THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL, 16, 1979
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FORNEY — The scene looked
jiore; appropriate for a tractor auc-
jon, but the item on the block was
jne of the world’s finest diamonds,
eveltually sold to an anonymous
bidder for $360,000.
i Auction officials for Saturday’s sale
of the 64-carat, pear-shaped “Star of
Nepal at the Clements Auction Gal-
llerV would only describe the buyer
L a movie producer involved in the
recent production of “Superman.”
Charles Clements, president of
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said he was disappointed that
theRuyer was not among the 300
people in the auction audience, al
though the gem did sell for slightly
Bioif than had been anticipated and
piara. his firm a commission in
the fens of thousands of dollars.
Wl y the Clements Gallery, a
iheftory corrugated tin structure in
town of 3,000 located about 20
miles east of Dallas?
“W e re one of the 10 largest gal
leries in the United States,” said
Noifnan Garrett, manager and part
ownerofthe gallery. “People in Dal
las don’t realize ... that there is such
a llrge gallery for antiques and
jewelry nearby. Everyone thinks
they have to go to New York or Los
Angeles to get fine merchandise.”
The Star, which was sold in just
three minutes, is rated as the 96th
largest polished diamond in the
world.
I! is thought to have been mined
near the turn of the century in India’s
onda region and until recently
atlOi was in the hands of a prominent In
dian family. Originally the stone was
to be sold to Iranian royalty, but that
coinitry’s political revolution forced
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JDETROIT —The NAACP, trying
to reverse low black voter participa
tion in the urban north, has begun a
campaign to add 5 million blacks to
thlrnation’s voter registration rolls
before the 1980 presidential elec-
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Monday
FIND MICHAEL JOHNSON S BLUEBERRY CONTEST: Will be
held at Rudder Fountain today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Find a
blueberry and get a free ticket to the Michael Johnson concert
Tuesday night.
HASSLE-FREE: Monday Afternoon Recess will be 12:30-2:30p. m. on
the Drill Field. Meeting will be at 7 p.m. in Room 502, Rudder.
OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Meeting will be at 5:30
p.m. in the Council Room, 246 MSC.
BETA ALPHA PSI: There will be a mandatory meeting for initiation
and elections at 7 p.m. in Room 350, Rudder Tower.
PLANT SCIENCES SEMINAR: Jacqueline Perryman will speak on
“Characteristics of the Insusceptibility of Cultured Tobacco Cells
Microinjected Maize Dwarf Mosaic Virus” at 4 p.m. in Room 112,
Plant Science Building.
TENNIS: The men’s team will play the University of Houston in
Houston.
Tuesday
PARENT’S DAY BARBECUE: Tickets will be sold today through
Thursday in the Harrington Center Lounge, MSC and Box Office.
The barbecue, sponsored by OSCA, will be 4:40-5:30 p.m. Satur
day in the Grove.
TOWN HALL CONCERT: Michael Johnson will appear with Meis-
burg & Walters tonight at 8:15 in Rudder Auditorium. Tickets
($2.50, $3.00, $3.50) are on sale in the MSC Box Office.
KING LEAR: Movie starring Paul Scofield will be shown at 8 p.m. in
Room 201 of the MSC.
PRESIDENT MILLER’S STUDENT FORUM: Hassle-Free pres
ents a question-and-answer period with Miller at noon by Rudder
Fountain.
TAMU HERPETOLOGY CLUB: Meeting and nominations for new
officers will be at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104, Nagle Hall.
FLORICULTURE-ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE CLUB:
Meeting and officer elections will be at 7:30 p.m. in Room 701,
Rudder.
A&M WHEELMEN: Meeting and officer elections will be at 7:30
p.m. in Room 510, Rudder.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: Meeting
and officer elections will be at 7:30 p.m. in Room 203, Zachry.
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: Meeting will be at 8
p.m. in the Letterman’s Lounge of G. Rollie White.
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:30 p. m.
in Room 305, Fermier. Guest speaker will be Jerry Sprayberry
from Briggs-Weaver.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS: Will
meet at 7:30 p. m. in Room 102, Zachry. Speaker will be Bob Harris
with Olin Corp.
BASEBALL: St. Mary’s will play a double-header against Texas A&M
at 1 p.m. at Olson Field.
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Wednesday
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS INC.: WICI will meet at 5 p.m.
in the vault at the Last National Bank for a year-end celebration and
to make plans for next year. Non-members are also invited.
CLASS OF ’81 GIFT: Will be selected at the meeting at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 231 of the MSC.
‘SERGEANT YORK’: This 1941 film, starring Gary Cooper as a Ten
nessee dirt farmer, will be shown at 8 p. m. in Rudder Theater.
ROOT BEER CHUGGING CONTEST: Will be at noon on the
library side of the Academic Building. A 50-cent entrance fee will
be charged. It is sponsored by Hassle-Free.
BAKE SALE: The E.E. Student Wives Club will sell baked goods in
Zachry beginning at 9 a.m.
FREE U REFUNDS: Will be distributed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in
Room 216 of the MSC today and tomorrow.
SWIMMING: The men and women will swim at the A.A.U. Jr.
Nationals in Durham, N.C.
ALTERATIONS 1
IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF
OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER
TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE
ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN
MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE
THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND
ALTERATIONS.
“DON’T GIVE UP — WE LL
MAKE IT FIT!"
AT WELCH'S CLEANERS. WE
\IOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCEL
LENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE
SPECIALIZE IN ALTERING HARD
TO FIT EVENING DRESSES,
TAPERED. SHIRTS, JEAN HEMS,
WATCH POCKETS. ETC.
(WE RE JUST A FEW
BLOCKS NORTH OF FED
MART.)
WELCH’S CLEANERS
3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER)
Police, fans clash at rock concert
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WICHITA, Kan. — At least eight
police officers and 21 youths were
injured in a disturbance that broke
out at an Easter Sunday rock concert
when officers silenced the band and
started ticketing cars parked on the
grass of a city park.
Before the three-hour brawl
ended, there were charges of police
brutality countered by officers who
said they acted in self-defense when
rocks and bricks were thrown at
them.
Only three persons, including one
police officer, were admitted to city
hospitals following the Sunday night
melee that involved an estimated
2,500 persons and police officers
from as far as 100 miles away.
There were about 100 arrests.
Authorities said they received,
threats that city buildings would be
“torn apart” in retaliation and extra
officers were called in to guard the
City Hall and Sedqwick County
Courthouse.
“We were fighting literally on
about a four-block front,” said Police
Chief Richard LaMunvon, who de-
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nied police used excessive force in
trying to bring the situation under
control.
“To say that I was everywhere at
once is incorrect,” he said said, “but
I personally didn’t see any improp
rieties on the officers’ part. Regard
less of that I’m sure we ll be accused
of that one way or the other. That
always comes out of it."
Several concert-goers said the
trouble began when officers ordered
the band to stop playing.
“The police were trying to make
everybody move off the grass,” said
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The Rev. Benjamin Hooks,
ill NAACP executive director, said
Tiday the drive will be directed
from the NAACP’s National Voter
Education Department in Detroit to
dramatically increase “abysmally”
low black voter registration and
turnout in a number of northern
cities.
jHooks said the vote department
was moved from Birmingham, Ala.,
tolwiden the influence of the black
and minority voting strength beyond
the South to include major urban
“I think that in many parts of the
North there is this joblessness which
is the root of hopelessness and de-
jr, and we have to show people
there is a way out through the elec-
oral process,” Hooks told a news
conference.
loe Madison, named as the new
irector of the department, said
about 7 million of the nation’s 15 mil
lion eligible black voters were regis-
tefed in 1976.
"‘ He said the NAACP rights group
hopes to increase that number by 4
to 5 million between now and 1980.
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one unidentified woman. “They
didn’t want people parking there.
And there wasn’t sufficient parking .
and there was nowhere else to park.
They made them (the band) quit
playing and they said they were
going to shut the electricity off if
everybody didn’t leave.”
A group of youths started throwing
bottles and rocks at officers attempt
ing to hook a towtruck to a pickup
truck when its driver refused to
leave.
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ESTLAND, Mich. —They call
|uh the “Yo-Yo Kid.”
■leorge Humphreys, who earns
fes living by demonstrating yo-yos
ardund the country, has added a new
gist to his already amazing reper-
e: he yo-yos on stilts,
umphreys, 20, is hailed as the
ngest yo-yo demonstrator in the
Btntry and is pushing for a reputa-
Bn as the most innovative as he
Inters his second year in the trade.
Be is one of the “pros” for Duncan
Vo-Yos.
■Tm an unusual case. Most of the
B)s were hired because of their
■es background or their education.
Bey learned the tricks after that.”
■Humphreys, who started to per
fect his tricks as a youngster, gives
femonstrations at elementary
schools, shopping malls, carnivals
jld children’s hospitals.
e recently added stilts, which
st him from 5-foot-10 to about 8
t, but only uses them for short
Imonstrations.
umphreys began his yo-yo
eer in Columbus Grove, Ohio, a
all town south of Toledo where
fs father worked as a mailman. He
ved to the Detroit area about a
nth ago.
I began yo-yoing and did some
all shows,” Humphreys said,
here was a mother and daughter
quet and some hometown cami-
s. And I wrote to the (Duncan)
mpany every two or three months
ling them what I was doing.
I just pestered them to death.
In August 1977 he got a phone call
Uing him to be in Milwaukee the
lext day for two-days of training be-
l*re he hit the road as a demon-
Ifhator.
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707 Texas =
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA
&
KAPPA ALPHA
Invites YOU To A
GREEK INDEPENDENTS
Dance For M.D.
WHEN: April 18th at 8 o’clock (Wednesday)
WHERE: The Lakeview Club
HOW: $ 1 00 Admission, Buy Beer Inside
WHY: Because We Care . ..
Michael
Johnson
with
Meisbura & Walters
Texas A&M University
MSC Town Hall Special
Attraction
April 17, 8:15
Rudder Auditorium
Tickets $2.50, $3.00, $3.50
Tickets & Info:
MSC Box Office
845-2916
hall