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Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, March 8, 1984 Some residents to get help with December bill By KARL PALLMEYER Reporter Managers of several apart ment complexes say they will help students who have re ceived unusually high electric bills because of the record cold in December. The heat in many complexes was turned on during the cold snap, even though most of the tenants were away on Christmas vacation, to protect pipes and indoor plants. Assistant Student Legal Ad viser Matthew T. Nancarrow said one group of students has told him they plan to file a suit against its complex. Nancarrow would not give the names of the students or the complex and, as of last week, no such suit had been filed in Brazos County. Nancarrow said the complexes have a responsibility to share the cost since turning up the heat protected the property of the apartment owners. A Battalion reporter sur veyed 44 apartment complexes in College Station. Of those sur veyed, eight said they would be willing to help tenants on an in dividual basis if they would bring in their bills. They did not, however, specify how much help they would give their ten ants. The others gave varied an swers, such as: • They turned up the heat only in vacant apartments. • They only turned up the heat if the tenants called and asked them to. • They asked the tenants to turn up the heat before they left. • They pay all utilities, so it doesn’t matter. • They drained the pipes to prevent freezing. • They left the water run ning in the pipes to prevent freezing. Casa del Sol Manager Shirley Hernandez says most of her tenants were glad that their heat was turned up. The pipes above one apartment had burst and flooded the apartment be low, so the tenants realized the danger, she says. She says the electric bills are higher, but the tenants were content to pay a little extra for electricity rather than trying to replace posses sions that could have been dam aged. Pete Burkett, property man ager for Metro Properties, says that by turning on the heat, his company has saved the prop erty of both the tenants and the landlords. Metro, which con trols Aurora Gardens, Scandia, Sevilla and Taos apartments, is willing to help its tenants if they bring the bills to their apart ment manager’s office and ask for an adjustment, he says. The managers of Brook- wood, Cripple Creek, Planta tion Oaks and Tree House apartments also say they will help their tenants if they ask for an adjustment. volea. Tb Papa’s Pizza Play the Odds with Papa’s! 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The former vice president took the occasion to charge that Hart had a blemish on his civil rights record — a May 15, 1979, vote not to restore an embargo of Rhodesian chrome. “I fought to reimpose that embargo, and my opponent voted to prevent the reimposi tion of that embargo,” he de clared. “There’s a difference, a deep difference in our commit ment to this most profound is sue.” Mondale said later he was not charging that Hart has an anti- civil rights record, only that “it’s a question of intensity and com mitment.” He also defended meeting with Alabama Gov. George BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL Airline Reservations • Hotel/Motel Accomodations - Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours • Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 • Agency is fully computerized* 410 S. Texas/ Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station Wallace, once the nemesis of civil rights. Mondale said Wal lace has accepted the change in the South “in good grace” and “he’s said himself he made a mistake” about his segregation ist past. Hart, who campaigned among union workers and stu dents in Birmingham Wednes day, responded to Mondale’s at tack, saying, “I don’t think that the negative Mondale campaign is going to work because Fritz Mondale doesn’t believe it him self. “Fritz Mondale ... knows that I am as committed to civil rights as he is; he knows that I have just as deep feelings for human needs and needs of this country as he does.” In Washington, a spokeswo man for Hart said his staff was not clear what vote Mondale was citing, but a review of Hart’s record showed he "con sistently” supported the em bargo in a dozen votes on the is sue. Hart produced a landslide in Vermont Tuesday following earlier wins in New Hampshire in Maine. With all votes counted, he had 51,703, 71 per cent. 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