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December 10,1
Laid-off Texaco employee
contemplates unemployment
Warped
by Scott McCulla
'THE EMOTION" PART 5 OF 8
United Press International
PORT ARTHUR — For Jim
my Dement, 1982 hasn’t been
the best of years.
He was one of nearly 4,000
Texaco employees who went on
strike last January and one of
four men injured in an Oct. 13
accident, a pipeline rupture
which burned five other men to
death.
A former auto mechanic, De
ment, 22, started to work for
Texaco in June of 1981. He
earned the coveted operator’s
classification at the refinery af
ter having been in the yard de
partment for only a few months.
Recently, his wife, Lisa, faced
surgery and a stay in the hos
pital.
“When I got the job at Tex
aco,” Dement said. “I really
thought things were going to be
looking up for me.”
“Well, you know, when it
rains, it pours,” Dement said.
Last week he was one of 250
employees laid off by Texaco.
Facing the unemployment
line, Dement is still unsure of his
plans only a few days after being
released by his doctor following
the catalyst accident.
“Find a job,” he said. “But
there don’t seem to be too many
of those around here these
days.”
Dement said that he will qual
ify for unemmployment be
nefits of about $147 per week.
Most of his hope, Dement
admits, lies in a union-initiated
plan that would put some work
ers on as temporary laborers.
His pay rate would drop from
around $12 an hour to about
$8.75 — the union’s bottom
scale.
“I could go for that in a heart
beat,” Dement said. “From what
I gather it would be all labor
work, but there ain’t nothing
wrong with that. That would be
fine.”
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TAMU BAPTIST STUDENT UNION The
International Student Dinner of this semester will beM
at 7 p.m. at the Baptist Student Center. Shish kebabd!
be served.
HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER (H1LLEL f
CLUBLChanukah Pot Luck Dinner will be Servedatifl
p.m., services will begin at 7:30 p.m. and an OnegShab!
will be held after the services at the Hillel CIud.
VAN ZANDT COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUBA
Christmas Party will be held at 8 p.m. at the Parte
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Saturday
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: A
worship service will be held at 7 p.m. at the Canterbury
House on Jersey St. across from bonfire. Refreshments
will be served afterwards.
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB:Christmas c
and a hay ride will be held at 7 p.m. The group will
the Kleberg Center parking lot.
HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER (HILLEL
CLUB):Sigma Alpha Mu is sponsoring a Chanubhf
ty to be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Hillel Club. Latte
singing and candle lighting will be featured.
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United Press International
ALBANY, N.Y. — Business
may be blotto across the United
States these days, but five guys
with assumed names are pro
ving that “Blotto” can be a suc
cessful business.
Sergeant makes the posters.
Bowtie handles the business
end. Cheese supervises the
trucks and equipment. Lee Har
vey oversees record sales.
Broadway sticks to singing.
Record sales are going well
for Blotto, a rock group that is
shooting for the big time by re
leasing songs on its own label —
Blotto Records.
“You don’t really need full-
page ads in Billboard magazine
to have a hit,” Broadway Blotto
said. “You need a good song and
an audience that likes it.”
Blotto scored with its first
song, “I Wanna Be a Lifeguard.”
It was a minor hit in 1980.
The song sold 25,000 copies,
the most successful ini
dently released record
United States that year.
The group followed
another four-song disc.
Blotto has just relei
third record and the mi
say they’re hooked on
their own affairs.
“Nobody cares as mu
us as we do,” Broadways
The group isn’t
“It’s a miracle that*
five guys and a three-m
crew making a living,"
said.
Things have not ate
so rosy for Blotto. The
went the usual routeofliii
get a major record deal
learned a few lessons alofi
way.
For instance, a
tract is not necessarily a lid
success. Some groups are
large advances on their I
earnings. If therecorddK
sell, the group suddenh
itself in debt.
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then find the company in
terested in pushing theirs
Record executives 4
Blotto was just a novel'
would die out soon, andi
tually the guys decided!#
alone.
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executive) asked us what 1 '
for a living,” Lee Harveys
Group members;
would like to join a i
or at least get a label to Is
the distribution. Withoi*
cash advances, Blottomtisl
playing weekend gigs sot
bers can afford to record^
the week.
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Air. AM/FM,
wire wheels
3,850.
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8,100
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