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TsffVl/ Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, February 9, 1988 mmmm m MARGA^ITAS Lunch 6 Fast Lunches 3109 Texas Ave Chcck f' Cred,tCArds i. „ AVC - Bryan 823-7470 Tan for Only $3°° per session with proof of Health Club Members 846-9779 104 College Main r* GRAND OPENING Specials $15 OFF j i Highlights PERMS $22 99 Ftiolleman Location only I Holleman L ocation only The Varsity Shop 1510 Holleman 696-0130 9-5:30 or later by appointment Leak in pipeline triggers oil slick near Galveston Wl IITWI11I I111 What’s Tuesr^v please 1 GALVESTON (AP) — A leak in an underground transmission line trig gered an oil slick in the Gulf of Mex ico that stretched about 20 miles long and three miles wide, officials said Monday. So far, no signs of damage caused by the leak had been spotted, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Mark Ken nedy said. “It seems to be moving slightly more off shore,” Kennedy said. Amoco Pipeline Co., operator of the transmission line, reported the leak about 7 a.m. Monday. The re sulting oil slick, which was not con tinuous, was 30 to 35 miles southeast of Galveston and involved about 14,000 42-gallon barrels of crude oil, Kennedy said. The leak had been sealed off Monday. “We’re dealing with just what’s in the slick,” Kennedy said. Northeast winds reported early Monday afternoon were helping to break up the slick, along with waves and the current, he said. “We haven’t seen any definite signs of damage,” Kennedy said. Generally, there is more environ mental damage when a slick comes ashore than when it stays out in the ocean. Amoco spokesman Ray Thomp son said the 14-inch transmission line will be repaired and crews were going out to the site Monday to de termine what else could be done. The line runs about three feet under the ocean floor. “We haven’t been able to deter mine the source of the leak,” Thompson said. “We haven’t had any particular trouble with that li ne.” The line is part of the High Island Pipeline System in the Gulf that transports crude oil from offshore rigs to various systems in the Texas City area, he said. Don’t Worry when an accident or sudden illness occurs CarePlus is open when you need them 7 days a week with affordable medical care. i Unhappy officials consider dropping San Antonio EMS TAMUS ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT STAFF: Dr Van Fleet will speak at noon in 701 Rudder. For more information Melody Lyne at 845-1751. MSC ALL- NIGHT FAIR: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder. STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will meet to discuss studying in Denmark, West Germany and Scotland at 11 p.m. in 251 Bizzell West. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: will present information on environmenla taminants and their effect on wildlife at 7 p.m. in 203 Harrington. AGGIE SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 140 to finalize plans to attend the press conference in Houston for Space Cause CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a discussion onfaithalSp at the All Faiths Chapel. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: Paul Knudson, executive president of Asia/Pacific Division for Texas Commerce Bank, will discuss important to their international markets at 11 a.m. in 120 Blocker and2p. 135 Blocker. BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: Louie Giglio of Choice Ministries will spear p.m. in 228 MSC. BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: Dr. Duane Peevy will speak on genetics at 7 p.m. in 201 Veterinary Medicine. POLITICAL ACTION OPPORTUNITIES/TEXAS GRASS ROOTS COAI will meet at 7 p.m. at 205-1 Sulphur Springs. TAMU COMPUTER USERS GROUP: will present guidelines on purchasia cro equipment and software and also will nominate officers at3p,m.in308 der. TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 109 Military Sciences. WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS: will meet at 6 p.m. at Mama s Pizza POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY/PI SIGMA ALPHA: will meet at 7 p.m.^j MSC. AGGIE TOASTERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 105-A Zachry. UNDERGRADUATE BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY: will discuss the required! and options of choosing BICH 485 at 7 p.m. in 113 Herman Heep. CLASS OF ’88: will vote for class gift from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. in theMSCI room. INTRAMURALS: Slam dunk contest entries open and wallyball entries dose DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING: will present "Wood: A Modem$:<| tural Material” at 7 p.m. in 110 Civil Engineering at a comprehensive seminar. Wednesday Faculty, staff students receive a 10% discount CarePlus^ crAium v imirnio a i r'crMTcro FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER and Pharmacy 696-0683 1712 SouthwesLPkwy • C.S Open 8 to 8 'Every Day j GODFATHERS manMum PIZZA SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Officials of several suburban communities are considering dropping the San Anto nio Emergency Medical Service, claiming it is inadequate and too ex pensive. The controversy over the emer gency service comes after EMS re cords revealed accident victims in San Antonio had to wait longer for an ambulance than those in Austin, Dallas or El Paso. Art Herrera, an administrative as sistant to San Antonio fire Chief I.O. Martinez, said EMS has contracts with 10 suburban cities for ambu lance service, charging each accord ing to population. City officials from Shavano Park, Hill Country Village and Leon Val ley, however, are among those dis cussing options to the current emer gency service, including contracting with a private ambulance company. “The cost has skyrocketed,” Leon Valley City Manager Don Manning said. “It has more than doubled in the past five years.” Leon Valley gave notice in Sep tember that it will not renew its EMS contract after this fiscal year, when it will pay a projected $134,968 from 37, ' " through Sept. 30, Man- Oct. 1, 198- ning said. Shavano Park Mayor John Horner said his city paid $21,418 for the San Antonio EMS to respond to 30 calls. Another San Antonio suburb, Hill Country Village, paid $1,200 per call for ambulance service last year. Mayor Otis Hibler said. “We’re subsidizing the service, but we’re trying to be financially prudent,” he said. “We have not been pleased with the response time.” EMS answered 66,385 calls in 1987, with 1,302 calls made in all the suburbs and 2,114 calls made in unincorporated Bexar County, The remaining 51,969 calls were made within the San Antonio city limits. INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS: Marvin Kuers Jr. willspeah p.m. in 203 Zachry. AGGIE DEMOCRATS: County Commissioner Bill Cooley and county cor sioner candidates Howard Porterfield and Bubba Moore will speak al8:3C in 402 Rudder. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: Chuck Pfaff, assists president of Interline/Industry Affairs for American Airlines will speak at 2 pa 120 Blocker on topics important to international markets. HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION: will have lunch with (her® 11:45 p.m. at Rumours. PI SIGMA EPSILON: will have a pledge meeting at 6:30 p.m. and a gem business meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 114 Rudder. AGGIE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 404 Rudde UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 pm a: Presbyterian Church. RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION: will take pictures for the AggielandtAU p.m. in Zachry lobby and will have a general meeting at 8:30 p.m.in410Ruite SAN ANTONIO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 229 Rudder CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a Newman midweek:..-; break at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Student Center and a discussion oeAf Wednesday and Lent at 9 p.m. in Lounge B on the Quad. CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will worship with song, prayer® Bible study at 1:30 p.m. in All Faiths Chapel. AGGIE GOP/COLLEGE REPUBLICANS: will have a Precinct 3 countyr missioner forum at 7 p.m. in 302 Rudder. NIGERIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will present "Amandla: BlackLto:? on Two Continents” at 7 p.m. in 601 Rudder to commemorate Black Month. THE BIG EVENT: is accepting applications for organizations and individualsr 221 Pavilion. EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: wil meet at 7 p.m. in 103 Rudder. Bexar County’s share for EMS this fiscal year was estimated at $922,889 and San Antonio’s ex penses for the service are projected at $11.32 million. The operating budget for this fiscal year has in creased to $13.9 million, from $12.4 million last year. Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 ReedMcDori no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's llfi a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. SubmissionsaM on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. Ip- have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. FBI probe uncovers more S&L fraud MEDIUM ORIGINAL PEPPERONI PIZZA 2 MEDIUM ORIGINAL PEPPERONI PIZZAS + 2-16 oz. Cokes $6.99 $10. 00 reg. $15.40 reg. $9.45 Min. delivery order $7.50. Not valid with any other discount. Good for eat in, take out, or delivery. Not valid with any other discount. 1515 South Texas Avenue 696-4166 DALLAS (AP) — Five business men were charged with financial wrongdoing in connection with a sweeping U.S. Justice Department investigation into fraud among Texas’ ailing savings and loan insti tutions, authorities said Monday. U.S. Attorney Marvin Collins of Dallas called the charges “open salvo” in the beginning stages of the probe, described as the largest FBI investigation of white collar crime in the Southwest. “This is a significant step early in the life of the task force,” Collins said. “We’re now seeing the first re sults of this investigative effort. “We’re hopeful this early success tends to cause others who are under investigation to decide what they are going to do.” He said four of the five men have either pleaded guilty or agreed to enter a guilty plea and are charged in information counts, agreeing to cooperate with the task force’s inves tigation. The fifth man is charged in a three-count indictment filed in Dallas federal court. More than 50 agents and attor neys from the FBI, Internal Reve nue Service, Department of Justice, U.S. attorney’s office and Federal Home Loan Bank Board are in volved in the investigation, which be gan last fall and is expected to take three to five years. The task force represents the^ largest commitment of human re sources and money ever to investi gate white-collar crime in the South west, Bobby Gillham, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas divi sion, said. Officials refused to say how many people are under investigation but confirmed they were looking into ir regularities at 25 thrifts and 10 banks in Texas. Three of the five were charged in connection with a 1983 loan kick- back at the State Savings and Loan Association of Lubbock. Thrift owner Tyrell G. Barker has agreed to enter a guilty plea to a charge of misapplication of funds in the scheme through which he re ceived a $100,000 kickback on a $2 million loan, Collins said. Former real estate broker Larry K. Thompson pleaded guilty on charges of misapplication of funds, and former broker Donald W. Nahr- wold was slapped with a three-count indictment for his role in the scheme. A fourth man, former Vernon Savings and Loan senior executive Vice President John G. Smith, agreed to plead guilty to mat false statement on the thrift'sf| terly report to the Federal 1 Loan Bank Board, Collins said | The fifth charge was truer Commerce Bank of Plant 1 1 executive officer Sam Thomas| who pleaded guilty to misreprS ing the financial condition (' bank. All three financial insti | | have failed, but Gillham charges announced Mondaydsfl mean investigation into the® that led to the collapses wasovtil Gillham said the scope of tl> ( f force’s operation dwarfs theoflf 1 ) investigation of the 1-30 i nium case, in which a nancial insitutions were investf for fraudulent practices management of condominiu® 1 ] plexes in a Dallas suburb. ^ M S C i ± L 3E Audition Applications Available Now Room 216 MSC chimney hill FLORIST and gifts Teleflora’s Valentinf Mugaloons Bouqiif There are many trays to say... “I Tore You” on Valentines Day V Roses V Spring Flower Bouquets V Balloon Bouquets V Candy & Stuffed Animals V Green <& Blooming Plants V Delivery around town 21 <& around the world Teleflora’s Dream Bear Bouquet TOl University Fast College Station 846-0045 ^ ESS @ accepted by phone