BUY • SELL • TRADE LESSONS • RENTALS New & Used REPAIRS Guitars * Bass Guitars Banjos * Amps * Violins 1911 S. Texas Ave. College Station, TX 77840 Mandolins * PA. Equipment PHONE 693-8698 Page 14/The BattalioiVThursday, March 6, 1986 Editor: Bryan trial not why policy changed Associated Press "Looks like Benny's going to play RAGE tonight." DENVER — A Soldier of Fortune Magazine editor said Wednesday that a murder-for-hire case in Bryan and an Indiana inmate’s escape plot — both linked to recruiting through the magazine’s classified ads — had nothing to do with the magazine’s decision to end such advertising. Robert Black Jr., 39, was con victed last week in the murder of his wife, Sandra, at their Bryan home and sentenced to death for offering a mercenary $10,000 through a clas sified ad in the magazine to kill her. Jim Pate, associate editor of the controversial and colorful magazine for military buffs and mercenaries, said it was coincidental the magazine announced Monday it would no longer take personal classified ads that offer services for hire or “other wise solicit employment.” “The ad policy was not changed specifically for this thing in Indiana or Texas,” Pate said. “It was done months ago. Unfortunately, it popped up about the time this thing was going into effect.” Pate said the March 1985 ad linked to the Bryan murder-for-hire case read: “Ex Marines, Nam vets, weapons specialists, jungle warfare, political, MB, high-risk assignments in U.S. or overseas. World Security Group,” followed by a phone number. John Wayne Hearn, 40, of At lanta, Ga. testified that the slaying happened after he and Black dis cussed several ways to stage it. Hearn is already serving a life sen tence for another killing. Meanwhile, prosecutors for both the U.S. Attorney General’s office in Denver and the Colorado Attorney General said they knew of no ong oing investigation against Soldier of Fortune for its advertising practices. A state attorney general investiga tor said it appeared to him the pub lisher would be protected under the state Consumer Protection Act’s ex clusions involving advertising. Slouch By Jim Ear Texc of te “We couldn't make it if we didn't have our sleep." GUITAR STRINGS I H omeownersf,oc ^ n 9refinance mortgage (continued from page 1) A Factory Rep From Takamine Will Be In The Store This Friday March 7. He will give you a FREE set of Strings and install them for you FREE also. from refinancing can be substantial. For example, someone holding a 30-year, fixed rate mortgage for $80,000 at 13 percent would pay $884.96 a month. Refinancing the entire amount at 10 percent would cut payments to $702.06, a savings of $182.90 a month. Assuming closing costs for the re financing totaled 4 percent, or $3,200, the homeowner could re coup the expense of refinancing in about a year and a half. The initial rate on adjustable-rate mortgages, which usually are of fered at two or more percentage points below fixed-rate loans, has av eraged less than 10 percent since June, according to the weekly na tional survey of 1,500 lenders by HSH Associates, a financial pub lishing firm in Riverdale, N.J. But interest on fixed-rate mort gages had not come back down to single digits until the last several months, when some mortgage bank ers and lending companies in scat tered areas began offering rates be low 10 percent. It has been the widespread move below 10 percent that has sparked recent interest in refinancing. “There’s a big difference Between |APE CAf Hrchei' s l’* 1 ' 1 milenger's as )f the shuttle ■ feet down 10'/* and 9 7 /*,” said Ronald F iBr, NASA at president of the Mortgage BadByandly met Association of America. ‘Trarew have I bigger than a quarter-poinu j^einem sak ence psychologically. I think wMily wishes, really the magic number.” futther comnit The Federal Home Loan fations and id gage Corp. said that in tht plei ended Feb. 28 the national avtMiark VVeinl rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate ^ presidenti; gage on a new home was 10.51|Bing the ex) cent. ■comment Cause of fire in state high court building still unknown ■ find to the l/larc KEyboARd Center Inc. Strictly limited to quantities on hand, and to the hours of 3:00-6:00. POST OAK MALL Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 (continued from page 1) asbestos in the building, officials said. Fire damaged the fourth floor, and smoke and water damaged the third and fifth floors in the section of the building that houses the attor ney general’s office. Another part of the building, which houses the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals, apparently escaped damage. Meanwhile, Fort Worth Fire De partment officials were investigating a small fire at the attorney general’s office in downtown Fort Worth early Wednesday. Fire investigator Chip Owens said the office caught fire after a flamma ble liquid leaked under the front door. The building’s sprinkler sys tem extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived about 6:03 a.m., he said. Owens said no connection was found between the two blazes. In Austin, McNicholas said the circumstances of the fires were “to tally different,” indicating no con nection. Because the Austin courts build ing was closed, the Supreme Court justices were forced to hear oral ar guments in the Old Supreme Court room of the Capitol. That room was used by the high court until the Su preme Court building opened in 1957. For the first time in recent mefn- ory, the justices wore businsess suits on the bench because several couldn’t get judicial robes from their court building offices. Pool had said he wouldn’t mk® arson as a possibility because, don't normally start in hallmp||^l^* After looking over the damage, Attorney General Jim Mattox specu lated that the fire may have been sparked by overloaded electrical cir cuits. A refrigerator and microwave oven were in the hallway where the fire apparently started, he said. “It does not look to me to be of suspicious origin,” Mattox said. Shortly after the fire was extin guished, Assistant Fire Chief Brady the middle of the night.’’ Pool also noted that the buililj. , I fire detection system had beenl^O^| | connected within the past few®^ while a new system was beinjjj stalled. Van Blaricom said 80 firefigtlip^ 1 were needed because fightingT fire involved going up and dm AsJ stairs. The first alarm was turnetp at 6:15 a.m., the fourth at 6:46aMMANlLA, he said. ■nt Corazor proclaiming; Van Blaricom said there appe- nunt. to force to be little structural damage % her depo the flames. nand E. Man ^Memorial Student Center Mania Week Sunday. ■Spokesmai a elephone i dir study. lings." He was re; IPolitical AH Discover v^>ui student that of er yer i