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" Page 4AThe Battalion/Friday, February 3, 1984 ! Judge strict with parents United Press International EL PASO — Judge Henry Pena of the 327th District Court 1 Thursday announced the estab- , . 1 lishment of a work-release prog- I ram for divorced parents who II will spend off-work hours in jail a until delinquent child support payments are caught up. The plan was presented to the judge by El Paso County Sheriff Mike Davis at Pena’s re- Pena said the program will start Saturday. Delinquent pa rents will either come up with the money they owe or go to jail on contempt of court charges until they work off their debt, he said. quest. Pena said he will hear 40 child support cases Saturday to begin implementing the plan. “Parents who owe child sup port will not only work at their regular jobs during weekdays but will have to pay $5 to the county each day for their room and board,” Pena said. Pena, the district court judge who handles most family and juvenile matters in in the county, decided last week that the only way to get parents who have re fused to pay child support pay ments or who have paid only token amounts “is to get their attention by putting them in jail.” “Being tough on the offen ders who show contempt for the lawful orders of the court is the purpose of this program,” the sheriff wrote to the judge. “If the people involved in the work-release program have other dependants the remain der of their pay will go to sup port their present family,” the sheriff proposed. Special Screening Sunday Feb. 12th 7:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium RIGHT A ROBERT CHARTOFF-IRWIN WINKLER PRODUCTION of A PHILIP KAUFMAN FILM "THE RIGHT STUFF" CHARLES FRANK SCOTT GLENN ED HARRIS LANCE HENRIKSEN SCOn PAULIN DENNIS QUAID SAM SHEPARD FRED WARD KIM STANLEY BARBARA HERSHEY VERONICA CARTWRIGHT PAMELA REED Music by BILL CONTI Director of Photography CALEB DESCHANEL Based on the Book by TOM WOLFE Produced by IRWIN WINKLER and ROBERT CHARTOFF Written for the Screen and Directed by PHILIP KAUFMAN I NOW A BANTAM PAPERBACK BOOKl Sfc A LADD COMPANY RELEASE vomm IN SELECTED THEATRES PG PARENTAL GUOANCE SUGGESTED SOME MATERIAL MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR OMJOREN Limited Seating Sponsored by the Memorial Student Center Aggie Cinema Committee “The participants in the work-release program are not going to be given a free ride,” he added. “They must work. Their earnings are to be paid to the support of their children, for their (parents) room and board in the jail and for any other costs or fees which the court may im pose on them.” Under the work-release plan, men and women child support offenders will be sentenced to any contempt of court punish ment thejuclge feels is appropri ate, Davis said. A floor of the county jail will be used for the parents, who will be awakened at 5:45 a.m., each week day, eat breakfast by 6 a.m. and will be released fromjail not later than 7:30 a.m., to get to their places of employment. ■M S O A£xG[£ QmEWi\ presents There's a time for playing it sttfe and a time for... - Friday & Saturday 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Rudder Theatre Clint Eastwood in the original DIRTY HARRY Friday & Saturday Midnight Rudder Theatre Sophia Loren in TWO WOMEN Sunday 7:30 p.m. Rudder Theatre Tr $1.50 with TAMU I.D. Advance tickets available at MSC Box Office Mon-Fri 8:30-4:30 Also available 45 minutes before showtime. J-' 89£ Margaritas Jji Margaritas .i-L TAKE AN AFTERNOONER BREAK. 12P.M.-5P.M. EVERYDAY Take a break after class and come to El Chico for an Aftemooner Special. Just show us your valid college I.D. and well let you select any of our 8 delicious nooner lunches — at specially reduced prices. Priced just right for students. And served with our special hot sauce and crispy tortilla chips. When it's time for a break... it's time for El Chico. El Chico 3109 Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas (Next to Wal-Mart) Halloweenish effects added to All-Nite Fair By SONDRA HOS TETLER Reporter organizations will be on the first and second floors of the MSC. Workers for the activi ties will be dressed in horror MSC All-Nite Fair will be transformed into “All-Nite Scare” this weekend with Hal loweenish effects as bizarre as dead trees for decoration, horror films as backdrops for dancing and tricycle races through a cemetery. Doors to the fair, in the Memorial Student Center, will open at 7 p.m. Saturday for the start of fun and fantasy that will continue until 3 a.m. Sunday. Admission tickets are $1. Tickets for booths and games are 10 cents each. The Executives, a dance band that plays varied styles of music, will perform from 8:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. in the main lounge of the MSC. The All- Nite Fair Committee will show classic horror films such as “The Birds” and “Psycho” on video screens as a backdrop for the band. About 53 booths and games sponsored by campus costumes. If you are ready for a little competition, the MSC Hospit ality Committee will sponsor tricycle races through the cemetery, MSC Cepheid Vari able will assassinate friend or foe and MSC Aggie Cinema will sponsor a ring toss based on the movie theme, “Mom- mie Dearest.” To win a prize, Joan Crawford fans toss a wire coat hanger over the head of a baby doll. You can “Help James Walt Put His Foot In His Mouth” witli the society for Entrep reneurship and New Ven tures. The society offers over $4,000 in prizes and coupons for contestants trying to loss a shoe through a replica of James Watt’s mouth. MSC Town Hall Commit tee will sponsor a candy walk to the beat of Michael Jack- son’s album “Thriller.” Remember last year’s “Smack Attacks"? They’rt back again this year in lit guise of “Drac Attacks.”G«- man Club members and Fo* lei Hall residents will smothei their victims with kisses. Prizes and gift certificate from city merchants will I* awarded at the booths. Prize include free dinners albums. “We sponsor this fairasi way for the organizations to get together, have fun, and earn a little money for diet clubs,” said Caroline Williams, com mitlee chairman. The non-profit committee of about 20 members has beet planning the fair since Iasi fall Organizations participat ing in the fair paid an entn f ee of $5 and a small percen tage of their earnings from the fair will help payforthe band and extra security per sonnel hired. The committee expectsab out 5,000 students and area residents to attend “All-Nile Scare.” Unite EL P bhristof :eive $2 \rmy F naceutk nistakes ie para lown, a U.S. Harry L veek th; tVilliai Vledical n treat vas 14 n [he incic The 1 n Salt I 3e awai past, pre expense peth ru ;ase for Chris tichard lis fath shop in The Foreign art spotlighted By MARY FRANCES SCOTT Reporter Art, music, and dance from around the world will be fea tured at the Second Annual In ternational Arts Festival at Post Oak Mall in College Station Saturday. The show will feature only exhibits that have a foreign sub ject matter or style. Paintings, drawings, prints, and photogra phy will be displayed and musi cians and dancers will perform throughout the day. Also, some of the international clubs on campus will display items repre sentative of their countries. The Brazos Valley Art League and The Arts Council of Brazos Valley are sponsoring the festival in cooperation with the TAMU International Stu dents Association. Art Festival chairman Betty Blevins said the show got its start last year during a Fine arts show held at the Brazos Center, in which a few international stu dent booths were set up. The booths got such a good re sponse, she said, that the Art League decided to expand the international theme into an en tire show. Blevins said she hopes to see a lot of student response to the festival which is being held to promote art in this area. The art will he judged by Dr. Darryl Patrick and Gene East man, faculty members from the art department of Sam Houston State University. The categories are: oil an acrylic paintings, waiercol paintings, pastel drawings,pa cil and ink drawings, chama and conte drawings, min media, prints (batik, lithograpi iwardec laim ap ies, the anufa drug tii jected v Lucases lackage ecause risk of f the bull silkscreen, and etchings), bU A0 /\0 and white photographyandof j or photography. First place winners in eii j category will receive a $25c I The f< certificate donated bylocalm ; reporte chants at an awards ceremonn Departi 7 p.m. The winningemnesc THI be exhibited at the Brazos! ter during February. Se and third place winner ceive small cash prizes, Art entries are beingacce at the Sears entrance of Posit Mall between noon and 6| Friday. There isa$3feefore entry. Commission reduces firing of policeman to suspension phone c nale. T the call United Press International HOUSTON — The Houston Civil Service Commission has re duced to a one-year suspension the police chiefs Firing of an officer accused of triggering an unloaded gun near a suspect’s head to extract a confession. The commission Wednesday AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823 8051 reported Officer Monroe H. Gage, 26, deserves a one-year suspension instead of dismissal. Chairman Jerry Smith dissented angrily from the decision. According to Brown, Gage and three other police officers arrested Dorothy Mathes, 34, last June 28 in connection with illegal discharge of a gun in a residential neighborhood. from her head and pu trigger. Gage has denied puttingl gun to Mathes’ head, akhoii| 1$i[| he has admitted pulling the tiijj Y=SY Officers found the discarded weapon after the arrest and wit nesses said Gage unloaded it. After Mathes denied the gun was hers, witnesses said Gage put the empty gun three inches ger w ith the chamber open, | (Jage’s lawyer, D. Reid W ker said he has not decidti whether to appeal the ruliiii yjri|j which he said did not go I enough to vindicate Gajt Brown, through spokesma rWjj Marc Henderson,dedinedcm <c~r. ment. Smith’s dissent called Gatti action “blatant, unprovokedaDilj fiftivo unforgivable.” PARTY DOWN SPECIALS Seagram's 7 American Blend 80 c $759 liter Bacardi 80° Light Rum S 5 S9 750ML Jack Daniel Black Tenn. Whiskey 90° Riunite Wine Bianco, D'oro, Rosato $ 8 59 750 ML Lambrusco 99 1.75 liter puncii SPECIALS Rikaloff Vodka 80° Ron Bocoy Rum 86° Q99 $099 1.75 liter 1.75 liter FAN FARE PUNCH MIX $ ^ 50 qt. •(BENtBAlLm) fcrrD.VAAKjr last but Not Least Old Milwaukee Beer $1 85 JL 12oz-6 Pack cans Mo credit cards or sale items 1503 University Dr. Next to Ramada Inn 846-1860 Op