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wmm Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1979 SHIRre + Woodstone Center 907 Harvey Rd. (Hwy. 30) 693-9308 'We Sell Shirts' Open 9-9 11 states fight to boost legal speed lim despite possible cutoff of highway fun BATTALION CLASSIFIED PULLS! Call_845_-2611 United Press International Several western states, where a motorist can drive miles and miles without seeing a town, let alone reaching a destination, are renewing a 5-year-old war with the federal government over the 55 mph speed limit. Led by Wyoming, 11 states have February 6-28, 1979 J. Earl Rudder Tower Exhibit Hall Sponsored by University Art Exhibits or soon will have bills in their legis lative hoppers to either boost the legal speed to 65 mph or severely hamstring efforts to enforce the 55 mph limit. A Texas lawmaker said if his col leagues would vote the way they drive, his bill upping the limit to 70 mph would pass. One bill already has passed the Wyoming Senate and awaits action by the House. In that state. Gov. Ed Herschler had refused to take a position on the issue — but then he received a threatening telegram Saturday from Department of Transportation secretary Brock Adams. “Secretary Adams sent me a tele gram that threatened, in no uncer tain terms, a cutoff of highway funds if the 65 mph limit is passed,” Herschler said. “We have been threatened that if we don’t take steps to correct this we ll be re lieved by 5 percent of our highway funds in 1980 and by 10 percent in 1981. “I think they’re using a heavy hand. I don’t like it. Does the fed eral government own the highways? If so, we ll ask them to come out and maintain them and enforce the laws, with federal marshals if necessary.” Other Western states watched as Wyoming argued the issue, and now have joined in. “If five or six states have guts enough to tell the federal govern ment to go fly a kite I don’t expect them to take away their highway funds,” said Al Henry, the chairman of Washington state’s Senate Trans portation Committee, in introduc ing a similar proposal. “Everybody’s tired of driving 55 mph. It’s tying up the state patrol and it’s unpopular.’’Henry said. In Colorado, freshman Rep. Bob Stephenson has introduced a bill to reset the speed limit at 65, saying he was “tired of being blackmailed by the federal government with our own money. “First, we pay federal tax on the gasoline then they give it back to us in the form of highway aid, but only if we agree to go by their speed limit,” he said. “People are driving 65 mph, so we might as well make it legal.” Under current statutes in Okla homa, where about $80 million in federal funds is at stake, the speed limit goes up if 29 other states move theirs up. But state Rep. Jim Townsend said he was prep® amendment to that law tore all references to the 29 other thus automatically moving! limit. “I support Wyoming in courageous move , to come to with federal blackmail,’ TorS said. “The federal govern cannot buy power through £ ; nations. The people of these li States ar e not driving at 55.. you think they are, you drive and create a bottleneck and jam.” In other states, an Oregonsa said he would introduce moving the 55 mph limit bea results in an uneconomic freeways designed for speeds. Jazz funerals celebrate lift. United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Ever since African drum rhythms merged with the musical sounds brought down the Mississippi River on steamboats to give birth to jazz, the city’s young people have taken their music les sons on the street — dancing and jiving alongside traditional jazz fu neral processions in “second lines.” Ragtag second lines, mostly parades filled with kids tooting toy horns and bobbing umbrellas, were where Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and Alvin Alcorn got their first taste of jazz. “The second line is culture and this is the only city in the world where people do it,” said Melvin Short Jr., who danced in his first second line 25 years ago when he nuxlen was 6. “I’ll help make suretlrBj SUmi1 one! line is around forever B I j He* has helped turn thespoBj^/ ous second line of jazz ftinenj fupTnamb* Eddie Dominguez ’66 Joe Arciniega ’74 If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned . . . We call It "Mexican Food Supreme." 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'T n w ts “So without having a jazzbH; , ’ play for the people to follow hr, 0 , el the second line almost becaH in s tinct ’ ■ r At the turn of the century B eS ‘J funeral was the usual way bladB 1 ^ a Orleanians buried their dead® ^ hand playing mournful dirgeif,. follow the funeral Xf’f". jatfe Uni 1 B?* - . , (xas A& ghtli to the drums rolled, a trumpelBT?' 1 blast and the band would breB , rollicking, joyful jazz tunJ,° d ^ \\ hen the Saints Go MardiiM , and “Oh, Didn t He RambleWr^ was done to celebrate theliftB dead man, not just his passinfl "In the early 1920s, itwassBter hi an all-black dance because thtftap li didn’t mix so well then,’ said diilere Arlt of the New Orleans Jazzlwd to Now, jazz funerals are raiBap fj usually are announced in theBipani paper to enable jazz fans totaB for the second line. Touristsi cameras and dancing with thi have usurped children as th(B a ^J contingent in second lines- B ,. . “It’s for everybody,” ShoitB 0 ls “Some blacks may not liketB 11 S ] whites second lining, butlr really don’t care at all. JustliW^-° everything else, it bringiB change.” Since , , „ ftsarv Short said about 25 secosm j clubs — with names ^Bcom Moneywasters, the 7th WardB^g t Steppers and the Tambounm^^ Fan — create their own par» aan( second line behind, eliminat® • need of the now-scarce funesp Rx Stereo 3602 Old College Road = (Across from Chicken = Oil Co., next to Tri-State EE Sporting Goods) toymen K>" s; UllIIllIHlllllIIllllMllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiii 846-1393 _ iiiHiinnmimiiniff cessions. He said there was no : Texas wrong way to second line, ned by advised novices to try walkinc pity i r jump, snapping fingers and Hahomi handkerchiefs. Now Better Than Ever. 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