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staff photo by Ronnie Emerson
Bear, the dog, pauses briefly to Academic building. Bear’s owner
bark at the statue of Lawrence is Mike Earhart, a bartender at
Sullivan Ross in front of the a local nightclub.
Socialist enters race
for Dallas mayoralty
United Press International
DALLAS — A Socialist Work
er’s Party member who once ran
for the Dallas school board has
announced plans to run for
mayor on a platform of lower
unemployment and an effective
mass transit system for the city.
Greg Preston, 34, an electro
nics test technician, said he has
wriiten a proposal that w'ould
create 50,000 additional jobs in
Dallas.
1 Preston said he also would
work for better public housing.
He said he supports the rail and
bus package recently proposed
by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit
.board.
| “We think the DART plan is a
good plan and should be im
plemented as soon as possible,”
Pfeston said.
He made the candidacy
announcement Sunday and
jyined City Councilman Wes
Wise, developer Starke Taylor,
businessman DeWayne Dallas,
publisher Marvin Watts and
Kenneth Rich in the race for the
office of mayor. 4
Preston said the underlying
causes of urban crime are unem
ployment, poverty and misery.
“If we want to solve the prob
lem of crime, we’ve got to solve
the economy,” he said.
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Austin to observe its own
Mardi Gras celebration
United Press International
AUSTIN — The spirit of
Mardi Gras is moving across the
Mississippi River from its tradi
tional home in New Orleans to a
saloon-decked downtown drag
in the capital city of Texas.
Mardi Gras, a religious holi
day whose name means “Fat
Tuesday” in Trench, marks the
end of feasting before Ash
Wednesday and the beginning
of the solemn Lenten period of
fasting. But despite its sacred
background, it is considered a
prime time for merry-making in
Louisiana, Brazil and other
parts of the world.
Although New Orleans will
continue to host its rowdy Mardi
Gras celebration, Erasmo
Andrade, a 10-year Austin resi
dent and member of the Mex-
ican-American Chamber of
Commerce, decided late last
year that there was no reason his
city couldn’t take advantage of
the ready-made party season,
too.
“It’s a chance to have some
fun,” said Andrade, chairman
and founder of Austin Mardi
Gras Inc., which is partly spon
sored by the Mexican-American
chamber.
“We are not trying to match
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but
the idea is to bring out the va
rious cultures and rich heritage
Now
you know
United Press International
Not all sand dunes are small,
low-lying mounds. In southern
Iran, dunes have been mea
sured at over 700 f eet, even tal
ler than the Washington Monu
ment.
we have here in central Texas,”
Andrade said.
The Austin Mardi Gras celeb
ration will take place dui ing the
three-day period leading up to
Fat Tuesday next week. Much of
the activity will occur on Sixth
Street, a popular attraction for
University of Texas students
and tourists.
The downtown avenue has
undergone extensive renova
tion in the past two years and
now bears a striking resembl
ance to famed Bourbon Street in
New Orleans’ French Quarter.
Although not as historic or as
colorful, Sixth Street does sport
horse-drawn buggy rides down
a roadway flanked with flower
^nd food vendors, shabbily-
dressed street musicians and ev
ery imaginable motif of re
staurant and bar.
Andrade said at least 60 en
tries will be featured in a parade
along the street with riders on
the floats tossing beads, baubles
and aluminum doubloons to
spectators on the evening of
Mardi Gras — just like New
Orleans.
Two masquerade balls also
are planned. One will be held
Saturday night at The Ritz, an
avant garde theater bar on Sixth
Street, and another is scheduled
for next Tuesday at the more
posh Driskill Hotel, where th<
king and queen of Mardi Gra:
will be crowned.
Admission to each affair is $1
per person. This is the major
difference from the more snob
bish New Orleans affairs tha
are open only to invited guest
and members of the “krewes,’
or clubs, that sponsor the diffe
rent Mardi Gras parades.
Another difference involve
liquor. The Austin city council
has outlawed open containers o,
booze on Sixth Street so merry]
makers won’t be able to saunte
outside the bars with their rel
freshments as is the case in th<
French Quarter.
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