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June 15, 1982
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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
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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,
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joe of the
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ho have
rcatments
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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.
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»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.
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leant to allow Bell to recover
le cost of invested capital more
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Roth said significant changes
would be proposed for local
rates, but that a local measured
service plan would not be re
quested. He also said the com
pany would not seek a change in
long distance rates.
Details of the rate filing were
not released but Bell officials
said the company probably
would ask for an increase in the
range of the $469.8 million re
quest made in 1981.
The PUC granted only
$243.7 million of the 1981 re
quest and turned down a plan to
institute local measured service
rates, under which local calls
would be billed on the basis of
time and distance.
The latest rate request will be
Bell’s sixth in the last seven
years.
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