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Vol. 78 No. 19 USPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
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Business at Manor East
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by Lauri Reese
Battalion Reporter
Business is picking up at Manor
East Mall in Bryan now that the novel
ty of Post Oak Mall in College Station
has worn off, store managers, em
ployees and customers say.
I Donna Wescott, manager of Gal-
inkamp Shoes, said the opening of
Post Oak Mall in February 1982 was
rough on Manor East Mall, but now
business is on an uphill climb.
I “We struggled through and we
lade it and that’s the important
thing,” Wescott said.
Cindy Brannen, advertising and
promotions director of Culpepper
Properties, the owner of Manor East
Mall, said it was hard for Manor East
Mall to adjust because it had been the
only mall for so long.
Post Oak Mall has helped Manor
East Mall because it has drawn people
from bordering towns into the area,
Brannen said. People now are making
Bryan and College Station their shop
ping headquarters, she said.
However, Manor East Mall has had
to increase its promotion and adver
tising efforts to get the customers
back, she said, but that’s what com
petition is for. Most of the extra
promotion work has been in com
munity and family-oriented activities,
Brannen said.
Events planned for October in
clude the Friends of the Library Book
Sale, fire prevention at Center Stage,
a chrysanthemum exhibit and a “hap
py” celebration for children with can
dy, skits, clowns and movies.
After Thanksgiving, the mall will
offer free baby-sitting every Saturday
in its community room, Brannen said.
The mall and its facilities, includ
ing the parking lots, are available for
campus groups to use for things such
as fund-raisers, she said. MSC Town
Hall will use the mall to promote its
Broadway plays.
Wescott said most store employees
are making an extra effort to get the
shoppers back by improving custom
er service and becoming more friend-
inside
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Classified 8
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National 8
Dpinions 2
Sports 9
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What’s up 7
Forecast
Partly cloudy and warm — highs in
he upper 80’s. No rain expected.
Army reservists’
jobs under fire
United Press International
HOUSTON — A sheriffs organi
zation Monday filed suit asking that
the Texas private investigator’s board
not be allowed to file criminal com
plaints against army reserve officers
who work security jobs without pri
vate security licenses.
The suit was filed in Harris County
District Court by the Greater Texas
Peace Officers Association. The suit
requests that the Texas Board of Pri
vate Investigators and Private Secur
ity Agency be enjoined from filing
criminal complaints against reserve
officers who also work with security
agencies.
Reservists have been excluded
from second jobs since Harris County
District Attorney John B. Holmes Jr.,
issued a legal report in June inter
preting state law as saying law en
forcement officers who serve volun
tarily cannot legally work at security
jobs for pay unless they are licensed
under the Texas Private Security Act.
Since then, one deputy constable
has been charged under the act.
An attorney representing the re
servists said the law is discriminatory
because it allows private investigators
with less training and experience than
reserve law officers to hold paid
security jobs.
Reservists must have at least 100
hours of law enforcemnt instruction.
Private investigators need only 30
hours.
A hearing has been set for Oct. 13.
Investigation pending
Airline ticket-holder
protection questioned
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Transporta
tion Secretary Elizabeth Dole, con
cerned about the Continental Airlines
case, asked for an investigation Mon
day of whether existing regulations
adequately protect passengers hold
ing tickets on bankrupt airlines.
Dole, in a petition filed by the de
partment with the Civil Aeronautics
Board, asked the government agency
to look into certain aspects of the Con
tinental bankruptcy case.
An industry agreement stipulates
airlines must accept tickets of a de
funct carrier. Continental suspended
domestic flights Sept. 24 when it filed
for reorganization under federal
bankruptcy laws. Last Tuesday, it re
sumed about one-fourth of its flights
with a third of its employees, called
back from layoffs at reduced pay and
increased working hours.
When Continential took the unpre
cedented step of temporarily shutting
down its domestic operations and
then resuming a sharply reduced
flight schedule, the so-called default
plan — a provision to have other air
lines honor Continental tickets — did
not go into effect.
The department asked the board
to make a quick determination
whether the default plan’s provisions
were properly observed. It also asked
the CAB to decide whether the plan
should be modified to provide relief
when there is a partial shutdown of an
airline’s operations.
The petition said the Continental
bankruptcy and service reduction
raise an important issue — whether
the passenger protection arrange
ments currently available furnish
adequate assurance. It also asked for
a determination whether airline cus
tomers are being subjected to exces
sive financial risks in purchasing
tickets.
The department stressed it is tak
ing no position on whether the de
fault plan was properly observed.
In a related development, the In
ternational Brotherhood of Teams
ters urged Congress and the Reagan
administration to take action to cor
rect what it called deficiencies of the
Airline Deregulation Act of 1978.
The union blamed the law that per
mits airlines to adjust ticket prices and
cut back on service for the current
problems of the industry.
Disabled farmers meet,
discuss stress problems
by Debbie E. Warren
Battalion Reporter
Disabled farmers and their families
will meet at Texas A&M today and
Wednesday to discuss technical and
stress-related problems they have to
deal with every day.
Gary Nelson, an extension agricul
ture safety engineer, says the purpose
of the conference is to inform dis
abled farmers about machinery mod
ifications that would make their jobs
easier.
“I think the point that we’re trying
to make,” Nelson says, “is that with a
little technical know-how, disabilities
can become more of an inconveni
ence than a disability. You just have to
change some assumptions.
“We design equipment with the
assumption that you have two hands,
two arms and two legs. There’s no
reason why we can’t design this equip
ment to fit other body parts as well."
Nelson says he recently talked to a
farmer who is paralyzed except for
his neck and elbows. He says the far
mer operates a piece of heavy equip
ment by switching gears with his
elbows.
“We have found thgt these modifi
cations arn’t that expensive,” Nelson
says.
In addition to machinery modifi
cations, Nelson says, the conference
will include information that will not
be related to agriculture.
“We will talk about things like
wheelchair maintenance and repair
and the design of clothing for the dis
abled,” Nelson says.
“We will also talk about preventing
back injuries for the families of the
disabled because they are now lifting
what the stronger man probably lifted
before. In addition they have to lift
and handle the injured.”
The conference also will help dis
abled farmers manage personal and
family stress related to the disability,
Nelson says.
“As I understand it, losing a hand
is very similar to losing a family mem
ber,” Nelson says. “You go through
the same psychological loss process.
First you deny that it happened. Then
you get angry that it happened. Then
you try to blame somebody else and
then you enter a depressed stage. The
final step is acceptance and some peo
ple never get to that final stage.”
Nelson says he is expecting be
tween 25 to 200 disabled farmers and
ranchers at the conference and the
broad range reflects the farmers’ spe
cial problems.
“They (the farmers) often wait un
til the last minute to decide if they are
going to come,” Nelson said
“In order to participate they have
to expdse themselves to travel and
facilities that may be hostile to them.
If you’re disabled in a wheelchair,
you’re hesitant to leave surroundings
that are comfortable.”
Nelson says this is the first time dis
abled farmers have been recognized
in the area, but he hopes the confer
ence will help form a national organi
zation for disabled farmers.
“I think they need a national orga
nization,” he says. “The advantage
here is they get to exchange informa
tion with others who may have similar
problems, similar machinery modifi
cation needs and just similar needs in
general. You don’t feel alone so
much. You know there are a bunch of
people out there sharing the same
problems and you can share the solu
tions.”
The two-day conference will be
held in Room 206 of the Memorial
Student Center. Conference sessions
began today at 9:30 a. m. and will con
tinue until 7 tonight. Wednesday’s
sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. and
last until 4:30 p.m.
This was the scene at Manor East Mall
Monday. Business has been increasing
staff photo by Dean Saito
since the ‘novelty’ of Post Oak Mall
has worn off, say store managers.
ly and helpful, she said.
Wescott said part of the reason the
customers are coming back is the
great variety of stores at Manor East
Mall.
Manor East Mall has Eckerd’s, Wal-
mart, J.C. Penney, Montgomery
Ward, McDonald’s, El Chico, and at
least 30 other stores.
Chris Worthen, who owns T-Shirts
Plus stores in both malls with her hus
band Chris Worthen, said Manor East
Mall has more speciality stores, more
small businesses in which the mana
ger is the owner.
While she said the two malls are
entirely different, each one is good
depending on what the customer
wants.
Brannen said Manor East Mall has
more serious shippers.
Yale president to meet
with faculty, students
by Christine Mallon
Battalion Staff
The president of Yale University
will deliver a series of public policy
addresses here today through
Thursday as part of the annual Mil
ler Lecture Series.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of
Yale and a member of the National
Commission of Excellence in Educa
tion, will present several lectures
and meet with Texas A&M students
and faculty.
His major public address enti
tled, “The Role of the Federal Gov
ernment in Higher Education,” will
be Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Rudder
Theater.
He will also speak today and
Thursday in Room 204 of the Sterl
ing C. Evans Library at 4 p.m. To
day’s topic will be “University/In
dustry Relations” and Thursday’s
topic will be “The Role of Athletics
in Education.”
The Miller Lecture Series was
established in 1981 with a $150,000
grant from Cooper Industries, a
Houston-based manufacturing
firm, in honor of E.L. Miller, chair
man of the board.
The lecture series is designed to
bring international authorities on
public policy to speak here.
Giamatti received a bachelor’s de
gree in English and doctoral degree
in comparative literature from Yale.
He is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Philosophical Society, the
A. Bartlett Giamatti
President of Yale University
National Council on the Humanities
and the Commission on the Huma
nities.