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A&M maid loves dorm residents
By SHERRIE COUCH
Reporter
By appearance alone, Ora Carter
is just another maid at Texas A&M.
She’s almost unnoticed as she enters
Spence Hall.
Her uniform is just like the oth
ers’: maroon polyester smock, white
polyester pants and black, rubber
wading boots. Appearances, though,
can be misleading.
Last fall Carter turned 60, but her
face shows no dramatic signs of ag
ing. And her hair is still black.
There’s a slump in her shoulders as
she walks, and at times she looks
run-down, but her smile is always
there.
Carter married early and had five
children in eight years. All of her
children are grown — the youngest
is 34. And, she’s been divorced for
the past 33 years.
In the late 1930s, it was not un
common for poor families to take
their children out of school to help
with the work, and Carter was one of
those children who wasn’t able to
finish school.
“I just got through the eighth gra
de,” Carter said. “But I don’t feel
bad about not finishing school.
Somebody’s got to do the hard work.
“I’ve been working here at the
University for 17 years now,” Carter
said as she shrugged her shoulders
and laughed. “I’ve got nothing bet
ter to do.”
cigarette and reading The Batta
lion,” one Spence resident said. “For
a while there she gave up smoking
because she couldn’t afford to keep
buying cigarettes. But I guess she
just couldn’t kick the habit.”
Carter said she wanted to quit
smoking because her job was on the
line — not because the work she was
doing was below standard, but be
cause she was getting old. She knew
she couldn’t afford to buy cigarettes
if she lost her job.
But her job is a little more stable
right now. Spence Hall residents
threatened to petition for Carter’s
job security.
“I like Spence,” she said. “There’s
a bunch of good-timing girls here.
They’re not stuck-up or nothing like
that.”
At times Carter goes beyond her
line of duty, doing extra work in the
dorm. She repainted one dorm hall
way in her free time during
Christmas break.
This summer, Carter is working
in Dorm 3 because Spence is closec
for repainting.
Carter is a self-professed worka
holic but admits the most important
thing in her life will probably be her
retirement.
“That’ll probably be when I’m 80
years old,” she said with a laugh.
Day in and day out, Carter vacu
ums, cleans shower stalls, scrubs toi
lets and takes out the trash that 108
young women accumulate over the
week. At times the trash doesn’t even
fit into the trash can.
jersonal
Carter has her own
closet on each of the four floors in
Spence. The girls in the dorm have
given her signs, cards and memo
boards for messages to decorate the
doors.
Clements predicts
oil boom in Texas
by the year 2000
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Former Gov. Bill
Clements predicted Tuesday that
by the year 2000, Texas produc
ers will have technology advanced
enough to recover as much crude
oil as the state has produced so
far.
“It will have enormous implica
tions for the economy of the state
as well as our national security,”
Clements told the Texas Inde
pendent Producers and Royalty
Owners Association. “We’re talk
ing about in the future producing
from the known reservoirs of the
state the equivalent amount of oil
that we have produced to date.”
Much of the state government
revenue in the past has come
from oil and gas taxes, but that
has declined in recent years due
to the oil industry’s economic
downturn.
Clements founded SEDCO
Inc., an international oil drilling
firm in 1947. SEDCO merged
with Schlumberger Ltd. in 1984.
Clements, who as Texas’ only
Republican governor this century
served from 1978 to 1982, said he
was making h non-partisan effort
to stress the importance of the oil
and gas industry to the state and
nation.
“I’m not running for any
thing,” Clements told reporters
after his speech, but he did say he
thought Democratic Gov. Mark
White, who defeated him in 1982,
is very vulnerable.
Clements, a former deputy
U.S. defense secretary, also said
the nation could not afford the
luxury of not having an energy
policy.
He said the nation’s $63 billion
trade deficit, of which about half
was caused by imported oil, is a
serious problem.
“It not only affects our national
security from a logistical stand
point, but it affects our
relationship with both Canada
and Mexico,” he said.“If Mexico
is to recover from the doldrums it
is now in, it will be through its
relationship through energy with
the United States.
He predicted that crude oil
prices will remain relatively stable
at about the “current levels and
then gradually increase by about
50 percent by the year 2000.”
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
Ora Carter, a maid at Texas A&M, reads The Battalion while
on her break in her closet in Briggs Hall.
During lunch. Carter usually
takes a break to watch “All My Chil
dren” in the dorm lounge.
“You can always catch her taking
breaks in her closet too, holding a
On one floor, Carter left the mes
sage, “You are so neet.” Though the
word was misspelled, the message
was clear. There’s a lot of love be
tween the dorm residents and their
maid.
Judge: state violating
mental health order
Associated Press
B-CS population rises by 25 percent
Census Bureau releases statistics
Associated Press
■WASHINGTON — The popula
tion of Bryan-College Station has
risen by 25 percent to 117,400 since
the 1970s, making this community
one of the fastest-growing metropol
itan areas in the nation, according to
the Census Bureau.
The bureau reported Tuesday
that some smaller metropolitan
areas such as B-CS, with less of a
population base to start with,
showed even greater percentages of
growth than large areas.
Florida and Texas accounted for
10 of the II fastest-growing metro
areas, the bureau said. On a percent
age basis, the bureau also listed these
Texas metropolitan areas as three of
the fastest growing in the nation:
Midland, 113,600, up 38 percent;
Odessa, 144,500, up 25 percent and
Austin, 645,400, up 20 percent.
The bureau also reported that
Houston continued its phenomenal
expansion to lead major urban
growth in the United States.
Close behind Houston was Dallas-
Fort Worth, with 14.2 percent
f rowth to bring its population to
,348,000. It ranked tenth in both
1980 and 1984.
But San Antonio was not to be
outdone. One of the 37 largest me
tropolises in the nation, it was one of
eight that grew by 10 percent
more between 1980 and 1984.
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Metropolitan statistical areas are
generally defined as regions of com
mon economic interest with a city of
at least 50,000 people at the center.
DALLAS — A federal judge, who
ruled that Texas is violating an or
der regarding the release of mental
patients, said he won’t take action
until after he gets a community serv
ice plan from the state mental health
department.
In a 12-page ruling issued Mon
day, U.S. District Judge Barefoot
Sanders said the state’s community
mental health services are only “min
imally adequate” and blamed the
Texas Legislature and local govern
ments for not providing enough
money for them.
Sanders ruled that the state has
been violating his year-old order
that mental patients be discharged
only to proper community pro
grams.
The Texas Department of Mental
Health and Mental Retardation has
tried to comply with the order, he
said, but hasn’t had enough money.
, The agency has not, however,
been discharging mental patients be
fore they are ready to re-enter so
ciety, Sanders said.
The judge said he must find “an
appropriate remedy for failure to
comply” with his order.
But Sanders said he will wait until
he receives a plan next month from
the mental health department,
which is supposed to include a
blueprint for developing community
services and complying with require
ments of a 1981 settlement of a class-
action lawsuit against state mental
hospitals.
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or dance. His special brand of wit and satire highlights the
1985-86 season of the Opera & Performing Arts Society of
Texas A&M.
Hal Holbrook’s famous one-man presentation “Mark Twain Tonight” is just one of eight
magical performances the Opera & Performing Arts Society (MSC OPAS) will bring to
Bryan-College Station for the 1985-86 season. Several may be available only to season ticket
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Each brings its own magic to Texas A&M’s Rudder Auditorium. Make this the year you
experience the magic of MSC OPAS. This year make the magic yours.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra September 12, 1985
“Leonard Slat kin and his Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra must be considered major forces on the American muscial
scene. ’’—Karen Monson, Chicago magazine.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center October 8, 1985
“The musical success story of the generation!”—Harold Schonberg, the new york times.
Hubbard Street Dance Company November 14, 1985
“...the cat’s pajamas, the bee’s knees, the fastest gun in the West, the sexiest gal in town...groovy, dreamy, peachy,
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Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain Tonight! January 29, 1986
Mr. Holbrook has breathed life into Mr. Twain in this one-man show for almost 30 years. His skill at becoming the beloved
story-teller of A merica ’s youth is uncanny. He is Twain. Through him relive the wonder of one of A merica ’s great writers and
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The Vienna Choir Boys February 11, 1986
“Above and beyond the musical virtues of this group...they put on a heckuva good show.”—John Schuster-Craig,
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Young Uck Kim, Violinist February 21, 1986
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Katia and Marielle Labeque, Piano Duet March 27, 1986
“Far and away the most exciting two-piano team before the listening public today. los angeles times.
The Houston Ballet performing “Peer Gynt” April 9, 1986
“...fine dancers, spirited, unashamedly popular, and very good at providing the sort of ballet a big public wants to
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