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Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 19, 1983 Texas ad makes 200 show up for fake job United Press International NEDERLAND — An esti mated 200 people showed up to apply forjobs at Head and Guild Equipment Co. Inc. Monday, but the classified ad they answered was a hoax. There were no jobs. “Someone using my name called The Enterprise in Beaumont and The News in Port Arthur and placed this ad wanting to hire a number of em ployees of certain types,” said James Guidry, manager. Word spread fast. Job hun ters came from as far away as Arkansas and eastern Louisiana. But Guidry had sad news for them. “I just told them it was some sort of a prank someone was pulling on us,” Guidry said. “There were no jobs. We’re not hiring anyone, and I told them I apologize for someone using our name to do this. There were just no jobs. “Some of them were really upset. Some just turned around and went stomping off. One guy said, ‘Well this sure does make your company look bad, doesn’t it.’ I said, ‘Yes, it does, but we had nothing to do with it.’” Guidry called the Jefferson County sheriffs office — which sent deputies out to help him break the news and convince the job hunters that there was a hoax on Guidry as well as on them. But there was no trouble. Guidry called the newspapers and found that someone had used his name to apply for the ad and had given all the right answers to all the questions, in cluding supplying a phony pur chase order number. The ad sought crane oper ators, truck drivers, mechanics, mechanics helpers, welders, laborers, cleanup crews. Guidry had read the ad in the Sunday paper and tried to call the newspapers Sunday to fi gure out what to do. He could do nothing. “It’s a terrible thing to pull this day and time, with so many people out of work. I think it’s someone that’s sick in the head,” Guidry said. “Some of the people drove in from Jasper, Houston, and one said Baton Rouge — from all over. Estimated 50 left in wild Rare wolves at Texas zoo United Press International VICTORIA — A pair of rare red wolves, once native to Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana but reduced to an esti mated 50 animals remaining in the wild, apparently have ad justed well to being on display at the Texas Zoo. Rufus and Sasha, who were bred from red wolves captured by biologists to preserve the spe cies, today begin their 16th day on exhibit at the 10-acre facility. The wolves have been pushed near extinction by interbreeding and increased land usage. Sasha is 2 years old and weighs about 50 pounds. Her mate, Rufus, which means red in Latin, is 1 year old and weighs 55 pounds. “The red wolf is one of the most endangered mammals in the United States,” said Dresner. The two wolves, products of a government breeding program, were born in captivity at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Wash., she said. The breeding effort seeks to replenish the stock of endangered species and relocate them within their his toric habitat. “In the early 1970s, when the red wolves were facing extinc tion, biologists went through east Texas and trapped every species they could come across and pulled out all the pure red wolf and they’ve been breeding them ever since,” Dresner said. Biologists estimate only 50 red wolves, which are greatly in terbred with coyotes, remain in the Texas and Louisiana wild. Dresner said Arkansas and Oklahoma have lost all their red wolves. “Their numbers declined when the coyotes moved in,” Dresner said. “They interbred with the coyotes and destroyed the blood lines. The only way you can tell the red wolf is by a cranial X-ray. They’re more reddish in color and a bit smaller than timber wolves.” Bandits stage saloon holdup United Press International HOUSTON — A man named Jesse, who police said stormed into a nightclub dressed as an “Old West” bandit, was charged with several felony counts in a shootout that left his younger brother James dead. Jesse Gomez, 30, was charged with two counts of attempted capital murder and one count of attempted capital murder of a police officer in what investiga tors said was a bold attempt early Sunday to rob as many as 70 pat rons of the Zenteno pool and dance hall in the southeast sec tion of the city. Police said Gomez also faces two counts of aggravated rob bery in the incident, which left two patrons and the club owner injured. “These guys just walked into the place and said it was a stick- up,” police Detective M.E. Doyle said. “There were at least 70 people there. It was a pretty tough place to hold a stickup.” James Gomez, 26, died in the shootout that developed when one of the patrons escaped and alerted authorities, officials said. “We’d like to charge his brother, too,” Doyle said, “but that won’t be possible. We’re just lucky none of the patrons inside were killed. It was quite a shootup. “The bandits wore knit hats and bandannas across their noses like crooks in the Old West. They carried automatic and semiautomatic weapons, in cluding an AR-15,” the civilian version of the military’s high- powered M-16 rifle. Police said the brothers ordered Zenteno customers to turn over their valuables and cash and lie on the floor. “The first on the scene were two park policemen and a Hous ton police officer,” Doyle said. “They kicked the nightclub door closed when the crooks tried to escape.” The bandits shot through the door at police until it was riddled with holes, Doyle said. Within minutes police rein forcements arrived and sur rounded the club, he said. The two club patrons were treated and released from a nearby hospital. Owner Leo Correa underwent surgery at Hermann Hospital and was re ported in stable condition late Sunday. r The door is open for you to get involved in your school. G r U X A S A X M TUDENT IRNMENT l ’ N I V E K S 1 T Y is accepting applications for executive positions. ★ You can apply from April 18-22 in the Animal Husbandry Pavilion Room 213. ★ If you are interested in finance, com munications, traditions, conferences, athletics, etc., please come by our of fice or call 845-3051 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ★ NOW IS THE TIME TO GET INVOLVED Aggie Parents of the Year Faul The Aggie Parents of the Year for 1983-84 are Mr. and Mrs. William Osborn, of Bryan. The Osborns receive a plaque from Denis Davis, Parents’ Weekend chairman. Monday’s Battalion, the photo captioi s ' l y of the Parents of the Year was incot rect. The Battalion regrets the error. GTE wants rate hike; )a PUC hears protests United Press International AUSTIN — Customer pro tests to an $85.5 million rate hike request by General Telephone of the Southwest opened Mon day before the Public Utility Commission, with one consum er calling her service “a night mare.” The phone company, which serves 1.4 million customers in more than 300 Texas cities, in cluding Bryan and College Sta tion, is seeking the rate boost to maintain service at current levels. The PUC staff has recom- of only mended an increase $31.7 million. In opening testimony Mon day, Crosby real estate agent Carol Foster said she had ex perienced a multitude of service problems with GenTel since last June. “The experience has been a nightmare,” Foster said. “I have to go through a ritual to use my telephone every morning. “My rates are already exorbi tant. I do not think this company should get a rate increase until they can provide good sem I’ve had no promise of relid litali; 'ed in Frank Ball, a Plano resii )ALL who has a business in Garlipiff said he had filed morethi reports of phone trouble 10 years he has been aGTEn idem tomer. He said his corapls iiday ranged from no ring whea Autl dials a number to static and# itrol < tiple conversations on oneli n e f, “I enjoy listening to theRi dla.i and I am afforded that off ’ u '° ( tunity by General Telepljj over my telephone,”^ ” Abortionist says Texas trio should get kidnapping trial fhe ra t libe ow the rary IK ta Unit gilt St a me d dro spo partrr 'ed >ken sin si Fresh United Press International GRANITE CITY, Ill. — Dr. Hector Zevallos, who last sum mer was held captive with his wife by three anti-abortion zealots, says he wants state kid napping charges filed against the Texas trio. The men — Don Benny Anderson, Matthew Moore and his brother, Wayne — have been convicted on federal charges of attempting or conspiring to ob struct interstate commerce by threats of violence. Anderson, 42, of Pearland, was sentenced in February to 30 years in prison. The Moore brothers, both of New Caney, are awaiting sentencing. Zevallos, owner of an abor tion clinic, said his abductors should be punished. “I would like to see the kid napping charges because it was the most violent, the most severe form of violent act they commit ted against us,” he said. Zevallos said he would keep open his Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, where abortions are performed. He said the abduction did not change his conviction that legal abortion is better than abortion. Zevallos, 54, and his" Rosalie Jean, 46, wereabh' Aug. 12 from their home Edwardsville, Ill. They" bound and gagged for nu* 1 their captivity and release* week later. The experience was soei tionally trying that Mrs.Ze'i has moved out of the hoiise. doctor said. “As long as she’s out of 1 area, she’s OK,” he said " she doesn’t even want to s® the St. Louis area at all. Culprit sought in December theft of riding lawn mower A red riding lawn mower was stolen from under H.F. Lloyd’s carport at his residence on Car- rabba Road between Dec. 2 and Dec. 4. A steel cable which se cured the 10-horsepower Mont gomery Ward mower appeared to have been cut with bolt cut ters. Anyone with information on the persons responsible for this theft or the location of the mow er should call Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS. If the information leads to an arrest and a grand jury indictment, Crime Stoppers will pay the informant$l|* cash. Special coded numbfB assigned so informants have to reveal their identic Crime Stoppers also P cash for information aW 1 solved felony crimes or lives. Police beat The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department on April 16 and 17: THEFTS: •A portable MGA television and stereo, from Dorm 7, on April 17. •Two 14 by 24 paintings, from the Soil and Crop Scien ces—Entomology Center, on April 17. HARRASSMENT: •Phone calls, to a reside* Keathly Hall on April 16. •Phone calls, to a reside* 1 Hobby Hall on April 16. •Phone calls, to a reside* 1 Hughes Hall on April 17.