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I Name: Adress: 2m I TRADEWIND TRAVELLERS CLUB Strandgt. 61 — 2300 Hamar — Norway All the Pizza, %%&***£ and Beer you can hold 9-12 p.m. every Wednesday night Included Males only 5 7 5 4 50 Included WOmCn If anyone's enjoyment exceeds relaxed merriment, DoubleDave's reserves the right to cease serving them. l PirraworksJ Good Only at 326 Jersey Participants must be at least 21 years old. c> r© • Q> *o <y. Clements’ pledge to sell White’s jet raises controversy AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Bill Clem ents’ pledge to sell his predecessor’s jet would be a bad deal for the state, according to Clements’ appointee to the State Aircraft Pooling Board. Nominee Jim Raster, who also serves as legislative liaison for Clem ents, was asked at a meeting of the Senate Nominations Committee about selling the jet, which Clements said symbolized former Gov. Mark White’s free-spending ways. “Well, you really can’t sell the jet, because you couldn’t get anything for it,” he said. Sen. Roy Blake, D-Nacogdoches, interrupted as he joined in the laughter of other committee mem bers, “That’s not what we heard dur ing the campaign.” and they are brand new, so there’s no market on jets. “The turboprops keep their value up because they are less expensive to operate, and between here and El Paso you might save 20 minutes in the jet compared to a King Air, which the state has.” Raster said the Pooling Board technically owned the plane and leased it to White, whose office paid up to $1,200 a month for hangar space. Clements had the plane moved to the Pooling Board, which saved on rent. Raster also said White left a few surprises, such as bills totaling $30,000. Asked if the plane is being used at all, Raster said, “No, because of the Police Beat Raster responded, “I think it’s get rid of the jet. I think the best interest of the state would be to trade it for two smaller turboprop airplanes . . . I think the state would come out much better on the deal.” Raster said it costs over $ 1,000 an hour to fly and maintain the Mitsu bishi Diamond 1A purchased in 1984. “Most agencies don’t want to pay that,” Raster said, because a state agency could lease a Beechcraft King Air for $395 an hour and get to Houston just about as fast as in the jet. “If it’s sold, you’d get about $800,000, and it originally cost $3.1 million,” he said. “There are six of that same type airplane for sale at Georgetown for $1.2 million each, cost. Raster was asked how Clements got to the recent National Gover nors’ Association meeting in Wash ington, and he said, “When the gov ernor goes to Washington, he always light takes commercial (flights). “I think in an era of tight budgets, a fir you can send the governor on a lirst- class seat at maybe a tenth of the cost of sending a private jet up there for one or two people.” Raster also said Clements person ally owns a King Air 200B, and he proposes to lease that to the state for $ 1 a year. # “That way the Pooling Board gets another $2 million airplane for $1, and I’ve written to the Pooling Board about that and they are looking at that,” Raster said. The following were reported to the University Police Depart ment from Feb. 16 through Sun day: MISDEMEANOR THEFT. • Two bicycles were reported stolen from Dorm 2. • A student reported that his elastic car cover was removed from his car while it was parked in a campus parking lot. • A woman reported that someone removed her black leather briefcase from a class room in the O&M Building. BURGLARY OF A MOTOR VE HICLE: • A woman reported on Feb. 17 that someone broke out the passenger-side window of her car and removed her radar detector. • Another student also re ported on Feb. 17 that his radar detector was removed when someone broke out the passen ger-side window of his car while it was parked in a campus parking lot. • A student reported that his 35mm camera was removed from the glove compartment of his un locked car. ASSAULT: • A woman reported that a Honda pulled out in front of her car, forcing her to brake, which made her car slide sideways. She said she followed the car into a campus parking lot, where the driver of the car used verbal abuse and physical intimidation toward her. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: • University Police received reports of three separate inci dents occurring from Feb. 16 to Thursday in which the wind shield or driver-side window of three students’ cars were smashed out with an unknown object. Stu dents reported that nothing i«| stolen in any of the incident. • A student reported that In] found a trash can on fire in a »| ond floor restroom of Hall. • University Police receivedi| report that someone bent l signs in the O&M Building. • A man reported that aims-1 paper stand was found up in if tree in front of Sbisa DiningHall • An officer responding toil fire alarm found that a smolt.| bomb had been set off in Dt Hall. The officer found nos of fire or damage. ARSON: • A student reported thanj fire had been set in a trash at| and caused damage toawallii student lounge. DISORDERLY CONDUCT: • A student was caughl pressing his body against sevtnll women on an intracampus shnf tie-bus during an undercoveril vestigation conducted byofficttl in response to a student’s coeI plaint. The student wasreleasdl and the case was referred toStitf dent Affairs. PLACES WEAPONS PROHlJ ITED: • An officer found a shotgun in a pickup truck thatSi was towing. The shotgun «n| confiscated and stored attheltil versity Police Station. HARRASSMENT: • A student reported that shtl had received annoying calls between 7 p.m. and llpil for two days. Bryan organization builds self-worth Boys’ Club offers fun, education By Sarah Cranberry Reporter Recreation, education and self- worth are a few of the commodities offered by the Brazos County Boys’ Club Inc., an organization open to boys aged from 7 and 17. “During the school year, we aver age about 130 boys a day, and dur ing the summer, up to 230,” Liz Wal den, program director for the club, says. The club offers boys a place to go after school and on weekends. They are encouraged not only to meet and interact with other boys, but also to join smaller group clubs that de velop leadership skills, as well as a sense of usefulness, self-influence, Elmer’s brother, Sherman, is 14 and belongs to the Keystone Club, which he says is similar to the Torch Club but has older members and holds garage sales for fund raisers. “The Boys’ Club is a good place to be, because you stay out of trouble,” the older Lockett says. The 25-cent dues charged by Randy Kirkpatrick, the education supervisor, tutors and teaches cook ing and gardening. “We’re here to serve the kids when school isn’t open,” Kirkpatrick says. The boys are at an age at which they want someone right there to help them all the time, making it unteers, because the club car I sure of who will be there, ortiq the boys there will want to [ pate in the activity offered. K “We have lots of facilities, and even volunteers . . . but volunteers are short-lived because they’re busy and don’t have time for us. ” — Randy Kirkpatrick, Boys’ Club education supervisor and belonging. •mpetency; Elmer Lockett, 12, is president of the Torch Club, a club geared to ward younger boys. “We have discussions about self- control, self-discipline and self-atti tudes,” Lockett says. “We raise money by passing out fliers for Little Caesar’s Pizza.” small clubs help raise money for field trips, he says. Aside from the activities offered by the sub-groups, the Boys’ Club provides a place for tutoring, read ing, computer programs, games, and conversation with Piglet and Porky, the two fuzzy guinea pigs that live in the education room. harej to help more than one at a time, he says. “We have lots of facilities, and even volunteers teaching photogra phy,” he says, “but volunteers are short-lived because they’re busy and don’t have time for us.” Kirkpatrick says it’s hard for vol- Walden said many profc athletes got their start in Boys’l Inc., including Bubba Pattersa former member of the Bryan dt “We think it’s fine for b I dream about professional spor.| we’re working to get them inter in education,” she says. A number of clubs, soronucj fraternities from Texas ABI the Boys’ Club to play with die! and the club is working on i] oping long-range, organized grams to benefit the boys. The Brazos County dub tian tal membership of about 1,25( who pay a small annual fee oil $6, depending on their ages. The club is open 36 hoursai including Saturdays. “I enjoy the kids that cornel Walden says. “I like putting contact with resources and that can help them later on." Ilizabe vith th the Membe :y Be If thai Texas prison system reopens, may close again Thursday HUNTSVILLE (AP) — The Texas prison sys tem opened its doors to a deluge of new inmates Tuesday for the first time in five days, but offi cials expect another closure after the inmate pop ulation exceeds a state-mandated 95 percent of capacity. “It looks like Thursday we will be closed,” said Sarah Dunn, a Texas Department of Corrections spokesman. Some 450 inmates were expected into the state system Tuesday from Texas sheriffs trying to re lieve crowding in their own jails. Prison spokesman Charles Brown said about 150 inmates were released Monday, giving the system a 200-bed cushion going into Tuesday About 160 inmates were expected to be om leased Tuesday, Brown said. The headcount at midnight Monday andf*- leased Tuesday was 94.44 percent, or 38,P'® mates — 228 below the 95 percent limit. |0 *•• • • ° CP • OV <6> Q o # «« <£> Q O . 0* Q O. , ,C° T £estf oCoVet Ladv * Yree ft.WtUgfc* , TvOpe»* at *4 00 6) Q O •. G EVENTS FOLEY S Spring Break Fashion Show M PAT MAGEE'S Fashion Show March 6 at 8:00 ROXZ Spring Break Party March 11 • • o °<3 ' _ rC • For More Information Call 846-2277 o* °Q> o