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hstrepi 'r 10, osishjsi six to e \ ^ cannoi, Area apartment rents will increase this fall Clayton says he’ll talk to grand jury By DEBBIE NELSON City Staff Fall 198° rents wi ^ k e higher fall 1979 rates in 73.3 per- itheC*entofthe Bryan-College Station ap 31 " 111161 ^ 5 su | rve y ed b y The 'VCOSB, ther .^-a ^talion this week. Several of the remaining 26.6 mvcmi, Srt surveyed said they have not , notified of a rent increase • v ^ et but there may be one by fall. In apartments with rate in- the n'n®jeases, rents will be $5-$20 high- >r for a one-bedroom, one-bath l partment and $10-$45 more for a midt wo- beclroom> tw °- bath a P art - beirirn nent. „ '' 1J| Exolanations tor the increases varied. Most apartment mana- ided ■' attributed higher rents to in- j nnp „ iation and a higher cost of living. j enn y pitts, president of the partment Association of Bryan- ollege Station, explained the normal,®^ rateS: “ T ?’ S n0t ^ vant to go up. It s everyday life. Ve have to go up.” Pitts, who owns the Echols itreet apartments in Bryan, said ,wners have to raise apartment ents because of taxes, inflation, nt of the 45 apartment man- m the li en in experiea nts ia l odori minatioj ?anisnij of thell irttoal ol/'SA higher utility rates, and the rising cost of everything from light fix tures to carpeting to maintenance workers’ salaries. Janis Johnson, leasing clerk for V illage Oaks Apartments, said costs of garbage pick-up and wa- ter also cause higher rents. Linda German, assistant mana ger of Willow Oaks, attributed part of the inflation problem to rising insurance rates. Some managers of apartments including utilities in their rents said College Station’s new utility ordinance forced them to raise rents to keep up with higher util ity costs. The new ordinance changed the method of calculating the av erage kilowatt-hour usage per apartment and total monthly bill per apartment complex. One manager estimated $20 per apartment was added to the total utility bill of the complex when the ordinance was amended. Some apartments are not rais ing their rents next fall. Barcelona apartments is charging lower rates than last fall, but utilities were paid then. Now they aren’t. Gail Mills, assistant manager of Barcelona, said when the com plex was switched to individual meters, it more than compen sated for other causes which would have made rents rise, so rents were lowered. Some apartment owners are raising rents only for new resi dents. Old residents will main tain their present rates. Others simply decided not to raise rents. Linda Grinell, resi dent manager of Pepper Tree Apartments, said no rents will be raised there. “The company was hashing over whether to raise them or not, ” she said, “and they just de cided not to.” On the other hand. Brad Etter, manager of Casa Blanca Apart ments, said his 10 percent in crease in rents is “modest, con sidering an inflation rate of 13 percent.” He said inflation doesn’t refer to money sitting in the bank, but to rising costs of hired help and materials and a generally higher cost of living. L'nitrd Press Internationa] AUSTIN — Speaker Bill Clayton, under investigation for allegedly accepting bribe money left on his desk as part of the FBI’s Brilab oper ation, said W'ednesday he probably will answer questions from a federal grand jury March 17 rather than in voke his Fifth Amendment right to silence. Clayton has acknowledged labor leader L.G. Moore and Joseph Hauser, who was working undercov er for the FBI, visited his office in November and Hauser sought the speaker’s help in obtaining a multi million dollar state insurance con tract for Prudential Insurance Co. When the two left the office. Cold food nutritious United Press Internationa] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hot food may taste better, but cold food can be just as nutritious, says Doris Derelian, executive direc tor of the 4,000-member Califor nia Dietetic Association. Moore left an envelope containing $5,000 in $100 bills on the speaker’s desk. Clayton told reporters after the news broke on the Brilab investiga tion that he had not intended to keep the money. He also said Hauser had suggested up to $600,000 in campaign contri butions for Clayton and his political friends if Prudential was given the contract. Clayton’s attorneys had suggested to him that he take the Fifth Amend ment in his appearance before the grand jury rather than answer ques tions about the Nov. 8 meeting and risk giving answers that might con flict with secret recordings of the conversation. Clayton said Wednesday, howev er, he is prepared to answer the grand jury’s questions. “That’s the tentative plan, ” he told reporters after a meeting on another matter with Gov. Bill Clements and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby. “I think we’ve got the attorneys to agree to let me testify.” Clayton said he has been informed his grand jury appearance will be March 17, and said. T il be there unless they tell me it’s the 18th or some other day.” While Clayton’s attorneys have advised him against answering the grand jury’s questions, some of his political advisers have disagreed and suggested Clayton’s only chances for surviving the allegations politically are to answer any questions put to him. “I said, ’if you go in there and plead the Fifth you can forget about everything eke politically from this day forward, ” one close political associate of Clayton’s said. “I think he probably knows that. I think he ought to go in there and tell his side of it, and I think the sooner the better.” Jack Gullahom, a former adminis trative aide to Clayton, said last week, “Clayton feels like he can go before the grand jury and tell his story, and surely if there are 23 hon est people there, they won’t have any reason not to believe him. That’s all he wants to do is tell his story.” THE BATTALION Page 7 THURSDAY. MARCH 6 *960 More use food stamps United Pre« Internationa] WASHINGTON — The Agricul ture Department says 20.2 million Americans received food stamps during December 1979, a 3 percent increase from the month before and a 27 percent increase from the pre vious year. The difference resulted from eli minating a cash requirement to get stamps, adding elderly and rural poor to the food stamp rolls. offs >lass of’81 announces gift f $12,000 MSC chimes ans By MICHELLE MORREY Campus Reporter .. Remember the days when chimes |! lid be heard every hour through- '11 J t campus? Vetec Fhe old chimes have not worked for (lies two years, but the Class of 1981 r Maitk ! decided to change that. The jdingvd ss’s gift to the University will be of dial lions, or chimes, for the Memo- iat date 1 Student Center, ifbene “They will be a constant reminder ofvetes what the Class of 1981 did,” Class ssident Jess Mason said. “The gift ideatfti 11 benefit the entire University.” i beta The chimes will work like a player mo, Mason said. They can be ogrammed to play 180 songs, in- iding Christmas carols, songs for ver Taps, Parents’ Day and foot- 11 games. Gift Committee Chairman Mark [_^i emm researched several different sdayi ras taken! alien regn chime companies. “We chose Schul- merich Corporation in Pennysylva- nia because the chimes will have a good quality and a wide variety of program selection.” Mason said the chimes should work for a minumum of forty years. The chimes will be installed this summer and may be dedicated the day of the first home football game, against Penn State in September. The chimes will cost $12,000, Klemm said. “We have earned the money through class balls, T-shirt sales, summer dances and Christmas card sales,” Mason said. The contract will be submitted to Dr. John Koldus, vice president for student services, and Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller today for offi cial approval. SPRING BREAK at f=>LJ*=rGX\ TCDf=r Y' During Spring Break the Ski Barn in Durango, Colorado has Special Student Ski Rental Prices: $ 6 00 with I.D. & Reservations Phone 303-247-1923 collect 3690 N.Main Carnaby Square Ltd... Your passport to fun this summer CARNABY al oh No! He's eating at M(5 FOLKS'PLACE TONIGHT 1 - all hro ig mo 1 me iy its ES W eme l\ce