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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1979 LSAT and GMAT Amity Review Seminars 15 student average class size Team teaching technique Convenient weekend classes EXCLUSIVE MATH REFRESHER 800-243-4767 . Texas Office of Traffic Safety the city i BLENDS OF GIF I-GIVING 3609 Place E. 29th - Bryan TEAS;Museum adding to local educatioiif \ Take the "grind" out of shopping. . | We sell grinders for your whole coffees. Cj JJv< * * $ Having Problems $ getting your hair done $ $ after work? $ * 2 TT We are going to take appointments after 6 beginning 1 ^ 5 Oct. 10th. $ Vogue Hairstyling Salon % | 846-8030 | fir* rip d|w JJv- JJv# JJw By FLOYD WILTZ Battalion Reporter Since 1961, elementary school teachers have known where to go to get rabbits, insects or even snakes to show school children — the Brazos Valley Museum. Now in its eighteenth year, the museum still provides animals and demonstrations to local elementary schools, but it is also moving to in volve adults in its programming. Director Heidi Wittenborn said the musuem has operated for the past 18 years entirely on funds from private sources. “We are supported entirely by membership dues, grants from pri vate charities and foundations,” she said. Last year the total budget for the museum was about $18,000, Wit tenborn says, and expenses for this year are expected be around $20,000. Wittenborn is the only paid employee. Her five-man staff is manned by volunteers. Most of the volunteers are Texas A&M University students enrolled in Wildlife and Fisheries Science courses, Wittenborn said. Wittenborn says she is pleased with what the museum is doing. “We try to augment whatever the teacher happens to be doing at the school,” she said. “We provide a service they aren’t familiar with and try to give some expertise in that area.” In the past the museum has given demonstrations and lectures on birds, reptiles, insects and plants. “Th e school would call the museum and say ‘We need a snake,’ and we would grab a snake and go to the school, Wittenborn said. Wittenborn estimates she and her staff give demonstrations to 700 to 800 school children a month. Last spring they gave demonstrations to 7,050 children. The museum also has started a se ries of six-week workshops for chil dren on Saturday mornings dealing with different aspects of natural sci ence. There is also a loan program for school teachers which allows them to borrow materials from the museum for use in their classes. Wittenborn says she would! have more sources of monev. “We receive no federal, county or city funding," she sail ca e ul She also hopes the rouseumd become a regional natural sciJ Spec Friday n center for this portion ofTexassJ a ppin’, hr the nearest musuem is alxnilj 1 *ff |)m ,. 'J 1 miles away in Houston. The Brazos Valle) Museumfb 1 ' 011 ^ ’ the Brazos Center 3232 Braid § out Dr., in Bryan. industry keep unemployment lo\ By EILEEN WALL Battalion Reporter New industry and Texas A&M University are helping Bryan and College Station keep unemploy ment rates down, according to area employment services. A Texas Employment Commision publication said that while the civi lian labor force increased 3 percent from August 1978 to August 1979, the unemployment rate rose 0.1 of a percentage point, to 2.8 percent in August 1979. The 2.8 percent unemployment rate for Bryan-College Station is NOW OPEN TEXAS CATTLE CO. Bar-B-Que Restaurant 3807 TEXAS AVE. BRYAN 846-3176 /occasions. specialize in catering formal)) about half the national rate of 5.9, and is also lower than the state fig ure of 4.6. The reason for this low unem ployment rate in the Bryan-College Station area is that there are more jobs than there are people to fill them said Mike Miller, of Snelling and Snelling Employment Service in Bryan. He said the source of these jobs is the new industry moving into the area. Industry is attracted to Bryan and College Station, he said, because the people here have money and are willing to invest. He added that larger cities like Houston are beginning to have problems and industry is backing out and moving to smaller cities like Bryan and College Station. 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Rry Lee, ing as they RtlighU • I When V riser"' * Prof says prime rate will slow building of house B Recent fluctuations in the prime interest rate, the rate banks charge their best customers, will send shock waves through the Texas home mortgage rates, predicts a Texas A&M University real estate expert. Dr. Jack Friedman, head of the Research Division of the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M, said mortgage funds in Texas will no doubt become scarce and that could cause a slowdown in both new home construction and the re sale of existing homes statewide. “In Texas, the situation will he Stomping a ner, ‘T is the fii ropriatc aggravated by the state usuanj ing, said Freidman. sw Texas floating usury ceiling js 11 percent and will ‘'icreastt:M mor j e > s percent Nov. 1. ActuallytkBjfnrmn ’ tivr home-mortgage rate i* of ^ range of 11 Mi to 12 percent, ering discount points, saidili| searcher “If i c-tc-nt boosts in the prim cause a decline in the rateof tion as intended, then even mortgage mortgage interest will drop, said Freidman. 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