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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 30. 1979 FOR THE CLASS OF NEW ! Solid Brass Belt Buckle with "79" ringcrest is now available from OrnaMetal Castings, West Loop (2818) at Carson Street. Also available for class of '80, '81, '82, and '83. We have handcrafted A&M Ringcrest products such as Paperweights, Pen Sets, Double Pen Sets, Doorknockers, Executive Desk Nameplates, Bookends and bronze castings of Insignia as well as other specialty items. OrnaMetal Castings will be open Saturday, May 5th from 9:00AM till 3:00PM. Regular business hours are 8:00AM till 5:00PM Monday thru Friday. Did you know...? You can have a METAL DIPLOMA copy of your original made by OrnaMetal Castings. If you bring your original diploma by OrnaMetal Castings on Saturday, May 5th between 9:00AM and 3:00PM we will make a negative of it and return it to you in minutes. A beautiful framed bronze or silver colored reproduction will be mailed to you shortly. METAL DIPLOMAS are available in two colors; bronze or silver and in various sizes for as little at $27.50 plus tax and postage. OrnaMetal Castings will be open Saturday May 5th from 9:00AM till 3:00PM. Regular business hours are 8:00AM till 5:00PM weekdays. U OrnaMetal Castings, Inc. One Bronze West (713)7791400 Bryan,TX 77801 A PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT AGENCY PRESENTS NOW LEASING FOR SUMMER & FALL ONLY PRIVATE BUS Doux Chene also has tennis and baaketbaN courts ana « swimming pool with a kjxunoualy fumtahad dock PLANNED ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH ENTERTAINMENT. REFRESHMENTS AND PRIZES ALL YEAR LONG NOT JUST ONCE A YEAR' Doux Chene otters all this plus the nicest staft m town So do your sett a favor Stop by the Doux Chene Apart ments. and win all year round 693-1907 693-1906 WE’RE TRAVELIN YOUR WAY! j ntww uc. ^feidoux chene Apartments it// w Vo V APARTMENTS N %°+ 2 bdrm, 1 bath. Some with fenced backyards. Washer/Dry er connections. Located on the Shuttle Bus Route. Walking distance to A&M. Now leasing for Summer and Fall. For Leasing Information Call 693-5196 Monaco I (under new management and ownership) Magnificent, easy living can be found at Monaco i, with a swimming pool for a refreshing swim and balconies for a private visit with friends. Monaco I also has efficiency, 1, 2, & 3 BR with a laundry room for your convenience. The apartments have electric range, refrigerator, disposal and dishwasher and are fully carpeted. For further information call 693-2614. All bills are paid. Monaco II (under new management and ownership) Here's the spacious apartment you've been looking for. You'll like our 1 & 2 bedrooms, complete with electric range, refrigerator, disposal and dishwasher. Each apartment is fully carpeted and has fenced patio. We are located V2 block from campus and on the shuttle bus route. Call us today 693-2614. All Bills are paid. Now leasing for summer & fall. T’osada T)pi T'ey (under new management and ownership) Quiet living with Spanish flair describes Posada Del Rey's atmosphere. You will find an apartment that is close to campus and on the shuttle bus route. For an afternoon swim or a relaxing evening on the balcony, you'll like Posada Del Rey. We have 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms with gas ranges, refrigerators and dishwashers. Call us, 693-9364. All bills are paid. Pool and Laundry. @K<wajemcnt “A %arimj Ctmcem” Shopping mall U.? Classes in suburbs United Press International INDIANAPOLIS — A trip to a shopping center is educational for students taking college courses at four suburban malls in Indianapolis. Most of the 500 students who signed up for the Indiana Purdue University at Indianapolis classes are housewives returning to school after a long absence. They like the convenience of the classes, which are taught by regular faculty members. They feel safer and less out-of-place than they would on the school’s downtown campus. “I expected to have a lot of housewives who were tired of sitting at home and that’s mostly who enrolled,” said Wanda Slusher. Her elementary composition class con tains 17 women and two men. “It’s perfect for them. Everyone seems very enthusiastic about the learning situation.” Other subjects in the initial semester include English grammar review, speech, algebra, psychol ogy, American politics, child psy chology; novel and short story; cul ture and society; weather, climate and man; and spatial organization of the city. “We re going to increase the of ferings during a summer session and may end up adding even more for the fall semester,” said James R. East, director of Learn and Shop and the Weekend College. East said 503 students enrolled for the first semester and few drop ped out. “They enrolled for a variety of reasons, but the majority are think ing about completing or starting de gree work,” he said. “Some were just curious.” He said three-fourths were wo men, nearly half were 30-50 years old and 47 percent had been out of high school more than 15 years. Thirty percent had never taken col lege level courses, 61 percent were married and 40 percent had chil dren living at home. Student Maudy Ragsdale said she had been out of school for 22 years. She said she decided to return be cause the courses are convenient, her employer pays for them and she was bored with TV soap operas. Student Ethel Cline, a nurse, said she intends to use her courses as stepping stones to a higher degree. Dale Trammel, one of the two male students, helps manage a store. His company also pays for his class. He sees it as a chance to im prove himself. One freshman said he enrolled in the class at the mall because he didn’t want to contend with parking problems at the downtown campus. Slusher said some students use the time after class to shop. But for her, the class is not as convenient as one on campus. She lacks office space, filing cabinets and storage for student records. “You can’t come in and work the way you would at the cam pus,” she said. But it does offer a more relaxed atmosphere than a larger class of regular students, she added. “It’s enjoyable for me and them.” Most students making general comments on East’s questionnaire about the program praised its con venience. “The environment is not so in timidating for an older student as regular campus,” one wrote. “Easy to attend in winter, park ing, safety. I have been putting school off and this seemed too good to pass up,” said another. “I feel much safer coming to the shopping center than going to the university campus,” said a third. “Chance to remain mentally active. Desire to learn.” And Taylor van Gordon, an am bitious young houswife in Slusher’s English composition class said: “I’m a sales clerk. But someday my husband is going to be president and I feel it will be an injustice to him to have an uneducated ‘first lady.’” Beautiful Cedar Ridge A Nice Place To Live RENT BY THE MONTH WE OFFER YOU 2 Bdrm Unfurnished, All Built-Ins including Dish washer, Laundry Hook-Ups, $240. Brand New Units Located on Pinfeather Rd. Just North of Villa Maria. Convenient to TAMU & the Bryan Golf Course, as well as the B-CS Business & Industrial area. BRY-CAL A PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT CO. 846-3733 24 Hours BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION AUSTIN-PLEASANTON Monday Night Madness Name M.N.M. Special! Any 16” Pepperoni or Mushroom Pizza with 4 FREE Drinks A $ 7 45 value for $ 6 00 ! 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That 13.5 percent compares with an inflation rate tint ran from 7 to under 9 percent for most of last year current rate is 13 percent. The NYSE reports on dividend payments only once a year hi Standard & Poor’s keeps track all year of dividend changes ofmijoi companies, although not of the amounts or rates of change. S&P said there were 903 dividend increases in the first tlret months of this year, against 844 in the first quarter last year and oik four dividend cuts against 10 reductions a year earlier. Thirty-foil companies omitted first quarter dividends compared with year. There is one fly in the Big Board’s dividend ointment. Eventboojl the payout to stockholders rose for the third consecutive year, market value of the stocks did not keep up with inflation. Themelii yield, which is figured on market value of stocks as of Dec. 31, m only about half as much as the inflation of money — 4.8perceali 1978 as against 4.5 percent in 1977. The NYSE report contained other interesting informational*! stock ownership. Of the 1,552 companies listed on the Big Board 88.5 percent, or 1,373, paid dividends last year. Twenty-eigblf these have not missed a dividend for a century or more and 102l» paid for more than 75 years without a break. More than halfofal NYSE companies have paid a dividend for more than 20 conseciit years. The biggest increase in 1978 dividend payout among Big tail companies was by the aircraft companies — 42.5 percent for a totilol $426 million. Plot to hijack sent N b< 34 Jews to prisons United Press International MOSCOW — The charge was plotting to hijack a domestic Soviet Aeroflot airliner to Sweden and freedom. The verdict sent 34 Soviet citi zens, most of them young Jews who had dared to apply for permission to emigrate to Israel, to prison for most of a decade. Even now there is a widespread belief that the Leningrad hijack plot of 1970 constituted a tangled web of KGB secret police penetration, entrapment and persecution aimed at putting the first wave of activist Jews in jail. Two of the accused ringleaders of the plot — Eduard Kuznetsov and Mark Dymshits, both of whom were originally sentenced to die before firing squads — flew to freedom in America Friday as part of a swap for two convicted Soviet espionage agents. Five others convicted in the plot were freed last week and four of them were aboard a train this weekend bound for Vienna and, ul timately, Israel. Only three of the 34 still languish behind the bars of Soviet forced- labor camps. Pressure for the re lease of losip Mendelevich, Yuri Fyodorov and Alexei Murzhenko will grow until the great hijack plot is only a memory or perhaps, for some, a nightmare. It began early on the morning of June 15, 1970, when police and KGB agents swooped down on 11 FOR A SUGAR FREE LUNCH Come to the most complete salad bar in Texas in the Sbisa Dining Cen ter Basement. Quality First Open 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday people waiting for a plane at Leu grad’s Smolny Airport. Theyrisi taneously arrested nine other ps sons elsewhere, including one who was on vacation in Odessij miles away. Within half an hour police raids were staged on sotl homes and offices in Riga and Kishinev. At their trial in December 191 the first 11 admitted theyli planned to board the vert it to Sweden, because they4 spatted of ever being emigrate to Israel. On Christmas eve, Kuznel* and Dymshits were sentencedl death — the sentence was it muted to 15 years at hard late la than a week later — and the as in their immediate circle drewfe camp terms ranging from II years. The second Leningrad trialb May 11, 1971. Nine accusedofst ondary complicity in the prison terms ranging between a and 10 years. The following month KCBapI staged another series of swept still more Jews into coiiitl charges that they had anti-Soviet propaganda “wiP criminals who prepared an acldn piracy.” Altogether a total of five sb trials were held, and 34 hind bars. The harsh sentences electri# Jewish communities aroundA world and a ceaseless free the “prisoners of Zion’»1 launched. The experience and the inleiS tional support stiffened the resdl of other Soviet Jews to flinching official harassment, cution, prosecution and jail in suit of permission to tear up 2| years of roots in Russia am plant them to Israel. In the intervening years emigration has ranged from alo* only 1,000 a month in 1973 tod current record rate of 4, month. NOW LEASING FOR SUMMER AND FALL. OPEN WEEKENDS. Barcelona APARTMENTS NEWLY REMODELED! 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