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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1979
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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
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become a regional natural sciJ
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miles away in Houston.
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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
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and is also lower than the state fig
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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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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.
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percent Nov. 1. ActuallytkBjfnrmn ’
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tion as intended, then even
mortgage mortgage interest
will drop, said Freidman.
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Federal Reserve Board’s stro
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