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Thursday, September 17,1987/The Battalion/Page 7 Permanent bus passes be issued Monday DS VALUEY: h ’ By Drew Leder toward Jungiar; Staff Writer -107 Rudder ai 1 g Us Operations will begin issuing us passes Monday at Rudder VT ASSOCIATL'ower to about 1,000 students who careers in data;ave been using temporary passes. 'he temporary passes expire Sept. CLUB: willtnvrS; i s in 321 Sterl Boug Williams, manager of Bus tperations, said the department fol- >wed its usual policy of ordering • U1 meeI ai 0,000 passes for the semester and as caught by surprise when a re- tTION: will ir-ord number of students ordered asses. Williams said 1 1,417 students 7 AMERICA-P re expected to pick up passes this ational soil and <: -ciences Buildir,^ m semester, an increase of 3,919 over the spring and 2,611 over last fall. The rider increase also spurred the department to purchase more buses and hire extra drivers. An ad dition of six buses brought the num ber used to cover the nine off-cam- pus routes up from 27 in the spring. The drivers total 165 this semester, which is a slight increase over the spring, Williams said. The increase of passengers on ev ery route is creating some delays for students, Williams said. He said the department received a complaint Wednesday from a student who was passed by at a bus stop Wednesday morning because the bus was full. “We’ve had minor problems on just about every route,” Williams said. “There have been some prob lems with getting people to school on time.” Williams attributed part of the de lay problem to inexperienced driv ers. “The biggest problem with the new drivers is that they are uncom fortable with carrying a full load (of passengers),” he said. Williams said he expects the de lays to be reduced as drivers get more experience on their runs. “We’re getting the bugs worked out,” he said. will meet in and discuss Lc< m. ' FORUM: will )N: will meet! c aptain’s meeti ■r at 5 p.m. ai ^plications for are due Sept.; V AMERICAN .ications are art m. to 5 p.m.tt; 15-4728. est Texas couple rebuilds old hotel into country home Restored building provides peace, quiet sale outside R. ASSOCIATION ;ver Present' e nidnight yellpr lave a peanut-: :30 a.m. and a h at 6:15 p.m. at 7 p.m. run throughca . tice in 351 G.i CREW: Applic nt Y Office in tl* N: will have an 1 i p.m. ION IN CHE e employment:' m. .OWSHIP: wii light yell practs phcattons [orP. ire due by Sef ■- ;g|ULLIN (AP) — From a rocking hair on the second-floor balcony of n old hotel, Warren Duren looks >utover a peaceful little lake. ||||| horse grazes on the far bank. A ireeze and the shade make the af- ernoon heat bearable. Deer and tur- teyebound in the hills surrounding Ite^ake, but are not to be seen this ime of day. The old hotel is everything a ountry home should be — quiet and :omfortable, quaint and relaxing. )uren’s only regret is that he and his vife, Oleta, cannot spend more time tere. This was once the Star Hotel, built orttetime between 1900 and 1907. Thi balcony, where Duren now sits, Hide faced the noisy Santa Fe Rail road tracks in downtown Mullin, rome three and one-half miles from vhere the hotel now stands. Neither the hotel nor the lake was lere when Duren bought this land line years ago. Duren built the lake ind wanted to build a cottage beside t. Driving past the old hotel one day, Duren mentioned to his wife how rood it would look next to the lake. The idea stuck, and when the price tvas right, he bought the hotel. After the big move in January 1985, work began on the interior. A previous owner had restored the outside of the hotel and given it its wine color trimmed in white. Two carpenters worked four months and the Durens worked six months to transform the hotel into a home. Much of the hotel’s personality has been restored. Old flooring and ceilings, a six-foot bathtub, and numbered doors remain. Plenty of antiques furnish the rooms or find new uses such as the old wagon wheel from which kitchen utensils hang. The rooms are small by today’s hotel standards. “We want king-size now, we don’t even want queen-size,” Duren says. “They probably got about two bits a night for this room,” he says. “This is kinda my favorite spot,” Duren says of the balcony. “The wa ter goes back for half a mile.” His granddaughters’ favorite E lace is the playroom in what used to e the attic, he adds. Or, maybe the tree house he built for them. “We’ve spent two nights here dur ing the last couple of months,” Du ren says. The couple live in nearby Gold th waite. “We’d like to spend every night here if we could, but there always seems to be a meeting in town or something to go to,” he says. The hotel gets plenty of use from friends and the Durens’ sons, Tom and Phil, and their families. Several youngsters often come by to ask if they can swim in the lake. Sometimes they bring along a hammer to fix some loose boards in the pier. Duren gives them permission. Growing up near Mullin, Duren didn’t get a chance to stay at the Star Hotel, but remembers eating here when it was the McNeill Boarding House. “Mrs. McNeill was a great cook,” he says. “I think you’d pay about two bits and sit around a big table, family style, and eat till you wanted back in the Depression days.” Duren ran a grocery store and locker plant for several years in Mul lin. A friend encouraged him to go into the banking business in 1947 and by 1953, he was president of the Mills County State Bank. He retired in 1980 and is now chairman of the board of the bank’s holding com pany. 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