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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970 Ryan vs. Bryan Council ElectionELECT Ce B. RYAN FOR CITY COUNCILMAN PLACE 4 COLLEGE. STATION VOTE 0 TUESDAY, APRIL 7 Elect a Proven, Capable Leader With a Record of Unselfish Service to This Community. College Station Needs Dedicated Leaders. (Pol. Ady. Paid By Friends of CECIL B. RYAN — John Sandstedt, Chairman) ELECT CECIL B. RYAN TO COLLEGE STATION CITY COUNCIL - '.'LACE 4 TUESDAY, APRIL 7 Honesty, Integrity & Dedicated to Serve — With No Axe To Grind CECIL B. RYAN Resident of College Station 24 years. Resides with wife Helen and 2 children at 1114 Marsteller. Associate Professor, Department of Poultry Science, Texas A &M University. MS and PhD degrees from Texas A &M.. Currently Chairman, Board of Equilization, City of College Station. Currently President, College Station Lions Club. Executive Secretary - Treasurer, International Poultry Science Association since 1954. 0 Currently Chairman, College of Agriculture Scholarship Committee, Texas A &M. 9 One of the five Piper Professors selected at Texas A &M University. C. R RYAN STANDS FOR: 9 Fiscal Responsibility in All City Functions; A Continuing Cost - Return Ratio Study on Services provided by the City; • Tax Equalization so that All Citizens pay their Fair Share; • A Sound Zoning Program that will benefit the Community but is against Spot Zoning; 0 A Workable Program with HUD that can provide Housing for Citizens with Lower Incomes; • Adequate Park & _Recreation Facilities and a definite program of Park Land Acquisition and Development; • Adequate Sewerage Treatment Facilities; 0 Consideration of a Summer Work Program to utilize local youth on City Projects; 0 Improvement of Secondary Streets on a Pay- as -you- go Basis; 9 Increased Efforts to Beautify College Station; 0 Full cooperation with Texas A &M University, local business, and the A &M Consolidated School District. -f, CECIL B. RYAN Dr. 0. M. Holt Tommie H. Preston Mary Lee McGee Dr. Jack Dobson Mrs. John Fowler III Dr. F. A. Gardner Peggy Campbell Owens L. E. McCall Mrs. Fred R. Brison Doyle Gougler Paul Ruszler Mrs. Ed Garner W. S. Manning Richard "Buck" Weirus Mrs. William L. Hoover Ed. Holdredge Mrs. Rosa Spriggs John Sandstedt Mrs. Cliff Bates Mrs. Velma Parnell Mrs. J. T. Yardley Dr. F. L. Thomas Dr. C. H. Bridges Mrs. Ernest Gregg Mrs. Marshall M. Miller Alfred N. Pryal Mack H. Goode James E. Poore Mrs. Herbert G. Thompson Mrs. Tommie H. Preston Ida McGee John Fowler III Mrs. F. A. Garner Mrs. L. E. McCall ELECT C. B. RYAN CITY COUNCILMAN PLACE 4 Tuesday, April 7 We Believe C. B. Ryan Is The Best Qualified To Serve Our City: Fred R. Brison Ed Garner Mrs. Paul Andrews Dr. William L. Hoover Mrs. John .Sandstedt Cliff Bates Mrs. F. L. Thomas L. P. Gabbard Ernest Gregg Marshall M. Miller Mrs. Mack H. Goode Mrs. James E. Poore Herbert G. Thompson Mrs. I. G. Adams Mrs. C. B. Godbey Dr. Bill R. Stewart John A. Haislet Dr. R. L. Skrabanek Don Dale Mrs. W. G. Adkins Mrs. C. V. Wootan Mrs. John V. Sperry Danny Swafford Bob Evans A. C. Vinzant Mrs. Eli L. Whiteley Mrs. W. A. "Bill" Smith Dr. J. H. Quisenberry Dr. C. F. Hall Dr. K. C. Brundidge Mrs. Otto Kunze Mrs. C. L. Boyd Mrs. C. A. Bonnen Mrs. V. A. Little Dr. Leslie V. Hawkins Dr. J. R. Couch K. A. Manning Dr. W. N. Williamson Mrs. C. R. Benedict Mrs. Robert R. Rhodes Curtis R. Holland Col. Robert L. Melcher Mrs. Herbert Schumann Mrs. Roger Feldman Mrs. John A. Haislet Mrs. R. L. Skrabanek Mrs. Don Dale Dr. W. G. Adkins Dr. C. V. Wootan Dr. John V. Sperry Dr. Eli L. Whiteley W. A. "Bill" Smith Mrs. J. H. Quisenberry Mrs. C. F. Hall Mrs. K. C. Brundidge Dr. Otto Kunze Dr. C. L. Boyd C. A. Bonnen Dr. V. A. Little Mrs. Leslie V. Hawkins Mrs. J. R. Couch Mrs. K. A. Manning Mrs. W. N. Williamson Dr. C. R. Benedict Robert R. Rhodes Mrs. Robert L. Melcher Herbert Schumann Dr. Roger Feldman Mrs. T. R. Holleman (Pol. Adv. Paid by Friends of CECIL B. RYAN — John Sandstedt Chairman) 0 CECIL B. 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G a p 'oA to 3 0 �xoa��w ca P ark, Housing Needs Cited by Cecifl College Station To Elect Four To City Council Citizens in College Station will be voting Tuesday to f'tl Cecil B. Ryan, associate "I know I plan to retire here four city council positions. professor of poultry science at unless something unforeseen) Incumbents James H. Texas A &M University and III I� happens and I know also tha Dozier, C. H. Ransdell and. candidate for Place 4, College I the city impresses me with itai Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson Station Cit Council told the �I III cleanliness. We have a great are running unopposed. Y Eagle he believes several j l i �i lil university seated in the middle programs would improve city i,'il,', tll l of this city and we should have government. h! an attractive environment "One item I am vitally in which means a clean and terested in is a lar a ark area beautiful city," Ryan said. which can be enjoyed y all Another point Ryan made interested citizens such as involved traffic safety. He said birdwatchers, nature study the city should, as time permits, groups, youth, and possibly to f ind out where the dangerou include a fishing lake for the i n t e r s e c t i o ns and make younger youth to enjoy. The corrections. lake would be supervised and ooncermng sidewalks, Ryan maintained," Ryan said. h;'' said many citizens don't want Ryan said he is also in- ` them and maintenance can be terested ;n low-income housing a problem. He said he advocates applying "With the shifting soil we for grants with the U.S. h a v e in the community, Department of Housing and sidewalks can be quite a Urban Development. problem," Ryan said. "People are taking pride in He added that the extension their homes all over the city of city streets should come and I encourage home pride. about as funds are available. As long as we can orderly do Ryan said Southwest Parkway things I think we could progress) CECIL B. RYAN and Lincoln need extending and more rapidly," Ryan said. Professor State Highway 6 South needs H e said he advocates extending as well as widening. organizing and acting in an best possible deal. This is thej "I am definitely not for spot orderly manner for construction American way of life," Ryan zoning, also," Ryan saia. of homes. i "Any time you propose a said. "As far as I am concerned program the taxpayer must be Ryan said he wants to in -'I will continue to work for the heard because there is where vestigate the possibilities of development of this city,, a lot of the money comes receiving grants to employ regardess, in an orderly- I have lived here for from," Ryan said. youth in some city projec manner. He added that another item during the summer. He added 24 years and have seen the city he is interested in A-eU that the city will have to work grow and develop all along," of city utilities especially for the grants and they can't Ryan said. Ryan received his M.S. and sewage and water. "When, a citizen becomes a "drag them in over night." Ph.D. degrees from Texas part of the city he wants these "This is something we shouldUM. services," Ryan said. He said he is a firm believer explore. With advances and the technical) urbanization we He served on the equalization in studying_ cost return ratios of have we have more than board for the city for two terms be and currently is chairman. city services. Ryan said it is lus t e a ome budget; one jobs; these utilized," Ryan talents can said. He resides with his wife, sets it every month and keeps se se He said he Helen, and their two children, is interested in Penny Sue and Richard Cecil, up with it. the beauty of the city and a both students at A &M Con - "This is the business ap- beautification progra would be solidated High School, at 1114 I Marsteliar. proach and maybe the money helpful. saved can be used for some other service. We ant to get the max imum pert dollar; the VOTE BRYAN _ Not Ryan Mary Bryan, of 1402 Laura y..ne, and Dr. C. B. Ryan, of 1114 Marsbellar, are run. ning for councilman, Place 4, previously held by 0. M Holt, mayor pro -tem, who did not file for re- election. Twenty -one absentee votes were cast. E a g 10 reporter Frank Griffis talked to Mrs. Bryan and Dr. Ryan about their views and platforms. Here are the results of the interviews. COLLEGE STATION r CITY COUNCIL f' C Tuesday, April 7 cl THE DAILY EAGLE— SECTION A Sunday, April 5, 1970 Bryan - College Station, Texas Page 3 "Mrs. Bryan Urges Usage OfPlan Action on Housing Mary Bryan, housewife and candidate for Place 4 College Station City Council, feels there are two major objectives the council needs to accomplish. "I feel it's an immediate need that we start using a city i I think it is immediate because we have a nice city and it is (changing very rapidly and the city council has been rezo very rape y , rs. Bryan said. She said she thinks there should be some basis for granting rezoning requests. "When I say a plan I mean a plan that the people par - tici a e In not something we have a person from Houston come in and do for us. I think the new zoning and subdivision ordinances should be brought up for hearings, too," Mrs. Bryan said. She said she thinks it was ntended that half of the area zoned for apartments and cornmercial tracts in College Station has been zoned that way in just the last two years. "It seems like the council is rovin a a r a and s itting on the new subdivision ordinance Either we're serious and intend to put this ordinance into effect or it's some game we're playing," Mrs. Bryan said. Housewife built. Mrs. Bryan said ap- proximately half of the off• campus population of - College Station consist of student families, and that the housing situation is bad on both counts. "I feel the workable program should be given priority.' I understand that the housing of the program is for non - students; and I think that at all possibilities we should be get- ting into student (low -cost) lot of interest was generated in the neighborhood regarding city planning and zoning. "There were a number of recent developments on Glade Street regarding sidewalks and I got interested and involved in. I also became interested in planning when I realized this area was developed without an east -west access," Mrs. Bryan said. housing," Mrs. Bryan said. "We like living here," Mrs. She said another point in her Bryan said. "Maybe since I hica platform is that public business ew u in C o I fee if we panne a ead we could must be made u lic and all have a nice environment." citizens o e city s ould have the opportunit to DartiCiDate ip She said her husband, Ronald, c ity a airs. an associate professor of "We have many people whop h y s i c s at Texas A &M are very well educated and University encouraged her. trained and who could spend "He's really been very patient time with the city. I would like about it. It has been very busy for all of us to look upon the and because we have been so city as something we could busy, it is hard for me to un- work on together," Mrs. Bryan derstan ow a person with a said. I fulltimeLob can do work on the the nav- as- viu- Boland hush- out wor mg . You can't get 10 per participate We can do this in cent of the signatures because College Station whPrgas 'n other of the many absentee landlords. cities, it would not be possible " There are also places like iVf ryan said. She said there ` are problems Mrs. Bryan said. coming up now which need to She said another problem be solved, s uch as inadequate confro.iting the city is obtaining p aving on many streets few funds for low cost housing and s idewalks, and a gross of seeing that such housing is • She added that the city needs to take advantage of this special situation. Bryan said. Mrs. Bryan was graduated f r o m the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and received her master's degree in philosophy f r o m Brown University, Providence, R.I. She has done additional graduate work in philosophy and mathematics. Mrs. Bryan told the Eagle she She and her husband reside has not served in any city office previously. She said she became at 1402 Laura Lane. They have in in running wh alno children. � MARY BRYAN