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Former cheerleader trains kids
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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. Herkimer re-
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ceived attention for his vigorous
tumbling and jumps —- among
them his “Herkie jump” — and
was named an all-America
cheerleader by a national maga
zine.
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.
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