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i ► Monday, February 9, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 manager retires, shifts career into homemaking My Sheryl Taylor » Jhparaw- Gomg front Teiun A4kNf property manaser 10 tionnemaker. Ann Grady «ay» she has an array of projects to keep her busy in her retirement ,, “I have plenty to do. like dean the house for the first six months,* Grady says. *» ^ '* ^ U* -* “Most people, after retiring, sav they doal have anvthMsg to do,” she says "But i will have a lot of time to do personal odd jobs. 1 will not be tooting for anything like a perma nent job because Mrs Grady the property manager will become Mrs Grady the homemaker " Grady, whose retirement began Jan V), has been property manager at AlcM for 17 years, although her first job here was secretary to the as sistant comptroller ' Her official title as property man ager was senior staff accountant for the property plant section. “It’s mv classification on the payroll," Grady Says, smiling A , «f Grady received a degree in busi ness education, specializing in ac counting. freon the Texan State Col lege for Women in 1945 As AJcMs property manage!, Grady accounted for all the land, buildings, equipment and im provements -*» other than buildings and construction — at the Univer sity, she says. The property department proc esses equipment vouchers by putting any equipment purchased on a an in ventory ust. she says. If a department buys a new type writer, computer or desk, for exam ple, the newly purchased uem h re corded by the property department. Currently, the department has 75,000 pieces of equipment on cam pus totaling H98 minion, she says, thumbing through a large book on her pa per-cluttered desk "As property manager, there m no typical day. it*s always different and sometimes very tedious, Grady says. During her retirement, says she wig be able to devote rrtore time to her memberships in the AJeM United Methodist Church and the University Faculty Wives social dub. She also is involved in the Phil anthropic Educational Organization, which is an international sisterhood "I will really miss the people — they were great to work with.” she says softly. Go-worker Janet! Tucker says. "Everybody loves her — she doesn't play favorites and she doesn't have anv enemies I have only worked Early Bird Special Tan before 12 noon and get 10 sessions for only *35. 104 College Main at Morthgaie 846-9779 James & Carol Barrett ClASS Of OD Ann Grady, AJeM’s proparty { with her for two years, but I will miss her immensely. ” Ann Stevens, who has been work ing for AlcM since January, will re place Grady as the new property for 17 manager. “It wiU be very difficult to fill her shoes," she says. Stevens is the for mer administrator of the Business Product Center Inc. in New Mexico. Cattle thefts show rustling is still around MARSHALL (AP) — A rash of cattle thefts in recent weeks aiross East Texas proves that an old nemesis of the livestock busi ness —» rustling —> is still around, according to law officers. Harrison County Sheriff Bill Oldham said there have been about 15 head of cattle stolen in three incidents over the past two weeks in the northwestern part of the county Cattle raiser Carolyn Williams found out recently just how easv it is for rustlers to strike. Some one saxfttLihrpu K h a Jot* on a chained gate and stole her herd of eight cattle Williams said she was unaware that others in the area had been hit by rustlers ' "If I had known it was going on, 1 could have hid the cattle, she said, explaining she would have placed them on a tract of bUKf not so easily accessible to thieves. Williams said she prohabiv won't be able to recover her cattle since they were not branded “Everybody should brand their cattle so they can be identified, because these days you can take and sell cattle and you don't even need a receipt.” she said Oil company cuts free gas, sued by angry landowners /V„ The American Pepperoni Roll Association Has Declared Feb. 5*16 NATIONAL j&ru “Week ’•,Vd In Observance Of This Great Event PIZZA has announced that anyone purchasing t pozm r&mtom *ous* for V4 OWrr SuprroO*) Dunn* National Pepperoni RotP Week Shall Automatically Be Entered In A Drawing For A «k veats somY »f KPrcmw sous*- 20 WINNERS Will Be Chosen •One Dozen Free Peprom RoUstm (or Supero(b) Each Month For One Year NEW HOPE (AP) — Natural gas hissed free of charge into O R. Hen rv’s house for 40 years now, and like the other 42 people getting the same dead, he thought it would flow that way for the rest of his life At least that’s what a lease contrail said that was signed in 1946 granting exploratory rights to an oil com pany But three months ago. Henry s golden egg broke. Henry and the other rural Frank lin County residents, including seve ral retirees on fixed income, charged in a lawsuit filed last month uiat Texaco Inc “acted with evil intent" •when it stopped the free gas service, which had been provided bv compa nies recently purchased by Texaco Texaco cited safety concerns and said it was within its rights when it shut of f the free gas Nov. 10. A com pany spokesman said the gas was tainted with potentially dangerous contaminants. But the residents scoffed at the safety claims and asked for damages of $5 million for what they called “gross indifference" to their contrac tual rights. After the gas was cut off, Henry, a retired dairyman, spent more than $550 to install propane gas equip ment to his stove and i pat rid of g<i fed gas until the fiel said Henry, who was deeded his property in the 1950s bv an elderly hacnelor who had treated Henry like a son. New Hope, an umncarpiN ateif < ommunity. and franklin County — one of the smallest counties in Texas — ase about 100 miles northeast of Dallas operate ers. No outer gas supply was avail able in the immediate area without c onstruction of a costly pipeline ex tension, he said. “Their timing was terrible,** Henry said. “They cut us off right before the first cold snap of the sea son.” All 67 landowners who received free gas had been paid $10 per tract m the 1940s for the exploratory rights, and had been receiving the iM early as 1941 p«« m r-MM-d gas l as part of their < Texaco bought the contracts in 1984 when it purchased Getty Oil Co. Brothers to be retried in diesel theft case BEAUMONT (AP) — The gov ernment will retry a racketeering case in which companies owned by a prominent Port Arthur family are accused of stealing as much as $40 million in diesel fuel from tugboat customers, a federal prosec utor says. A four-month trial ended Wednesday with a jury unable to reach a verdict on racketeering charges against Henry Fredeman II and William fredeman Jr. of Port Arthur, three companies they own and eight of their employees The panel found the Fredeman brothers, their companies and em ployees innocent of two mail fraud charges involving the fueling of cus tomers' boats But the jury dead locked 10-2 in favor of convicting the defendants on racketeering charges after deliberating for seven days. The government also charged that Port Arthur Towing Co., while under exclusive contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to de liver jet fuel, submitted false location report* indicating the boats were on standby awaiting government or ders. For the Heart of your Heart on Valentine’s Day: A Heart-shaped Pizza from Ftying Tomato! A ftirrwiN WHOt-C- HEArrEpuy reei- coMe<; straight pRor-c J I HEACTT joe Show your sweetheart she. or he. is a part of your heart, the heart of your heart. This Valentine s Day give that sweetheart a heart-shaped pizza from Flying Tomato U s the same great pizza in a pan you’ve come to expect from Flying Tomato in a shape that shows your sweetheart you're all heart Here’s How to Order! Just stop in and pre-order anytime between now and February 14. for the day of your choice. February 13. 14. or 15, at the time of your choice and you can ptek-u* your heart-shaped pizza! You have to pay In person when you order. This is because Ralph and Joe Tomato believe that matters of the heart are not to be taken lightly. (Remembering to come in and and order m advance proves that you really care about the heart of your heart, and that this isn’t just some half-hearted gesture.) So. hurry and order Quantities Me limited. And you wouldn’t want to appear heartless to the heart of your heart on Valentine’s Day. Available am time after Ham. HZZkT>Mf 303 W. UNIVERSITY TM The 11987 Fty my The Poultry Products Division of CARGILL, INC. is intervieuring for Live Production and Plant on ) » February 19 An Open House will be held on February 8 7-8:30 pm at 510 Rudder Tower All interested students should sign up at the Career Planning and Placement Center Biomedical Science ssociation 1 February 10, 1987 WHdBfe It Exotic Animal Center at TAMU Efforts to Save the Panda in 8. Weet China Or. StspHsw taaour Vuturfnary Physlotagg t Atl I Battalion Classified 845-2611