X •■• The Daily Skiff Texas Christianlinn llniuoniluUniversity, (nrtFort UlnrtkWorth, TexasTovnc Thursday,Thundav FebruaryFohninru 12, 1978IOTA Vol. 76, No. 61 / Government sues Teamster boss

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor reimbursement "for all losses the Central States Fund is son Jackie, both of Cleveland. Both Massa. No hometowns were available. investments by getting adequate in- headquartered. Department yesterday sued Team- stemming from the failure of these Williams and Jackie Presser are There was no immediate comment formation on which to make loans and Also named as defendants in ad- sters President Frank E. Fitzsimmons trustees and officials to carry out their among those frequently mentioned to from the defendants or the Central to take proper measures to protect the and 16 other former trustees of a fiduciary obligations in managing the dition to the former trustees were succeed the 69-year-old Fitzsimmons States Fund loans once they had been granted. scandalscarred union pension fund to fund." Daniel Shannon, the fund's ad- as head of the Teamsters, the nation's In its complaint, the Labor In one case involving a $25 million recover millions of dollars in allegedly Marshall said no specific dollar ministrator, and Alvin Baron, the largest union with 2 2 million mem- Department cited numerous loans loan to the Argent Corp. which was imprudent loans. amount was specified in the com- fund's former assets manager, whS is bers. involving millions of dollars in which it secured by the Stardust and Fremont The former trustees of the Team- plaint, in part because of the nature of under criminal indictment for alleged Trucking industry executives said the trustees "engaged in the hotels in Las Vegas, the government sters' $1.65 billion Central States the real estate market, but he said the kickbacks. named were Walter W Teague, Albert " pattern of violations of the fiduciary charged that the defendants permitted Pension Fund were accused of government asked the court to hold D Matheson, Thomas J Duffey, John Of the former trustees, eight are obligations imposed on them" by the the diversion of a large sum of money breaching their fiduciary respon- the defendants liable for all present Spickerman. Herman A Lueking, union officials and eight are trucking federal pension law for purposes other than which the loan sibilities through what the govern- and future losses. Officials Jack A. Sheetz, William J Kennedy, industry executives. They had jointly Among the complaints was that the was made. It was not explained what ment alleged was a series of acknowledged that this could involve Bernard S Goldfarb and Andrew G managed the fund ex trustees failed to safeguard the the money was used for. questionable loan transactions in- tens of millions of dollars. volving gambling casinos, race tracks The defendants thus could be held Named as defendants along with and risky real estate ventures Some personally liable for the losses if they Fitzsimmons were Teamsters officials Gallup, profs agree of the loans went to persons with are found guilty Roy Williams of Chicago, Robert reported ties to organized crime. The civil suit was filed under the Holmes of Detroit, Joseph W Morgan Labor Secretary Ray Marshall told 1974 federal pension reform law in of Atlanta. Donald Peters, Frank H a news conference that the suit seeks U.S. District Court in Chicago, where Ranney and William Presser and-his U,S. losing prestige

By CECILIA WONG curred since then " He noted that dustrial products like steel. Staff Writer "increasingly, a variety of other "I think we find ourselves trying to Has U.S. prestige suffered in the last nations have been challenging the U.S. learn to become someday like the few years? A recent Gallup poll in- leadership; years ago they were regional power again." adds dicates "fewer Americans now believe not in a position to do so." Lockhart that the power and prestige of the U.S. Lockhart points out that any leader Dr Donald Jackson, chairman of will grow," and three professors from of America today faces far more the Political Science department, feels the University's Political Science difficulty in trying to exert influence that America should cast out its old department agree. over other nations because there are prejudice against Communism and Dr. Wendell G Schaeffer, a some new factors which change the adjust itself to a vision of "new professor in Public Administration position of America in its relation to reality" for a better understanding and a specialist on international af- the rest of the world than it was thirty relationship with the rest of the world. fairs, feels the Watergate incident years ago Today, he says, America no Jackson says, America in the past has leading to the final resignation of longer has the ability to compete with made the mistake of applying its > President R Nixon in 1972 has largely the exported goods and services from idealism of civilization and impaired the U.S prestige abroad. Japan. Also, the US is no longer the Christianity selectively against Schaeffer pointed out' that major producer of some basic in- Communism "Congress has passed certain laws to restrict the special power of the president to act in international emergencies," which means that the Students pitch in power of the American forces abroad will be limited. This new restriction passed by the Congress raises the question as to who is the ruler of in- to battle hunger ternational affairs, Schaeffer says, By MONICA ANNE KRAUSS IT'S ALL RELATIVE—"Right You Are If You Think You "the Congress or the president?" conservation efforts and fighting society. The cast includes, from left to right, Mimi Bessette, Staff Writer Are" opens at Scott Theatre on Feb. 9. The play examines Schaeffer says he is pessimistic world hunger. Virginia Dalton, Lynnr Kuhlow and Harry Parker. Students can contribute to con- the relativity of truth within the confines of a provincial about the prospect for world peace Recycling is made as easy as because of President Carter's at- servation efforts and fight world possible for TCU students—boxes are hunger just by throwing their tempts to solve the Middle East, provided near the large trash cans in Korean and Taiwan problems with an newspapers and cans into boxes each hall the organization works with. provided by ECO, the Environmental idealistic solution. Off-campus students can bring Conservation Organization at TCU. material to the group by taking it to Israel, Egypt still split Prof. Charles B. Lockhart compares The group presently collects re- the Coliseum between 4:00 and 6:00 • the present U.S. power and influence cyclable materials from about half of p.m. on the first and third Fridays of over other nations relative to its TCU's residence halls, a third of the CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — President withdrawal from Arab territories is a captured in the Six-Day War of 1967 each month, Guinn said. position thirty years ago. He explains office buildings and several off- Anwar Sadat and U.S. Assistant primary issue they still insist on Israel has said it needs some of the Beverage cans, any type of paper that thirty years ago, "The U.S. had campus sources, according to Stuart Secretary of State Alfred Atherton keeping the settlements and their air land to protect its borders. and aluminum can be recycled by the an unusual position." because it had Guinn. ECO president. talked for more than an hour bases," the spokesman said. One Egyptian source said the ECO, he added, but the 29-member not suffered the consequences of a The purpose of ECO, as stated in its yesterday amid reports that Egypt Kamel told reporters the talks with situation "in a nutshell" is that "the organization does not make a full- ,,. very destructive war. constitution is "to create and maintain strongly objects to Israeli proposals Atherton were mainly about Sadat's Israelis are giving with their right scale effort. Guinn said ECO would a voluntary, university-wide con- the American conveyed at the visit to the United States this weekend. hand and taking the same things back "What's happened now," he says, like to cover the entire University but "is that other nations have recovered servation program, primarily em- it will not include a dormitory for pick- meeting. Atherton said Kamel "gave me with their left hand." from the consequences of the WWII phasizing recycling of paper and ups if no member lives there. And in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign some of the Egyptian government's Dayan's comments in the Israeli and have taken advantage of the beverage cans." All profits are Guinn estimates that between $20 Minister Moshe Dayan denied reports ideas on the draft declaration: and we Parliament came as Israel went humble developments that have oc- divided equally between furthering and $25 is earned by each pickup ECO that Israel had promised President will be reflecting on this to see where ahead with plans for three new set- members periodically decide on Carter there would be no more Jewish we go from here." tlements. He said Carter was told specific projects and donations to use settlements on the occupied West Negotiations have centered on a Israel "would proceed with set this money. The organization is also Bank of the Jordan River. declaration of principles to guide an tlements at military base camps" on the West Bank and that reports to the investigating legislation, with the aim •Atherton also talked with Egyptian overall peace agreement Sadat has Part-time educators contrary were wrong. of publicizing and influencing issues Foreign Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said he does not expect to announce Cairo sources said Egypt is close to concerned with conservation. Kamel and Vice President Hosny agreement on a declaration after asking the United,, States to formulate Recycling at TCU goes back several Mubarak. After the meeting one meeting with Carter. propoals similar to those outlined by save school money years, when Environmental Science Egyptian source said that "at this Egypt has insisted the Israelis Carter when he met with Sadat at majors ran a program in Sadler stage, and after seeing the written dismantle settlements in the occupied Aswan last month Carter said then By SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH time faculty member among the 3, 763 Hall, and Tom Brown-Jarvis recycled ideas from Israel brought by Atherton Sinai desert, but the Israelis demand that a Mideast settlement would have News editor surveyed (TCU was part of the survey, within those two dorms. In February we can still say the gap is quite wide. that Jewish settlers be allowed to to be based on normal relations bet- They might be seen on campus only Dickes said) earned $1,600 a year, a of 1977, Dr Jim Rurak, now ECO's "There is a lack of logic on some remain, along with air bases to protect ween the Arabs and Israelis, Israeli once a week, but they have become an rate of about $1,000 per course taught. faculty advisor, suggested a merger of points. While Israel agrees to the non- them. withdrawal to 1967 frontiers and essential money-saver for colleges That rate of pay would be roughly the two and expansion to include all acquisition of land by force as in UN. The Arabs also have demanded secure and recognized borders for the who cannot make any extra long-term $10,000 per academic year if the part- TCU. Resolution 242 and thus admits that Israeli withdrawal from all land nations concerned. commitments. time teachers were going full-time. With the help of Dr. Ed Curran of the They are part-time professors in an The overall average salary for full- University of Dallas, who helped start educational system of high tenure time faculty members of all ranks, a similar organization in Richardson, .1. News briefs, rates and low budgets, and according according to the survey, is $17,930, ECO was recognized by the Com- to the National Center for Educational which means part-time faculty mittee on Student Organizations in our operations as possible and April It then began a four-week ex- Two plead Innocent understand we are not in the Statistics, there is now one part-time receives a significantly lower salary Carter examined faculty member at four-year colleges for each class taught The TCU ad- perimental collection from 15 TCU business of surveillance of the buildings. With 12-15 people par- WASHINGTON (AP) - An for every four full-time faculty ministration does not release figures American people." ticipating, about 7,800 pounds of paper employee of the U.S. Information Does Jimmy Carter make a members. concerning its teacher salaries. Adm. Stanfield Turner told a and 360 pounds of beverage cans were Agency and a Vietnamese student difference? TCU is part of this halfway faculty Also in the study, 57 percent of the Houston news conference that the collected during this period. pleaded innocent yesterday to That will be the question asked boom. According to Allan Dickes, part-time faculty had no offices; 32 CIA will attempt to be more open Since September, 1977,19,600 pounds spying charges that they had by the North Texas Chapter of the director of the University's In- percent shared offices with others; with the public and let the people of paper and 847 pounds of cans have passed U.S. defense secrets to American Society for Public Ad- stitutional Studies, there were 50 part- only 11 percent had private offices. know we will operate within cer- been collected from nine dorms, one communist Vietnam. tain guidelines." ministration in its regional con- time professors for night classes last Although 81 percent of the part-timers ference coordinated by the TCU fall and 22 part-timers in the day. in the study said they considered their sorority, eight other TCU buildings, One defense attorney asserted Political Science Department, But he says most of the day teachers credentials at least equal to the two nearby apartment complexes, and that the indictment "blows the Po/lce lower boom Feb. 2-4. are ranked as a professor, assistant- requirements of their position, a study a local record shop, according to charges out of all proportion." He professor or associate professor, by the same organization found four Guinn. The conference involves said the documents alleged to have though they only teach part-time. years ago that only 20 percent of part- been stolen and delivered to FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — government officials, college New award based The advantages to part-timers are time professors hold doctoral or Following a trail marked by 10 law professors and interested people representatives of Hanoi do not clear—they can be brought in to teach professional degrees. contain U.S. defense secrets in the officers who posed as purchasers, from eight states, according to Dr. on TCU activities a course for less pay than a full-time Moreover, for the part-timers, their usual sense of the term but rather authorities continued a hunt Edward Loucks, who is in charge The TCU Student Foundation an- professor; they don't need an office; college work is moonlighting. Almost "confidential cables that are yesterday for more than 100 per- of TCU's participation in the event. nounced this week that it will present they don't receive fringe benefits. 70 percent had other jobs, the study sons who allegedly make their "Just about everyone in the an award to a graduating senior and leaked by ambassadors all the However, when a school decides to said and the average teacher was livings by dealing in stolen goods Political Science Department is faculty-staff person later this time." hire a part-time professor, then it runs ranging from CB radios to a Rolls involved in some way." getting only 10 percent of his or her semester for exemplary service to the the risk of hiring a less qualified Royce. income from the faculty job. University. CM opens doors Drs. Wendell Schaeffer, Gordon person who can offer few, if any, non- A task force of Fort Worth police According to the study, the average Students nominated for the award Smith and Ambassador- Robert teaching services such as advising HOUSTON (AP)-The director and FBI agents fanned out part-timer spent five hours a week in will be judged by a four person faculty Dean will head the panels on dif- students and serving on faculty of the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday night, acting on secret class, about five hours a week committee and it will look for criteria ferent aspects of Public Ad- committees. (CIA) said Wednesday it was time felony indictments naming those preparing for class, usually at home which emphasizes a student's well- ministration. A study taken recently by the the public "knows as much about sought. and less than two hours a week ad- rounded list of activities. The faculty- American Association of University vising, counselling and doing the other staff award will be determined by a professors found the average part- activities related to the school. committee of the Student Foundation. THE.RAILY SKIFF Thursday, February 2, 1978 opinion Editorial

Contemplating a war of Communist H? Ground Hog Day By WILLIAM SAFIRK N.Y. Times Columnist On this date falls Ground Hog Day. This morning, the Chinese leaders in Peking have long been concerned about conflicts bet- hairy critter known as the ground hog stuck it's Head out of ween Vietnam and Cambodia flaring it's hole to forcast the weather for the next six weeks. into all-out war. Legend—brought to America by German immigrants— The Cambodians claim their has it that if the ground hog, or woodchuck, (how many country has been invaded; the Viet- chucks can a woodchuck chuck. . . ?) comes out of his winter namese say they retaliated against quarters on this day and sees his shadow, there will be six Cambodian atrocities by sending more weeks of winter. troops into "Parrot's Beak" (made However, if the little animal comes out and the day is famous by the Nixon-ordered in- cloudy, he will not return to his winter home for a longer cursion in 1970). Sixty-thousand well- snooze, as the winter weather will soon give way to a balmy equipped Vietnamese troops are said to be blazing away at 20,000 ill- spring. equipped but fierce Cambodian troops Ground Hog Day is really a religious holiday known as in the former "sanctuaries." Candlemas, or the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed In light of that, let us take a longer Virgin. Candlemas celebrates the virgin Mary's visit to the look at the speech made by Chinese temple in Jerusalem for purification, 40 days after the birth Foreign Minister Huang Hua July 30, of Christ. 1977, to party cadres, recorded and Let's just hope that the groundhog is an accurate in- smuggled out of China by intelligence dicator, and that one of the coldest Januaries in recent sources directed from Taiwan memory is just one last fling for Old Man Winter before What is the underlying cause of the spring brings its warm relief. war? "The root of trouble," said Huang, "can be traced to the demarcation of borders when France occupied Indochina. When the three states were making concerted efforts against U.S. imperialism, they did not have the time to consider this problem. Now that the war is ended, Planned planthood they have become seriously concerned about this problem again." V'hat started the fighting? By CLAY NILES (Remember, Vietnam is a Soviet Skiff Columnist Satire client state, Cambodia the Chinese With environmental awareness and someone else wanted to know. client.) "Self-conceited, Vietnam all the hoopla that came with it, "Yes, but when I put out my sign, deemed that without its help Cam- growing plants at home and in the people stopped to try to sell me their bodia could not have been liberated. Analysis dorm rooms became a popular plants instead. They all said they had Consequently, it assumed the airs of a pastime several years ago. too many plants themselves." Big Brother demanding obeisance arms, and then put in the zinger: reason to believe, from the sound of may want such conflict, but client Planters and hanging baskets "I tell you something that worked from Cambodia in everything. After "We support the stand of Cambodia shooting going on today, that the states sometimes have minds of their became the chic all-occasion gift. No for me," voluteered a busboy who the liberation, Cambodia had to ask and her people against Soviet report of his July speech is authentic own; great powers can be drawn in one dared leave an empty place on her happened by. "I took all my plants and repeatedly for Vietnam to withdraw revisionist social imperialism, and The natural first reaction of the despite their wishes. dresser. And if someone couldn't transplanted each one into a three- its troops Although Vietnam even- will not watch indifferently any in- United States, which lost 42,000 lives The world is too small for a proxy speak intelligently about the inch pot. That way, the root systems tually acceded to the request, its tervention in Cambodian sovereignty and part of our national will In war between Communist giants; in disgusting conditions caused by spider become so crowded and entangled that troops remained deployed along the or coveting of Cambodian territory by Southeast Asia, is to take perverse terms of a threat to world peace, a mites, she could hardly show her face they choked to death." border .... Naturally, it is difficult social imperialism We will support satisfaction in watching the fighting second Indochinese war could become in polite society. "But what about my air ferns and for Cambodia to swallow this Cambodia and her people in their among the Communist victors over more dangerous than the first. We Times have changed, however, and water-rooted stock?" the red-head situation." struggle." the spoils. have less-strained relations with the plant craze has caught up with asked. The foreign minister, speaking last We do not know if Huang Hua still But just as the Mideast could have Russia and China than either has with many of us. Dorm students are The busboy agreed that the air fern July when the shooting began to talks that way to cadres, or if he is on been the scene for a confrontation the other. We should make clear to especially aware of the problem. and water-rooted stock might be more escalate, said his nation was ready to the dominant side of the Hua-vs-Teng between the Soviet Union and the U.S., both that sending war supplies to When there's no longer a place to set of a problem, and went back to act as mediator. He called for a return competition, or even if that generation Southeast Asia could be the arena for a troops in "Parrot's Beak" is a no-win down textbooks, and the ivy begins to clearing tables. to the negotiating table, disclaimed gap in Chinese leadership slops over to long and ever-bloodier contest bet- proposition. cover the punk rock posters on the I couldn't help leaning toward the any intent to take sides or provide foreign affairs. But we do have good ween Russia and China. Neither power degrees below zero and was covered code starting this weekend. Food researchers in the field of brain Throughout the book Sagan main- Skip Houandswortb ' by tome 65 inches of snow. Service will begin designating salads, anatomy and related occupations find News Editor By comparison, Texas still looks vegetables and entrees that are low in tains the brain contains a reptilian the book to be flawed by technical Clark Whltlen pretty good to this yankee. calories. A small red "C" will indicate component, the "R-complex," which Managing Editor errors, to contain a few fundamental Chuck Ault The Daily Skiff such items. accounts for aggressive and ritualistic misinterpretations, and to be "vastly Sports Editor j Speaking of yankees, almost half of The designations should be of help to behavior, and a limbic system which Michael Branch oversimplified." Editorial Page Editor Cerel Holewlnskl Chrla Keller :.; our freshmen are from out of state, those who really want to watch their houses most of our emotions, such as Editor But Sagan maintains this is not for Editorial Page Allt. ■' with a great many from the north and weight by restricting their calories altruism and love. These charac- WlnDanlela the scientific community at large. It is rharllc Eubanks Advertising Manager OP east. 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As stated, Sagan is trained as an ■am Thursday, February 2, 1978 THE DAILY SKIFF Tall person Rock star Russell tries to fit in performs in Dallas By NANCY REYNOLDS The long overdue appearance of p.m. in Dallas' McFarlin Auditorium, or not. I can look straight into my post Stiff Writer Leon Russell has been announced for a first appearance in the area for one office box, which is conveniently Friday, Feb 3 The concert will begin of the most important songwriters in The Snack Bar check-out line winds placed on the top row (Convenient for around the sandwich counter two, at 8 p.m. and will co-star Leon and popular music. me and for this story > My boxmate Mary Russell with a very special guest Commercially, Newman is best maybe even three times, barring has to drag a chair out of the corner students from the ice container and appearance by Elvin Bishop known as the writer of hit songs such and stand on it tippy-toed to see if she Tickets for this event are $7.50 and as "Mama Told Me Not To Come," soft drink dispensers. The usually has any mail. clean-scrubbed and smiling faces'of $6.50; all seats are reserved The recorded by Three Dog Night, and "I the TCU student body begin to sour I can reach machine-offered concert will be held in Dallas at the Think It's Going to Rain Today," and darken as they watch their parking permits without opening my Convention Center recorded by Judy Collins and Dave hamburgers turn cold(er), their ice car door To save on bruised knees and In Fort Worth, tickets can be ob- von Ronk. among others. melt, and the tuna fish fall out of their headaches, I have adopted a policy of tained at the Central Ticket Office and Over the last five years, Randy sandwiches while the line inches not riding in cars smaller than Amusement Ticket Service. Newman songs have appeared on forward, student by student. Cameros or with drivers shorter than Leon Russell has long been one of albums by interpreters as diverse as Other than a splash of green in 5-8—unless they have a back seat I can contemporary rock's more com- Art Garfunkel, Ringo Starr, Barbra ,t, someone's coat or the platinum blonde crawl into. manding figures A triple or even Streisand, Etta James, Joe Cocker, in someone else's hair, nothing It is one of the simple pleasures in quadruple threat, he has repeatedly Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and • » distinguishes one person from my life when I buy my clothes in a demonstrated his abilities—writing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. another. A passer-by glancing over the department store, and don't have to songs, arranging and producing, Newman also recived a great deal of crowd would see no individual per se— JUMPIN' JACK FLASH—IT'S A GAS—Leon Russell will be in Dallas on Feb. 3 at performing as an accomplished attention for his work on the sound- rehem them And I get a perverse the Dallas Convention Center. Leon will co-star with his wife, Mary. Elvln Bishop only the cumulative face of the mass. session musician—on some of the best track of Mick Jagger's "Per- satisfaction out of knowing I cast an will make a special guest appearance. Pausing a second to debate with imposing shadow over receptionists, records in the history of pop formance." in which he conducted, himself if he is hungry enough, secretaries and average height Russell had a spectacular solo sang and accompanied himself on the desperate enough, to brave an equally professors—each with he power to career from the start. Leon Russell piano on "Gone Dead Train." sold, spawned a hit single in "Roll hungry crowd of his peers, he might ridicule, to intimidate with a look, a But it is his current hit, "Short Away the Stone," and served as the notice one or two people—the stand- word, or a mark. Weary trucker found People," from his most recent album, outs in every crowd And chances are, hook to get new audiences interested It hasn't always been so. As with "Little Criminals," which is making if I am standing in that slowly, un- in the performing side of 'the Master most tall adolescent girls, the ad- his name into a household word. winding line, I am one of those people of Space and Time.' jectives sky, skinny and awkward also after 6 days in snow he notices. All seats for the concert are apply There is no grace, no Russell's professionally executed, Why? Not because of the green in CLEVELAND (AP) - For six going He checked all the way to the reserved, and ticket prices are $6.25 statuesque beauty that goes with being thoroughly exciting stage shows, my coat, or the platinum in my hair, bitterly cold days, trucker James snowdrift, and there was nothing. He and $7 25 The tickets are available at 13 and a head-taller than your peers coupled with his subsequent guest nor because I am a great physical Truly shivered, slept and ate snow. He checked all the way from the Amusement Ticket Service, Fort The stereotypic, somewhat pathetic appearances on Cocker's Mad Dogs beauty. He would notice me simply was entombed in a snowdrift that had snowdrift to where I was going, and Worth and Dallas, all Sound image of a too-tall girl wearing either and Englishmen tour album and at because I would stand a head taller, at buried his rig, and no one knew he was there was nothing, so he knew 1 had to Warehouses, Preston Tickets and too-long or too-short pants and flat- George Harrison's Benefit for Bangla- least a forehead above the mass. I am there. be in that snowdrift." Preston Records in Dallas, and soled shoes, and walking like a gorilla- Desh introduced rock audiences to one tall, no matter how the word is Truly said if he had stopped his Fantasia in Arlington. humped shoulder accentuating On Tuesday, he heard footsteps in of the most compelling concert per- defined, no matter who measures me. truck 2,000 feet earlier or later, "I'd Mail orders should be sent to already long "monkey" arms—is not the snow above his cab. formers since the Stones Russell's And worse yet (worse to some people, never been in it (the drifti." Amusement Ticket Service, P.O. Box too far wrong high energy versions of "Jumpin' that is) I am female, and tall. "I started beating on the roof with a The snowdrift was near an airport, 938, Fort Worth, TX 76101 A stamped, Jack Flash" and "Young Blood" How tall am I? Let me put it this Like all tall people, I have dutifully piece of pipe. They heard the noise and "and the snow blows right straight self addressed envelope should be literally stole the show on Bangla- survived comments referring to the hurried and dug down," he said. across the road." Only in that "one included with the order way: Time magazine reported desh. recently the average height of women Jolly Green Giant and answered the "I opened the window, and there little patch" the drift built up, burying ••• Concurrent with the emergence of in America is just under. 5-4. The question, "How's the weather up was my brother. I said to myself if his truck, he said the in-concert Russell, the songwriting Balladeer Gordon Lightfoot will average height of men in America is 5- there?" But not without wondering if anybody'd find me, my brother would The trucker said he had one blanket Russell prospered as never before appear at the Tarrant County Con- 9. If these figures are accurate, and there wasn't something wrong with find me, and he did," said Truly, 42. and a window drape which he wrapped Among his many compositions vention Center Theatre on Friday, give or take an inch or two for in- me. Truly was caught in a blizzard on around his feet. recorded by major artists during the Feb 24, it has been announced by dividuality, the average height of that state Route 13 last Thursday while "It was pretty cold," he said. "It Maybe I was just too tall—a quirk of period are "Superstar," "Song For Artists Consultants Snack Bar lunch crowd is 5-6W. And hauling two coils of steel to a Man- was all frosted up inside." nature really meant to be a giant You," "Hummingbird" and "Delta Lightfoot will do two shows, one at 7 me? I'm 5-11. Yes, I'm that tall. sfield. Ohio, auto plant. Truly was last heard from Thursday redwood. (At this point, I conveniently Lady" By the time albums like p m and one at 9:45 p m. Tickets are (Actually, I'm only 5-10'^, but who's "I couldn't see nowhere I just when a Mansfield CB operator, forgot I was not as tall as either one of Carney, the triple set Leon Live and $6 50 and $7 50, plus a 25 cent service going to notice?) And in answer to the couldn't see the road, so I had to stop," Michelle Huntley, reported she had my parents—and I'm still not—and The Shelter People (all on his own . charge Tickets can be purchased at next questions, no I don't play Truly recalled after being released talked briefly with a trucker with the that I got my first job, selling clothes prospering Shelter label) appeared, all Sound Warehouses, Preston basketball and I don't have, nor have I from a hospital Tuesday night. CB handle "Part-time." That is in a department store, just because I there was little dispute about the fact Tickets and at Amusement Ticket ever had, any aspirations to be a "When it got done snowing I was Truly's CB name. was tall. Toquote the manager, "I had that Leon Russell had not only Service in Fort Worth or Dallas model. covered up I couldn't even get the Miss Huntley said she sent a friend presence") arrived' in the conventional sense, door open." with a four-wheel-drive vehicle but he Even so, my walking pace is most but had also managed, in a relatively Thank goodness that image—that His world was not one of silence. couldn't find the missing truck. people's jog—making my jog the short time, to exert a considerable Something Different being—didn't last forever. Somewhere "I could hear the snowmobiles Donald said he and his brother's norm's dead run—making me appear influence over the entire international in high school, along about the time 1 running over top of me. I could hear nephew, Eugene Jasper, had been to be always in a hurry, whether I am music community started dating a six-foot-fiver, who the airplanes," he said -^ searching "along Route 13 every day As busy as he continues to be Russell indeed played basketball, I realized He could also hear chatter on his CB since Saturday." RAFAT'S still finds the time to guest on other being tall is not something to hide, or radio but could not transmit. During "We knew he had helped push a A Thousand and artists' records and maintain a CALENDAR be ashamed of Trying to do so only the ordeal, he said he would wake up pickup truck out of the snow Thursday standard of excellent musicianship as One Nights Restaurant makes the excess height more ap- periodically, turn on the cab light. morning in that area," Donald said. well He surprised even his staunchest parent One looks not only deformed listen to the radio, eat a little snow, A few hours after Truly walked into To place your organization's event fans with an unexpected country EXQUISITE ARABIAN CUISINE and unproportioned, but out of step then lie down again Mansfield General Hospital, joking in the Skiff calendar section, please album, Hank Wilson's Back, and ARABIAN DANCING NIGHTLY with the rest of the world as well. "I sat there and prayed and prayed, with emergency room personnel, he call the Skiff newsroom at ext. 380 or managed a king-sized country hit off hoped and waited." was back home here with his wife and 381, or fill out an event sheet. The High-heeled shoes—that is, shoes the album's "Rollin' in My Sweet Buy One Entree- Truly said his brother Donald of two children, Susan, 17, and James event sheet can be returned to Dan with a heel an inch or more—were Baby's Arms " Get One of Same Price Free Parma, Ohio, "knew the way I was Jr., 12. Rogers Hall room 115. If your dragged out of the back of my closet 1975's Will 'O the Wisp spawned the Good Thru Feb. 19 department or organization has not and worn. I started standing up smash "Lady Blue" and by the time yet received its event sheet, please straight, much to my mother's delight, spring of '76 dawned, Russell had The Restaurant is not fancy like Its call ext. 380 and discovered not only could I still found a new record label, married and Teachers educate name, but certainly you'll get not look her in the eye (which was one began raising a family and released Thursday of my childhood fears) but that there one of his most inspired collections to Fancy Food and Service 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.—Management in are many people in the world as tall as terminally III pupils date: The Wedding Album, by Leon Action seminar on "Releasing Human me, if not taller. Especially guys. and Mary Russell which included the 2825 White Settlement Rd. 'It is so important for her morale,' Potential for Profit" by Dr. Quinn G Much to my delight, they grow up—up (c) 1978 N.Y. Times News Service single "Rainbow In Your Eyes." 332-6812 past six feet. Take Mr. 6-5, for NEW YORK—Before he begins his said Michele's mother, Grace McKay of Salt Lake City, senior vice- •-** Closed Monday president for Skaggs Company. It will example. I've known him since he was teaching job each morning, Joseph Iavarone. "The studying is one of the Randy Newman of "Short People" be held in the Student Center. 5-6 and I was 5-8. And many male Kerest checks to see if any of his major factors that keeps her going fame will appear Saturday, Feb. 4, at 8 athletes, although not taller than young students died during the night. She thinks, Why would they bother 11:00 a.m.—Dr. Robert H. Neilson of myself, outweigh me by plus or minus Kerest teaches hospitalized and with a teacher if I'm not gettihg well" " Duke University will speak on Silicon 100 lbs., which at least makes me feel terminally ill children at Memorial Nitrogen-Phosphorus (V) Compounds not quite as imposing. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in "As long as the child is there and is able to learn," said Thea S. Klein, the in SWR lecture hall 4. Free Ad- Being tall is a way of life. For me, it Manhattan. coordinating principal of the city's mission. is a fact of life. I'll always insist on the Even when all medical hope of 1404 W MAGNOLIA aisle seat at the theater. I'll always sit recovery has been abandoned, Kerest schools for the hospital-bound, "we Dorm Refrigerators keep teaching." With advances in 336-8647 8:00 p.m.—Dr SB. Sells, research in the back of classes so as not to block and the two other teachers at the and party needs professor and IBR director, will the view of those who would otherwise hospital go through the routines of cancer research in recent years, present a symposium entitled "The have to sit behind me. And I will textbooks and tests. doctors and educators are now un- Interactional Paradigm in always be referred to by some joker One of Kerest's students is Michele derscoring the importance of con- Psychological Theory and Practice." who thinks he's funny or original as Iavarone, who is 14 years old and has tinuing education for hospitalized SALES RENTALS SERVICE This is the first in a series of lectures the Jolly Green Giant, or asked about been in the hospital since March 1976 children. included in a "Seminar on In- the weather and if I play basketball. with Ewing's sarcoma, a form of bone Mrs Klein, the coordinating prin- teractional Psychology." It will be in But despite it all height gives me a cancer. cipal of the hospital-instruction SWR Lecture hall 4 Admission is free. birds eye view of my fellow human "I look forward to school," the bed- program, said that teaching at the beings which, as a would-be writer, is ridden teen-ager said. "School" for cancer hospital was the most difficult Friday a nice vantage point to have. I enjoy Michele consists of 45 minute sessions assignment in the entire city "The being tall. And I enjoy "standing" out each day with Kerest at her bedside, in teachers come with so much en- Students participating in Admission's and being noticed, even if it is in the a learning process that is often ac- thusiasm and hope, and then have to program "Fridays at TCU" will be on Snack Bar line. celearted. "We did a month's work in watch so many of their students die." campus. PLANT algebra today," Michele said "We see very few of the children "She is a very eager student," said here surviving more than a few 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.—Programming Kerest. "She's very much into years," said Kerest. presents the film "The Eagle Has BIRTH D€f €CT5 studying exactly what her classmates "Out of 17 students that first month, Landed." The film stars Michael flR€fOR€V€R on Long Island are studying." only three are still alive," he said. Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert JJfU£SSYOU Duval. It will be shown in the Student SALE Center ballroom Admission is $ .75. •*T\ H€IR Saturday (JJWH 7 p.m.—Awards dinner-dance of TODAY Arnold Air Society five-state conclave with Maj. Gen. George J. Keegan Jr., h USAF (ret.) former chief of Air Force Let T.C.U. Florist help you play Cupid this Valentines Day. intelligence. Keegan will speak on 10:00 TO 2:00 "The Strategic Balance—Myths and FAST CASH Tuesday, February 14th Realities." It will be held in the PAWN SHOP Come see our beautiful new building!! Sheraton grand ballroom. Cost is 18. 1814 W. Berry — 923-8141 10 blocks East of campus STUDENTS OVER 18 CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON UNIVERSITY Earn $$ in your spare time, on ANYTHING OF VALUE campus or off. Inexpensive self- defense device being introduced to Jewelry, stereos, TV's, tape this area. No skills, training, or recorders, musical instruments, V roriUbi- O license required. Better than Kung Itli Mw»«rtH Do. ' BOOK STORE cameras. 924-2211 Fu, Judo, or Karate. Call 1-599-9514. Open8 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat. THE DAILY SKIFF Thursday, February 2, 1978 Frogs lose, 93-55 Arkansas decks Texas, 75-71

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Southwest Conference basketball ■J6 seconds remaining in overtime to Marvin Delph collected a career-high victory over Texas Christian Wed- give the Mustangs a 71-70 lead. The 30 points and freshman Ulysses Reed nesday night Aggies held the ba* for the final shot, added eight clutch points late in the Six other Houston players hit in but Willie Foreman missed from the game Wednesday night to rally double figures as the Cougars hiked corner and SMU got possession of the second-ranked Arkansas to a key 75-71 their conference mark to 6-4 and their ball. Southwest Conference basketball season record to 16-6. TCU fell to 1-9 in The Aggies led most of the game, victory over 12th-ranked Texas. league play and 3-16 for the year. taking a 34-33 lead at halftime i The Razorbacks. who avenged their Houston never trailed in the game Jeff Swanson paced SMU '.with 23 lone loss of the season, had trailed the and the contest was close only in the points, while Hale finished with 10. surprising Longhorns by 11 points opening moments. Leading 9-4, the Vernon Smith scored 20 for the Aggies early in the second half Cougars ran off 14 straight points to and Foreman had 17. Texas dropped to 9-1 in the SWC, take a 23-4 edge and the Horned Frogs The victory raised SMU's SWC ' while Arkansas moved to 8-1. were never in the game again mark to 5-5 and its season record to 8- John Moore hit five of seven field The Frogs shot 15 percent for the 12. Texas A&M dropped to 3-7 in the goals and had 11 points in the first half first ten minutes. Houston moved to a SWC and 10-10 overall. 42-27 halftime lead and Ken Williams as Texas took a 41-38 margin at TEXAS TECH 81, RICE 77 * halftime gave the Cougars a 20-point margin at The Longhorns, playing their fifth 55-35 with his jumper with 12:16 left. LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Mike • game in 10 days, then leaped to a 53-42 Houston reserves gradually added to Russell fired in 21 points and Texas lead in the first two minutes of the the margin Tech fought off Rice's blistering *68 » second half after eight consecutive Charles Thompson and Williams percent shooting in the second half points on baskets by Moore, Ron each had 12 points for Houston. Steve Wednesday night to post an 81-77 Baxter, Jim Krivacs and Gary Scales led TCU with 16 points. Southwest Conference victory over the Goodner. Owls. SMU 71, TEXAS A&M 70 Reed, a seldom-used 6-2 freshman The Red Raiders capitalized on 17 from Fine Bluff, came off the bench DALLAS (AP) — Phil Hale hit a first-half turnovers by Rice and 13 and hit a layupwith 7:14 to play before jump shot with five seconds remaining first-half points by Kent Williams to canning a corner jump shot at 6:27 to in regulation and then pumped in the seize a commanding 40-25 lead at tie the score at 65-65. game winner in overtime Wednesday intermission. With the score tied 67-67, Reed then night to give Southern Methodist a But the Owls roared back, blistering sneaked behind the Texas zone for a tense 71-70 Southwest Conference Texas Tech for 52 second-half points. layupand scored off a steal to give the victory over Texas A&M Elbert Darden paced Rice with 16 Major John Frink shows a military science Outdoor Hogs a 71-67 lead with 4:45 remaining. Hale's nine-foot jumper in points for the game, while Alan Survival class one way to start a fire during Wed- regulation tied the score at 65-65. The Reynolds added 14. nesday's session. In left photo, Frink is happy (and HOUSTON 9J, TCU 55 Mustangs, with Joe Swedlund hitting Williams finished with 17 points for relieved) that this fire has started. two baskets in the final minute, had the Red Raiders, now 15-6 for the ' As the fire blazes away iright), Frink tells class. . HOUSTON (AP) Mike Schultz led a parac. Houston scorers with 15 rallied from a 63-59 deficit with one season and 7-3 in the SWC. Geoff * "No sweat, guys!" points and pulled down 15 rebounds to minute remaining. Huston added 13 and Thad Sanders lead the Cougars to an easy 93-55 Hale then hit a 12-foot jumper with had 11. Mother pitched batting practice Newest Hall of Famer remembers his baseball career

NEW YORK-When Eddie Mathews. "Two or three years I hoped and year-old Mathews hit 47 home runs. He "When I was about six, the three of .363. "I was sure than I could play checked into the Waldorf Towers there dreamed and was disappointed," he was chosen by acclamation as the kid us would go to a junior high school major league ball," he said. "Then was a bit of flap at the desk because said, "so this year I played different. I most likely to break Babe Ruth's grounds four or five times a week. At after a year in Atlanta I went in the his brother-in-law had made the said the hell with it, I don't care if I lifetime record, but the next year a first Mother would lob the ball to me Navy. I was in only six months reservation in his own name, August make it or not, but I didn't mean it. rookie outfielder named Henry Aaron underhanded, I'd bat and Dad would because my dad got tuberculosis and I Busch. joined the Braves shag When I got a little bigger and had to support my mother. No, Mathews kept explaining, he Now that it's happened, it hasn't really "Hank was a tremendous hitter for a started hitting them through the box, "But while I was in, I went to a game wasn't August Busch, he was the sunk in yet." kid," Eddie said, "but not the home Mother went to shagging and Dad in San Diego. I saw "Sad" Sam Jones brother-in-law and the reservation Relaxing with friends, he spoke of run hitter he became later I'd been up pitched." pitching that great big curve of his, Such was the reception given A third baseman from the, begin- was meant for him many things, including some of the two years when he arrived and we and then 1 was sure I couldn't play in baseball's newest, shiniest immortal ning, Eddie signed with the Braves the They went over the ground a few managers he played under. both were walking around sort of the majors on his election to the Hall of Fame in day he graduated from high school in times before he was allowed to Charley Dressen? "He'd rather starry-eyed When he started pulling "Funny thing,' when I got to the Cooperstown. Charles Cornwallis got a 1949, packed his duffle in a brown register and go upstairs, where he was catch you out after curfew than eat a the ball and hitting home runs, it majors I ate Sam Jones up." warmer welcome to New York. paper bag and reported to the parent joined by his wife Liz, up from her steak when he was hungry " became a friendly rivalry between club in Chicago. farm in Virginia. Tommy Holmes managed the us." The Daily Skiff sports section They had just gotten to sleep when The climate was cozier after break- Boston Braves when Mathews arrived "Having Eddie playing in the Bob Elliott, the incumbent at third welcomes members of the TCU the phone rang. The room's previous fast when Mathews met with some of in the majors. majors was his father's dream," Liz base, eyed the paper sack. "You don't community to submit guest occupant, a voice said, had left behind the baseball writers whose votes had "Vern Bickford was pitching, and said have to carry your lunch in this columns. Columns may be of a valuable package of diamonds and a ushered him into the company of Babe when Tommy came out of the dugout 1 league," he told the rookie. general opinion, satire or anything security officer was coming up to Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb moved over to the mound. I'm going "Dad played a little semipro ball you feel the campus should be search for it. and the other demigods in the pan- to take you out,' Tommy told Bickford and really loved it," Eddie said. "He "That day Eddie Stanky called a aware of. Guest columns should be "It's midnight," Mathews said, but theon beside Lake Otsego 'No you're not,' Bickford said, 'I want was the Western Union bureau chief in dissension meeting," Mathews said. no longer than 600 words. The soon three men in plainclothes showed Five years after retiring with 512 to takj you out,' Tommy said. 'No,' Santa Barbara, Calif., and he would "While the players met in the sports editor reserves the right to up. They went through the motions of home runs, Eddie became eligible for Bickford said Tommy went back to send the pitch-by-pitch account- clubhouse, I had to sit in the dugout edit material for community searching dresser drawers and closets the Hall of Fame in 1974. Each year the bench and the next guy hit a home Paragraph One, Western Union called without the coaches and manager. standards, libel, spelling, gram without convincing Ed or Liz that they since then, he received more votes run. Tommy came out again. 'This it—to a radio station so they could They gave me a uniform three sizes mer and taste, the same standards were looking for diamonds. than he had drawn the year before, but time I mean it,' he said. A few weeks recreate the game on the air. The too big, and Red Barrett, pitching that apply to Skiff staff copy. The "They figured we were in under not until this winter, was he named on later, Tommy was gone." announcers loved him because he batting practice, knocked me down." copy will not be edited in regards to false names," Eddie said the other 75 percent of the ballots cast, the In his second big-league season, the would throw in ad libs along with the After a few days he went to the writer's opinion. Contributions day, "to rob the joint, I guess " minimum for election.. Braves's first in Milwaukee, the 21- balls and strikes. Thomasville, N.C., where he batted should be typed and double-spaced. a TCU sprinter In world class meet IUQ11W yUffinCOVER frfL**W^ ^^e > EXPERIENCE THE $ When ace TCU. sprinter Don Collins Houston McTear, who holds the John Garrison. DISCO lines up for the 60-yard dash Saturday world record in the 60-yard dash, field Collins, who won the Sooner Relay EVER ( HBit^S ) i ooo.ooooo in Albuquerque, he will face the best which includes 1976 Olympic Gold 60-yard dash, has beaten^ world record For Unescorted Ladies the world has to offer. Literally. Medalist and world record holder in 100-yard dash sprinter Ivory Crockett Dress Accordingly Headlined by three world record the 200 meter dash, Don Quarrie and in the 100. holders, the Albuquerque Jaycee 1976 U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Steve The Horned Frog mile relay team Indoor Invitational features one of the Riddick, who ran a leg on the world's will also compete in the meet. fastest 60-yard dash fields in history. fastest sprint team. Defending National Champions The field reads like a Who's Who in Rounding out the field are world Arizona State and always tough New sprinting. class sprinters Clancy Edwards and Mexico State are included in the field. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Feb. 13 George Allen returns (One Night Only) ALL NIGHT LONG ANYTHING VINCE VANCE to Rams for third time and the Valiants 2 forl LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Chuck Knox as coach of the National «jQV Mixed Drinks Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom, Football League team. < Free Brew & starved for a Super Bowl team, named A throng of reporters greeted Allen • Mixed Drinks, George Allen head coach today. as he flew into Los Angeles In- ALL NIGHT LONG lOV Draws The hiring of Allen, fired twice ternational Airport and someone 8 • 9:30 before as head coach of the Rams, was remarked, "Welcome back," to which announced by a Rams' spokesman. Allen responded, "It's like coming Allen flew into Los Angeles Tuesday home." night and the Rams reserved a Allen, although denying at that time banquet room at a large hotel to make that he actually had the job, said WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Friday & Saturday the formal announcement today that taking over this Rams team would be 8-9:30 8-9:30 8 - 9:30 the 56-vear-old Allen will succeed a different sort of task for him. a different Arlington tabs Gleiber, DEE MixedDraws Drinks MixedDr Drinks - 1 Mixed Drinks set of jaws. i ncc * ■ nEE * »*» ■ llEE * Draws a fiL KXAS-TV for '78 network plus plus ' MIDNIGHT ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The which calls for the telecasting of a \ city of Arlington hired television minimum 25 games each season. SHOW announcer Frank Gleiber for the This year's schedule includes eight LOVILIEfT Llfll CONTEST Try Our HI MAN CONTEST Saturday Texas Rangers baseball network to prime time games and 17 Saturday , 1200.00 Cash Prim $200.00 Cash Prizes "Saturday Night Fever" All Seats 12.00 replace Tom Vandergriff, it said and Sunday afternoon games. Five Wednesday. will be against Kansas City and three , 7TH STRUT Gleiber will work with Dick with New York. Risenhoover. The Rangers' TV network has 18 * !*» turn utter t:M for mrjflM No cover after »:30 for everyone The city also signed a four-year outlets, making it the largest in the contract with KXAS-TV of Fort Worth major leagues. '