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• Staff Writers
• Reviewers
• Photographers
Complete applications must be returned by Friday, April 24.
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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, April 22, 1987
Texas bank
posts net loss
of $4.2 million
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Com
merce Bancshares posted a net loss
of $4.2 million for the three months
ending March 31, a decline from
earnings of $20.6 million recorded
during the same period in 1986, of
ficials said Tuesday.
The loss amounts to 12 cents per
share, compared to the 63 cents per
share earnings in the 1986 quarter
for the Houston-based bank that was
recently acquired by Chemical New
York Corp.
For the fourth quarter of 1986,
the bank posted a net loss of $21.1
million, or 64 cents per share.
Loan-loss provisions charged
against earnings were $49 million in
the first quarter, compared to $125
million in the preceding quarter and
$36 million in the first quarter of
1986.
Texas Commerce’s reserve for
possible loan losses increased to
$373 million, or 3 percent of loans as
of March 31, up from $368 million,
or 2.8 percent of loans on Dec. 31,
1986, and $294 million, or 2.3 per
cent of loans this March 31.
Medium-term and long-term
loans to Brazilian public-sector bor
rowers totaling $41 million were
placed on a non-accrual status at the
end of the first quarter due to sus
pension of interest payments on
such debt.
If the Brazilian loans remain on
non-accrual for all of 1987, the re
duction in interest income would be
about $3.3 million, bank spokesman
Mike Cinelli said.
Texas Commerce also placed
loans totaling $21 million to one
Mexican private sector borrower on
a non-accrual status, he said.
About 53 percent of Texas Com
merce’s non-performing assets are
related to the real estate sector, 27
percent to the energy sector, 13 per
cent to the non-energy commercial
sector and 7 percent to the interna
tional sector.
Loans averaged $12.6 billion dur
ing the first quarter of 1987, down 1
percent from the fourth quarter of
1986 and 2 percent lower than the
first quarter of 1986.
Porn commission official speaks atA&M
Alan Sears, the executive direc
tor of Attorney General Edwin
Meese’s commission on pornog
raphy, will be at Texas A&M
Thursday to give a summary of
the commission’s findings and
discuss the process used to select
the commission members.
The program, “Pornography:
Is it ‘A Flood Tide of Filth Inun
dating Our Society?’ ” is sched
uled for 7 p.m. Thursday in 510
Rudder.
As executive director, Sears
was responsible for selecting and
supervising the commission’s
staff, managing six public hear
ings, preparing the final report
and coordinating the commis
sion’s activities.
A news release from the Me-
morial Student Center’s Political
Forum committee, which is spon
soring the program, said Meese
appointed Sears to the commis
sion position as a result of Sears
previous experience as chief of
the criminal section in the Office
of the United States Attorneyin
Louisville, Kentucky. As a federal
prosecutor, Sears developed a
solid reputation in prosecuting
narcotics, fraud and obcenityof-
lenses.
Sears also is on the legalstaffof
Citizens for Decency througk
Law, Inc. — a group workinglo
regulate obscenity and pornogn-
phy.
Workshop for club officers to be held
The Department of Student
Activities will sponsor a Student
Organization Officer Workshop
for officers and advisers of Texas
A&M organizations on Thurs
day, beginning with registration
at 6:30 p.m. in 601 Rudder.
An opening session will allow
officers to update organizational
records and receive an introduc
tion to policies and procedures
affecting their organizations.
Following this general meet
ing, the group will divide for the
following sessions:
• Membership selection in 410
Rudder.
• Service project development
in 504 Rudder.
• Fund-raising ideas in 511
Rudder.
The group then will dividefoi
the following sessions:
• Presidents/vice presidenii
will meet in 410 Rudder.
• Secretaries/treasurers will
meet in 510 Rudder.
• Advisers will meet in 5W
Rudder.
Also, a management class on
“Greek Leadership” will present
four sessions dealing with Creel
offic ers and organizations.
Fhe workshop sessions will be
from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p;m. Newly
elec ted officers, presiding offi
ce*! s, chairmen, members and ad-
visei s are welcome.
Debate to focus on immigration law
The pros and cons of the new
immigration law passed by the
J.S. Cor
U.S. Congress last year will be de
bated today at 7.30 p.m. in 201
MSC.
Sponsored by the MSC Com
mittee for the Awareness of Mex-
ican-American Culture and MSC
Political Forum, the debate will
center on the Simpson-Rodino
Immigration Law allowing illegal
aliens who have resided in the
United States on a permanent ba
sis since 1982 or earlier to apply
f or citizenship.
However, aliens who cannot
prove that they have livedintltii
country that long or who cannot
pay the $200 application fee for
citizenship legally will not be al
lowed to remain in the country
Dr. Jorge Bustamante, an an
thority on border studies fot
Mexico, and Ronald Parra front
the Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service, w ill debate the lav
and whether or not it has works
since it has l>een put intoeffect
Actor to bring literary world
of Thurber to A&M campus
By Karl Pallmeyer
Reviewer
James Thurber’s wonderful world
of eccentric essays, funny fables and
satirical stories will come to life in
Rudder Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Thursday when MSC Townhall pre
sents William Windom in his one-
man show,“Thurber I.”
Through his books, short stories,
articles and drawings in New Yorker
magazine, Thurber established him
self as one of the greatest American
humorists since Mark Twain. The
strength of his humor was the por
trayal of the common man’s idiosyn
crasies and follies.
Born and raised in Columbus,
Ohio, Thurber’s childhood was
plagued by strange relatives who
later would inspire some of his fun
niest works.
He had lost an eye when he was
six, and his sight was so poor in the
other eye that he became the butt of
many jokes from his classmates.
He attended Ohio State Univer
sity but never received a degree be
cause he didn’t pass biology. Accord
ing to “University Days,” his
memories of college life, he couldn’t
see anything in the microscope ex
cept the reflection of his glass eye.
Talented as a writer anti cartoon
ist, Thurber became editor of Ohio
State’s literary magazine and a popu
lar figure on campus.
After college, Thurber worked
for the State Department, the Amer
ican embassy in Paris and the New
York Evening Post before landing a
job with the New Yorker.
He wrote several books, including
“Is Sex Necessary?” (with E.B.
White), “My Life and Hard Times”
and “The Last Flower.” His best-
known short story, “The Secret Life
of Walter Mitty,” was made into a
movie starring Danny Kaye. The
term “Walter Mitty” often is used to
describe a mild-mannered day-
dreamer.
Windom’s association with
Thurber dates back to 1969 when he
played Thurber on television’s “My
World . . . and Welcome To It,” a
program of sketches based on
Thurber’s stories and carta:
When the show ended in 19'
Wi ndom began work on a one-n
stage show based on Thurlff
works.
Aside his role as Thurta
Wi ndom has appeared in sf'®|
Broadway plays including "flei
VIII,” “Candide" and “TheW
of Suzie Wong.” He also has £
peared in movies including “Tok
a M ockingbird,” "T he Americar-sl
lion of Emily,” “Escape f
Planet of the Apes,” andep
television’s “Star Trek," "Nighife
lery” and “Murder, She Wrote
Windom tours the country*:
“Thurber I and II” and “ErnieM
and 11,” one-man stage show to
on the writings of newspapercol'
nist and soldier Ernie Pyle.
Tickets for “Thurber Fares®
able at the Rudder Box Oft
Prices are $12, $9.75 andJL.
students and $14, $11.25 andF;
non-students. Call Rudder Bos 1
lice at 845-1234 or MSCTownto
845-1515 for more details.
Pastor plans to enter gubernatorial race
AUSTIN (AP) — Fort Worth pas
tor W.N. Otwell, who was a fugitive
last year when he refused to close his
unlicensed church home, said Tues
day he is running for governor.
Otwell became the first an
nounced candidate for the 1990
election.
“I’m just doing what I feel is right
to do,” he said in a telephone inter
view from his Community Baptist
Church in Fort Worth. “There’s a
real feeling out there that the time is
right for somebody with leadership.
“Texas needs a strong leader.”
A news release from the church
said, “Pastor Otwell is that man.”
A state district judge last year
found Otwejl guilty of violating state
licensing laws for youth homes.
Otwell refused to show up for a
court hearing in the case and re
mained a fugitive for several weeks.
He later surrendered and agreed
to close the home when Attorney
General Jim Mattox agreed to drop
the case against Otwell.
The pastor said he would run as
an independent candidate.
“The Democrats are probably
more liberal than I’d be,” he said. “I
would probably run on the Republi
can side if they would draft me. I
don’t know if they would want that.”
Otwell plans to formally an
nounce his candidacy at his church
on May 1.
Otwell had harsh words for Mat
tox during last year’s legal battles
concerning the youth home.
The church release announcing
the May 1 announcement said,
“Texas does not need another Mark
White, Bill Hobby, Jim Mattox or
even, as it is looking now, a *
Clements as governor of Texas.
“We have had enough ofgo' e
ment tyranny, state control and4
ulations, licenses, andtaxinetto
that seem only to make the’ 1 '
richer and the poor poorer.
He said he anticipates that Mattox
will be among the 1990 contenders.
Otwell said Mattox is “a stronger
leader than a lot of men I know, but
I don’t stand on his convictions.”
Intermediary for prankste
pays for staff lot’s damage
By Curtis L. Culberson
Staff Writer
third party for a friend"
wanted to remain anonymous
The identity of the early-morn
ing parking-lot painter, who
transformed the staff lot behind
the Reed McDonald Building into
a Battalion “Members Only” lot,
is still a mystery. But the case now
is closed.
Director of University Police
Bob Wiatt Tuesday said he told
members of The Battalion Edito
rial Board that he would launch a
full investigation and charge the
parties involved with vandalism
— a class A misdemeanor — if
they had not turned themselves
in by 2 p.m. on April 9.
“A student called my office
about 1:30 that day and got very
anxious and nervous when my
secretary told them that I was in a
meeting,” Wiatt said.
The student was acting as a
Wiatt said he told
that he wouldn’t file any d
if monetary amends were u*
for the repainting of the ft ‘
gro u n ds-mai n tenance person^
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ers following the April 8 p^ '
lot prank. “They wanted! 0 "
someone hang for it,” Wiatt
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spaces had been paintedovet|
designated for members of ^
Battalion Editorial Board,
other spaces and a no-pto;
zone were marked “Batt /
Only.”
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few hours after it was report 0 "
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