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D The Battalion FRttTFFTIVr JL O MX Jl J J J? J. 11 xj Monday • October21,1! ► State New Houston area code to take effect HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s new 281 area code for areas outside the city center take effect Nov. 2. The old 713 code will remain in place for areas inside a boundary that roughly follows the Sam Hous ton Tollway-Beltway Loop 8. Southwestern Bell will introduce the new code in two stages. Between Nov. 2 and May 2, most calls placed between the two area codes can be made by dialing just the usual seven digits. If they wish, callers may dial the appropriate area code as well. Southwestern Bell spokesman Chris Talley said the six-month period of transitional, or “permissive," dial ing is designed to help people in Houston get used to the change. “We’re trying to keep people from doing 17-digit dialing,” said Talley. “That’s when they dial only seven digits, get the wrong phone number and then have to dial 10 digits to fi nally get the right number.” Correction: In a front page article Friday, the first president of Texas A&M was misidentified. Thomas Gathright was the first president of A&M. Water recycling to be considered SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Anto nio, which depends on a fragile aquifer for its water supply, will consider a new source this week. The lines of a new $81 million treated-wastewater recycling system would deliver to golf courses and oth er industrial customers up to 20 per cent of what the system currently pumps from the Edwards Aquifer. The board of the city’s water company is expected to approve the final concept Tuesday. After decades of talking about the need to develop alternative sources to the aquifer, the utility is planning to make use of the only other water it controls. Demand has increased recently with the creation of the Edwards Aquifer Authority, a new state agency to regulate pumping from the aquifer. No longer will the city be able to supply unlimited water from the aquifer to new growth. Also applying pressure on the city and all of the federal agencies oper ating here, including five military in stallations, is a federal judge acting under complaints from the Sierra Club. U.S. District Judge Lucius Bun- ton III has ordered limits on aquifer pumping to maintain aquifer-fed springs supporting five federally pro tected species.» ► This day in history ► Weather (AP) — Today is Monday, Oct. 21, the 295th day of 1996. There are 71 days left in the year. On this date: In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as “Old Ironsides,’’ was launched in Boston’s harbor. In 1879, Thomas Edison invented a workable elec tric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ. In 1944, during World War II, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen. In 1959, the Guggenheim Museum opened to the public in New York. In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republi can Richard M. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate. In 1966, more than 140 people, mostly children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses in south Wales. In 1967, tens of thousands of Vietnam War pro testers marched in Washington, D.C. In 1971, President Nixon nominated Lewis F. Pow ell and William H. Rehnquist to the Supreme Court. In 1976, Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize for lit erature, the first American honored since John Steinbeck in 1962. Five years ago: American hostage Jesse Turner was freed by his kidnappers in Lebanon after nearly five years in captivity. ► Today’s birthdays Singer Elvin Bishop is 54. Musician Lee Lough- nane of the group Chicago is 50. Israeli Prime Minis ter Benjamin Netanyahu is 47. Actress-author Carrie Fisher is 40. Actor Jeremy Miller (Growing Pains) is 20. Actor Will Estes (Kirk) is 19. Today Tonight Tomorrow Mostly cloudy with south winds 15 mph Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. ! Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs & Li Today's Expend m Tonight's ExpaT 71°F Tomorr® Expected il 75°F TomorrouHi Expected If 54°F Information courtesy of the TAMU Student Chapter# THE YOGA } C INSTITUTE \ AND f W BOOKSTORES EST.1974 725 E. VILLA MARIA BRYAN FOR CLASS INFO 822-2246 Dr. S.A. LeSage '86, 'SS Dr. W.S. Haley '89 Emergencies • Cleanings Teeth Bleaching $250 We Accept & Bill Insurance 846-5817 601 Mary Lake International Business Association (IBA) Qraduate International Business Society (QIBS) present: Guest Speaker, Don E. 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