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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1979 i BLENDS OF GIFT-GIVING 3609 Place E. 29th - Bryan Have your own half-time show this Thanksgiving with our Dallas Cowboy and Houston Oiler Frisbees! Frisbees for $2.29 Reg. $2.89 Mi Governors go Texas style COURTS UNIVERSITY SHOE SERVICE “Expert boot and shoe repair” 104 College Main Northgate 846-6785 (formerly Holiks) United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements wants his guests at the Republican Governors Conference to have a good time. The good time will cost about $175,000, and is being co vered by Clements’ financial backers. The governors get Cadillacs to take them around town, and Texas Rangers and Department of Public Safety officers provide them with security. They have been treated to a ranch- style barbecue, and given gifts in cluding belt buckles, watercolor prints of a Longhorn steer, charms, handcrafted purses and a Texas cook book. A state dinner Monday night in cluded entertainment by a Houston theater group which presented five musical numbers from the play “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. ’ “We just wanted them to have a good time,” said Chuck Nash, chair man of the Republican Governors Conference host committee. “Gov ernor Clements is proud of his state, and wanted them to have a good time with a Texas flavor. ” Nash said gifts from 75 to 100 of Clements’ financial backers will cov er the expenses. Anything left over will go to charity, he said, adding that Clements “was pretty intent on there being some left over.” While the governors went to the barbecue Sunday night, staff mem bers and reporters attended a Mex- ican-style buffet and cocktail party at an exclusive private club, complete with Mariachi music and red cowboy style neckerchiefs imprinted “Re publican Governors Conference.” A Dallas Cadillac dealer loaned 20 cars for use by the governors and other dignitaries, and Nash’s own San Marcos Chevrolet dealeij provided 20 cars for use by s members and others at the col Conference planners lined beauty shop for the govei wives, and made arrangements babysitters, tennis courts and| games for the requesting govenc Clements is Texas’ first GOP; | ernor since Reconstruction. 1 vited the GOP governors in® ately after his election last yei® iWEZ'. have their annual winter m Texas. Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.99 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. —4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Roast (Texas Style) Tossed Salad Mashed Potato w/ gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee ■H^H^'Quality First SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable SEDCO suit C lements criticizes meeting on oil spil iy MA United Press International AUSTIN — Cov. Bill Clements Tuesday criticized Attorney General Mark White for inviting oil industry A.P.O. SALUTES PEPE PADILLA AS FUTURE RUDOLF VALENTINO BORIN-ROBINSON CAMPAIGNERS representatives for a discussion on how to effectively combat oil spills, and also accused the attorney gener al of meddling in affairs outside his jurisdiction. White has filed suit against SED CO, the oil drilling company found ed by Clements, for contributing to the oil spill, which began in the Bay of Campeche on June 3. In a concisely worded letter, Cle ments accused White of opposing the actions of the governor’s office, the Coast Guard, the Department of Public Safety and other state and federal agencies that worked in the cleanup efforts after oil from Ixtoc I reached the Texas coast in August. “As you are no doubt aware, your entry into this area is without consti tutional or statutory authority, ” Cle ments said. “It serves only to confuse and mislead the public and those agencies and officials responsible for | What k crisis management of this natu Homed F In a telegram inviting the oiigjn the dustry representatives tothepi meeting in the attorney gei office Tuesday afternoon, Whitei he had been “unimpressed witll ability of the existing governi and commercial structures t by tl Horn ong thi six ( hing of al defense spond to these emergencies." ^nir defer The governor told White toilpn fact, his activities to matters within■Hividnal jurisdiction. Mtappea m each ca We carry a full line of traditional and the latest in leotards and tights. COLLEGE STATION 3IS Jersey €193-3357 Air Force base to feed meal to 10,000 United Press International SAN ANTONIO - In what may be the nation’s biggest Thank sgiving dinner. Lackland Air Force base plans to dish out about 12 tons of food to more than 10,000 people Thursday. Lackland food services super intendent, appropriately named Chief Master Sgt. Clifford N. Cook, said the traditional Thank sgiving dinner will be cooked at 17 dining halls on the base, home of the Air Force’s only hoot camp. On the menu will be 5,50 n and ( pounds of turkey, 3,200 pounc n is fot of ham, 3,200 pounds of shrint mt retu cocktail, 3,400 pounds of swtf pm. Y( potatoes, 780 pounds of cranbe nkedthi ry sauce, 3,600 pounds ofcand; p-yard 2, (XX) pounds of mixed nuts an! pkh *1 1,7(X) pounds of potatoes. ;ra 8 e a l That comes to 23,380 poundi its mas< not including the 1,300 quartsj un g l e egg nog, 580 fruit cakes and 1,511 empts 1 cherry, pumpkin, mince mei But the sweet potato and apple pies bcii! reiving cooked for the Air Force per 2-7-1 r sonnel. zorbacb — Id goal SHOP YOUR LIST AT THE TEXAS A&M BOOKSTORE Cocaine bust end in arrest of one ylor sc U on a |xas Teel iuston ( ;ame thi icated. TEveryi and U is th le confei United Press International LAREDO — A dog detected more than 40 pounds of cocaine worth $10 million concealed in a secret panel of a station wagon crossing the border from Mexico, authorities said, and a federal magistrate Tuesday set a $500,000 bond for a man arrested by U.S. Customs agents. A Customs spokesman in Houston said the cache — 40.4 pounds — was more cocaine than was seized in the South Texas region in all of 1978. Customs inspectors arrested Montes Pedro Gonzalez, 40, at a border crossing Monday. A Customs spokesman said Gonzalez was be lieved to be a Mexican national, lilson sai A spokeswoman in the U.S. at! lints a g; ney’s office said he was charged* fter a co possession and importation bre on t cocaine. “Their c The U.S. Customs dog, nan j Charlie, “registered an alert on# ^OOtL rear of the car” while Custom!! 11 specters were running a compti check on Gonzalez, said Chan Conroy of the Customs Servta (ffpnsp Houston. 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