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church to stay
United Press International
DENVER — The pastor of a Capitol Hill church says he will not
move despite complaints of neighbors to police about midnight serv
ices and hell-raising parishioners.
"We are permanent parties here,” said the Rev. Maurice Gordon,
pastor of the Livingway Inner City Pentacostal Church. “They are not
gonna lick us so they might as well join us.”
Gordon, 47. pastor of a church in Grand Rapids, Mich., until moving
to Denver two years ago, said he intended to “continue to preach
against homosexuality, against witchcraft and other works of the
devil.”
"How many times they’ve woke me up, I couldn’t tell you,” said
retired trucker Frank Shaputis, 68, who lives near the church. “Along
about 11 or 11:30 at night, the kids come out and raise hell.
"They holler and scream, hold hands and run around the church
[yelling, hallelujah,’ and praise the Lord.’ I don’t want to get rid of
Ithein, said Shauputis. I just want to keep them quiet.”
Gordon said after coming to Denver he began conducting services in
the basement of his rented home and six-times weekly preached over a
local radio station. He said the parish grew after he began holding
ervices on the steps of the Capitol.
Gordon said he was asked to leave temporary church halls rented
om the Knights of Columbus, and an Episcopal Church, and from a
church rented with $3,000 donated by a homosexual.
He said his congregation was made up of “former homosexuals,
former prostitutes, former drunkards.” Gordon said he was afraid
homosexuals were going to “take over” and said he and parishioners
during the past two years conducted burnings of sexually oriented
books they considered offensive.
Shaputis said services at the church sounded like “a drunken bar.
When I go to church, we kneel down, we pray, we listen to the sermon.
But holy God, these people are crazy. The jump up and down, they
scream. If they re going to raise hell, the least they could do is close the
doors.”
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Juryman regrets vote change
THE BATTALION Page 9
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1977
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activities
United Press International
DALLAS — The foreman of a jury
that awarded $3 million in a slander
suit against Southwestern Bell Tele
phone Co. says he regrets his deci
sion to change his vote in favor of the
judgment, according to a news
paper.
Perry Penn, a school teacher and
foreman of the San Antonio, Tex.,
jury, changed his vote on the last day
of deliberations and prevented a
hung jury, the Dallas Times Herald
said in a copyrighted story Sunday.
Penn told the newspaper he first
sided with Bell and then proposed a
$200,000 judgment but relented and
voted with the majority after another
juror threatened to deadlock the
two-women and 10-men jury if the
$200,000 figure was accepted, the .
newspaper said.
But he now regrets the decision.
I m probably sorry I didn’t hang it
stick with his original vote and cause
a hung jury,” he told the newspaper
last week. “I don’t think they really
convinced me.”
The jury, in a 10-2 decision last
week, ruled Bell libeled and slan
dered fired Bell executive James
Ashley and the former Texas head of
Bell, T. O. Gravitt of Dallas, during
a company investigation. Gravitt
committed suicide at the height of
the investigation.
Civil cases in Texas do not require
a unanimous decision, only that at
least 10 of 12 jurors agree on the
verdict. If Penn had voted against
the plaintiffs and caused a mistrial,
th e case would have had to be retried
by another jury.
During the second day of delibera
tions, Penn, who had voted with Bell
on a preliminary vote, told other
jurors if they could convince him
Ashley and Gravitt had been slan
dered he might vote in their favor.
Two jurors then produced a letter,
which was part of the evidence pres
ented during the trial, indicating the
company’s investigation was widely
discussed.
However, Penn told the news
paper he continued to hold out be
cause he felt the $3 million judgment
other jurors were planning was too
much. He proposed $100,000 be
awarded to each plaintiff, but it was
bitterly opposed by several other
jurors.
The major point of contention dur
ing the two and a half days of deliber
ation was money, said jurors inter
viewed by the newspaper. However,
the highest award voted on was $9
million.
“We ployed around like poker
players,” one juror told the Times
Herald. “We bobbed and bobbed
and smoked and smoked.”
Another juror said the telephone
company overdid its portrayal of the
two executives as “dirtv old men”
and “lechers” who handed out pro
motions in exchange for sexual favors
from female workers.
It made the company "look like a
whorehouse,” he said.
Bell president Zane Barnes said
after the verdict that pretrial public
ity was the cause of the jury’s verdict,
and "the jury found us guilty of try
ing to keep our own house in order. ”
Barnes said the $3 million would
be considered a business expense
and ultimately paid by telephone
customers, but attorneys for the
Texas Utilities Commission said it
would be unlikely the award could
be made part of a future rate increase
proposal.
Tuesday .
Saddle and Sirloin, 6:30 p.m., Bryan
High Cafeteria-Auditorium
Engineering Technology Society, 7:30
p.m., 305 Fermier
Humane Society of Brazos County, 7:30
p.m., 001 Vet School
Aggie Cinema, "A Hard Day’s Night,"
7:30 p.m. Rudder Theater
VVednesday
Saddle and Sirloin, Initiation, 6 p.m..
Parking lot, A.I. building
Microcomputer Club, 7 p.m., 203 Zac-
hry
Recreation: Bridge, 7:15 p.m., MSC
Social Dance Club, 7:30 p.m., 266 G.
Rollie White Annex
Black Awareness, B.F. Maiz, 7:30p.m.,
206 MSC
Student Senate, 7:30 p.m., 204 Har
rington
Free University, Registration, 8 p.m..
MSC second floor
11 female cast for ‘Bernarda Alba’
Texas A&M University’s Aggie
yers open 1977-78 productions
it. 29 with The House of Ber-
da Alba.”
Bermuda Alba,” Federico Gareia-
ca’s masterwork, revolves around
mother’s domination of five'
ed daughters. She rules the 20-'
9-year-old women with absolute
er. The tyrannical Bermuda Alba
trols their walls and destinies,
igwith the servants’ by imposing
itmosphere of hopelessness.
will be a first for the theater arts
ipany. founded in 1946.
he cast, with Kim Parks in the
takeili 'role, is all female. No previous
lahvad ie Players production has had
'women on stage. Also cast in the
Martinez, Angustias; Tricia Cox,
Magdalena; Terri Jones, Amelia;
Becky Seibert, Martirio.
Plus Christi Binz as Adela; Jaime
Craig, La Poncia; Gloria Robinson, a
maid; Debra Cosby, Prudencia, and
as women in mourning, Bonita
Barnes, Vicki Brumley, Melissa
Campbell, Beth Miller and Deborah
Schumann.
Assistant director and stage man
ager is Bruce Monroe.
Tickets to seven presentations, on
Sept. 29 and 30 and Oct. 1, and the
5th through 8th, are on sale to the
general public. All seats in the
Forum Theater are reserved.
0 Valle-directed play are Dayna
holson as Maria Josefa; Victorina
xpert to talk
n linguistics
Negro race
k. Juanita Williamson, authority
inguistics used by Black Ameri-
! > wiU give a free public lecture
iertheories at 6 p.m. Wednesday
loom 206 of the MSC.
j Williamson is chairman of
.jin lan ities at Le Moyne-Owen Col-
icti«l ! (Tenn.) where she has taught
n - j: e 1946.
cl (n he will discuss the evidence she
■d™collected to refute the “African
c theory other linguists use to
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