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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1984)
Tuesday, September 25, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 '2x Mom's prepares homestyle food By MARK SPICER Reporter Mom’s Diner in Bryan is by no means fancy, but it is a popular eat ing place for Texas A&M students and town folks. The friendly atmo sphere, the home-cooked food and the all-you-can-eat offer for $5 is hard for many to pass up. Don Mahan, owner and manager of the restaurant said people don’t come to Mom’s Diner for the fancy looks. “They come here to eat,” he said. The diner has been around for 53 years and is one of the oldest eating establishments in Bryan-College Sta tion. The diner moved to its present location on East 25th Street about 28 years ago, after the first house it was in burned down, he said. Mahan and his wife, Betty, bought the diner three years ago from Mrs. R. E. Carlton wno originally started the restaurant and operated it for the first 50 years. Eating at Mom’s Diner has be come a tradition in some families, Mahan said. Some former A&M stu dents who ate at Mom’s Diner when they were going to school some 20 years ago. Now when they come to town many of them take their sons or daughters who attend the Univer sity to the diner. Mahan said he sometimes adver tises in the newspapers and tried ad vertising on the radio once. How ever, he said, 85 percent of his business comes from faithful pa trons and word-of-mouth. He said the diner has catered a wedding re hearsal party, numerous birthday parties and last year the evening meal to one of the fraternity houses. The diner seats 40 and is open six days a week. Approximately 70 peo ple are served each day, but the re cord number served is 132 in one hour and 55 minutes, he said. Mahan said they receive a daily delivery of meat and serve only fresh vegetables. A menu on the wall shows the days of the week when steaks, meat loaf, fried chicken, en chiladas, pork chops and chicken fried steaks are available. Hypnotist puts crowd to sleep, gives hypnotic delusions *n could il ofluenceTI d if he i] i teles uni nd re than oi i" of rawls" own to s smoked: tnealwon open cob e tips ui After waking the hypnotized participants, Edwin L Baron had two people stand, and he asked them to tell their right from their left arm. Neither knew. By PATRICIA FLINT Staff Writer Billed as the world’s leading hyp notist, Edwin L. Baron had students searching for their stolen belly but tons, laughing and then crying at the funniest and then saddest movie they had ever seen, and beliving they were Liberace under post-hypnotic suggestion Monday night. A short dark man, wearing a tux edo, with a velvet bow tie crooked against his ruffled shirt, Baron looked more like a game show host than a hypnotist. But the audience was assured of his authenticity when they were told that Baron has had articles published in Time, Life, Look and Newsweek magazines, as well as having appeared eight times on the Mike Douglas Show. Baron told the Rudder Theater audience of about 200 that no one can be hypnotized against his will, and once hypnotized, no one can be made to do anything against his will. He was convincing, for as soon as Baron asked for volunteers to be hypnotized, people came running down the aisles to fill the 30 seats on the stage. After an initial test to see which of the volunteers could be hypnotized most easily, Baron hypnotized a group of eight. He had them extend their right arms, which he said were stiff and could feel nothing. Baron lit a match and held it under each person’s hand. Baron had one man extend his left arm as well as his right, tell ing the man that he had no feeling in his right arm, but proper feeling in his left. When the match was held under his right palm the man didn’t flinch, but when held under his left hand, the man jerked it away. After waking the participants up, Baron had two people from the group of eight stand, and he asked them to tell their left arm from their right. Neither could. Baron then asked a woman from the group to tell the two standing which was their left arm and which their right. She didn’t know either. Then a fourth person was asked — he pointed them out correctly, but said he really wasn’t sure. Baron even told them which was which, but when he asked them to recite it back, they couldn’t remember. Finally, after much laughter from the audience and much confusion on the faces of the volunteers, Baron told them they were back to normal and immediately they knew their left from their right again. Baron put two women to sleep by merely shaking their hands. He put a man to sleep by shaking the hand of the woman sitting next to him and CSISD approves 1984-85 'constrainf budget, adds, modifies put her to sleep in the process. Not all responded to Baron’s sug gestions, but those who did felt a swarm of ants crawling up their legs, saw the funniest movie they had ever seen and then the saddest, thought they were Liberace, thought they had their belly buttons stolen, and two men — told they were Ronald Regan and Walter Mondale — had a short debate. Baron gave his volunteers, which had dwindled to 12, a gift. He told them, while asleep, that they would be fascinated by school and that their understanding, comprehen sion, reading speed and ability to re call would all increase greatly. bus routes mixing k opularw “Are the I “get®; neaningi new prf tomolop t these ne ;round" rc s that hi r moralic rom rug unde Die currci ogy: chfl| ritneylah i to obi£ tee of sud ineviti mally, hi By Doug Vorwerk Reporter The Board of Trustees of the Col lege Station Independent School District had a special meeting Mon day night to approve the 1984-85 budget. Joe Templeton, a member of the budget committee, said more money will be put into instructional pro grams. The new budget will operate un der more of a constraint than ones in the past. This means all purchases or obligations must be authorized according to the budget. An em ployee must have authorization in advance by purchase order. If spending is not authorized, an em ployee must assume personal re sponsibility for it. Another item approved by the board was the adoption of the tax rate for the 1984 tax roll. In accord ance with the funding requirements of the 1984-85 budget, a rate of 95 cents per $100 is required. The 95 cents is divided into 66.3 cents for the operating fund and 28.7 cents for the debt service fund. The 1984-85 salary schedule was ammended in order to include two part-time jobs not specifically identi- who dw trip ologylnt 7ifl Wfl® dined®' d though his trait wasn’t il' initiate” just the enf inersa 111 ve. 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The two positions added to the schedule are a bus driver for extra curricular trips and a driver’s assis tant to help on special education handicap buses. The hourly rates for these positions are the same as those adopted earlier this year, $4 to $5.50 an hour. Additional bus routes and route modification was also discussed. It became necessary to add these routes because people have had to stand on the buses. Two additional routes were added east of Texas Avenue for eligible riders. It was moved that the two additional regu lar routes and an additional paid route be authorized for operation during the 1984-85 year. The mo tion was passed. A local leave policy for para-pro- fessional personnel employed in the CSISD was also passed. This allows earnings for leaves such as sick leave for para-professionals to be equal with leaves of professional person nel. Some old business was taken care of in addition to the action items. Bids for string instruments for the district were solicited. 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