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(led adjusunentiil i lakes to get paid r Led Mates, sohkm si bills are based 1 ® ," Levy said. ! I 20-day period.” ccimpany choose| •w said, dedicaw and its operatiwi'l ik bamiing plcik azing. need to attack tin ie said. >m pared the ne«t ig the drinking effective. organizations tat hazing is and I odman said, tore. lion and planor bring about cha* ght,” he said. “II ing the issue.” x peels an increaH ml doesn't thinl policy will advef rnity. t think abolisk' take the fun oui Monday, February 13,1989 The Battalion Page 9 Scrambled Eggs If WA£> TH6 <?fH£T? fOOT. Musician’s death marks end of an era for neighborhood DALLAS (AP) — The death last month of blues pianist Alex Moore closed a chapter in the history of Deep Ellum, now a neighborhood of trendy cafes, galleries and night spots. Moore was one of the few people left from the Deep Ellum of the 1920s and 1930s. The neighbor hood, just east of downtown, then was a gathering place for the black, Anglo and Hispanic cultures. Best known as a home to blues music, Deep Ellum also had several theaters, bootleg joints, stores and recording studios. In the mid-1930s, a country group called the Lone Star Cowboys recorded “Deep Ellum Blues,” which was later made popular by Harry James in a recording with Ben Pol lack’s band. “They had more music there than they ever will in Nashville, Tennes see,” Bill Neely of Austin said. The 72-year-old musician says he used hitchhike to Deep Ellum from McK inney during the 1930s. Louisiana folk musician Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter fell in love with the 12-string guitar after he saw' Hispanic musicians playing it in Deep Ellum, said Alan Govenar, a Dallas folklorist. The recording activity drew musi cians from a broad area. Scouts set up recording studios in Deep Ellum hotel rooms. Black musicians’ work was released on “race” labels. Theaters in Deep Ellum provided a place for blacks to see films as well as touring theatrical shows. Part of the old Deep Ellum was destroyed when Central Expressway was built in the 1950s. The neigh borhood evolved a few blocks eastward. Deep Ellum is still the heart of the Dallas music scene and was visited last week by 18 West Coast recording executives. The Deep Ellum-borne band enjoying the greatest success currently is the New Bohemians, whose Top 20 album recently topped the million mark in sales. Paper: Astronauts given medical waivers HOUSTON (AP) — The astronaut who com manded the first post-Challenger mission last year was not medically qualified to fly, and an other astronaut who is colorblind has received a waiver so he can go into space, the Houston Chronicle reported Sunday. In a copyright story, the Chronicle reported that sources said the Johnson Space Center medi cal qualification board recommended last year that Discovery commander Frederick H. Hauck be disqualified because of kidney stone problems, but was overruled. They also said Daniel C. Brandenstein, chief of the astronaut corps, failed an eye test in 1987 but received a waiver to fly. In both cases, sources said Rear Adm. Richard H. Truly, NASA’s associate administrator for flight operations at Washington headquarters, in terceded. The sources, who asked for anonymity, are ac tive members in Flight Crew Operations, which includes the astronaut office, and in the Space and Life Sciences Directorate, which includes the flight medicine clinic and medical operations branch at JSC, the newspaper said. Truly declined to comment on individual medical cases Friday but said: “I try to do two things. I try to make sure from the management view that the (medical) process works, that indi vidual health problems are treated fairly by the (medical qualification) board and management, and secondly to protect the rights of the individ ual involved, and the major objective is to get healthy astronauts to the launch pad for the mis sion.” Truly’s spokesman Sarah Keegan told the As sociated Press on Sunday she also could not com ment on specific medical cases. During October interviews and again last week, Hauck and Brandenstein would not dis cuss their medical records, the Chronicle said. Sources told the Chronicle that the Space Medicine Board grounded Hauck early in 1988 because of a kidney stone problem, but the rec ommendation was later overruled, and subse quently reversed. And Brandenstein failed the Farnsworth Lan tern color perception test in 1987, sources said, but received the only waiver ever issued to an as tronaut for color blindness. Some of the most important of about 2,000 cir cuit breakers and switches on the shuttle orbiter are color-coded, including some of those used in the launch and re-entry, a source said. Brandenstein is scheduled to command the Columbia space shuttle in November. He has flown on two previous shuttle flights, in 1983 and in 1985. Hauck flew on shuttle flights in 1983 and 1984, as well as commanding the Discovery flight last September. 90-year-old shipbuilder says his carpentry days aren V over Group blasts FBI director, death penalty SAN ANTONIO (AP) —Lead ers of Amnesty International blasted FBI Director William Ses sions for his support of the death penalty for drug kingpins. “We’ve announced to the world that we’re going to start killing our own citizens in num bers,’’said Jack Healey, the orga nization’s executive director said Saturday. “We’re not only going to do that, but we’re now going to add the dealers in drugs.” About 60 members of the in ternational human rights group were in San Antonio for a plan ning meeting during the week end. The meeting was held in San Antonio because of Texas’ use of capital punishment, Steve Her rick, an Amnesty Internation di rector, said. In his inaugural speech, Presi dent George Bush said the death penalty should be punishment for convicted drug kingpins. Ses sions echoed Bush’s statement during a speech in Houston last week. JONES CREEK (AP) — Master ship carpenter Jacob “Papa Jake” Schultz is one of the last of a special breed of craftsmen left in shipyard circles. And when he turned 90 last Wednesday, he said his carpentry days are not through, if things go his way. Papa Jake, as he is known at ship yards up and down the Gulf Coast, seems as sturdy as a 23-foot-long ship stem he once made from a tree he had cut down. He may not cut down timber any more, but the tall, husky white- haired man never retired as a ship carpenter, his vocation since age 23. He is just itching to get back to the Quintana shipyard he has worked at since 1961. “I am a fellow who never did know how to sit on his thumbs and do nothing,” he said. “I have to have something to do.” His wife of 66 years, Minnie Mae, better known as “Granny Sweet,” agreed. Schultz damaged some vertebrae in his back in October after falling on a bed of gravel while repairing panels high up the side of a boat. “One of the gravel rocks was big ger than my backbone, I reckon,” he said. “It was the 10th of October that I got hurt and I’m still down. If I can, I’m going back to work soon.” The injury may have slowed Schultz a bit (though he uses no cane or other aid for walking) but it’s done nothing to dampen his spirit, and he offers a slew of boat stories. He is opinionated about his craft, which may someday be forgotten be cause few boats are now constructed of wood and there are even fewer se rious apprentices to keep the art al ive. “Young people are too lazy to do it in one sense,” he said, emphasizing with his large hands, the left one missing a pinkie and parts of two other fingers, the result of a 1956 ac cident with a cutting wedge. “And 15, 20 years ago they started making boats out of steel and aluminum. “There ain’t no fellows who can cut a piece of wood and fit it like that,” he said. Schultz’s eyes gleam when he rem inisces about boats he built during the last 70 years. He remembers styles and measurements as if the original blueprints were right in front of him. He also remembers the contract arrangements. “He said, ‘How much would you charge by the hour to do that?”’ Schultz said of one particular con tract he negotiated with a Fishing op erator. “I told him I would work on that for 80 cents an hour. He said, ‘What about help?’ I said, ‘Yea, I know of some fellows I can get.’ “I could take a good house car penter, if he would listen to me, and make a good boat man out of him,” Schultz explained. “I came to Freeport in May 1937 and it (the boat) took 11 months to complete. The inside was 65 feet long, it was 18 feet wide and 8 feet deep,” he said. Schultz was particularly dedicated during war time. “In 1942, I worked in Rockport for the Navy on submarine chasers, the PT boats,” he said. Schultz’s work was featured at the Festival in American Folklife exhibi tion in Washington, D.C. in 1976. CAMPUS ISSUES FOR THE 90'S • RAPE AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT •PERSONAL SAFETY •ALCOHOL AWARENESS Monday, February 13 at 7 p.m. in the Commons Lobby GUADALAJARA SUMMER SCHOOL University of Arizona offers more than 40 courses: anthropol ogy, art, bilingual edu cation, folk music and folk dance, history, phonetics, political sci ence, Spanish langu age and literature and intensive Spanish. Six- week session. July 3- August 11, 1989. Fully accredited program. M.A. degree in Span ish offered. Tuition $51 0. Room and board in Mexican home $540. EE0/AA Write Guadalajara Summer School Education Bldg., Room 225 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 (602) 621-4729 or 621-4720 7XA/U Health Club Special Bring in your health Club ID $000 Single Sessions O 846-1571 between Loupot’s & Kinkos Attention Aggie Women The original “STUN GUN” A non-lethal weapon carried for security as self protection. Can also be used by joggers/walkers to fend off'an imals. Does not injur or ren der unconscious, only inca- pacitaks to allow escape time. Call Gayle 776-4013 only local authorized sales rep. 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Free strep test. 2 hours in the 550 $50 office-4 hours at home. $50. for those who qualify. 550 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 §50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY $300 Individuals with high blood pressure medication $300 $300 cla '^ P art ' c 'P ate ' n a P |ooci pressure study. ^00 $300 $3° 0 - incentive for those chosen to participate. 5300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 PAIN STUDY Do you take at least one over-the-counter pain reliever per month for any reason? If so, you may be eligible to participate in an at-home analgesic study. Monetary incentive for those cho sen to participate. CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400