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Politics Page 6B THE BATTALION Tuesday, September 1 Bryan seeks new city manager, purchases La Salle Bryan City proposes 2002 Fiscal Year bu iwi By Jonathan Kolmetz THE BATTALION Tliis Rhone I Only when you activate with Advanced Wireless #1 Verizon Wireless Agent in Aggieland FREE Weekend Minutes FREE Long Distance FREE Hands Free Headset FREE Voice Mail FREE Caller ID FREE Call Waiting The recent $1.2 million pur chase of the near bankrupt La Salle Hotel, an ongoing plan to revitalize the downtown area of Bryan and finding a new city manager to replace Mike Conduff are a few items on the agenda the City of Bryan will be addressing during the next couple of months. Hugh Walker, interim city manager for Bryan, has tilled the position since Conduff departed five months ago for the same position in Denton. Bryan is now looking to fill the city manager position as soon as possible. A pool of 12-15 applicants was narrowed down to just six people following interviews con ducted on Friday and Saturday this past weekend. Walker said the candidates come from most ly midwestem states and have had some city managerial expe rience. It is unknown when a final decision will be announced. “(The city) has budgeted to take care ot i rently operat has been bud that we i the La S tinue cit W; II be able Hotel is | revitalizati been in the a year oy consultant Kiss, whs publiojiH Bryan and One ite dents at 'Ic sibility of between d College St. link would rcep 1 C c. He SU A&M ►wntt tion. brim so tlh jeorge Bush Pi Library Complex to town Bryan area. “(The rail link absolutely vital to the tion," Walker said. “ great potential in Station that has re untapped ft in recent y< ide Bryan City Council ent its proposed 2002 at its regular meeting Public comments coi the proposed budget heard during the Under the new bu City of Bryan is con providing financial for organizations so Bryan College Station Club. Girls Club of Bi County and the North 8 ? Community Center. Func for these organizatr would come from theft Council Contingency. Topics on the agtr include awarding a cont': to Fierro Industries, the est bidder for the consr tion of a 30-inch watertn mission line along L, Mikulin Road. The cor estimated at S 1,249.933.. Funding will come from *5 Water Production Capital Improv A first readu nace that wool Ne- its Fvc mesiSurp 1 agr-: fh > propose S100 pro be fixed. )2 taxable "mat st deva perty evate:, effective fe* - I thou »e t begin r ic il cfcr Murnc- Braswell refuses to testify ADVANCED $ 19 95 $ 69 95 Enjoy clear digital calling from Verizon Wireless. Wireless, Inc. 979-693-8888 wireless Authorized Agent 2230 Texas Ave. S. In College Station just past Outback Steakhouse in the Fuddrucker’s Shopping Center W.A.C., Contract, early termination fee & some conditions apply. Free weekend minutes offer varies & Is subject to change. See stores for details. Offer ends 9-30-01. WASHINGTON (AP) — A California busi nessman, pardoned by former President Clinton for a 1983 fraud conviction, refused to testify Monday at a Senate hearing investigating his dietary supplement business. Almon Glenn Braswell and the editor of his Journal of Longevity magazine, Ron Tepper. both asserted their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Scott Mulhauser, press spokesman for the committee, said there were no plans to pursue an effort to grant limited immunity to Braswell and Tepper. The committee chairman. Rep. John Breaux, D-Louisiana, would rather concentrate on better government regulation of diet supple ments that fail to produce their promised mira cle cures. Committee members had sought to question the two men on whether their products actually improved memory, increased sex drive and slowed aging as advertisements f The law does forbid suppleme tising that they directly treat or p but it allows more vague health supplements have been found p fits not backed by scientific evid Braswell is the subject of a r ing and tax-evasion investigati prosecutors and the Internal Re according to court papers hied by ney’s office in Los Angeles. Braswell was convicted in l 1 charges of mail traud, perjury a and served seven months of a thi sentence for falsifying photogra documentation for a hair-growth Clinton granted 177 pardons a just before leaving office in Janu; pardon became one of the most cr was learned the president’s broil been paid for working on the cast id tax ry. Br ticizet er-in- IT'S STILL NOT TOO LATE to register for FALL classes at Houston Community College Our Second Start Program lets you Start later but finish on time! 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