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‘Hotdog lady’
serves students
By ANN BRIMBERRY
Reporter
You can see her almost every
weekday in a red and while striped
apron selling hotdogs and cold
drinks on the corner of Ireland and
Ross streets on campus.
Sharon Turner, also known to
some as the “hotdog lady,” is em
ployed by Texas A&M Food Services
Department as an assistant to sell
snacks to faculty and students who
are on the go between classes.
“The philosophy of the Food
Services Department is to provide
the best service to the students,” said
James Arnold, manager of The Un
derground snack bar. “This enables
the students easy access to get a bite
to eat during breaks.”
I Turner assembles her cart at
I about 8:00 each morning with pas-
| tries, coffee, juice, milk and soft
I drinks. The pastries cost 25 cents to
150 cents and the beverages cost 25
I cents to 60 cents.
I Sandwiches and hotdogs are
I added to the cart at about 10:15 a.m.
I and sell for $ 1 each.
I “We’re busy with hotdogs and
K sandwiches and lunch items from
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.,” Turner said.
“Another young lady comes and
helps me during that time because
we usually have kids lined up every
where.”
Turner moved to College Station
eight months ago from New York,
where she worked as a physical the
rapy assistant.
“Most of all, there are pretty nice
kids at Texas A&M,” she said.
“When I moved here I didn’t know
anyone, just the people at work. But
a lot of kids come everyday. They
come and talk with me, and I look
forward to seeing them. I see some
thing different in them. I like the
people.”
The Food Services Department
started the cart service last October.
Eventually the covered area on the
corner of Ross and Ireland streets
will be made into a snack bar with a
grill which will enable the students to
have more of a variety, Turner said.
“We are very pleased with the
progress we’ve seen,” Arnold said.
“Sharon - really enjoys her job, and
the fact that she does makes it all
worthwhile.”
Photo by DA VID LEYENDECKER
University employee Sharon Turner sells geology graduate student Frank Irwin a danish from her stand.
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WASHINGTON — 1 he gross na
tional product grew at a moderate
3.6 percent annual rate during the
past quarter, only half as strong as
the previous three month period,
the government said Thursday, but
officials believe it may Ik* enough to
improve the job market.
The “flash” projection by govern
ment economists did not include the
effects of the United Auto Workers
strike against General Motors that
could reduce growth to 3.3 percent
if it lasts until Sept. 30.
The unemployment rate has re
mained at 7.5 percent for three of
the past four months, the same rate
as when President Reagan took of
fice.
But Commerce Department chief
economist Robert Ortner said the
pace is still strong enough to ease the
unemployment rate downward in
the months ahead.
The department’s report on the
value of all the country’s goods and
services showed the economy is now
going through one of its slowest pe
riods of the recovery, but remains
better than the average of the past
two years average.
In the eight quarters since the
GNP stopped shrinking, only two
have had lower growth rates.
The vigorous April-June quarter
grew at a revised rate of 7.1 percent,
slightly less than the 7.6 percent last
reported, and the first quarter
surged at a spectacular 10.1 percent
rate.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes, speaking from Air F'orce
One as President Reagan flew to a
campaign stop in Iowa, called the re-
f iort “good news” and said the latest
igures indicate “the economy is set
tling into sustainable growth.”
The slowdown in July and August
is being blamed on high interest
rates and the fact consumers may
have Finally caught up on the pur
chases delayed through two recent
recessions.
“The fastest part of the recovery is
over,” said economist Larry Chime-
rine, head of the Chase Economie-
trics analysis firm.
“The only question is whether this
is the beginning of an even sharper-
slowdown” or a continuing moder
ate growth pattern, he said.
The indicated slowdown was less
drastic than many Wall Street ana
lysts anticipated as they revised their
economic outlooks downward this
week. So the effect on trading was
muted even though slower growth
encourages investors that interest
rates may come down.
For the economy as a whole, the
weaker growth path suggests a slow
down in the creation of new jobs.
The report said inflation through
out the economy, not just for con
sumers, is expected to run at a 2.9
percent rate in the third quarter, less
than the second quarter’s 3.3 per
cent.
Los Fresnos hardest hit
Coast seeking relief
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — The Cam
eron County Commissioners
court unanimously asked Gov.
Mark White Thursday to seek
federal disaster relief for a coastal
area that County Judge Moises
Vela said suffered $25 to $50 mil
lion in damages from a 20-inch
tropical rain.
Vela took a helicopter ride
over the county and reported that
50 percent to 75 percent of the
eastern portion along the coast
was still under water a day after
heavy thunderstorms subsided.
While Vela was aloft, storm
clouds from a tropical distur
bance in the Gulf of Mexico
headed for the Hooded area, but
the National Weather Service re
ported at midafternoon that the
system broke up over land and
dropped only light rainfall from
South Padre Island-Port Isabel to
Los Fresnos and Brownsville.
Three straight days of heavy
rain that ended Wednesday
morning in the same area routed
an estimated 300 people from
their homes. Most of them were
returning on Thursday along
with the 1,500 people who had
been evacuated from flood-prone
Matamoros, Mexico.
The rainfall, heaviest since
Hurricane Beulah swept ashore
on Sept. 20, 1967, was spun
ashore from a tropical wave that
receded 100 miles offshore
Wednesday, but which still was
being monitored closely by the
National Hurricane Center on
Thursday.
Wind gusts of up to 47 mph
were registered at South Padre
Island as a fast-moving squall
swept across the sandy resort
shortly after noon Thursday, but
a police spokeswoman said later
the rainfall was not enough to
add to the flooding on the sandy
resort.
“All of the state roads, county
roads and city roads that are ei
ther caliche or asphalt disinten-
grate when they’re under water
and they’re very expensive to re
pair,” Vela said after the commis
sioners court voted 5-0 to seek
federal disaster relief. “And that’s
just one damage. There also is
damage to houses under water.”
At Los Fresnos, the area hard
est hit by flooding, about 80 peo
ple from the low-lying Del Mar
Heights area were still waiting at
the First Baptist Church for the
water to recede from around
their shacks.
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