Wednesday, September 10,1986/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
S may face higher utility bills
'ates could rise 40 percent now; 75 percent over 3 years
By Rodney Rather
Staff Writer
College Station residents may face
Iher utility bills this year while
ran utility rates might drop, city
Hcials say.
■lulf State Utilities, a privately-
yrw owned company which supplies Col-
Tt llHs Station with electricity and wa-
ter, may raise its rates 40 percent if
C |i| Federal Energy Regulatory
mm mission authorizes it, says Kris
, utilities billing supervisor for
lege Station.
he increase would be an interim
rati until the commission decides
^ther or not to let GSU raise its
Ks 75 percent over the next three
H-s, Rose says.
Kollege Station residents cur
rently pay a $4 minimum charge ev
ery month plus a rate determined by
■ number of kilowatt hours used
■ given month, she says.
■'he rates per kilowatt hour used
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'■ 9.5 cents for each of the first
(100 kilowatt hours.
H6.5 cents for each of the follow
ing IDO kilowatt hours.
• 5.8 cents for each kilowatt hour
more than 500 hours.
During the off-peak months of
November through April, a 5 cent
rate is charged after the usage of 500
kilowatt,hours. Water rates charged
by GSU consist of a monthly charge
of $4 plus $1.40 per 1,000 gallons,
she says.
In contrast to GSU’s potential rate
increase in College Station, rates for
Bryan’s municipally owned Bryan
Utilities have gone down in the past
year, Bernie Fette, public informa
tion officer for Bryan, says.
“The rate went down in Februa
ry,” Fette says. “Also, there’s . . . win
ter and summer rates.”
From 1985 to 1986, winter electri
city rates went down 6.7 percent and
summer rates decreased 5.8 percent,
Fette says.
Prices for each kilowatt hour used
were not available.
Bryan water rates consist of a
monthly $3.60 charge and $1.04 for
every 1,000 gallons used, he says.
Another service often needed by
students living off-campus is natural
gas, provided by Lone Star Gas in
both Bryan and College Station.
Robert Shearer, credit and ac
counting supervisor for Lone Star
Gas, says gas rates are based on us
age measured per thousand cubic
feet. Lone Star also has summer and
winter gas rates, Shearer says.
“Summer rates are applicable be
tween May and October,” he says.
Summer rates are $4.21 per thou
sand cubic feet and winter rates are
$4.56 per thousand cubic feet, he
says, adding that both rates are the
same as last year.
A customer service charge also is
added to the bill, Shearer says.
“In winter, the customer service
charge is $6.50,” he says. “In sum
mer, the charge is $4.50.”
Local telephone service and cable
television service also are essential
for many students.
General Telephone handles local
phone service in the Bryan-College
Station area and monthly charges
depend on the type of phone the
customer uses, says Roberta Sey
more, residence account representa
tive for GTE.
The monthly charge for a rotary-
dial phone is $12.40 and the charge
for a push-button phone is $14.40,
Seymore says.
Rental prices for phones also dif
fer according to the type of phone
desired, she says. The price ranges
from $2.50 to $3 a month for rotary-
dial phones and from $3 to $4.50 for
push-button phones, she says.
McCaw Cablevision is the only
television cable company in the
Bryan-College Station area, and it
offers various cable packages for dif
ferent prices. In College Station, the
Family Pac is the most inexpensive
package, offering 30 channels for
$15 a month, says John Southard,
McCaw’s system manager.
The Family Pac does not include
premium channels such as The
Movie Channel or Cinemax. Pre
mium channels are each $10 per
month, Southard says, but if two
premium channels are purchased,
their combined cost is $18 per
month.
Bryan customers have all the cable
options College Station customers
have, Southard says, but they are
also offered a five-channel package
for $6 a month.
! in Aggie Players opening 42nd season
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By Mona Palmer
| Senior Staff Writer
ext week the Texas A&M Aggie
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Ut of th(‘ (inftlfon in Rudder Forum with "Luv,”
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Uganda to fltldhisgal.
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o / B)es the play as a “ludicrously ab-
H lampoon of love, loneliness, lost
Hitity . . . wife-swapping . . . and
about anything else you can
■Sine.”
s would provideAggie Players also will spon-
j ■the second annual Spring Semes-
iropaganda tod ter of Shakespeare r^U-mg a re-
ith putting DasB ien g a g enient of five members of
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part of the Alliance for Creative
Theatre Education and Research.
At regular prices the productions
would cost over $22 for students and
$30 for non-students. Season tickets
are $17.50 and $24, a savings of 20
percent. They may be purchased on
Mastercard, Visa or by phone and
are available at the Rudder ticket of
fice.
“Luv” will open Sept. 19 and run
Sept. 20, 25, 26 and 27.
Roger Schultz, director of the Ag
gie Players, said auditions for “Fo
rum” will begin Sept. 22. Interested
students can contact the director at
845-2426.
“Forum” is the successful Broad
way musical comedy about a romp
through the streets of ancient Rome.
The play is based on the comic mas
terpieces of Plautus and has won sev
eral awards, including the Tony
Award.
The play will be presented Nov.
12-15 in Rudder Theater.
The company’s third production
will be “Medea.” The play, according
to a release by the Aggie Players, is a
chilling tale of a woman obsessed
with vengeance and is guaranteed to
provide an evening of sustained sus
pense and horror coupled with dig
nity and eloquence.
“Medea” will be presented in the
Rudder Forum Feb. 18-21.
The Aggie Players will close their
season with a presentation of “Pic
nic.” The play, written by William
Inge, depicts four lonely women liv
ing in small-town America and their
quest for emotional release. The
play has won the Pulitzer Prize.
The company will present “Pic
nic” April 10, 11, 16, 17, 23 and 25
in the Rudder Forum.
In Advance
Student Senate to discuss
boosting involvement in SG
By Rodney Rather
Staff Writer
Student involvement will be a
key topic of discussion at the Stu
dent Senate’s first fall semester
meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
in 203 Harrington.
The senate is scheduled to dis
cuss the new “Get Involved” pro
gram, which is geared toward in
creasing involvement in Student
Government, said Mike Cook, ex
ecutive vice president of the stu
dent body. Student Government
also is hosting “Get Involved
Night” Thursday at 7 p.m. on the
first floor of the Pavilion.
In addition, changes in “Pro
ject Availability,” a program de
signed to help student senators
make themselves available to
their constituents — by attending
dormitory council meetings and
other organizational meetings —
also will be considered, Cook said.
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House OKs anti-income tax proposal
AUSTIN (AP) — The House
Ways and Means Committee
Tuesday approved a proposed
constitutional amendment that
would prohibit the Legislature
from imposing an income tax on
corporations or individuals.
The vote was 9-1.
If approved by the House and
Senate the constitutional change
would be placed on the Novem
ber 1987 general election ballot
for a statewide vote.
Texas may join regional primary in ’88
AUSTIN (AP) — A bill that
would have Texas join other
Southern states in holding a re
gional presidential primary in
1988 has been introduced in the
Legislature.
Sen. Chet Edwards, D-Duncan-
ville, introduced the measure in
hopes of getting it passed in the
session that began Monday.
Gov. Mark White, who sets the
agenda, has said he wouldn’t al
low consideration of the bill.
But Edwards said he was hope
ful White might reconsider if the
current session completes work
on balancing the state budget.
Phony defendant prompts complaint
DALLAS (AP) — An ethics
complaint has been filed against a
judge who let a phony defendant
go on trial on assault charges to
test the credibility of the prosecu
tion’s main witness.
Dallas County Criminal Court
Judge John Hendrik says his ac
tion was a “search for truth.”
But a complaint against Hen
drik was filed with the State Com
mission on Judicial Conduct by
the district attorney’s office, the
Dallas Times Herald reported
Tuesday.
On May 8, Hendrik had ar
raigned an impostor on assault
charges, accepted his plea of in
nocence and then let him waive
his right to a jury trial.
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