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Wednesday
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION IN CHEMIS
TRY: will hear a talk on writing resumes at 10 a.m. in 2102
Chemistry.
Thursday
AGGNOG: will discuss the new MS-DOS public library at
5:30 p.m. in 204 Evans Library.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will hold a Bible study at
6:30 p.m. outdoors, between Rudder Tower and the MSC.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be
fore desired publication date.
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■ DALLAS (AP) — Greyhound
Hnes Inc. signed final contracts
Huesday to buy $80 million in assets
from financially-troubled Trailways
Ernes Inc., and Greyhound’s chief
pi ( diets the acquisition will he profit
able immediately.
I “The Greyhound-Trailways part
nership means the bus business is
back, with the potential to be
stronger than ever,” said Fred Cur-
icy, Greyhound president and chair-
Han, in a news conference at Trail-
ways’headquarters.
I Greyhound agreed in the cash
transaction to buy Trailways buses,
terminals and garages, as well as take
Hver some Trailways routes. Some
workers will be laid off, he said.
■ “Our goal is to fill job openings in
Breyhound with people from Trail-
ways,” Currey said. “For those who
iapm’t be placed, there will be sever
ance benefits greater than those pro
vided by Trailways in the past.”
■ Currey said he expects quick re
sults from the acquisition.
I “Greyhound is profitable now and
the combined company will be prof
itable .. . immediately,” he said. “We
will have the resources to continue
service to the communities we now
Serve, and even go back to some that
were abandoned in recent years.”
1 The Trailways name will continue
sto be used, especially in areas where
I railways is now the sole bus service,
he said.
The transaction still must meet
Interstate Commerce Commission
approval, but Currey said he saw no
reason the ICC would reject it.
When asked why Greyhound
chose to acouire its competition
rather than allow it to collapse, Cur
rey responded, “You let Trailways
collapse, you take away service from
500 to 600 towns that are served
solely by Trailways, and that would
be a fairly cold and callous thing for
a company that is in the public serv
ice industry to do.”
Under the agreement, about
41,600 scheduled miles of service, or
5.1 percent, will be eliminated by
Aug. 5.
“No city or town will lose service,”
Currey said; instead, duplicate
routes will be converted to single
routes, some garages, terminals and
maintenance shops will be closed
and some administrative operations
will be moved or merged.
In a meeting with about 250 em
ployees, Currey said all active Trail-
ways drivers will be offered employ
ment under terms of the Greyhound
Amalgamated Transit Union.
For 90 days, the drivers will work
on Trailways routes. After then, a
vote will be held to determine se
niority rights for Trailways drivers.
Clements' acts
'confounding'
budget writers
AUSTIN (AP) — House and Sen
ate budget writers, confounded by
Gov. Bill Clements’ latest spending
proposals, called off a Tuesday
meeting because of what their chair
man diagnosed as “complete, abso
lute frustration.”
“We’ve been here over seven
months and yesterday, two days be
fore the session could have been
over, the governor finally comes in
with some figures that I suspect
came out of the blue,” said Sen.
Grant Jones, D-Temple and chair
man of Senate conferees in the bud
get negotiations.
Clements took much criticism as a
result of his Monday call for budget-
writers to trim $527 million in edu
cation funds from a $38.6 billion
bottom line agreed to by House and
Senate leaders.
The governor’s plan included an
end to state money for full-day kin
dergarten, meaning districts that
want to have more than a half-day
program would have to pay for it.
“We don’t think he’s really having
a heart about this,” said Sandy Kibby
of Austin, legislative chairman for
the Texas Congress of Parents and
Teachers, during a Capitol rally. “I
think he’s not looking at what is hap
pening to children.”
Later in the day, House Speaker
Gib Lewis said Clements had agreed
to drop his proposal on kinder
garten funds. In exchange, Lewis
said he promised to work with Clem
ents on delaying some of the career
ladder money.
Jones, uncharacteristically vocal,
said his Tuesday meeting with Clem
ents was brief because, “My blood
pressure got too high.”
He said the appropriations con
ference committee planned to go
back to work Wednesday.
House Public Education Chair
man Bill Haley said the state-funded
full-day kindergarten program is
crucial. Haley, D-Center, acknowl
edged growing momentum for law
makers to approve a budget and go
home but added, “I want out of here
but I’m not fixing to start raping
some program just to get out of
here.”
Haley said about 600 of the state’s
1,100 districts now have full-day kin
dergarten. State funding for those
programs was included, unintentio
nally, in the 1984 school reform bill.
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I WACO (AP) — He doesn’t hail
from Sherwood Forest and he’s
never needed a bow, but the “Robin
Hood” of Caritas came armed with a
technician’s skill and his own band of
merry men to aid Waco’s poor.
Bill Salmon does not take his vol
unteer work lightly — especially
when it concerns the kind of people
served by Caritas, a social service
agency that gives emergency finan
cial assistance to the poor.
S “A whole lot of these people have
been hit hard by the unemployment
rate, but they’re not familiar with the
channels to go to,” Salmon said.
They’ve never had to ask for help,
nd they’re not familiar with where
to get help).”
: Dr. Eugene Jud, executive direc
tor of Caritas, said Salmon has p^ro-
vided invaluable service repairing
refrigerators and air conditioning,
setting up a computer system and
finding answers to other problems at
the center.
“Bill is a very unusual guy, and
We’re glad he’s become a part of our
system,” Jud said. “I think he has a
very soft spot for pjeople who need
help, and that he thinks Caritas is
doing a good job of helping peopde.”
Food for People director Nancy
lei bach, who nicknamed him the
“Robin Hood” of Caritas, said
Salmon appeared a year ago and of
fered his technical skills.
Since then, he has begun his own
network of friends in other trades to
aid Caritas, she said.
“A whole lot of these peo
ple have been hit hard by
the unemployment rate. . .
. They’ve never had to ask
for help, and they’re not
familiar with where to get
help. ”
— Bill Salmon, volunteer
“He’s willing to donate all of this
talent and doesn’t charge us a
thing,” Gelbach said.
“He’s got a physical energy level
that is amazing,” she said. “If we call
him and tell him it’s an emergency,
he’ll be here in a hurry.”
Salmon dismisses the praise, argu
ing that helping p^eople should be a
priority for everyone.
“I’ve been very fortunate, but in
my working I have seen the other
side,” he said. “I’ve seen a lot of kids
who are mistreated, I’ve seen a lot of
people w'ho didn’t have even the ne
cessities of life trying to get through
the best they could.
“I don’t feel sorry for them be
cause I don’t think they feel sorry
for themselves, but I do feel like if I
can do something to help them and I
don’t, then I’ve wronged myself.”
Salmon said he would like to see
federal social service eliminated, and
instead see communities and small
businesses join in an effort to fight
poverty.
“Charity starts at home,” Salmon
said. “If you show a little time and a
little compassion for people, it will
come around.”
Jud said Salmon has offered con
siderable time at Caritas, demon
strating his knowledge of comput
ers, electricity, plumbing and
refrigeration, to name a few.
He recalled Salmon’s first appear
ance at Caritas:
“We were having problems with
our walk-in cooler and our walk-in
freezer,” Jud said. “Bill came in and
he looked at the problem. Without
our saying anything, he went in and
started working on it.
“When he got through, it worked
and it’s still working.”
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Former Houston-area KKK leader
added to FBI’s 10 most-wanted list
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HOUSTON (AP) — Former
([#1 Houston-area Ku Klux Klan leader
,suklHjLouis Ray Beam Jr., added to the
eJefiBFBI’s 10 most-wanted list Tuesday,
equif^lphoiild be considered armed and ex-
itedbiB'entely dangerous, officials said.
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he is in Houston since Houston is his
Biome, but we really don't know
Bvhere he is,” FBI spokesman Johnie
Joyce said. “There are lots of pieople
tvho agree with his jjhilosophv in this
area. Of course, he can find them
anywhere in the country.”
Beam left the KKK in the earlv
1980s for The Order, an extremist
Nazi group) in the Northwest that
sought to overthrow the U.S. gov
ernment through violence and re
place it with an “Aryan Nation" of
white warriors.
Beam is wanted for seditious con
spiracy, or plotting to overthrow the
government of the United States.
He and others involved in the
conspiracy have been accused of
more than 100 criminal acts de
signed to instigate revolt, including
the attempted assasinations of a fed
eral judge and an FBI agent, the de
struction of pmblic utilities, pollu
tion of water supplies and establish
ment of illegal guerrilla training
cam j)s.
Llie FBI says Beam is the only one
of 15 white supremacists, indicted in
Fort Smith, Ark., on Apiril 21, still on
the run.
Just two weeks before he was in
dicted, Beam was married In the
Church of Yaweh in rural Pennsyl
vania, fedeVal law enforcement offi
cials said.
Authorities said Beam ma\ be
traveling with his wife. Sheila Marie
Beam, also known as Sheila Marie
Toohey, 20. She is not wanted In au
thorities. Beam also mav be accom-
pianied In his 7-year-old daughter.
Sarah Hadassah Beam.
Beam was last seen pmbliclv in the
Houston area in December 1985
emerging from the Pasadena pniblic
library, a former Klan leader said.
Beam captured some attention m
1970 in Houston when he scuffled
with anti-draft demonstrators and
grabbed a Viet Cong flag. In 1971
he was connected with the alleged
bombing of a local radio station
tower, and in the late 1970s he and
others founded the Texas Emer
gency Reserve, the paramilitary arm
of the Ku Klux Klan.
Beam had been grand dragon of
the United Klans of America until
he was banished in the 1970s for
mishandling f unds, and he formed
his own ragtag Klan band.
He left the local Klan and Hous
ton in the earl\ 1980s when a federal
court here enjoined him and his
Klansmen from intimidating Viet
namese f ishermen in Galveston Bav.
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Baron Frankenstein's creation is one of five electri
fying, mesmerizing, tantalizing Broadway perfor
mances in the all new Theatre Series of MSC OPAS.
Five blockbuster Broadway performances including
"Frankenstein ", Cats ", Beehive ", "Singin" in the
Rain ", and the world's greatest mime, Marcel Marceau
— all for one shockingly low season ticket price.
OPAS 15 also offers the Music Series of brilliant in
ternational performers. Eight of the music world s
brightest lights, from the Rotterdam Philharmonic to
Canadian Brass to Tokyo String Quartet to Good Of
Gershwin.
OPAS 15 gives you a world of electrifying choices:
Music or Theatre or both —at savings up to 40% off
single ticket prices. Thirteen nights of great enter
tainment in Texas Af^M's Rudder Auditorium. This
year join us for the memories. Stay for the fun —OPAS
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We ll even let you charge it.
The Theatre Series:
"Beehive"
September 30, 1987
'Joyful, top notch entertainment; it had the audience screaming with joy."—ARC-TV
"Singin' in the Rain"
riouember 17, 1987
"the production boasts every ingredient...lots of lively and energetic hoofing, brightly
talented young cast...a handsome production and a genuine on stage deluge for the
famous title song."— HOUSTOn CHRONICLE
Marcel Marceau
February 24, 1988
"he is simply superb...the best thing that ever happened to st/ence."—CHICAGO
"Frankenstein"
March 30, 1988
Bravo..."—LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Cats"
Date to be announced
"...audiences of all ages have marveled at its furry flurry of cat people dancing and
singing amid huge tires, trash cans, an old stove, an abandoned car and strings of
Christmas lights."—TUL ATLANTA JOURNAL
The Music Series: —
Nikolais Dance Theater
September 22, 1987
"...one of the most extraordinary theatrical wonders of the age."—THE WASHINGTON
POST
Rotterdam Philharmonic.
James Conlon, conductor
with Bella Davidovich, pianist
October 13. 1987
"The orchestra...digs in and plays lvith an almost aggressive enthusiasm and visible
pride in its mor/r...'—THE BOSTON GLOBE
Peter Nero. Leslie Uggams. Mel Tor me
starring in "The Great Gershwin"
November lO, 1987
"...and then, of course, came Gershwin, with whom Peter Piero seems to have a special
affinity that comes as a birthright."—THE TOLEDO BLADE
The Canadian Brass
"Christmas with The Canadian Brass"
December 1, 1987
"One of the world's great ensembles."—TL\E WASHINGTON POST.
Tokyo String Quartet
January 28, 1988
"The Tokyo String Quartet belongs to the handful of ensembles that are the best of
their /cind..."-BERLINER MORGENPOST, Berlin
Christopher Parkening. Guitarist
February 15, 1988
"Brilliant.' lie proved that neither his reputation nor his records are deceptive. The
audience cheered him lustily:—THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS
Mr. Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band
March 6, 1988
"exceptional in its sparkling articulation...A superior evening of entertainment.'"—
ENTERPRISE, High Point, North Carolina
Music From Marlboro
April 15, 1988
"You may be unfamiliar with these names, but the Music from Marlboro trademark is a
virtual guarantee of musical excellence."—TUE WASHINGTON STAR
Only your season ticket to OPAS 15 guarantees you seats to these magical pefor-
mances. Order yours today!
Tivo convenient ways to order your tickets:
1. Order by phone, 845-1234. Charge to VISA or MasterCard, OB
2. Bequest an order form from the MSC Box Office.
Music Series
Zone 1
Zone 2
Zone 3
Regular
$95.00
$76.00
$61.00
Student
$81.00
$65.00
$55.00
’Special two-for-one discount available for Texas A&M :
students. For a
limited time.
Texas A&"M students may
buy two Zone 3 MSC OPAS season tickets (Music Series only)
for the price of one. Sorry, two-for-one orders accepted
MSC Box Office only.
in person with
fee slip at the
Theatre Series
Zone /
Zone 2
Zone 3
Regular
$103.00
$ 85.00
$ 63.00
Student
$ 90.00
$ 75.00
$ 57.00
Combined Series
Zone 1
Zone 2
Zone 3
Regular
$188.00
$153.00
$1 19.00
Student
$154.00
$130.00
$ 100.00
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