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Page 2A • Tuesday, November 24, 1998 Camp us Fish BY R. OELUNfl Police gear up for annual Bonfire Services scheP satiaiion for O.R. Simps# Simel & Lewis THE earth' By Mell COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — More than 150 police officers are gearing up for the traditional Texas A&M University bonfire, ex pected to draw up to 70,000 people Tuesday night in advance of the annual Aggies-Long- horns matchup on Friday. Officers from the campus, College Station and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commis sion will converge near the bonfire site to en sure students act appropriately. “A lot of people, not necessarily students, will try and sneak in booze,” said Bob Wiatt, director of the A&M police department. ‘There may be some people who are able to get away with it because of the thousands and thousands of people at bonfire, but if we catch them, they’ll be appropriately dealt with.” Last year, university police issued 59 cita tions for minors in possession of alcohol and arrested five people for public intoxication or disorderly conduct, according to The Bryan- College Station Eagle. Additionally, city police responded to 21 traffic accidents and 65 loud party complaints, said Major Mike Patterson of the College Sta tion Police Department. Patterson said officers will patrol the city’s streets before and after bonfire to prevent such problems. ‘‘People have started to expect a warning the first time we cbme out, but in most cases we’re going to issue citations,” he said. The bonfire is an annual tradition since 1909 to get students fired up for the big game against rival Texas, referred to derogatorily as t.u. The only year the bonfire was not lit was 1963, fol lowing President Kennedy’s assassination. This year’s bonfire, held at the school's polo field, will be 55 feet tall and 90 feet wide, made with some 8,000 post oak logs cut down by students, said university spokesman Jonathan Kraatz. The stack will be lit at 8:18 p.m. Tbesday. The bonfire ceremony features perfor mances by the Aggie band, school cheers called “yells,” and pep talks by administra tors, football players and coaches. “This is probably one of the better years for the bonfire because both football teams are doing fairly well,” Kraatz said. “The student body is getting ready for it.” Graveside services! Simpson, Texas A&M assis: president for student emeritus, will be heldat2:| day in the College Sta‘:| Cemetery. Visitation willbtj a.m. to 1 p.m. at Memo[i;| al Chapel in Bryan. Simpson, 83, diedSaltj his home in Bryan. A retired Marine Corps I general, Simpson’s primard sibility in student services] the Corps of Cadets. Field was named in his herd Memorials may be macsj Brazos Valley Rehabilitate] by m PlNtmL Science SyGcnZc & Cm. Suit causes cigarette price increase NEW YORK (APJ — Philip Morris USA, the na tion’s biggest tobacco com pany, raised wholesale prices of Marlboros and its other cigarette brands by a record 45 cents a pack on the day the industry sealed a mammoth legal settlement with the states. No. 2 R.J. Reynolds Tobac co Co. joined the move Mon day and others were expected to follow suit on what one an alyst called the biggest U.S. cig arette price hike ever. It could push the average retail price of cigarettes to $2.45 a pack, and the price of premium brands like Marlboro even higher. Analysts had widely pre dicted a price increase of 35 cents to 40 cents a pack to pay for the tobacco settlement to resolve states’ claims for re imbursement for providing health care to sick smokers. But the increase Philip Morris announced Monday to its wholesale customers was slightly larger than expected. David Adelman, tobacco analyst for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, said smokers may be stuck with an even bigger price rise of about 50 cents a pack as distributors and retailers add a nickel to the wholesale price hike. Decision may affel Texas laC™ wars a Design Continued from Page 1 Hutchison wants tougher action against Saddam “It is also neat to have something to show for our efforts be yond a model,” she said. “Our designs will actually be built.” Mann said his students have worked hard with beautiful results. “The end product will most likely reflect ideas from all their designs,” he said. When completed, the Matagorda County Birding Nature Center will be a focal point of natural-resource tourism in Matagorda County. The center will provide activities, examples, education and enhancement of natural resources. AUSTIN (AP) — The Clinton administration has n’t taken a hard enough line with Iraq over the inspection of suspected weapons sites, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchi son charged Monday. “What we’ve got to do is show Saddam Hussein that we mean business. He has walked up to the line and walked away, and walked up to the line and walked away, he’s calling shots And I it’s time that America called the shots,” the Texas Repub lican said af- HUTCHISON ter a speech to the Execu tive Women in Texas Gov ernment Annual Profes sional Development Conference. “I think if he refuses to let us see a site that the in spectors believe is being used to make weapons, that we should then evacuate, give notice and take that site out,” said the senator, who has been a longtime critic of the administration’s foreign policy in Iraq, Bosnia and elsewhere. Hutchison has carved out a niche for herself on military matters through her role on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that funds the Defense Department. She is a former member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. 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