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staff photo by John Makely
Despite the video games in the basement of
the Memorial Student Center, Rickey Crane, a
junior pre-dent major from Mt. Pleasant takes a
minute to catch up on things in The Battalion.
and blast
with a
est Texas businessman
running for U.S. House
United Press International
AUSTIN — The rental hous
ing market around the sprawl
ing University of Texas campus
has loosened up, making it
easier for the more than 48,000
students who began classes
Monday to find a place to live
this fall.
“There is much less despera
tion, not as much sheer utter
frustration as there was two
years ago,” said Jenny Arnold,
operator of Apartment Finders
Service. “My agents are less frus
trated. We feel much less like the
prophets of doom.”
Property managers and re
ntal agents agreed that there are
mo
e rent houses and apartments in
the campus area because of a
boom in apartment and con-
dominum construction and a
cap on university enrollment.
And students appear to be
benefitting from the oversupply
of housing.
At least one apartment com
plex offered two months of free
rent to students who signed a
12-month lease. And some off-
campus dormitories lowered
their rates slightly to draw more
renters.
In addition to the increase in
rental units, Solt and other
property managers said condos
have removed thousands of stu
dents from the rental market.
And they said the ceiling on
university enrollment of fresh
men has lessened demand, while
some students appear more will
ing to live in the numerous
apartment complexes on the
outskirts of the city.
Off-campus dorms have been
hard hit, prompting some to re
duce their rates.
“Probably every dormitory in
town had space last year,” said
David Stapleton, a property
manager. “It seems that the
same thing exists this year.”
But the university-owned
dorms are full.
“We have 360 people on a
waiting list,” said Robert Cooke,
who is in charge of UT’s 5,187
student rooms and 700 apart
ment units. “It’s been that way
for about the past five years.”
Cooke said location and price j
are the biggest selling points,
noting that room and board at
the Jester Center, the universi
ty’s largest dorm, costs $2,844
for nine months.
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-LUBBOCK — Republican
tsinessman Larry Combest is a
mdidate for the U.S. House of
Bepresentatives seat of Demo-
Tat Kent Hance, but Sen. John
Montford said he would not
ek the post.
Hance last week said he
ould run for the Senate seat
eing vacated by Sen. John Tow-
R-Texas. Tower said he
ould not run for re-election.
Combest, 38, has owned and
Iterated a wholesale electronics
jistributorship in Lubbock for
ive years.
He worked with the Agricul
tural Stablization and Conserva-
Service in 1971 before
bing to work as Tower’s agri-
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from 1971 until 1978.
Combest grew up and work
ed on family farms near Mem
phis and Panhandle.
“I believe my experience in
the agricultural and business
community qualify me to serve
as your representative in
Washington,” Combest told re
porters at the first of several
news conferences he has sche
duled to announce his plans.
“I know the problems facing
agriculture from the farming
angle, the administrative angle
and the legislative angle,” Com
best said.
He said he favored a strong
national defense, but believed
some cuts could be made in the
federal Defense Department’s
budget without hurting national
security.
Montford, a Democrat, had
talked with Hance about poss
ibly running for the House seat.
Montford said Monday he was
contacted by many people
urging him to run for Congress.
“For the past week we have
witnessed a political upheaval
here in West Texas, an upheaval
that has launched many rumors
and much speculation,” Mont
ford told reporters at a news
conference.
“When the voters of this sena
torial district sent me to Austin
less than a year ago I took that as
a vote of confidence and trust
and not as an opportunity to
launch a political career by hops-
cotching from one job to the
next every time there was an
open rung on the ladder,”
Montford added.
He said he wanted to continue
his work on water legislation and
other issues important to resi
dents of West Texas.
Montford served as Lubbock
County district attorney before
he was elected to the Texas Sen
ate last year.
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EASTLAND — Lawyers pick-
jd a state district jury to hear a
murder trial of a Cisco man
|liarged with the shotgun
ing his first wife.
I Selection of the 91st District
|ourtjury for the trial of Loyal
Lundstrom, 59, was completed
Monday after 6 days had passed
and 63 candidates had been con
sidered.
A Cisco businessman and for
mer mayor pro-tem of the East-
land County community, Lund-
[trom is accused of killing his
27-year-old wife, Doris, with a
jingle shotgun blast of birdshot
a the abdomen.
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isappeared.
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