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Cuff Note
— Anemblid by —
JOE WOOSLEY
Brief notes: Speculation
about the eventual use of the
building being vacated by
Perry Bros.’ downtown store
has been widespread, but
rumors have not been con-
firmed...In fact, one person
who might have shed some
light, just smiled and said
“that's a secret” when asked
about the building during the
week...Next week, perhaps, a
sizeable agricultural operation
may be at the announcement
stage...Pickton’s Postmaster
Prat Davis is excited about the
prospects for getting a new post
office building, now that a
contract has been awar-
ded...Earlier, efforts hit
stumbling blocks and forced
delays...The Rev. William
Chandler, pastor of Church of
the Nazarene, has marked his
third anniversary with the local
congregation. He is currently
serving as president of the
Hopkins County Ministerial
Alliance. He has made many
friends during his tenure in the
community as well as in his
church.
More notes: Kevin Duck-
worth, nine-year-old son of
Johnny and Jeanine (Ramey)
Duckworth, recently ex-
perienced a thrill that should
stay with him for many
years...The youngster, whose
father is a lieutenant colonel in
the Air Force stationed at Hahn
air base near Frankfurt,
Germany, was selected as a
member of the Sea Hawks
swimming team...The team's
first off-base competition was
in Berlin and the pool used was
the same one that the 1936
Olympic Games
utilized...Kevin rode the train
through the corridor to Berlin,
where the youngsters were
shown many of the tourist
attractions, including the
Berlin Wall at Checkpoint
Charlie...Kevin has a younger
brother, Matthew, 6...Local
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
G. W. Duckworth and Joe
Ramey...Since his formal
retirement several years ago
Lester Teer has remained
pretty active, climbing ladders
to paint his house and doing
other “risk” type en-
deavors... Just recently,
however, he stepped off a low
curb and fractured an ankle
bone.
Last notes: A complimentary
copy of Lion Power, a student
publication prepared by the
Saltillo High School Beta Club,
has reached the desk...The
well-edited mimeographed
publication carried con-
siderable school news. One
story told about Ginger Green
being elected Area VI sergeant-
at-arms in the recent con-
vention at Tyler, while another
recapped the UIL literary
district contest in which the
Saltillo students amassed 160
points to win first
place...Another story listed the
all-district basketball per-
formers from Saltillo and other
schools...And the results of a
steer sale in which eight Saltillo
students picked up a con-
siderable amount of money was
highlighted...For the lighter
side, the Lion Power editors
interviewed students on the
question: “What’s a
trustee?”...There were various
answers, many solid and
several amusing...One seventh
grader replied: "A trustee
helps,our fire department."...A
fifth grader wrote: “They do
work such as solving money
problems, school problems,
and the fighting problems."...A
first grader possibly had the
most revealing response. The
student wrote: “He is kind of
like a monkey and eats vines off
the tree.”
Can he topple McGovern?
Bell chases political dream in S.D.
YOUNG DALE BELL (left) insists Sen. George McGovern can be beaten. The conservative
Republican, a former Reagan campaigner, expects to challenge South Dakota’s most
prominent politician for his seat in November.
By Tom Tiede
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (NEA) -
A quarter-century ago a
young man drove an old car
over the lonely roads of this
state, pursuing a political
dream. He knocked on doors,
collected names, and estab-
lished a vote manufacturing
organization that was to pro-
pel him into the American his-
tory books.
George McGovern.
Today there is another
young man traveling the
roads here in another car,
pursuing another ambitious
dream. Dale Bell, a 30-year»
old small businessman, is
knocking on doors, collecting
names, and trying to establish
a force of his own to end the
service of South Dakota’s
most prominent politician.
Bell, a Republican, is
opposing Democrat McGo-
vern in November’s senatorial
race. And it’s not easy. McGo-
vern has 28 years of experi-
ence, 20 in Congress. Besides,
eight years after his run for
the White House, McGovern
remains one of the best known
and most influential men in
the nation.
But Bell insists he can be
beaten. And a good many
South Dakotans agree with
him. McGovern has never
been overwhelmingly popular
here, and polls now indicate
his public support is often less
than 50 percent. State Repub-
lican officers say the senator
may be at the most vulnerable
point of his career.
Hi? problems shouldn’t be
surprising. McGovern is the
preeminent liberal legislator
in America, and South Dakota
is decidedly conservative. He
failed to carry the state in the
1972 presidential election, and
had to struggle to edge an
unknown opponent in the 1974
Senate race (he won by 7,000
votes).
Then along came Bell. In
1978, the one-time Spearfish
grocer set up a solicitation
drive called “Target
McGovern." People across the
country were asked to donate
money to be used to eliminate
the senator from office. In the
first mailing, Bell received
what he says was “an aston-
ishing” $30,000.
Target McGovern was so
successful, actually, that
national conservative groups
adopted the tactic. Soon the
media spread the idea that
McGovern and some other lib-
eral senators were defeatable
in 1980. Since then a consider-
able sum of cash has been
raised to assist opposing can-
didates in the endeavor.
In all, five senators have
been targeted: McGovern,
Frank Church of Idaho. Birch
Bayh of Indiana, John Culver
of Iowa, and Alan Cranston of
California. Of the lot, conserv-
atives think McGovern may
be the least difficult to topple.
And that’s why candidate Bell
is traveling about this state
knocking on doors.
No doubt Bell is on an
uncertain journey. And he
must pass the primary before
he can get to McGovern. Up to
now, Bell and a farmer named
Wayne Peterson have been
sole competitors for the
Republican nomination
However, James Abdor, one
of the state’s two congress-
men, has also jumped into the
altercation.
Yet Bell believes he will
win the GOP bid because he
offers the clearest alternative
to the incumbent. He is as
conservative as Sen. McGo-
vern is liberal. He was educat-
ed on Barry Goldwater aphor-
isms before graduating to
Ronald Reagan; he ran part of
Reagan’s Texas campaign in
the 1974 primaries.
Bell says he is poles apart
from McGovern on virtually
every issue. And he proves it
by passing out a facsimile of a
recording disc that he calls
McGovern’s “record.” On one
side Bell has printed many of
the senator’s votes and posi-
tions On the other he explains
his energetic opposition to
them all.
The disc- says McGovern
voted to give away the Pana-
ma Canal. He voted for gun
registration and opposes vol-
untary prayer in school. Bell
says McGovern is one of three
senators to vote against the
entire defense budget of the
current fiscal year, and to
resist every major tax cut of
the last decade
In contrast, Bell chaired a
South Dakota committee to
save the Panama Canal, he is
resident of a gun group, and
e promotes school prayer He
is anti-Communist, pro-Chris-
tianity, and in favor of
unfettered free enterprise.
Likewise he believes US.
forces should be armed to the
teeth.
Indeed, the only thing the
adversaries agree on is politi-
cal strategy. Bell says the sen-
ator is the most sophisticated
campaigner in the nation,
hence he has decided to out-
McGovern McGovern. He says
he will do everything the lat-
ter does, and more, including
bulwarking his conduct with
computer programs,
Also he says he’s going to
compete with McGovern on
the solon's own turf, the more
urban eastern half of the
state. “My idea is to tell every
voter what kind of a person,
George McGovern really is.
Not many know, for example,
that he ranks fifth among con-
gressmen who take junkets at
taxpayer expense."
Observers say it's too early
to assay the Bell threat But
McGovern is apparently
apprehensive. He has recently
begun tapping supporters for
funds that he hopes will total
$1.5 to $2 million by Novem-
ber He definitely does not
want to lose the presidency
and a Senate seat as well to
the Tories.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
TOM TIEDE
$6 million pact
Dolly Parton — Queen of Las Vegas
By Murray Olderman
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (NEA) -
Tony Zoppi has never met
Dolly Parton. This would not
be important except that he
has signed the blonde, big-
busted singer to the most
lucrative contract in the histo-
ry of show business.
Over the next three years,
Miss Parton will get $6 mil-
lion for appearing six weeks
annually at the Riviera Hotel
— where Tony reigns as the
vice president for entertain-
ment.
Her total stipend comes out
to a whopping $350,000 per
week, stupendous even for this
high-rolling desert oasis.
Previously, Frank Sinatra had
been the only performer in the
$300,000-weekly class.
This all came about
because Zoppi, who had been
the hotel's public-relations
director for 14 years, got a
call from Ray Katz, Miss
Parton’s manager, saying:
“Dolly’s decided to work Las
Vegas. I’m offering her to
three hotels.” v '
Las Vegas first got into the
big bucks for acts when
Liberace opened a couple of
decades ago for $50,000 a
week, which was considered a
miraculous sum. Andy Wil-
liams at Caesars Palace car-
ried it to the $10(1.000 plateau,
and Neil Diamond jacked it up
another $50,000 a week at the
MGM Grand.
(Sinatra doesn’t figure
because he was always in a
class by himself.)
Zoppi’s first bid for Dolly
Parton was for $250,000 a
week, which was higher than
his hotel had ever paid. Ten
years ago, the Riviera had
risked big bucks with Dean
Martin, and it had paid off.
"You had the low bid,”
Parton's manager informed
Zoppi.
So Tony went to Meshulam
Riklis, an Israeli business
entrepreneur who owns the
Riviera.
“That was your offer,” said
Riklis. “Now I’ll make my
offer." And he upped the ante
to $350,000 a week, which was
50 Gs more than either the
MGM Grand or Caesars Pal-
ace would pay.
Riklis has never seen or
met the country and western
star, either. He doesn’t even
know her name. He calls her
“Dolly Who?” - or simply
“the broad with the big —
Says Zoppi: “The fact other
hotels are bidding tells you
something. Dolly Parton is the
hottest concert act in the
country.
“Her opening (scheduled for
June) will be up there with the
Fourth of July and Bastille
Day. This is going to be the
biggest deal in the industry."
Besides the 350 big ones a
week, Dolly will also be get-
ting what they call in Las
Vegas “the garbage” — the
use of a home in fashionable
Rancho Circle, a chauffeur-
driven limousine, a maid, a
cook, rooms for her entou-
rage, complimentary food and
beverage.
Putting up these stars often
ranks with getting accommo-
dations for the ex-shah of
Iran. For Dean Martin, they
had to provide $150 bottles of
Chateau Lafitte Rothschild
wine. He wouldn’t ride an
elevator, so they built him a
$200,000 suite on the second
floor with private sauna and
Jacuzzi.
Barry Manilow insisted on
curtains in the hallway out-
side his suite. Shirley
MacLaine, who suffers from
hypoglycemia, had to have
food choppers and a special
refrigerator, plus 12 tele-
phones.
"Las Vegas is really middle
America,” explains Zoppi in
trying to justify when so much
money is being invested in a
country and western singer.
Headliners such as Bob
Newhart and the Mills Broth-
ers regularly sell out.
The show room at the Rivi-
era seats 1,000 people for
dinner, 1,100 for the cocktail
show. The average take is
$60,000 a night for the two
shows, or $420,000 a week
“We'U break even with
Dolly,” admits Tony, “if we’re
lucky.”
The big Las Vegas earnings,
of course, are in the gambling
casinos.
Because of the higher mon-
ey plateau, the Riviera will
also have to deal with new
demands from such headlin-
ers as Steve Martin, Liza Min-
nelli and Kenny Rogers.
The other hotels have react-
ed negatively to the escalat-
ing salary of Miss Parton
because it creates a new spi-
ral of demands.
But stars such as Wayne
Newton, Johnny Carson, Bar-
ry Manilow, John Denver and
Barbra Streisand sell out the
show rooms and the hotels in
which they’re appearing. Sina-
tra sells out the town.
“My ambition," says Zoppi,
. “is to get Bob Hope to play
Las Vegas We’ve been talking
about it for 10 years. Liza
Minnelli got him up on the
stage once. So there’s hope.”
Meanwhile, Zoppi’s main
concern is a successful run for
Miss Parton.
Will she sell out?
“She better,” says Tony, an
ex-journalist, "or I’m going
back to sports writing,”
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Space-age technology
The making of America’s Cup yachts
By Chris Hurst
NEW YORK (NEA) - Late
this summer, crews repre-
senting the U S defender and
five challengers will gather in
Newport. R.I., to compete for
the America's Cup, perhaps
the oldest and most presti-
gious sports trophy in the
world.
The ornate silver symbol of
supremacy in 12-meter yacht
racing dates from 1851, when
the schooner "America," rep-
resenting the New York Yacht
Club, defeated 14 British
rivals in a 60-mile race
around the Isle of Wight off
the English coast. ,
Since that time, yachts rep-
resenting England, Ireland,
Scotland, Australia, France
and, most recently, Sweden
have made a total of 22 unsuc-
cessful attempts to lift the
cup from the united States.
Challenges for the Ameri-
'ca’s Cup — which may not be
made more frequently than
every third year — capture
the imagination and attention
of millions of sports enthusi-
asts, only a few of whom can
define the difference between
a winch and a genoa jib
Even fewer are more than
remotely aware of the role
played by modern technology
in enhancing the skills, experi-
ence and competitiveness of
the wind-bronzed men who
crew these sleek yachts.
In fact, modern challenges
for the cup represent signifi-
cant applications of advanced
technologies in many fields:
hull design, hydrodynamics,
hydraulics, metallurgy, sail
construction and design?
mechanical equipment and
use of computers to maximize
a boat's performance.
One of the most useful tools
available to the designer of a
12-meter boat is the model
towing tank in which scale
models have been tested since
1931.
Originally, crude scales
were affixed to a model of the
hull As the model was towed
through the water, the design-
er walked alongside the tank,
recording the action of the
needle on the resistance scale.
Today the crude scales have
been superseded by sophisti-
cated sensors that feed infor-
mation to a computer.
Using tois data, the design-
er can deRTmine such factors
as hull resistance, stability,
side force on the hull and
CHRIS HURST Is ah executive In
the Stockholm office of an Inter-
national public-relations compa-
ny His story is reprinted from
ASEA International
SPACE-AGE materials and technologies have done much
to optimize the performance of America's Cup competi-
tors. But even the most advanced yachts — like this Swed-
ish boat named the "Sverige” — have little chance of victo-
ry without a skilled and experienced crew.
location of the center of water
force. Various types of water
conditions - from smooth to
extremely rough — can be
simulated with great accura-
cy
Computers played a key
role in the design of the Swed-
ish challenge! "Sverige” in
1977
Data processing was used in
developing and testing several
scale models and in the actual
construction of the hull and
keel. Blueprints for the final
design were enlarged to full
scale with the aid of a
computer. And the frame of
the hull was cut from sheet
aluminum by computer-con-
trolled form-milling cutters in
Volvo’s experimental work
shop.
Throughout construction,
the Swedish Technical Control
Institute inspected the weld-
ing of the hull by means of X-
ray photography and ultrason-
ic testing in Addition to its
visual control.
Of all the details of con-
struction of a 12-meter yacht,
the design and fabrication of
masts are possibly the most
critical Despite the use of
special metal alloys and
sophisticated production tech-
niques, the masts of these
boats have a disquieting tend-
ency to fail.
The reason is not difficult
to understand since the spars
are subject to tremendous
forces. Under normal racing
conditions, they can bend as
much as Hi feet from the
vertical.
The search for new techno-
logies to assure the construc-
tion of dependable masts,
most of which are made of
aluminum alloys, is unending.
In 1977, the designers of the
U S. boat "Enterprise" tried a
new approach.
Their mast was constructed
in two sections, with the upper
section 55 feet long Ratner
than follow the normal prac-
tice of cutting and welding,
the designers specified that
the upper section be tapered
by pulling an aluminum tube
through a die and rollers.
Without welds to weaken
the material, the aluminum
retained its full strength
throughout the length of the
section.
The rigging developed for
the “Enterprise" was also
noteworthy since it illustrated
how technology developed in
one field can be applied in a
totally different one. In this
instance, the designers relied
on a nickel-cobalt alloy devel-
oped for the aerospace indus-
try.
Onboard computers —
which have been used with
increasing success during the
last three competitions — can
perform a wide range of tasks
during a race.
They are used to measure
"true wind," keep track of the
boat's position and the range
and bearing to the next mark,
and display the apparent wind
angle and speed on the next
leg of the triangular course.
All this is done on a continu-
ous basis.
Most important, perhaps,
the computer can indicate
how well — or how poorly —
the boat is being sailed by
comparing optimum perform-
ance figures stored in the
computer’s memory with
actual ones.
Despite all the space-age
materials and technologies,
however, the helmsman still
has to make the critical deci-
sions and order the decisive
actions. The real margin of
victory lies in his skill and
experience — and in those of
the unsung crews who have
made the history of America's
Cup challenges a memorable
part of international sports
drama.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN l
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CRITIC-AT-LARGE
Old slots yield payoff as antiques
RELAXED LAWS on possession of flot machines have cre-
ated a hot auction market for antique slots as well as vend-
ing, music and arcade machines. Above Bally Reliance 5-
cent dice payout machine, circa 1936, brought a record
price of $5,750 at a recent New York auction.
By Norman Nadel
NEW YORK (NEA) - In
more than half the United
States it still is illegal to
possess, much less -use, a slot
machine, But pressure from
collectors has encouraged 21
states in the past several
years to relax their laws.
As a result, coin-operated
gambling machines — along
with the always-legal vending,
music and arcade machines
and “trade stimulators" -
have become hot items at auc-
tions and other sales of Amer-
icana collectibles in Ohio.
New Jersey, New York, Colo-
rado, California, Illinois,
Texas, Pennsylvania, Oregon,
Florida and other areas -
including, of course, Nevada,
where it has always been
allowed
Evidence of this was the
all-time record crowd at the
recent Collectors' Carousel
sale at PB84, an auction house
in New York, where more
than 75 coin-operated
machines went for bids as
high as $9,000.
That record was set for a
Mills "Admiral Dewey" 1902
5-cent one-wheel slot machine
in an upright musical cabinet.
A Mills "Baseball OK
Vendor” 5-cent three-reel slot
machine (1929) that dispensed
mints went for $7,000 More
recent and familiar “one-arm
bandits" sold for $1,500 and
up
This, the first such sale in
New York State in more than
a half-century, became possi-
ble on July 10, 1979. when
Gov. Hugh Carey signed an
amendment to the state’s
gambling laws. The action, in
turn, was based on a Califor-
nia test case several years
ago following the arrest of a
collector-dealer there who
tried to sell a machine
through a newspaper ad He
won his case and got the law
changed
Pressure to change the New
York law had been brought by
the Society for thb^Preserva-
tion of Historical Coin-operat-
ed Machines, of which Melvin
Getlan is president and chief
mover. A Westchester County
(north of New York City) busi-
nessman, he also is a collec-
tor, owning about 500 of the
machines
However, he did talk Sothe-
by Parke-Bernet, operators of
PB84, into the idea of such an
auction, though he recalls
they were doubtful if it would
stir much interest. Now they
happily admit they were
wrong
Despite the liberalizing of
the slots sales law, there still
are restrictions. In New York,
only those machines can be
sold and owned that were
made prior to 1941; they are
legally considered antiques.
According to Getlan, the date
marks the start of the chan-
geover from entirely mechan-
ical slots to electronic-and-
mechanical or all-electronic
devices. Also, most of the
pieces that old have endured
too much wear and tear to
work reliably in a gambling
casino
Other states have varia-
tions on this limitation In Illi-
nois, for example, any
machine 25 or more years old
is legal to possess.
Trade stimulators are coin-
operated machines that pay
off not with money but with
purchasing power for the par-
ticular establishment in which
they were installed For
example, the pay-off hi a can-
dy store could be in candy or
gum; in a tobacco shop it
could be in cigars.
Getlan became interested
in collecting through visits
with his cousin in Maryland
who had been collecting coin-
operated machines for years.
In 1972 Getlan began assem-
bling trade stimulators, pay-
ing from $50 to $125 when he
located one for sale. He start-
ed buying Antique Trader, a
weekly listing of collectibles,
and prowled old shops and
flea markets.
Later he deicided on a
representational collection of
all types of coin-operated
mchines A consultant for the
PB84 sale, he designed it in
tbe same way, with a variety
of types.
Some collectors buy these
devices for their recreation
rooms, others for the invest-
ment potential, and many just
because these gaudy old
machines are entertaining to
have around. A 1936 Watling
“Treasury” 5-cent three-reel
slot, with twin jackpots, in a
cast metal housing decorated
with cascading coins, can be
the life of any party. It sold
for $5,250
The same amount of money
bought another kind of coin
machine: a Wurlitzef‘jukebox
from the 1930s, with bubble ^
tubes framing the glazed
front, revealing 24 records,
within a wood case. This one
was restored and operating
With prices like this, some
tavern operators might take a
second look at that relic in the
back room. And depending on
where you live, old slot
machines could warrant dust-
ing off. They have acquired a
new status as antiques.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
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