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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1979 Page 7 )en ICY! n Fender exploits jail term to avoid bii United Press International f*y, butn^ NASHVILLE , Tenn. — When U P on Asi j)j can0 coun t r y star Freddy Fender f , as busted for possession of “two f gee T® icks” of marijuana in 1961, he just ctugee (1^ )out threw in the towel in an icipatij }j ac j been looking good for ... . .lender. His music was starting to lihppines,^ some important attention in the otnetwli | e i‘5o s . g u t the marijuana convic- nei es 11 consideij aid begn s treaty, ;d the ini| they go iles, they s which ti it,” he saii hat SALT to keep ; of 5 pel ;, R-N.Y,pB the United : ft ed more tin Repeats and more repeats TV summer fare not too good , , -jn and jail threatened to wipe it all leendofU^ [After his release, instead offorget- is were Gis pg a bout the three years he spent id not yetld bars in Louisiana’s Angola d DeQuincy penitentiaries, the jiwasarepe L^by Texan candidly admits: “I had spotted jpl 0 jted it.” )°ard,heM “You might as well, ” he says. “It is kesmen, (bjng t 0 be proud of but people are try interested in knowing how les tromtisi L on j s j myself like to see a loser British color. [t U p on bis feet. ” i in Genevillsitbng in an air-conditioned hotel Am, an unbuttoned shirt revealing of Hong khk brown beer-belly, Fender thinks tered in alii ^ t 0 the time when his curly black kir wasn’t greying. refugeeHw n couldn’t have gone any lower d China. Lj j W as when I was confined for jyond Hans L ee years. But then I went up. It ; be halted] Ls people hope, a sense of admira- jn assistanct in j think that’s why it helped. It rete actai i]ped me a lot.” notsettlei Things didn’t automatically ncysaidlim angefor the better when Fender It out of prison. After eight long ;m thorougli jjars playing beer joints. Fender the war, fi B ded up in the office of Cajun pro be newspap beer Huey Meaux, another ex-con. Id convinced him to sign a contract leavingnofi^jr a $50 advance, rally cornel! iAlthough Meaux had produced Id promoted more than 35 good ints to malt icords, he was looked down upon ■ said. [cause of his prison stretch for con- Vestnottoi iracy under the Mann Act for and press is jpgedly transporting an underage ale from Texas to Tennessee for purpose of entertaining announ- at a Nashville disc-jockey con- St. Elmo's fire Connie Mims is vocalist and keyboard woman for St. Elmo’s Fire, the blues-rock bank that performed Thursday evening at the Grove. Behind her is vocalist and bass guitar player Keith lintion. j“How come you want a contract ith me? Nobody’ wants to do any- jhg with me since I got out of the n, Meaux asked Fender. I don’t know about your history it I know you’ve been in the pen you know what we re talking ab- |t,” Fender told him. Meaux tried Fender singing &iish reggae, but nobody noticed, leuax tried Fender shouting ixas-Mex rock, but again, nothing ept strained vocal chords. [“This one’s country,” Meaux said, few months later, “Before the Next ardrop Falls” was a number one gle and the Mexican-American |ty slicker became a country- stern star. I’d always thought I was real He act oovy Pachuco dude with all this Grim wood. Reruns lead way in Nielson race United Press International NEW YORK — CBS took eight of the first 11 places to dominate the weekly Nielsen ratings of television viewing. The first 20 spots in the ratings were held by re-run shows and the other three by the three networks’ “news magazines” — CBS’ 60 Min utes in 8th place, ABC’s 20-20 in a tie for 14th place, and NBC’s Prime Time Sunday in a tie for 19th place. By JOAN HANAUE UPI Television Writer NEW YORK — The gas shortage may force Americans to spend their vacations at home — but they cer tainly won’t find a summer festival on the television screen. Television always has worked on the theory that success bears repeat ing. Since summer audiences tra ditionally are smaller than the crowds huddled in front of the flic kering blue light of the winter tube, summer network schedules produce more repeats than a cucumber sandwich. But summer also used to be the time to try new formats in limited run series, and all three networks made their annual effort at bringing vaudeville back from the dead by re viving the variety format. All that has changed. Now spring is try-out time. In a peculiar twist, the new fast-ball competitiveness of the network ratings race for nine months of the year has made June, July and August a sea of reruns, lef tover episodes from cancelled series and a few pilots that didn’t make it onto the regular schedule for the 1979-80 season. For a change of pace, there are movies (also mostly reruns) and news magazine shows. Occasionally, a network will throw in the odd special at the last moment, but for the most part the summer schedules are dogs. CBS, at least, is the pick of the litter, assuming the audience is in the mood for comedy. For some rea son, hot weather is supposed to hone the funnybone. On Aug. 1 the format temporarily goes to an hour with “Getting There,” which sounds like “Love Boat” on wheels about a couple who run a coast-to-coast car delivery serv ice. The comedy centers around three subplots and the cast is above summer programing levels, with George S. Irving and Brett Sommers starring, and Norman Fell, Cathryn Damon, Hermione Baddeley and Imogene Coca in guest spots. The final offering on July 25 goes back to half-hour sitcom, with Ken Berry as pediatrician Dr. Charlie Featherstone, whose wife has gone back to school and left him — in all NATURALLY LIGHT LUNCH Come to the Sbisa Dining Center Basement. The fresh crisp salad items are almost unlimit ed and the superb sandwiches are made with big loaves of bread baked daily for this special purpose. If you are dieting you may also wish to try a bowl of natural freestone peaches. 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