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The Battalion
Wednesday, September 29,W)
'Big Tex' ready
to welcome
State Fair visitors
The Associated Press
DALLAS — It's almost time
again for the biggest "Howdy" in
Texas.
The State Fair of Texas opens
Friday for a 24-day run.
"Every year recently, we have
had at least 3 million people; 3.4
million attended last year," Kay
Ellis, a fair spokeswoman, said
Tuesday. "So we are saying we
expect to be someplace in the
neighborhood of 3 million again
for this year's run."
The 52-foot-tall cowboy
known as "Big Tex” was erected
Monday at Fair Park. Big Tex is
the largest greeter of millions of
folks attending the expo, using a
booming voice to welcome the
crowds.
Dubbed the “Big Tex
Roundup," the fair will feature
exhibits on space exploration, di
nosaurs and the environment.
It's the fifth straight year that
the fair has been 24 days long,
said Nancy Wiley, another
spokeswoman for the event.
She said the first state fair in
1886 was nine days long. It ex
panded to 24 days in 1984 and
then to 31 days for the 1986
sesquicentennial before dropping
back to a more traditional 17-day
format the following year.
"By 1989, we felt we really
needed another weekend to
spread the attendance because
the crowds were challenging us
to handle-them from a traffic and
parking standpoint and some
long lines," said Wiley.
An exhibit this year, entitled
"Corvette Collection: The First 40
Years," celebrates four decades of
the racy vehicles.
Throughout the fair's run, the
Lights Fantastic Parade is at 7:15
p.m.
The annual Texas-Oklahoma
football game is Oct. 9 at the Cot
ton Bowl. The rock opera "Tom
my" plays at Fair Park Music
Hall Oct. 12-23.
The midway will include more
than 60 rides, including the 212-
foot-high Texas Star Ferris wheel.
General admission is $8, with
special $4 tickets for children un
der 48 inches and senior citizens.
Seniors get in free to the fair on
Thursdays. The exhibits are open
from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
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Vanderbilt wins
lawsuit against
psychiatrist
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Gloria Vander
bilt won a $1.5 million legal judg
ment against her former psychia
trist and a lawyer accused of
preying on her wealth and emo
tional vulnerability.
Justice Edward Greenfield said
he agreed with a lawyers discipli
nary committee that concluded in
1992 that Thomas A. Andrews
misappropriated funds and di
verted them to himself and Dr.
Christ L. Zois, the psychiatrist.
"In her mind, the worst be
trayal was by the psychiatrist,
whom she trusted completely,
even though Andrews did every
thing," Vanderbilt lawyer Jerome
Walsh said in January, after the
lawsuit was filed.
"The two of us took an alco
holic, pill-addicted, insolvent fail
ure and turned her into the queen
of jeans and made her rich," An
drews had said in January, claim
ing Vanderbilt approved all the
transactions she later fought.
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Picking same Lotto numbers finally pays off
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — A Houston librarian who was
the sole winner of Saturday's $17 million jack
pot has played the same set of numbers since
the first Lotto Texas drawing last November.
The numbers — 4, 7, 11, 14, 18 and 32 —
represent the birthdates of winner Allen
Haynes' mother and grandmother.
Haynes on Monday picked up the first in
stallment of his winnings, a check for
$861,501.12. He'll get another $854,000 every
September for the next 19 years.
"I've been playing Lotto ever since the very
first drawing . . . You can't win if you don't
play," said Haynes, a librarian with Houston's
city library system.
He plans to keep working for a while. But
his wife, Bernadette, said she closed down her
child care business Sunday and will now de
vote more time to her youngest daughter and
church.
"My first thought when Allen said we'd
matched all six numbers was, 'You're ly
ing,"' Haynes said. "I called the Texas Lot
tery results line to verify the winning num
bers."
The couple plan to share their winnings
with their family
Haynes bought his winning ticket at a Stop
N Go that earlier sold a jackpot prize-winner
in the July 16 Lotto Texas drawing. The store
gets a 1 percent bonus for selling the jackpot
winning ticket.
The Houston area has produced 15 lotto
jackpot winners out of 77, the most of any
Texas region. The Dallas-Fort Worth area is
second, with 12.
Shop owners point out many uses of marijuana
The Associated Press
CANYON LAKE - Owners of
The Little Hemp Shop say Ameri
can consumers are missing out be
cause of the ban on marijuana.
Not drug consumers. They're
talking about people seeking to buy
clothing, bags and other products
made from the tough fiber.
"We believe in it and we be
lieve that if everybody really
knew what hemp is good for, we
could change the law," said store
co-owner Rose Phillips, 42.
"All of the items we sell at the
store are legal. We don't sell any
drug paraphernalia," she said.
"We want to educate people
about the many uses of hemp.”
Phillips said hemp is stronger
than cotton and lasts longer. But
importing the items from such
countries as China and the Philip
pines drives up prices.
"A pullover shirt is about $40;
shorts that feel like linen are about
$52; and slacks for winter are
about $65. If hemp were grown in
this country, it would really cut
down the costs," she said.
Phillips admitted she experi
mented with marijuana in the
1960s, but she says ner interest is
much broader than legalizing the
drug for medical purposes.
Phillips said the Comal County
Sheriff's Department inspected
the operation about four weeks
ago and found no problems.
Neighbors in the remote area of
Comal County, north of San Anto
nio, complained about signs di
recting traffic to Phillips' home,
which houses her shop.
Now, the shop owners are rely
ing on fliers handed out at festi
vals to obtain business.
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