state Tent City rejects free rent United Press International HOUSTON — A woman who offered free rent on part of her property to 200 unemployed people living in tents at a high way rest stop got a quick rejec tion and some neighborly ! knocks for her attempt at ; charity. Juanita Adcox offered some !. of her acreage in Crosby to the Tent City dwellers who for the last five months have lived on the banks of the San Jacinto Riv er 30 miles east of Houston. The community started as a temporary shelter for transient job-seekers, but has evolved into a place for freeloaders. “I really thought it was an opportunity for them to prove to the community they were not what people say they are. But it appears they are what people say they are,” said Adcox, 44, an Exxon Co. USA employee in Baytown. Tent dweller Darlene Collins, whose husband is a spokesman for the group, said the group had refused the offer of 15 acres to grow vegetables, raise chick ens and keep a milk cow because there was no assurance they wouldn’t be evicted after Please Come Join OUR AFFAIR! Business Career Fair Feb. 1 & 2 moving. Adcox drew up a contract for use of her land and had writer and Tent City dweller Tom Stevens present it to residents Monday. It contained the same camp rules which the squatters abide by now, but gave her the right to evict them at a'ny time. “Tom said 30 people had signed the agreement when this other fellow came into the camp and began to tell them not to go with the contract as it reads,” Adcox said. / Dallas & La Bare Dancers will be signing calendars in front of ISOOLLLArVI) at Post Oak Mall Thursday, Jan. 27 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. -tm* 1 UNIROYAL TWERPAUf ALL SEASONS RADIAL FEATURES • Steel belts • Radial polyester cord plies • All-seasons tread design • White sidewall P185/80R-13 w/w LIMITED TIME OFFER F.E.T. 1.91 We Give You More To Go On SIZE PRICE I F.E.T. Pl85/30R-13w/w 57.95 1.91 P185/75R-14w/w 61.95 2.04 Pl95/75R-14w/w 66.95 2.16 P205/75R-14w/w 69.95 2.30 P205/75R-15w/w 70.95 2.42 P215/75R-l5w/w 74.95 2.57 P225/75R-15w/w 76.95 2.73 P235/75R-15w/w 82.95 ' 2.93 20% off All Front-end Alignments With this coupon! 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We don’t want everything ripped off.” Hilda Eilers, 71, whose 80 acres border Adcox’s land on the north, said the news shocked her. “I don’t like it because this is such a quiet neighborhood,” Mrs. Eilers said. The neighbors found out ab out the offer Sunday when ren ters Elton Miller, 27, and his wife Yvette, 21, were told the tent people might move onto land several acres behind their house. “It’s like a bad dream,” Mrs. Miller said. “How could they move these people in my back yard? These people have been helped so much they won’t do anything for themselves now. All they want is a handout.” The offer was rejected even as state legislators in Austin pre pared a bill that would remove the homeless people from a roadside park they have occu pied for five months. Some people have said Tent City has turned into an unsanit ary eyesore despite organization of residents and imposition of strict living standards. Shell credit up two million United Press International HOUSTON — Shell Oil Co. said its recent campaign to in crease the number of Shell cre dit card holders has resulted in 2 million new accounts, twice as many as expected. “Consumers like the safety and convenience of credit cards,” W.J. Bittles Jr., Shell’s vice president for retail sales, said Tuesday. “Prices for credit sales at Shell stations have gen erally been the same as competi tive discount-for-cash prices.” Bittles said consumer re sponse was so great at one point the company had to hire 400 temporary employees in the 580-person Tulsa, Okla., credit card center. Shell now has approximately 8 million credit accounts. He said 4.6 million inquiries were received and 2 million new accounts were created as a result of the campaign. Shell said it was the first to introduce a program to encour age holders of other oil com pany’s credit cards to use them at Shell stations. At the same time, Shell in vited holders of other credit cards to apply for Shell credit. The credit card campaign be gan Sept. 15 and ended Dec. 31 in selected areas east of the Rocky Mountains. It will end Feb. 28 in selected areas west of the Rockies. “We expect that most Shell stations will continue to offer the same price for cash and credit card purchases, even though we are no longer accepting other oil company credit cards east of the Rockies,” Bittles said. Shell now plans to hold its first large-scale product adver tising campaign since 1972-73. It will feature television ads with customer testimonials of satis faction with Shell products. *yL» a A» m±* *1+ tJt - jr -A- -It Mr -_lr -1- -X- -ii- •X* T* •T* 0l T* •T* •T* Back to School Special Pharmacy Lamp Available in Polished Brass Finish. Adjust 37" to 54" high. $ 39 95 Lollie Pop Lamp Available in Polished Brass finish. Orange, Yellow, Green, Murano cased glass. $2 9 95 2551 Texas Ave. S. 693-7856 Shiloh Place College Station u -X.— - J | l — —T— -T- asfd arLee, eq til res jequn old a li ‘ J1 'P' U UStod'- l UikU Suspect wante for questionin The Texas A&M Police De partment released this compo site drawing of a suspect in the Jan. 20 stabbing of a Texas A&M student. The incident, which occurred on Mosher Lane behind the Commons, v ported to police at 12:20 a.m. The suspect is described by- police as a black male. 23 to 25 years old, 6 feet tall, medium re- top nsidei elv to av be | )dy u id iie pete oBitai I s - >eort>e 4 j-that hail! 72 ■as tuu |sa/( een el hat liu ieiks w leaiHng build and a light cog ijSfd. Police said he waswtisB eei )erson United Press International GALVESTON — A nursing home once accused of murder ing patients by neglect withdrew their plea bargain Wednesday , and the new Galveston County prosecutor said he plans to take the case hack to a grand jury. Autumn Hills Convalescent Centers Inc. withdrew from the plea bargain approved by visit ing state District Judge Larry Gist after District Attorney Mike Guarino questioned the legality of the deal worked out by his predecesor James Hury. At a hearing today, Guarino asked Gist to cancel the deferred adjudication granted Autumn Hills as part of the Dec. 27 plea bargain and go ahead and find the firm guilty in the 1978 death of a patient at its Texas City home. Guarino indicated before the hearing that Texas law appeared to prohibit probation for corporations, and that the deferred adjudication — in which Gist told Autumn Hills he would give them a clean slate if they had no violations for 10 years — appeared to be a form of probation. However, Gist did not have to act on Guarino’s request. Au tumn Hills lawyer Roy Minton of Austin asked the judge to let Autumn Hills withdraw its no contest plea to involuntary man slaughter and to get back the N< S 100,000 penalty it pail i of the plea bargain. I Minton called totht j stand corporation pi Li Robert Gay, who tfitii would never agree to pik a_ tv because he did ndtP^H company was guilt) B wiongdoing. 8| Un Guarino did notopp JEFF ton's request andGistplact'd . in ef fect cancellingthe[l)U|om gain worked outbvl exasl, Minton over a period hreat t months. >ould-l Guarino indicated how u hearing that he plann«l|lA i evaluate evidence gadiiiexas 1977-1979 period at lighi sr Hills' Texas City honitlll| B decide later what hisrt he Pi elation would be. Butb§5l),()< expected to presenttlnH Fc another grand jury aslodnty possible. dthtb An earlier grandjunBj < ' 1 "’ returned murder ' n against Autumn Hillsaffj ,)si employees in the deatbjr'J P patients during the period. Cast dismissed if a | e 5 dictments on a techniuR| c the case was still pendii®? 1 " bargain was^ the plea out. tstlllc atc-rp Attorney Genet; has indicated his i looking into the AutulSreek, case, which the USlgwfcn (j described as a “horror | LULAC protests I courts in Dallas A I, dosed 'tie si hoiua •ion at .Tli< Tons ong a United Press International DALLAS — rhe League of United Latin American Citizens asked two state legislative com mittees to investigate sentencing in Dallas County criminal cases. The league’s protest this Alpha, Oil Omega National Sorority proudly announces their week was in response^ article in the Dallas Ul jj Herald, which reported a niail minals who attack ortf p 0c [ e r eceive harsher putflid jg than those who attadW blacks and Hispanics. fc-pi, Those who attacked^B nics generally were treat|| e] j least severely by the t JF, minal justice system, said. md I Attorney Ruben Be'Bud general counsel for E wrote letters of prote* 1 ® Sen. Oscar MauzyofP^ to state Rep. Frank T. Antonio. Mauzy chairs ate Jurisprudence C® and Tejeda is chairni3 ! House Judicial Affai 15 mittee. SPRING RUSH Interested Women call; 696-3771 696-3285 “LULAC finds itH and repugnant to damental notions of 1 ! and justice that Hispan'l be treated with impuff they turn to thejudic |jl J for relief,” Bonilla! Mauzy. Bonilla also wrote Dallas County District J Henry Wade calling ^ the term “wetback"in* view with the newspf] professional, insulting meaning to our citizens.”