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Thursday, February 16, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5B Oil, gas pipe construction remains active, report says United Press International HOUSTON — Pipeline con struction worldwide will remain active during the next 15 years, with more than 100 major inter national pipeline systems being built, according to a report pub lished Tuesday in “Pipe Line Industry” magazine. Don Lambert, editor of the Houston-based magazine, said he expects U.S. 1984 construc tion to total 6,682 miles of pipe- lines. Of this total, 2,083 miles will be for gas transmission; 1,528 miles for gas gathering; 525 miles of crudelines, including about 200 miles of the All- American line; 486 miles of crude gathering lines; 1,530 miles of product lines and 530 miles of offshore oil and gas lines. In the report, entitled “Worldwide Pipe Line Outlook — 1984 and Beyond,” the mag azine also predicted that con struction outside the United States total 20,069 miles in 1984, with worldwide pipeline construction totaling 26,751 miles. INTEB NATIONAL BOUSE *'»**ws RESTAURANT Breakfast Special $-|99 Monday thru Friday Up to 4 people with this coupon Offer expires Feb. 29, 1984 Includes your choice of 4 great kinds of pancakes- Buttermilk,Strawberry, Blueberry,or Pecan. Plus 2 strips of bacon or sausage and egg (any style). Photo by KALIN MAGEE Stretch Susan Hill teaches Brit Phillips, a sophomore pre-dental major, positional stretching exercises to help his back. Hill is a physical therapist at the A.P. Beutel Health Center. hat collectors save of the ‘80s United Press International What if suddenly you were lie to return to the 1950s, ‘30s McWH0Srlr‘20s to fill a chest with desira- lle collectibles? What would lou select to bring back? EEarly Elvis Presley records? Pe first Superman comic bonk? A Cox-Roosevelt political ;xas A&M button? education I Let’s say instead your goal is i rliita l? a c h est with items from ca Be 1980s. What objects could ||u expect to appreciate in va- .le30 to 60 years from now and — ^/J^hich would represent our rgfltime? I Already the ‘80s have pro duced an avalanche of Ronald ■aean, Space Shuttle, Royal Wedding and video game mem- (fabilia. What will our children nd grandchildren be seeking |>m our decade? The editors f Collectibles Illustrated have ss 1 hanced a look into the future: £ p (NEWS EVENTS — In Wash- ine i3ellis# on state > an 8,364-foot rn inital 1 * 111113 ’ 11 blew its top and 311 Lf ■thin the week vendors were L° vel . Jim lling "I survived the Mount b een js i n |j i; Helens Eruption” T-shirts. ’f | )e 0 ecklaces of volcanic rock and U1 ihe i^ rsof as b were a l so marketed. ze No single event so far in the rent an^ f? has ^Hpsed the pageantry I on# M prolusion ot memorabilia s . tl^ 1 loduced by the wedding of t0 sel ., fince Charles and Princess Di- i essald ' na Bell is ol ^ f' "The demand for Royal edding souvenirs was so great that one woman told me she ;uld have sold the dirt the cou- | walked over in St. James rk,” said Dr. Wayne Swift, * seeking a 1 tal i offduri" p of A'»f Teleg ra F uthwestejj 1 ] d $16 bf •cted tota his ye ar subsi^ 1 ' Bell Tel' ht cansaS: orna owner of the Royalty Bookshop in New York. RECORDS — With the continuing popularity of tapes threatening the already belea guered record industry, compa nies look for new ways to con vince the young record-buyer to purchase albums. For example, the group “Po lice” released a single in the shape of a badge. Only a few thousand were issued and have already become collectors’ items. FADS — As the decade be gan, we were in the grips of a “Dallas” obsession, spawning everything from 10-gallon J.R. hats to cans of J.R. Beer. J.R. Ewing was knocked out of the saddles by a multi-col ored cube of Hungarian origin. The phenomenon of the Ru bik’s cube consequently spawned an assortment of geo metric puzzle toys. A $3,000 Pac-Man game is hardly a typical collectible, al though it will no doubt find its place some day beside the ven erable pinball machines of the ‘40s and ‘50s, now highly de sired by collectors. Video game spin-offs range from T-shirts to drinking mugs to a Pac Man board game. Vi deo entertainment seems the wave of the future and a collec tion of Space Invaders, Aster oids and Pac-Man byproducts will show future vidiots how the whole thing started. LIMITED EDITIONS — Limited edition products acti vely endeavor to reflect contem porary interests, such as a Crown Parian Inaugural plate picturing Ronald Reagan and George Bush. The serious plate collector fa miliarizes himself with new art ists entering the field, recogniz ing that tomorrow’s Norman Rockwell will likely be making a first appearance on a plate. SPINOFFS — The popular ity of the “Star Wars” movies has been responsible for a seemingly endless supply of space junk, ranging from mod els of Empire commandos to a collector’s plate picturing R2D2. Movie buffs advise that, rather than accumulating mass- produced items, which will be abundant for years, collect items produced specifically for a limited promotional tie-in with a fast-food chain or a new line of Dixie cups. NEWSPAPERS — On Fri day, Aug. 7, 1981, the Washing ton Star printed its final edition. The paper sold on newsstands for 20 cents. By the following Monday, it was selling for over $200. “In the case of the final edi tion of the Washington Star or Philadelphia Bulletin, the high est prices were realized immedi ately after they folded,” said Charles Smith, secretary of the International Newspaper Col lector’s Club. The most desirable papers are not Final editions, but pa pers with “error headlines,” such as a Chicago Sun-Times paper that appeared in 1980. First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church School at 9:30AM College Class at 9:30AM I Bus fromTAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10AM Northgate 9:15AM I Youth Meeting at 5:00PM Nursery: All Events 2 TEXAS AVE c 2 m o > < CARTER CREEK PKY First 4- Presbyterian ' Church - - ■ ■ ■ r ■ ■ LL Li. LLJ ■■ ii ir WE’RE OPEN LATE Cfi/ >r l TILL 2am! Stop in at Subway after your late night fun. Try one of our great tasting foot-long sandwiches. 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