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res Page 8/The Batfalion/Wednesday, October 12,1983 Discover a New WorCd... of fashion elegance. is having a Columbus Day Special Sale dcjb I ; I n mil 1 Hi ‘ 111! ii i (fill iHiill ill iliilillilii!] J w ^ !f» 30% off and more* on all gold diamonds and pearls Sale begins Saturday, Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. and l ends Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 5:30 p.m. * *Come by and see how low our prices for quality jewelry can get! No, not a new building. An old building with a new name. The Academic and Agency A new building? staff photo by Mike Davis Building was dedicated the John R. Blocker Building Saturday. We’ll remember to pay your bills. Even if you forget. You can’t remember everything. If you forget a due date for a payment, that often means late charges. Now there’s an easier way to pay your bills. Just tell us who you want to pay and when. We’ll remember to mail the check to make the due date. In the mean time, your funds continue to earn maximum interest. Telephone bill paying is free— with only a $250 minimum balance. We make banking easy —even if you forget. BrazosBanc Savings Association of Texas For information on free telephone bill paying, call 696-PAYS. College Station Branch Office: Texas Avenue at Southwest Parkway • 696-2800 Accused spy loses court case United Press International WASHINGTON — Alger Hiss, convicted of peijury and accused of being a Communist spy during the post-World War II “red scare," lost another battle in the Supreme Court Tuesday in his 33-year legal campaign to r his name. view either case. They also re jected an appeal by survivors of the 1978 Peoples Temple mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, who tried to sue the government for Sb5 million on grounds it withheld crucial in formation about the cult headed by Jim Jones. Hiss, 78, had asked the high court to allow him to re-examine key evidence used against him. Hiss served a jail term in the 1950s for his peijury conviction in connection with spy charges leveled against him before a House committee in 1948. His case helped propel a young con- gressman from California named Richard Nixon to nation al prominence as an avid anti- Communist. His lawyer said he was denied a fair trial because the govern ment withheld evidence about the typewriter that Hiss, a for mer “ooy wonder" at the State Department, allegedly used to copy department documents for the Soviets. Former Rep. Richard Kelly, convicted in 1981 of bribery for accepting $25,000 from FBI agents posing as Arabs in terested in buying influence, also failed to get the nation’s highest court to review his Abscam case. The justices, without explana tion or dissents, refused to re- The justices, issuing a series of orders, also: -Refused to block for a new trial in the $1.8 billion dispute over charges American Tele phone 8c Telegraph illegally tried to shut MCI communica tions Corp., out of the long distance telephone market. A lower court set aside the record antitrust judgment and ordered a new jury to consider what dam ages trie telephone giant owes its rival. -Sidestepped a major test of the Newspaper Preservation Act by refusing to review a joint operating agreement between the Seattle Tii Times and the Post- Intelligencer. The papers have been operating jointly since last May since a federal appeals court approved the arrange ment. -Agreed to decide whether the Environmental Protection Agency may disclose to the pub lic and business rivals the secret test data Monsanto Co. turns over to the EPA to obtain approval to sell its pesticides. I I I &7~ - “Transitions, your full service salon” 1 I I 1 ♦ I » I I October Specials: Perm with cut & style $30 I Tanning booths $25 I 4403 S. Texas 260-9030 | (Next to Luby's) open Mon-Sat) extra for long hair ^ David Meece OCT. 12 7:30pm BRYAN CIVIC AUDITORIUM 84. no a </ra >>< <’ 8.J. OO a / rtfm i SCRIPTURE HAVEN BRAZOS VALLEY CHRISTIAN BOOKS Warp this is WITH Tl SERVICE disrupt; audieivi: STAlVPIl SHOUTIA ON A V R.I. youK LIKE! OUR Lb Rep&a Task United WASHI gressional Tuesdav t pay hikes merit pay, and keep brightest” tioifs class TheTa: headed by HI., also su initiatives: for top st lowships ft program t Ui ab Unit* CORF Nueces ( day urgei to contao tional ini accountf from he i two week Texas helicopte Mondayl Durst, 45 ary job Christi. The seen sine An a gaveinfc woman l been reU cials said J I t i % ■ I