The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 30, 1995, Image 7

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    November 30, 1995
Page 7 • The Battalion
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ROPESVILLE, Texas (AP) —
affic raced along the Lubbock-
I-Odessa highway Wednesday
loming as residents of this town
jpoke out against faster driving.
' Here in Ropesville — from
y’s Drive-In to the cotton gin
it off U.S. 62 — people are voic-
g qualms about the likelihood
at 70 mph will become a legal
iving speed by next month.
The three-member Texas
Transportation Commission
leets Thursday morning in
ustin to decide whether to
|ake the speed-limit change on
ost rural and divided highways
the state.
“I don’t think it needs to go
, I just think there’ll be more
recks,” said Faye Jonas, serv-
g lunch at her diner. “Seventy
pretty fast.”
You’re going to have more acci
dents and higher insurance
fates,” warned farmer John
Smith at the gin.
President Clinton on Tuesday
Signed the National Highway
ystem bill, which ends the feder-
1 speed limit laws that began in
974 to save energy.
Removal of the federal speed
ap Dec. 8 puts a 1963 Texas
iw back into effect. State law
et the maximum speed limit at
0 mph in the daytime and 65
iph at night for passenger
ehicles.
Officials suggest that drivers
keep a light touch on the gas
pedal.
“The best advice for mo
torists is to abide by the posted
speed limit,” said Major E.C.
Sherman of the Department of
Public Safety’s enforcement di
vision. “Some areas will stay 55
mph, so motorists should not
assume the speed limit is any
higher than the posted limit.”
The Texas Department of
Transportation said new speed
limit signs are not expected to
start going up until mid-De
cember.
Complete installation could
take until May, the agency said.
Opponents of high speed fear
an increase in traffic deaths.
Texas accounted for 3,142 traffic
fatalities last year.
But supporters of 70-mph
speed limits say most people al
ready drive that fast anyway.
“Seems like you’re traveling
too slow,” said 19-year-old Can
dy Pena, hanging a strand of
Christmas lights Wednesday at
Ropesville City Hall.
The DPS alone issued 526,637
speeding' tickets last year, an
agency spokeswoman said.
Ropesville police officer Rick
Wooton said he writes more
than 50 speeding tickets a
month in the town about 15
miles west of Lubbock.
Amy Browning, The Battalion
Saw varsity's horns off
Jackie Price, senior construction science major from Houston,
paints Bevo's horns as sawed off for the Rudder Hall spirit sign
Tuesday night.
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Belfast building barriers instead of tearing them down
today.
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HVi/nrl BELFAST, Northern Ireland
Shorn |AP) — As President Clinton will
lee Thursday, a year’s experimen
tal peace in Belfast has not
brought its walls tumbling down.
Eighteen perversely named
“peace lines” of brick, steel and
barbed wire separate Protes
tants and Catholics, monu
ments to a quarter-century’s
bloodshed. Many locals want to
keep them up.
Clinton may see several of
them during visits to a factory
near the Springfield-Spring-
martin peace line and a small
business center in Protestant east
Belfast near another wall protect
ing the vulnerable Catholic en
clave, the Short Strand.
“There’s still a psychological
fear within people and it applies
in all areas where there have
been a lot of murders or attempt
ed murders — people living on
the edge of the troubles,” said
Brenda Murphy, a short-story
writer who lives on the Catholic
side of a wall.
Work began on Belfast’s
biggest and most solid wall yet on
the same day that the Irish Re
publican Army announced a
cease-fire 15 months ago.
The walls running through
Belfast’s most downtrodden dis
tricts draw comparisons with
yesterday’s Berlin and tomor
row’s Sarajevo, and provide a
marker for how difficult recon
ciliation will be.
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