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1 local / state Battalion/Page 3 August 3, 1982 MSC Dinner Theater presents ‘Odd Couple’ The MSC Summer Dinner Theater’s production of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” will begin Wednesday night at 7 and continue through Saturday night. Plenty of tickets for all shows are still available. The Summer Dinner Thea ter, in its ninth season, is an MSC Council project coordinated by volunteer students. Earlier this summer, the group presented “A Shot in the Dark.” “The Odd Couple” was first produced as a Broadway play and was later made into a movie starring Jack Lemmon and Wal ter Matthau. The three-act play tells a story of two divorced men who become roommates. One is meticulously neat, the other is a slob. Wednesday night’s show is the non-dinner show. Tickets are $2.75 for students and $3.75 for others. Thursday’s show fea tures a dinner including stuffed chicken. Tickets are $7.75 for students and $8.75 for non students. Friday’s show includes a bar- beque dinner; tickets are $5.95 and $6.95. The final perform ance Saturday night includes a buffet dinner for $8.95 (stu dents) or $9.95. Dinner is served at 6:30 for dinner shows and curtain time is 7:45 each night. Tickets for dinner shows must be purchased one day in adv ance. Each show also includes a pre show magic act, performed by Shawn Patrick, an animal scien ce major. MSC art exhibit includes work by local, area artists staff photo by David Fisher Another ice cream picture In a scene that isn’t exactly unusual these days, Martha most of them courtesy of the Creamery. Copp is a junior Copp, left, shares some ice cream with her friend, Lynn majoring in sociology and Soukup is a senior in agricul- Soukup. College Station in the summer isn’t exactly ture. Paris in the spring but it does have its compensations, jobless endure long lines Texas unemployment up The works of 21 local and area artists and craftsmen are being exhibited in the Memorial Student Center Gallery through August 14 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. “Creative Encounters III” is an annual exhibition which be gan in 1980. The show, sponsored by the MSC Arts Committee, is a collec tive display of pottery, paint ings, drawings, fiber weavings, wood -workings, stained glass and jewelry. Raul Del Cueto, assistant gal lery coordinator, said the main purpose of the exhibition is to introduce the artists to the com munity. The pieces to be exhibited are chosen by the staff of the MSC Craft Shop and will be for sale, he said. Del Cueto said he hopes the exhibit will encourage people to get involved with the craft shop. He said the craft shop pro vides tools and offers classes to people who are interested in the art media. A reception open to the pub lic will be held August 9 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the MSC Gallery. Persons interested in exhibit ing their work in next year’s show should contact the MSC Craft Shop at 845-1631. United Press International DALLAS — The recession as hit Sunbelt Texas with a :ngeance and employment fficials caution that the jobless Dallas, Houston and the “Gol- en Triangle” cities will just ave to stand it. Stand in long lines, that is. The jobless are waiting much mger for welfare and job help tan they did a few months back ihen the state’s jobless rate arely nudged 5 percent. In une, the state’s unemployment ate hit a record high — 7.7 per- ent. Meanwhile the state, re ponding to the federal cut backs, is trimming its job place ment agency staffs. “The only thing I need now is a major hurricane to make it a total disaster,” said Steve Chil dress, beleaguered regional offi cial for the Department of Hu man Resources in Beaumont, part of the so-called “Golden Triangle” cluster of petroche mical plants in southeast Texas. “We’ve got standing room only in our offices,” he said. “Our caseworkers are trying to interview eight or nine people a day, working through lunch and late at night. I don’t know how long we can keep ( it up.” Childress estimated that the Golden Triangle has lost 5,000 petrochemical-related jobs in the past three weeks. “We’re seeing people who have had jobs all their lives, the kind of people who aren’t accus tomed to walking into a welfare office,” he said. “They’ve spent months looking for work, used up their savings and now they’re hungry and hunting anyone who can help them.” Welfare officials in Houston, Dallas and Austin report the same pattern. “In Houston, people are wait ing in line three to nine hours to file claims, and I suspect some of them are waiting as much as a day and a half,” said Human Service Department spokesman Charles Ternes. “Our offices are congested and that dilutes our effective ness. All we can do is herd peo ple through and process claims.” The flood of jobless — 572,000 in June — has badly stretched the staffs designed to process them, he said. “It takes two or three weeks to get unemployment compensa tion,” said John Cardwell, dire ctor of the Texas Association of Community Action Agencies. “And if you’re in bad trouble, in three weeks you can get real hungry.” DFW airport seeks renters for Braniffs huge complex United Press International GRAPEVINE — Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport offi cials are taking up Braniff Inter national’s search for a tenant to rent the bankrupt carrier’s sprawling world headquarters complex at the huge airport. But while Braniff has met lit tle success in finding a single tenant for the 4-year-old, 427,058-square-foot complex, airport officials say they plan to carve the property into separate segments and rent to several tenants. Airport facilities director Jim Alderson says the airport au thority is taking the step as a last resort. “It would be easier for us to find one operator to take the whole complex,” Alderson says. Like the expanded route structure blamed for bringing Braniff down, the complex — which includes a nine-hole golf course, a swimming pool and tennis courts — proved too cost ly for Braniff to maintain. Braniffs bankruptcy allows the company to stop paying most of the center’s $500,000 monthly rent, and when an air port reserve fund runs out in late 1983, the airport would have no income to pay off bonds on the $75 million complex, offi cials say. Accused smuggler pleads poverty United Press International ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Government investigators Mon- lay disputed claims of indigence >ythe man immigration officials laid is the kingpin of the biggest lien smuggling ring in U.S. his- ory. Salvador Pineda-Vergara, >3, of Ciudad Juarez, was rniong 38 people indicted in ’onnection with the alien smug- ;ling ring that investigators say nay have channeled 100,000 illegals into the United States in Workers work too well; state must lay off 30 y se« imize ( n dirt* ; alio* eforS by ^ retain inform :li leaf oison JyS0.| lovef irtsof 1 by f 1 hie ual the) 1 he A 1111 veni 01 ring tlyad ,urse, i rod 1 there 1 tests* Jiisi* iolds nd ledifl 1 when vill th but lutio 11 a 4'/a-year period. When Pineda was arrested in El Paso in early summer, author ities in Washington estimated he might have been making $15 million a year in alien smuggling fees. The government has alleged that Pineda helped aliens into this country, funneling them through his Hotel Villasana at Ciudad Juarez, a sprawling Mexican border city across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Pineda has claimed he is indi gent and has asked for a court- appointed attorney to represent him. A hearing began Monday before U.S. Magistrate Robert W. McCoy to determine Pine da’s financial status. Robert Q. Torres, an investi gator for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in El Paso, said he saw “a lot of expen sive jewelry, diamonds and rubies, very nice looking jewel ry” when Pineda’s residence was raided earlier this year. A second investigator, Napo leon Acosta of Chicago, said that at different times during his undercover work in the case he had sent Pineda money and had had conversations in which Pineda said he received $100 for each alien smuggled into one of eleven states. Acosta said Pineda once cashed a $300 check for him. Pineda is scheduled to stand before a U.S. district court later this year on a variety of alien smuggling charges. 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