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Host said he did not bid on the Aggie network because it was his opinion that he could not bid “on something we (Host Communica tions) already owned.” Host also said he could not under stand why he would be allowed to bid on an A&M radio contract if A&M felt he was giving preferential treatment to UT. Host would not comment about the possibility of any litigation over the dispute. Jacoby said the SWC’s position is that A&M is in breach of contract. versity participated in this program, had the radio exposure and the rev enue generated therefrom, they are a part of the contract.” The actions by A&M could result in either legal action by the confer ence or conference sanctions, he said. The conference will meet within the next two weeks to determine what action, if any, to take, Jacoby said. Keith said A&M is “in the clear.” A&M is not bound by the agreement because A&M did not sign an exten sion to the SWC contract covering the conference radio network, he said. Arkansas and UT are the only other schools that did not sign the extension. Learfield Communications dis tributes the 120-station St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Network and the Kansas City Chiefs Network. Lear field handles radio broadcasts for the University of Iowa, and holds the radio rights to four schools in the Big Eight conference — Missouri, Kansas, Iowa State and Oklahoma State. Learfield serves 500 affiliated ra dio stations across the country in the areas of agriculture, news and sports. Bankruptcy case for Hunts costing millions of dollars DALLAS (AP) — Sorting out the millionaire Hunt brothers’ bank ruptcy court cases is requiring hun dreds of attorneys and millions of dollars a month in legal fees for the numerous parties involved, the Dal las Times Herald reported Sunday. The legal costs for the muitimil- lion-dollar bankruptcy cases for Dal las-based Placid Oil Co. and the es tates of William Herbert Hunt, Nelson Bunker Hunt and Lamar Hunt are estimated to be close to $6 million a month, the newspaper said. volve more than 20 banks, three fed eral agencies — the Justice Depart ment, Internal Revenue Service and Securities and Exchange Commis sion, and hundreds of creditors, each employing an army of attor neys to ensure their interests are protected. “This is an enormous case requir ing an enormous amount of hours to keep up with it,” Grover Hartt, the deputy attorney in charge of the U.S. Justice Department’s tax divi sion office in Dallas, said. “It is cer tainly one of the biggest cases our of fice has ever handled.” The two bankruptcy cases now in- A master list of parties involved in the Placid case includes names of more than 150 different legal firms, Thomas Armstrong, an attorney with Simon, Anisman, Doby, Wilson & Skillern, said. Armstrong, as administrator of the case, sends copies of any devel opments in the case to everyone on the list. “This has been a seven-day-a- week case since it started. Just keep ing up is the hard part — we (send) notices to the world every time we do something,” Armstrong said. Woman recollects^ trip that brought orphans to Texas GALVESTON (AP) — More than 150,000 orphaned, aban doned and homeless children were taken out of institutions in New York City and transported by trains to rural America be tween 1854 and 1929. Sarah Laake of Galveston was one of those children. “There were 100 of us on die train that brought us to Texas,” Laake said. She now lives in Gal veston with her husband. “I still have my T-shirt and what’s left of my number,” she said, as she carefully unwrapped a baby T-shirt turned yellow with age and the crumbled remains of a large black No. 14 which had been pinned to that shirt. “I was No. 14, and the boy, Jo seph R. Vargas, was No. 13,” she explained, pointing to a photo of a beautiful dark-haired girl and a taller blond boy. She and Joseph were both adopted by John and Anna Zanek of Industry, Texas. “Mother wanted a girl and Daddy wanted a boy,” Laake said. “Daddy had a garage and a black smith shop. Mother was a seams tress. She was always sewing.” This particular adoption, prob ably handled by the United States Catholic Charities, unlike many orphan train adoptions, was pre arranged. When the children ar rived at Industry they were met by Mr. and Mrs. Zanek, who had the matching numbers. “I must have been tired from being all cramped up on the train,” she said. “Because my mother told me later how awful she felt for having to spank me for running away from her there at the train station.” Born to a Jewish mother, Sarah Golstein Eckler’s birthdate, according to records from the Foundling Hospital in New York, was estimated to be July 10, 1907. She was born at the 17th Street Hospital in New York. She was 2'/2 years old when she arrived at Industry in 1910. Later, she tried getting a copy of her birth certificate but never succeeded. The Zaneks were Catholics, but even if they were not Catholic, part of the adoption agreement was to raise the children as Catho lic. “I was my new a Jewish-Catholicas brother Joseph, oil month younger than 1 andata taller, was Hungarian,” Laakeg plained. She said that for at least ajs af ter the adoption a priest Iks the Catholic Charities, w the Foundling Hospital in \i York, visited regularly to seek the children were gettingom their new parents. “Of course we didn't kirn the time why he came,’’ U said. “We just thought he vs nice priest. “1 always tell people whoaife children to tell tnem fromths ginning, even if they don’t unc:j stand a word of it,” Laake said must have been about 7 yean when one of the girls at seb told me that my brother an: were adopted. By then { mother had two morechildre: her own. I got my brotherand ran home.” U The Zaneks lived aboutatiJ ter of a mile down the roadlroa >k us into the pat >wn and told isaf the school. “Mother to< and sat us dt about it,” she shock to us, how they had we were spe never really questioned who 1 said. "It wasar-11 hut she explanJl i hosni us anditf|| i ial. Alter tkffl or anything about my past. “Every time Mother did staffij thing or made clothes forfi other children she did thestnBi for us and we knew we loved.” After Sarah grew up she vara to nurse’s training school in Bn® ham and Houston, and laml worked in the post office dun® the war. She and her husbi® were married in Brenham moved to Galveston in 1931. Intake recalls attending sevtr reunions in Rosenberg of the! phan train riders about 20) ago. An ef fort is being made tor count for and document infom lion on the many homeless t dren that came to Texas, priotl the time when federal child i fare reform laws were enacted: 1929 and the Orphan Tr< stopped running. ZZ Top will give guitar honoring performer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The rock ’n’ roll group ZZ Top will do nate a custom guitar to a proposed expanded museum in Mississippi to honor the late blues performer Muddy Waters. ZZ Top also will spearhead a drive to raise $1 million to fund a perma nent Muddy Waters exhibit that would be displayed at an expanded Delta Blues Museum at the Carnegie Public Library in Clarksdale, Miss. Billy Gibbons, one of the three members of ZZ Top, has commis sioned Pyramid Guitars of Memphis, Tenn., to create what he calls a “Muddy-Wood” instrument. This is a solid-body electric guitar to be fashioned out of a piece of solid cy press salvaged from the cabin where Waters was raised. Waters, who died in 1983, is known as “the father of the electric blues.” ZZ Top members have said he was their inspiration when they got started as a group in the 1960s. Waters occasionally performed on tour with them as their guest artist. porate a stylized squiggle represent ing the Mississippi River running the length of the body through the neck to conjure an image of the entire river and its mystical power. The special guitar will be pre sented during daylong ceremonies in Clarksdale tentatively planned for April 21. “We thought this was preferable to painting the guitar blue for ‘the blues.’ That kind of overstatement might have proven corny. I think the subtlety of what we’re now working on will be very effective.” Plans also call for it to inch ther a replica of a section ofabi tonk road house, complete via elevated stage, or a down-i front porch where livebluesp mances will originate. Work on the exhibit should:; by April 30, the fifth anniveiv 3 Waters’ death, Sid Graves, i of the museum, said. “The design of the guitar took some thought,” Gibbons said. “After working with a few shapes, we came up with a design which reflects the modern contours of the Fender (gui tar) which Muddy himself played. The fund-raising drive will be the first for the Delta Blues Museum. “The color and finish will incor- The projected exhibit will include memorabilia from Waters’ life and times, plus timbers from his child hood home which was damaged by a tornado last year. ZZ Top is known for album: as “Rio Grande Mud” and Hombres” and single hits indt 3 “Tush” and “Gimme All Youi vin.” Waters, a native of Rolling! Miss., introduced electric in merits to the blues. Don’t Go To Summer School Without Us! 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