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Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, September 24, 1987 NEW 3'C Restaurant TONIGHT S SPECIAL 5-9 pm, Choice Prime Rib Dinner w/ Salad Bar & Baked Potato $6.95 —ALL DAY- Si 25 Bar Drinks Banquet room available <$?■ & Harvey & Texas Ave. - Culpepper Plaza - 693-4054 Lowenbrau’s INFORMATIONAL MEETING TONIGHT 8:30 PM Rudder Tower Delta Upsilon Fraternity D.U. offers you: •Immediate leadership opportunities •High standards of scholarship •NO hazing or other nonsense •International Fraternity membership ®DU is a non-secret fraternity If DU is what you’re looking for in a new frater nity at Texas A&M, stop by the Student Activities Center in the Pavilion, or call Todd Riemensch- neider at 696-2967 today through Thursday for more information. ATTENTION PURCHASERS Of Propane Gas lor Residential Use A proposed settlement of a lawsuit brought on behalf of purchasers of propane gas who reside in the Bryan, Tx. area has been reached. Persons who purchased propane gas for residential use from a supplier located in the Bryan, Tx. area during the periods from JULY 1982 to MARCH 1983, or from AUGUST l')83 to JULY 1985 may be entitled to a MONETARY payment under the proposed settlement. The legal rights of purchasers of propane during these periods are affected by this settlement. If you are such a purchaser and do NOT wish to be bound by the terms of this settlement, you MUST expressly exclude your claim. For information concerning the settlement of this lawsuit and the method of making or excluding a claim, fill out the information requested below and mail it to: Texas Attorney General’s Office Antitrust Division PO Box 12548, Capitol Station Austin, Tx. 78711-2548 (by order of Judge Norman \V. Black, U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas) NAME ADDRESS CITY/STATE/ZIP Governor names ex-congressman to railroad board AUSTIN (AP) — Former Con gressman Kent Hance became the state’s newest railroad commissioner Wednesday, pledging bipartisan co operation to change national energy policy and receiving a possible new lease on political life. Hance, a Republican, replaces Democratic Commissioner Mack Wallace, who resigned to practice law. Taking the oath of office in the Texas Senate chamber, Hance said oil and gas industry troubles are so serious, politics must be secondary. “The problems facing us are not partisan issues,” he said. “We have to work together today in building a united front to meet the challenges,” he said. Hance, believed to be the first Re publican to serve on the Texas Rail road Commission, has also re-en tered the political spotlight. Hance lost the 1984 Democratic U.S. Senate nomination to Lloyd Doggett and after changing parties, he Tost the 1986 GOP gubernatorial nomination to Gov. Bill Clements, who appointed Hance to the com mission. Speaking at the swearing-in, Clements noted the visiblity of Hance’s new job. “You know, the size of this crowd surprises me,” he said. “Are you announcing for gov ernor today, too?” Hance shook his head no, and in a later news conference said his only ambition is to run in 1988 for the last two years of the term to which he was appointed. “I wouldn’t have taken it (the ap pointment) and not made a commit ment to go ahead and run in 1988,” Hance said. “That’s something that’s a long way off. I think it would be foolish to do anything like that .... I want to be the best railroad commissioner I can be.” But Hance left the door open to a different race in 1990. “If other things open up, fine,” he said. “If they don’t, fine. “I may like this job so well that I’ll want to do this in ’90 and ’96 or whenever the voters will vote for Hance’s appointment drew a re sponse from Vice President George Bush, who sent the new commis sioner a congratulatory telegram. “I’m delighted, Kent, that you are being sworn in today as Texas’ new est railroad commissioner,” Bush said. “No one is better qualified, and no one would be more effective." Hance enters the commission fac ing a most controversial issue — the selection of a new railroad chairman. Asked if he planned to vote for Commissioners John Sharp or Jim Nugent, both Democrats, or possibly himself, Hance replied: “I have not made a final decision. I’ll have this weekend to concentrate on it. I want to work together with both commissioners, that’s the most important thing .... If I can come up with a soluuon where we can all work together, I think that’s the best solution.” Cooperation also is the key to changing a short-sighted national energy policy, Hance said. “Our nation’s security hinges on the implementation of an effective national energy policy,” he said. Asked if he might run for gover nor again in 1990, Hance said, “I don’t even want to talk about that. “It may not be surprising but it’s certainly reckless and regrettable public policy to continue to refuse to adequately address the long-range energy needs,” he said. Key: ^ = Lightning • • = Rain = Ice Pellets Fog Snow Rain Shower A = Thunderc >5 = Drizzle 0\j = Freezing k: Valid: Noon today Sunset Today: 7:18 p.m. Sunrise Friday: 7:14 a.m. Map Discussion: The cold front pushing southeastward outofO: will bring cool temperatures and scattered showers to the NewLs stales. Low pressure over the southwestern United Stateswillcoc to produce rain over Arizona and southern California, wMeux the remainder of the country will enjoy fair and mild wealherua high pressure systems. Forecast: Today. Fair to partly cloudy with a high temperature of 85dep^ Winds easterly at 7 to 10 miles per hour. Tonight: Fair and cool with a low temperature of 61 degrees®, easterly winds. Friday. Partly cloudy and warm with increasing low level moisE result of the southeasterly winds. High temperature of 86 degro Weather Fact: Barometric pressure is the pressure exertedbyik atmosphere as a consequence of gravitational attraction exenet the “column” of air lying directly above the point in question. Prepared by: Charlies Staff Metfi: A&M Department of Mer CLASS OF ’1 lie Relatio 216 MSC. MEXICAN-, Eley and J NATIONAL ACCOUN CLASS OF ’! mittee unt 30-LOVES: meet in 3C INCOGNIT NAVIGATC in the Cor OFF-CAMP1 Sept. 25 ir COLLEGE E Fountain Rudder at DATA PRC Phillips P< data proct INTRAMUI tains will n WRITING < Clauses” i: HILLEL JE1 the Hillel ALCOHOLi Student A ADULT CH MSC at 6 1 COLLEGE I today in 2 UNTITED C ter fellows ble study a CHESS CLU 607 Ruddi ALPHA PHI day throu who need 10:30 p.m INDIA ASS! celebratioi TAMU BAE White at 7 STUDENTS Sept. 25 ai LATTER Dj Robert Wi INTER-VAI and watch CLASS OF '1 lie Relatio 216 MSC t OFF-CAMP1 223 Pavilic Items for W. 216 Reed fore desir NewM about I LAS CRUCES,: dents of Chapai ing that El Pa community in it Dona Ana Coun Texas trash or n more for the pri\ there. About 20 Chap tended Tuesday Commission me< county plans to d< ral landfill as or that commercial v use. Following Tues county now requir have permits and county’s landfills. In all the information being circulated about clinic-based health plans, a few facts may have escaped your attention. For instance, HMO advertising seldom mentions the limitations imposed on your ability to see any physician you choose. Or that these HMO plans offer no dental coverage whatsoever. Little emphasis is given to the sparse provisions such plans make for psychiatric services, or the strict limits imposed on elective surgery. Texas A&M employees are rarely told they will be required to surrender their PCS Card if they drop their present insurance to join a health plan. Nothing is said about the limitations on hospitals such plans cover. Or about what these plans won't cover: things like physid s you may need to obtain a job or a life insurance policy, psychological testingycl child may need for school, even the blood you may require during surgery. In factor prominent health plan excludes 18 specific areas of health care from its coverage, So if the promise of a single monthly premium that covers ail your family's health care costs sounds too good to be true...perhaps it is. Just be sure you know cl the facts before you trade your proven medical insurance for the latest trend in health care delivery. Air b< AUSTIN (AP) Board is seeking ; ucts, including ro< shield-washing fli dustrial processe pollution found ii say. The agency als of laws that requii working order, a s Lucille Linden, the air control be products initially Tarrant counties urban areas in Te A message in the public interest from ^ ifjsBrazos Independent Physic^