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by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
For the premier performance
its 9th season, the Memorial
tudent Center Summer Dinner
eater will present “Rich Is
letu r,” June 22-25.
“Rich Is Better” is the story of
ivo American-born Italians,
.ino and Nona Gognare, who
inti their way through a con-
using evening to get to the truth
iGino’s past. Gino is rich. Yet
ftei a year of marriage, his wife
still thinks he’s a lowly mill work
er at the company he actually
owns. Gino, it seems, wanted to
marry for love — not money.
“It’s more like a sit-com than
anything else,” Dr. Robert
Wenck, director of the play,
says.
Starring in the show are
Brenda Dolan as Nona; Peck
Phillips as Gino; Susan Ander
son as Pam, Gino’s executive sec
retary; and Dave Polakowski as a
foot doctor.
Tickets for the Wednesday
show are $2.50 for students and
$3.50 for non-students. The
performances on Thursday and
Friday, which will include barbe-
que dinners, are $6.50 and
$7.50 a seat. Tickets to the buf
fet and show on Saturday are
$9.50 and $10.50 for students
and non-students respectively.
Curtain time for all four
shows is 7:45 p.m. Dinner starts
at 6:30 p.m. for the last three
shows.
Tickets for each performance
must be purchased at least 24
hours in advance and are still
available at the MSG Box Office.
However, Pat Zinn, vice-
president for operations for the
committee advises prospective
theater-goers to get their tickets
soon, as the better seats are re
served quickly.
The MSC Summer Dinner
Theater’s second and final show
of the season will be “The Man
With The Plastic Sandwich,”
August 3-6. Show times will re
main the same as with “Rich Is
Better.”
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by Scott Griffin
Battalion Staff
A representative of the Bryan
onieowners Association pre-
ifled' a petition to the City
louncil Monday in which the
jjsociation called for a tax ex-
jnption for single homes-
■iaders.
■rank Anderson, president
Hhe group, said the latest
He evaluations create taxes
ih;ch are “discriminatory and
r essive to the poor, the
ly and the widowed.”
; Anderson said these people
ticlld be given a 40 percent tax
xemption that is allowed under
tate law, and he outlined a
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program which would call for
the 40 percent exemption for
the next two years, followed by a
30 percent exemption in 1985-
87, and 20 percent in 1988 and
thereafter.
Anderson urged the council
to put the exemption to a vote
witnin 90 days.
He added that the present
system of home evaluations is
“taxation without representa
tion.” Anderson said the present
tax system is tyranny that’s con
trolled by “a small clique which
seeks to pay no local taxes.”
Councilman John Mobley
said he was surprised at the peo
ple who signed the petition.
“Do the people who signed
this realize that taxes will have to
be increased?” he asked.
Anderson said, “We realize
that the rate will have to be in
creased, but it will be an across
the board increase, and not just
our group.”
In other action, the Mayor
Ron Blatchley responded to the
Cable Improvement Association
report by appointing a commit
tee to study local cable service.
Blatchley said the committee
would work with both the CIA
and the local cable companies in
reviewing the situation.
In related action, the council
approved a rate increase for
Midwest Video Corp. The new
rates consist of a change in basic
service from four to six dollars
monthly.
An addition to the basic pack
age will be channel KHTX,
which is the network of the
Houston Astros and Houston
Rockets.
The other increase includes
those channels not included in
the basic service. Midwest has
added stations WGN from Chi
cago and WTBS of Atlanta to
this package and has asked for
an increase from $2.50 to $4.50
monthly.
Peck Phillips, a junior theatre arts
major, rehearses for the Memorial
Student Center Summer Dinner
staff photo by Brenda Davidson
Theatre production “Rich is Better,”
to be presented June 22-25. Tickets
are available in the MSC box office.
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botball player helps evacuate
assengers from flaming plane
I United Press International
CHICAGO — An NFL player
(Iped evacuate fellow passen-
1 from a United Airlines jet
t had a burning engine.
An engine malfunction
used a “blow-torch” effect and
it have triggered an engine
^aboard a United Airlines jet-
lr that saw people injured
ile fleeing the plane, airline
ials say. Tampa Bay Buc-
ers tackle Dave Reavis was
|sed for his heroic efforts in
ing several of the 141 pas-
ers on board escape.
Reavis was a three-year letter-
1 on the defensive line at
Arkansas, playing in the 1971
Liberty Bowl, the BlueGray
Game and American Bowl in
1972.
The fire erupted Saturday
aboard United Airlines flight
200 as it taxied down a runway at
O’Hare International Airport.
The blaze forced the pilot to
abort takeoff and evacuate the
plane.
Nineteen of the 141 passen
gers suffered minor injuries in
the evacuation.
Nurse Judith Papen of St.
Petersburg, Fla., praised Reavis
for his help calming the passen
gers..
She said she and Reavis were
seated near an emergency exit
and as the plane gained momen
tum along the runway, they
heard a popping noise “like a
tire blowing.” According to her,
he ripped open the exit door,
stowed it to one side and led her
and other passengers out on the
wing.
After he jumped, he tried to
catch others who leaped to the
ground, she said.
O’Hare Police Sgt. William
Proctor said injuries were suf
fered either going down
emergency chutes or jumping
off a wing of the 727 jet. United
spokesman Chuck Novak said
the incident began as the pilot of
Flight 200 started “to throttle to
full thrust” down the runway.
Novak said the pilot, a veteran of
more than 20 years, felt a thump
or bump and was immediately
told by the pilot of another plane
that he had an engine on fire.
The injuries included broken
bones, cuts and bruises as the
passengers, including one in
fant, were evacuated from the
aircraft bound for Tampa, Fla.,
police said.
Two passengers were hospit
alized and three were treated
and released from area hos
pitals.
judge OKs Sedco setdement
K United Press International
HOUSTON — An out-of-
lurt settlement which included
Sstimony from a Texas A&M
Bfessor, and in which Sedco
nc. agreed to pay $2.14 million
°Gul fishermen, resort
whers and others affected by a
[exican oil spill in 1979 won
nal 1 from a federal
;e, court records showed,
iedco previously reached a
lar agreement with the fed-
government for $2 million,
ging to $4.14 million the
•unt Sedco has agreed to pay
laims stemming from the
iuie 3, 1979 blowout of the Ix-
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Iriving a'ff lU.S. District Judge Robert
for repaint r onor Thursday dismissed
'OU to print ass-action lawsuits filed against
; owner wil |e Dallas-based drilling firm as
.zing cart)| ft of an out-of-court agree-
i large, dad fit in which Sedco agreed to
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$2.14 million to commercial
fisherman, boat owners, proper
ty owners, hotels, motels, tourist
developers and others hurt by
the spill.
It was the world’s worst oil
spill, leaking 3.1 million barrels
of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
over a nine-month period. Oil
blackened beaches in Texas and
Mexico, smothered fertile
fishing and shrimping grounds
and caused other environmental
damage. Sedco denied respon-
siblity for the blowout but own
ed the rig that drilled the well.
The rig was leased to Permargo,
a Mexican drilling firm, which
had an exploration contract with
Pemex, the Mexican national oil
company.
“We’re glad to have com
pleted the settlement with the
class action plaintiffs and our
next targets are Permargo and
Pemex,” said Sedco attorney
Theo Dimitry on Friday.
Attorney Richard Mithoff,
who represents commercial
fishermen and boat owners in
the case, said O’Conor tentative
ly split the funds among three
classes of plaintiffs.
Commercial fishermen, crab
bers, shrimpers and boat owners
represented by Mithoff were
scheduled to receive $1.5 mil
lion and $500,000 in attorneys
fees.
Another group consisting of
developers, hotel, motels, and
businesses along south Padre Is
land or near Laguna Madre in
Cameron and Willacy counties
were tentatively scheduled to re
ceive $600,000 in damages and
$200,000 in attorneys fees.
The rest of the settlement, ab
out $40,000 was allocated for a
third plaint group consisting of
condominium and home owners
along South Padre Island.
Mithoff said the settlement
was much lower than expected
because damages where short
lived.
Dr. Roy W. Hann Jr., a pro
fessor of environmental en
gineering at Texas A&M Uni
versity, testified Thursday dam
ages from the spill were limited
to the 1979 season.
“That was the reason the
claims were not nearly as high.
Based on original estimates, had
there been permanent damage
to larvae and the shrimp beds,
damages could have reached
into $100 million,” Mithoff said.
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