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Highway 6 runs one way! At least the two frontage roads will! Both service roads of SH 6 will be converted to ONE-WAY traffic only! HERE'S WHAT EVERY DRIVER SHOULD KNOW: • The conversion will begin September 7, 1993. • The east frontage road will travel north only from Rock Prairie Road in College Station to Woodville Road. The west frontage road will travel south only from North Texas Avenue (SH Bus. 6) in Bryan to Texas Avenue South (SH Bus. 6) College Station. The conversion will be completed in three sections, beginning in North Bryan, and will take about two weeks to complete. This map indicates the three sections of the conversion. ■WOODVILLE FM 974 SECTION 1 # From FM 2818 to Martin Luther King MARTIN LUTHER KING SECTION 2 # From Martin Luther King Blvd. to FM 60 (University Drive) SECTION 3 O From FM 60 to Rock Prairie Road For more information contact: Denise Fischer, Public Affairs Officer Texas Department of Transportation P.O. 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Dr. E. 696-9490 wsmmm Page 4 The Battalion Monday, September 6,1993 Monday, S Tubularmcm By Boomer Cardinale Fritch By Critch haus your Cartuon 'coming ynlonj, 'FriTd, ^ *Vs +* sWf iJJifL Sortie poor rtaijed i«\ ttie CfeWi by a ±\n>.y boonxr ( 00105 H Cttl W.k «Vl1» Cl f IV feUwj off Ml of bfi cloHxj cxttpf Viii undtrvjtA'' <ywA Sertds birti fVyUlj air. lewis irth> Art artgiy IlWrttfji -T MsV. W caM oxide.' tu>V +eeWt4 off,u/ovirtg afrtit, Jrtfi* a blirtd portre... <yig. VtOYA up 44it •frteuMy... C*fp) AcV/ V\*<W IrujcW l w«*if inb* »oy lunjt/ |4Jp/ \\ State officials seek to recover desk first used by Sul Ross The Associated Press AUSTIN — The most sought- after item on a list of original State Capitol furniture that offi cials would like to recover is a desk that was a silent participant in some of Texas' most colorful history. At least 10 governors used the massive, ornate mahogany desk from 1889 until the 1920s, when it officially was lost. Six decades later, state officials are now trying to track it down — as part of the ongoing restoration of the Capitol. The desk served Texas' first woman governor. Another gover nor probably pondered his im peachment there. Texas women likely were granted the right to vote there. Controversial pardons for thou sands of convicts and the births of Texas Tech University and the Texas Railroad Commission prob ably occurred there. "That's probably one of the most important desks ... and we don't know what happened to it," Bonnie Campbell, the Capi tol curator, told the Austin American-Statesman. "If we could find this desk, I would be a very happy curator." It's officially called a curtain desk — a roll-top to most. The desk had four drawers with brass handles on each side. With a decorative rail on top, the desk had frilly carvings on the drawer fronts and two clusters of pigeon holes. Measuring 50 inch es high by 64 inches wide by 41 inches deep, it was so finely de tailed that Marshall Field, the wealthy Chicago department store magnate, owned one like it. The desk, like most of the 2,500 other pieces of furniture bought for the 1888 statehouse, was made by A.H. Andrews & Co. of Chicago, a big office supplier of the day. Lawrence "Sul" Ross, the leg endary Indian fighter and Confed erate soldier who was governor when the Capitol furniture arrived in early 1889, first used the desk. Officials said a total of $150,000 was spent on furniture, $50,000 of it for wooden items. JUST THE BEGINNING U TVloat ^ Put x oOavrt ed. Q- Li tc. By Jason Brown Texas NAACP president urges investigation of random killing The Associated Press BEAUMONT — The Texas NAACP president said Sunday he wants the FBI to investigate the death of a black man gunned down in an appar ent random attack after he left a nearby town because of racist threats. William Simpson, 37, was fatally shot the night of Sept. 1 in Beau mont just hours after he moved from Vidor, which now has no black residents. A teen-ager was arrested the next day, but he has not yet been charged in Simpson's death. Beaumont police have said it appears that Simpson was killed by suspected gang members who demanded money from him. But Gary Bledsoe, president of the state chapter of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, said he will ask the FBI to make sure that Simpson's slaying was not racially motivated. "The jury is still out. There are still a lot of questions regarding the shooting," Bledsoe said. "There's no question there needs to be a feder al investigation." Bledsoe, in Beaumont on Sunday to appear on Montel Williams' syn dicated television talk show, said he also plans to seek the help of U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. The 7-foot, 300-pound Simpson was the last black man to leave a housing project in Vidor, a town of about 11,000 that has long been as sociated with the Ku Klux Klan. Simpson had said he was forced to leave because of the racial taunts, obscene gestures and threats of lynching. "There are good people here, don't get me wrong," he said. "But it's overshadowed by the negativity, the hostility, the bigotry of this town." Several other black people had moved into the Vidor housing project earlier this year, but they left before Simpson. lA+ TUTOTilHQ 5 pm 7 pm 9 pm 11 pm 1 am 5 pm 7 pm 10 pm Monday 9/6 Tuesday 9/7 Wednesday 9/8 Thursday 9/9 Physics 201 Chp 1 Physics 201 Chp 2 Physics 201 Chp 3 Chem 101 Chp 1 & 2 Chem 101 Chp 3 Chem 101 Chp 4 Chem 101 Test Review #1 Chem 102 Chp 15 Part A Chem 102 Chp 15 Part B Chem 102 Chp 16- 16.8 Chem 102 Test Review #1 Physics 218 Chp 1 Physics 218 Chp 2 Part A Physics 218 Chp 2 Monday 9/13 Tuesday 9/14 Wednesday 9/15 Thursday 9/16 Math 141 Math 152/161 Math 161 Math 152/161 Acct 229 Review I Acct 229 Review II Acct 229 Review III Acct 229 Exam I For more information call 260-2660 or come by 725 B University Dr. All Classes $3.50/hr. Blocker Bldg. Zachry Bldg. 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