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to get awards
Suits emerge over name
United Press International
LUBBOCK — Three Texas Tech
graduates have been named reci
pients of the first Distinguished
Agricultural Alumni Award of the
university’s College of Agricultural
Sciences.
Presentations will be made during
a luncheon Thursday to Stephen J.
Kleberg of Kingsville, Ray Joe Riley
of Sunnyside and Charles L. Weddle
of Grand Junction, Colo.
Kleberg, a 1969 animal science
graduate, has been a director on the
board of King Ranch Inc. since 1971,
and is on the board of Guaranty Na
tional Bank of Corpus Christi.
Riley, a 1956 agronomy graduate,
has been on the Plains Cotton Grow
ers Board for 15 years and was presi
dent from 1971 to 1973. He was a
delegate to the Universal Cotton
Standards Conference for 20 years
and was chairman in 1973.
Weddle, a 1936 horticulture gra
duate, is the founder of the Pan
American Seed Co.
Weddle also founded the tech
nique of double-breeding petunias
from seed, a secret known at the
time only by the Japanese. He de
veloped all of the double petunias
with musical and American Indian
TV Ewing vs. Oil Ewing
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DALLAS — If they weren’t suing
him for $1.5 million, Bobby Ewing
— the real Bobby Ewing—might be
willing to laugh the whole thing off.
But Lorimar Productions, the
creator of the hit primetime soap
opera “Dallas,” is suing him for $1.5
million, and he’s counter-suing for
$50 million.
For the past few years the real
Ewing, who owns a real oil company
called Ewing Oil Co., has taken a lot
of ribbing about the show from
friends and strangers alike. But all
that came to an end two weeks ago
when Lorimar announced it was
suing Ewing for $1.5 million because
he has authorized a promotional firm
to market T-shirts, hats, belt buckles
and blue jeans under the Ewing Oil
Co. label.
Lorimar sued, claiming it had ex
clusive rights to the commercial use
of the Ewing name. Ewing is blunt in
his disagreement.
“Those people are crazier’n hell.
They want to make this whole thing
ridiculous; I’ll make it three times
more ridiculous. I’m going to make a
circus out of the whole damn deal.
There isn’t a court in the land that
will tell me I’m not entitled to my
own name,” he says.
“If they’re going to sue me for $ 1.5
million, I’ll sue for $50 million. Oh
hell yes, I can be 50 times more ridi
culous than they are.”
Although Ewing has been in the
oil business since 1974, he fully ack
nowledges that he did not incorpo
rate Ewing Oil Co. with the Texas
secretary of state’s office until he saw
the second pilot show of “Dallas,”
which ran first as a mini-series in the
spring of 1978.
Ewing said seeing the pilot show
prompted him to act, “so I could pro
tect the name for my kids. I was in
the oil business, and I always wanted
to have a company with my name to
pass on to my kids.”
Earher this year, however, Ewing
said the Dallas promotions firm Ban-
ditz of Dallas contacted him about
marketing various products to capit
alize on the name, and that’s when
on blew out p£
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Lorimar came back with its suiticome housing
“The first time I knewaboutih.tlanta Monday
when I heard they weregoinu icluding four c
suit, ” Ewing said. “I couldn’tWi Fire officials 1
it. I called them and said, He t the Bowen I
ten, we can get together on fer on gas leaki
we can all make some money ffljmac e
it. Police confin
"My lawyers got togethernJrady Memor:
their lawyers and when we let ran said five ch
meeting I thought it was all» ad been repor
out. The next thing I hearisthatis Reports of in
went ahead and filed the suit ) 12. Rescue \
Ewing said he’s only madeijubble for mor
$6,000 from the merchandise sijured were tr
and that Bandit/ has probably] Police emer
cleared about $8,000. re engines ri
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it, but I did it mostly for the(uui):30 a.m.
to help promote my company Police said thi
said.
He also said he was willingtop*
sue his case as far as necessanj|
prove his right to his name.
“I’ll go all the way to the Suprcl
Court if I have to, ” he said. “fMf
even go to the Johnny Cari|
Show. ”
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If you are a sociology student, or
have ever taken a sociology class,
you are probably somewhat inter
ested in discovering how individual
behavior influences society and vise
versa. But as you sort through the
various theories and studies, you
may become more confused. The
seemingly infinite array of ideas
only complicate the search for solu
tions. Our tremendous ad
vancements in the fields of technol
ogy, science, and knowledge have
not produced the long awaited an
swers.
Is it possible that in the mad
scramble to untangle the twisted
threads of our society some simple
solutions have been overlooked?
Such a suggestion may send some
professor and theorists into hys
teria, but let’s take a further look at
a few of the facts.
Marriage and Family
This fundamental social unit has
perhaps the greatest effect on the
individual and society. Individuals
are made in families; marriages and
divorces influence individuals; their
families, and people outside their
families. Arnold Toynbee (famous
historian and social commentator),
Dr. Paul Papadol (head of the
American Institution for Family and
Society), and Dr. J. Unwin (an
thropologist who studied 88 civiliza
tions and their degeneration) among
others, agree that no society has
ever survived once the family de
teriorated.
Rutgers University recently pub
lished research showing that the
probability of divorced men dying
prematurely is 8 times greater than
those who remain married. The rate
among women is four times greater.
Mental and physical illness also in
crease markedly. According to the
University of Michigan Institute of
Social Research, those recently di
vorced or separated are the least
happy people in the nation.
The divorce rate has jumped from
one out of 23 in the early 1900’s to
today’s almost one out of two. Many
people opt for living together out
side of marriage, a situation which
cannot provide the lasting security a
family needs to be healthy.
Principles for successful mar
riages and families have been given
to us. In the Bible, in the book of
Malachi, God says, ‘7 hate divorce".
This is because He wants the family
and society to stay intact, to have a
life and a future. Dr. Sorsen of
Princeton University discovered
that the divorce rate of couples who
read the bible daily is only one out
of 1,052! The Bible is loaded with
the ways to experience maximum
love, sex, and personal fulfillment
— if we follow the principles God
laid out.
Again, it was Jesus Christ who
said, “Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.” He gave
the basic principles necessary for
the effective eradication of crime,
which is man sinning against man.
Crime
Crime is increasing at an epidem
ic rate in the U.S. Today, there is a
violent crime every 32 seconds. In
the last 10 years, robbery has risen
over 90% and murder is up 52%. In
New York City alone, more cars are
stolen than bought each year. We
lock our bikes and are constantly
guarding our books, cameras, and
stereos from being ripped off. The
Criminal Justice Department at
Sam Houston State University re
ports that 57% of Texans fear they
will become victims of crime this
Food
In India, a country which largely
has rejected Jesus Christ, millions
are starving because of their relig
ion. Hinduism transgresses a major
principle of Christianity; they wor
ship the creation, not the Creator.
They won’t kill the rats who eat over
15% of their foreign aid grain. They
won’t eat cattle, given by God for
the good of man, who consume 20%
of the nations available food re
year.
There are examples of the effect
of Christian principles on the crime
rate. There was a massive effort to
spread the good news of Jesus
Christ throughout Atlanta, Georgia,
a few years ago. The chief of police
reported that during this period,
the crime rate dropped 20 to 30%.
source.
There is one Indian state, Kerala,
which doesn’t have a food problem.
Kerala has one distinctive character
istic: 50% are professing Christians.
Obviously, the food problem af
fects every area of sociological be
havior. A starving man is far more
concerned for his stomach than for
the good of society. Christ taught
that it is the basic nature of man to
be greedy — for some to have and
many to starve. He also gave the
only solution for man’s greed and
selfishness.
Freedom
Many have claimed to have
program for a free society. All met
are hungry for new paths to 1
dom. In its early years, Nazism
widely believed to be the answer
Obviously, it failed. Now Commun
ism is attributed with the saint
potential to save society. You«t
heard it before: utopias sound grell
on paper but once men get hold if j
them, they’re destroyed. W
No political or economic system i
the answer. Freedom is notanei-
ternal attachment. Christ cor
ed on true freedom when He sail
“Truly, truly, 1 say to you, evetj
who commits sin is the slave
sin.. . If the Son of God shall m
you free, you shall be free indee
(John 8:34 , 36)
Critics of sociological approach
point to two basic faults with tb (
field: a) scientists go to the wroi
source: human experience is incon
sistent and unreliable as a source o' I
fact, and b) they prescribe th
wrong solutions: external (environ
mental) change. You will nevei
change society until you change
individual. Today men want tb®
effects of Christianity — happy mar
riages and families, no crime, plentJi
of food, and freedom — but the)'
reject the One who enables this
change to take place. Jesus Christi*
the only One who can transform a"
individual from the inside out. Hei*
not just a good moral teacher with
more sociological theories.
It is because of man’s sinful na
ture that he alone cannot brinf
about real social or individual
change (“everyone who commits si®
is the slave of sin”). God, whoi*
righteous and just, demands tha 1
our sin (our transgressions again* 1
His standards) be dealt with, n® 1
just hidden as many social scientists
attempt. God says that sin earn*
death (Romans 3:23). But whenn#
believes in and trusts that Jesn*
Christ died for his sins, as his substi
tute, God places His Spirit insid®
him. Then and only then can th®
individual have the desire and po"’
er to change: to love other people
even his enemy, more than himself
Not a bad society, wouldn’t yo®
agree?
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the booklet, “Hope for a Troubled
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