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manager retires,
shifts career into homemaking
My Sheryl Taylor »
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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
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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
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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.
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Live Production and
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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
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WHdBfe It Exotic Animal Center at TAMU
Efforts to Save the Panda in 8. Weet China
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