Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, February 22, 1985
SHOE
by Jeff MacNelly
Psychic to give seminal
teaching brain utilizatt
St. Joseph to get proceeds
from Sunday benefit dance
By'TAMARA BELL
Staff Writer
A dance benefiting St. Joseph
Hospital will be held at the Texas
Hall of Fame Sunday from 5p.m.-9
p.m.
Elizabeth Scott, public relations
director for the hospital, said money
raised at the dance will be used to
update the radiology department.
“Currently we (the hospital) are in
the process of raising $2 million in
order to add eouipment that the
community needs and deserves,”
Scott said.
“A large sum of the money will go
toward the renovation of some
rooms in order to house the new
CAT scan (computerized axial tomo
graphic scanner).”
This is the first year the Bryan
Knights of Columbus Council
#1834 has sponsored the dance. In
past years, the organization has
made contributions.
Deputy Grand Knight Glen
Boone is in charge of the event.
A dance will generate more reve
nue for the hospital because the en
tire community can contribute by
purchasing tickets, he said.
“The community is pitching in,”
Boone said. “Paul Emola, owner of
Hall of Fame, has donated use of the
club and the knights are paying for
the band, the Hall of Fame Gang.
It’s going to be just like a Thursday
night.
“We are helping the hospital with
our contribution because, as a non
profit hospital, sometimes it’s impos
sible to get the large amount of
money needed to fund a project.
The hospital helps the community.
It gives so much that we believe we
should give something in return.”
Admission to the dance is $5.
By JEFF L. BRADY
Reporter
A Bryan psychic who has helped
police unravel dead-end murder
cases will demonstrate a different
facet of his mental prowess next
week in a study/stress seminar here.
Andrew Barnhart says though he
has helped solve 97 major cases with
the aid of his subconscious mind,
none of his abilities are unique. He
says everyone has some psychic
awareness in varying degrees.
Barnhart says the same processes
that allow him to solve crimes can aid
students in studying. Barnhart’s
seminars, or Mental Awareness Pro
grams, will be Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday in the Aggieland Hotel.
Fees are $20 in advance and $25 at
the door.
“During the seminar I’m going to
increase your grades,” Barnhart
says. “And I’m going to increase
your ability to study.”
However, Barnhart says he will
only be able to tell participants how
to utilize their brains — it will be up
to them to follow his guidelines. But
most have no problems, he says.
“They see the results and the re
sults speak for themselves," he says.
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during his seminars.
“We don’t use our minds,” he
says. Only (5 percent of the brain's to
tal capacity is ever f ully utilized, but
years of research, experience and
trial and error have helped him un
derstand the brain’s functioning, he
says.
“There’s 94 percent of the mind
that we really have no idea about,”
he says. “Why waste it?”
The Mental Awareness Program
involves lectures on the history of
the psyche, self meditation, films on
telepathy and telekinesis, study skill
sessions and group discussions.
“I show you the dos and don is of
study,” Barnhart says.
He is now able to suppoil
and his wife on inc
appearances and sen
the one scheduled here.
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munity, however,ist
as possible to psychic i
he say
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to skeptics and criticism,rd
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his family out of Bloomfield,
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Texans feel now is the time
to make major purchases
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A consumer confi
dence survey released Thursday
shows Texans, particularly those in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area, believe
now is a good time to make major
purchases.
The survey, sponsored by the
First City Bancorporation of Texas,
is based on 1,000 telephone inter
views conducted throughout the
state between Jan. 17 and Jan. 31.
Charles T. Franckle, vice presi
dent and chief economist of First
City, said the survey showed con
sumer confidence in Texas was at a
higher level in January than was
shown in a similar survey taken last
fall.
The biggest boost in confidence
was shown when respondents were
asked if they considered now to be a
good time to make major purchases.
In the January poll, 59.1 percent of
the respondents believecf this is a
good time for major purchases. Last
fall, only 50.7 percent showed such
confidence.
“Positive assessments of lower in
terest rates, lower inflation and con
tinued economic growth nationwide
clearly outweighed the negative as
pects of the softness in energy prices
in the minds of Texas consumers,”
said Franckle in a statement released
by First City.
The survey found 69.2 percent of
respondents in North Texas agreed
that now is a good time for major
purchases, as opposed to 58.7 per
cent last fall. North Texans were also
more positive when asked about
their expectations for economic con
ditions during the next five years.
Less confidence, but still a positive
rate, was found in other areas of the
state, with central Texas ranking sec
ond and followed, in order, by the
Gulf region. South Texas, West
Texas and East Texas.
In the Gulf region, which includes
Houston, there was a modest gain in
consumer confidence. A total of 55.9
percent of the respondents thought
this is a good time for major pur
chases, an increase from 45.6 per
cent last fall.
Also, more Gulf area residents
consider themselves better off — 45
f iercent compared to 39 percent last
all.
“Texans feel that they have partic
ipated in the current economic re
covery,” Franckle said, “but that
even better times lie ahead.”
>) Come Play With Us
The Annual Alpha Delta Pi
Playday Dance
featuring
The Executives
February 23, 1985
at
The Aggieland Inn Ballroom
8 p.m.-l a.m.
$3 in advance
$4 at the door
Proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald Houses
*must be 19 or older*
call 693-9446 for more info.
Overtime
Union leaders hail decision on wo(
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The U.S. Su
preme Court ruling this week re
quiring state and local govern
ments to pay overtime wages is
being hailed by union leaders as a
major victory. But Texas govern
ment leaders say the ruling may
have little ef fect.
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme
Court said the federal govern
ment could impose minimum
wage and overtime laws on transit
systems operated by state and lo
cal agencies.
The decision stemmed from a
suit by an employee of the San
Antonio bus system.
The ruling apparently brings
The ruling apparently
brings state and focal gov
ernment workers l
the Fair Labor Statu
Act, which requires
ployers to pay time <
half when emplc
work more than a
dard work week.
standard work week.
“I think it will beat
inder
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dards
the Ausl
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Some
government adnia
tors said
they are interprca
opinion
much more oni
tl
state and local government woi
ers under the Fair l^abor St;
dards Act, which requires e
plovers to pay time and a h
when employees work more th
the unions.
Carl Lynch, the;
i 11 \ director of persoraidj
B\ and large, the city!
well followed the Federalij
Standard Act, so I donti
will have a big impact.”
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