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TAMU Sports Car Club presents The First of Fall Rally October 5, 2:00p.m. Zachry Parking Lot Drivers should bring a navigator, pen & paper Fee is $5 for members $8 for non-members Agriculture on Film Monday, October 7: THE AGRICULTURE AND LIBERAL ARTS PROJECT presents Earth Earth, a 1930 film by Alexander Dovzhenko commentary by: Larry Hickman, Associate Professor of Philosophy Chester Dunning, Assistant Professor of History 7:00 PM, Room 100 HECC FREE Tuesday, October 8: AGGIE CINEMA AND THE AGRICULTURE AND LIBERAL ARTS PROJECT present The Grapes of Wrath John Ford's 1940 Academy Award winning film based on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda 301 Rudder Tower, 7:30 PM $1.50 4r V CCI inema/ The Wait is Over! Delta Chi has arrived To find out how you can get involved in the beginning of a great tradition at A&M contact or national representative today: David Surker & Robb Chapin 696-4242 Ramada Inn Rm #137 Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, October 4, 1985 Waldo by Kevin Thoi '"CP PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM/ Bees to perform in CS band promoting new albu By RENEE OHMSIEDER Reporter For tiie reggae tans who relied on Dr. G's to provide their live music entertainment and were disap pointed when the club closed its doors in early |uly, there is some good news. The Killer Bees, a progressive reggae band, will be back in College Station this weekend to promote its first album. The band will appear Sunday at Hasting’s Books & Records to re lease “Scratch the Surface,” a collec tion of 12 original songs. The album was due out a year ago, but because of technical diffi culties, the release was delayed. Willie Bennett, a live music hooker, says, ‘Tve been listening to reggae music long before it was f ash ionable.” Bennett, who booked the per formers at Dr. G's, says he would try to bring the Killer Bees to the club every four to six weeks. "I had a running of fer with their manager,” he says. Whenever they were in the area I would get them. “They’re playing at Hasting’s in observance of their long awaited re cord release." The reggae band has appeared with well-known artists such as L'B4(), Steel Pulse and Eddie Grant. With the growing popularity of reggae music, the Killer Bees have been well received in the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest, perform ing in major cities and college towns. This will be their first appearance in the Bryan-College Station since fulv, when they opened for Burning Spear at the La Fiesta Ballroom. Before coming to College Station Sunday, the Killer Bees will intro duce their album in Austin. They are opening today for the Gladia tors, a Jamaican reggae band. On Thursday, they appeared before Steel Pulse. Greg Roach, a former bartender and doorman at Dr. G's. describes the Killer Bees music as good reg- gae. “They would always fill Dr. G’s with avid reggae Ians," Roac h says. “It w as also a nice changektj who would not normallygoil that t\ pe ol music.” Members of the Aim band are Malcolm Welboumj tar). Michael E. Johnson In sion), Stanton Hoffman(b)| and Chuck Norcom (dninul hands' agent-manager is id Me vers. Killer Bee fans who missSJ pei loi inance will haveanod poiumiiv Nov. 7, when tel toi m at NIC*. Hunts selling silver hoafd Associated Press DALLAS — In the wake ol one of the costliest business gaffes ever, the Texas Hunt family has sold off about 90 percent of its famed silver hoard, a family spokesman said Thursday. The Hunts’ audacious plan to corner the silver market, a bid that collapsed along w ith the met al's prices in 1980, is ending as the sale helps “pav off debts and fund on-going enterprises," Hunt spokesman Tom Whitaker said. Over the last several months, the Hunts quietly but steadily have sold chunks of the 59 mil lion ounces of silver they a ecu mu i kited in the late 1970s, Whitaker said. The sale "was in an orderly fashion through regular market channels,” he said. "There is no imperative need or immediate plans to dispose of theresud silver, and it will bedealtwE m a normal business manner ■ 1 he Hunts lost aboutlllia spc-c uluting on silver futuresd tracts in 19 SO. and the Wall id |<>ui nal estimates the latetid represent a loss of about Id lion, largely interest cosal loans used to finance thecadd Whitaker declined to m price on the losses. And bed not estimate either of the Hd total worth — since “thatdid monthlv" — nor their total fc| But the Journal said thad 1980. the combined wealthd tinee brothers — NelsonBunl Hunt, W. Herbert Huntaadi mar Hunt — has plumnieiKi an estimated S2 billion from:! near $b billion thev claim!I 1980. ; Freshmen & Sophomores! LAST CHANCE The schedule for Freshmen and Sophomore photoslm the 1986 Aggieland has been extended to October 1-11 Photos will be taken at Yearbook Associate’s stui located above Campus Photo Center at Northgate. Office hours are 8:30-12 and 1-4:30.