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he Battalion IFESTYLES 7 ar i young, to prison foi ■ack cocaine :ts selling J »,” Demeni > resolve (lit| :rybodyup'| lodged he probation, ■n it cotnesi ; the terms esitate to on when firmed, >e judge n vers to bee s County, it he thinkiitt fender's cri onday, August 28,1989 ne-room school keeps operating espite dearth of modern comforts Densen sail] ion when re involved •ict judges ie or twodi irobation ht drug ?fendants SAUL, Ky. (AP) — Nearly hidden the shadows of the rugged moun- ins where three counties converge, Jhildren still attend Lower Leather- food Elementary School — the last One-room public school in Kentucky. ■ The school, a red concrete build- Hig, is perched near a stand of syca- Biores beside Lower Leatherwood Rreek, just downstream from a twinging bridge. I About five years ago, two outdoor (oilets were replaced by indoor res- ooms. The privies now stand de- rted in a far corner of the school ground. Out front, the playground is di- ided by a dirt and gravel road that uns up Mud Lick between the bool and its newly paved basketball ourt. One area resident, George oods, said the court is a far cry from the days when he attended ,ower Leatherwood. “We played basketball on the round,” said Woods, 48. “We used To play Bowlington Elementary, five or six miles away. That’s the only l to decide delivery ? first six ttorneys s|; d convicieiii: defendaaiij te their lodges, f. )istrict AtW, said he H i ofieringpii i with dram ? will re-e.il : form o: rr as a condkl i talk natio; i on drugs j hnny Kleidj inevitable'^ LOS ANGELES (AP) — |el l rev ill returni;®ones calls his first television series, courtrooni/‘The People Next Door,” a “light, jBomantic comedy with a subversive light tootkl (wist.” im happeEj i n the GBS show, Jones plays a ^ftuccessful cartoonist named Walter ellogg who has a new wife, two kids school we played, just Bowlington, six or seven times a year, and most of the time they’d beat us.” No one seems to know how long there has been a school at Lower Leatherwood. But Mannon Couch, 70, can shed some light on its his tory. The retired storekeeper is an alumnus. His wife, Juanita, is a for mer teacher there. Couch said that when he was a boy, he heard old people say there once had been a school on the creek with split-log benches and a dirt floor. At least three other school build ings preceded this one, which serves about 20 students in grades one through eight. “Eight of them (the students) are named Couch, and about that many more are Bargers,” said Glenna Hudson, teacher there since 1973. Hudson, 42, who has a master’s degree in education, said she at tended a one-room school in Clay County. “It takes some getting used to, and you’ve got to stay right with your schedule,” she said. “Sometimes I start with the little grades and go up, and sometimes I’ll start with the big ones and come down. But we’re all doing reading and spelling at the same time.” When Hudson started teaching at the school there were three teachers and 93 pupils. A trailer was brought in for added space. “I guess we’ve got as many fami lies up here as we had years ago, but they’re not raising the children,” Couch said. “When I went to school there, you took your lunch in a 4-pound lard bucket. If there was a big bunch of children from one home, you’d put it in an 8-pound bucket,” she added. Now there’s a cafeteria where breakfast and lunch are prepared by Helen Rice, whose husband, L.C., is the custodian. Both graduated from the school. There’s still no school telephone, but the pot-bellied stove was re placed by electric heaters several years ago. Water is piped from a nearby well. Instead of changing classrooms from one year to the next, pupils change desks. Those in the lower grades sit at little desks against the left wal/. Desks get progressively larger in each of the other rows. Lockers are plastic milk cases, stacked two high and turned side ways against the front wall. An Orange Crush clock and a CSX Rail road (alendar help track the time. The state Department of Educa tion has recommended closing Lower Leatherwood, but its isolation — 13 miles of bad road to Buckhorn School, where the Leatherwood chil dren might go — has saved it thus far. Five students graduated in the spring. Hudson said there may be no one in eighth grade this fall but, on a brighter note, there will be two, maybe three, first graders. ‘The People Next Door’ marks entry into elevision for veteran actor Jeffrey Jones and a powerful imagination. The lat ter figures heavily in the stories be cause everything he imagines springs to life. “I became a cartoonist because things in my imagination suggest cartoons to me,” Jones says. “But it’s not cartoons coming to life. It’s live. “ ceivt Australian musician says there is more to jazz than just blowing your horn despi latioi '.i AP ! -ison inmati ated Cour exar xn eases for* n o Exprtn lay the tta jnsuperviss ity in spilt ill Clemet releases ii t Texas pe at offen® the sptffi board st 1 ughslastft the progtf new resW'i :x offend* irderers s' iffenders irlough. s Compaq elines will' inmates leaves dm months :xar Cp®| 10 years wife, was* ounty ft® 1 year, rejecti ie last mthshef®' (AP) — Australian jazz instrumen talist James Morrison takes music se- w restriction riously — and he has fun with it. He recounts that at his big band’s first concert, in 1983, the band started playing and two ropes sud denly appeared, hanging from above the stage. “My brother, John, came sliding down a rope onto his drum kit,” says Morrison. “I had my trumpet with me. Halfway down I started playing. 1 cued the band by dropping onto the stage. “You want an audience hearing jazz to wonder what will happen next, to have an air of expectation. If that’s What the music is supposed to do, why should the players be like accountants?” Ideas like that one first came, Morrison says, “from watching mov ies with the Duke Ellington Orches tra. All sorts of things were going on. A phrase comes into my mind: Jazz need not be just a sound. It’s an at mosphere.” Morrison, 26, is now a star in Aus tralia and often appears on talk shows. This year, in America, Atlan tic released “Postcards From Down Under” and distributed “Swiss En counter,” a live quartet set with pia nist Adam Makowicz at last year’s Montreuxjazz Festival. Morrison’s band plays a variety of jazz styles. He plays trumpet, trom bone, tuba, euphonium and saxo phone. “This is the kind of guy I —■" am,” he says. “Being ‘Sensible’ would not be being me. Faking a front is the one thing a jazz musician can’t do.” Morrison was born in Boorowa, where his father was a Methodist minister. After his grandfather died, they moved in with his grandmother in Sydney for six months, but stayed. Morrison’s father took a job in tele vision because the nearest church had a minister. Morrison started performing in nightclubs at 13. “At 17,” he says, “I met Don Burrows, Australia’s best- known jazz musician. He asked me to join his quintet. I was introduced to an enormous audience. I toured with him six years, then got my own band.” This summer, Morrison played in Japan and Hong Kong and at Mon- treux again, with Dizzy Gillespie’s All Stars in a tribute to the late Ne- shui Ertegun, who recorded “Swiss Encounter” for his East-West label. Morrison will join an 18-piece band, put together by Philip Morris, for a three-month tour. He’ll play a number of instru ments on his next album, Morrison says. He might do one big band number where he overdubs, playing everything but bass and drums. “It would give people an idea of what I do,” he says. “I don’t like tc make a circus out of the fact I play / number of instruments. The fact re mains I do.” not animated. I have an answering machine and inside is a little man who answers the calls. And hi’s as irascible as answering ma<hines usually are. “When I hug my future A'ife, a lascivious thought pops iito my head. Steve Allen suddenly siows up in the living room playing the pi ano.” It sounds reminiscent of “My World and Welcome To ft,” a com edy based on the work.* of James Thurber that went on to win an Emmy in 1970 after it vas axed by NBC. The cartoonist h that show frequently entered a prvate world of the imagination that wis animated. Unlike “My Word,” however, Jones’ fantasies are slared by every one around him. Hiswife, Abigail, a psychologist played oy Mary Gross, has to cope with it. Tis sister-in-law, played by Christirp Pickles, was not thrilled with her sister marrying Walter even befojfe she knew about his fantasies. Histeen-age son finds it an embarrassment and his 11- year-old daugher is fascinated by the characters inat jump to life and interacts with tie family. The show frequently relies on spe cial effects a»d “blue screen” pho tography. In the shrw, Walter marries Abi gail after a vhirlwind courtship and moves her>o his new home in Cov- entown, Olio. It’s the first series for Jones, al though It was involved in two pilots several ,/years ago. “One wasn’t picked ip by the network,” he says. “On th< other, I didn’t like what they wanted to do with the show and the character and we parted amiably. “Another time Hugh Wilson came up vith an idea for a comedy about the&evolutionary War. He couldn’t qute make it work. It would have b<£n fun to see an entertaining look a our history.” Wilson is the creator of “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “Frank’s Place” and the upcoming “The Famous Teddy Z.” Jones is best known for roles in such movies as “Amadeus,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Beetlejuice” and “Without a Clue.” He recently completed a role in the movie “Hunt for Red October.” He was Thomas Jefferson in the miniseries “George Washington,” Buffalo Bill in “The Gambler III” and had roles in two other miniseries, “Fresno” and “If Tomorrow Gomes.” He has also ap peared in more than 125 stage pro ductions. “I’ve always wanted to do good work, whether it’s for films or for television,” he says. “I hope this is one of those things you try and it turns out good. It’s a growing thing. You start out with an idea, and my experience in plays and movies is that they take on a life of their own. We’ll see what develops. “The title of the show refers to a lot of things. ‘The People Next Door’ is the name of the comic strip my character draws. It also refers to the fact that everyone has his day dreams. People don’t always express them the way Walter does. This is a non-linear comedy. It doesn’t go from one end to another. It’ll start in one direction and suddenly go in an other. I hope it isn’t hard to follow.” Jones was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and attended a boarding school in Vermont, where he first became in terested in acting. He entered Law rence University as a pre-med stu dent but soon switched to drama. He spent his sophomore year at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis in a work-study program. He also stud ied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. After that, he always worked as an actor. “I was determined that if I couldn’t make it as an actor I’d get into something else,” he says. “I didn’t want to support my acting ca reer working as a waiter.” He appeared with Meryl Streep, early in her career, in New York in “Trelawny of the Wells.” His first film work was a small role in an episode of “Kojak” while he was working in regional theater. Besides “Hunt for Red October,” Jones has also completed work on two other upcoming movies, “Val- mont,” which is director Milos For man’s version of “Les Liaisons Dan- gereuses,” and “Enid Is Sleeping,” a black comedy set in the American Southwest. k s tickett 01 10 top, -fines of I' vs to ers ditl"|' rning 1 ®' -ers can 11 [t will o 1 mder 5; lost of I -venue I with tb" day, session legal, 1 ,ingf| ,wasbf ostto» recruit® Correction for J.C. Penney’? The expiration date listed on todays insert is incorrect. 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