Battalion
Classifieds
FOR SALE
SUMMER SPECIAL
250.00 2 bdrm/2 bath duplex
*299.00 3 bdrm/2 bath 4-plex
*395.00 3 bdrm/2 bath 4-plex
‘Washer and dryer furnished in 4-plex. Call for an appointment to
view the interiors. Also pre-leasing for fall and spring.
THOMAS PROPERTIES
696-7714 or 696-0982
ROOMMATE WANTED
WANTED: Clean preferrably graduate student room
mate to share charming older Bryan home with female
grad student. 3bdrm. Ibath, fenced yard, garage, 823-
2536. 150t2
To share large 2/2 fenced duplex. Close to campus, on
shuttle. $200/month + ^ utilities. 507 Dominik, 693-
1396. 145t6
Beautiful efficiency apartment. Partially furnished.
130.00/mo. Quiet, residential area. Call 846-7146 or
713-965-4528. 149i5
Share my home. Private room. Kitchen laundry priv-
iledges. 135.00/mo. plus 1/5 utilities. 846-3804. 149t2
Part-time models wanted experience preferred but not
necessary. Guys & Gals Agency, 775-0845. 150tl
Part time apartment maintenance person needed.
Plumbing experience highly desirable. 779-3550,696-
2038. I47t6
FOR RENT
furnished Or unfurnished two bedroom
apartments.CA-H. Two blocks from University $200
up. 779-3700. 147t8
furnished room in 2 bedroom apartment.
$147.'>0/monlh. Walking distance to campus. Pool and
wushctcria on premises. Call Steve 845-3682 (days).
147t4
Two bedroom apartments near campus.$200.00 Two
I>edroom with w/d $230.00 779-3550,696-2038. 147t7
Woldon Pond one bedroom apartment. Summer and
fall lease. $305 ino. Call 693-2986. 144t5
SPECIAL NOTICE
PROFESSORS, WRITERS, STUDENTS...Enjoy the
cool New Mexico Mountains this summer, 9500 feet el
evation, 74 ave daytime temp. Secluded, luxury, 2 bed-
room condos available from June I, through Sept. 7.
Everything included except groceries. Hiking, fishing,
tennis. QUIETNESS. Significant discounts for ex
tended stays. Write: TWINING CONDOS, P.O. Box
696, TAOS SKI VALLEY, N.M. 87571 or call
(505)776-8648. 150t2
SERVICES
ON THE DOUBLE
All kinds of typing at reasonable
rates. Dissertations, theses, term
papers, resumes. Typing and
copying at one stop. ON THE
DOUBLE 331 University Drive.
846-3755.91 tin
Accurate Translations and tutoring English-Spanish.
Good rates. 823-7129, Fausto Alvarez. 693-8335, Tony
Caraballo. 139tl2
T\|>ing 01 Word Processing 1.125/page. Rita at 845-
4818 or 822-2396. 147t5
Deejay music, sound, lights, recording. GOOD Aggie
prices. Kevin after 6, 823-7904. 147t5
PERSONALS
PROBLEM PREGNANCY? Abortion proceduares and
referrals -- Free pregnancy testing. Houston, Texas
(713)271-0121. 80t69
ROOMMATE WANTED
DOMINIK DUPLEXES
2 Bedroom 2 Bath
3 Bedroom 2 Bath
Close to campus
Large, washer/dryer connections,
fenced yards, on shuttle. Outside
pets free.
846-2014 121119
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Battalion
845-2611
12x65 Manor Mobile home,
w/expanded living and dining rooms
(tipouts), two bedrooms, large full
bath, range, central air/heat, covered
wood deck and porch, set-up in large
shaded lot, excellent condition, some
owner finance,$8,950. 846-5835.
4-plex, 404 Manuel Drive. 3/bdrm, 2 bath,
central air/heat, private parking, refrigerator,
stove, vent-a-hood, garbage disposal, dish
washer, planter box in kitchen window,
washer/dryer. 2 downstairs, 2 upstairs. Ideal
for incoming freshman or professors.
$160,000 negotiable. Call (409)567-4974.
14715
Great Buy! Near park, tennis, golf and more. 3 bed
room, 2 bath, corner lot, huge trees, fireplace, wet bar.
Nice! $59,900,823-011.1. 150t2
ATTENTION; F.ntreprenurial student. Sucessful
small business, $1750. Takes 3 hrs. per month, lease
popcorn machines to bars. Owned by senior corp.
member. (713) 870-1100 149t5
HELP WANTED
NEED A JOB
FOR THE SUMMER?
Photoron is seeking college students
to work in production at their facility in
Dallas. Sunday through Thursday,
evening and night shifts available. No
experience necessary, we will train. Up
to $5.25/hr, to start. Offering a $300
Back to School Bonus for those who
commit to an employment term
through late August and maintain per
fect attendance. Call or write Peggy
Smith for more information at: 1460
Prudential, Dallas, TX 75235. 1-800-
442-7568.
ALL BILLS PAID male roommate needed
$180.00/mo. No deposit. John Monty 268-0186. I43tl0
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Bingo reform
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Associated Press
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AUSTIN — State Comptroller
Bob Bullock, who has criticized the
current law allowing bingo games,
Tuesday predicted the L-egislature
would write a tough bingo reform
law before the session ends on Mon
day.
The House and Senate have ap
proved different versions of a re
form measure.
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Texas, critics have charged that only
a small portion of the proceeds are
going to charity.
Alcohol
House OKs bill raising drinking age to 21
“When we sat down last year with
the attorney general and the original
sponsors of legal bingo in Texas, we
all agreed more bingo profits ought
to be going to charity,” Bullock said.
“When this bill gets to the gover
nor’s desk, we’ll accomplish that
goal,” he added.
The reform bills, Bullock said,
“are the result of the lessons we’ve
learned . . . Once the law is changed
to establish a minimum amount (be
given) for charity, the keeping of
proper records we can audit, the
clear authority to close down viola
tors and check crimininal records,
we’ll have the tools we need to regu
late bingo.”
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The House on Tues
day approved a second bill to raise
the drinking age to 21, giving Gov.
Mark White a way to erase the 19-
year-old drinking age without ap
proving a watered-down open con
tainer law.
A measure sent to White last week
would raise the drinking age and al
low increased penalties in drunken
driving cases in which the driver was
holding an open container of an al
coholic beverage.
The bill approved Tuesday only
would raise the drinking age.
“The governor has the choice of
signing either or both,” said House
sponsor Gary Thompson, D-Abi-
lene.
Both measures would raise the
drinking age to 21, but allow it to re
vert to 19 if a federal appeals court
strikes down the federal govern
ment’s attempt to force a nationwide
21-year-old drinking age.
Texas could lose $100 million in
federal highway funds if it does not
raise the legal age.
The second measure was ap
proved with no opposition and no
debate in the House Tuesday. Sen
ators had approved it with little op
position.
Thompson said the bill would
never have reached the House floo/.
if not for the f ederal threat, a thrt
he does not appreciate.
Future efforts to bring thedrinlJ
ing age back down to 18 or 19 prolr
bly would fail, according to Tnomp
son.
The other bill — an amendedver
sion of a minor House bill—i:
dudes the open container provision
approved as a compromise tbi
failed to satisfy the Mothers Again;
Drunk Driving.
MADD wants a ban on drinkin;
while driving. The open containe
section of the bill merely offen
stiffer penalties for drinking driven
convicted of DWI.
Senate OKs bill requiring loan reports
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AUSTIN — Senators approved a
bill Tuesday that would require po-
report
sweet-
litical candidates to
heart loans” for all to see.
The Senate, wary of a filibuster,
also held off on a bill to extend the
life of the state health department
because a senator has announced his
intention to try to tack on an abor
tion amendment.
tinder his desk, a sign that he in
tends to talk at length and wants to
be as comfortable as possible.
Senators sent to the House on
voice vote a bill that would require
political candidates who receive cam
paign loans below the prime interest
rate to list the date of the loan, inter
est rate, lender’s name and names of
those who guaranteed the loan.
Such an attempt would almost un
doubtedly lead to a filibuster that
could block late-session votes and
committee deliberations.
Houston Sen. Craig Washington
went so far Tuesday as to have the
plastic floor covering removed from
“With sweetheart loans, the public
has a right to know,” said Sen. Chet
Brooks, D-Pasadena, who offered an
amendment spelling out require
ments of reporting such loans.
The bill by Sen. Chet Edwards
would require semi-annual reports
of political contributions and ex
penses in election years but would
eliminate the report now required
30 days after an election.
Edwards, D-Duncanville, said his
proposed changes in the Texas Elec
tion Code would prohibit political
action committees from making con
tributions or spending money unless
they had been organized for 60 days
and had at least 10 members.
Another provision would require
a PAG that gives to another PAG to
report the contribution to the secre
tary of state. Yet another provision
would allow a candidate or office
holder who spends personal money
for campaign or office purposes to
reimburse himself from political
contributions.
Edwards’ bill also would proli
PACs from converting political cod;
trihutions to the personal useofi
candidate, of ficeholder, formeraa
didate or former officeholder.
Another Edwards* bill, rewritini
the Election Code for the first tint
in 34 years, has cleared the Legiv
lature and is on the governor’sdest
The Senate on Tuesday alsoa|)
proved a bill striking the powerol
the College Coordinating Board to
discontinue Laredo State Univenilj
The bill eliminates language trial it
quires the approval of the Coont
Mating Board and the donationo!
200 acres of land for Laredo Stale(o
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A/o pass, no play rule controversy
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AUSTIN — The attorney general’s office will
ask the Texas Supreme Court for quick consider
ation of the legal tangle which has ensnarled the
state’s controversial no-pass, no-play rule, offi
cials said Tuesday.
“We’re going to move very quickly,” said Elna
Christopher, spokeswoman for Attorney General
Jim Mattox. “We’ll ask the court to expedite it.”
The rule is a cornerstone of the sweeping
school reforms passed by the Legislature last
summer, but it has been caught in a legal web.
A judge in Orange postponed the Class 5A
state baseball playoffs over a no-pass, no-play
fight, while a Houston judge has declared the
rule unconstitutional.
The rule prohibits a student from participat
ing in extracurricular activities, including athlet
ics, for six weeks if he receives a failing grade in
any course.
Gov. Mark White, who pushed for the rule,
has said it is intended to make certain that stu-
tdents concentrate their energies on studies
father than outside activities such as sports.
* On Friday, State District Judge Marsha D. An
thony in Houston declared the rule unconstitu
tional and ordered the state not to enforce it in
the Alief and Spring Branch school districts.
Her ruling was binding only upon the two dis
tricts named, but was expanded on Monday to in
clude the Cypress-Fairbanks, Klein and Aldine
districts.
v_ Anthony issued the injunction in the case of
football player Chris Stamos and 11 other sw
dents. Stamos had been forbidden to participati
in sjpring football training because of a count
failure.
A judge in Orange, meanwhile, has postpouo!
play in the Class 5A state baseball playoffs ptn
ding a Thursday hearing. District Judge Dart
Dunn is to decide at that time on the status oft
restraining order he issued last week.
Under that order, the University Interschofc
tic League is prohibited from continuing withils
5A playoffs unless West Orange Stark, oeateiif
the first round by Houston Aldine, is advance
to the second round.
i Aldine allegedly used two players ineligW
under the no-pass, no-play rule in winningW
series against Stark.
' Christopher said the attorney general’s of®
is still waiting Anthony’s written order. Til
state’s lawyers also may wait on the outcome!
Dunn’s hearing before going to the Supret'
Court, she said.
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Texas beach lovers take a risk,
bet that hurricanes won’t return
Associated Press
CRYSTAL BEACH — Gambling
isn’t legal in Texas, but thousands of
Southeast Texans are wagering a
hurricane will stay away from their
doors.
In fact, they are so confident that
they are rebuilding the Bolivar Pen
insula into a beachside community
far exceeding the one ravaged by
Hurricane Carla in 1961.
Things are moving quickly.
Homes in the $100,000 to $200,000
range are sprouting, some almost on
the water’s edge. Gulf Shores bank
will open this summer. Two years
ago the peninsula got cable tele
vision. A doctor has set up a clinic
and lives there. A 70-room luxury
motel, started a year ago and bogged
down by financial troubles last sum
mer, is now set to move toward com
pletion.
The city’s budget last year came to
$759,000. In 1971, when the city was
incorporated, the budget was only
$23,000. The city then had two em
ployees, now it has 28.
Alicia, the hurricane that hit two
years ago and did considerable dam
age, hardly kept a builder’s hammer
from swinging. Ann Willis, who is
tax assessor-collector, court clerk
and city secretary, counted 826
building permits during the past 10
years. That comes to about 82 beach
nomes a year and almost seven a
month.
A 12-person police department,
led by Police Chief Alan Sheffield,
patrols the city’s 78 miles of streets
and has a busy time of it on week
ends when the beach swarms with
people.
Crystal Beach is one of a number
of commujnities on the peninsula.
However, it’s the only one that is in
corporated.
Property valuation on the penin
sula and High Island has risen from
$10,282,733 before Carla, to
$249,873,620, reflecting the growth
in building, plus inflated costs of
construction.
Owners of homes on the penin
sula are able to get flood insurance
on their houses as a result of the Na
tional Flood Insurane Act of 1968,
but they can only get up to $185,000
on a single-family house and
$50,000 on its contents. Fire, hail
and sandstorm policies are carried
separately. The owner of a commer
cial building may get up to $250,000
coverage on a building and $200,000
on its contents.
Dr. John Blum came from Hous
ton to set up a clinic in the rear of
the Crystal Beach volunteer fire de
partment building last July. The city
of Crystal Beach is furnishing the
space and utilities in order to have a
doctor in the community of about
1,000 permanent residents.
Madeline and Lonnie Walker of
Beaumont own a cabin on Crenshaw
Beah about seven miles from the
ferry landing. The cabin survived
Carla and Alicia.
“We love it down there,” she said.
“We love to crab and fish and watch
the grandchildren playing on the
beach.
“We survived Carla so that gives
us hope. We had very little damage
from Alicia. Maybe the third time
will be the charm — or the catastro
phe.” But she laughs about the gam-
The optimism of the beach house
owners is further evident in remarks
by Jimmy LeBlanc, a chemical engi
neer who lives in Beaumont. He
built a good-sized beach home in
three months in 1977.
LeBlanc said he doesn’t worry
about hurricanes and believes the
benefits greatly offset the risk. Hur
ricane Alicia left its calling card at his
beach home, but the damage wasn’t
great.
LeBlanc’s house is in the second
row from the beach. Two houses be
tween his and the beach were
washed away by Alicia.
Houston riled
over Esquire's
water report
Associated Press
HOUSTON — City, state aid
federal officials are puzzled ovet
an Esquire magazine report tte 1
identifies Houston water as ha'
ing the highest concentration o‘
suspected carcinogens amongan'
U.S. city.
“I haven’t the foggiest notirt
what they are talking about,” sait
Thomas D. Finer, chief of wa®
hygiene for the Texas Depart
ment of Health.
Esquire says in its June issu f
that Houston’s water has then# 1
micrograms (parts per billion)d
suspected carcinogens per liters
all major U.S. cities.
According to the magazine,th ( l
250 parts per billion for Housin'
compares with 0.4 ppb for tbj
three cities at the bottom of ih'-
list — Fresno, Calif; Bato |, [
Rouge, La. and Boston.
Tiner said the city should con
sider suing the magazine, d
though Department of Publ' 1
Works spokesman Dan Jones sad
that action was not likely.
Despite the report, Housio (
officials contended the city ^
meeting all standards set by ih*
U.S. Environmental Protect^
Agency for drinking water.
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