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THE BATTALION Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 28, 1972 Viewpoint CADET SLOUCH by jim Earie (Spreading Rocky Mountain High By TERRY YORK Some years ago the Smothers Brothers put on a relaxed televi sion program on the night stand ard musicians and backup people were on strike. Last week after a live per formance in somewhat the same vein at G. Rollie, John Denver noted he had the backing of that show’s producers to take the con cept and expand upon it, first in to a full scale special, then into a series. He has done a mid night special with only one week’s preparation, which gen erally pleased both himself and top brass with major TV net works. He has also a filmed show coming out Jan. 10 in which he plays the lead as well as writes the music for a trip through the Canadian Rockies in a search for big horned sheep. Control is his big thing. He’s seen too many good performers lose shirt and soul to the tube. “Roger Miller, when he was sing ing ‘King of the Road’ for two years in a row was the biggest thing in the recording business — TV, one season, and he hasn’t done anything since,” said Den ver. Denver’s formula is to take the small band he brought to A&M and add some of his per forming friends, “who’ve never been on television but who I think are great for television.” In the special, with “probably a couple of hundred thousand dol lars to spend . . . we’ll get to try some things.” The plan is to take the viewer in the direction of the campfire feeling, sharing a dream and a reality — all at the same time. “So we’re going to do a spe cial. And then I have an offer to do a show for eight weeks in London for the BBC. I went over and did an hour special, the same kind of thing and they were so knocked out by what I did — it was a one man show, just me and my guitar — they offered us 5 Hurt In School Shooting this three-month series on BBC.” With business intervening in the United States and still great ly concerned to have the show go exactly as he wanted it to, Denver told the BBC, “ ‘no’ for this reason. He then said, ‘We’ll do six or eight weeks if you’ll give us total control,’ and we just laid it on the line. And they gave it to us. We’ve got six weeks in the spring that we have complete control over. The only thing they’re providing is the director and the cameraman. With the experimentation he can do on the special and in Eng land “to find out what he can do, can’t do, what works and doesn’t work,” he expects to be ready for “five to ten years with a regular show on TV. He expects to generate the excite ment necessary to carry this off without the standard media de vices. “No dancers, no canned anything.” He has worked his thing out on stage, going from the song writer of “Leaving on a Jet Plane” to the performer of “Country Roads,” where the audi ence finds him. From then on BUSIER - JONES AGENCY HOME MORTGAGES INSURANCE FARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 “ . . . Let’s see if I follow your logic- Last week you were opposed to th’ bonfire for ecological reasons, but now, you think they should build one next year because you built one this year?” PONTIAC, Mich. (A>) — Shots fired during a scuffle among black and white pupils wounded five sophomore pupils Monday at Pontiac Central High School, au thorities reported. One of the pupils, Timothy Williams, was hospitalized in □ Batt News Summary ± By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEAUMONT, Tex. — Beau mont Port Commissioner Bill Kimbrough said Monday that a federal maritime administration study recommending the mouth of the Mississippi River as site for a Gulf superport would not harm Texas’ chances of getting a similar deep-water port fa cility. Kimbrough said the Lake Charles, La., to Freeport, Tex., area had the greatest concentra tion of petrochemical plants on the Gulf Coast and that a, super- port near the tip of •the Missis sippi River delta would not leave Texas out of the picture. Kimbrough said Louisiana’s ef forts to get a superport would be hampered because of the ecol ogy issue. Capt. Creighton Cook, was re ported under way on the tiny island, about 1,100 miles north west of Honolulu. Cook, attached to the U. S. Pacific Fleet Commander, Adm. Bernard Clarey, also participated in probing a racial incident last month aboard the aircraft car rier Kitty Hawk. HONOLULU — An apparent racial incident involving 130 sail ors at Naval Station Midway caught the Navy by surprise, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet said Monday. Midway was considered to have “a good minority affairs pro gram,” the spokesman said. Five sailors — four whites and one black — suffered minor in juries in the fighting Saturday night but have been returned to duty, the spokesman said. An investigation, headed by WASHINGTON — The Envir onmental Protection Agency an nounced Monday a research con tract to Chrysler Corp. for de velopment of the gas turbine en gine as a possible alternative to present internal combustion auto mobile engines. Information resulting from the project will be available to the entire auto industry, an EPA spokesman said. He said the aim of the con tract was to develop and test gas turbines to see if they can compete with internal combus tion engines in performance, fuel economy, reliability and cost, while meeting federal antipollu tion standards for 1976 cars. 1976 would be the elimination of poverty. Warren was honored by the Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia with its 1972 Humanitarian Award “for his deep compassion and commit ment” to all peoples during his 16 years on America’s highest tri bunal. He was the nation’s fourth chief justice. “Wouldn’t it be nice, in our bi centennial year, if we could say we were a more healthy nation on the way to eliminating pover ty?” Warren said. serious condition with a stomach wound. The other boys and two girls were expected to be released from the hospital soon. One girl is black, the other four pupils are white, school officials said. Lt. James Lafnear, school po lice counselor, said the racial scuffling occurred as classes changed at Pontiac Central. He said there was no immediate in dication what triggered the inci dent. Authorities said a black youth, believed to be a pupil, suddenly pulled a small pistol and began shooting. Lafnear said there have been no arrests although authorities are questioning sev eral students fitting the descrip tion of the assailant. Principal Don McMillen said the shooting scene is an open area between the school’s main building and its industrial arts building. He said, “There might have been a 100 to 150 passing through there before the actual shooting.” Police said they be lieve 30 to 50 youths were on hand when the shooting started. “it’s a whole different thing that happens.” He knows what he wants to happen and see that it does. I personally didn’t find that he had grown a lot from last year’s performance here; he even used some of the same pattern as he did before. But he admitted his need for a writer to do his link-ins for the tube and that he felt his strong points to be in the songs themselves. His excite ment and the depth of ideas for the future are very real and his sources of support are well doc umented. John Denver is passing his pipe to an ever increasing circle of family and friends, going from campfire to campfire in the flesh and in the mind, turning to new media to take him where he oth erwise couldn’t go, and every where spreading his own version of the Rocky Mountain high. Come By and See Our Unique Apartments 1 and 2 bedroom and 2 bedroom studios with four color schemes. Recreation Room and Large Pool Sauna Bath Tennis Courts Laundry Room 24-Hour Security Rent from $150. Utilities and T.V. cable paid. OOUTHUieST VHrLHGC apartments Q 1101 Southwest Parkway & Medina St. C.S. 846-1931 I I I -STAff MSC BARBER SHOP Will Be Open For Your Convenience Monday-F riday From 7:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. 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