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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
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^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-
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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.
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