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We’re Having A Semi-Formal!!!
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8:00 - Midnight
The Hilton
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You can also buy them at the door for
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There will be a DJ, hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and dancing till midnight!!
Presented by Off Campus Aggies
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Texas’ Germans rely on TV,
phones for news from Berlin
WALBURG (AP) — In this Central T exas hamlet,
where the German accents are as thick as the foam on
the beer, residents are closely following the dramatic
events in their native land.
“I’ve probably got a $500 phone bill because of all the
calls to Germany,” Herbert Schwab, who emigrated
from West Germany in 1985, becoming chef and co
owner of the Walburg Restaurant, said.
•East Germans call for end to Communism
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•Soviets ease travel restrictions to West/Page8
A few nights ago, Schwab, who has relatives on
both sides of the now-tumbling Berlin Wall, said he
spoke to a friend in Munich:
“He said there are 100,000 East Germans in Munich,
and there is a big party going on 24 hours a day,”
Schwab, 30, recounted. “He said they are drinking beer
and schnapps in the street, and the police are on duty
around the dock.”
Residents of Walburg and dozens of other Texas
communities established by German immigrants have
relied on television as well as telephones to keep up with
the changes sweeping Eastern Europe.
“We are very interested,” Ethel Mickan of Walburg
said. “We’ve been watching TV all weekend to see
what’s going on.”
Mickan is a direct descendent of Henry Doering, who
founded Walburg in the 1870s, naming it after a village
in his native Germany.
Schwab is part of the more recent stream of German
immigrants to Texas.
He came in 1985 to visit American relatives, then re
turned the same year to investigate job offers he re
ceived during the three-month vacation. A butcher in
New Braunfels told him about Walburg.
Schwab and Ron Tippelt, a Municri native, co-own
the restaurant. It is housed in the century-old Walburg
Mercantile building, which Doering himself established
in 1882.
But Schwab is more concerned about the histoni
folding in his homeland.
Schwab retnentbers East Germany as a grim, anti
place whose inhabitants were starved not only iorlm
stuffs hut also for contact with the outside world, i?
In April 1978, when Schwab was 19, an uncle in
Berlin arranged for him to visit the city for two km
To reach the divided city, Schwab had to drive tli:
a fenced corridor across East Germany.
At a rest stop on the highway, East German<m
chased away people who tried to talk to Schwab, j
“They asked me for chewing gum and chocolaiel
the police came, and they didn’t want us to talk™
East people,” Schwab said. “They told me 1 couldt;
my rest stop and smoke a cigarette, but I could no!|
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to the people.
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Germans in Munich, and there isabig
party going on 24 hours a day. They aft
drinking beer and schnapps in thestree:,
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His tour of East Berlin was disheartening.
“When you go over and see the city, it hasn'tcliJ
a lot,” Schwab said. “It looks like Germany in the H
When you go over, it looks like a time change
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Atheist sues officials over juror’s oat
AUSTIN (AP) — The daughter
of atheist leader Madalyn Murray
O’Hair is seeking $12 million in a
federal lawsuit against Travis
County officials who jailed her after
she refused to take a juror’s oath or
affirmation.
Robin Murray-O’Hair — O’Hair’s
biological granddaughter and
adopted daughter — initially ob
jected to the words “so help me God”
in the oath required of prospective
jurors when she was called for jury
service in December 1987.
County Court-at-Law Judge Guy
Herman waived the oath, but held
Murray-O’Hair in contempt after
she refused his offer that she take an
affirmation without a reference to
God.
Murray-O’Hair, after being jailed
for several days, was released on
bond.
An appeal of the contempt order
later was declared moot, because
Herman commuted the contempt
sentence to time served, according to
the lawsuit.
“We have atheists who are afraid
to go to jury duty because they don’t
know what’ll happen to them,” Mur
ray-O’Hair said.
To object to taking the oath, she
said, “you must draw attention to
yourself.”
“Atheism is not a popular position
in our culture,” she said. “A lot of
people are afraid of the social reper
cussions of doing such a thing.”
A uniform declaration, without
any religious reference, that they
will tell the truth should be required
of all jurors, she said.
In filing the lawsuit, Murray-
O’Hair contends she was ®
punished for exercising her
dom of conscience, “psycholei
manhandled” by the judge
“thrown into jail with criminals
Named as defendants in tl
suit are the Travis County coi 111
tern, Herman and the county^ j
clerk, sheriff and court bailiffs
The suit seeks $2 million in
damages, $3 million in
damages, attorney fees
$500,000 from each person
involved in her incarceration
“It is our opinion thatjudgj
man followed the law, and i
was very gracious and accoffl^
ing to her,” Travis County Att f *
Ken Oden, of the lawsuit, yi
“There was just no pleasing her
“I suppose it’ll ultimately he (
a judge,” he said.