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By Anita Anderson
Reporter
At the end of every fall semester,
many students sublease their apart
ments for reasons ranging from fi
nancial problems to roommate trou
bles, Texas A&M Off-Campus
Center employees say.
"At least two or three people have
come in every day for the last three
weeks to sublease their apartments,”
Cindy Hurt, a clerk at the center,
says.
Center coordinator Kristin Sayre
says students who are not going to
come back usually make their deci
sion around the end of the semester.
Roommate relationships that
don’t work out and high rents also
are reasons students sublet their
apartments, Sayre says.
Nina Alvarez, a junior psychology
major, found her apartment was too
expensive for her budget.
“We signed our lease in the sum
mer and figured we could handle it,”
Alvarez says.
Neva Moss, an assistant manager
of Treehouse Apartments, says
Car theft steals
top spot on list
of state crimes
DALLAS (AP) — The lure of
big cash rewards and low risks of
punishment have made auto theft
the fastest-growing crime in
Texas and the state’s No. 1 police
headache.
Last year an average of 328
cars and trucks vanished each day
from Texas streets and parking
lots.
But during the first 10 months
of this year, Texas Department of
Public Safety figures show a 9.2
percent increase over the same
period in 1986, when more than
119,000 cars were stolen. And
that" was a 20 percent increase
over 1985.
Officials say a skilled car thief
can open a locked car and drive
away in less than 20 seconds.
Then, cars often are taken to
Mexico or to the neighborhood
“chop shops” that fuel an illegal
parts network.
The value of vehicles stolen
statewide last year was nearly
$700 million.
The thefts often occurred in
cities at crowded shopping cen
ters.
“A shopping mall is candy land
to a thief,” Capt. Glen York of the
Houston Police Department said.
“They know tne security is
thin, the owners will be away for
hours and the cars are there wait
ing,” he said.
Officials said the problem is
amplified by a crowded prison
system and backlogged court
dockets that make it difficult to
prosecute and sentence thieves.
Auto theft in Texas is a third-
degree felony carrying a maxi
mum prison sentence of two to 10
years.
But police say few auto thieves
spend that much time in prison, if
they spend any at all.
And to make prosecution even
more difficult, many auto theft
rings pay juveniles to steal vehi
cles.
That places the cases in the
complicated juvenile court system
and decreases the likelihood of
lengthy sentences.
Police aren’t the only ones who
are discouraged. Insurance in
dustry experts say that as the
number of thefts goes up in
Texas, so do auto insurance rates.
Police say recovery rates vary
from 60 percent to 70 percent in
most parts of the state, but the
cars may be stripped by that time.
many apartment complexes have
flexible rules for subleasing.
“We don’t want to keep anybody
here if they don’t want to be here,”
Moss says. ‘‘We have less people walk
out on us because we’re willing to
work with them.
“We take all circumstances under
consideration, but the tenant is still
responsible for finding someone to
take over the lease.”
Treehouse charges a $25 sublease
fee and the person who leases the
apartment takes it as is, Moss says. In
order to make a clean break from
the apartment, the original tenants
lose their deposit and the new ten
ants must pay a deposit, she says.
At Plantation Oaks apartments,
like most complexes, the original
tenant ultimately is responsible for
rent under a sublease, says Bonnie
Kuykendall, a bookkeeper there.
“If the new tenant fails to pay
rent, then the original tenant is le
gally required to do so,” Kuykendall
says.
While subleasing is not as good
for the subleaser, it can be an attrac
tive deal for the person subletting.
The person who sublets often
doesn’t have to put down a deposit,
she says.
But Sayre says a potential sub-lea-
see should offer to pay a deposit.
“Paying a telephone or electricity
deposit can make your offer more
attractive,” Sayre says. “Subleasing is
the only alternative for some people.
It’s an unfortunate situation because
not even half of the available sub
leases will get leased.”
But students who have problems
with finances or roommates can try
other methods.
“Try moving into a smaller apart
ment in the same complex,” she says.
“Or find somebody else in the com
plex who needs a roommate.”
If subleasing is the only answer, a
search for someone to take over the
apartment is necessary, she says.
“Just don’t put a card in at the
Off-Campus Center and leave it,”
Sayre says. “Put an ad in the newspa
per, talk to your apartment man
ager, and for as much free time as
you have, come and sit in the OCC
and talk to people.”
Patrol finds bodies
of missing doctors
in wrecked plane
PORT MANSFIELD (AP) — The
bodies of two men who had been
missing since last week were recov
ered from the wreckage of their pri
vate plane Sunday, authorities said.
The body of a third man aboard
had been found earlier and officials
had narrowed their search for the
plane, which was last heard from
when it took off at Port Mansfield
airport on Wednesday.
All three men aboard were Ar
lington doctors.
The wreckage of the plane was
found Sunday in about 5 feet of wa
ter in the Laguna Madre, about 7
miles northeast of the airport, said
Maj. Charles Whatley of the Civil Air
Patrol, which had conducted the
search along the Texas Department
of Public Safety officials and the U.S.
Coast Guard.
The body of Carl Rainone, 62,
was discovered Saturday by a fisher
man in murky water less than a foot
deep along the Intracoastal Water
way, Maj. Joyce Clark of the CAP
said. Rainone was the team dentist
for the Texas Rangers baseball fran
chise.
The Beechcraft Bonanza was pi
loted by Rainone’s brother, Frank
Jr., 61, an Arlington surgeon, and
also carried Dr. William H. McLarty,
64, an Arlington dentist.
A CAP plane spotted the wreck
age, which was not expected to be
moved immediately because authori
ties lacked the necessary equipment,
s Whatley said.
Fred Frost, the Willacy County
justice of the peace who examined
Carl Rainone’s body, said Rainone
apparently survived the crash and
died by drowning, although he did
not know if Rainone was conscious
when thejalane hit the water.
About 19 CAP planes had
searched 1 for the plane Saturday, but
the search area was narrowed to a
15-mile radius on Sunday, when
only two airplanes and a Texas DPS
helicopter had room to continue the
search, officials said.
President of Skaggs
dies in plane crash
COMMERCE (AP) — The presi
dent of Dallas-based Skaggs Alpha
Beta and the chief pilot for Trinity
Industries died when their twin-en
gine plane struck a tree, authorities
said.
Killed in the crash Saturday was
Albert Kara, 47, of McKinney, presi
dent of Skaggs Alpha Beta, a divi
sion of American Stores with about
100 stores in nine states, including
48 in Texas.
The other victim was Thomas Ar
thur Smith, 44, of Plano, chief pilot
for Dallas-based Trinity Industries,
authorities said.
Trinity Industries manufactures
rail cars, metal products and gas
tanks. A company spokesman said
Smith and three other company pi
lots were responsible for transport
ing company executives.
Smith also owned and operated a
flight school at McKinney.
Authorities said the plane was
about 30 feet off the ground when it
struck the tree about two miles south
of the Northwest Texas town of
Commerce near the Sand Hills
Country Club.
Hunt County Sheriffs Depart
ment Sgt. Jason Cunningham said
investigators told him an engine on
the plane’s right wing may have
failed, causing the plane to spin out
of control.
Tommy McFall, an investigator
with the National Transportation
Safety Board, said the wreckage was
to be taken to Lancaster for exami
nation.
Most of the wreckage is intact be
cause the plane did not explode
upon impact, he said.
Authorities said that Kara’s body
was found on the pilot’s side of the
plane, but were not certain who was
flying the plane. A friend of the vic
tims said both men were experi
enced pilots.
The men had left an airport at
McKinney for a test flight of the
plane, which Kara had bought last
week, a friend said.
Hospital staff says AIDS precautions
aren't foolproof against exposure
DALLAS (AP) — Last year the staff at Parkland Me
morial Hospital used 6.5 million pairs of rubber gloves
—just one of the special precautions officials are taking
to guard against the spread of the AIDS virus.
The risk of exposure to the deadly virus was illus
trated recently when several security guards and a
nurse were covered in blood when they rushed to the
aid of a psychiatric patient who had slashed his wrists
with a broken bottle.
Only later did they learn the patient had tested posi
tive for AIDS.
The incident underscores the need for caution, but
also shows the inability to create a foolproof policy.
When the exposure occurred, Parkland already had de
veloped one of the most extensive programs in the area
to protect its patients and employees from the disease.
“We try to be as cautious as we can when we’re deal
ing with AIDS patients,” said Karen Krentz, the nurse
educator at Parkland’s emergency room. “But some
times you don’t know who you’re dealing with. You just
do the best you can.”
The precautions taken at the Dallas hospital are far-
reaching and expensive. The number of rubber gloves
used last year is more than double the number used the
year before.
Parkland also is buying more disposable needles,
gowns and rubberized aprons. And the hospital has
adopted a variety ot procedural changes for keeping
contaminated articles separate.
The cost of these precautions is expected to add
about $1 million a year to Parkland’s budget, which will
translate into $10 to $20 a day more for patients staying
at the hospital.
Dr. Ron Anderson, chief executive officer at Park
land, said, “What we’re hoping is that we will see some
savings down the line in fewer cases of hepatitis-B
among our staff, since it is transmitted the same way as
AIDS.”
Since January 1986, 54 Parkland employees have
been exposed to blood or other body fluids from pa
tients who have been diagnosed with AIDS or who have
tested positive for the virus believed to cause AIDS. Al
though none of the employees have tested positive, 50
still are undergoing regular testing.
Those exposures came despite an AIDS manual pub
lished last summer that was distributed to every depart
ment that has contact with AIDS patients, including the
clinics and housekeeping and food service staffs.
Most of the Parkland employees were exposed to the
virus by accidentally jabbing themselves with a needle
after it was used on an AIDS patient, officials said. The
hospital’s procedures have been changed so that nee
dles no longer have to be resheathed before they are
thrown away.
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