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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1979 KSTTA,BUSHED IN 1074 TRICK OR TREAT AT T.J.’S Drawing for prizes & drinks Drawing at 11 p.m. $100.00 — 1st Prize for best costume $ 25.00 — T.J.’s Gift Certificate Costume judging by Diamond Darlings 707 Texas Ave. College Sta., Texas DIKXS CRXCKSN SALOON 307 University Drive College Station • Beer on Crushed Ice • Progressive Country Music • Hangdown Sausage • Cheddar Cheese on the Wheel • Authentic Turn of the Century Texana “Plant AREHOUS 3722 S. College 846-8332 Comer of College & North October Clearence 1 Gal. Wax Leaf Ligustrum Req 2.95 1.49 ea. Over 3000 in stock. No Limit. 10,„ r 14 00 >' « .-4 W’l.Wi. is f •* M *■ - 't ' *» *> * . ft, ■; > > . v < .sL - i.u*» •<■ f * *> -. » . 'S ^ * f> #**% I Select Group of Indoor Plants Rea 14.99-19.99 5 Gal. Container 98 Over 500 To Choose From. While They Last. Rubber Plants 3 per oot 4-5 It. tall Weeping Fig Very bushy 4-5 tt. tall Dracaena Margmata 3 per pot 3 tt. tall. Pottery, Wicker & Bird Baths Still 30% Off Reg. Price Bulb Sale Plant Now for great early Spring Color 4, $100 'For ■ Req. 39‘& 49‘ Daffodils Duke of Windsor (White-Yellow Center) Fortune (Yellow) Daffodils Duke of Windsor (White-Yellow Center) Fortune (Yellow) Mount Hood (White) Kmq Alfred (Yellow) Tulips Kansas (White) Dover (Red) Jewel of Sprinq (Yellow) First Lady (Burqundy) Hyacinths Jan Bos (Red) Ostra (Purple) Lady Derby (Oranqe) Myosotis (Blue 7 $ 1 » for $100 Ranunculus Mixed Colors Dutch Iris White-Yellow-Blue Anemones Mixed Colors iit> PLANT WAREHOUSE 3722 S. COLLEGE M0N.-SAT. 9-6 SUNDAY 12-6 846-8332 the nation Parisioners found guilt of plots on government United Press International WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ended a chapter in the protracted dispute between au thorities and the religious order by convicting nine Church of Scientology members of various charges of plotting against the government. But the decision Friday by U.S. District Judge Charles Richey hardly closes the longstanding battle between the government and the controversial church founded by former science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. The church and the government remain involved in litigation in a number of cases, including a church challenge to the FBI raids that set the scene for Friday’s decision. Still to be decided as result of the guilty verdicts was how Richey would sentence the nine, who in clude some of the church’s top officials and Hub bard’s wife. Government officials said they were pleased with Richey’s decision and said they would ‘‘recommend substantial prison terms be imposed for most of these defendants at the time of sentencing.” Friday’s decision followed delicate plea bargaining between church and government lawyers that ended in a 284-page stipulation of evi dence church lawyers said they would not cU lenge. As a result of the plea bargaining, the ninecknl members agreed to accept Richey’s guilty verdicto; one count of the indictment in exchange forlk other charges being dropped. Shortly after its inception, the church foundtk government skeptical of its claims —both intern: of being able to heal spiritually as well as itsbeinjJ spiritual organization. Challenges from the Food and Drug Administa tion and the Internal Revenue Service in the ear! 1960s set the new sect and the government at odi ! The 284-page stipulation outlined a longstanir; campaign to infiltrate and bug government ofc! and copy and steal thousands of governmentdott |! ments. It is a picture of a church organized and actiri: I more like a government, with elaborate codesari bureaus designed for intelligence gathering, covert i and overt projects. But church officials say the nine found guilty rejr i resent only one branch of the church’s 21 varioti I organizational arms and its spiritual work iscontint f ing. Situation not improving Cash scarce for home loans United Press International One sure thing in an uncertain economy: it’s going to be harder for Americans to buy a home. Many of the nation’s thrift institu tions, the primary source of mortg age money, have stopped writing home loans. Interest rates are ap proaching 14 percent at savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks that are still lending. “If they (mortgage loan appli cants) haven’t filled out their appli cations by now,” said Leonard Todd of South Carolina Federal in Green ville, “they’re not going to get a commitment.” But, unlike past periods of tight money, the price and availability of loans varies greatly among areas and even among firms in the same area. “It’s safe to say there’s never been .such ^a disparity, in the i mortgage L, market,u .Said.Kenneth,J.j Ty.gerson, *chief economist of the Chicago- based U.S. League of Savings As sociations. "In states with usury laws, there’s virtually no lending, while other areas apparently have plentiful money to lend — usually at high rates.” For example. Home Savings & Loan of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, is still making loans, cur rently at 13 percent, with priority for current customers. But American Savings & Loan As sociation, also of Los Angeles, third "It's safe to say there's never been such a disparity in the mortgage market." — Kenneth J. Tygerson, chief economist of the Chicago-based U.S. League of Savings Associations. largest in the country,- is not taking new applications. American National Savings & Loan of Baltimore stopped writing mortgages, except to major ip itors, more than a month ago, In Greenville, S.C., Fide!: Federal Savings and Loan, bi halted mortgage loans. Itspn dent, William Merritt, saidIbei! percent rate “was virtually cats off all loan applications anyhc* William S. Mortensen, presdi of First Federal Savings and la Assn, of Santa Monica, Calif,i | new president of another indis group, the Washington-based\ tional Savings and Loan Leap thinks a major shift in home Ik ing is occuring. ‘Borrowers will have topayn higher rates for the money they row and it’s not a temporary fc Mortensen said. "I look for al: toming out for home loans in: 10-11 percent range.” Loyola Federal Savings and La Association, Maryland’s htgeslsr. ings institution, recently raised mortgage rates to 13 and Idpercc y Pa "Borrowers will havetofi, much higher rates for the m' they borrow and it’s not a In porary thing.” — WilUaiV Mortensen, president o/Fift Federal Savings and LoanAsn of Santa Monica, Calif. 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