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(Diseases of the stomach, colon, liver and pancreas) 2701 OSLER BLVD., BRYAN OFFICE HOURS MOH..-FRI. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. OFFICE: 774-7666 AFTER HOURS: 775-3133 Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine fit Gastroenterology Chimney Hill Bowling Center Inc. 'A. Family Recreation Center" Phone: 260-9184 Open Bowl With Us On Weekends Mon.-Fri. 9 am-5:30 pm 8:30-Close Saturday & Sunday 10 am to Close 12pm to Close CrepeMyrtle Cafe; ALL UCAN EAT £299 COUNTRY BUFFET 10% discount for SR. CITIZENS SEK /c 5 PM-9 PM MON-SAT 901 UNIVERSITY 260-9150 DALLAS (AP) — OPEC officials, international oil traders and energy analysts will be among those at two major energy conferences this week focusing on next year’s projected oil prices and funding for future dril ling projects. More than 10,000 oil industry representatives are expected to at tend the meetings, which feature ex perts in various fields. A conference sponsored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers be gins today at the Dallas Convention Center and continues through Wednesday. It will be followed on Thursday and Friday by “OPEC and Future World Oil Supply,” a symposium at the Sheraton Dallas sponsored by Southern Methodist University’s In stitute for the Study of Earth and Man. While the environment is im proved from this time last year, the oil industry continues to face uncer tainty, with experts differing on how events will unfold. While some economists are bear ish on oil prices in the short term, others argue that cartel members will maintain the official $18 basket price for crude oil. Most economists are in agreement, however, that the price and supply situation could be radi cally changed if Iraq, a maverick car tel member involved in a bitter, costly war with Iran, does not exer cise production restraint. While OPEC’s ability to manage oil markets will occupy much of the discussion this week in Dallas, an other major issue is financing explo ration programs. Major companies and the larger independents that once relied upon regional banks to provide loans for drilling programs are having to look elsewhere. While traditional lenders have left the energy market in an effort to re cover from the bad experiences of the 1980s, producers are turning to investors from Europe and Asia to provide funds for higher-cost, higher-risk drilling projects. Off the wall Photo by Robert W. Rizzo Eric Churchill of company L-2 rappels down the tower at Brayton Fire Training School. Rappeling and belaying, holding the rope at its base, were two of the sessions taught to freshman cadets Satur day. The cadets also were instructed in first aid and camouflage application. Proceeds from club’s used-book sale will be used for Bryan Public Library By Taborri Bruhl Reporter The Bryan Public Library as well as personal libraries will benefit from the Friends of the Library an nual used-book sale this weekend in the Manor East Mall. The proceeds from the sale of more than 8,000 used books and magazines, which will be sold Thurs day through Saturday, will help pur chase a video-cassette library and a new check-out counter for the Bryan Public Library, Roger Jackson, book sale chairman and Friends of the Li brary member, said. During the past year, members of the community have donated books to the non-profit organization for this year’s sale. Jackson said there are books of all types, including pa perbacks, fiction, non-fiction, text books, reference books and chil dren’s books, as well as magazines such as National Geographic and Scientific American. “All of the books are priced really low,” Jackson said. He gave such ex amples as James Michener’s “Cove nant,” a $19 book that will be marked $1, and a $5 paperback that will sell for 50 cents. The book sale will provide an op portunity for people to buy books or to build a personal library at a frac tion of the cost of buying new books, Jackson said. “We hope to sell them all,” he said. The organization has made spe cial provisions to ensure 100 percent of the books are sold. Books not sold by Saturday will sell for half of their marked prices until noon,-and from noon to 3 p.m. all remaining books will sell for $1 a sackfull. The books will be displayed on 55 tables in the mall. Jackson said there are so many books that they won’t all fit on the tables at once. About 100 members of the club will help with the sale, as well as members of Texas A&M University’s Lamda Sigma Honor Society, a service organiza tion. The sale will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fri day and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. “All the money goes back into the library to provide those little extra things that make it a great library,” Jackson said. In 1986 the club used the pro ceeds from the sale to buy a new check-out counter for the College Station Library, and this year it hopes to buy one for the Bryan Li brary. Elaine Vance, president of the or ganization, said the Friends of the Library tries to buy things for the li brary that it wouldn’t be able to pur chase otherwise. The money raised this year also will be used for matching funds for a grant that the Friends have applied for through the Arts Council, Vance said. The grant will he used to estab lish a collection of video cassettes and machines that will be checked out just like books, she said. Per forming arts, cultural, instructional and documentary cassettes will be puchased, she said. The organization, established in 1956, originally had the book sale sell new books because there was no book store in Bryan, Vance said. For the last 20 years the club has used books every year to benefit the library. Jackson said the 300-member or ganization gets its income from membership dues, the book sale and proceeds from photocopiers that it has purchased for the libraries. The organization consists of peo ple who use the public libraries and want to help make them better, he said. The members also do volunteer work in the libraries, shelving books and preparing new books for shelv ing, he said. Members of the group volunteer in other ways, too. Jim Beard of Beard Transfer and Storage donates a 16-wheel truck each year to transport the books from the library to the mall, Jackson said. “Everyone needs to come out; it's interesting just to see,” Jackson said. Ex-con says he wants death penalty for actions HOUSTON (AP) — An ex-convict charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a doctor told the Houston Post he wants the death penalty and has no wish to be a free man again. In a copyright story published Sunday, Thomas Patrick Monaghan told the Post that if he had not been captured by police, he would have continued to commit “the most heinous crimes I could come up with.” “It would have progressed to murder,” he said. Peering through a metal grid at the Harris County Jail, Monaghan said he had never wanted his release that took place on July 18 from the Texas Department of Corrections. On that term, Monaghan served only 15 years of a 40-year sen tence for raping two Houston women in 1971. Monaghan, 37, is charged in the Sept. 17 kid napping of a 32-year-old doctor. The doctor was forced by Monaghan from her burning home while her husband was left bound in the living room. The husband, also a doctor, escaped un harmed from the blaze. “I wanted to break every law that there was- murder, kidnapping, arson, rape, everything, Monaghan said. “There was no rhyme or rea son.” Denied bail, Monaghan is charged in Houston with aggravated kidnapping, attempted caf murder, two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of auto theft. He also is charged with aggravated sexual assault and is a suspect in arson fires set in Houston motels only days fore the kidnapping. CASINO ’88 Applications for staff positions are now available. Co-chairmen: Due October 2 Sub-chairmen: Due October 9 RHA Office - 215 Pavilion 845-0689 Last Year We Went To Rome... Join Us To See Where We Go This Year! 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