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Battalion Classifieds
WANTED
STUDY I
Recent injury to
wrist, knee or ankle?
Severe enough pain
to remain on study
up to 10 days and 5
visits?
STUDY II
Recent injury with
pain to any muscle or
joint?
One-dbse (4 hours)
in-house study.
STUDY III
Recent injury Study
of 2 day duration
with only 2 visits re
quired.
Volunteers interested in participating in investigative drug studies
will be paid for their time and cooperation.
G&S Studies, inc. 846-5933
FOR RENT
AM
CAMPUS
LOUPOT’S
BOOKSTORE
Now Leasing! We will pay your security
deposit plus, free rent for February!
Starting at $250.00
3902 COLLEGE MAIN
country place
apartments
846 0515 .
50t11/8
-.Condo lor sale or rent. 1 Bdrrn., 1 VS bath, studio type.
Good location. Woodbrook Condos. 764-1951. 71tl/8
AAA Apt. 3 bedroom. 2 bath S375. 2 bedroom, fenced.
house S350. Near A&M. December free. 693-5286. (vStfn
2 & 3 bdrm. house. Some near campus. $300. - $450.
Suzette at 696-1414. 74tl/15
One bedroom apaitineni. $325./»io. All hills paid.
lV*n!, sauna, laundry facilities. Must see to appreciate,
('all Sara, 093-0716. 54tl/24
South-wood, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, brick,
fenced, dishwasher disposak $525. 693-4016.
76tl
Shady, fenced. Lot 12, Oak Forest, 14X56, 2 bedroom,
new. 1 bath and kitchen, central air/heat, storage build
ing, appliances with washer & dryer. $8900, finance.
693-5206 oi collect 806-793-9491. 64tl/20
OFFICIAL NOTICE
ENGINNERING STUDENTS
ALERT!!
Engineering students who entered
in ’84 or ’85 and have not been ad
mitted to the degree-granting se
quence will have the last letter of
their departmental designation
changed to an “L” beginning in
spring ’86. This means that they are
in the lower division and may not
register for sophomore level engi
neering courses. Questins about this
change should be referred to your
departmental advisor. 76t3
SERVICES
ON THE DOUBLE
All kinds of typing at reasonable
raUs. Dissertations, theses, term
papers, resumes. Typing and
copying at one stop. ON THE-
DOUBLE 331 University Drive.
846-3755. 9trtn
FOR SALE
1980 Bonneville. 1982 Rcliant-K Stalion Wagon. Both
very clean, excellent condition. Your choice $3450.
775-4940.845-3385. 73tl/15
2 twin beds, mattress, box springs, 8c frames. $75. per
set. Sofa. $ 100. Chair, $50. Negotiable. 764-1951.
7111/8
HELP WANTED
Little Carsars Pizza,
Now Accepting Applica
tions, Flexible Hours,
East 29th St. Briarcrest.
776-7171
Houston Chronicle looking for
early morning paper delivery
route people. $400-$700.
monthly. Call Julian at 693-2323
or Andy at 693-7815.
65tfn
Accounting grad, student lot busy doclot s i..iice part-
time position. Apply, 1775 Briarcrest Dr. at E. 29th St.
68tfn
Part time help. Grapevine personality. Call 696-
3411. 66tfii
Male student aide needed to clean nursery school daily.
846-5571. 72tfn
Sales-Experienced ladies/men for full time-parttime.
Apply in person. Mayfield’s Clothiers. 404 University.
76tl
PERSONALS
ADOPTION
Happily married, well educated
couple with one adopted child
wish to adopt infant. Confidential.
Expenses paid. Call collect:
(201)545-9047. 7311 ^
ROOMMATE WANTED
Own room in house, 1 Bloch from Campus. All bills
paid. S175. 696-3884
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do the big job.
The
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Construction
to begin on
$160 million
power plant
Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Northern Nat
ural Resources Co., a division of
HNG-InterNorth Inc. of Omaha,
says construction of its $160 million
Texas power plant will start this
month.
The plant will be built in Texas
City on the upper Texas Gulf Coast.
It is planned as a co-generation unit,
the name for plants that produce
both steam for industrial users and
electricity for utility customers.
Natural gas will power the 430-
megawatt plant, the company said
Monday. In first announcing plans
for the plant last June, HNG-Inter-
North officials said that using natu
ral gas to produce two kinds of
power is more economical than us
ing conventional methods. ,
The plant will employ about 25
people in operations and mainte
nance when it opens in mid-1987,
Northern said.
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SHOE
by Jeff MacNelly
Pest control
Exterminators working the bugs out of A&M
By KRIS SHEELEY
Reporter
From raccoons to rats, “crazy”
ants to termites, Texas A&M’s exter
mination program is in charge of the
campus’ pest control.
Bill Shepherd, head of the pro
gram, is assisted by another full-time
exterminator and a part-time stu
dent assistant.
“The worst pest problem at this
time are the crazy ants — they are
named this because they run fast
and from side to side,” Shepherd
says. “They are a particular problem
within the dorms, but they don’t bi
te.”
Other problems common to spe
cific areas on campus are the Ger
man cockroaches in married student
housing and rats on the west side of
campus, he says.
One of the most effective methods
of pest control is alerting the exter
minators to the problem before it
gets out of hand. Shepherd says.
“An example of when a problem
gets out of hand is something that
occured a few years ago,” he says. “A
student in married student housing
had a roach problem that steadily
grew worse because she did not in
form us about the problem. When
we were finally notified, we found
that she had been keeping a stale
doughnut and an old chicken leg in
the corner of the apartment to keep
the roaches in one corner of the
room.”
The three most common pest con
trol problems — fleas, termites and
roaches — are fairly seasonal, he
says. Fleas are the worst during the
summer and termites peak in April
and May. Roaches are a problem all
year, Shepherd says.
General purpose extermination is
performed on most campus build
ings every three months. Shepherd
notifies the occupants of the build
ings two weeks in advance of the
date of extermination so they can be
prepared. Certain rooms, such as
some of the laboratories, need the
notification so they can tell Shep
herd where not to perform treat
ments.
The dorms are treated on a dif
ferent schedule. Because of stu
dents, they are treated during the
summers, and then any other prob
lems are dealt with on a priority basis
during the Christmas holidays.
“Seventy-five percent of tne insect
problems in the dorm areas exist be
cause they are not kept clean,” Shep
herd says. “Even crumbs left on the
floor, a coffee cup or dirty dish left
out overnight can cause pest prob
lems.”
Shepherd says some simple yet ef
fective ways to nelp with pest control
are:
• Keep the dorm areas, especially
rooms, clean.
• Cooperate with the extermina
tors. “Have the rooms ready so we
can takecare of the problem and do
the best job possible,” he says. “If
you are askea to have the cabinets
cleaned out, please try to have it do
ne.”
• In a dorm, contact the resident
advisers as soon as possible upon
finding a problem so they can get a
work order out immediately to mini
mize the problem.
Shepherd says one of his favorite
examples of a person waiting too
long before calling attention to a
problem is of a professor that ne
glected to call anyone when he no
ticed a termite problem. When he fi
nally alerted the exterminators, the
termites had already eaten through
the back of his bookcase and de
voured six years of lecture notes.
An unusual problem found only
in G. Rollie White Coliseum, Shep
herd says, is the raccoons that are
sometimes found to be living in the
ceiling and munching on the insula
tion and pneumatic pipes. Quite a
few have sneaked through the steam
tunnels in the last 10 years, he says.
“I capture them with a harmless
trap and set them free in the woods
by Easterwood Airport,” Shepherd
says. “Once I caught five in one day
— a mother and her children. It
took me a while, but I was able to get
all of them back to the woods.”
Group helps children search for new homes
By KAREN MCINTSOH
Reporter
Alfred, 6, and Rosemary, 13, are
brother and sister. Alfred is mildly
retarded. He and his sister need a
two parent family who will spend
time with them.
These children are two of the 75
to 85 children each month in Brazos
and seven surrounding counties that
need adoptive parents.
Brenda Rumfield, regional adop
tion worker for the Department of
Human Resources, locates families
for these children.
“Most of the children come out of
abuse or neglect backgrounds,”
Rumfield says. “Of course our first
priority is to work with families of
children who can return home.”
In fact, Rumfield notes that 80
ercent of the children brought to
er attention are returned home.
The others can’t go home because
they are in danger of physical injury,
she says.
“If we are not able to return the
child home safely,” Rumfield says,
“then we approach the courts.”
In these cases, the courts inter
vene and in some cases will decide
the child needs a new family.
At that point, Rumfield begins
looking for a family for the child.
These children are difficult to
place because often they are physi
cally or mentally handicapped, mi
norities, or need to be placed with
their brother or sister.
Rumfield looks for families that
meet the needs of the child, not a
family where the child fits the fami
ly’s desires.
Because there are more children
who need families than families
looking for children, Rumfield tries
to promote the adoption of needy
children.
She does public appearances, talks
to church groups, sends out fliers
and sets up displays.
And every year there is a special
adoption recruitment drive. Adop
tion Week is a special program held
every year to promote community
awareness of unadoptable children,
Rumfield says.
But, Rumfield says she doesn’t
usually get an immediate response
from parents that attend adoption
week. Rumfield says interested par
ents will usually not call until the
spring after they study their situa
tion.
“There is a decision process invol
ved,” Rumfield says. “People will call
and say, ‘remember that adoption
week you had last fall?’ ”
Rumfield says she has many adop
tive parents who are faculty and
graduate students at Texas A&M.
“A graduate student has more
flexible hours than an undergradua
te,” Rumfield says. “A child takes a
lot of time.”
To adopt a child, parents must
meet certain criteria required by law
and the agency.
Parents should be close to the ages
of the child’s natural parents. For
example, Rumfield explains that a
75-year-old woman would not be al
lowed to adopt a 5-year-old child.
Rumfield says potential parents
need to pass a physical exam to
prove they aie healthy enough to
care for a child.
Applicants must have been mar
ried for two years. But if one of the
parents has been divorced, the cou
ple must have been married for
three years.
Applicants can be single too,
Rumfield says.
Financial status is evaluated on
past and present money manage
ment, Rumfield says. The adult’s in
come should be sufficient to meet
the needs of one more child in the
home.
In her evaluation, Rumfield looks
for adults who can deal with an
agency.
“It has a lot to do with procedu
res,” Rumfield says. “They have to
live with rules and regulations.”
She also says that the family
should be able to provide a stable, se
cure, and strong home environment.
“The child has often not experi-
■enced stability,” Rumfield says.
After the adoption, therapy is
available for the child and the parent
to help them adjust.
Columbia launch delayed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
The shuttle Columbia’s return to
space was delayed for a fifth time
Tuesday by sand blowing off the
Sahara and clouds in Spain and
Florida that blocked visibility at
emergency runways.
“We have a bad habit going
here,” remarked mission com
mander Robert Gibson as he and
his six astronaut colleagues left
their spacecraft after once again
waiting hours for a launch that
did not happen.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration reset the
liftoff for 7:05 a.m. EST Thurs
day.
Columbia, the first shuttle to
reach orbit, has been out of serv
ice more than two years under
going renovations.
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