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Tuesday • December 10,
Flying Fans
Rachel Redington, The Battalion
Kathy and Krystan Koscielniak watch the airplanes at the Easterwood Airport
Monday. They were waiting for their grandparents to arrive from Cleburne.
► Campus
State
A&M student died
in auto accident
Drought inhibits
holiday tree sales
tree farms in Texas on its
Web site under “Totally Te
days.” The department’s Intel
dress is http://www.agr.state.i
A Texas A&M student was
killed and three others were in
jured in a car accident early Sun
day morning, about 1 mile east
of Snook on FM 60.
Ryan William Alspaugh, a 21-
year-old senior finance major from
Fort Worth, was pronounced dead
at the scene.
A&M students Kendra Michelle
Carter, Reagan Robinson, and Col
lege Station resident Thomas Mur
phy East were taken to St. Joseph
Regional Hospital in Bryan. They
were treated for minor injuries.
The Texas Department of Public
Safety said East, the driver of the
1997 Chevrolet Blazer, overcorrect
ed on a turn, causing the vehicle to
roll several times before coming to
a rest in the upright position.
Alspaugh and Carter were not
wearing seat belts and were
thrown from the Blazer when it
flipped. East and Robinson were
wearing their seat belts.
Alspaugh will be honored at the
Silver Taps ceremony Feb. 4,1997.
DALLAS (AP) — Otto Schroeder
closed the doors at his choose-
and-cut Christmas tree farm early
this year when all he had left were
drought-stunted 4 1/2- to 5-foot-
tall trees.
“We have to save these trees
for next year in hopes that we’ll
have the (tall) trees we’re looking
for," he said, explaining that 7 feet
is the usual top height for his Vir
ginia pines, dotting 20 acres
southwest of Dallas.
While a sizable crop of trees
planted several years before the
drought is available this year, many,
like Schroeder’s, are shorter than
expected, said Lanny Dreesen, a
forester with the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service in Conroe.
And officials say the drought
could cause more dire effects
three to five years down the road,
when the seedlings that were
planted in January should be
ready for harvest.
The Texas Department of Agricul
ture provides a list of Christmas
TTI says LA rema
tops in traffic ja
COLLEGE STATION, Texasi?
Los Angeles remains at a ste
when it comes to traffic jams.
For the eighth year in a r«
Angeles is tops in gridlock r;
wide, according to an annua 1
by the Texas Transportation
at Texas A&M University.
The latest study, based w
gathered in 1993, ranks Ho.
with the worst traffic in Texa
shows a 5 percent decrease ’
gestion from 1987.
In Texas, Houston ranked the
est at 1.13, followed by Dallas
and Austin and Fort Worth (0.95
The survey is based on a
tic dubbed the Roadway Conge
Index by engineers at these
The index is based on the nu
of miles of travel per lane-r
freeway and principal streets.
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This day in history
Weather
(AP) — Today is Tuesday, Dec. 10, the 345th day of
1996. There are 21 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1817, Mississippi was admitted as the 20th
state.
In 1869, women were granted the right to vote in the
Wyoming Territory.
In 1898, a treaty was signed in Paris officially ending
the Spanish-American War.
In 1931, Jane Addams became a co-recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so
honored.
In 1950, Ralph J. Bunche was presented the No
bel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive
the award.
In 1958, the first domestic passenger jet flight took
place in the United States as a National Airlines Boeing
707 flew 111 passengers from New York to Miami in
about 2 1/2 hours.
In 1994, advertising executive Thomas Mosser of
North Caldwell, N.J., was killed by a mail bomb later
blamed on the “Unabomber.”
Ten years ago: Human rights advocate and Holo
caust survivor Elie Wiesel accepted the Nobel Peace
Prize, saying the honor belonged to all Nazi death camp
survivors and their children.
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
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Today’s Birthdays
One year ago: The first group of U.S. Marines arrived
in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to join NATO soldiers
sent to enforce peace in former Yugoslavia.
Actor Harold Gould is 73. Pop-funk musician Walter
“Clyde” Orange (The Commodores) is 49. Country
singer Johnny Rodriguez is 45. Actress Nia Peeples is
35. Rock musician Scot Alexander (Dishwalla) is 25. Ac
tress Raven-Symone is 11.
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