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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, August 24, 1988 Battalion Classifieds • FORREftr w... HcJLJr WAvlllSt# BRYAN • Briar Oaks Townhomes • Briarcrest 4*Plexes • Pecan Ridge Duplexes • Wilde Oak Circle Apts. • Wilde Oak Duplexes Shuttle Bus D.R. CAIN RENTALS 693-8850 3002 S. Texas Ave. College Station COLLEGE STATION • Brazos House-693-9967 « Hawk Tree Duplexes • Longmire Apts-693-774t • Navarro 4-Plexes • Yellow House Apts-696-9492 24 Hr. Maintenance All Bills Paid! • Luxury Redecorated • 1-2-3 Bedroom Units • Ceiling Fans • Dishwasher • Patios • Pool • Saunas •Tennis • Near A&M Campus • On Shuttle • Security • 24-Hr. Maintenance Std. 1 BR as low as $318 One Check Pays All At VIKING 1601 Hoileman off Texas 1 Blk. South of Harvey Rd. 693-6716 i eetfn Quiet Graduate Community with room to roam 1 & 2 Bdrm. units Washer & dryer Starting at $305 Anderson Place 693-2347 1607 Anderson 194tfn Near Campus • Luxury 1-2 Bedroom Units • Pool • Laundry • Shuttle • On-site Security • 24-Hr. Maintenance • Shopping Nearby Rent starts at $273 SEVILLA 1 Blk. South of Harvey Rd. 693-2108 i94tfn All Bills Paid! •2 Bedroom 1 Vs* Bath • On Shuttle • Tennis • Pool • On-site Maintenance • Close to campus Rent Starts at $409 SCANDIA 693-6505 401 Anderson 1 Blk. off Jersey - W. of Texas 166tfn Don’t Get Wet Park at your door Pool, hot tub, quiet yet convenient to everything Eastgate Apts. 696-7380 ^tfn Village Green Apts. 693-1188 A few 2 Bedrooms left Starting at $410 401 University Oaks 194lfn Our closets will hold A billion hairpins or all your clothes! Sausaiito Apts. 693-4242 Cotton Village Apts., Snook, Tx. 1 Bdrm,; $200 2 Bdrm.; $248 Rental assistance available! Call 846-8878 or 774-0773 after 5pm. 4tfn SPACIOUS 1 Bdrm, CA/H, $180. 2000 E. Finfeather. Call 846-8432 or 846-5800. 2 bdrm apt. Some bills paid, $225. 194t8/24 2 Bdrm, CA/H House fenced; 1805 Michael Lane. Call 846-8432 or 846-5800. 194t8/24 Mobile Home: furnished or unfurnished 2 bdrm/1 '/S' bath. Excellant student housing, $250 per month, parking included; 150 Greenbriar Mobile Home Park. Call778-2165 Ext. 212. 194t9/2 Private room & bath. Country home close to campus. Nonsmoker. 776-8552. 19118/29 Valley View 4-plexes. Washer Sc dryer or connections available. 2 Bdrm/1 VS bath. Up or downstairs units. Open for fall leasing. $325-$350. Wyndham Mgmt. 846-4384. 174tfn • NOTICE SKIN INFECTION STUDY G&S studies, inc. is participatingin a study on acute skin infections.lt you have one of the following con ditions call G&S studies. Eligible- volunteers will be compensated. * infected blisters * infected burns * infected boils * infected cuts * infected insect bites * infected scrapes (“road rash") G&S STUDIES, INC. 846-5933 NIGHT LEG CRAMPS G&S studies is participating in a nation wide study on a medication recommended for night leg cramps. If you experience any one of the following symptoms on a regular basis call G&S. Eligible volunteers will be compensated. * restless legs * rigid muscles * muscle spasms * weary achy legs * cramped toe * Charley horse G&S STUDIES, INC. 846-5933 _ ADOPTION: Loving professional couple wish to share love and life with a newborn. If you are pregnant and you're considering adoption, let’s talk. Call collect 215- 449-3953. Ask for Joyce or Vince. 192t9/S0 • SERVICES Accurate, fast reasonable typing. Call Pat 696-2085 af ter 5:30p.m. 177t8/16 ON THE DOUBLE Professional Word Processing, laser jet printing. Papers, resume, merge letters. Rush services. 846-3755. 181tfn CAL’S BODY SHOP. 10% discount to students on la bor. Precise color matching. Foreign Sc Domestics. 30 years experience. 823-2610. Ill tfn Experienced librarian will do library research for you. Call 272-3348. 173t8/31 help wanted. Needs 30 drivers to deliver fresh, hot pizzas to the Ag gies! Earn $5-8 per hour. Must be 18, have own car w/insurance, T.D.L. and good driving record. Call or stop by either: 1504 Hoileman (693-2335) 4407 S. Texas (260-9020) MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST (Part-Time/Full-Time) MT ASCP or equivalent needed to work in Student Health Center Clinic labo ratory performing routine tests such as UA, chemistry, micro biology, and hemotology. Working hours are flexible. Mobile Home 14x64, 2 Bdrm 1 Bath, CA Sc H, frig, range, dishwasher. All electric. Shuttle route. 3001 Tx. Ave., C.S., Lot 14. For lease or sale. 409-878-2721 or 830-8379 after 7 p.m. 192t8/24 Graduate student needs roommate. Free rent in ex change for housewife-type duties. 823-0449. 194t9/l Roommate needed! $121 mo., 3 Bdrm duplex, carport, Close to campus. Call Sandi 846-9242. 194t8/24 Refer to job #8800615 Cali 845-5154 for appointment Personnel Department, Texas A&M University YMCA Building College Station, Texas 77843 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER 19218/29 ♦ ROOMMATE WANTED House near campus. Need nonsmoker male; $175, no bills, 696-3884. 189t8/12 Need 2 males to share bedroom in condominium. $184 mo. + utilities. 693-4774. 192t8/24 1® LOST AMD FOUND Lost black & white female cat, Bee Creek area. 845- 5221/696-5560. 194t9/15 |1| GARAGE SALE Multi/Family. Sat. 8:30-12:00. Married Students Apts, across Skaggs. International food. 192t8/17 4fut. maraigaori NOW HIRING Delivery Drivers •must be 18 •must have own car •must have liability insurance •earn $6-8/hour (wages, tips, reimbursement) •daytime drivers start at $4/hour (plus tips, reimbursment) Apply at: 1103 Anderson (at Hoileman) 501 University 3131 Briarcrest REGISTERED NURSE Full-time/Part-time positions available in the University Health Center. Require 1 year professional nursing experi ence. Excellant benefits and working conditions. Refer to job #8800681 For information or appointment call 409/845-5154 Personnel Department, Texas A&M University YMCA Building, Room 017 College Station, Texas 77843 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER SAFEWAY, INC. Is accepting applications for part-time (15-24 hrs. per week) checkers ($3.80-$5.75 based on experience) and sackers ($3.50). Apply at Safeway store located in Culpepper Plaza (Hwy. 30) Equal opportunity employer M/F/H/V 19218/24 The Houston Chronicle is taking applications for immedi ate route openings. Pay is based on per paper rate & gas allowance is provided. The route requires working early mornings, 7 days a week. If interested call: James at 693-0016 for an appointment. or Julian at 693-2323 laets/ai Babysitter! In my home. Mornings, $3/hr. 693-0738 af ter 5 p.m. 194t8/31 Babysitter: Two children ages 9 & 14. M-F 3:15-5:45. Call 693-3418 evenings/wknds. 194t9/2 Dirty Juan’s needs bartenders, lineservers, cashiers, busboy/delivery. 764-5826. 907C Harvey Rd. 194t8/24 Graham’s Central Station is now hiring for Fall Semes ter with openings for bartender, cocktail waitress, bar- back, and doorman. Apply in person at 1600B S. Col lege 1-3 p.m. or 7-8 p.m. daily. 194t8/31 Grapevine personalities wanted! P/T help a.m. and/or lunch. 696-3411 askfor Patsy to set appointment. 194t8/31 Sales person wanted. Soundwaves is now accepting ap plications for part-time and full-time sales person. Ex perience and knowledge of stereo equipment nec essary. 779-0065. 194t8/30 Kitchen aide Sc waitperson needed. Apply at 701 Uni versity E. 10-11 a.m. or 8-10 p.m. 19U8/17 Schlotzsky’s is now accepting applications for p/t eve ning Sc weekend shifts. Apply in person only between 2-5 p.m. 190t8/31 Part-time delivery/clerical person needed. Approx. 20 hrs. per week. 779-2998. 190t8/24 HIRING! Government jobs - your area. $15,000- $68,000. CaU (602)838-8885 Ext. 4009. 192t8/24 CASHIER WANTED! Apply in person, The Aggie Grill, 110 College Main. 192t8/29 Part-time Choir director and/or organist for A&M Presbyterian Church. Send resume to 301 Church Ave. N., College Station. Attn: Worship Committee. 18H8/12 CARPET DISCOUNT WAREHOUSE Prices As Low As Roll Inns 12x9 = $48.00 Roll Inns 12x12 = $64.00 Roll Inns 12x15 = $80.00 Across from Bosier Dodge 1426 S. Texas 779-1618 190t9/2 SALE/RENT 3 Bdrm/2 bath mobile home equity. As sume 4 yr. pymts., 779-2595. 194t8/29 1984 HONDA SPREE! Runs great. Only $265 negotia ble. Call 260-5009. 189t8/l 7 NOW OPEN Country Boy’s New and Used Furniture; 402 N. Texas. 187t8/29 Piano For Sale - Wanted: Responsible party to assume small monthly payments on piano. See locally. Call Credit MGR. 1-800-447-4266. 192t9/2 COMPUTER DISCOUNT XT/286AT/386AT compa tibles. Lowest prices. 693-7599. 151tfn The Batt don’t leave campus without it Education reforms start taking effect, officials say AUSTIN (AP) — As 3.2 million students return to Texas public schools this week, state education of ficials say there are indications 1984 education reforms are beginning to work, though it’s too early to see im provement in SAT scores or gradua tion rates. “We’ve got some early evidence that the reforms are working, but it is going to take time and you don’t turn around a system that was ranked at the bottom of the barrel to start with in four years,” said Terri Moore, Texas Education Agency spokesman. The agency is working on studies to gauge the statewide effect of some of the major reforms included in House Bill 72, the 1984 measure that mandated sweeping changes to Texas public schools. A survey of several school districts last year showed declines in failure rates from 1985 to 1986, indicating that HB 72 reforms such as the no pass, no-play rule were “having the intended effect,” Moore said. Some of the state’s 1,090 school districts have done their own studies, said Marvin Veselka, assistant com missioner for assessment and evalua tion. For example, a recent Austin district report said since the no-pass, no-play rule was implemented, the percentage of failing grades in high school has dropped. The no-pass, no-play rule requires students to pass their courses before they can participate in extracurricu lar activities. Marked improvement also has been noted in grades 3, 5 and 7 on the student reading, writing and mathematics test, although the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills is not uniformly ac cepted as a complete picture of aca demic achievement. “It’s just a test on minimum skills. Big deal. Everybody ought to be able to do minimum skills,” said Sandy Kibby, state legislative head for the PTA. Some education advocates have expressed concern that teachers are concentrating on the material cov ered in TEAMS, possibly neglecting other information, or that there is too much emphasis on the test as a measure of school performance. Moore emphasized the impor tance of the skills tested by TEAMS. “If kids don’t have basic skills, how do they have other skills?” she asked. Some crucial reforms — including smaller class sizes and prekindergar ten for disadvantaged 4-year-olds — were concentrated in the lower grades. Others include testing teach ers as well as students, increasing teacher salaries, instituting a teacher career ladder, boosting state fund ing and giving more state aid to poor districts. Officials said the reforms have had a positive effect overall, al though further changes have been called for. Teachers have cited a need for further salary increases and full state funding of the career ladder, and of ficials have said the state should ad dress schools’ construction costs. A state judge also has ruled that the current school finance system is unconstitutional. The system still denies all districts the same ability to raise money to educate students. The state now spends more than $5 billion on public education, according to the Texas Education Teacher serves as prison minister BORGER (AP) — Six years ago, Borger High School teacher and coach Roger McFarren took to heart a Biblical call to visit those in prison and became an interdenominational jail minister. It was a vocation to which he says he believes the Lord directed him. “It’s quite a challenging job,” Mc Farren, 48, said of his sideline, which has taken him to large prison units and small county jails across Texas. “The Lord loves these men just like the Lord loves you and I. Many are from broken homes and divorces and we are admonished by the Lord that we should do this,” McFarren said of his ministry, which works mainly through Gideon’s Interna tional. McFarren is head of Jail and Prison Ministry for Texas oversee ing about seven other lay preachers. He says he believes being interdeno minational helps them get access to more prisons than if they rep resented a specific denomination. On a typical visit, the lay ministers hold a service in the prison mess hall, then distribute copies of the New Testament to inmates as the men head back to their cells. Some times the preachers hand out as many as 2,000, he said. In an average year, McFarren may visit two to four prisons. Last year, he said the Gideons went to 13 prisons. In addition, McFarren and Hugo Riemer of Stinnett try to cover every jail “from Amarillo north” each Sun day. Recently, McFarren and Reimer went south, visiting a jail in Pecos where more than 80 men attended their service and 50 of those “Ac cepted Jesus for rededication,” he said. “Many of these men were very open and receptive to us in hearing the good news — the gospel of Jesus Christ,” McFarren said. Being a good Christian in prison is not always easy, he said. “Outside of prison walls we live Christian lives daily, but behind prison walls it’s different because you’re made fun of,” he said ex plaining that the jeers came “just be cause they’re Christians or because they go to church inside the prison.” Agency, while local property taxes contribute about another $6 billion. The Brownsville district is one that has had to make a “supreme ef fort” to meet such reforms as the class-size reduction, which extends to grades 3 and 4 this year, said Tom Keller, deputy superintendent for instruction. The district has had to add classrooms and teachers, and he said any local property tax increase is painful for his district. Trial begins in FBI case on Hispanics EL PASO (AP) — The FBI has no quota system to ensure His panics are included in a program to train agents for top positions, one of the FBI’s No. 2 men testi fied Tuesday in a discrimination lawsuit against the bureau. “We’re trying to recruit the best people we can for the pro gram,” John Otto, executive assis tant FBI director, testified Tues day. “There are no quotas at this time. But we want our very best people to include minorities and women.” Otto, one of three No. 2 men under FBI director William Ses sions, was referring to the Man agement Asessment Program, an four-day assessment and training course that is virtually mandatory for aspirants to higher-level man agement positions inside of the FBI. Attorneys for the 311 Hispanic agents joined in the class-action racial discrimination suit against the FBI contend Hispanics are routinely weeded out of a fast- track promotion path of which the Management Assessment Program is a part. The suing agents contend the FBI discriminates against His panics in hiring, promoting, as signing and disciplining. They seek unspecified damages and changes in FBI policies. About 400 of the bureau’s 9,400 agents — or 4.3 percent — are Hispanic, compared to 8 percent of the general U.S. population. During the first week of testi mony, about 40 agents — His- f >anic and non-Hispanic — testi- ied that Hispanic agents are transferred more often to undesi rable locations, are handed as signments that are either less glamorous or more dangerous and receive less recognition for their successes. Plans for new greenhouses end without groundbreaking AUSTIN (AP) — When Larry Tarrington began soliciting Austin investors last year, his idea appeared to be a rainbow cast across the area’s gloomy economy, with the possibility of a real pot of gold at the end. Tarrington said he could create up to 1,000 jobs in Central Texas in three years by building state-of-the- art, computer-managed green houses using the latest hydroponic growing techniques. The products would be flowers and vegetables, Associated Press — The parents of a rape victim staked out the location of the attack for more than a year, with the wife as decoy and her armed husband waiting in the dark. Their per sistence paid off with the arrest of a man who police say is responsible for as many as 60 rapes. “Obviously, they had really care fully thought out what they were going to do,” Debra Seltzer, rape prevention coordinator of the local chapter of Women Against Rape, said Tuesday. “It really shows the frustration that a lot of people feel.” Police on Monday announced the arrest of Robert Biddings, 34, of Co lumbus, who authorities say is a sus pect in a four-year string of attacks grown efficiently, abundantly and profitably. In his business plan he said he had developed the computer system and researched greenhouses in the Ne therlands for 14 years. His experi ence there would enable him to du plicate the Dutch systems, he said. Moreover, Tarrington, 46, said he planned to ask Texas A&rM Univer sity and Southwest Texas State Uni versity students to do advanced re search in his greenhouses, which attributed to the so-called “handcuff rapist.” The nickname resulted from the use of handcuffs in early attacks later attributed to the same man. Biddings was being held on one count of rape and two counts of kid napping in lieu of bonds totaling $750,000. But police said they would seek to have him charged with as many as five dozen rapes. “We’re talking about 60 rapes and over 100 felony charges altogether,” said Capt. Antone Lanata. In announcing the arrest, police said only that they were led to Bid dings by the victim of an attempted rape who was able to give police a li cense number of a car driven by her alleged assailant. Police said they tra ced the car to Biddings and arrested him Thursday. were to cover 130,000 square feet each. He named his firm Agra Pacific Inc. and rented an office suite. Last month, the dreams of Tar- rington’s investors ended without a single greenhouse being built. At the order of a Travis County state district judge, Agra Pacific’s as sets are being liquidated and an au dit ordered to determine what hap pened to an estimated $540,000 put up by 70 investors. On June 18, State Securites Board Commissioner Richard Latham is sued an order forbidding the sale of any of Agra Pacific’s stock because Tarrington was not a registered se curities dealer in Texas, and he sold unregistered securities. The board is examining other aspects of Tarring- ton’s business activities. The audit showed that nearly $400,000 of the more than $510,000 the company has received in the last 10 months has been spent. More over, the auditor complained in a cover letter that Agra Pacific did not provide enough information on pay ments to company officials. An investigation by the Austin American-Statesman indicates some of Tarrington’s past ventures have also turned sour. Calls to agricultu ral experts in the Netherlands and elsewhere say they do not know him well nor do they have any idea if he has expertise in greenhouse garden ing. Also, Tarrington recently ad mitted in a deposition that he moved to Austin from California without paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in judgments against him. Rape victim’s parents help locate attacker