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Riley said he remembers waiting in long lines out
side the Creamery to get a malt or shake when he was
an undergraduate at A&M in 1975.
He said the long lines continued on Main Campus
until 1984 when the store in the Creamery was dosed,
and the Rosenthal Center began to sell ice cream.
George Cole, projects manager for facilities con
struction division, said the Dairy Products Teaching
and Research Lab on West Campus will be complet
ed in August 1998.
Cole said the biggest factor in the location of the
building is its accessibility to delivery trucks. The
building will be on Discovery Drive, and it will have
loading docks in the back.
Cole said the 13,639-square-feet building will have
about 3,639 square feet more than the old building.
Cole said the building is composed of large
rooms to hold the equipment for making the dairy
products.
Ron Richter, supervisor of the Creamery and pro
fessor of dairy chemistry, said the Creamery’s equip
ment has been stored at A&M’s Riverside campus
since the building closed.
According to a memo by Charles R. Schultz, a Uni
versity archivist, the Creamery’s history is traced
back to the creation of the dairy husbandry major
between 1911 and 1912, when Creamery facilities
were first used for teaching and research.
According to a 1938 Battalion article, the Cream
ery’s purpose was to “supply milk products to the
mess hall and the campus and provide work for stu
dents who major or minor in dairy husbandry.”
Creamery products at that time included bottled
sweet milk, cream cheese and ice cream. The Cream
ery had 34 student employees and two full-time
workers in 1938.
Richter said that until the building closed in
1995, the Creamery was used for teaching, supply
ing milk to A&M Food Services and providing jobs
for students.
“Students helped with producing ice cream
and cheese,” Richter said. “They got practical
work experience.”
Everett Lowe, a senior agribusiness major, per
formed such general duties as cleaning, helping to
make ice cream and making deliveries to dining halls
in the old creamery building for a year-and-a-half
until the building closed.
Lowe said he did not work there as a part of any
class, but he saw several classes tour the facility.
He said five or six part-time students worked 15
to 20 hours a week at the time while he worked.
“It was pretty fun to work there,” Lowe said. “We
all knew each other well, and our boss, Hector As-
torga, was fun to work for.”
Richter said the Dairy Products Teaching and Re
search Lab will make milk, cheese, processed cheese
and ice cream once the new building opens.
Riley said the Rosenthal sales area has had less
business lately than before partly because people do
not know the store is there and because it can no
longer sell the A&M ice cream.
Riley said he hopes that when the Dairy Prod
ucts Teaching and Research Lab reopens and
starts making ice cream again, sales will increase
at Rosenthal Center.
Death
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West, however, believed he was
the intended victim.
When he spotted Longfellow
speaking with Klaus, and after
learning she had been seen fre
quently with Longfellow, he decid
ed she had fingered Barstow and
prompted his shooting death.
After getting high on drugs and
alcohol, he stormed into her hotel
room, strangled her and beat and
stabbed her with a bottle and a
piece of wood, leaving buried in her
back a six-inch section of wood that
had broken during the attack.
Covered with blood, he walked
from the room, passed several
people standing outside and was
arrested 30 minutes later in his
room.
West confessed, had no witness
es at his trial and was sentenced to
death. Longfellow and those who
saw him emerge from Ms. Klaus’
room were among those who testi
fied against him.
“I’ve never denied any involve
ment in the murder,” West said.
“My whole philosophy growing up
was sex, drugs and rock and roll. I
was happy in drag. I liked sex. I was
doing what I liked to do.”
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Prospects for passage were excellent, with the only
vocal opposition coming from liberal Democrats.
“It seems to good to be true and you know what?
It is. It is,” said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. He said
the plan would cut benefit programs while provid
ing tax cuts slanted to the rich. Once the details be
gin to surface, he said, “It begins to stink like the Po
tomac (River) in August.”
Republicans, though, exulted in the agreement.
“We gave ground. The administration gave
ground. And we found common ground,” a happy
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said Monday
night as the two sides announced a tentative accord.
“We couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome,”
said White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, the
administration’s point man during a secretive final
few days of bargaining. Clinton, who was out of town
when the agreement was announced, flew back to
Washington overnight to bestow his blessing today.
“I think it will sell itself,” House Speaker Newt
Gingrich predicted.
The agreement stood in contrast to more than
two years of political combat between the White
House and Republican congressional leaders that
led to twin government shutdowns two winters ago.
In the end, both Clinton and the GOP majorities
were returned to office in last fall’s election. Back in pow
er, they settled on a course of compromise that led to
the outlines of a grand budget deal in late spring.
Translating that into the detailed tax and spend
ing bills took several additional weeks — and
dozens of trade-offs.
Republicans, for example, prevailed on their de
mand that the new health program bar funding for
abortion for eligible teen-agers. Democrats held sway
on their demand that welfare-to-work women receive
minimum wage as well as protection in federal law
against discrimination and sexual harassment.
While many details were unavailableM
night, aides provided these broad outlines:
— The tax cut would bestow breaks worthi:
$140 billion over five years to families withctt
to students and — in a major triumph forthel
— to investors regardless of their personahves:
income.
The per-child tax credit would be worthy
Republicans originally proposed in their 1
tract With America” campaign manifesto,!
be available to many lower-income workingfai:
as Clinton demanded. The capital gains rate,
fall from a maximum of 28 percent to 20 perce:
There would be expanded IRAs, as Repubi
had sought, as well as the tax breaks forstu
that Clinton had demanded.
—Spending would be slowed byapproxiit
$140 billion over five years, enough tobak:
government’s books for the first time since
While Medicare would account for the largest
additional savings also would come fromMea
student loans and a variety of other beneli:
grams. Social Security would remain unloads
Tens of billions of dollars in additional»
would come from the annual spending hi
Congress will vote on later in the year.
—The solvency of Medicare would beexte:
through the year 2007. Senior citizens wouldbe
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Flood
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The university suspended class
es, and 3,500 teen-agers attending
an international conference spent
the night in the athletic arena after
power was cut to the dormitories.
By midday Tuesday, power was
back to most residents. Phone prob
lems also dogged the city through
the day, with some main lines sub
merged. More rain was expected,
and a flood watch was in effect.
“It looks moist for quite a while,”
said Bob Koopmeiners, a forecaster
with the National Weather Service.
Spring Creek, which is lined with
trees and a bike path, winds through
several neighborhoods on its way
from the Rocky Mountain foothills
to the Poudre River. It is usually
about 5 feet wide, and no one could
recall previous flooding there.
The ground had beensatud
after a day and a half of rain. Rus
built up behind therailroadl
whic h acted as a dam. Thera
then burst over the top and ii
through the tracks, unleashinf
huge wave of water into the trail
parks downstream.
Four women died in tf
Three were found betweenatrai
park and a bridge about II
away. A fourth was found two mill
downstream.
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