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ALPHA CHI OMEGA state Battalion/Page 4 announces their August 31, FALL RUSH Job brings more than two bits Former cheerleader trains kids INTERVIEWS Monday, Aug. 30 — Thursday, Sept. 2 4 p.m.-7 p.m. AXH Apt. #47 Sausalito Interested Women come by or call: Terri Melton 696-5828 Julie Furler 696-3285 AXOApt. 696-5516 & v R8Svze* Home Of % The Stars an, t Every Thursday Night Admission $2.00 Person 3 Miles North of Bryan on Tabor Road United Press International DALLAS — Teaching 150,000 of America’s perky, clean-cut teenagers how tojump and chant in unison brings Lawrence “Herkie” Herkimer more than $20 million a year. This fall, cheerleaders at 40,000 high schools, junior highs and colleges will ignite crowds at sports stadiums with the training they received from one of Herkimer’s 320 nation wide week-long camps. Southern Laboratory High School’s Kitten cheerleading squad returns to Baton Rouge, La., with a spirit award won at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Sky-View Academy’s junior high school cheerleaders of Memphis, Tenn., are especially precocious. The squad defeated the older Massac County High School Patriots of Metropolis, Ill., for the top award at South east Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Herkimer, whose Dallas- based National Cheerleader Association sponsors these cli nics, is responsible for a segment of the American dream which rarely is studied. “Cheerleading is one of the things that is synonymous with America,” Herkimer said. “I don’t care what your socioeco nomic group is, if your daughter makes cheerleader, you’ll sell the boat or whatever to make sure she’s not prevented from doing her thing.” Herkimer led cheers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in the late 1940s, when football stars Doak Walker and Kyle Rote put SMU in the na tional spotlight. 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The Herkie jump is so widely known that when Herkimer tried to explain to a group of cheerleaders how to do thejump for a photographer, one im mediately responded, “Oh, you mean a ‘Herkie?’” — although she didn’t recognize the man who invented it. Herkimer’s flagship camp re mains at SMU, where from 800 to 1,200 cheerleaders partici pate in camps each week through the summer. “I had a real turning point in my life when I got out of school and was offered the opportunity to direct a boy’s ranch,” Herkim er said. “But I didn’t want to raise my family in that kind of atmosphere, and cheerleaders were so much more fun. I de cided to work with them.” Herkimer grosses $20 million a year by dealing in volume. A four-to-five day camp, usually held at a college or university with an eye on recruiting the cheerleaders as students, costs the participants from $69 to $100 each. The price includes room, board, instruction and facilities. About 150,000 teena gers go through the camps each year. Security problems at the camps are complex because the attractive young women and men attract onlookers. Herkim er said he won’t allow fathers to visit with their daughters in practice sessions because he “can’t tell a dad from a dirty old man.” In the 34 years Herkiraerk operated the camps, one sens assault has occurred, whenall year-old girl from Richard# was molested at the SMU c; last July. The camps emphasize aspects of cheerleading, inch ing tumbling, choreograpk maneuvers, postermaking leadership. A camp instructor saysthed nics also teach such things how much makeup to wear little as possible) andhowtoli have on the field (no haircoi bing). A significant portion of Hi kimer’s revenues comes fti the Cheerleader Supply Co, manufacturer and marketer skirts and pom pons, bun| stickers and spirit buttons. Loan agency reports farm foreclosures up United Press International DALLAS — Nearly half the state’s farmers who have loans with the Farmers Home Admi nistration are delinquent in their payments, and one official said it’s due to bad luck, not bad faith on the part of the bor rowers. Forty-eight percent of the state’s 24,861 farm borrowers are delinquent in their pay ments on a debt of $412,581,000, FmHA records show. Texas has the highest num ber of FmHA borrowers in the nation and onlv three other states have higher delinquency rates: Georgia, 55 percent; Flor ida, 51 percent; and Arizona, 50 percent. Bob Hopper, chief of Texas’ FmHA farm program, attri buted the bumper crop of delin quencies to a number of factors. In 1980, a severe drought and high temperatures dam aged crops throughout the state. In 1981, Hopper said, declining crop prices saddled farmers with another hard-luck harvest. This year’s outlook is no better. Hailstorms and rains have peppered parts of West Texas, causing millions of crop damage in a region wlitu loan delinquency rates run high as 83 percent in somecoi ties. “It’s not that Texas farms ar e greater risks," said Hopf “But the farming econoim Texas has suffered some of most severe difficulties." The FmHA acquired props ty from farmers to payoff loans in 1975. In thefirstfi non months of this year, 882boiro mb ers eit her voluntarilyorinvoi# j)p< tarily surrendered properm pay off their debts. P Al nlic ike gnm o.o o o ALL BRANDS OF // PARTY KEQ$ TO ORDER DIAL // 846-6635 • LARGE SELECTION PACKAGE BEER •CATERING • OVER 50 IMPORTS 3611 S. COLLEGE - BRYAN ooo o o ooo n r :.~mnrjz \ r TEAM & CLUB MEETING WEDNESDAY for ANYONE interested in playing water polo OOm F f t 1 n | 0 Ml,itar y Science 7:00 pm can Terren 696-6036