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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
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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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United Press International
AUSTIN — Thirty em
ployees of the State Board of In
surance have performed their
jobs so well in the past year that
the agency doesn’t need them
anymore.
The 59 employees in the li
quidation division did such a
good job in cutting their case
loads, the Insurance Board will
lay off 30 of them on Sept. 17.
A special board committee
was scheduled to meet Friday to
decide which of the 54 full-time
and five part-time workers to
dismiss.
When a consulting firm was
hired to reorganize the liquida
tion division last year, the em
ployees were handling about 50
cases dealing with insurance
firms that had been placed in
receivership. The caseload has
now been cut to 25.
The division also is being
computerized and its budget is
being cut in half, further neces
sitating the layoffs.
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