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Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, September 19, 1983 A Overdue books wanted United Press International GARDINER, Maine — A woman who borrowed 18 books from the Gardiner Public Library in spring 1982 and didn’t return all of them by summer 1983 has been taken to court. In Alaska, radio stations broad cast the names of delinquent bor rowers. In Baltimore, Mayor Wil liam D. Schaeffer has called delin quents on the telephone. The Baltimore Orioles have pitched in to help him out. All across the country, delin quent borrowers are being hauled into small claims court, sued by collection agencies, and blitzed bv library lawyers, those dear hearts and gentle people down at the lib rary are getting tough, and for good reason. For one thing, library budgets have been shrinking and book re placement costs are rising. Books that used to cost $10 now cost $20 or more. In Arlington Heights, Ill., the replacement cost of a mis sing music encyclopedia bal looned from the set’s original cost of $800 to $2,000. American Library Association in Chicago, the world’s oldest and largest library association. It was founded in 1876 and has 38,000 members. And some books just can’t be replaced. Publishers keep their stocks slim because they have to pay taxes on their inventories, says Marcia Kuszmaul of the An association study showed that many libraries are unable to keep good records on delinquent borrowers. It’s still often a matter of a librarian physically checking a shelf to see if a book is in or out. But overdue notices generated by computer are helping bring back books. The extent of the delinquency can be gauged by the experiences of the Free Library of Philadel phia and the Pratt Library system COME JOIN THE FUN! AGGIE ALLEMANDER8 Ag Engineering to host lectures MODERN WESTERN SQUARE DANCING MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 And Subsequent Mondays Classes 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Club Dance: 9:00 to 10:30 Caller: Larry Astal In The Pavilion by Ed Alanis Battalion Reporter Seminars with topics ranging from the Agricultural Revolution to water infiltration into soil will be part of this year’s Disting uished Lecture Series sponsored by Texas A&M’s Department of Agricultural Engineering. The lecture series, initiated last year, brings individuals to the campus to speak on timely topics Hey *86ers! YOU can be a “C”-Rat,too! Come to the Concession Mtg. Mon., Sept. 19 7-8:30 404 Rudder Dr. John R. Philip of Canberra, Australia also will speak this fall. Philip, a director for the Com monwealth Scientific and Indust rial Research Organization, is said to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on water infiltration into soil. Seminars scheduled for the spring semester include a lecture on the Agricultural Revolution by Robert C. Lanphier, president and chairman of the Dickey-John Corporation. Also this spring, there will be a lecture on technology and its ap plications to agricultural produc tivity, as well as a lecture on the development of crop production systems to meet future needs for food. Dr. B. A. Stout of the agricultu ral engineering department is heading the program and all lec tures are open to the public. FIRST CITY BEUEVES SAVING 70% ON BROKERS’ FEES ISNT ENOUGH. A DISCOUNT IN COMMISSIONS DOESN’T HAVE TO MEAN A DISCOUNT IN SERVICE. First City Brokerage Services,,, offers the investor not only the obvious financial advantages of reduced com mission charges but also the strength of one of the Southwest’s preeminent financial institutions. i<MMJ Shares IOOO share s 100 Shares at S20 at SIS at SSO M'\. Savings (>V.. Savings S.V'. 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Librarians in the City of Brotherly Love declared an amnesty last April and during “Forgiveness Week,” Philadel phians returned 155,000 “over- dues,” valued at $1.5 million. They included one overdue since March 1922. The Pratt Library in Baltimore began trying to get books back to its central facility and 31 branches in 1974 when 60,000 turned up missing. The library used various approaches that have been so suc cessful over the years the state of Maryland uses some of them now. Los Angeles gears for 1984 Olympics Ban succ in agriculture. This year's prog ram will host five speakers — two during the fall and three during the spring semester. United Press International LOS ANGELES — Entrep reneurs are gearing up to capit alize on sports fans staying in Southern California for the 1984 Olympics, hoping fears of heat, smog and unbearable crowds won’t scare off tourists during the Summer Games. Officials estimate that 650,000 tourists will pour into the Los Angeles area for the two-week Olympiad and check into hotels, campgrounds and private homes, including Mali bu beach houses and Beverly Hills mansions. All major hotels in the down town area were booked for the Olympics more than a year in advance, with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Commit tee reserving 25,000 out of a tot al 250,000 hotel rooms in South ern California for officials, spon sors and the media. To accomodate the overflow crowd, local residents eager to leave town during the Olympics and turn a profit are renting their homes to tourists. One woman rented her three- bedroom home in Westwood for $21,000 to a corporation. About 28 companies are soli citing homes and arranging re ntals, some of them promising thousands of dollars a day. “Our houses range from $150 a night for a two bedroom to $5,000 a night for an estate in Malibu with two tennis courts, pool and access to the beach, said Trudy Alexy, director of one of Houseguests Interna tional. Some of the rates quoted are based on unrealistic crowd esti mates, some officials say, noting that tourism in Montreal during 1976 Olympics dropped. “People are not going to be able to rent their homes for astronomical prices,” Spalding of the Los Visitors and Convention Bureau said. “People who think they an going to get thousands ofdollan for renting their homes for hvi weeks are kidding themselves. Southern California — wii such tourist attractions as beaches, Disneyland and Uni versal Studios — normally has; million visitors in July. On; normal July day there an 175,000 out-of-town guests that number is expected t crease by only 50,000 during the Olympics. “Our basic message topeoplt is that there will be aecomot tions available, ” Spalding said "People who don’t havetich won’t come here, they will li) to steer clear of here. "In Montreal, theirhotelsdil not run at capacity when tin summer Olympics were there United Press I OSAGE, Ark. - ays his family b< Minn., thinks he’: Iwell in the Ozark os for a living, but i success — persoi iionally. Making banjos upported Mathev iow. It allows him nusic and nature, ravel and perform dm to obscure cot nd makes him pa nusical history. ‘‘We’ll never n m not going to lx ■iathews said, per n his dusty work ich or anything, inue to do what I hat’s success, real The first lecture of the series will be at 9:30 Tuesday in 208 Sco- ates Hall. Dr. Robert B. Fridley, a manager for Weyerhaeuser Com pany, will speak on engineering and its applications to forest man agement. Teacher strike vote set His neighbor: “Banjo Bill. ” Any i directions to his hi the old stone ger the wooden bridg following the rutt for miles through Engineers constantly are chal lenged by forest environments to develop equipment and systems which meet environmental needs without harming the forests. United Press International LOS ANGELES — Negotiators for school teachers and the na tion’s second largest school dis trict, divided on more than two dozen issues, met Sunday in their last bargaining session before a union strike vote. Drawn-out teacher strikes affected nearly 70,000 students in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Ohio and Washington state. Len Feldman, spokesman for the 16,000-member United Teachers of Los Angeles, said teachers were “neither hopeful nor optimistic.” The union scheduled a strike vote for Monday. More than half of the district’s 25,000 teachers staged a one-day boycott Friday as the 550,000- student district moved closer to its first strike since 1970. Feldman said the walkout de monstrated discontent among teachers, who have worked with out a contract since July 1982. He said it gave administrators, some of whom tended classrooms, a taste of problems teachers face daily. “Maybe they’ll have a better understanding of what teachers go through,” he said. School Board President John Greenwood dismissed the boycot- t.“It was just a one-day walkout and now it’s over,” he said. “It is one social event.” The major issues were wages, the district’s demand for the right to force teachers to transfer to 41 inner-city schools and the union’s demand for an election on whether an agency shop should be established. The district last week imposed a 7.8 percent wage hike, an act UTLA president Judy Solkovits called a bid “to undermine the union.” In Pasadena, teachers planned a Monday afternoon demonstra tion in front of district headquar ters to protest lack of progress in their contract talks. Teachers in Pawtucket and Warwick, R.I. have not said if they would return to work Monday as ordered last week by two judges. Union officials said the decision is up to individual teachers. The strikes have kept 18,500 students out of school. Two strikes in Pennsylvania have canceled school for nearly 4,000 children, and teachers in a third district set a strike deadline for Monday. A strike by teachers in Lord- stown, Ohio, affects 1,200 pupils. About 39,000 students are idled by teacher strikes in eight Michigan districts, officials said. Teachers in Howell were to vote Monday on a contract proposal and will return to work Tuesday if approved. Three strikes in Waslmc state have affected 16,600 dents. A hearing was schedti Monday in Pierce County Sip ior Court on a request bypm * for teachers to end a strike in er Park. Mathews, 31, someplace that h; ;erted into civilizi le settled in the nc f Arkansas in 1975 and support hard used to make I vided the raw i and-built solar h< In Illinois, teachers in Jti District 86 and Wheeling-Bi! Grove Community Consolidi ■ School District 21 will striked ^ day unless contracts agreci are reached. In a concessior ind business real nally got a telepl He also has el louse now, but h ind three daught rom a spring and rater. Now you hm He works aloni ards from the h nost of his businei nd mail order. United I'icns lntmi.ilimul The greatest meat eatersii world are the people oftlieIni States, with an averagediM lion of 10.89 ounces perpJ per dat. “1 just have to go nan and there’s nr Police beai Post can > by Leslie 1 Battalion Re It’s not too late f THE UNDERGROUND Breakfast Special 7:30 — 10:30 Monday, September 19 — Friday, September 23 DONUTS — 100 EACH OFFER GOOD TO THE LAST DONUT “The Best Food. The Lowest Price.” The following incidents * | reported to the University! Department through Friday THEFTS: •Two wallets were stolen! F, s “ me bi East Kyle while their owners! hk Mall to bid c playing basketball. One »i ’erchandise at the contained $35 and the otherl 1 The event will b< •A maroon 1982 Oldsmii uesday in the cou Cutlass Cierra was stolen(roi! w< j en Dillards De| student parking lot west of" nc ' ^ a ' es Jewelers ford Cain Pool. Assistant Mall J OTHER: folites said Tuesd •The Old Railroad Depd M- 000 worth of Wellborn Road was ransaii F™ ‘ l 1983 Ponti. but nothing was stolen. ™ shirt, will be •Three people were trf3 H°yd Joyce, a lo sing on the sixth level of" M former mayor Kyle Field. University Police#!' We believe tha them a trespass warning. a sort °‘ back-to-sc |0iir shoppers, Pol J Cash receipts ai *jl!l Ml fUMUl AA rm ftA Ml MfUMm ru* fU* fm im ft* AA im ft* Ml mi M SHAPE UP FOR THE UPCOMING MONTHS THE TAMU AEROBICS CLUB OFFERS DIVERSE FALL EXERCISE PROGRAMMING (The Aerobics Club is Sponsored by the Health & Physical Education Department) THE FOLLOWING CLASSES WILL BE CONVICTED FROM SEP TEMBER 21 THRU DECEMBER 9, 1983: • NOON AEROBICS (MWF 12-12:50) • EVENING AEROBICS (M thru Thurs 5:30-6:15) NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME MOVERS (Moderately-Paced Dancercise) (MW 6:30-7:15 p.m.) BODY DYNAMICS (Fast-Paced Dancercise) (MW 7:15-8 p.m.) EVENING AQUADYNAMICS (Aerobic swimming & separate water exercises) (W.TH.F. 6-7 p.m.—♦INDOOR POOL) These structured fitness classed are geared to improve cardiovtt cular fitness, tone and strengthen musculature, increase flexibility and improve self-image. t=x>c FIR t E Location and C Building on Agi asphalt surface Building. Age Categories Awards: First ai first place, med awards distribu Entry Fee: $6.5 and awards. Deadline: Early Late Registratic Race Materials: Use of Proceed Race Orqanizei For Information Mall Entries to: Name. FOR FURTHER INFO: Please notify H&PE receptionist—>East Kyle I58K or Call 845-3109 ^CLASSES WILL BE LIMITED IN SIZE* BE PREPARED FOR A REWARDING EXERCISE EXPERIENCE, BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK FOR IT!— Address. City, State. Age As of Oct. 22 Circle One: Race: 10K or 15K Signature. Parent/Guardian.