Monday, April 4, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
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By Shane Hall
Reviewer
The 150 or more people that
howed up at Eastgate Live Thurs-
ay night to see Joe Ely were treated
ioa 90-minute rock ’n’ roll show that
ivas unrivaled in terms of energy
nd excitement.
The crowd began to grow restless
hen 10:30 p.m. rolled around and
GordJUhe show had not yet started, but
hen Ely and his band took to the
tage at 10:45, what followed made
he long wait seem unimportant.
With a roaring start, Ely and com-
any never let up for a moment as
hey tore into their rock-rockabilly
epertoire. The show featured many
;ongs from Ely’s latest album “Lord
f the Highway,” including “Me and
illy the Kid,” “Everybody Got
ammered” and “Are You Listenin’
ucky.” The album “Lord of the
ighway” was voted best Texas al-
tm at the Austin Music Awards.
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Especially enjoyable were Ely’s
Renditions of Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s
“Dallas” (from Ely’s “Musta Notta
Gotta Lotta” album) and the title
track from “Lord of the Highway”
(written by Austin songwriter-musi
cian Butch Hancock). Ely performed
with Gilmore and Hancock in the
early 1970s in a band called the Flat-
landers.
From occasional excursions into
country music to the flat-out rock ’n’
roll of “Don’t Put a Lock On My
Heart,” the performance was spec
tacular from start to Finish, and spec
tacular musicianship was displayed
throughout the night.
Ely has a formidable trio of musi
cians backing him. Drummer Davis
McLarty, with his loud, driving beat
has to be one of the Finest drummers
today, while bassist Jimmy Pettit is
no less talented. The man who really
shines, however, is lead guitarist Da
vid Grissom. The evening was Filled
with Grissom’s searing power chords
and spellbinding solos. He’s also one
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of the loudest, but undeniably one of
the best.
Meanwhile, Flly is a singer with vo
cals at their gutsy best. He played
rhythm guitar most of the night. His
rhythm work makes for a powerful
guitar duo in combination with Gris
som’s “take-no-prisoners” approach
to lead guitar.
What made Ely’s performance
even more impressive was the fact
that he was having to contend with a
bad cold. Yet one never would have
been able to tell from the show that
took place.
As well as being a fine singer and
musician, Ely has onstage enetgy
that even Bruce Springsteen might
find hard to equal. Often dripping
sweat after each song, Ely gave an in
fectious amount of energy that the
audience responded to with great
enthusiasm. The dance floor was
packed during the Jerry Lee Lewis
sounding “Musta Notta Gotta Lot
ta.”
This was a show clearly meant for
having a good time. And have a
good time everyone did, band and
audience alike. This was the first
time Joe Ely has performed in the
Bryan-College Station in several
years. One can only hope it will not
be too long before the next time.
Gannett revokes
grant of $100,000
from literacy fund
olice may arrest more in gang-rape incident
■ SAN DIEGO (AP) — The abduc
tion and gang-rape of a 19-year-old
'loman by as many as 15 men could
Iring more arrests after Easter, said
authorities who have already ar-
fested 11 men on charges of sexual
Jlssault, kidnapping or both.
I In an ordeal that lasted four
Rours and was witnessed by several
l|)ther people attending an illegal
piockfjyht. a mother of two was kid-
( napped as she walked home from a
lliarty and sexually assaulted.
I “If this is true, it’s just like a durn
pightmare,” said Ruperto Canales,
looking out the window of one of his
two convenience stores in this small
South Texas community on Texas
:4.
“When something like this hap-
ens, you try to see the positive side
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of it,” he said. “But I cannot see any
thing positive coming out of this.”
One week ago Saturday, the vic
tim and her husband attended a
party at a relative’s house near their
home.
While the husband “stayed and
partied,” his wife left, walking to
ward their home about 11 p.m.
Then, four men in a car pulled up
beside the woman. Two grabbed her
and forced her into the car, and she
was taken to a ranch about one mile
north of San Diego where 20 to 30
men were watching an illegal cock-
fight.
Authorities said three of the four
men in the car then raped the
woman and went into a shed where
the cockfights were progressing, en
couraging other men to make a trip
to the car.
Witnesses said the woman broke
away once, but she was caught and
held on the hood of another car,
where the sexual assaults continued
as a group of men watched.
Then a different group of four
men took her to another car, where
a 12-year-old boy was asleep, drove
to another ranch on the outskirts of
town and continued the assaults.
returned the
near her home
where her husband
The assailants
woman to a spot
about 3 a.m
waited.
The victim is now in hiding in
Corpus Christi, authorities said. She
did not want to report the rapes un
til her husband convinced her to do
Four or five defendants have
given statements to investigators. As
sistant 229th District Attorney Ro
dolfo Gutierrez said.
Authorities said more arrests may
follow.
“I anticipate the typical defense
that the victim was willing and con
sented,” Gutierrez said. “But we
have a stronger case because other
witnesses have corroborated her
story, that she was kicking and
screaming.”
He said some witnesses tried to
discourage the men from assaulting
the woman.
“They told them to leave her
alone, she’d had enough,” he said.
“But, obviously, they weren’t very
successful and they didn’t push it.
Nobody physically tried to stop it.”
AUSTIN (AP) — One of the larg
est non-government funding organi
zations for adult literacy programs
revoked a $100,000 grant from the
state of Texas because the money
was never used, officials said.
“The grant was rescinded for lack
of action,” Christy Bulkeley, vice
president of the Gannett Founda
tion, said.
Texas and 12 other states and
communities were chosen out of 77
applicants to receive grants in Feb
ruary 1987. Texas was awarded the
maximum grant of $100,000 to
coordinate literacy programs
throughout the state.
Twelve months later, Gannett re
scinded the grant and turned down
the state’s request for a second grant
of $50,000.
During that year, administration
of the grant passed from the Univer
sity of Texas to the Texas Depart
ment of Community Affairs and fi
nally to the new Texas Department
of Commerce.
The grant was handed from
agency to agency because the “liter
acy program has been following the
state job training council,” program
supervisor for state literacy pro
grams, Martha Alworth, said.
“It was a real shame to lose it,’’Al
worth said. “I’d hate for it to be per
ceived as us having dropped the ball.
We felt that we were doing every
thing we could as fast as we could.”
The transition between the ad
ministrations of former Gov. Mark
White and Gov. Bill Clements, cou
pled with the creation of a literacy
council, slowed implementation of
the grant program, the Austin
American-Statesman reported Sun
day.
When the state applied for the
grant, a task force appointed by
White was overseeing the literacy ef
fort.
Last June, the Legislature created
(he 17-member Texas Literacy
Council to coordinate state efforts to
help 400,000 Texans learn to read
and write.
Members of that council were ap
pointed by Clements, Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby and House Speaker Gib Le
wis between July and January.
“The formation of the council
took some time,” Gen. Herb Ema
nuel, the council’s chairman, said. “I
attribute that to the transition, with
the new governor coming on board.”
Scott Stephens, spokesman for the
Commerce Department, said, “The
council began to immediately work
on a long-range plan.”
But he said the action was too slow
for Gannett, which had seen 12
other grant programs get off the
ground by June.
“When you look at what other
states are doing, we couldn’t justify
continuation of the grant,” Gannett
Foundation vice president for com
munications, Tracy Quinn, said.
Another grant has allowed the
Literacy Council to obtain a com
puter into which information will be
entered, detailing literacy programs
in operation throughout the state.
Within several weeks, a toll-free
telephone number will be estab
lished for information on literacy ef
forts around the state, Emanuel said.
Correction
A version of an “In Advance”
Battalion article Friday gave an
incorrect location for an MSG
Great Issues program.
“Man’s Inhumanity to Man:
The Issue of Human Rights,” fea
turing Steve Herrick of Amnesty
International, will be held Tues
day at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
In addition, the free program
is sponsored entirely by MSG
Great Issues and not by Amnesty
International, as the article
stated.
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