The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 8

8-A THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9,1987 Rare white alligator APLaserphoto One of four white alligators, believed to be among the rarest animals in any zoo in the world, is displayed alongside another alligator, which apparently hatched from Ihe same nest, at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, The alligators were discovered in a marsh area southwest of New Orleans by a fisherman. 800 thespians expected at November conference TEXAS CITY Approximately ROO high school drum a students will descend on College of the M.iinlnncl 'he Texas Thespian Conference Nov. 12, and 14. This annual event is being co- hosted by La Marcjuc High School and Ball High School with the college providing a principle site for workshops and productions. "It is a priviledge and an honor for College of Die Mainland Community Theatre to host this prestigious event." said COMCT a i a i i who lias been coordinating the numerous activities at COM.

Young actors and theatre technicians and their sponsors from across the state will begin arriving for registration on Nov. 12. Workshops will begin Friday morning with seminars in acting, costumes, lighting, scenery, audition and the like held throughout the day at thecollegc. Friday evening there will be a convocation for all convention delegates in Gaiveston followed by a dance. Workshops and performances will continue at Ball High School all day Saturday.

The convention will close in the evening with the introduction of new state officers. Drama teacher for La Marque High School. Mollie Vernon. and drama teacher for Ball High School, Scott Vernon, have been collaborating on this project for almost a year. A highlight of the conference will be a production of Frankenstein by Ball High School students under the direction of Vernon.

Charles Jeffries, drama teacher at McArthur High School in San Antonio, is Slate Thespian Director. His visit to (he Texas City area with his in July produced Ihe Initial schedule for the event. Among the special guests of the convention will be Charles Cior- done. 1'ulitxer winning playwright. Gordone is an eminent actor as well as having appeared in many Broadway and off Broadway productions.

He has numerous directing credits his well-known l-'lace lie Somuhody. Keynote speaker for the conference will he Lou Ida Marsh, who was for many years the drama director at Caldwell High School. She holds a Ph.D. in theatre history from the University of Texas at Austin and has won many awards with her high school students. A special session will be held for sponsors and coaches only led by Texas Educational Theatre Association president.

Kim Wheatiev. Police to use interpreters DALLAS (Al-M Police sometimes have problems communicating with people who don't speak English, hut they soon will have access to a service that provides interpreters for more than 125 languages. The Dallas City Council last month approved funding for the service, which charges a hook-up fee of S2f)0. a S9 monthly fee and about S2 a minute for conversations with interpreters, police communications Capt. John Ferguson said Wednesday.

"It sounds like a real good deal." Ferguson said. "They've got access to languages like, well, Estonian, things I've never even heard of." Dallas police have staff members who speak Spanish and access to volunteers who speak Cambodian, Laotian and other common Asian languages, but Ferguson said dispatchers occasionally gel calls from people speaking little-known languages. Under the service, dispatchers will be able to dial a toll-free number to Communication and Language Line in Monterey, Calif. READY MADE BUNDS BY LEVOUW BUY TODAY USE TONIGHT MIDWAY AIR CONDITIONING HEATING AIR CONDITIONING COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION SALES SERVICE FUlt SKOND OPINION FURNACE $0 COO CHICK ifKMi 986-7046 HITCHCOCK LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY 42" LENGHTS SIZE PRICE 17x42 850 23x42 12.00 24x42 1250 25x42 13.00 26.42 13.50 29x42 15.00 31x42 16.00 35x42 18 50 36.42 19.00 51x42 27.00 52x42 27.50 59x42 31.00 60x42 3150 71x42 3450 72x42 34 50 73xJ2 35.00 50" LENGTHS SIZE PRICE 35x50 22.00 36x50 22.50 51x50 3200 52x50 32.50 71x50 38.50 72x50 38.50 73x50 4150 PATIO DOOR SIZE PRICE 80x84 79.00 VERTICAL 84x84 89.50 64" LENGTH SIZE PRICE 23x64 1600 24x64 1700 25x64 1750 26x64 18,00 27x64 19.00 28x64 1950 29.64 20.50 30x64 21,00 31x64 22.00 32x64 22.50 33x64 23.00 34x64 2400 35x64 24.50 36x64 2550 37x64 26.00 26.50 39x64 27,50 40x64 28.00 41x64 29,00 42x64 29 50 43x64 30 50 46x64 32 50 47x64 33 00 48x64 34.00 51x64 36.00 52x64 3650 60x64 41 00 71x64 4500 72x64 il5 04 SIZE PRICE 23x72 17.00 24x72 18.00 27x72 20 50 29x72 22.00 34x72 25 50 35x72 26 50 36x72 27.00 64x72 45.50 71x72 4S.50 CUSTOM MADt WINDS IT MINI OFF VERTICAL MICRO OFF ft mwmw rVifHwi nWjr TAWAA fftv IwJIWvvffly HK8 949-4104 Cavity 't Cfttffy ftft Alamo curator seeks return of 1836 flag ANTONIO, Texas (AP) A curator at the Alamo is taking aim at the government of Mexico in hopes it will surrender the flag that flew over the mission when it fell to Mexican troops in 1836. During a speech to the San Antonio Rotary Club, Steve Beck urged Texans to write to the Mexican government in an attempt to have the flag returned.

The flag is known as the New Orleans Greys, the banner carried by a contingent of volunteer soldiers from Louisiana who journeyed to the Alamo to fight for Texas independence from Mexico in March 1836. "It's considered much like the Holy Grail." Beck said Wednesday. "As fellow Texans. I'm asking any and all of you to write a letter to the new president of Mexico asking that this icon be returned to San Antonio." After bloody battle, in which 189 men died defending the Alamo. Mexican Army Gen.

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's troops took the flag from atop the chapel where it flew, keeping it as a victory souvenir. Mexican troops deemed it worthy of keeping because it represented proof that the United States supported Texans in their struggle for independence. Today, the flag is reported to be in a museum in Mexico City's Chapuitepec Park. Beck said the New Orleans Greys is not on display for the public to see and that he has been told it is stashed in a paper bag. "It is deteriorating and needs to be restored," Beck said, adding that most paper bags are made with an acidic substance that can destroy the flag's fabric and ink.

The letter-writing campaign to Carlos Salinas de Gortari. the Institutional Revolutionary Party's presidential candidate, is not the first effort made to get the flag. The U.S. Senate in 1985 asked the Mexican government either to return the banner or at least loan it to the Lone Star State to fly over the Alamo during the Sesquicentennial celebration last year. The Mexican government's excuse that the flag could not be moved because it was too frayed.

Beck said he hopes the new administration may be more willing to show a gesture of international friendship by returning the flag. A replica of the flag hangs in the international flag room inside theAlarnochapel. Undercover drug buys net arrests SHREVEPORT La. (AP) Undercover drug buys by Caddo Parish sheriff's detectives most of them in Shreveport resulted in 30 warrants and at least 17 arrests Thursday, said Sheriff Don Hathaway. Bonds were set at Si.000 to S85.000 for the 17 people arrested by deputies and Shreveport police officers, he said.

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