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WHAT’S UP
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HELP WANTED
Immediate Openings
We need 20 cooks & 50 drivers.
Apply in person at any Bryan-
/College Station Pizza Hut.
BATTALION
CIRCULATION
The Battalion has immediate
part time openings in the circu
lation department. Students in
terested in applying should call
845-2697 and leave their
names and telephone num
bers.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE is currently taking applica
tions for carrier positions for the fall semester. Early
morning hours. Good pay and transportation allow
ance. $500-$700/mo. If interested call Julian, 693-2323
or Andy, 693-7815. 183t08/10
THE GRAPEVINE RESTAURANT is looking for
part-time help. Please call 696-3411 for an appoint-
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mem. Ask for Patsy.
MALE DANCERS needed. Must be dependable. Own
phone, transportation required. Good pay. 693-3004.
180t09/01
LIFEGUARD FOR subdivision swimming pool.
$4.15/hr. Need 20 hrs/wk. Call 764-0773 between 4-8
p.m. 18U08/04
INTERVIEWERS, RESEARCHERS, record peoples
opinions, couponing, demonstrations, mystery shop
pers, state-wide. Home Economics Social & Market Re-'
search, 228 Summit Ave., Lyndhurst, NJ 07071. Call
201/933-7129, 7days, 9am-l 1pm. 18D08/09
SALES CLERKS with smiling personalities! Apply in
person. 700 University Drive East, University
Bookstore. ISlttfn
BABYSITTER WANTED, mornings,
$3.25/hr. In my home. 693-0738.
SERVICES
SKIN INFECTION STUDY
G & S Studies, Inc. is participating in a
study on acute skin infection. If you
have one of the following conditions
call G & S Studies. Eligible volunteers
will be compensated.
* infected blisters * infected cuts
* infected boils * infected scrapes
* infected insect bites (“road rash”)
G & S Studies, Inc.
(close to campus)
846-5933 76
PATELLAR TENDONITIS
(JUMPER S KNEE)
Patients needed with patellar ten
donitis (pain at base of knee cap)
to participate in a research study
to evaluate a new topical (rub on)
anti-inflammatory gel.
Previous diagnoses welcome.
Eligible volunteers will be com
pensated.
G & S Studies, Inc.
(close to campus)
846-5933 i fiottfn
ON THE DOUBLE Professional V^ord Processing,
laser jet printing. Papers, resume, mdrge letters. Rush
services. 846-3755. i 181tfn
Experienced librarian will do library research for you.
Call 272-3348 166t09/01
SAT/ACT/GRE Instructors needed. The #1 test prep
linn is looking for qualified math 8c verbal instructors.
If you have a degree, had a good score on the GRE, are
enthusiastic, have strong communication skills and are
loi
Bari
looking for a well paid, part-time teaching position call
Barbara at 696-3196. 1 78ttfn
TYPING- WORD PROCESSING- Personal Attention-
Excellent Service- Professional Results- 764-293 1
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1 Bdrm. $200., 2 Bdrm. $248
Rental assistance available!
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ments from $225/mo. APARTMENT LIVING CEN
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• ROOMMATE WANTED
Wanted: 1 or 2 girl roommates to share a 2 Bdrm/2
Bath apt. Call Karen after 6:00 p.m. 512-682-8643.
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• NOTICE
WE BUY-sell good used furniture.
Across from Chicken Oil. 846-2429.
Bargain Place.
181108/31
FOR SALE
GMAT Instructors needed for a well
paid, part-time teaching position. Re
quirements: 650 or better on the
GMAT.
Some teaching or tutorial experience
helpful.
Call Barbara at 696-3196.
‘88 I londa Scooter Aqua.
$475, negotiable.
illect (915)597-1698
179t08/16
MULTI-FAMILY garage sale. Saturday 8am-noon.
Married students apartments across from Skaggs.
18U08/04
HOUSTON (AP) — Former
death row inmate Randall Dale Ad
ams and “The Thin Blue Line”
filmmaker Errol Morris settled a
lawsuit in which Adams demanded
the rights to his life story, attorneys
said Thursday.
Adams, whose conviction of kill
ing a Dallas police officer was ques
tioned in Morris’ film, will receive
full rights to any commercial movies
or books about his life, according to
the settlement. Charges against Ad
ams were later dismissed.
Adams, now living in Ohio, sued
Morris in Houston District Court
June 22 for rights to the story, which
depicted his account of his arrest
and conviction for the murder of a
Dallas officer Robert Wood.
Both sides expressed relief over
the settlement Thursday, and each
blamed the other for what they
termed an unnecessary legal action
by Adams.
“I’m pleased that we were able to
settle this, but I’m not pleased with
the way it had to come about. It
never should have gone to liti-
f ation,” Adams’ attorney, Randy
chaffer said.
“After being a prisoner of the jus-
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693-8213. I83t08/11
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days, on a regular basis. Will pay all expenses. Call Car
olyn M. 846-7934 or 845-8850. 18U08/09
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845-2611
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) —
Two airplanes that once provided
transportation for Louisiana’s gover
nor and were criticized as wasteful
by Gov. Buddy Roemer during his
campaign were sold Wednesday for
nearly $1.2 million.
Austin Jet of Texas bought one of
the King Airs for $558,817, while
Air Supply Service of Miami pur
chased the other for $551,000, Com
missioner of Administration Dennis
Stine said.
“They had been grounded for
over a year at the insistence of Gov.
Roemer,” Stine said.
During his 1987 campaign,
Roemer often criticized the number
of state-owned airplanes as the
“Louisiana Air Force,” and pointed
to them as an example of govern
ment waste.
The sales leave the state with
about 45 airplanes, Stine said. Ear
lier this year, legislators criticized the
Roemer administration for not elim
inating state aircraft.
But Stine said the remaining air
planes are being used mostly by state
police, wildlife officials and the state
forestry service for such service
functions as patrol duty. About 17
are owned by state universities which
charge students for flight training,
he said.
tice system for 12 years Mr. Adams
should not have been required to be
a prisoner of Errol Morris for life,”
Schaffer said.
Morris’ attorneys released a
statement from the Cambridge,
Mass, filmmaker, in which he said he
had agreed to return the book and
commercial movie rights to Adams.
As part of the agreement, Morris
said, Adams dropped his demand
that he be paid $60,000 for “The
Thin Blue Line,” although Schaffer
said Thursday that was never part of
the lawsuit.
“Nothing can erase the terrible
tragedy of what happened to Ran
dall Adams in Dallas in 1976 and in
his subsequent 13 years of imprison
ment,” Morris said. “It is my hope
that both of us can now return to our
lives and that we can put this lawsuit
behind us.”
The case was transferred to U.S.
District Judge Lynn Hughes’ court
June 30, and settlement negotiations
continued for about a month before
all parties completed signing the
agreement Wednesday, attorneys
said.
Adams was freed from state
prison in March after an appeals
court overturned Adams’ conviction
earlier this year, and Dallas County
prosecutors declined to retry him.
The former inmate’s lawsuit
asked for a judgment on who owned
the rights to his life story.
A written agreement between Ad
ams and Morris said that Adams was
owed $10 if Morris produced a doc
umentary about Adams, or $60,000
and 2 percent of profits if a commer
cial film was produced.
Schaffer had contended that “The
Thin Blue Line,” although pro
duced in a documentary style, was
actually a commercial film. The film
was released in commercial theaters
around the country.
“I was unwilling to pay money to
Adams for “The Thin Blue Line,” a
documentary motion picture for
which I received no profits and for
which I am still approximately
$100,000 in debt,” Morris said in his
Thursday statement.
“I am relieved that this lawsuit has
been settled,” Morris said. “In my
opinion, it was unnecessary and un
called for. It has never been my in
tention to deprive Randall Adams of
the opportunity to make money
from his life story.”
Friday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon.
theC.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
For more information contact
Saturday
HINDU SOCIETY: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rooms 230 and 231 of the MSC.Foi
more information contact Amiya Ghatak-Roy at 846-4519.
Monday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS:
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
will meet at noon. For more information contad
CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8 p.m. at St. MarysSiu
dent Center for Movie Night.
Tuesday
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL
SUPPORT STAFF: will meet at noon in Room 231 of the MSC to listen to JoeM
Burt, Director of Medical Services at Sam Houston State University, speak about
AIDS. For more information contact Peggy Ritchey at 845-5311.
BRAZOS VALLEY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMANS CLUB:w
meet at 6:30 p.m. at K-Bob's Restaurant. All those interested may attend Fw
more information contact Beth at 846-6943 or Susan at 846-2038.
Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald
no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish
the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What's Up is
a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are w
on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
In Advance
Researcher will present AIDS facts at MSC
The Texas A&M University
System Association of Profes
sional Support Staff will sponsor
a factual presentation about
AIDS that will include a short
film and a question and answer
session. The featured speaker is
of Medical
Services at Sam Houston State
University, who has been in
volved in AIDS research.
Burt will speak Tuesday ai
noon in 231 MSC. The public is
encouraged to attend. For more
information, please contact Pegg)
Ritchey at 845-53 11.
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Joe M. Burt, Director
Faculty member to speak at Y.O.U. Program
Dr. Alan Letton, assistant pro
fessor in mechanical engineering,
will speak at the final assembly of
the Youth Opportunities Unlim
ited (Y.O.U.) Program Sunday at
6:30 p.m. in Heldenfels 100.
Schaffer said the lawsuit became
necessary because Morris refused to
yield rights to Adams despite at
tempts at a friendly resolution.
Adams has received numerous
letters of inquiry from filmmakers
and writers interested in his story,
and those materials were packaged
and mailed to him Thursday, Schaf
fer said.
“He has retained the William
Morris agency to represent him in
those matters,” Schaffer said.
Y.O.U., designed to focus on
high school students at risk of
dropping out of school, is a pro
gram that helps teenagers de
velop career-onentated goals, D.
H. Seastrunk, Y.O.U. headmas
ter, said.
The national program was cre
ated in the 1970s and Texas has
participated in it since 1984. Seas
trunk said at least 3 other states
still participate in the program.
Seastrunk said 18 state univer
sities take part in the program.
The eight-week program
brought 123 high school students
from Houston and East Texas lo
Texas A&M this year. These 1-l
and 15-year old students, desig
nated as potential high school
dropouts, take English and math
courses while earning minimum
wage for jobs they have on cam
pus. Each passing grade they re
ceive gives them a half credit to-
ward their high- school
graduation.
“These kids are getting credit
toward graduation and accumu
late some money while they're
here at A&M, but the program
also does much more,” Seastrunk
said.
Sheet-metal worker develops Vidtron,
makes millions from drive-in video store
CLEBURNE (AP) — Michael Grozier went to
his local video store to rent the latest hot movie.
What he got was an idea that turned the 28-year-
old former sheet-metal worker into a millionaire.
His Vidtron Inc. drive-in video rental stores in
parking lots across the nation feed off the frus
trations of customers who can’t find the current
top hits at nearby, larger video stores.
“What I wanted to try and create was that
Golden Arches, the big V in the sky,” Grozier
said. “My goal, I guess, is to do to video what Mc
Donald’s did to hamburgers.”
With only four stores open, Vidtron has a long
way to go before becoming McDonald’s, but it’s
growing rapidly.
Grozier has sold franchise rights for 21 of 60
regions and got $800,000 this year for California
alone.
Stores are scheduled to open in several cities
during the next few weeks, and franchise
agreements already sold include promises to
open about 400 stores, which would bring $1.2
million in fees.
His goal is 500 stores by 1991.
The idea behind Vidtron was hatched one eve
ning over hamburgers.
Grozier and his wife had just been disap
pointed again, unable to rent a newly released vi
deotape because all the copies were gone.
“They were always out,” Grozier said. “It gets
frustrating, you know. . . . My wife and I went to
Dairy Queen, had a hamburger, and while I was
sitting there I said, ‘You know, somebody ought
to have a video store that just carries the top 40
movies, and it ought to be a drive-through be
cause you wouldn’t need all that space like you
have in a traditional walk-in store . . .just drive in
and get a video and drive on home.’”
Grozier didn’t really intend to be that some
body, but with his wife’s urging, he paid $250for
a kiosk once used by a drive-in photo developer,
spent $40 on signs, plunked down most ofhis
$5,000 life savings for videotapes and opened
Vidtron in April 1986.
“I put it right across the street from that video
store that was always out, with the idea that
they’ll go in, can’t get what they want there and
then they’ll see my sign across the street.”
A few months later Grozier brought in $40(i
on a Saturday night. It cost him about $80 adav
to run the store.
“I had a profit of a little over $300, which is
more than I made all week doing sheet metal
work,” he said. “So that convinced me that I’m
going to give up the sheet metal work.”
Lubbock sock manufacturer Buds
popularity, success internationally
LUBBOCK (AP) — In Japan, where the only famil
iar words an American might hear are “Sony” and “Mit
subishi,” there’s a new appellation: Oak Creek.
Coined in Lubbock by Cal and Susan Brints, Oak
Creek is the name for a Lubbock company that pro
duces fashion and athletic socks for accounts ranging
from Caesar’s Palace in Nevada to the Sony Corp. in Ja
pan.
Specialty fashion shops, J.C. Penney and a nation
wide confederation of mercantile stores also appear on
the firm’s 1,600-plus client roster.
Athletes from the high school, university and profes
sional levels are among the wearers of the sports foot
wear and headbands produced by Oak Creek Products
Inc. in its plant at 505 32nd St. They include baseball,
basketball, football, soccer and rugby players.
The company began full production early this year
after a limited production start-up began on Dec. 1,
1988, according to the Brintses, who are eight-year vet
erans of the textile manufacturing industry.
“We had wanted to locate a plant in this area for
some time,” Brints said. “We did some planning, then
got in contact with the Chamber of Commerce.”
He credits the chamber with providing the necessary
information, services and some incentive funding for
renovating a suitable building. “If it hadn’t been for
them, we wouldn’t be in Lubbock,” he said.
A major portion of the financing for the operation
was handled through investors, according to the Brints.
The Brintses earlier built Texas Knitting Inc., a fa
cility near Crosbyton that still is in business.
“We have manufacturer representatives that handle
the contact with the individual stores,” Brints said.
Oak Creek, which utilizes a network of sales rep
resentatives to span the nation from coast to coast, also
has won approved-vendor status to supply hosiery to
Penney’s.
The company builds the socks from design to the
pressing of the finished product. But to supply growing
orders, the firm also buys basic socks from large knit
ting mills and brings them to Lubbock to be finished.
Oak Creek is just one of the company’s labels. “We do
private labeling also for the customers,” Susan Brints
said. “Right now, we are shipping the Hobie label. We
produce the socks for Caesar’s Palace, and all the Cae
sar’s stores.”
One of the company socks has a design patent. “We
have the exclusive distribution of it,” Brints said. “It has
a cotton foot and Orion top. It will sell for about $7.50
or $8 per pair retail.”
Another sock designed this year by Susan Brints fea
tures a fashionable bow on one side and has proven to
be popular in both Japan and the United States.
“Socks have become a fashion item now,” she said.
“They are not purchased just for wear, they have be
come a statement in themselves, especially with the
youth.”
Oak Creek uses cotton for a portion of its products.
“There are a lot of requests for a dress sock which has
a cotton foot,” Susan said.
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million in property taxes in the
past 18 years, according to a
Thursday report recommending i
a financial overhaul of the col-1
lege.
The taxes were collected for;
bond payments but used for un-1
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which were being used to shore ^
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tracts,” according to a manage- j
ment study by Terrell Blodgettat,
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