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STUDY BREAK SPECIAL Studies have shown that learning comprehension improves if you take a STUDY BREAK. 1. Get together with a friend & order pizza. 2. Study while you’re waiting. We’ll be there in 30 minutes or so. 3 Then KICK BACK & ENJOY. MEDIUM TOPPING PIZZA or Vz Dozen ffetsaiJSgite, ONLY PLUS TAX During Dead Week & Finals 326 Jersey Si. 696-DAVE 211 University 268-DAVE Carter Creek 846-DAVE Wednesday, December 7,1988 The Battalion Page 7 Panel proposes plan to curb nurse shortage AUSTIN (AP) — Texas faces a “critical shortage” of nurses and the problem must be addressed, says a committee created by the Legis lature to conduct the first compre hensive study of the state’s health education system. The Special Committee on Post- Secondary Medical, Dental and Al lied Health Education said, in a statement discussing its legislative report, Texas has one registered nurse per 418 people. That com pares to one per 200 nationally. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board should develop a master plan for providing nec essary nursing manpower in an equi table, cost-efficent manner the com mittee said. The committee also recommends the Legislature reduce 1989-90 non resident tuition rates for medical and dental schools and make no fur ther increases in resident tuition rates. Resident rates for medical and dental schools for 1989-90 are $5,463 and $4,511, respectively, the committee said. Non-resident tuition rates are $21,852 and $18,044 a year, respectively. Expanded loan repayment, schol arships and grant programs are needed for medical, dental, nursing and allied health students, the com mittee added. The Texas health education sys tem includes eight medical schools, three dental schools, 69 registered nursing programs, 97 vocational nursing programs, 374 allied health programs and five health science centers. Health education components generate $4.68 billion annually in economic activity, creating 76,000 jobs, the committee said. The components provide $474 million annually in indigent health care, the committee said, compared with the state’s $900 million share of the Medicaid program. “Texas Medicaid programs should be expanded and local gov ernments should be required to pro vide increased levels of financial support for the health care needs of their residents,” it said. The committee also suggests relief for health care liability costs of state- employed faculty and residents and volunteer professionals, especially for services for indigent or Medicaid patients. Experts: Texas keeps large house inventory despite smaller market Associated Press The number of houses for sale throughout Texas is shrinking but the inventory still is likely to be the third-highest on record with some 386,000 sellers looking for buyers, according to the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. In addition, the center reported Tuesday that, barring a strong mar ket in the second half of 1988, the number of sales made in the state this year is likely to be smaller than in 1987. “Assuming the sales pace seen in the first half of 1988 continues, this year will end with 1.4 percent fewer sales than last year,” assistant econo mist Charles E. Gilliland said. “Sales may decrease from the 88,000 last year to about 86,700 in 1988.” The 386,000 houses for shle, as provided by the Texas Multiple List ing Service, is down from 400,700 in 1987. Although the inventory is down slightly, so is the average selling price. The first-quarter price of $82,100 was 5.4 percent below the previous year. The second-quarter average of $86,523 was off 4.2 per cent from 1987. Both dollar figures represent five-year lows. “Housing is a function of supply and demand,” Ted C. Jones, an other research economist at the cen ter said. “When you’ve got tremendous surplus and a buyer’s market, you have to work through that inven tory. We think recovery indeed is taking place in Texas real estate. “What we’re saying, bottom line, is the Texas economy is improving and demand for Texas real estate is pick ing up. It is getting better. But it is slow.” Jones said the Real Estate Center tracks 26 Texas cities and sees bright pockets of housing activity. “If we look at it, demand for hous ing is local in nature,” he said. “The Houston Board of Realtors reported in September and October more sales than ever.” Dallas, he said, also shows promise with the move of several large com panies like J.C. Penney Co. Inc. and GTE Corp to the city, telephone op erations and the recent announce ment that the government’s super conducting supercollider would be built nearby. “When you’ve got tremen dous surplus and a buyer’s market, you have to work through that inventory. We think recovery indeed is taking place in Texas real estate. ” — Ted C. Jones, research economist Austin, however, was a different story, he said. “For a city of its size, Austin has just so many doggone homes,” Jones said. Researchers caution that there are problems accurately determining the number of homes for sale be cause many houses now are serving as rentals until the owners feel prices increase enough to put them on the market. “We get into a complex intermix of weak financial institutions that can’t afford to hold on to the prop erty and lending institutions are not in the business of rental properties,” he said. “But Houston has indicated in September and October that de mand is coming back — at a snail’s pace. “We have a lot of good things going for us, but real estate is not going to recover until the economy recovers. But we’ve got President Bush coming, who’s putting to gether a Texas cabinet. And we know the influence of that.” Atlantis’ top-secret misson ends after 4 days in orbit EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Atlantis streaked out of orbit and glided to an afternoon landing Tuesday as a small band of spectators cheered the five astro nauts’ safe return from a secret spy satellite mission. Navy Cmdr. Robert L. Gibson guided the 97-ton shuttle to a touch down at 3:35 p.m. PST on a hard- packed clay runway after a flight of 4 days, 9 hours, 5 minutes. “They have been given the wel come back call,” Billie DeasOn at Mis sion Control in Houston said. Two loud sonic booms crackled overhead as Atlantis descended through partly sunny skies and made its swooping approach to Rog ers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert. One tire on the shuttle’s left land ing gear had a slow leak, but NASA said it was not a concern, and it did not seem to affect the smoothness of the touchdown. It was only the seventh afternoon shuttle landing, the time apparently dictated by the orbit Atlantis fol lowed in its classified mission that re portedly deployed a radar satellite to spy on the Soviet Union. NASA pre fers morning landings at Edwards because winds tend to gather force later in the day. Because of the military secrecy, Tuesday’s landing was closed to pub lic viewing from the observation site on this military base 80 miles north of Los Angeles. Only a few hundred journalists, NASA employees and in vited guests were witnesses. In contrast, hundreds of thou sands of people had watched Discov ery return in October from a flight that put Americans back in space for the first time since the Challenger tragedy. Mission Control in Houston had lifted its curtain of secrecy on the flight to report, as it was happening, that Gibson had fired braking rock ets to slow the spaceship’s 17,400- mph speed by 2,283 mph and drop it out of orbit onto an hourlong fiery descent through the atmosphere. NASA and the Air Force per mitted live television coverage of the landing, as it did for Friday’s launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Every thing in between was blacked out, in cluding the reported deployment of the satellite. The flight was the 27th shuttle mission and the second since the 1986 Challenger explosion that killed seven astronauts and halted launchings for 32 months. It was the third flight for Atlantis and the long est of the three shuttle missions that have been dedicated entirely to mili tary purposes. Rear Adm. Richard Truly, a for mer astronaut in charge of the shut tle program, called the current flight one of NASA’s most important mis sions. “It’s Atlantis’ first flight after the standdown, and now you have two vehicles proven in flight,” he said. “That’s extremely important.” U.S. and Soviet news organization reported the shuttle’s classified pay- load was a powerful spy satellite. rwiandy (?Sclu.a.r e C^tparlvnenls • Large Bedrooms, Windows & Closets • On Site Manager • Swimming Pool • Preleasing • 2 & 3 bedrooms • Close to Campus 507 #1 Nagle, College Station 846-4206 Marines Wre baking for a few good men and women. Capt. 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