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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 2, 1987 ROTHER’S BOOKSTORES Complete Line of Used Books 340 Jersey (across from Univ. Police) 901 Harvey (Woodstone Center) ROTHER’S BOOKSTORES Full range of school supplies and A&M novelties 340 Jersey (across from Univ. Police) 901 Harvey (Woodstone Center) Marines We’re looking for a fe>ivgood men. Captain R. Mahany 846-9036/8891 Styling for Men & Women Haircuts $8 with this coupon (regular $10) Perms $5 OFF Open M-F 9-6 Sat. 9-2 268-2051 Located in the Lower level Memorial Student Center exp. 10-2-87 welcome home Aggies STUDENT CHECKING -NO MINIMUM BALANCE. NO MONTHLY SERVICE CHARGE. fnwmicL , NATIONAl. HANK 711 University Drive , C'il li'iiV St.i 111 in Tt'xas ^ 846-8751 Don't let your room be caught NUDE without any plants FOH PLANT SALE SATURDAY. SEPT. 5, 1987 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Ficus trees Boston Ferns Hanging Baskets Palms and much , much more. COMMONS QUAD LUBBOCK ST PLANT SALE LAMAR LIBRARY Oil PACs give most money to Texans WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil in dustry campaign contributions have grown to more than $1.2 million so far this year, and Texans lead the list of recipients, records indicate. Senate Finance Committee Chair man Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, has received more money — $159,525, or about 13 percent of the total — from oil industry political action committees than anyone else in Con gress, according to Federal Election Commission records. Speaker Jim Wright, D-Fort Worth, with $23,500, and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, with $22,500, rank First and second on the House list of oil-PAC money recipients, a study by the Harte-Hanks Newspapers’ Washington bureau shows. Vice President George Bush has received $33,800 in oil money, more than the $30,725 garnered by all his presidential rivals combined, the study shows. The money apparently is paying off on legislation that would help re vitalize the oil industry, which is reel ing from the 1986 price slide, the Harte-Hanks bureau found. Sixteen of the top 20 oil-PAC money recipients — and nine of the top 10 — in the Senate voted for a repeal of the Windfall Profits Tax this year, records show. The repeal, which oil producers have sought for years, passed 58-40 and now is in a House-Senate con ference committee. The oil lobby was less successful on Bentsen’s proposal for a 50 per cent cap on oil imports, which was defeated 55-41. But 11 of the top 20 Senate oil- PAC recipients voted for it, while nine opposed it. Meanwhile, the top 10 recipients in the House have sponsored or co sponsored more than 50 bills that would benefit oil producers. “What the oil industry is doing is buying access and votes,” said Craig McDonald, director of Congress Watch, an organization that mon itors PAC money contributions and their influence. “That ($1.2 million) is a pretty good share of money.” Texans are not the only recipients of oil contributions. The 112 oil PACs representing organizations which have a full or partial interest in oil and gas operations have con tributed to 381 different members of Congress and four presidential candidates, according to the study which covers campaign reports up to Aug. 1. HOU! judge T uled exe consider among i hind bar James gave h “Doom,” fore daw robbery- pizza par Attorr pealed Judge L> mate, sa) be the re from his Lawye facts ab< hood we jury and beatings brain dar has rulec mentally put to de; Hughe about 9'/ chette wa SAN j Snyder i not stop math ins for one 1; Snyde ing and c Bexar Cc of admin nel welcc students. “I real "The pe don’t kn< them by i bad. Tha Some dents, ni McCuUoi as a hig teacher v\ Howdy, Sir! Photo by SaraiL 1 Cadet Ward Miller, a freshman biology major from Philadelphia, Pa., introduces himself by “whipping out” to senior Corps member Re Heau, a computer science major from Houston “He’s st I call Mr. ‘ a former : and speed “He did formation periments Snyder’ humor. Business gives elderly chance to resume work after retiremer Off lea DALLAS (AP) — At age 67, with a long, hard life of house-painting be hind him, Ray Yates might be ready to scale back into a rocking chair on a ohady front porch somewhere. Yates doesn’t see it that way. In fact, he’d rather hawk hot dogs on a 100-degree sidewalk than rock away his life. “I’ve never been the type to quit,” he says. “I just can’t sit around at home all the time. I figure if I quit, I won’t live much longer.” So the lifetime Oak Cliff resident hooked up with Hot Diggity Dog Inc., a fledgling company that makes hot dog vendors out of elderly and handicapped people who can’t find work elsewhere. Yates says Hot Diggity Dog might keep a lot of people like him off front porches. Hot Diggity Dog founder Scarlett Rabalais says that’s the idea. ‘We want to put the elderly back sip handicapped,” says Rabalais, who lo cates her hot dog stands at area Sam’s Wholesale Clubs. “We’ve got two stands and seven employees right now and we have plans to open stands in Oak Cliff and Grand Prai- Rabalais says she got the idea for the business in May, after her 52- So Rabalais and her husband, A1 Rabalais, took their idea to Benton- ville, Ark., the home of Wal-Mart Stores and Sam Walton, the richest man in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. A1 Rabalais says they never got to talk to Walton, but Wal-Mart representatives gave them permission to open their first “JVe never been the type to quit. I just can’t sit around at home all the time. I figure if I quit, I won’t live much longer. ” — Ray Yates, 67-year-old hot dog vendor to work and help find jobs for the year-old stepfather suffered a heart attack and couldn’t find work. “He worked for 22 years for that company, and they retired him after the heart attack,” she says. “And with his age and health history, he couldn’t find another job.” hot dog stand July 3 at the Sam’s Wholesale Club in east Dallas. The second stand opened July 31 rlett ~ in northwest Dallas and Scarlett Ra balais hopes more will open in Texas. Kelly Taylor, Hot Diggity’s training manager, says the ;• are instant hits. “With our prices ($1.50 for ' ' and a Pepsi), we do real well Taylor, 18. “Senior citizens af ■ azingly helpful, and they can themselves. It’s really sad wher can’t keep the things they’ve" for all their life.” T he Rabalaises, who dr ; apartments and condominiuf' Texas, California and Utah,jii'|| about $22,000 in Hot Diggity it started. They also negotiatj deal by which they buy all their plies from Sam’s, and Wal-Maf a cut of the profits. Scarlett Rabalais says the isn’t important. “The critical thing,” she say creatingjobs for these people. To qualify to work for HotDi ’ Dog, a worker has to be at M years old or have some sortofla icap. Yates says the job is tailortfl for older people. bee the wh: Offi as): for Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fall Rush ’87 Smoker At the ZAE House Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 p.m. Just Guys Poker Smoker at the ZAE House Friday, September 11, 4:00 p.m. Amuck in College Station - Part III Featuring “The Pictures ff at the ZAE House Wednesday, September 2, 7:30 p.m. Barbeque Bash ' Ribs and Beef at the ZAE House Friday, September 4, 4:00 p.m. Mike Pflueger, Rush Chairman 822-1377 EAE House 822-1377 SHORI ON CASH! BEAUfy mont’s fine Above i forms, the the police ( help prom tennial c< beards. advertise will the Battaliol classified ad 845-261! we won' sell yo| shod