Watching the River Flow
By STEVE DODGE
Of the Emerald
In Long Beach, Calif, a
15-year-old boy charged with
public drunkenness testified in
juvenile court that 17 rum cakes
he consumed caused his
condition.
The cakes, called Babarum,
have since come under a new
state law that makes it a
misdemeanor to sell or give
anyone under 21 any cake or
candy that contains more than 2
percent alcohol. The manufac
turers have since reduced the
alcohol content from six percent to
conform with the law.—The
Christian Science Monitor
According to Reuters, a judge
on England’s Supreme Court was
hearing an appeal when a cat
strayed into the courtroom and sat
purring in the corner.
The judge, disturbed by the
noise, requested a bench warrant
for the immediate arrest of the
animal, but when an attendant
rushed in with a length of rope and
a bag to make the arrest the cat
escaped.
The feline is reportedly still at
large.
An ad in the latest issue of
National Lampoon said that
"Animal House,” which was
filmed here last term, will be out in
'‘mid-1978.”
The ad also said "Reporters on
the closed set have leaked out
these advance reactions: The
roast beef was good, the mashed
potatoes were cold and the
strawberry shortcake was great.”
The Kansas City Kings
basketball team of the NBA has
been groping for just about
anything to help turn around their
dismal 16-34 record, according to
a wire report in the Eugene
Register-Guard.
The Kings borrowed a plastic
pyramid from their basketball
counterparts, the Royals, in hopes
of drawing strength from the
so-called mystical pyramid power
— and have won three in a row.
“I don't believe in the thing,”
said Larry Staverman interim
King's coach, “but if anyone tries
to take it out of here I’ll break his
arm.”
The Royals, according to the
report, used the pyramid when
they were in fifth place in the
American League West and went
on to win the division and post the
best record in baseball last year.
And from the Associated Press:
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—An
inmate at the Charlottesville
Albemarle Joint Security Complex
has filed a federal court complaint
to get a free pair of undershorts.
Indians, feds reach initial pact
AUGUSTA. Maine (AP) — The
federal government and
representatives of 4.000 Indians
who claim 60 percent of the land in
Maine have reached a formula for
an out-of-court settlement: $30
million cash. $1.7 million a year for
15 years and 300.000 acres at $5
an acre.
But the party essential to a final
settlement, the state of Maine,
may not go along.
The proposal, worked out by a
Smoking
sets blaze
in quad unit
A fire in the Campus Court
quads. 1544 Alder St., Monday
morning has been attributed to
careless smoking' by Eugene
Fire Department Capt. Neal
Cannady.
A carpet and chair were burned
in one of the quad units. No
injuries were directly related to the
blaze, however, a tenant cut his
hand while breaking the glass
cover of a fire extinguisher,
according to Cannady. No one
was in the unit at the time of the
fire.
presidential task force and
representatives of the Penobscot
and Passamaquoddy tribes,
needs approval from the state
government. Congress and the 14
private land owners, most of them
paper companies, which would
sell the land.
If agreed to by all parties, the
package settlement would cancel
all further claims by the tribes in
Maine.
But when the proposal became
public Thursday, Joseph Bren
nan, Maine s attorney general and
a candidate for governor this year,
attacked it as “irresponsible and
indefensible.”
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Inmate Waddel Boyce Flood
charged that his non-white
underwear had been taken away
and that he was filing suit "in
hopes that I will be furnished with
proper underclothing.”
Jail Administrator Samuel
Pruett, who was the brunt of the
charge, said "We require inmates
to wear white, because we have to
wash all their underwear together
and we don't want colors fading all
over everything.” He added that
Flood had enough money in his
jail account to pay for his own
underwear.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A
young man brandishing a gun
held up three banks then pedaled
off on a 10-speed bicycle, eluding
as many as 25 police cars and a
helicopter patrol.
“He may not have actually
ridden the bike from place to place
because he had cops all over the
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place and never saw him,”
muttered a perturbed Detective
John Mudder.
The Environmental Protection
Agency has dropped an awards
program for companies making
outstanding efforts to control
water pollution because no
company ever won. — Santa
Barbara News and Review.
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A woman in the Portland
suburban area called the local
sheriff's office recently because a
bull had gotten loose and decided
to stand around in her yard.
The sheriff’s office responded
with two pickup trucks and tried to
shoo the bull away, but gave up
after its hoof hit them a couple of
times.
Sometime later, a 13-year-old
boy showed up, picked up a
two-by-four, hit the bull over the
head and led him home.
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