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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1983)
A practical alternative... Havmg trouble lending a summer job that pays big bucks? Need e better alternative then summer school? Then why not try the Forest Service S6 per day (tea free), outdoor work ex penence. fresh mountain air and a free place to hand your hat Work this summer clearing trails restoring campsites and tost an ng a back country ethic with the public in the Eagle Cap Wilderness Think about it it s important work and it beats flipping burgers See Tom Giassford at the EMU Century Room 0 April 19 20 Or write Tom at Eagle Cap Ranger District P O Box M Enterprise Oregon 9/H7H Volunteer for WILDERNESS Eagle Cap Wilderness Wallowa-Whit man National Forest Last year an Emerald reader apparently offended by a jug gler's wayward projectile wrote a letter to the editor sug gesting that the “fags” shoulc “find a job” rather than waste time on such a trivial pursuit. But last week, in the midsl of those same jugglers prac ticing in the EMU courtyard, a Southern Oregon youth of na tional repute enthralled students with his impromptu performances, juggling and spinning whatever was handy Dave Klemczak, 18, isn’t having any trouble finding a job. His main problem is trying to juggle the demands for his performances and still pick up his degree this spring at Eagle Point High School. Klemczak has a “gift” he says. Actually, several gifts. He claims he can spin anything he can pick up. “I’ve J VINO'S SPAGHETTI HOUSE PIZZA r* VK'jfL «4P. /CN \K ^ *i rll 342-8111 J :■ i k TINO’S • Full dinner menu • 23 varieties of Pizzas • Whole wheat and white crust • Pizzas to go -cooked and uncooked 15th and Willamette New Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 11:00-Midnight Fit 11:00-1:00 a.m. Sat. 5:00-1:00 a m Sun. 5:00-11 00 p m _— % J Join us for lunch! Don’t let our name fool you. The once-privale rooms of the faculty club’s Collier House are now open to anyone who is hungry. Enjoy lunch outdoors on our deck MODERATELY PRICED SALADS, SANDWICHES, HOMEMADE SOUP. The Faculty Club The Big Yellow House at 1.1th and University 11:30-2:00 Weekdays Banquet facilities available for parties, wedding receptions, and meetings. WWVWWWWWVWWWVVWWWWWVWWWwwwwi Selected New GUITARS in stock are 1/2 PRICE with this coupon Case must be purchased with most guitars. No trades. With this coupon you can buy a set of GUITAR STRINGS for 1/2 PRICE I .muted to 2 *ets per customer. 'Dm coupon entitles the bearer to purchase a SEIKO QUARTZ ELECTRONIC GUITAR TUNER (reg. $69.95) for*479S Coupons valid through April 27. 1983 - Limited to stock M - F JO - 7 (Closed noon hour) Sat. until 4 LTD “Fox Hollow*’ Bus Park at our front door 380 F 40th Kugene Juggler has careers spinning never found anything that I couldn't spin, really,” Klemc zak says. He twirls and juggles with whatever is handy — hub caps, 10-speed bicycles, suit cases and even the proverbial kitchen sink. "I spin one on each hand, faucets and all,” Klemczak says. "I spin wheelbarrows too — I get them going so fast people can’t even tell what they are.” Klemczak’s talents have been noted on the recognized barometers of the bizarre — “That's Incredible,” “Good Morning America,” "Real Peo ple,” “You Asked For It” and the granddaddy of them all — "The Gong Show.” He has also been featured in “Peo ple,” "National Enquirer” and “The Star” magazines and is waiting for his story to appear in “Life” magazine. He’ll be in the 1984 Guin ness Book of World Records for spinning a hubcap for 22 hours nonstop, without any rest periods. He set the record in a Medford television sta tion, as viewers and judges waited for the slip-up that never came. Klemczak never used his opposite hand to keep the hubcab spinning, and he never considered quitting. “The last hour felt just as good as the first. I wanted to go for 24 hours,” says Klemc zak, “but the owner of the sta tion said he couldn’t stay open that long.” This would be just another juggler-spinner-makes-good story if the Klemczak’s story ended here. But it doesn’t. About two years ago Klemc zak discovered he had “another gift.” “I just said ‘hey, if I can do spinning, why can’t I do other things,” he remembers. “I discovered I had the natural ability to sing. I’d never had any lessons or voice training, but I could sing.” So Klemczak pooled resources with four Medford area musicians, all in their late 20’s and early 30’s and work ing in other professions, and the “Sash” band was born. An original recording now earning Klemczak as much at tention as his spinning talents is his “E.T.” song. It is very similar to a popular record released in the mid-’70s, where an interviewer asks questions of the famous shark “Jaws,” who responds humorously with lines from current pop songs. Question: "E.T., how will you survive on earth — it’s a totally different environment for you down here?" Answer: “ ...get my dinner from a gar bage can... ” Question: “E.T., how did you feel after drinking all that beer?" Answer: "...seeing see ing double vision...” Question: "E.T., the doctors thought you were dead and they put you in that big cold box, and Elliot walked up to you and touched you. What were you thinking?" Answer: “...you’re as cold as ice... ” You get the idea. Currently the record is running a solid seventh place on the charts at a San Jose radio station, and Klemczak says requests are also running high at Los Angeles stations. The record is scheduled to start playing on a Eugene station soon. Sash will release its first album on May 6, including spoofs on popular Top-40 hits, including “Open Arms,” "Abracadabra,” and “I Love RISING RATE SUSPENSION featuring: Open Lags ■ Valley Guy Freezer Cadaver ■ Let's Get Chemical The Turd Is Mine ■ Superman I Love Rocky Road ■ Ee. Tee. Produced by 0«ve Klemczafc See label for sequence Rock’n’Roll.” If Klemczak’s juggling, spin ning or musical mischief doesn’t entertain his au dience, his uncannily true im itations of singers John Cougar and Greg Kihn usually do the trick. "It’s weird," he says. "It’s almost like John Cougar and I have the same voice. I mean the exact same voice.” “That’s Incredible" was so taken by Klemczak’s range of talents that he appeared in four different segments of the same show in February. ‘‘I haven’t really found anything I can't do,” says Klemczak. “I remember the first time I tried to throw a boomerang. It was a left handed boomerang and I’m right-handed, but it flew just perfect the first time. It’s just a basic gift I have — to succeed at whatever I try.” Story by Sean Meyers Adult bookstore owner fined EUGENE (AP) — The proprietor of adult book and film stores in Eugene and Springfield was fined $1,500 Monday and was ordered to re main on five years’ probation for disseminating obscene materials. Mitchell Hutchinson of Veneta was con victed Dec. 10 on seven of eight obscenity charges and had faced a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,500 fine on each charge. Lano County Circuit Judge Janies Hargreaves ordered Hutchinson to refrain from starting or buying into any business without ap proval from his probation officer. Hargr9aves called Hutchinson’s crime “a difficult area of the law — probably one of the most difficult" because the conduct is not universally condemned, as are crimes such as rape, robbery or assault. ‘it is unfortunate," Hargreaves said, “that the prescribed conduct by law is not as clear. It’s not clearly identifiable in many cases (of obscenity charges) where legal conduct becomes illegal conduct. The test to be applied is as varied as the people who sit in the jury box." Hargreaves said he felt personally that the First Amendment should protect all printed materials. But he said case law and legislation have defined certain aspects of sexually ex plicit materials as criminal. Those definitions must be considered in prosecution and senten cing of offenders, the judge said. David Nissman, the deputy district at torney prosecuting the case, said that obsceni ty cases are difficult and costly to prosecute. But, he said, the district attorney's office would be arrogant if it ignored violations of the law against disseminating obscene materials. Nissman sought a harsher economic penalty — at least a $7,500 fine — against Hutchinson. 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