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’ DANCE ARTS SOCIETY General Meeting Tues., Nov. 4 6:15 pm G. Rollie #268 Talk About Pizza Party, Fundraiser, etc. If you can’t attend or have questions, go by D.A.S. cubi cle at the Pavillion, 2nd floor, for an outline of what is being discussed. The 1986 Student Directories are now available to be picked up in room 230 Reed McDonald, 8am-5pm Bring your ’86 fee slip. * Deliveries will begin this week for departments who submitted a Telecommunications Order Form. GET RICH THE HARD WAY Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc., operating cafeterias in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico, is looking for 24 people to enter Its man agement training program in March. To qualify, you must: • Be at least 22 years old • Be willing to relocate •Have a stable employment history •Be college educated or have equivalent experience •Have little or no food service experience You will receive: • $19,200 starting salary •Company funded profit sharing/retirement •Group health, life and disability insurance • Relocation expenses •Merit raises and advancement This is a serious offer by an established and rapidly growing com pany. We invite you to call or send your resume and find out more about us. You will be amazed at the proven earnings potential of a career with Luby’s. Interviewing in your placement center November 12 and 13 or call Steve Schafer or Dave Simpson (512) 225-7720 (No collect calls please) or write P.O. Box 33069, San Antonio, Texas 78265 Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with sales ex ceeding $200 million last year. Luby s Good food from good people. LUBY’S CAFETERIAS, INC. 2211 N.E. LOOP 410, P.O. BOX 33069, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 76266 Luby’» Is a Rsglstsrsd Tradsmarfc of Luby’s Cafstartas, Inc. Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, October 31, 1986 Ag commissioner hopeful stresses producer profits By Frank Smith City Editor Sizing up the race for Texas agri- : oe- culture commissioner as a choice tween leadership and showmanship, challenger Bill Powers brought his campaign to Texas A&M this week. In an interview with The Battal ion, Powers, R-Austin, attacked the B olides of incumbent Democrat Jim lightower. While acknowledging Hightower as “probably the most colorful and quotable figure in Texas politics,” Powers characterized the commis sioner as an ambitious showman who is lightly regarded in agricultural cir cles. “His No. 1 priority is headlines for Hightower,” Powers said. “Mine is profits for producers.” Powers, A&M Class of ’64, has served as executive vice president of the Texas Poultry Federation since 1969. Prior to that he was an editor of the Farm Bureau’s Texas Agricul ture magazine. He said Hightower broke prom ises to lower consumer food bills and stop farmers from going broke, and that the commissioner’s "supply management” farm program has been rejected. Powers criticized Hightower for advocating mandatory production controls. “It takes away the incentive for you to do better than me,” Powers said. He said the program has little leg islative support because it’s one of socialized agriculture. "It’s the first step toward govern ment telling you everything,” Pow ers said. “It will put prices through the ceiling and take us totally out of the world market.” Powers also spoke sharply of Hightower’s refusal to cut me de partment’s budget when Gov. Mark White requested 13 percent cuts from each state department in Feb ruary. He added that when the Legis lature convened for its sm sions, Hightower attemptrii] $400,000 from the product:^ fund without first discujM the people who pay into ihty those in the produce indusm | “They tried to sneak it tlj Powers said." It just goestoiy really doesn’t care about faun' Powers said he has the ® 85 percent to 90 percentof production agriculture “But we also know atii not a very big percentawof ulation,” he said. “Those..,, volved in agriculture aremotij to be fooled by (Hightowijl cal rhetoric.” Bentsen campaigns for Geren, proposes tougher trade policy By Mona Palmer Assistant City Editor Sen. Lloyd Bentsen stopped at Easterwood Airport Thursday to campaign for Democratic congres sional candidate Pete Geren. Bentsen said Geren, who’s oppos ing incumbent 6th District Rep. Joe Barton, is a fiscal conservative who won’t be so rigid in his views that he’ll have only one vote in the House. “Geren will not drive people off with his ideologies,” Bentsen said, “but persuade them with his reas on.” Bentsen also discussed the trade deficit, which is expected to reach $180 billion this year. The Japanese have bought Amer ican securities and that has pulled the nation through, Bentsen said, but that won’t solve the problem. “We should be grateful that they’re buying those securities,” he said, “but we have to understand that this is no Marshall Plan they have in mind. They expect to be paid back. “What we want is a trade policy and legislation that will break down the barriers to our products — that will let us sell our products abroad.” Bentsen said American companies are forced to compete with other na tions as well as private businesses since, in many countries, the na tional government controls business. Geren said he proposes a get- tough trade policy that would pun ish foreign countries that use subsi dies and tariffs to obtain unfair ad vantages in the international market. “Those subsidies and tariffs are costing the 6th District jobs,” he said, “and that’s got to come to a screech ing halt." Jett Crosby, spokesman for Ge ren, spoke of the closing of the In ternational Shoe Plant, which he said cost Bryan-College Station 250jobs. The effect of me job losses ripples through the economy, fie said. The neighborhood store next to the fac tory won’t do as well, anti the stores at which the workers shop will fie ef fected, he said. A&M recei equipmen for reseafc Fhe DepartmentofEiuif donated research hied at more than {M0| Texas A&M, U.S. Rep.Ji ton and Sen. Phil Gram, nounced Saturday. I he equipment has ktc loan to the Univerntv mu completion of an eight-va shore cKeanographicniosa program in supponol^ eigv Department's Strata ti oleum Reserve Progra The ofishore-moniiorci! gram was a multi-dm multi-disciplinan prona involving personnel in s mental engineering, aez neering, oeeaiioeraphM and fisheries and tht i® ence program at Galvtst® I he DOE original!'to auction the equipment it Roy W. Hann, theenvina engineer and programs on the occanograpk-EG project, contacted Banoc: he could secure the for A&M. Barton contacted Gras thev negotiated with tiitK the donation of the etnc: The donation incki: 200 items of equipmffis from offshore cuirentna systems and biological ;e pltng gear to laboratory a: analysis equipment d; CKPACKING PEDERNALES FALLS STATE PARK S NOVEMBER 7-9 JOIN US IN HIKING THROUGH THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY!! tm THE $35 FEE INCLUDES GROUP CAMPING EQUIPMENT. BACKPACKS, FOOD, TRANSPORTATION COSTS, AND AN EXPERIENCED GUIDE. SIGN UP IN THE INTRAMURAL-RECREATIONAL SPORTS OFFICE IN 159 READ UNTIL NOVEMBER 4. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL PATSY AT 845-7826. (limited to 14 participants.) ON THE ROAD AGAIN W hen Judges Frank Evans and Bud Warren go on the road, they get down to business. Because both were instrumental in creating a program which brings justice to the people. For the first time in Texas, appeals cases are being heard in the county where they were filed. Your county. A move that has unclogged the court And saved countless tax dollars On Tuesday, November 4, vote for leadership and dedicationond bench. Re-elect Chief JusticeFrai^ I Evans and Associate Justice Bud I Warren to the First Court of Appel Experience at work on yourbkl Page 3, punch 53 on your ballot. Page 3, punch 56 on yourbaM Paid for try the Frank Evans for Re-election Committee, Janet Evans, Treasurer, and the Bud Warren for Re-election Committee, Merle Warren, Treasurer. P < Me: