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    Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 11,1985
CRISIS IN
CENTRAL AMERICA
A Talk And Slide Presentation With Phillip
Russell and Frederico Hollmann
Thursday, Sept 12
7:30 PM
College Station Community Center
1300 Jersey, Room 106
Co-Sponsored by Student Peace Action
and Brazos Valley Peace Action
Comptroller seizes Dallas businesses
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The state comptrol
ler Tuesday began seizing Dallas
businesses for delinquent sales tax
receipts and said similar seizures are
planned in other cities this week.
Comptroller Bob Bullock said the
closings were a last resort, but nec
essary.
“Some businesses just persist in
not paying the tax money they col
lect from their customers,’’ Bullock
said. “Each and every one of the
businesses we are seizing has been
given ample opportunity to pay the
money they owe.”
At least one Dallas business was
closed Tuesday, said John Moore,
spokesman for Comptroller Bob
Bullock. Others could face the same
fate, he said.
Bullock said that in addition to the
seizures, enforcement officers are
filing liens and freezing bank ac
counts of delinquent merchants.
“Most Texas merchants follow the
law and pay the taxes they collect,”
Bullock said. “We’ve only got a few
bad apples we’re about to remove
from tne barrel.
“In today’s competitive business
environment,” he said, “we owe it to
the honest taxpayer who pays his
taxes promptly to see that his com
petitor does the same.” -
Sales tax receipts collected by
merchants at the time of sale are le
gally due the state.
“These merchants have a clear-cn
choice: they can pay the nionn
when it’s due or they can make
hard for themselves by not
and see their business shut down,
Bullock said. “It’s the governmem
money, but it’s their choice.”
Under state law, after thecoitf
troller padlocks a tax-delinm
business, he is empowered to set
company’s assets at auction to
the taxes due.
Mattox: Cameras can be barred from public meetings
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AUSTIN — State and local offi
cials are free to prohibit television
news cameras from covering public
meetings, Attorney General Jim
Mattox said in a legal opinion made
public Tuesday.
The state’s 1973 Open Meetings
Act says public meetings “may be re
corded ... by means of a tape re
corder or any other means of sonic
reproduction.’
The Texas Association of Broad
casters said the Mattox ruling could
affect television coverage of public
meetings throughout the state.
Earlier this year, Titus County
commissioners voted 4-0 to bar tele
vision cameras from their meetings.
The action came after County Judge
Bill Harper had invited a small Mt.
Pleasant television station to video
tape and air the commissioners court
meetings.
Daily Tribune, “It says the same
thing that it said before.”
The camera invited into the court
room by Harper belonged to EVP
Network, a Mt. Pleasant operation
that leases air time from the local ca
ble company.
ciation of Broadcasters lawyershm
reviewed the law and see no »j
Mattox's opinion can be challenged
“He has precedent on his side's
fortunately,” McLane said. "Ourj
torneys said, ‘Don’t bother.’
However, Mattox said, “sonic re
production,” as mentioned in the
Open Meetings Act, does not in
clude TV cameras.
“I thought they were doing a serv
ice for the community,” Harper said
Tuesday. “We meet at a time of day
i lo
“This provision does not give
members of the public a right to vi
deotape meetings,” Mattox said in
answer to a question raised by Titus
County officials. “In the absence of a
specific provision permitting a mem
ber of the public to record its meet
ings by videotape, the commission
ers court may prevent the
videotaping of its meetings held pur
suant to the Open Meetings Act.”
when a lot of people cannot be in the
courtroom. This was an opportunity
to see how the commission func
tions. I can’t see anything wrong
with that.”
But the commissioners did, and
they approved the rule that barred
cameras as of April 8.
Commissioner Loyd Clark, who
pushed for the ban, did not answer
calls to either his office or home
Tuesday. Asked about Mattox’s
opinion, Clark told the Mt. Pleasant
The commissioners court pro
ceedings were broadcast in their en
tirety after the local news on EVP’s
channel 10.
Gale Johnson, FVP’s office man
ager, said, “When things got sticky
or issues got hot it was videotaped.
Things were being shown that the
commissioners didn’t like.”
The videotaping was done with a
single camera, mounted on a tripod
near a wall. It was not interfering
with the proceedings, she said.
“With video, what you see is what
you’re doing,” she said. “We didn’t
change anytning. They got tired of
be I
it. They didn’t want to be TV stars.’
FVP plans a court challenge of the
camera ban.
Bonner McLane, TAB executive
vice president, said the Texas Asso-
U rider the “sonic reproductioi
law, “You can carry a microphone!
but you can’t carry a camera in,’’I
Lane added.
“This (controversy) was just a k
calized situation,” he said. "Howli
it will get carried I don’t know
someone else gets mad at the lod
TV station, they could dothesam
thing.”
The Titus County cominissionta
believed the cameras turned tlis
meetings into a forum for people
complain and get air time, accortij
to McLane.
The TAB will ask the 1987
lature to revise the Open Meerint
Act to include videotaping of puk
meetings, McLane said.
The Society of Professonal Jon
nalists also wants the 1987 Legs
lature to rewrite the law.
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2.16 carats
2.10 carats
2.04 carats
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1.33 carats
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1.24 carats
1.11 carats
1.10 carats
1.10 carats
1.06 carats
1.05 carats
1.04 carats
1.02 carats
1.01 carats
1.01 carats
1.00 carats
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.93 pts
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.80 pts
.78 carats
.75 pts
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$7,000
$5,000
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$6,000
$5,000
$3,000
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$2,000
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$1,000
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15,000
9,000
14.700
14,000
12.500
10.900
6.500
5,200
6.300
2,800
4.700
3.700
3.300
2,800
33.00
4.900
4.300
3.300
3,300
3,300
3.250
2,950
2,850
1,800
2,800
2.700
2,600
1.700
1,700
1,700
1.650
1,350
1.650
1,750
1,595
1,495
1,395
1,150
1,175
1,050
1.250
1,240
590
625
625
425
410
400
7,295
4.975
7,500
7,600
5.975
5,245
3,250
2,875
3,150
1,935
2,300
1,885
1,850
1,435
1,650
2,595
2,195
1,760
1,745
1,745
1,685
1,520
1,525
995
1,435
1,350
1,335
975
975
930
865
650
795
820
785
770
735
535
695
520
660
630
295
325
320
235
225
215
Our
At:
Price:
■ OVAL ■
.21 pts
390
$ 195
.20 pts
395
205
Treasury
Compare
Our
.20 pts
250
130
Bonds
At:
Price:
.17 pts
215
105
.15 pts
195
95.00
.71 pts
$1,000 in bonds
$2,700
$1,425
.11 pts
180
68.00
.71 pts
$1,000 in bonds
2,800
1,425
.10 pts
135
63.00
.63 pts
1,500
895
.08 pts
85.00
41.00
.45
875
425
.07 pts
76.00
38.00
.44
695
335
.06 pts
65.00
33.00
.42
650
315
.05 pts
50.00
29.95
.41
650
310
.04 p ts
42.00
19.95
.38
600
285
.03 pts
28.00
14.95
.35
550
265
.02 pts
18.00
9.95
.32
495
240
.01 pt
11.00
5.50
.30
450
225
MARQUISE
Treasury
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Bonds
At:
Price:
2.54 carats
$8,000 in bonds
$15,900
$8725
1.67 carats
$6,000 in bonds
11,500
5950
1.49 carats
$5,000 in bonds
9250
5195
1.46 carats
$3,000 in bonds
5900
3750
1.19 carats
$2,000 in bonds
4900
2440
1.01 carats
$3,000 in bonds
6500
3350
65 pts
$1,000 in bonds
2800
1450
63 pts
$1,000 in bonds
3100
1495
55 pts
1700
895
50 pts
790
375
45 pts
700
345
40 pts
950
485
40 pts
650
325
38 pts
750
460
35 pts
750
425
35 pts
750
425
35 pts
750
425
37 pts
900
450
37 pts
875
450
34 pts
820
410
33 pts
850
395
30 pts
750
365
30 pts
750
365
27 pts
725
335
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At:
Price:
2.58 carat
$9,000 in bonds
$19,500
$8890
.83 pts
$1,000 in bonds
2900
1650
.78 pts
$1,000 in bonds
2900
1575
.28
.27
.25
.13
450
385
390
195
210
200
195
98
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At:
Price:
1.91 carats
$7,000 in bonds
$16,500
$7450
1.47 carats
$3,000 in bonds
7300
3195
1.03 carats
$2,000 in bonds
4950
2495
1.04 carats
$2,000 in bonds
4800
2350
.93 pts
$2,000 in bonds
3700
1850
.42 pts
.35 pts
1595
1350
795
635
EMERALD
Treasury
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Bonds
At:
P-ice
3.14 carats
$11,000 in bonds
$22,500
$10,700
1.04 carats
$2,000 in bonds
6200
2595
1.03 carats
$2,000 in bonds
3800
1820
INVENTORY
LIQUIDATION
SALE
We re drastically overstocked, because of late l
come tax refunds, and must begin immediateIqt
dation of all inventories. Nothing will be held ini
All sacrificed at a traction over dealer s cost
Heavy duty bed frame
(Lifetime guarantee)
S pc. dining set
3 pc. cocktail table set
All wood bookcase
4 drawer heavy duty chest
Man sized recliner
Sofa and chair sets
S79JS
589 ii
529*
549*
$129*
$189*
Also barstools. odd headboards, dining chairs,twf
rames. bunk beds, glass tables and much more'
3 pc. lawn (urn (All wood) 549*
SAVE 20-60%
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2.05 carats
1.99 carats
1.64 carats
1.27 carats
.62 pts
.54 pts
.47 pts
.39 pts
.33 pts
.33 pts
.28 pts
.23 pts
Treasury
Bonds
$3,000 in bonds
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$3,000 in bonds
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$1,000 in bonds
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At:
$4,500
14,000
3,000
5,200
2,800
2,300
2,100
495
675
490
395
395
GOLD COIN JEWELRY
Largest Stock of Gold Jewelry in the Area! Hundreds of Pieces to choose from. Rings, Pendants, Diamond Gold Coin Jewelry. Large stock
of gold coin mountings for all popular Gold Coin Krugerands, Maple Leaf, Gold Panda.
14 KARAT GOLD CHAINS
Largest stock in the Brazos Valley, over 1,000 gold chains in stock! All gold sold by weight!! 22.95-25.95 a penny weight. Don’t be
fooled by Half-Price Sales, Clearance Sales or Going Out of BusinessSales! If you pay more than this, you paid too much!
Some items one-of-a-kind, subject to prior sale.
Shop, Compare and Save Money!!
Never A Sale! Just the best prices in town! Our prices are up to 70%less than what other jewelers charge for the same merchandise.
Full time jewelry repairman on premises.
Bryan Store Hours:
Mon.-Fri. 9:30-5
Sat. 9:30-3
Across from Wal-Mart
693-2457
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