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Thursday, March 26 Texas health care costs skyrocket AUSTIN (AP) — Family spend ing on health care in Texas has more than doubled over the last 10 years, and the prognosis calls for a similar increase over the next 10 years, according to a report Wednesday by the state comp troller's office. "The skyrocketing cost of health care in Texas is akin to a runaway elevator that threatens to fly through the roof," State Comptroller John Sharp said. "Escalating costs to business to provide health insurance for em ployees is so serious that many employers view it as one of the major survival tests of the 1990s," he said. "The family picture is cer tainly not rosy either." The March issue of "Fiscal Notes," a monthly publication of the comptroller's office, is devoted to analyzing health care in Texas. The study concludes that a typ ical family of four in Texas with an annual income of $34,000 paid $5,349 for health care coverage in 1991, while the family's employer paid $3,693, for a total bill of $9,042. In addition, about one in four non-elderly Texans, more than 3.6 million, have no health insurance. That is the highest rate of non coverage in the nation except for New Mexico, the report said. Most of those not covered are working, disabled or retirees un der 65 years old, the report stated. From 1980 to 1991, family health care costs increased by 128 percent. Those costs are projected to double again by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, wage increases have lagged far behind; rising 74 percent for the typical Texas fami ly over the last decade, and pro jected to increase 55 percent by 2000, the report said. Bad-check writer releases banking records WASHINGTON (AP) - West Texas Congressman Charles Sten- holm on Wednesday released banking records showing he wrote 88 overdrafts at the House bank over a 39-month period. But Stenholm, D-Stamford, contested 42 of the overdrafts and offered documents to prove that he made deposits on the same day to cover those checks. Stenholm said he never deliber ately took advantage of House bank rules. The rules, in effect, allowed members to write themselves in terest-free loans. He acknowledged the political damage would be "horrendous" whether he acknowledged 88 overdrafts or 46, but said he had promised his constituents full dis closure. "I'd like for the people of the 17th District to know exactly what their member of Congress has done," he said. Spade Phillips, P.l. 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That law was defeated by the Legislature. Boriskie said large billboards along the highway are covered by a different law, and the depart ment has not had any problems with them. Nelda Riley, administrative technician at the Bryan district of fice, said the law means there should be no signs along p road right-of-ways un\e/^ signs belong to the highv^j® partment. Right-of-ways include therw- itself, the shoulder, and any prop erty on the side of the roads upti the property lines of privateciS zens. ’jK "The right-of-ways arefortkj use of the highway department she said. "Signs or anythingth® are to be approved." Inside the city limits, itistl* city's responsibility to remov! unauthorized signs, Riley said. Convention highlights science fiction, future Continued from Page 2 val Artist and Kerry O'Quinn, for mer editor of Starlog Magazine and Media Expert. Topics such as science fiction and the future will be addressed in discussion panels, Seitz said. "Authors will read part of their new work, and artists will show their art in the art show," Seitz said. Science fiction and fantasy books and collectibles can be pur chased from dealers in room 212 of the MSC during the convention. "Over 35 dealers will be in the dealing room with items ranging from old paperback books and comics to Star Trek parapherna lia," said senior Will Rogers, the Dealers' Room director. He said artists, guests and writ ers also will be present in the room. Students can gather "around the campfire" in the MSC Fla- groom at 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday to hear original ghost stories told by their authors or at tend a Miss AggieCon Contest at the Masquerade Ball Saturday night. Seitz said unusual charac ters usually win the event. "Last year's contest was won by a boa constrictor," she said. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, co-sponsored with Aggie Cinema will be shown at the Grove at midnight on Friday and Saturday. Aggie Cinema is selling kits with all the supplies for the movie, and people from Houston will be acting out the show as the movie plays, Seitz said. Several other movies will be shown in Rudder during the weekend including Alien, Aliens, The Black Cauldron and Gremlins II. Tickets are available at the MSC box office. LADIES AND I,ORn.<A where HUNDREDS of Formals and Party Dresses are Stylishly Affordable *New arrivals daily* 807 Texas Ave. 764-8289 Cadets ask community to pledge in fundraiser Continued from Page 2 "It is used to pass downs® and outfit positions," Shell® said. "Seniors don't march bac with the Corps. It is a chance® the juniors to take over." In order to raise the monev cadets go out and ask for pte# from family and friends in I 111 community. Forty percent of the monc) raised by the Brazos Valley sion of the March of Dimes in the area, while the rest research around the world, said. "Forty percent stays in the are ' due to our affiliation withyy A&M," she said. "A lot of di v sions don't have these same wn of figures. The money g oeS - such things as the Brazos Pre n ® Clinic and a scholarship to the \ A&M Medical School gradual® Corps of Cadet member Tim thy Burke, a sophomore hisw. major, has been nominated by Brazos Valley Division to member of the March of National Youth Organization. Fish said being nominated i real honor for Burke. , "There are only 15 mena ' and it is very prestigious, fortb { nd said. "None of the repre tives have been from Texas 1 last 20 years. I'd like to see ^ only someone from Texas, someone from Texas A&M- The Corps should be v proud of their efforts. Fish sai • "They set a goal for thems , and go after it with an unse i,p S attitude," she said. "That m them pretty special."