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THE m 3606 S. COLLEGE AVE THE NEWEST COUNTRY WESTERN HOTSPOT IN BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION FEATURING DRAFT BEER & THE BEST MIXED BAR DRINKS SEPARATE GAME ROOM & DANCE HALL HAPPY HOUR 4-8 MON -THURS. w/$1.00 BAR DRINKS & NO COVER!! T11 . / SORRY-$1.00 COVER- \ FRI. - SAT. OPEN TILL 1.00 Vstill the lowest in town/ COMS JOIN US ? Page 10/The Battalion/Thursday, June 9, 1983 Relaxed cotton dust rules moved United Press International WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration has proposed cotton dust standards be relaxed for so-called nontex tile industries while strict en gineering controls be retained for textile manufacturers, offi cials said Wednesday. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will pub lish its new proposals Friday in the Federal Register, said spokesman Akio Konoshima. Public hearings on the proposed changes are scheduled for Sep tember and October in Washington, Columbia, S.C. and Dallas before the proposals can become regulations. OSHA Administrator INTRODUCING MICHAEL LARA Awardwinning Local Watercolorist Experience his refreshing new original works and first limited edi tion prints in the Gallery Friday, June 10, 7-9 p.m. Unsold works will be on exhibit June 10-18. I^iyef'Bend Gallery Across from the main entrance to camous 707 Texas Ave. 696-7337 Fine Art & Quality Custom Framing By Professional Who Care. Your window on the world the home-delivered Houston Post Aggie Student Special 4 50 1st Session ^ 8 75 Both Sessions Thorne G. Auchter said the proposals call for the retention of a permissible worker expo sure standard of 200 micro grams per cubic meter of air for yarn manufacturing. Textile firms will have to meet the standard through en gineering controls, which the in dustry has called too expensive. The industry contended worker respirators were preferable to the ventilation controls. Slashing and weaving would have a standard of 750 micro grams of dust per cubic foot of air. However, standards would be relaxed for knitting, classing, warehousing, cottonseed pro cessing and waste processing. “OSHA has found no evi dence of significant risk in the industries proposed for exemp tion, a finding we must make for any permanent standard,” said Auchter. A standard of 1,000 micro grams per cubic meter would be retained for waste recycling, blending, cleaning and sorting, garnetting and mattress assem bly, he said. The proposed revisions are expected to save the industry an estimated $94.4 million in capit al costs and $30.7 million in annual operating costs, agency studies indicate. An estimated 76,000 workers are employed in the exempted nontextile indus tries, leaving about 95,400 work ers still covered by the strictest standards. “We believe the proposed changes will not only resolve pending legal uncertain ties and overcome existing tech nical difficulties in enforcing the current standard, but will be nefit both the overall cotton in dustry and the workers in volved,” said Auchter. Other proposed changes in clude: •Adding action levels of one- half the permissible exposure levels for the textile industry. Training, monitoring, medical surveillance and other require ments will be reduced or elimin ated for exposure below the ac tion levels. •Extending the compliance period for engineer conn two years until March2!j for ring spinning, twisting and spooling cotton content coarsed •Modifying the defn “washed cotton” to em experimentation and tion in processing. •Restructuring techi quirements on monitonnj tilation, area sampling la ted matters to mah clearer and more cost-tf- Under the current Auchter said, which hai tion level, industrial provisions begin toap ton dust is present. United Fugitive surrenders to FBI following six year search - HARR! Iprol’essioi Knly one \ Bonflictini I to prepai Khampion I Tom ^ defending ■von at Pel Wicklaus, United Press International MIAMI — A long-sought fugitive accused of seriously wounding two FBI agents last week surrendered voluntarily — although he had vowed never to be taken alive — to protect his girlfriend and her baby, the FBI says. Clarence Eugene Robinson, wanted for murder for nearly six years, got out of a car in front of the FBI’s Miami office Tues day night and surrendered to agent-in-charge Joseph V. Cor- less. He was to appear before a U.S. magistrate Wednesday. ^ Global NEWS Major area and national SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT suggestions for every budget Tasty recipes and cents-off coupons in our FOOD section FASHION ideas for your home or wardrobe Call 846-2911 or 1-800-392-9736 • TO SUBSCRIBE, CALL • 846-2911 Texas Toll-Free 1 -800-392-9736 Ext. 6744 Robinson, 38, is charged with two counts of assaulting a feder al officer. The state of Florida wants him for the 1977 murder of a deputy sheriff. The surrender was set up by a telephone call Tuesday after noon to the Jacksonville FBI that “just came out of the blue. We did not expect him to sur render,” Corless said. He said the call came from a Miami lawyer, who arranged the surrender at the request of Robinson’s woman companion. Corless declined to identify the Robinson had been the sub ject of an intense five-day search, with dozens of heavily armed FBI agents, state and loc al police officers swarming over central and northern Florida. They rousted guests from a De- Land motel wliere the fugitive had been reported, from a campground where he had hid, and descended on a remote woodland spot where officers finally discovered his getaway car earlier Tuesday. The manhunt began early Friday at Orange City, a small west Volusia County town about 30 miles north ofOrbi agents Dennis Wickleint Thomas Sobolewski,40.: investigating a bank r Khampion Kweek off thought they recogniro son coming out of area Ixtra pra< itmont, the iBxtravaga |B Virtua flayers, I When the agents appro fcart in t .Chester Cl him, the man opened gun hidden by a newsp carried. Wicklein wash stomach and staggered restaurant. Sobolewskii in the back and leg. Both agents are still I ized and reported in set stable condition. About th lions of in ■yho is se Warnings Weete. wh I One t Alaying t B,687-yai ffter Couni Ian excell ■ the Open ways, dee I ous dogli I layout pi Accuracy, O’Neill expects Congress’ favor for his $700 tax-cap proposal United Press International WASHINGTON — House Speaker Thomas O’Neill says he expects Congress will support his proposal to limit the July 1 tax cut to $700, even though President Reagan opposes it. House Democrats agreed Tuesday something must done about the 10 percent tax cut scheduled for July 1, but Demo cratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas said they postponed the decision of whether to limit or repeal it until the leadership could tabulate the results of a questionaire distributed to the members. Following the closed meet ing, O’Neill said he expects his party, which holds a majority in the House, will endorse the tax- cap proposal. Under O’Neill’s plan, every taxpayer would get a 10 percent cut in tax rates, but no taxes would be reduced by more than $700. O’Neill said the limit, which would affect mainly those who earn more than $50,000, would save $6 billion in 1984 and almost $7 billion in 1985. O’Neill’s assertion that his $700 tax cap would affect main ly taxpayers with incomes over $50,000 is based on a return with deductions ing 23 percent of adjusted income. the Open The tc as the M; er Westcl E “I kno ijourse w ways, hi; Breens,”: twice the JOpen aii( joi Ifharnpioi bourse he good pi ppen.” But analysis by thejok Committee said singletaxp with incomes of$29,800i deductions would beaff( the limit, as would payers wwth incomesoftf and no deductions. • ENJOY EATING WELL, BUT HATE TO COOK OR BUY EXPENSIVE FOODS? ; i BEEF STR0GAN0FF * SWEET AND SOUR PORK ; \ CLAM CHOWDER * SWISS STEAK •'•v AND MORE! RETORT PACKAGING was invented by NASA to feed astronauts in space. Only 5 MINUTES in boiling water to cook — NEEDS NO REFRIGERATION! EXPENSIVE? I $2.00 can feed 1-2 people. Call for free samples. After 5 p.m.: 775-2111 or 822-5523 FHA interest rate up to 12 percent N N !> S s s s > 8 8 8 THURSDAYS AT THE ..^ v/ gleJ^Cowboy | United Press International WASHINGTON — The FHA-insured mortgage interest rate went up from 1 1.5 percent to 12 percent Wednesdsy, the first increase in the rate in more than a year. Housing and Urban De velopment Secretary Samuel Pierce Jr. said Tuesday that the increase is necessary to keep mortgage money flowing for middle-income home buyers. The Federal Housing Adminis tration interest rate is the rate allowed on federally insured mortgages for single family homes. “Under the present rate, many potential home buyers are denied the more favorable FHA-insured loans they need to achieve home ownership,” Pierce said. But the increase, in some re spects, is at least a temporary blow to the administration’s in sistence housing would be one of the leaders in the nation’s econo rate, administration o have said the declinesmfi recovery of the housingin and therefore showed ar* ound in the economy. Housing officials a to put the best face posa Tuesday’s announced ii> — one that had been the Mortgate Bankers, tion, the primary i group issuing FHA mortgates. j The assistant secretin housing, Philip Abrams also serves as federal H commissioner, said the ml is a “technical adjustiatf] fleeting the current siti the marketplace. Reaction to the announcement was mi^l A spokesman for tlit gage Bankers Associate he believes the recovery"'- tinue, and “we can have I Tree Beer & $1.00 Call Drinks 7-10 501 Bar Drinks All night Flo Cover for Ladies mic recovery. In the past year, as conven tional interest rates have fallen followed very shortly by HUD- announced declines in the FHA interest rates. 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