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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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MARY BRYAN