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o fulfill holiday wish lists
3y ELIZABETH TISCH
(The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M residence halls will
[raise money to fulfill holiday wish
[lists for local needy families.
I RHA Vice President of Opera-
jdons Jennifer Wylie says this is the
jthird year the halls will “adopt” fam-
[ilies for the holiday season,
j Students Together Opposing Pov-
[erty (STOP) will begin the program
[by soliciting funds from hall resi
dents and end by donating the
money or completed “wish lists” to
(their families on Dec. 7.
‘‘Families have requested food,
| toys, clothes, space heaters and mon-
Man threatens
clerk with club
Brazos County Crime Stoppers is
[asking for information regarding a
|Nov. 15 robbery at Patel’s Pantry in
| Bryan.
A surveillance camera revealed
(the suspect was covering his face
with his shirt when he rushed to the
counter, threatened the clerk with a
long club and took money from the
| cash register.
The suspect is described as a white
| man in his 20s who is about 5-feet-8
inches tall with long brown hair. He
was last seen wearing a soiled, yellow
and black plaid long-sleeve shirt and
| blue jeans.
The Bryan Police Department
and Crime Stoppers need help iden
tifying the person responsible for
this robbery. If you have informa
tion that could be helpful, call 775-
TIPS.
When you call, Crime Stoppers
will assign you a special coded num
ber to protect your identity.
If your call leads to an arrest and
grand jury indictment, Crime Stop
pers will pay up to $1,000 in cash.
Crime Stoppers also pays cash for in
formation on any felony crime or
the location of any wanted fugitive.
“Families have
requested food, toys,
clothes, space
heaters and money. ”
— Jennifer Wylie,
RHA vice president of
operations
ey,” she says. “And the students of
the halls have requested for more
families than any year before.”
Although students will never per
sonally meet their adopted families,
a profile providing information
about the families fs provided to
STOP members.
“The students will know if they
are donating gifts for a single
mother of two or a larger family,”
she says.
Wylie says the majority of the halls
are participating.
“The halls are anxious to partici
pate,” she says. “They think it’s a
great way to serve the community
and it doesn’t take a lot of time ei
ther — and that is important, espe
cially during finals.”
Halls are asked to solicit about $50
from residents. If more is raised, the
money will be placed in a general
STOP fund to be used when needed
by the local families, Wylie says.
Bush meets Salinas;
discusses trade policy
AGUALEGUAS, Mexico (AP)
— President Bush conferred with
President Carlos Salinas de Gor-
tari Monday in a state visit ex
pected to focus on U.S.-Mexican
trade barriers and the Persian
Gulf crisis.
Making his first official visit as
president, Bush said maintaining
excellent relations with Mexico
was one of his “most important
foreign policy objectives.” But
even oefore his guest arrived, Sa
linas signaled difficult talks, ac
cusing the United States of trade
protectionism.
“Today, American products
can enter the Mexican market
without restriction,” he told the
Monterrey daily El Norte. “But
ours are detained at customs, and
there are always many restric
tions.”
Bush, in a statement coinciding
with his arrival, noted that he’d
visited Mexico “more often than
any other country” and said he
had “developed especially deep
ties and respect for its people.”
On landing at the airport in
Monterrey, about 60 miles south
west of this small farming and
cattle community that is Salinas’
ancestral home, Bush got a red-
carpet greeting. He then accom
panied Salinas by helicopter to a
charro — or rodeo —in the Mexi
can president’s hometown.
The pair put pleasure before
business, sitting side by side in
shirtsleeves under a glaring sun
and watching Mexican dancers
frolic before proceeding later to a
luncheon and talks.
It was the fifth time Bush and
Salinas have met since they were
both elected in 1988, but Bush’s
first trip to Mexico as president.
Bush wants a free trade
agreement with Mexico akin to
the pact the United States
reached with Canada two years
ago —- one which lifted trade bar
riers between the two countries.
But even as the United States and
Mexico worked toward achieving
such an accord by 1992, trade
frictions remained.
Number of U.S.
rigs rebound,
ends decline
HOUSTON (AP) — After two
weeks of declines, the number of
working oil and gas rigs in the
United States rebounded with a
healthy 72 additional rigs operating
this week to bring the total to 1,175
nationwide, Baker Hughes Inc. re
ported.
“Some of that clearly is im-
E rovement of the weather that had
een bad for the past two weeks,
particularly in Oklahoma,” Ike Ker-
ridge, a vice president at Baker
Hughes, said Monday. “But it also
relates to the seasonal upturn ex
pected during the last quarter of the
year.”
The number of rigs had plum
meted by 41 rigs over the past two
weeks, following heavy rains in the
Oklahoma area. A year ago this
week, the number of working rigs
was 1,037.
Kerridge said he could not fore
cast changes for the count, but be
lieved it would grow in December
because drillers will be using any re
maining funds in calendar-year bud
gets.
“I still expect to see a rig count
around 1,250 in December, but
whether that will be at the beginning
of the month or the middle or the
end, I can’t say,” Kerridge said.
“The weather and the random
movement of rigs that can effect it
makes it impossible to predict on a
week-by-week basis.”
Decreases in the previous weeks
came on the heels of a milestone ear
lier in the month when the number
of working rigs reached 1,144 — a
high figure not seen since Dec. 28,
1987.
Baker Hughes has kept track of
the rig count — the widely watched
index of drilling activity — since
1940.
At the height of the oil boom in
December 1981, the count reached a
peak of 4,500. But the rig count
plunged to a low of 663 after oil
prices collapsed in the summer of
1986.
Texas led the major oil producing
states for the week, by adding 23 rigs
to the count, followed by Oklahoma,
whose count increased by 16, and
Louisiana, which added 11 rigs.
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