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The Driving force of Bryan/ College Station
Phone company
will eliminate fee
to block ‘976’ calls
AUSTIN (AP) — Southwestern
Bell on Tuesday agreed to eliminate
the $21.65 fee now collected from
residential customers who want to
prevent pay calls from their phones
to sex-talk services and other “976”
offerings.
Under the plan, which must be
approved by the Public Utility Com
mission, customers would have 60
days to ask for free blocking of 976
calls. After the 60-day period, it
would cost $7 to prevent the calls.
there were 550 complaints in the
first three months, most of them
from customers who said they did
not make the calls or customers who
said they did not know there was a
charge for the calls.
“We feel like the agreement will
resolve all of the issues in the case,”
The PUC now requires that all
976 calls include a notification of the
charge. The calls now available cost
25 cents to $14.95 each, Hainline
said.
Hainline said 976 providers have
agreed to the proposed plan.
What’s up
Wednesday
YOUNG CONSERVATIVES OF TEXAS: will meet at 7 pm
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Fat Burger.
BATTALION STAFF APPLICATIONS: are available
through Dec. 2 in 216 Reed McDonald.
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.
Rick Hainline, spokesman for
Southwestern Bell, said.
The 976 services, now available in
Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and
San Antonio, include adult enter
tainment, dial-a-prayer, dial-a-joke
and news and sports information.
The price for the call is set by the
provider. Southwestern Bell bills the
caller, keeps its portion of the pay
ment and forwards the remainder to
the provider of the service.
Program offers counseling
to nursing home residents
In a release announcing the pro
posed plan, the PUC said, “The serv
ice has generated considerable con
troversy because of the availability of
adult entertainment services and
high monthly bills that some custom
ers have incurred because of unsu
pervised telephone use.”
Southwestern Bell began offering
the service Jan. 1. Hainline said
Lawsuit filed
to stop parade
with spicy Santa
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Chil
dren usually fight to sit on Santa
Claus’ lap, but businessmen now are
bickering over the rights to Santa’s
legendary south-of-the-border
cousin, Pancho Claus.
The battle is between two factions
of the local American GI Forum, a
Hispanic veterans organization that
has been raising funds with Pancho
ClausLlielp lo make Christmas spe
cial for the city’s poor children.
One group has scheduled a Pan
cho Claus parade Saturday, but an
other faction that wants to stage its
own event on Dec. 12 has filed a law
suit, seeking a restraining order to
stop the parade Saturday.
, Both sides agree that the Pancho
Claus name means thousands of dol
lars in donations for those who col
lect the money to distribute food and
toys to the city’s poor.
“But who ultimately loses are the
children and their families, which
the donations are supposed to be
going to,” said Ted Lee, the attorney
representing the GI Forum.
In August, Daniel Ramos, Jesse
Oviedo and other plaintiffs — all
members of the Central Men’s GI
Forum chapter — filed suit against
the American GI Forum of Texas
and its regional and state leadership,
asking for $2 million in damages.
In a lawsuit filed against the other
GI Forum faction Monday, Rojas
claims he was granted a copyright in
June 1985 protecting a book he
wrote called “The Legend of Pancho
Claus.”
But Mike Hernandez of the Mi
guel Hernandez GI chapter and a
member of the Pancho Claus board
that is having the parade Saturday,
said Raul Sanchez brought the Pan
cho Claus idea to San Antonio from
Lubbock five years ago.
Hernandez claims Rojas only cre
ated a Pancho Claus coloring book.
Lee said Rojas owns a copyright only
for the coloring book, not the char
acter or story behind the legend.
By Amy Young
Reporter
Many nursing home residents fall
victim to eroding mental health, but
local residents may escape the emo
tional desert through Project OA
SIS, a community service organiza
tion that provides counseling for the
elderly.
Four local nursing homes partici
pate in OASIS, which stands for
Older Adults Sharing Important
Skills: Brazos Valley Geriatric Cen
ter, Leisure Lodge Nursing Center,
Crestview Methodist Retirement
Community and Sherwood Health
Care Facility.
The project originated in Brazos
County five years ago, said Dr. Ju
dith Warren, director of the
statewide OASIS project.
It was initiatetl jointly by Warren
and Dr. Michael Duffy, an associate
professor of the educational psy
chology department at Texas A&M.
The program grew out of their
belief that elderly nursing home res
idents needed an organization that
could meet their mental health
needs.
Duffy conceived the idea of train
ing people on a paraprofessional
level to deal with these needs.
The gerontology program of the
A&M Agricultural Extension Service
and the educational psychology de
partment merged with the Retired
Senior Volunteer Program of Brazos
Valley to form OASIS, Warren said.
The project is composed of about
16 volunteers (all but five of which
are over the age of 60) who have
been pretrained to deal with the
problems of nursing home residents.
Volunteers work six to 10 hours a
week to help maintain a stable envi
ronment for residents, Warren said.
gram is eager to receive su)
from the community, both in
way of volunteers and funding,
project, she said, is not onethi
attract a lot of volunteers simplt
cause it is not for everyone.
“One of the main things which is
missing in their lives is structure,”
Warren said. “With activities chang
ing from day to day, things — like
meals — which are constant provide
the only sense of stability they have.
The volunteers are another major
source of stability since they are
there on a regular basis.”
The volunteers donated over
10,000 hours to OASIS during its
first two years, she said.
The program has not grown a
great deal in terms of the number of
volunteers. When the program be
gan there were about 16 volunteers,
a number which has not changed
during the project’s five years in op
eration.
However, Warren said the pro-
The project is in need ofloa
nancial support, she said. GT1
cently donated the project's firs
cal grant for $500. However,
contribution is not adequate ini
porting all the financial needsof
project.
Warren is in charge of dissime
ing the project across the state an
other states that have expressed
interest in the program.
The Hogg Foundation for Mi
Health has provided the fundint
the statewide project for the
four years. However, this
ended in August.
The project on the local
needs funds to help pay thesupe
sbr for ongoing training and s»|
vision of the volunteers in hel|
them deal with the residents, fl
ren said.
The only funding available
them now is the GTE grant
$200 that the volunteers rai
through a garage sale heldinO
her. The project, she said,
about $3,000 a year for operatioi
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