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Papers, resume, merge letters. Rush services. 846-3755. 181tfn CAL’S BODY SHOP. 10% discount to students on la bor. Precise color matching. Foreign 8c Domestics. 30 years experience. 823-2610. llltfn DARE TO DISCOVER PHI KAPPA SIGMA! FOR RUSH 1N FO: 846-1838. 3t9/6 LUBBOCK (AP) — Michael Le- venson is the man who would be, and still wants to be, Cafeteria King. Levenson, chairman and chief ex ecutive officer of Furr’s-Bishop’s Cafeterias L.P., has upped the ante in his two-year effort to acquire Wyatt Cafeterias Inc. of Dallas, a clo sely held company with annual reve nues of about $190 million and 120 stores. He said Thursday that he will not give up trying to buy Wyatt Cafete rias, but he refused to specify what his plans will be if his latest overture is rejected by the chain. After first offering to buy the company in May 1986, Levenson made several bids for Wyatt, most recently sweetening his offer to $188.1 million in cash and securities from an earlier $ 179.3 million bid he made. “It’s not a juicier ham burger, it’s not a faster pizza. It’s not a fad. And it’s a reliable stream of cash flow. ” — Michael Levenson, chairman and chief exec utive officer of Furr’s- Bishop’s Cafeterias L.P. The latest $91.25 per-share bid came after Wyatt rejected Leven- son’s $87-per-share cash offer in fa vor of one from a Wyatt manage ment-based employee stock ownership plan that would pay $84 per share to those who hold stock in the company. Shareholders are to vote on the ESOP offer Sept. 6, and Wyatt man agement hasn’t yet responded to the latest Furr’s-Bishop’s offer, Leven son said. said. “And it’s a reliable stream of cash flow.” It was cash flow that first drew the Lubbock native to the cafeteria busi ness after bidding unsuccessfully on companies such as Midland-based Texas American Energy, Aloha Air lines of Hawaii and Tesoro Petro leum Corp. of San Antonio. All of these are major corporations. “When I began studying the res taurant industry, the cafeteria seg ment of the restaurant industry stood out with some real unique fea tures,” he said. What he found was cash-rich com panies with steadily increasing prof its and no debt so he doesn’t have to “If we don’t get the Wyatt’s deal that doesn’t mean we’re out of the business of buying cafeterias,” said Levenson, who owns a small stake in Wyatt. “We’re going to grow this company.” Levenson, 38, sees the All-Ameri can standby of the cafeteria as a per fect niche in the ever-growing res taurant business. “It’s not a juicier hamburger, it’s not a faster pizza. It’s not a fad,” he start behind the starting line. Convinced he had discovered a gold mine, in 1987 he acquired Furr’s Cafeterias and Bishop Buf fets, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from K mart Corp for $237.5 mil lion. He then converted Furr’s-Bish op’s into a limited partnership, got it listed on the New York Stock Ex change and sold 1 1 million units at $10 apiece. The partnership has promised to pay a cash distribution of $1.30 this year. Delta pilot aborts flight on runway GRAPEVINE (AP) — One day af ter Delta Flight 1141 crashed on takeoff from Dallas-Forth Worth In ternational Airport, killing 13, a pi lot taking another Boeing 727 on the same flight to Salt Lake City aborted takeoff because of apparent equip ment problems, Delta Air Lines offi cials said. Passengers, six of them from among the 95 survivors of Wednes day’s crash, were stunned when the captain brought the jet to a halt and taxied it back to the terminal. “We figured this would be the safest flight we could ever take to day,” said passenger Louise Cox, of Baton Rouge, La., as she waited to board another 727 for Salt Lake City. “Evidently not.” The flight, scheduled to depart at 8:31 a.m., finally left Dallas at 10:42 a.m. “The captain feels that he had what is called a compressor stall,” said Delta spokesman Bill Berry from the airline’s Atlanta headquar ters. “There was a crosswind blowing across the runway. That can inter rupt the smoothness of the airflow that goes into the engine, creating a temporary loss of power. That is very likely what happened.” The pilot’s name was not immedi ately available. The plane was up to about 20-25 knots, “which is extremely slow,” Berry said, when the pilot decided to stop the takeoff. “The airplanes get up to 100 knots before they become airborne. He did not get the proper readings from one of his engines. He decided to go back to the gate.” Under normal circumstances, a pilot would “simply increase thrust to see if everything continued to per form right. But based on the inci dent that happened yesterday, the captain was extremely cautious and elected simply to come back to the gate and let maintenance look at the engine,” Berry said. Delta maintenance crews were un able to find anything wrong with the plane’s engines, Berry said later. On any day, he emphasized, cap tains “have got to go by their years of experience. If they don’t like what they feel, if they’ve just got a gut feeling, it’s their responsibility not to do anything.” Thursday’s flight carried 102 pas sengers plus a crew of seven, accord ing to Delta spokesman Henry Con ley in Dallas. Conley said that his his knowledge, all on board the aborted flight got on the replacement plane. Shaken passengers waiting to board that plane described their ex perience. “It was a routine take off until we got almost to the end of the run way,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Don Burkhalter of Jackson, Miss., where the flight originated. “Then we heard what sounded like bumps and the pilot decelerated. He said there was a problem with the ‘com pressors,’” Burkhalter said. “The captain said, and this is a quote, ‘It’s just one of those things.’ We just laughed.” It was a nervous laughter, said Burkhalter, who was on his way to Fresno, Calif., with his wife. “When he (the pilot) said ‘Get your bags and get off,’ it didn’t take me long,” said G.W. Estelle of Baton Rouge. “We didn’t think anything about taking the plane at first, but when they said they had a problem ... I was proud to get off,” he said. Waiting to board Thursday’s flight — before it was aborted — a survivor from Wednesday’s crash talked of the difficulty in lining up to get on Flight 1141a day after. “It’s pretty hard,” said Ronald Black, 30, of West Monroe, La. “You’ve got to do it sometime. Can’t live in Dallas. I’ve either got to go home or go hunting. I’ve gotta fly ei ther way, so I might as well go hunt- ing.” Burkhalter said the two survivors from Thursday’s flight he talked to appeared relatively calm, although one said “he was a little nervous,” Burkhalter said. George Snelling, 30, of Dallas, missed Wednesday’s flight because of a faulty alarm clock. Waiting to board the same flight Thursday Snelling said, “I’m a little apprehensive, but when the time’s up it’s up and I would have been on the plane yesterday,” he said. Furr’s-Bishop’s is the second br; est operator of cafeterias iiuhec. lion, with 126 operating under Furr’s name in 10 states and 26 ut- der the Bishop’s name in sevtt states. Although he never earned acii lege degree, Levenson became tin president of a family-owned bank; Carlsbad, N.M., but was soon lure, away by the burgeoning oilandp industry. 1& q u After buying and selling oil arn Rc gas leases during the late 1970s,H pi attention next was drawn to the tab over attempts within the oil andjj industry of fellow West Texan I Boone Pickens Jr. of Amarillo Levenson said his unsuccessfi: runs at companies helped estabfe his credibility in the New YorkE nancial community, enabling hirai consummate the deal for Furr Bishop’s. For the second quarter this year the cafeteria company posted revt nues of $70.9 million, a more than: percent increase over the samequar ter of 1987. Furr’s-Bishop’s hi: earnings of $2 million, or 12 cem per share, the partnership’s firs quarter in the black. Levenson predicts the compaip revenues will total $273 milliontk year and that Furr’s-Bishop’s k jxrst a profit. H e said he’s confident he’sinikj right business, citing the lack off riegn competition and relativeisoh tion from costly high-tech devd opment in the cafeteria business. “Cafeteria companies have su vived the Great Depression, the, survived World War II, they sr vived the oil crunch and everybocl and bust in the agriculture markj he said. ru: coi ai ( Ha po Ag bal Co sey to age hoi ter Pla vie fer last twe wat saic trui I for I coll Bank closes, will reopened in new brancli the bank’s i result of purchasedl DALLAS (AP) — Commercial State Bank of San Augustine ra closed Thursday and will reopen Friday as a branch of Hamilton National Bank, Hamilton, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said. State hanking comniissionet Kenneth W. Littlefield closed the bank, which had assets of about $25.9 million. The FDIC was named receiver. Littlefield said an examination disclosed unsafe lending prac tices, including a large concentra tion in speculative real estate loans in the Dallas area. The re cent examination showed loan and related losses of more than $3.6 million, which rendered the bank insolvent. He said many of loan problems were loan participations from Northwest Bank of Dallas, which was declared insolvent in January. | Commercial State Bank’s in sured deposits and fully secured or preferred deposits will be transferred to the Hamilton bank. The FDIC said it arranged! an insured deposit transfer be cause it was unable to determine the value of assets. When the bank closed, its de posits totaled about $24.9 million in 4,700 deposit accounts, includ ing about $25,000 in 11 accounts that exceeded the federal insur ance limit of $ 100,000. Deposits in the failed bank up to the $ 100,000 limit will be avail able Friday. Checks drawn on the failed bank’s accounts, up to the insurance limit, will be honored, the FDIC said. Insured depositors in the failed bank automatically can continue to bank at Hamilton, However, they should visit the ac quiring bank during the next sev eral weeks to discuss their relationship, the FDIC said. Administration of the trans ferred insured deposits, will be f unded by an equivalent cash pay ment from the FDIC. op< thr mg kill Inter-Varsity Christan Fellowship Presents Fall Kickoff LARGE GROUP FRIDAY LARGE GROUP ROOM 410 SEPTEMBER 2, 1988 ROOM 410 Rudder Tower 8:30 PM Rudder Tower 8:30 PM Friendshio. worshic. and much more!!! 8:30 PM Sponsored by Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship