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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1974
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omputer will aid auditor
By STEVE GRAY
Stall Writer
In a special meeting Tuesday af
ternoon, the Brazos County Com
missioners Court approved a
rroposal to purchase a computer to
ipdate the existing bookkeeping
rystem in the county auditor’s of-
ice.
The meeting was called after the
court spent much of its time during
its regular monthly meeting Nov. 11
considering approval of the county
budget.
The court accepted a bid of
$32,189 from Burroughs Corp.,
1706 E. 27th, for the system which
will be installed before Jan. 1.
Money for the purchase will be
taken from revenue sharing funds.
County Judge Bill Vance said.
Two other companies, IBM and
Texas Data Center Inc. of Bryan
also submitted proposals. IBM
submitted a bid of $74,132 and
Texas Data proposed a plan which
would make equipment available to
the county at a cost of $60 per hour.
Both bids were turned down.
The Burroughs system will con
sist of a central computer, card
stacker and reader. Vance said the
new system will record voter regist
ration lists, county payroll and gen
eral accounting data.
The present accounting system,
which involves voluminous paper
work, has been used since the late
1930’s.
In other action, the court ap
proved an increase in hospital in
surance coverage for county' emp
loyes from $16 a day to $25 a day.
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A strike by 16,()()() employes of
Greyhound Bus Lines has left the
Bryan-College Station area with vir
tually no commercial bus transpor
tation.
The strike, which began Monday,
is not expected to he a long one,
according to Sam Enloe, Bryan
Greyhound agent.
“The bus line lias terminated
local passenger and freight service
until the strike is settled,’ he said.
The Amalgamated Transit Union,
headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz.,
called the strike which resulted in
1,3(X) contract employes in Texas
walking off their jobs Monday after
noon when the contract expired.
Negotiations between the union
and the bus company broke oflf at 2
p. m., an hour after the strike began.
Enloe said the local office at 1300
Texas Ave. will try to provide cus
tomers with information on other
Bulletin board
means of travel daily from 8 a. m. to
5 p.m.
“The nearest freight and pas
senger service will be available in
Hearne on Continental Trailways
Bus Lines and Kerrville Bus Lines
in Brenham,” he said.
Charter bus service has also been
shut down, Enloe said. But he
pointed out that charter service is
being permitted by the union for up
to another week in other parts of the
nation.
Greyhound tickets are being
honored by Amtrak and Continen
tal. Spokesmen for Amtrak said
Greyhound was making up for the
difference between train and bus
fares.
Terminal service in Houston has
been stopped along with 26 daily'
departures and arrivals, according
to Bill Cohen, area sales manager in
Houston.
Guy Parent, federal mediator,
said union and company representa
tives were negotiating for 48
straight hours, prior to the strike.
He said he did not know when talks
would be resumed.
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foals.
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its Pat Walker s Figure Perfection, 3723 E. 29th
St., at 7:30 p.m. for a demonstration.
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Rudder'lower Croup picture for the Aggielancl
and discussion of field trip.
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discuss sweetheart ami club pictures.
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p.m. in room 105 of the Geosciences Building.
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p.m. in room 301 of the Rudder'Tower. Thank
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GEOSCIENCES sponsors a lecture on "Chemi
cal Fractionation During the Condensation of the
Solar System” by Prof. Lawrence Grossman of
the University of Chicago at 7:30 p.m. in room
112 of the Oceanography-Meteorology Building.
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112 of the Oceanography-Meteorology Building.
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Rudder Tower.
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IRANIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION meets at 7
p.m. iu room 114 of the Herman Heep Building.
AUXILIARY TO THE STUDENT CHAPTER of the
American Veterinary Medical Association will
sponsor an old-fashioned bazaar from 9 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. at the Manor East Mall. Proceeds will
be used for community service projects.
TAMU FENCING CLUB will host the TAMU Invita
tional Collegiate Fencing Tournament at 10 a.m.
•in the DeWare Field House.
ALPHA ZETA GWENS’ CAR WASH will In* held at
the Mobil station on University Drive from 9
a.m. to 4 p. m. Cost is $2.00 for a wash, dry and
MONDAY
EL PASO HOMETOWN CLUB meets at 7.30 p in.
in room 504 of the Rudder Tower.
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Intermediate Arabic—7 p.m. — 125 Academic Build
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The Gospels — 7:30 p.m. — 106 Academic Building
Natural Food Cooking — 7 p.m. —407 Cooner Street
Yoga — 7 p.m. — 502 Rudder Tower
First Aid — 7 p.m. — 228 & 229 MSC and 232 G.
Rollic White Coliseum
The Revelation — 7:30 p.m. — 1024 Chemistry
Annex
Famine group asks
Thanksgiving fasting
Americans are being urged to fast
on Thursday as a practical and syan-
bolic gesture of concern over starva
tion that threatens to claim millions
oflives this year.
Oxfam-Ameriea, theU. S. branch
of the British-based Oxford Famine
Relief Committee, is sponsoring the
last. Spokesmen estimate that at
least 200,000 persons will partici
pate, limiting themselves to coffee,
tea, fruit juice or broth for 24 hours
and donating the money they nor
mally would spend on food to an
Oxfam fund for the hungry.
United Nations Secretary-
General Kurt Waldheim said the
fast "is a welcome example of how
individuals have a chance to join to
gether in creating greater aware
ness of alarming global food shor
tages and in sharing their resources
with those in greater need.
The U. N. Food and Agriculture
Organization has estimated that
more than 500 million persons face
starvation in over 30 countries.
Several representatives at the re
cent World Food Conference in
Rome urged Americans to cut their
food consumption. Some people
have said that if each American gave
up one hamburger a week, there
would he a saving of 10 million tons
of grain that would not have to be
fed to livestock. The grain would
feed 25 million persons in poor
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