Tuesday, December 1,1987/The Battalion/Page 7
What’s up
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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.
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