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state Battalion/Page 5 June 15, 1982 What’s Up i* Tuesday iORP RADIO:KORP Radio is looking for anyone interested in being a D.J. If interested, call Steve Lessard at 693-9S27 or 845-8232. Wednesday EPISCOPAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION :The group meets for Holy Eucharist and supper at 5:30 p.m. at the Canterbury House, 902 Jersey St. jUBA CLUB:Bring skin-diving gear and suit to the organiza tional meeting at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder. Blue Cross/Blue Shield error rate falls in ’82, officials say Poltergeist’ suit pens in Dallas United Press International DALLAS —Jury selection be- Jan Monday in a lawsuit trial in iwhich the city’s movie classifica- ion board is seeking to stop ’oltergeist” from being shown a PG-rated film. The Dallas Motion Picture lassification board is trying to change the film’s rating to “R,” restricting it to adults or chil dren under 16 accompanied by adults. The board says the movie ab out ghosts that takes over a sub urban family’s home is too vio lent for a “PG” rating. United Press International DALLAS — Federal officials and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas acknowledge the Texas Medicare program had prob lems last year, but they say the situation is looking better. They responded after a re port by the U.S. General Accounting Office said Blue Cross made erroneous pay ments of $26 million to Texas Medicare recipients in one quar ter last year. During a six-month period last year, Blue Cross, the state’s largest insurance carrier, had a 6 percent error rate for proces sing Medicare claims — more than three times the national error rate of 1.9 percent, the re port said. Melton said the error rate was down to 3.1 percent in April. Blue Cross president Melton and other officials blamed the problems on a switch to a new computer on May 4, 1981. The GAO report “covered a E eriod back then when we had a >t of problems,” said Melton, who became president in October. “But since the first of the year, I think we’ve been doing a fairly credible job.” The report also said Blue Cross cleared a backlog of more than 1 million Medicare claims in 1981, partially by turning off a computer program intended to identify false and faulty claims. Melton said some computer checks were turned off to speed up the processing of claims, but he said no essential checks were deleted. For several months, the com puter could not pass the claims test by the Health Care Financ ing Administration, losing 23 of ) by Jilal he Corps] s. rownsville office moving; orkers claim it’s haunted United Press International i -BROWNSVILLE — Funny 1^*1” C lings are happening at the Community Development Cor- loration in this south Texas bor- Her town, but office workers iaren’t laughing. IS! The y re sca ied — convinced . the place is haunted. I Sightings of a black, hooded Kgure stalking the office’s mod- ■ f(* n hallwa y s ’ eerie late-night s aien tf'joi^in music, vibrating furni- Ljpport 10 Jure, flashing lights and strange hotlme'ii. ^ ave had chilling impact . r s a list I' workers. s, ■! Some employees — fright- re ava ” a “ lied by a year-long siege of range occurences — keep cru- e ers do « jf lxeSj j cons anc } v j a | s 0 j holy e or later on their desks. ,re , I 1 "^ ou may think it’s funny,” it Count' Lj QjyQ f U nd-raising coordi- ntirely D) ptop R u ben Reyna, “but you A ? °rth a ®- lay here awhile and you won’t lV ailable it j t ’ s f unn y.” 0 riist aiioi f R e yna was playing his guitar e- jn the staff conference room late e y donatt®, e n jght when he heard the lC hine ■•"{haunting sounds of organ otherdoiii« us j c jj e was unm istak- voluntetulpy an () j$ pipe organ. ! public “h builds like a climax in a ir mote tl ie frightening movie, then abrupt- t he prop 1 ||y s tops,” he said. u pportfr#T e of them, ni, an om joe of the ao’s vie"] ho have rcatments j 0 n to othf aations,” lain it ali “There’s not an ending. It’s like — I don’t know — bad, real bad, like there will be an ending. I feel like something’s going to happen to somebody.” Yolanda Gonzales, who works at Olive Electric Inc., adjacent to the CDC office, has heard the music, usually on Sunday night. “I have heard music, I think it was an organ playing,” Gonzales said. “It sounds like church music, you know, hymns. But it’s like they’re practicing. They don’t finish it.” Andy Cortez, who owns the building and also operates his real estate office there, said there is no organ in the building, which is blocks from the nearest church. Cortez said he has never seen or heard anything strange, and he is convinced there is no ghost. Yet, for about a year the occurrences have mystified workers in the CDC office. They have also reported whis- pery voices calling from dark, empty rooms and toilet paper rolling inexplicably across a re stroom floor. Doorknobs jiggle when no one is there. A radio appears to have turned itself on and papers have disappeared only to mysteriously reappear. One night, Reyna said, he was frightened by thumping noises and decided to leave. He re ported he felt as though he was being pushed out of the office as he fumbled for his keys to leave. When he opened the door, he said it was as though he was thrust outside. Executive director Nick Ramon, who has reported seeing a shadowy, hooded fi gure walking the hallways, doesn’t have an explanation for the weird events. He does have a solution. Ramon said the non-profit federally-funded social organi zation plans to relocate in Au- gust. COUPON 75e off with any two entrees Good ’till July 15, 1982 two potato... Eat Out In CLASS 102 Church St. College Station •46-0720 All our potaotes are Pit. D’s PURE, HEALTHY, and Nutritiously DELICIOUS each of our Ingredients is REAL and prepared FRESH each day | COUPON ell requesting ew rate hike mn’thav'tfl | United Press International »the treat® I AUSTIN — Southwestern sell Telephone Co. announced ■onday that it will file a request ■th the Public Utility Gommis- next week asking for a rate ncrease of nearly $4/0 million. Paul Roth, vice president for ’evenues and public affairs, said fjfltj Fo»i h e rate request was prompted least partially by new account- fig procedures required by the ederal Communications Com- lission. “Probably close to one third j^our filing amount will result [om those FCC changes, which re have no choice but to follow,” loth said. J The accounting changes are leant to allow Bell to recover le cost of invested capital more japidly. 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