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Tips cut holiday shopping costs
Low-cost gift ideas include
handcrafts, baked goods
By Alysia Woods
The Battalion
'Tis the season to be spending
as shoppers everywhere shell out
big bucks to buy Christmas gifts
for their loved ones.
But Christmas doesn't have to
be expensive. Gift ideas can be
low-cost with a little extra effort,
or even free.
Inexpensive gifts can be either
baked or handcrafted. For that
special someone who loves
sweets, cookies, candy or fudge
make nice gifts, especially when
they are placed in a decorative tin
canister or cookie jar with a mes
sage like "Merry Christmas"
hand-painted on the outside. Red
and green ribbons can add a fes
tive touch.
Other low-cost gifts include
hand-decorated T-shirts or Christ
mas ornaments. Plain
T-shirts range from $4.99 at
Amber's on Texas Avenue in Col
lege Station to $10 at Foley's in the
Post Oak Mall. Plain wooden or
naments begin at 50 cents at Am
ber's and come in a variety of
shapes.
Both items can be decorated
with non-toxic, washable paint,
sequins and ribbons available at
arts and craft stores.
Timely messages like "Cotton
Pickin' Aggies 1992" or "Christ
mas 1991" can add a personal
touch to the gift.
Relatives typically enjoy pho
tographs. Frames for either snap
shots or professional photos can
be purchased in a variety of sizes
at arts and craft stores.
For those gift-givers who can
not bake, paint or draw, other
low-cost gifts ranging from $5 to
$15 can be found in local stores.
Low-cost items at Foley's in
clude a lipstick and nail polish set
for $5, men's Christmas boxers for
$14, and stuffed Santas that chant
"Ho-ho-ho" when squeezed for
$10. Gift certificates are available
for $10 and up at almost all retail
stores.
For a little more money, you
can give an unforgettable gift that
will probably be around for a long
time.
The Brazos Animal Shelter has
puppies for $50 and kittens for
$45. Adoption fees include vacci
nations and a spaying fee.
Tina Capps, head animal tech
nician at the shelter, said before
animals are given away as gifts,
however, the recipient of the pet
must come into the shelter prior to
adoption.
Capps said puppies seem to be
the most popular pet at Christmas.
Local pet stores have less ex
pensive pets that are also low-
maintenance such as fish and
hamsters.
"We have puppies, birds and
hamsters, but we are out of kittens
right now," said Bill Klemm, a
salesperson at Pet Paradise on
Texas Avenue in College Station.
"Puppies are the most popular at
Christmas."
Inexpensive pets range from
hamsters that start at $3.99 to fish
that begin at $1.50. More exotic
fish cost between $20 and $30.
When all options have been
considered, there are a variety of
Christmas greeting cards at most
Plallmark card stores, including
cards that play music when
opened.
Authorities test for killer bees in Victoria
VICTORIA (AP) — Federal authorities
were conducting tests Wednesday to see if
nearly 2,000 bees found aboard a railroad car
in Victoria this week are the so-called "killer"
bees.
If the bees are determined to be the
Africanized honey bees, Victoria would have
the distinction of being the farthest northern
place the bees have been found.
Two Southern Pacific Transportation Co.
employees were conducting a routine inspec
tion of the train Tuesday when they spotted
the bees on one of the train's 65 cars.
"I noticed something kind of unusual and
then I notified the railroad yard," one of the
workers, H.E. Reed, said. He did not disturb
the bees, which were clustered on the outside
of an empty tank car.
The train came to Victoria from Harlingen
in the Rio Grande Valley, some 200 miles to the
south. Killer bees have been found in the Val
ley and as far north as Kingsville and Rob-
stown.
They had not been expected to arrive in
Victoria on their own until late next year or
early 1993.
The Victoria Fire Department, Victoria
City-County Health Unit, U.S. Department of
Agriculture and a local bee expert, James Log-
gins, were notified and went to the scene.
Some of the bees had left the cluster by
then and officials first decided to wait until
dark to kill the bees in hopes they would all re
turn to the tank car. Jack Greer, with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, said he was wor
ried the bees would swarm and leave the scene
before that, so two firefighters sprayed the
bees with a combination of foam and industri
al-strength detergent.
ANDY NACE/Special to The Battaliw
Doin' double time
Dan Griffin, a junior
meteorology major, takes a
break from studying by
taking a nap in the reading
room on the second floor of
the Sterling C. Evans library.
Publications board rejects Holocaust advertisement
AUSTIN (AP) - The Daily
Texan newspaper will not run a
controversial advertisement
questioning the occurrence of
the Holocaust, the board of
Texas Student Publications has
decided.
.After nearly a month of de
bate, the 11-member board vot
ed unanimously against run
ning the full-page ad previously
scheduled for publication Nov.
20.
Before voting, board mem
bers agreed that their policy
gives them the power to stop
any advertisement promoting
false or misleading information.
The ad was to have featured
a 35-paragraph essay by
Bradley R. Smith, head of the
Committee for Open Debate on
the Holocaust, a California
group. Student Jewish leaders
said the author had been linked
to anti-Semitic and white
supremacist groups.
European leaders strive to increase prosperity
Continued from Page 1
Even with the British reserva
tions, the accord marked a great
stride forward.
"It's a strengthening of what is
already the area of prosperity and
stability in Europe," said Peter
Ludlow, director of the Brussels-
based Center tor European Policy
Studies.
The leaders were spurred ini
tially to give their economic club
more powers by fear of competi
tion from Japan and the United
States.
The nations agreed in 1985 to
create a single market late next
year by tearing down barriers pre
venting the free flow of money,
people, goods and services.
But they felt they needed
more, and set out to create an eco
nomic afttl mohetary union with a
European Central Bank andas
currency.
A community report lastie
said a single currency - insitj
of 11 different ones - would
crease productivity by 5 perceir
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put, which was $6.4 trillion!!
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union also would help loweri
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John's
Class
Sun. 12/15
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Cram chapters
15 thru 17
3p.m. - 6p.m.
Mon. 12/16
Chem 101
Practice Final Exam
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Tues. 12/17
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Fri. 12/13
Math 152
Final Review
3p.m. - 5p.m.
Math 141
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Sat 12/14
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