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Tuesday, December 1,1987/The Battalion/Page 7 What’s up : V'. Tuesday AGGIES FOR JACK KEMP: wiirmeet at 7 p.m. in 230 MSC. ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 125 Blocker. INTRAMURAL SPORTS: There is a sports club meeting at 7 p.m. in 167 Read. SPANISH CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 704A-B Rudder. EL PASO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7:15 p.m. in 510 Rudder. AGGIE LEAGUE OF ENGINEERS: will take pictures for the Aggieland at 8 p.m. in 601 Rudder. AGGIES FOR GEPHARDT: will watch the Democratic de bate at 8 p.m. in 704A-B Rudder. SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSpCIATION: Dr. Gonza lez will give a workshop on interviewing skills at 7 p.m. in 158 Blocker. PHI KAPPA PHI HONOR SOCIETY: Applications for g raduate study are available in 219 Engineering Physics iuilding. SILVER TAPS: is at 10:30 p.m. in front of the Academic Building. Wednesday AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudder. AGGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will have a party at 8:30 p.m. in 226 MSC. STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 401 Rudder. TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 504 Rudder. THE PRE-MBA ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 120 Blocker. OUTDOOR RECREATION CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 146 MSC. THE ENGLISH CLUB: will discuss “Mythology in History and Literature” at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. Thursday SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION: will meet at 5 p.m. at Sundance at the Hilton on University Drive. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: Dr. Miguel Velez will discuss “Dairy Production in Developing Nations — Facts and Alternatives” at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder. STUDENT Y: YOUTH FUN DAY III: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 228-230 MSC. 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. In Advance Shipwreck discovery to air on PBS A segment of the PBS program NOVA, to be shown Tuesday at 7 p.m. will highlight the discovery of the world’s oldest known ship wreck by researchers at Texas A&M. The program titled “An cient Treasures from the Deep” will be broadcast locally on KAMU, channel 15. Dr. George Bass, distinguished professor of anthropology at A&M, said the ship is believed to have sank in 14th century B.C. He said the site was about 50 yards off the Turkish coast, near a cliff and at a depth of 145 to 170 feet. The wreck was brought to their attention by a Turkish sponge diver and full-scale exca vations began in 1984. Bass said the program has won the Gold Hugo award at the Chi cago International Film Festival, which makes the film eligible for a possible Academy Award nomi nation. Items from the wreck include glass, copper and tin ingots, bronze swords and a gold chalice. Bass said an example of the ob jects recovered from the wreck included the oldest “book” ever found. It consisted of two wooden leaves with ivory hinges that held beeswax, which was scribed with a stylus. Florida offers job market for Texans DALLAS (AP) — The twin prom ise of sunshine and jobs, which brought many northerners to Texas during the oil boom at the beginning of the decade, is now luring Texans to Florida, experts say. One estimate indicates that 23,000 Texans — including carpenters, ac countants and bankers in search of work — will move to Florida this year reversing a long-term popula tion migration trend. Between July 1986 and July 1987, Florida’s population increased 392,000, about 60,000 more than forecast, said Tom Powers, executive vice president of Goodkin Research, a South Florida company that com piles economic data and projections for real estate and other industries. An extraordinary burst in Flor ida’s growth that began in the sec ond quarter of 1986 was fueled largely by “a push out of the oil- patch states,” Powers told the Dallas Times Herald. Some demographers believe, with the recent improvement in the Texas economy, that the Texas-to- Florida migration is slowing, but of ficials say many of Florida’s recent immigrants came from Texas. Florida Division of Motor Vehi cles officials said about 1,700 people turned in Texas vehicle titles for Florida titles each month last year, and the average monthly rate this year is about 1,920. Florida has a 5.3 percent unem ployment rate — compared with Texas’ 8.5 percent jobless rate —and a 4 percent employment growth rate. Abundant blue-collar construc tion jobs have attracted perhaps two- thirds of the Texas migrants, Powers said. White-collar jobs also are attrac tive. Bill Fleming of Ernst & Whin- ney, an accounting, consulting and recruiting firm, said an increasing number of Florida companies have been recruiting in Dallas and the rest of Texas, particularly during the first nine months of this year. Mike Gimbel, president of a Fort Lauderdale firm that recruits ac countants, bankers and consultants, said the sour oil economy has made his job easier. “In Texas or Oklahoma or ba sically the oil patch, we’re able to go ahead and lure the people,” he said. Texas executives often initiate contact with his firm, Gimbel said, noting that officials from troubled financial institutions in Texas and other oil-patch states “are scruti nized more heavily . . . than any other area of the country.” But the Texas influx into Florida has not been as large a factor as that from the Northeast and the indus trial Midwest, Stan Smith, a demo grapher with the University of Flor ida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research, said. It did, however, change a trend that lasted through the late 1970s, Smith said. Dallas couple found living with swarms of cockroaches DALLAS (AP) — A social service volunteer says she found an impov erished elderly couple lying in a room amidst swarms of cockroaches in conditions she likened to a horror movie. For nearly a year, Roman and Margarita Rios’ world had been lim ited to the bedroom of their small house in South Dallas. Their ill health left them unable to buy food, seek medical treatment or apply for government benefits. At the urging of their landlord, a social service volunteer visited three weeks ago and found the couple malnourished and lying in soiled sheets. Roaches swarmed in dresser drawers, the interior of a barren re frigerator and in their mattress. “It’s one of the worst cases I have ever had,” said Aminda Silva, direc tor of La Voz del Anciano Mexicano- Americano, or The Voice of the Mexican-American Elderly. “It’s hard for the Hispanic elderly. They don’t know English or the system, and they have cultural barriers.” Without any neighbors, nearby relatives, a working telephone or En glish skills, the Rioses had lived alone on Mrs. Rios’ $186 monthly Social Security check and sand wiches delivered by Ayala’s Cafe and Market, where their friend Sam Ayala cashes the checks. When Silva first saw the 25-year Dallas residents, their hair was ex tremely long and unkempt and their fingernails had grown to nearly two inches. In the last few weeks, Silva has made sure the Rioses received new beds, clean sheets, food, baths, clean clothes, medical checkups and en rollment in Meals on Wheels, which delivers hot food five times a week. Oeita Bottorff, associate executive director of the Greater Dallas Com munity of Churches, said, “When people like these fall through the cracks, it’s when families or individu als don’t have any idea of what’s available. They don’t have any way to get out for assistance.” “I suspect there is much more of this than people realize. When a situ ation like this arises, there are agen cies that move quickly to help them.” Louise Suniga, the Rioses’ land lord for 17 years, called La Voz del Anciano to get help for the couple. The couple, both unable to move without walkers, began a gradual de cline after Roman broke his foot and began losing his sight in 1985. “He was always doing all right un til he broke his foot, and since then he has been sick,” Suniga said of Ro man. “They didn’t pay me any rent, but I couldn’t throw them out on the street.” When the electric, gas and tele phone services were cut to the cou ple in September, Suniga switched the uilities to her name and began paying those bills for the couple. Family leaves behind videotape before defecting to Soviet Union HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston family who defected to the Soviet Union last year apparently made a video tape describing themselves as prisoners in the free world. The home movie — found last week by a termite in spector checking the Houston house of Arnold and Lauren Lockshin — shows the couple sitting on a park bench, describing their academic and activist back grounds and the feelings that led to their defection. The Lockshins said they made the tape so that “if anything happens,” there would be a record for “our selves and our children.” The FBI on Monday was expected to view the tape made by the Lockshins before they defected with their three children to the Soviet Union in October 1986. Although they had a home and good jobs, Mrs. Lockshin said on the videotape that her family was iso lated at work, school and in their neighborhood. “We are really political prisoners isolated in our ev eryday life,” Mrs. Lockshin said. Lockshin said the couple was not looking for sympa thy, but just trying to explain their situation. He said “psychological warfare tactics” used on them had been extremely intense. The tactics could destroy people who couldn’t stand the stress as well as the Lockshins, he said. “We’re not crazy, not paranoid — what we’re saying is real,” he added. Lockshin was fired from his $50,000-a-year job at the Stehlin Foundation cancer research center in Houston because of what his superiors termed poor work perfor mance. The Lockshins broke off the taping at one point, ap parently fearing they had been overheard. NOMINATE YOUR PARENTS MOM & DAD GEORGE BUSH JIM & TAMMY □ □ □ RONNIE & NANCY FOR PARENTS OF THE YEAR APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE AT MSC STUDENT PROGRAMS OFFICE LIBRARY PAVILION 'FUDENT GOVERNMENT - S A ft M UNIVERSITY DUE FEBRUARY 5, 1988 Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute! Now is the time to order your Aggie gifts for Graduation. 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