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Page 4/n~he Battalion/Thursday, April 17, 1986 mmm ' ilrw^ 'mM i NJN mCAMMOM STARTS TRIRAT R RELEASING CORPORATION 1 BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL | COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL Airline Reservations • Hotel/Motel Accomodations Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 • Agency is fully computerized • 410 S. Texas/Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station Republicans told drop in oil prices may be windfall WASHINGTON (AP) — The plunge in oil prices could be a politi cal windfall if Republicans make sure voters link falling gasoline prices to Reagan administration pol icies, the House Republican Re search Committee says in a mem orandum. However, the committee said, Re publicans in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana “will make do with mixed messages as glad tidings overall are of fset by turmoil in certain commu nities and key industries.” 1219 Texas Ave. Bryan Mm 1600 Texas Ave. S. The March 19 memorandum, ti tled “A GOP Windfall: The Oil Price Plunge and Hovy to Talk About It,” offered members tips for telling vot ers how the oil price decline benefits them and how Reagan is responsible for those benefits. “I hope the Republican Party doesn’t take it on itself to do every thing it can to make that a partisan issue,” said Republican Rep. Joe Barton, whose East Texas district is coming off an oil boom. “Because in our state and Loui siana and Oklahoma, it needs to be a non-partisan issue and everybody pull together for the good of our area,” he said. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, is pushing for an oil import fee to sta- bilize prices. His Republican coun terpart, Phil Gramm, is opposed to the import fee. Gramm favors measures to sup port the banking industry and tax incentives for oil producers instead, an approach also endorsed by other GOP members of the Texas dele gation. Barton said Rep. Tony Coehlo, head of the Democratic Congressio nal Campaign Committee, who gave copies of the memorandum to Dem ocratic members of Congress, was trying to paint the Republicans as opponents of producing states and Democrats as “their big friends.” College Station Make Any Evening Special with any one of over 400 varieties of fine wines. MARTINI 6 ROSSI Asti Spumante $ 8.99 750m Barrels of crude difficult for today’s Texans to buy WM-J. Wednesday is Wine Day 10% Off All 750m Rack Wines AUSTIN (AP) — With crude oil prices down to about $12 or $13 a barrel, why not buy one? The steep drop in oil prices offers a cut-rate chance to become a Texas oilman or oilwoman, albeit in a small way. Bubbling crude. Texas tea. Black gold. Your own barrel of it. Can a Texan buy a single barrel of oil? Apparently not for $12. T his is an exercise for Texans who are oil illiterate, those who be lieve that gasoline pumps are sta tioned wherever oil has been struck. Texas Railroad Commission as an oil purchaser. Once you fill out the forms, you have to notify the commission about your intended purchase. Also, somewhere along the way you’ll find that all those $12 and $13 figures you’ve been seeing for a bar rel of oil refer to oil futures. The “spot market” prices have been around $20 per barrel. Step two: Finding your oil. The. first lesson is that a barrel of oil does not include a barrel. It is simply a measurement — 42 gallons. Oil is not loaded in barrels. So, the First step is to get a barrel. You cannot get into the oil buying sign in at the business unless you Contrary to popular belief among the oil illiterate, crude is not sold at West I exas roadside stands the way watermelons are sold in East Texas. “Really the most practical thing would be to go to a refinery and buy a barrel before they refine it,” Com mission spokesman Brian Schaible advised. Thursday ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: vyill sponsor the mini wiia course, “Modifying Modifiers,’ at t>:30 p.m. in Blocker. For moire information call 845 3452 or sk 227 Blocker. TEXAS AGGIE BAR ASSOCIATION: will award two scholarships to A&M students entering law school in Applications are available to any student who hast pleted most or all of his pre-law work at A&M andn? tamed 3.5 *F overall grade point-ratio. Deadline is April Interested students should contact Dr. Hillary Jessup 101 Academic. MSC LOST AND FOUND AUCTION: will be from Hh to 1 pan. at Rudder Fountain. TAMU CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: Hank Wilkinson^ >eak on “Reflections on 40 Years of Defending the Bij Iht-J r hoe m i tghts from the U.S. Government" at 7 p.ra der. SNEAD TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR/DEPARTM0? OF CIVIL ENGINEERING: John Turner from Friendswood Development Go. will discuss the prop transportation plans tor Houston at 2 p.m. in 503Bloch STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION: will be voting on thecata positions from 8 a.m. to 5 pan. at a table outside the P; ton. MEXICAN AMERICAN PRE-HEALTH AGGIES:willd officers and provide academic advising for underdas at 7 p.m. in 104 Agronomy. RHA COMMITTEE DIRECTORS: applications avai through Tuesday in 215 Pavilion. CEPHEID VARIABLE: will show “The Lord of the Rind 7 pan. and 10 p.m. in Rudder 1 heater. Admission id: Iwnels and AGGIE CINEMA: will show I he Rocky Horror FidaK^ Show ’ at midnight today, Friday and Saturthy at W TH£ £ ( hove. HEN HE ATI BETA BETA BETA BIOLOGICAL HONOR SOfll# 1 A 6IAN will meet at 7 pan. in 107 Heldenfcls. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS:wild officers at 7:30 pan. in 504 Rudder. ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS: sponsor a “Chili Today — Hot Tamale” cookoutatf at Central Park. ild' AGGIES AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: will meet at 7 pi| in 004 Rudder. MS/MBA ASSOCIATION: will sponsor a corporate plan! seminar at 7 p.m. in 120 Blocker. Friday TAMU CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: Frank Wilkinson speak on “Threats to Civil Liberties: Are We Return the *50s” at 7 pan. in 007 Rudder. GRADUATE STUDENT CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP; meet at 8 a.m. in the Meditation Room of the All Fail Chapel for Bible study in John 14 and prayer. MSC AGGIE CINEMA: will show “Rocky IV” at 7:30p. and 9:45 p.m. in Rudder Theater. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 pa 108 Harrington.' RL’S 1 l hite sa Ust put B work Have you heard what Thursday Nights surprise is? The Place to be Dine-in, Drive-up • Open at 11 am daily featuring Deep Pan Pizza or Gourmet Stuffed Pizza, whole or by the Slice. Stay on Campus this Sunday Night and Experience ORFF’s Carmena Bar ana presented by Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra Franz Anton Krager, Artistic Director/Conductor featuring Community Singers of Brazos County Houston Symphony Chorale Brazos Children’s Choir Guest Soloists RUDDER AUDITORIUM SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1986 8:30 P.M. SS.OO Adult Ticket 16.00 Students/Senior Citizens Tickets Awiiahlc At. MSC Box Office or at the door f'or Further Inhtrrrutinn Ptraxc (alt 84f>- MAJOR CONTRIBI mON PROVIDED BY First Bank ATrust The 198 V86 season is underwritten by the Arts Council of Brazos Valley. As a participating member group the Brazos Valley Symphony Society also receives grant support for this year's guest artists.