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Benefit show for
cancer victim
lew music phase
¡elds disco craze
isic changes along with
nood of the people. It
jes with the condition of
»untry and it has con-
itodo so.,
e early sixties was an
Sy period, and that
siness was reflected by the
:of that time. Bob Dylan,
Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix
60's composers of that
. They channeled the
of the American youth
r songs,, stating the
less of the moment and
the disco crowd. Barbara
Holliday, of Doc Hollidays,
says, “We’ve been in the
restaurant business for eight
years now and I think disco is
the neatist thing to happen.”
Expressing her opinion on
disco, Holliday said, “People
from 8 to 80 are into it. It si
definitely going to last.” They
are installing a lighted dance
floor and a sound system. The
grand opening is scheduled for
around the first of November.
As was said before, disco
appeals to all age groups, in­
cluding those under 21.
“Kaliedascope” in Oregon City
is run especially for those under
the drinking age as is “Ear­
thquake Ethel’s” on Sunday af­
ternoons.
Someday the mood will
change again and a new style
of music will come into exis­
tance. Disco may fade and it
may not. That remains to be
seen..
pay. A plea for help was
A benefit talent show for Ken
published in the Enterprise
Shea, a former College student
Courier by Ben Hansen,
now suffering from lung can­
cer, will be presented Oct. 24
editor.
Hansen interviewed Shea
in the Oregon City High School
and has since checked in with
auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
the family regularly. Hansen
Thé talent show is sponsored
said that as of now, Shea has a
by the Kaleidoscope Teens of
50/50 chance of living up to
Oregon City. Barbara Holliday,
owner and operator of the
six months or five years.
“I have never met two more
Kaleidoscope Teen Center,
courageous people in my life,”
said, “I told the kids about a
Hansen said of the Sheas.
plea to the community to help
The talent show profits will
Shea, they were very eager to
go to the Sheas to pay medical
help.”
expenses, so that Kathy Shea
Shea is a 40-year-old former
will not have to sell their house.
restaurant manager. He quit
Dance Currents, a dance
the restaurant business after his
company at the College, will
daughter was born two. years
perform at the benefit. They
ago. He wanted to get a job
will perform a comedy dance to
that would allow him more
the Spike Jones version of
time at home. His wife, Kathy,
helped pay for his schooling at
“Cocktails for Two,” and two
disco dances.
the College.
Shea was taking broad­
The company has been
casting and video classes at the together for year. They per­
College when he began ex­ form in churches, on campus,
periencing chest pains. He
and will be performing in the
went to the doctor for x-rays library during “Haunt Your
that showed nothing. From ‘Library,” week. The members
there he went into 10 months originated from dance classes
of testing until a diagnosis was at the College. Members are
reached. Shea was ailing from Jane Rickenbach, Leru Bevens,
lung cancer.
Patty Beals, Scott Cohen, Joe
Rosenbery, and Marcia Tuma.
The months of diagnosis
Tickets can be obtained by
totaled $10,000 in medical bills calling Barbara Holliday at
which the Shea’s could not 657-4047.
“Disco is great for the people
involved,” Holliday said, “It
gets more people on the dance
floor, you see more couples.”
en came the late sixties Holliday said that the eating
early seventies, the calm section will be quiet enough for
the storm. The Beatles conversation.
then the orators reflecting
In closing, Holliday said, “It
happy I-like-being-in-love really is a fever it’s catching.”
»ton that America was — The media is getting into
(¡through at that time,
disco. Just recently, on TV, the
pw the late seventies, the Osmond Brothers had a
ic has changed again, special. If anyone was forced to
Mica is happy again, watch it they would have
pie are now living for the discovered that disco was the
Pent in an almost restless dominant force in that
like the early sixties, but program.
a happy feeling like the
“Starsky and Hutch” had a
seventies.
whole episode devoted to disco
Ko has appeared on the with the two slueths rescuing
k sweeping anyone who pretty girls from a disco-maniac
to dance in its deluge. It who killed them after they dan­
(become a new way of living ced with him.
thinking.
Movies have brought the
Rwhere you look there is glamour of disco to the silver
P>. Department stores are screen. One in particular is
B disco clothes, disco “Saturday Night Fever” starring
k record stores are selling the disco king himself, John
I records, and now more Travolta. This movie can well
| more restaurants are tur- be credited with getting disco
J to disco to increase off on the right foot.
truer intake.
The sound track to “Satur­
R Hollidays in Oregon day Night Fever,” may have
| is in the process of sold more copies than the
Heling to make room for movie sold tickets.
lospel sounds
ill college mall
|e college’s
Fireside
The lyrics, which were all
W was alive with music written by Rocky and Roddy
He Spirit last Wednesday Hash, are based on Christian1
I'oon when the Christian Themes. The group feels a
i group, “Shekinah, ”
need to spread God’s word.
The group’s title,“Shekinah,”
Fred the stage. Listeners
pd that the group was is a Hebrew word meaning,
with professional “the divine presence of the
FIn both music and lyrics. Holy Spirit.”
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