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D The Battalion i ' f r I.« I.l ll 1 L' : 11 Ijr Page Wednesday • October 16,19! Practice Makes Perfect Rachel Redington, The Battauon Jenny Beckman, a junior biomedical science major, practices the piano Tuesday in a Memori al Student Center practice room. Beckman practices three to four times a week. State Teen-ager serves unusual punishment ' laios LORENZO, Texas (AP) — LaTosha Pringler was easy enough to spot as you rounded the corner in this tiny town: A 16-year-old girl sitting in a chalk box drawn on a downtown sidewalk and counting cars as they passed. The unusual sight Tuesday was the result of an unusual court-im posed punishment. Municipal Judge J.R. Peterson or dered LaTosha to tally passing cars in her spiral notebook from Tuesday through Thursday as punishment for cursing at Joyce Arthur, the Lorenzo High School nurse. So there the lOth-grader sat in a chair in front of an abandoned store in the town of 1,250 about 20 miles east of Lubbock. She sat inside an eight-foot by eight-foot chalk line, from which she wasn’t allowed to stray for eight hours except for an hour-long lunch and two breaks. Passers-by had different reac tions to the punishment. One of fered a Coke, while others honked or waved. Judge Peterson twice drove past in his white Cadillac while ignoring the swirl of media around the girl. "It makes me embarrassed in front of all these people," Pringler said. “All my friends will see me out here.” Arthur told the school; lice that Pringler, who is called her a “white denies that charge. Arthur, who declined to speal reporters, is the wife of OffarJi Arthur, who escorted Pringled school to her outpost, whichi plain view of both city hall ardft son’s real estate agency. “ He (Aaron Arthur) said leave or if I don’t keep trad cars north and southbound! would take me to theYouthCe for six months,” Pringler said. The offense of disorderlji duct is a Class C misdemea the equivalent of a speeding et. She couldn't be sentenced juvenile center by law. Endangered bird head for Texas AUSTIN (AP) - About 165 dangered whooping cranes are pected to migrate to the lei Gulf Coast region fort! this year, according to Fish and Wildlife Service. The cranes will take sen weeks to complete the journey from their Canadian# ing grounds at Wood Buffai tional Park in the Northwest tories, the service saidTuestty They will migrate througl states of North and South Dal Montana, Nebraska, Kansas,! homa and Texas. DESCI Descer Everyth Epitaph ► This day in history ► Weather (AP) — Today is Wednesday, Oct. 16, the 290th day of 1996. There are 76 days left in the year. On this date: In 1793, during the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded. In 1846, 150 years ago, dentist William T. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether as an anes thetic by administering it to a patient undergoing jaw surgery before an audience of doctors in Boston. In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a group of about 20 men in a raid on Harper’s Ferry. In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth- control clinic in New York City. In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba. In 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb. In 1973, Henry Kissinger and Le Due Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; however, the Vietnamese official declined the award. Five years ago: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard crashed his pickup truck into a Luby’s Cafeteria and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life. One year ago: Black men gathered in Washington for the “Million Man March" in which they pledged to improve themselves and forswear violence in a revival-style chant led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Tonight Tomorrow Today’s birthdays Highs & Lows I <»{lays 1 . 86°F 67°F High Actress Angela Lansbury is 71. Actress Suzanne Somers is 50. Rock singer-musician Bob Weir (The Grateful Dead) is 49. Actor-director Tim Robbins is 38. Rock musician Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 34. Singer Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) is 27. Actress Kellie Martin is 21. Patchy morning fog. Mostly cloudy with southeast winds. Mostly cloudy with southeast winds near 10 mph. Patchy morning fog. Partly cloudy with south winds. iOf As come one tops ‘er Pop pun jscendents i eight years spectacled Milo Auken coming a m ! 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