 1 tracks
to the areas around Texas' three largest
cities.
The Racing Commission already has
granted Class 1 licenses to Sam Houston
Race Park in Houston and Retama Park
in the San Antonio area.
The four North Texas applicants have
engaged for months in a bitter battle of
public accusations, scathing legal briefs
and lawsuits.
The Dallas-area groups were
generally considered frontrunners.
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