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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1979
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Taco Villa confirms - the Hungries are back! Those stomach-growlers who
devil your appetite, captured and bonded on sparkling party-time glassware
in lively fiesta colors.
Eight different glasses. Eight different Hungries: Beauregard, Irving, Harley,
Sigmund, and all the gang in a wild assortment of colors.
Next time the Hungries strike you, strike back. Grab a tasty Mexican spe
cialty at Taco Villa: burritos, chalupas, guadalajaras, taco-burgers, hambur
gers and more. Top it off with a Coke . . . and
keep the glass for your own collection.
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TACO VILLA. INC., 1979
FRESHMEN
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United Press International
LUBBOCK — It took the city of
Lubbock nearly a quarter century to
come to terms with the actuality,
and then the legend, of rock star
Buddy Holly, but this weekend it
did so.
On the 43rd anniversary of Hol
ly’s birth on the non-rocking Texas
Panhandle plains and almost 25
years since he organized a country
and western band to play at as
semblies at Lubbock High School,
the city threw a bash for its most
famous son.
Country star Waylon Jennings,
who played bass for a time for Holly,
and Buddy’s old backup group. The
Crickets, Friday night played at a
memorial concert in the Civic Cen
ter auditorium Friday night. A
ticket to the concert was as tough as
a ticket to Saturday’s football game
between Texas Tech and USC.
But more than the music, or the
crowd, the concert marked a new
era in Lubbock. The city, with the
festivities, formally recognized its
ties and responsibility to the young
man who, in 18 months of record
ing, became a legend among the
world’s popular musicians.
Niki Sullivan, now a Blue
Springs, Mo., sales manager for an
electronics firm, was one of the orig
inal Crickets, one of those who re
hearsed with Buddy for hours in an
empty garage in Lubbock.
“I don’t expect the people of
Lubbock to revere Buddy,” Sullivan
said. “I want them to realize what
he did for music worldwide, and to
have respect for him because of
that.”
It has been theorized, that Lub
bock has been confused as to how to
deal with the worldwide respect for
Holly, said Mayor Dirk West. Lub
bock, especially in the early days,
did not understand or like Holly’s
music. Lubbock recognized that
Holly had to leave his hometown be
fore he could do what he did.
“You’ve got to remember that 25
years ago Lubbock was just a little
ole cotton town,” said West. “And I
mean little. The people here liked
Bob Wills and Roy Acuff. They
didn’t take to that rock and roll.
“People listened to what Buddy
was playing and they said, ‘He’s a
kook. Don’t worry. He’ll give that
up pretty soon.
“He was just a Lubbock boy. We
didn’t think anything about him, not
until the movie came out and all this
interest began. We didn’t know how
well he was known outside Lub
bock. Now, I think, there is pride in
him; not for who he was, but for
what he did.”
The concert will be held annually,
and proceeds will go to the Buddy
Holly Memorial Fund to construct a
Walk Of Fame at the civic center,
(honoring West Texas musicians, and
to build an 8-foot-6 statue of Holj
to be sculpted by Grant Speed anl
presented at next year’s concert.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Jouma!
interviewed some of Holly’i
classmates at Lubbock High du
Buddy Holly Week last week
found more ambivalence.
Bobbie Blocker, activities chair
man during Holly’s sophomon
year, said; “He had a goal he wanted
to achieve and school was not Ik
way to achieve it. I think this ton
never knew Buddy Holly. I thinkti
found himself somewhere else, d
I think he got out of town as soonai
he could. ”
And the day he left Lubbock
the day the world found him.
His simple grave in the Lubbocl
City Cemetery — the only
guitar in relief on the horizonlil
marble slab — Friday was decorated
with four bouquets. One, of pill
azaleas, brought to mind one o
songs: “Happy birthday Buddy
love for you will never fade away,
Barbara Rau, Hawthorne, New Jer
sey.” Another, of dark red roses,
also harkened to a Holly tune; its®
signed “Peggy Sue Rackham.”
Hundreds of Holly fans
for an emotional memorial semi
Saturday at the grave. And
gathered for a picnic at the I
Holly Recreational Park and theni!
night viewed the movie “The Bui
Holly Story.”
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PHOENIX, Ariz. — In an ope 1 U f S - Lu
letter to the people of Teias,
Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt saysrt
cent remarks he made about
battle of the Alamo were not meiit
to be disparaging.
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Saturday, Babbitt said, “Asonewk sa *“ aut
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in Texas, I share our pride inTeu
history. It was not my intention
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Committee members and interested persons I
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On Tuesday, September 11th
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At 7:30 p.m., Room 701 Rudder ]
* Interview information will be announced at this time.
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