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pago 2 tuesday, October 2, 1979 dally nebraskan NORML fizzles The Lincoln chapter of the National Organiza tion for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has fizzled out after only one meeting last semester, according to Donald Feidlcr, state coordinator for NORML. Feidler, an Omaha attorney, said he would be in terested in getting a Lincoln chapter started, but that no one has contacted him about it. Glenn Maloney, program consultant for Campus Activities and Programs, said that unless someone in the organization can be contacted within the next week, NORML will be considered inactive. NORML advisor, Richard Weissman could not be reached for comment. A P. datelines olin Paul in U.S., 1st tour ever Boston (AP)- Pope John Paul II arrived Monday for the first VS. papal tour in history. The popes Aer Lingus Boeing 747, dubbed "St. Patrick," landed in a heavy mist at Logan International Airport. Boston was the first stop on a planned seven-day, six city tour and thousands of people gathered throughout Hair Designs for Men &Women Introducing Deb Dufoe State Styling Champion Hrs: Tues., Thurs., Fri. 9, Wed. 9. Sat. 8-2 810 N. 48th 466-8548 S 3:304:30 p.m.-UPC Fund Allocation Committee, Georgian Suite B 4: 15-5 pjn.-Daily Nebraskan, Room 216 5:30-6 p.m.-Towne Club Pledges, Room 232 6 p.m.-Towne Club, Harvest Room A-B 6- 8 pjn.-I.F.C.-Panhellenic, Centennial Room 6:30-8 p.m.-Lambda Chi Alpha, Regency Suite A 7 p.m.-Delta Sigma Pi exec, The Rostrum 7- 10 p.m,-Table Tennis Club, The Cellar 7:30 p jn.-Delta Sigma Pi, The Rostrum 7:30 p.m.-Math Counselors, Room 225 BC 8 p.m.-Delta Sigma Pi Pledges, Room 337 the city hours before the pope's arrival in hopes of getting a glimpse of him. By noon, some 60,000 people waited on Boston Com mon, for an outdoor Mass expected to draw up to one million. Probable suicide Valentine, Neb. (AP) - Cherry County authorities and the Nebraska State Patrol Monday were investigating the shooting death of a 26-year-old Oklahoma woman. Cherry County Attorney Bill Quigley said the woman apparently died from a gunshot wound early Sunday morning in the Fort Niobrara Wildlife Refuge east of Valentine. Authorities said no one is in custody for the shooting and sources said officials believe the death was suicide. starti staff 4 ft mx Editor in chief: Amy Leten; Managing editor: Margaret Stafford; News editor: Randy Essex; Associate news editors: Brenda Moskovits, Rocky Strunk; Night news editor: Frank Hassler; Assistant night news editor: Bonnie Lund; Features editor: Jill Denning; Layout editor: Deb Shanahan; Entertainment editor; Kim Wilt; Sports editor: Rick Huls; Photography chief: Mark Billingsley; Art director: Mike Whiteley; Magazine editor: Mary Fastenau; Magazine managing editor: Gail Stork; Ombuds man: Michael Zangari; East Campus bureau chief: Kevin Field. Copy editors: Lz Austin, Julie Bird, Barb Bierman, Alice Hrnicek, Barb Richardson, Bob Lannin, Kris Hansen, Karen Morin, Paula Bauer, Sandy George, Denise Lemunyan. Business manager: Anne Shank; Production manager: Kitty Policky; Advertising manager: Denise Jordan; Assistant advertising manager: Art Small, The Daily Nebraskan is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semes ters, except during vacation. Address: Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, 14th and R streets, Lincoln Neb., 68588. Telephone: 472-2588. Material may be reprinted without permission if attributed to the Daily Nebraskan, except material covered by a copyright Second dass postage paid at Lincoln, Neb, 68510, UPC Performing Arts Committee will meet at 4:30 Piii. Tuesday in the Nebraska Union 221 . Consumer Affairs majors will meet at 6:30 pjn. in Home Economics Bldg. 142. Angel Flight will meet at 7 pan. in the M & N Bldg. Staff will meet at 6:30 p.m. Circle K will meet at 7 p.m. in the Unkm. Room num. ber will be posted. UPC-East will meet at 6 pjn. m the East Union Com mittee Room. Campus Girl Scouts wUI meet at 6:15 at the Union parking lot for songfest practice at First Plymouth Church, 20th & D streets. The American Society of Interior Designers will meet at 1 p.m. in the East Union, Room number will be posted. Andrew Morrow will be the featured speaker. The Pre-Vets will meet at 7 p jn. in Vet. Science Bldg. 1 5 1 , Dr. W J . Deboer will be the guest speaker. ADVERTISEMENT" Southwest' s country discos are far cry from New York's Studio 54 ic) New York Times DALLAS - In an age when every fad sprouts another, country disco is the hottest new entertainment in the South west, in some ways, Cowboy in Houston, Along with the fistfights, flying beer bottles and raunchy decor of some of Texas's more traditional honky-tonks, some of the rougher edges of the music have been lost in the transition from Diamond Jim's in Dallas or even the plain country to country disco, old Country Disco in Strawn, Texas, are "There's a certain flow you want to not much different fror other discos, adhere to, a certain build,'" Houston disc They feature a young clientele, flashing jockey John Brejot said, trying to explain lights, thunderous, nonstop dancing the sounds at a country disco. But then music and disc jockeys who think of their you want to be aware of a mood thing as sound systems as musical instruments wl. So, I might go from 'Redneck Nat- with which they can create moods, mani- ional Anthem' by Vernon Oxford into pulate rhythm and segue different songs "Drop-Kick Me, Jesus, Through die Goal together into a throbbing, coherent, Posts of Life,' Merle Haggard's t)kie sensuous whole. From Muskogee' to maybe, oh, Pure However, the effect isnt quite Studio Prairie League's 111 Fix Your Rat Tire, 54. The attire is more Panhandle Slim Merle.' " than Bill Blass and the lyrics are closer to "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother" than anything kicked around by the Village People. Nor is the effect one of standard Texas honky-tonks slowly going to seed in small Diamond Jim's, formerly a disco called die Pawnshop, is on Dallas's busy Green ville Avenue entertainment strip, home to most of the city's more elegant discos. It is the brainchild of Jim C. Scott, head of a concern called Communications towns and forgotten areas of big cities, or Systems Inc the new generation of hip dance halls like Its decor is basic urban cowboy chic - die famous GiDey's near Houston. solid oak bar stools, barrels full of pea- Instead, it's a blend of disco tech- nuts, antique fixtures and rough cedar nology and urban cowboy chic, offering walls lined with Western tintypes, saddles, dancing to recorded music by the likes of spurs, a huge stuffed deerhead, signs for Hank Williams, Eddie Rabbit and Willie Lone Star beer (a beer that is far more Nelson blasted out of $50,000 sound . popular at die Lone Star Cafe in New systems. York than it is in north Texas). And it There are a few makeshift country offers beer in long-necked bottles, $24 discos in tiny Texas towns such as Strawn Resistol straw cowboy hats for those or Comanche, but the most visible ones without their own Western attire, a are found in popular entertainment strips thunderous sound system playing non- -ia big cities. They appeal both to South- stop dance music, and a population den- wners "who grew up on the twangy virtues sity roughly comparable to that of a hold- of country music and transplanted execu- ing pen in a stockyard, tire cowboys who are just learning to With that mixed bag of attractions, the make sense of them. dub has become an instant success. It is Tm an Okie, what can I say?" 19- filled to its 600-person capacity virtually year-old Peggy Roark said recently as she every njghU Customers wait in line for as surveyed the undulating sea of denim at long as an hour on weekends for the Diamond Jim's country disco in Dallas, chance to pay the $2 cover charge and Td father listen to Hank Williams than dance die two-step, cotton-eyed Joe, Donna Sarsncr. I would rather meet a schottische or modified country polkas, cowboy than John Travolta." or just to join impromptu sing-a-longs. . aprtasad by Tht lincoSa JooroalStar 91373 W New York Timu YV -WVVjw V THP HAT I AC e ESQUIRE CLUB JTH 13th and ARAPAHOE STS. VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER (HugeFREE-Sitcd pairicng lot)