The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 26, 1992, Image 6

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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.
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Keg Helper needed. Apply at Jack Hilliard Distributing
Company from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 1000 Independence,
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$5.25/hr. 15-20 hrs. per week.
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Safe and easy procedure provides guaranteed income.
Join thousands of A&M students as regular donors.
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HELP WANTED GREAT ATMOSPHERE OUTDOOR
FARMERS MARKET CASHIERS. Good personally and
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between 8:30 -3:00 to set up and appointment. FARM
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THE WEKEELA CAMPS, CANTON, MAINE. One of
America’s most prestigious camps, seeks creative dyna
mos for staff positions June 21-August 22 for tennis,
athletics, gymnastics, competitive swimming, water ski
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Also kitchen and maintenance positions. If you think
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ALASKA SUMMER EMPLOYMENT - Fisheries. Earn
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Over 8,000 openings. No experience necessary. Male or
Female. For employment program call Student Employ
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Responsble for fish propagation & distrbutkm & hatchery
maintenance at state hatchery. Contact Texas Parks &
Wildlife Dept, office for applications. Call Glen Alexander
817/779-2301, Possum Kingdom State Hatchery, Aaron
Barkoh 817/586-1576, Dundee State Hatchery, near
Wichita Falls, TX. Closing date 3/24/92.
Summer jobs, warehouse work, 3 shifts, 8 hrs. each. Two
locations. Dallas (214) 869-0250 or Houston (713) 820-
Dependable people for Houston Post route $400-$900 a/
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Healthy males wanted as semen donors. Help infertile
couples. Confidentiality ensured. Ethnic diversity desir
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Ave., Bryan (1 block north of Highway 21).
Gun Club
ARROWHEAD GUN CLUB. Non-members welcome.
Skeet-PistoFTrap-RifleRanges. OpenTues-Sun, 10a.m.
Hwy. 6 S.1/4 mile past Texas World Speedway. 690-
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Services
FAST TAX REFUNDS
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403 Univ. Dr. West, Room E
College Station, TX
(across from TX A&M at Northgate - above Campus
Photo • Entrance on College Mn„ Upstairs)
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Law prohibits
roadside sigivs
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any outdoor sign, display, light
device, figure, painting, drawing,
message, plaque, poster or other
thing that is designed, intended or
used to advertise or inform. This
covers not only business signs, but
signs for garage sales, political an
nouncements and flea markets.
• Boriskie said the law, which
went into effect September 1, after
being passed during the regular
session of the 72nd Legislature,
mainly affects businesses who ad
vertise along the highway, espe
cially vendors.
"We were supporting a law to
remove vendors," he said. "They
do damage to the right-of-ways
and often pose quite a safety prob
lem, especially on freeways."
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
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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.
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807 Texas Ave. 764-8289
Cadets ask
community
to pledge
in fundraiser
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"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."