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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1981
Jenner portrays Grambling quarterback in fall film
United Press International
GRAMBLING, La. — Stu
dents on the all-black Grambling
State University campus were
apprehensive and amazed at the
arrival of the school’s first white
quarterback in 1968.
Thirteen years later, the event
is being revived amid just as much
.excitement with the arrival of an
NBC movie crew filming the story
of “Grambling’s White Tiger.”
Bruce Jenner, the former
Olympic decathlon winner, plays
Jim Gregory, who left his pre
dominantly white California
neighborhood to face discrimina
tion and somewhat hostile team
mates at black Grambling.
Harry Belafonte, best known
for his Calypso singing, portrays
football Coach Eddie Robinson.
LeVar Burton of Kunta Kinte
“Roots” fame plays Gregory’s
roommate, Charlie Smith, now
with the Philadelphia Eagles.
“I always said I never would do
athletic roles because that’s what
everybody expected of me,” Jen
ner said during a lunch break on
campus, where the crew was to
remain on location through next
week.
“But this is a good, meaningful
story. Football is really just aside-
light. It’s a good human story, and
it’s very interesting to look at dis
crimination from the other side.”
The movie was scheduled to air
sometime this fall and was being
shot entirely on the Grambling
campus, in nearby Ruston and at
Louisiana Tech — unique for TV
movies that usually shoot interior
scenes in Hollywood studios.
More than 100 students milled
around the set one day last week in
front of the student union build
ing. Lights, the canvas director’s
chair, makeup and hairstyling
men fussing with Jenner and other
actors gave a thrilled air to the
usually quiet, red-bricked campus
of 4,000 students.
One faculty member said some
students were angry because the
movie portrayed the life of a white
player at a school where so many
black players have become pro
football stars.
“Some of them were a little
upset, but a lot of the players from
Grambling who have gone on to
be pro players are mentioned in
the movie, so that’s all right,” said
the faculty member.
Hard feelings were not appa
rent on the set.
Hundreds of excited students
— many of them senior football
players who portray team mem
bers in the film — are being used
as extras.
And a look at one day’s “rushes”
— the dozens of different-angled
shots of various scenes — showed
students as adept at taking orders
from director Georg Stanford
Brown as professionals.
“Okay, he’s running for a
touchdown, running, running.
And he’s made it!” yells the dire
ctor.
Students packing the stadium
Harrelson faces dual charges
United Press International
VAN HORN — Charles V. Harrelson, sus
pected by federal law officials of assassinating
U.S. District Judge John Wood, was indicted
Monday on charges of possessing cocaine and
illegally possessing a firearm.
Represented by El Paso attorney Joe Chag-
ra, Harrelson pleaded not guilty to the two
felony indictments in arraignment proceed
ings in the 205th district court in Culberson
County.
Harrelson, handcuffed and dressed in a
county jail uniform of white pants, white shirt
and tennis shoes, was flown from Houston to
the hearing in a private plane and flown back to
ouston immediately after the hearing.
Harrelson was arrested in Van Horn last
leptember after fending off police with a pistol
for seven hours and threatening to commit
uicide. He was talked into giving up by Virgi
nia F arrah, of the clothing manufacturing fami
ly, for whom he worked as a body guard.
He was indicted in October by a Culberson
County grand jury. Because of a prior murder
conviction, his possession of cocaine charge
was raised from a second degree to a first de
gree felony.
Chagra, who has been one of a team of
attorneys representing Harrelson on charges
of bond jumping, gambling and a illegally pos
sessing a firearm in Harris County, arrived at
the hearing to represent Harrelson.
However, Harrelson told Judge Sam Callan
he was “destitute” and could not afford to re
tain Chagra. Callan then appointed Chagra to
represent Harrelson.
Trial on the Culberson County charges was
set for April 27, but Harrelson is scheduled to
appear at a hearing in Houston on April 26 to
seek dismissal of his two charges there.
Chagra said a tape recorder was found in the
attorney-client visiting room in the Harris
County jail and charged officials there had
illegally recorded confidential conferences
with his client.
William Ellis, an El Paso assistant district
attorney directing the prosecution against
Harrelson in west Texas, said he would agree
to an extention in the trial.
Harrelson was convicted in 1973 for the
$2,000 contract slaying of Sam Degelia Jr., a
Heame grain dealer. In 1971 he was accused
but never convicted of another contract killing
in Angleton.
Harrelson appeared before the first grand
jury investigating the death of Woods, but at
the time denied any knowledge of how or why
the federal judge was killed.
Professora Palm a ’ a wai ts sen ten ce
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — “Profes
sora Palma” told a Mexican busi-
lessman and his wife they had
ancer and their son would soon
(lie, but she could cure all of them
for $22,300, federal investigators
d.
Gypsy palm reader “Professora
Palma,’’whose real name is Dinah
Adams, is scheduled for a May 15
sentencing after pleading guilty to
a reduced charge of transportation
of property with intent to steal in
the con game.
Government prosecutors have
called the con game “the most
bizane ever” in south Texas. Offi
cials said she led the Mexican cou
ple through candlelit ceremonies,
prayers over money stacked in the
shape of a cross and gypsy incanta
tions.
Adams pleaded guilty Friday in
Brownsville federal court on a re
duced charge as part of a plea-
bargain arrangement in which she
promised to repay the Mexican
couple.
“I’ve handled thousands of
cases and this is the most bizarre
I’ve ever seen,” said Assistant
U.S. Attorney Charles Lewis.
Lewis said the con game vic
tims, a Cuidad Victoria, Mexico,
liquor store owner and his wife.
traveled to Brownsville several
times in late 1980 and early this
year, seeking the advice of Profes
sora Palma.
After reading the palm of the
businessman she told him he had
cancer, but she could cure the dis
ease for $200. On subsequent trips
to Brownsville, the woman diag
nosed the businessman’s wife as
having cancer and said one of their
children also would die.
Eventually, the cost of the can
cer cure increased to about
$10,000 each for the man and his
wife, said FBI agent Robert Nix
on. During the last gypsy cere
mony in which $20,000 was laid
out on the floor, Nixon said
Madam Palm switched the cash
for paper.
“Madam Palm told him (the
businessman) the money was gone
and it had to be burned as part of
the cure,” Nixon said. “She
advised him that the money had
taken the evil from his body and
his wife’s body, the evil was put
into the money and now they had
to burn the money. ”
Federal prosecutors have re-
com mended three years proba
tion for Madam Palm. She faces
formal sentencing on May 15 be
fore U.S. Magistrate William
Mallet.
I&R amendment chances are good
United Press International
AUSTIN — A proposed amend
ment to the Texas Constitution
giving citizens the power to limit
taxes and government growth by
initiative and referendum has a
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speak out for it, the leader of a
group died “Texas 13” said
Monday.
Former Attorney General
Waggoner Carr said the proposal
by Rep. John Sharp, D-Victoria, is
scheduled for House debate on
Thursday.
“We’re on our way,” Carr told a
news conference. “We’ve waited a
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their Tigers on as convincingly as
if it were an honest to goodness
game.
The prejudices and problems
that greeted Gregory, who played
at Grambling from 1968-1972, are
the focus of the film. Jenner said
he talked to Gregory, now a high
school coach in California, to get a
feel for what he went through at
the black Southern college.
“There are some players on the
team who don’t like him because
he took a scholarship away from a
black player when there weren’t
that many scholarships to go
around,” said Jenner, whose job as
an NBC sports commentator
helped convince the network to
star him in “Grambling’s White
Tiger.”
“It got to the point where he
was sorry he was white.
“A lot of the storyline is that
he’s not that good a football play
er. Why did Eddie Robinson want
him to come to Grambling?”
Burton, who has starred as a
deaf-mute boy accused of killing a
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“Grambling is legendary.”
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