Battalion/Page 5
April 19, 1982
state/national
Anyone’s best friend
t took a group effort to pull together about 40
nillion “dollars” of play money to make the
finning bid for the 43 point diamond auctioned
ff Saturday night at RHA’s Casino. Matt Powell,
enter with the diamond, an accounting major
from Amarillo, said about 50 people pooled their
money to make the dynamite diamond buy. What
can 50 people do with a sparkling diamond valued
at $1,100? It’s easy. “Have an $1,100 party,”
Powell said.
Sports fans may damage
Lubbock archaeological site
United Press International
LUBBOCK — An archaeolo
gical site containing bones and
bone chips may be damaged by
sports Ians traveling to soccer
matches this weekend, the
Texas Historical Commission
contends.
Despite pleas by the commis
sion to close an uncompleted ac
cess road, which cuts through
the site, Mayor Bill McAlester
said Friday that common sense
dictates the access road be
opened for weekend sporting
events at the Berl Huffman
Athletic Complex.
Curtis Tunnell, executive di
rector of the historical commis
sion, asked the city earlier this
week to halt construction on the
access road.
Tunnell said the city would
be in violation of federal and
state historical and antiquity
laws if construction continued
or if the access road was used.
‘Piano man’ recovering
after injury to hand
United Press International
NEW YORK — “Piano Man”
Billy Joel, whose wrist and
thumb were broken in a motor
cycle accident, was assured he’ll
be at the keyboard again soon —
this time as therapy for the in
jured hand.
Dr. David Andrews said Fri
day that rock star Joel, 32, a sin
ger-songwriter whose biggest hit
traced his career as an unknown
piano player in small clubs, will
regain complete use of his wrist
and thumb.
In fact, the physician said, the
five-time Grammy winner will
have to play the piano as part of
his physical therapy.
“He thinks he’ll be as good as
new. I think he’ll be better,” said
Andrews, an orthopedic
surgeon at Manhattan’s Col
umbia Presbyterian Hospital,
where Joel was takpn by helicop
ter following the accident
Thursday.
Andrews said Joel’s right
wrist was fractured and his left
thumb was broken. He said
there was a cast on the wrist and
a splint on the thumb.
Andrews said Joel would be
discharged from the hospital
Monday or Tuesday. He said the
cast would be removed in eight
weeks and the splint in a month.
Joel was hit by a car that ran a
red light in Huntington Station,
N.Y., while riding one of his
four motorcycles.
Joel’s other hits include the
1977 smash “Just the Way You
Are,” “Only the Good Die
Young,” “She’s Always a
Woman,” “Big Shot,” and “My
Life.”
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i is 251 mi'lhts logged on state records as
fieial business by Agriculture
|mmissioner Reagan Brown
4 f JV duded trips in which he con-
Bed campaign business, a
ijallas newspaper reported
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cited Brown travelled to
eaumont, Texas, Jan. 14 and
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peak on B pponent Jim Hightower has no
local Met! ualifications to be commission-
in 204C L" r of agriculture,
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tesday andB®i c hita Falls where he criti-
•arning Re> l -M Hightower’s lack of agri-
ultural experience.
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The flights were recorded on
state airplane logs as official
business, the newspaper re
ported .
Brown has denied allegations
of using state aircraft for politic
al purposes, a violation of state
law.
“We don’t use our airplane on
anything but official business,”
he said. “Using a plane for cam
paign purposes is against every
thing I ever believed in.”
He said his lawyers had
advised him he can make allega
tions about campaign oppo
nents if reporters bring up the
subject first. Brown regularly
schedules press conferences in
visits to cities.
The agriculture department
estimates a cost of $256 per hour
to fly the aircraft.
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