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THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1978 Page 5 Living with the law The following column, which will run three times a week starting today, is provided by the Texas A&M University student legal advi sers as a service to Battalion readers: We re in trouble. Our apartment was not ready to move into this fall. The manager said she would pay for our hotel bill. Now she says she won’t. Can we make her pay the bill? When should we start paying rent? Any agreements you have in writing are of course binding on the manager. An oral agreement may be enforcible also, but that would be more difficult since, as a general rule, contracts affecting an in terest in real property, such as your apartment, must be written to be enforced. In any case, do not withhold rent as a remedy. Court action may be necessary. Some lease forms may say that rent shall be abated during the time the tenant cannot live in the apartment due to construction. This would mean your rent starts the day you move in. Look closely at your lease. Editor’s note: Answers are general and should not replace the personal advice of an attorney. Questions for this column can be addressed to The Battalion or students’ legal advisers in 211 YMCA. Lawyer tries to free Rudolf Hess - again United Press International AUSTIN — An attorney who has tried unsuccessfully for more than three years to have Rudolf Hess — a former deputy of Adolf Hitler — re leased from Berlin’s Spandau Prison said last week he would make his fourth attempt at releasing the 84- year-old former deputy fuhrer. Merrell Frazer Jr. said he had new evidence to present to Russian officials that could free Hess, the one defendant of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial still imprisoned. "The Russians will never release Hess unless they feel it is in their own interest to do so,” Frazer said. I hope to show them how this will be possible.” Hess is the lone prisoner in the 600-unit prison, which is operated by the four victorious Allied powers of World War II — the United States, Russia, France and Great Britain. Hess, who left Hitler in 1941 and flew to Scotland on a mission of peace, has been in solitary confine ment since 1966, when Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were re leased after serving 20-year sen tences. “Rudolf Hess is the only man in the history of the world to be in dicted, tried, convicted and impris oned for ‘crimes against peace’,” said Frazer, “an ex post facto crime that had neither precedent nor rec ognition in international law either before or after the Nuremberg trial.” Why on earth wear boring pantyhose when you can wear Burlington’s Onlywear: Sheers, Control tops. Support, and textured hose beautiful colors ALL SIZES Scruffy plants may be new rubber source A&M research Shala’s Shoes' 707 Texas gallery is I > free and nirtesy photo eei of my life e *o make | nade mei will lx- ms Paul Stapp I years a; | Houston. I history of I I up conti-1 to lift the tg stations ■ different tur lys •d in res|> behalf of hose trii three It os i sele reli a close, the invest cital to stigation mis de Iradell, 1 ed lead! and the| ■vich. s stronghl tc.s weref i tin's law)| i Arno them * examin trber andl comply ground en ordl Times I e porter I Abrainij cncC ei[ trial e| er fac es l finiesf al conteij lent 2/ ^ is has] high!)’fj setweenj A projected' national rubber short- |age and the state’s climate have en couraged researchers at Texas A&M University to help make Texas a rubber-producing state. The potential source is a scruffy, two-feet-high desert shrub called guayule (wy-OO-lee). The United States government, several groups of university researchers and America’s tire companies are in- I terested in the plant. And for good reason. Guayule pro- Iduces a rubber chemically identical 1 to that of the Asian rubber tree. World demand for all types of j rubber, including natural rub ber, is expected to double in the | next 10 to 25 years. Texas A&M researchers have been awarded $109,000 by the Southwest Border Regional Com mission to study the desert plant. Commission members include the governors of Texas, Arizona, California and New Mexico - states where the plant grows naturally. Additional money may be availa ble soon. The U.S. Senate has ap proved a bill that would put $30 million into guayule research over a four-year period. Another bill in the House calls for $60 million over a five-year span. flesearch will attempt to make production of rubber from guayule profitable. Dr. Neville Clarke, director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, said, “We do not propose to research the problem to death be fore we discover whether or not it will work. However, there is a sub stantial experience from develop ment of other crops, such as sor ghum and cotton, to show that major development in economic yields can be achieved. We can expect to increase basic yields of guayule by not less than a factor of two over a 10-year period, ” he said. "It may even be ac complished in five.” In addition to Texas A&M’s studies, breeding programs are under way at the University of Arizona and at the Los Angeles Ar boretum. In Fort Stockton, Fire stone Tire and Rubber Co. is starting nursery operations that will fol lowed by planting tests. Just a few years ago, it looked like rubber would be replaced by more reliable synthetics. But that was before radial tires, which use twice as much rubber in anatural-synthetic blend as regidar tires. Truck tires use three times as much. “The strategic importance of rub ber is almost immeasurable,” said Dan Bragg, an industrial engineer at Texas A&M s Industrial Economics Research Division. “World demand for all types of rubber, including natural rubber, is expected to dou ble in the next 10 to 25 years. Research will attempt to make production of rubber from guayule profitable. A&M plant sciences department. It could bring significant relief to the chronically depressed economics of the region." Most forecasters estimate that there will be a shortage of one mil lion tons per year by 1985, Bragg said. It has been estimated that 8 mil lion acres of guayule would be needed for cultivation to meet pro jected demands. 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When our workers sit down to lunch they sit down to a tradition. When they make Cuervo Gold it’s the same. Every day at just about eleven the wives from Tequila arrive at the Cuervo distillery bearing their husbands 1 lunches. Lunches that have been lovingly prepared in the same proud manner since men first began working here in 1795. It is this same pride in a job well-done that makes Cuervo Gold truly special. Any way you drink it, Cuervo Gold will bring you back to a time when quality ruled the world. Of Bryan-College Station 3832 South Texas Avenue w^bm Cuervo.The Gold standard since1795. CUERVO ESPECIAL® TEQUILA. 80 PROOF. IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY © 1977 HEUBLEIN, INC.. HARTFORD, CONN.