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NATIONAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HONOR SOCIETY: Mark Stein, pro
ject engineer at A&M, will discuss opportunites for electrical engineers in the oil
industry at 7 p.m. in 104 B Zachry. Yearbook pictures will be taken at 8:30 p.m.
in the MSC Flagroom.
PRE-MBA ASSOCIATION: Director of A&M Graduate Business Programs will
speak at 6:30 p.m. in 156 Blocker.
NATIONAL IEEE/ACM: Contemporary Computing Issues: there will be a satel
lite conference with several sessions offered between 10:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
in 601 Rudder. Topics include VLSI, SW Engineering, Office Automation and
Machine Intelligence.
PRE-MED/PRE-DENT SOCIETY: Dr. Gonzalez-Lima will speak about research
in the biomedical sciences at 8 p.m. in 200 Harrington, and the club will elect a
freshman reporter.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: Penzoil will offer information
on data processing at 7 p.m. at the University Inn penthouse suite.
THE PLACEMENT CENTER: will have a workshop on what to do with a degree
in Liberal Arts from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION: Jo Hudson will speak at the
, meeting at 7 p.m. in 158 Blocker.
TAMU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 206 Military Sciences. Have orders
for gear ready.
MSC ALL NIGHT FAIR GENERAL COMMITTEE: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 402
Rudder.
DEER PARK HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:52 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
AUSTIN HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at Rudder Fountain for Silver
Taps.
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES/HAUNTED HOUSE COMMITTEE: will meet at 9 p.m.
in 607 Rudder. Any off-campus students interested in helping with the haunted
house should attend.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: will meet at Carnaby’s at 7 p.m.
on 3610 S. College, by the Chicken Oil Company.
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet for Silver Taps at 10 p.m. at Rudder Fountain.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION: will
meet at 6 p.m. in 305 Fermier to discuss high school recruiting.
STUDENT “Y” ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 MSC.
SPANISH CLUB: will have a taco party at 7 p.m. Call Susie at 696-1773 for di
rections.
MEXICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: The Maquiladora Conference committee
will meet to form committees at 8:30 p.m. in 158 Blocker.
Wednesday
WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: Dr. Jane Packard of the wildlife and fisheries
department will speak about the denning behavior of Artie wolves at 7 p.m. in
110 Harrington.
MSC POLITICAL FORUM: Dr. Lenora Fulani, an independent presidential can
didate, will speak at 8:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
RASC 602: Dr. James B. Teer will discuss: “Conservation strategies in Third
World nations at noon in 204-C Sterling C. Evans.
ECONOMICS SOCIETY: Dr. Bob Gillette will speak at 8:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
LAMBDA SIGMA FOUNTAIN FORUM: Mike Hachtman will discuss voter regis
tration and current political issues at 12:30 p.m. at Rudder Fountain.
TAMU VICTORY ‘88: will have a Bush-Quayle campaign meeting open to all in
terested students at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
TRAP AND SKEET CLUB: will meet and elect officers at 7 p.m. in 507 Rudder.
GREEN EARTH SOCIETY: will discuss upcoming events and elect officers at 7
p.m. in 410 Rudder.
AGGIES FOR BARTON: will have an important meeting at 7 p.m. in 701 Rud
der.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie supper at 6 p.m. at A&M
i Presbyterian Church.
CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet for fellowship and worship at
12:10 p.m. in the Oceanography and Meteorology observation room.
MSC VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 145 MSC.
STUDENTS AGAINST APARTHEID: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
RACQUETBALL CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. by court seven in the Read Building.
MEXICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will have a general meeting and will dis
cuss the Maquila Conference at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
PHI ETA SIGMA: will take Aggieland pictures at 6:30 p.m. in the MSC flagroom.
THE 0BJECTIVIST CLUB: will have a videotape debate between socialism and
capitalism at 8:30 p.m;iH5l0 Rudder.
WOMEN'S BONFIRE COMMITTEE: will meet with women bonfire chairmen at
7 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
STUDENTS AGAINT APARTHEID: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
AGGIE DEMOCRATS: will watch the vice presidential debate at 7 p.m. at Mr.
'Gatti’s in the Skaggs center. Guests Jim Knboviac, Jim Locke and Micheal
O'Connor will speak.
DEBATE SOCIETY: will present a parliamentary debate “Should The Last
Temptation of Christ’ be shown on the A&M campus?” at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC.
1989 COTTON BOWL REPRESENTATIVE: Applications are available through
October 14 in 208 Pavilion.
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Court denies
HL&P’s appeal
to hold refund
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su
preme Court on Monday refused to
free Houston Lighting & Power Co.
from having to pass along to its cus
tomers a $111 million tax benefit re
sulting from abandonment of a pro
posed nuclear plant.
The court, citing the lack of a
“substantial federal question,” re
jected arguments that the ordered
electricity rate cut is an unconstitu
tional confiscation of the utility’s
property.
Houston Lighting & Power Co.
said billions of dollars could be at
stake if a Texas court ruling against
it is adopted nationwide.
The company, which serves 1.3
million electricity customers, de
cided in 1972 to build the two-unit
Allen’s Creek Nuclear Generating
Station.
Faced with rising costs and de
clining power demands, the utility
dropped plans for one unit in 1976.
Plans for the second unit were aban
doned in 1982, and the total loss for
Houston Lighting was $361 million.
The Texas Public Utility Commis
sion ruled that the company should
have abandoned the project by Jan.
1, 1980 at a loss of $195 million. The
commission said the $166 million
that Houston Lighting lost after that
date was due to “imprudent” man
agement.
The commission allowed the com
pany to recover the $195 million
from its ratepayers over a 10-year
period but barred recovery for the
$ 166 million.
Houston Electric then wrote off
the $166 million as a loss to reduce
its taxes.
Subsequently, the commission said
$ 111 million in reduced federal
taxes resulting from the deduction
must be passed along to the custom
ers — rather than kept by the utili
ty’s investors.
The Texas Supreme Court
upheld the commission’s ruling last
December.
“The issue before this court is
whether HL&P can recover from ra
tepayers a federal income tax ex
pense which it did not incur,” the
state court said.
The answer, it added, is that “ra
tepayers can be held accountable
only for those tax expenses that are
actually incurred by a utility. The
utility’s rates rqust reflect the tax lia
bility actually incurred^”
Lawyers for Houston Lighting
said the question is “whether a state
constitutionally can require the
shareholders of a public utility to
forfeit tax benefits from their unre
covered investment in a cancelled
power plant.”
They said the commission, and
the state court, permitted the utility’s
property to be seized to subsidize
utility r^tes in violation of the Con
stitution’s ban on confiscation of pri
vate property without due process or
just compensation.
Billions of dollars could be at
stake if other state regulators take
similar action, Houston Lighting’s
appeal said.
peeding car, truck collide;
die, 6 injured near Austin
|AUSTIN (AP) — Four people
ere killed and six others injured
hen a car traveling at least 96 mph
entoutof control and collided with
pickup truck, officials said.
Tests by the Department of Public
hfety show that the 1978 Chevrolet
■iven by Michael Luetkemeyer
lidded nearly 400 feet before it
lammed into an oYicoming pickup
luck near Marble Falls, which is
pout 50 miles northwest of Austin.
“My tests indicate that the driver
s traveling a minimum of 96 mph
when he realized he was not going to
ake it through a curve,” DPS
trooper Joseph Glenn said Sunday.
The car, carrying six teen-agers,
crossed the center of Farm-to-Mar-
ket Road 2147 and struck a pickup
driven by Delores Sosa, 20, of Aus
tin. The pickup carried four people.
“The two vehicles were kind of
welded together,” Glenn said.
“When you get hit at that speed, the
metal fuses together. We had to use
two wreckers to pull the car and the
truck apart.”
Killed in the Saturday crash were
Luetkemeyer, 18, of Marble Falls;
Thomas Hunt, 17, of Austin; Jackie
Drunette, 13, of Marble Falls; and
Maria Reyes, 51, of Horseshoe Bay,
who was in the pickup.
Three other passengers in the car
were taken to Brackenridge Hospital
in Austin were they were listed in
fair condition Monday.
Sosa and her two children were
hospitalized. Rayne Sosa, 3 months,
was in serious condition at Bracken
ridge, while Leticia Sosa, 3, was
treated and released. The mother
was in good condition at Shepperd
Memorial Hospital in Burnet.
DPS officials said Monday that no
one in either vehicle was wearing a
seatbelt.
PRE LAW SOCIETY - 4-
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Wednesday, Oct. 5
9:00 a.m.
meet in driveway of
Rudder Tower
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Call Matt 776-0428
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Florida burgeoned by another fampa.
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