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■i—umi—i a-jSliJysfiisA: Reach 60,000 readers per day The Battalion It's free and it's distributed on and off campus 845-2697 leclion* 701 University Dr. E. Suite 402 Shampoo <£. Cut 10 ,„00 Blow-dry with coupon and A&M I.D. Open Mon.-Sat 8 a.in.-9 p.m. Mastercard Visa Expires Oct. 31, 1988 Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, August 30. 1988 Family ‘clowns around’ for fun WICHITA FALLS (AP) — Sweet Pea backed away barking when she first saw Pickles wearing white face paint, a green wig and red suit. That’s because Sweet Pea, an En glish bulldog and family pet, didn't recognize Pickles as her master, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Glenn Roberts. But the dog soon got used to the outlandish disguise when she saw 6- year-old Joshua Roberts decked out in similar fashion. Glenn and his son, Josh, are two of the newest members of the Wi chita Falls Clown Arounds, a city clown club. Waiting in the wings to join in is 3- year-old Amber Roberts. BUY YOUR BOOKS NOW & SAVE ffiLOUPOT'SHi WE GUARANTEE the Right BOOKS Northgate Redmond Terrace Jersey Street Glenn’s wife, Jeannie Roberts, de scribes her role as a behind-the- scenes coordinator, making the cos tumes and helping with makeup. She even found a ready-made white and green clown collar that Sweet Pea wears around her midsection. Glenn, a 31-year-old instructor at Sheppard Air Force Base, said he al ways has been fascinated with clowns and circuses. When Glenn and Jeannie read about a clown clinic being offered by the Clown Arounds, they decided that Glenn and Josh should check it out. They wound up joining the club that is sponsored by the Wichita Falls Parks and Recreation Department. “1 was getting into youth sports and being around kids,” Glenn said. “I’m a soccer coach at Sheppard and Josh is a member of the team I coach. “It was something that I could do with Josh and Amber. They like to see the clowns,” he said. “I think,” Jeannie said, “He’s a clown at heart.” Glenn is a native of McMinnville, Tenn. His wife, a 29-year-old el ementary school teacher in the Wi chita Falls Independent School Dis trict, is a native of Louisville, Kent. They have had two Air Force assign ments in Wichita Falls, the last one spanning thus far two and a hall years. Jeannie said Josh picked Winky for a clown name. “When he gets his clown face on, he winks one eye and then the other,” his mother said. Josh said he liked being a clown, putting on makeup and pretending to be someone else. Amber chose the name Buttons, said her mother, who just finished making costumes for both of the children. Glenn’s costume is an elaborate taffeta suit with a ruffle around the neck and sleeves, red shirt top and striped pants. Glenn and Amber wear the white faces of “the happy downs you see at the circus,” Glenn said. Josh wears hobo makeup. “Being a clown adds spice to your life,” the Air Force sergeant said. “The Clown Arounds performed at the Special Olympics on the base last spring,” Glenn said. “The kids all wanted to have their pictures made with us, and they enjoyed the hugs the clowns gave them. We worked in shifts and had two people there most of the time during the day. It was a rewarding experience.” They gave another performance to promote the Farmers Market, lie said. “We talked with kids and we handed out helium balloons,” Glenn “PrnMbly what the kids enjoy the most about clowns are thecol the costumes and the makeup.” But another group, the senion zens, equally enjoys theexaggeu high jinks of clowning. “We went to Texoma Chris Care Center a month or so a. Glenn said. “We just went arm and introduced ourselves to al different people, made some cracks and tried to cheer upij day, saying whatever came tom They thought my green hainvai larious.” The seniors were always trvin, figure out whether the clownsn f boy or a girl. They’d ask i[ clowns were men or women. “That’s what the older l w anted to know, especially thei residents,” Glenn said. Thevdi want to hug a guy.” 80-year-old keeps serving the public (across from Post Offlcs) (next to Academy) Composer’s music blows with the wind MCADOO (AP) — The best music Rick Sudduth ever composed blew •right out the top of his tractor before the long day in the cotton field ended. Once out of his head, the tunes are gone forever, elusive gifts that fill the workday but disappear be fore he finds time to spend with mu- . sic. At the end of the day, he remem bers only that he had a great tune going — and it went. But there have been enough tunes born, attended by a guitar and tape recorder, to keep feet stomping, hands clapping and hearts humming at “God’s Country,” the historical prairie drama unfolding each Au gust in Blanco Canyon north of Crosby ton. Whatever the volunteer produc tion needs in the way of music and lyrics to spark up each annual show, Sudduth, who has been making mu sic happen for area events since boy hood, has managed to come up with just the right rhythm to fill the spot. Composing takes a few extra turns for Sudduth who doesn’t read music. Once he has a tune the way he wants it, he takes the tape to Zama Norris, head of the music depart ment for Ralls public shcools, who turns his audio version into a musi cal score. Music he learned by ear was var ied — catching Bob Wills on the ra dio out of Tulsa and Hoyle Nix from Lamesa, listening to the Stamps Quartet and the Chuckwagon Gang. An older brother had a record player with records ranging from Strauss waltzes and Tchaikovsky to Spike Jones. His mother’s piano was the only instrument available until Sudduth and one of three brothers saved enough for a mail order guitar. Their father, who had played some guitar, taught them a few licks. Swapping out on the guitar was eas ier after the storekeeper at the Broadway country store let him buy a mandolin from a wholesale cata- log. Playing for school events and par ties — for fun not money — fed the thrill of making music, spread the word around the area and added to his reputation and desire for more music. The band grew as neighbor boys got instruments and shrunk when members went to school. One mem ber lost early was Sudduth’s young est brother, Jim, who “showed a lot of talent early and Mama gave him music lessons.” When Jim, who today is director of bands for Texas Tech University, learned to read music, he quit play ing with the family group. The year Sudduth was 17, a fiddler with fingers too stiff to play anymore gave him a fiddle. Over the next few years, his dream of really getting into music built with the fid dle and guitar. Then, in a split-sec ond of carelessness at a cotton gin, he lost the two middle fingers of his left hand. New instruments, like the steel guitar the family got for him because it didn’t need those fingers, couldn’t fill the void left by the fiddle. AUSTIN (AP) — Monday, as usual, Zollie Steakley slid behind the wheel of his Mercedes 190 and drove to the state attorney general’s office, where he reviews complex le gal opinions. But Monday was also a bit special for the former secretary of state and Texas Supreme Court justice — it was his 80th birthday. Steakley’s name has never been familiar in Texas despite his long ca reer in public service, and he jokes about a former political opponent saying, “I don’t think anybody will vote for a guy named ‘Zol-ly Steek- ley.” Others would greet him in his statewide campaigns for the Su preme Court by asking, “Judge, what do you do?” Yet this is a man who deals with the intricacies of the law long after his Texas contemporaries have re tired, or died. This is a man former President Lyndon Johnson once described as “Advocate and orator without peer." Zollie was named for his father, who was named for a former Ten- n^sse congressman and Civil War general, Felix Zollicoffer. The name Zollicoffer became Zollie Coffer Steakley. Steakley got a bachelor’s degree from Hardin Simmons University, where he led the baseball team in home runs as a S-foot-h'/a-inch, 120- pound second baseman and turned down a professional baseball offer. After graduating from the Uni versity of Texas law school, Steakley practiced law in Sweetwater, worked as an assistant to Attorneys General Gerald Mann and Grover Sellers, served in the U.S. Naval Reserve in World War II and returned to Aus tin to practice law. After Price Daniel was elected governor in 1956, he asked Steakley to be his secretary of state. “I spent an hour on the telephone telling him why I couldn’t do it, and who could,” Steakley recalls, “and 11- nalh he said, ‘Will vou promise one thing, will you pray about and hung up the telephone." Steakley, a lifetime Baptisu had Daniel in liis Bible class,sem as secretary of state for four ra even though his state salary was ii of what he was making as a pm attorney. Daniel, who died Thursdavat 77, thought so much of Steal! classes — held for years at the dot to mi Pat amount Theatre—that: would often break up a confen at the governor’s mansion,load participants into his station va; and drive them to hearSteaklei " Steakley has been teaching class, now held at the First Ba Ghurch, for 40 years. The class is broadcast on al radio station. In 1960, Daniel namedSteakb the state Supreme Court, when served for 20 years. Steakley retired from theca rather than run for another it which would have been intemip by his reaching the mandaton tirement age of 75. "1 didn’t feel thatitwou right to ask the people to helpful campaign and vote for another year term when I can’t serve bud of it," he told a reporter. Almost immediately, how then-Attorney General Mark! asked Steakley to serve as asp« assistant, reviewing legal opinions sued by the attorney general’soli When White was elected govern Steakley became counsel to thegi ernor. After White lost his re-i bid, Attorney General Jim hired Steakley to again review of ions. “As long as I feel like I’m work, I’d like to have something do,” Steakley said. “I just lived by day.” He said his health is added, “My father smoked rigi and they finally killed himat94. Fall Rush '88 MS-AX-*- Luau (Sig Ep Style) 8 p.m. Sept. Alumni Barbeque 4 p.m. Sept. Sorority Picnic 4 p.m. Sept. "SUAD"- Shut Up and Dance!! 8 p.m. Sept. Outrageous Lake Party (Somerville) 1 2:30 p.m. Sept. 1 "Six-Pack" Bowling 7 p.m. Sept. 1 A&M's Oldest & Finest! 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