Bryan-College Station Eagle du lieu suivant : Bryan, Texas • 7

Wednesday July 25 2001 A7 Bryan Council reduces limit by $65000 See MONEY Page A9 Region briefs decisions Tuesday the council: Approved an ordinance that home to use it as his pri mary residence It was the first of two required readings Approved grant and loan programs to aid business owners in Downtown Bryan with building improvements A total of $300000 will be set aside in the general fund for the two programs Reviewed the budget for Bryan Texas Utilities Utility director Dan Wilkerson said there were no changes in this budget BTU is studying the possibili ty of a rate decrease but details will not be available until August he said The rate decrease would take effect Jan 1 Approved the first of two readings of an ordinance to establish a clearer appeals process to Planning and Zon ing Commission decisions The ordinance allows appeals to be made to the council within 10 days of a commis decision Either the applicant or neighbors within 200 feet of the property can file an appeal By LAURA HIPP Eagle Staff Writer Workers to begin TV signal repairs Workers are scheduled to start Wednesday replacing an electronic system that carries5 the signal for KXXV TV in Waco and sister station KRHD nightly newscast KRHD news director Dennis Kinney said viewers should see an improvement within the next week or two for the station which is Channel 9 for cable viewers and 'Channel 34 for those who don't subscribe Tom Way general manager of Cox Communications said local reception of the stations has been sporadic since the similar size is $22000 so actually exceeded Watson said Previously the city manag er was authorized to spendAfp to $100000 on contracts and purchases without prior Region theeaglecom Spending cut for city manager IlvT ATTDA TITOI limits on city managers at 24 US cities the council reviewed said Bryan Mayor Jay Don Watson average of cities of OMR OpinionsA8 Today in History A8 Obituaries A9 BusinessA1O average of cities of similar size is $22000 so actual ly exceeded JAY DON WATSON Bryan mayor The Bryan City Council slashed the city spending power by $65000 Tuesday requiring council approval on any expenditures over $35000' Council members unani mously approved the reduced council approval The council spending limit after several established that limit in 1996 minutes of debate The $35000 Watson had called $100000 limit is in line with spending In College Station the city manager is authorized to approve expen ditures up to $50000 without that requires a homeowner in the approval the Eastside Historic District In a wideranging series of who operate a business from broadcast started in May Callers to the cable provider have been particularly persist ent since Sunday morning when the reception was totally lost for up to an hour Way said golfers sure like missing their British Way said this was just a particularly bad time This has been a problem for He said the ABC affiliate delivers a good signal at least 80 percent of the time which is the threshold set by the federal Communications Commission He said the CC put the Bryan and College Station area in a demographic grouping with Waco about 10 years ago which requires the local cable provider to broadcast Waco stations Previously Brazos County was classified with Houston Way said Now Cox carries KTRK TV from Houston during time slots when it does not duplicate the Waco ABC affiliate Open house to give fire school preview An open house will take place at the Brayton ire Train ing Held on Wednesday to give visitors a sneak preview of the annual fire school At 8 pm Wednesday guest instructors and Texas Engineer ing Extension Service personal will demonstrate firefighting techniques on some training props More than 2300 fire fighters from across the coun try are being traihed this week The school is sponsored by TEEX which is a member of the Texas University System The demonstration will follow a clown brigade at 7:30 pm which will offer fire safety lessons Visitors should enter through gateC the main at Brayton Hre training Held and parking will be available along Nuclear Science Road Admis sion is free Third person held in beating death PORT ARTHUR A third per son has been arrested for the slaying of a 17ear old girl who was fatally beaten with a beer mug James William Hornsby 20 and Melisa razier 23 of Groves were arrested and charged with murder last week The third suspect Kevin Wayne Coffey 30 was charged with murder Sunday Staff and wire reports Lottery results II BUJ11 Slum I Pkk3 Pick 3 numbers for Tuesday? 3 0 4 Cash 5 numbers for Tuesday: CASH5 9 14 20 27 29 Texas Two Step Texas Two Step numbers for Tuesday: 116 ISIS (5) TH 4 ighting the heat AP photo Bedford firefighter Scott Gibbs (left) and Colleyville firefighters trailer In the southbound lanes of Texas 121 between Bedford Brandon Boone (center) and Lt Kenny Phillips take a break from and Harwood The firefighters worked in shifts and soaked their the heat Tuesday afternoon In Bedford Texas The firefighters heads with Ice cold water and towels to battle the heat July 24 were working to control rolls of packed grass used by the city Is statistically the hottest day of the yea See related story of Bedford to control erosion that caught fire on a flatbed Page AS Man charged in false bomb threat By HOLLY HUMAN Eagle Staff Writer A toan on probation for making false bomb threats was charged Tuesday with falsely reporting earlier this month that a bomb had exploded on the Texas campus and caused multiple injuries Tracy James Mitchell 38 of College Station was arrested and charged with calling University police on July 5 to report an explosion and fire at the Zachry Engi neering Building He wasalso charged with making a false report to a police offi cer Mitchell was being held in the Brazos County Jail on $25000 bail Tuesday night got this hang up on lights and said Sgt Jim Lindholm a detective with the University Police Department calling in these disasters so police and fire will respond and he gets to hear the lights and If Mitchell is released from jail conditions of his bail stipulate that he cannot come within 50 feet of Texas that he will have a nightly curfew and that he be in a public place with access to a phone unless he is accompanied by a par ent or adult who is over 21 He was arrested in April 1999 and charged with call ing in bomb threats to Wil low' Branch Intermediate School and at an Easter serv ice at Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater Mitchell was sentenced on March 10 2000 to the maxi mum two years in jail and placed on five proba tion court documents state Mitchell had served 16 months of his probated sen tence His probation in that case probably will be revoked Police said a University police dispatcher received a call on July 5 from a man in the Hastings Books Music Video in College Station The caller claimed a disaster had occurred at the Zachry building Lindholm said The dispatcher recognized the voice because he had dealt with him previous ly has a distinct pat tern when he Lind holm said is very recog Holly mail address is theeaglecom Day care opens Center replaces Wonder World By KELLI LEVEY Eagle Staff Writer A couple have opened a day care center at the site of the former Wonder World Child care Educational Center on Southwest Parkway a step the owner said might assuage some parents who were angered at the abrupt closure in May Aggieland Learning Center and Childcare opened July 16 for children up to age 13 Sev eral Wonder World teachers have been rehired and some students are re enrolling or registering to 'return in August or September previous center did leave any records so the kids we did manage to get in touch with were known by said Christy Sim mons who owns the new cen ter with her husband Ken as more and more peo ple come by and see us open I think get more stu dents The facility closed sudden ly with a note on the door May 30 that stated May 31 would be the last day The note which was also given out to parents said Wonder World was closing after 16 years because the operators had lost their lease on file space at 206 'Southwest Park way East Building owner Emmanuel Glockzin said the note was inaccurate even know about them closing until I read about it in The Eagle" he said have any plans to close it It was my inten tion that they would remain sure much rather have a See CENTER Page A9 LULAC: Illegal immigrants need health care By PAM EASTON Associated Press HOUSTON The League of United Latin American Citizens on Tuesday challenged the state attorney opinion that hospitals must not provide non emergency health care to illegal immigrants with public money I understand is how they can deprive these folks of some real basic servic said rumencio Reyes Jr a Houston lawyer who spoke on behalf that segment of society gets smart they will all go to the emergency room and clog that part of the system or that reason exactly the Harris County Hospital District has continued offering non emergency care despite Texas Attorney Gen eral John opinion two weeks ago warning the district to refrain from providing such care or face the possibility of losing fed eral money! By extension opinion applies fo all Texas hospitals that use public money for non emergency care Cornyn says federal welfare legislation A fr is the key word The way the constitutional interpreted just preceding the attorney opinion was that inhabitants mean everybody not just who is legally in the DAVID KAHNE ACLU spokesman stipulates non emergency care to undocu mented immigrants may be given only if a state law allowing such care was enacted after 1996 Cornyn says Texas has no such law The American Civil Liberties Union says the provision is fulfilled in the Texas Consti tution An article of the constitution thatprovides for the creation of hospital districts 'states that Hospital District shall assume full responsibility for providing med ical and hospital care to needy inhabitants of See LULAC Page A9 Lawmakers criticize amnesty plan Plan rewards lawlessness opponents say By JESSE HOLLAND Associated Press WASHINGTON A Bush administration plan to even tually give permanent legal status to as many as 3 million illegal immigrants from Mexi co drew fire on Capitol Hill on Tuesday from both Republi cans and Democrats our classrooms fill to the brim they are becoming breeding grounds for vio said Senate Appropri ations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd WVa less stringent immigration policy will only make this problem A study group headed by Secretary of State Colin Pow ell and Attorney General John Ashcroft has recommended that the United States grant guest worker status and possi bly legal residency to some undocumented Mexican immigrants The proposal sent to the White House on riday would be of our continued effort to work with the Mexi can government toward our shared goal of a more orderly more humane legal and safe spokesman Scott McClellan said The working group co chaired by Powell and Ashcroft cre ation of a new temporary guest worker program that would allow for some of the workers to achieve perma nent resident status over a period of McClellan said See AMNESTY Page A9 Region briefs Lottery results PkkS Texas Two Step I 4 ighting the heat AP photo Bedford firefighter Scott Gibbs (left) and Colleyville firefighters trailer In the southbound lanes of Texas 121 between Bedford Brandon Boone (center) and Lt Kenny Phillips take a break from and Harwood The firefighters worked in shifts and soaked their the heat Tuesday afternoon In Bedford Texas The firefighters heads with water and towels to battle the heat July 24 were working to control rolls of packed grass used by the city Is statistically the hottest day of the yea See related story of Bedford to control erosion that caught fire on a flatbed Page AS.