The Paris News from Paris, Texas • Page 2

Porlf It, 197V Top Texas bluesman returns to stage at Blues Festival today HOUSTON (AP) Europeans who regard American folk music the way wine lovers fee! about vintage Bordeaux think Weidon Bcnner is an artist. But on his own front porch, "Juke Boy" Bonner is an unsung poet who has a right to sing the blues. The 46-year-old bluesman will return to the stage today for the first time in 14 months where he will join fellow Texans Lightnin' Hopkins and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and other blues artists in the 2nd Annual Juneteenth Blues Festival. For Bonner, who has played the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and clubs in France and Germany, Houston once one of the nerve centers of the blues is no longer the action town he described in one of his songs. "There just aren't any places to play around here anymore, not for a bluesman," Bonner said.

"Funny, the only calls I get for work come from 6,000 miles away." In the town where Big Mama Thornton, Gatemouth Brown and Bobby Blue Bland cut records for the late Don Robey on his Duke and Peacock labels, Bonner finds that young blacks don't want to hear about the blues. "I try to tell this bunch around here in the neighborhood about where all I've played, about my record albums, and they don't believe it. Finally. I just quit telling them. Seems the only people who want to listen to the blues now are young white people," he said.

The last of nine children, Bonner grew up outside Bellville, Texas. With money earned from chopping cotton, he bought his first guitar for $3.50. At 15 he went West Texas tremor caused wide speculation By The Associated Press West Texas residents have accepted the diagnosis that the rattling windows, rumbling ground and quivering walls they noticed Friday morning were caused by a moderate earthquake that caused no injuries and no reported damage. But at 6:47 a.m., residents in an area stretching as far south as San Angelo and west almost to the New Mexico border, were speculating it could be aything from a major explosion to "animals on the roof." Law enforcement agencies throughout West Texas were deluged with calls from residents wondering if there was anything they could do. Big Spring police dispatcher George Ward said, "There really wasn't much I could tell them.

What could we do, put a big Gregory Ott given life sentence DENTON, Texas (AP) A state court jury deliberated hours Saturday before returning a life sentence for Gregory Arthur Ott, who was convicted the day before of murdering Texas Ranger Robert Doherty in February. The same jury on Friday had found Ott guilty of first degree murder rather than capital murder. Ott, 27, was charged in connection with the slaying of Doherty, who was shot once in the forehead as he attempted to kick in a door at Ott's residence in ArgyJe during a Feb. 20 drug raid. The defense had argued that Ott did not know the men surrounding his residence were police.

After Saturday's verdict, Ott told 'reporters he was innocent. "I am consoled because I know as deep as anyone can know that I am innocent," Ott said. His lawyers said no decision had been reached about appealing Ott's conviction. District Attorney Jerry Cobb said he thought the sentence was proper punishment. In his closing argument Friday, defense attorney Alan Levy called Doherty's death a "tragic accident." "Within eight to 10 seconds, a man is dead, needlessly dead, and now the state is seeking the death of another man," Levy said.

NO-LINE BIFOCALS AS ADVERTISED ON TV AVAILABLE AT PTICAL 15A EAST PLAZA PARIS MEDICAID PATIENTS WELCOME Hill picks new party leader AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Billy Goldberg, prominent and wealthy Houston banker and businessman, is the choice of Attorney General John Hill, Democratic nominee for governor, as the new chairman of the Texas toemocratic Party. Hill made his wishes known Friday in a letter sent to the 62 members of the state party governing committee, which will elect new chairman at the Sept. a 5-16 state convention in Fort Worth. Goldberg has long time connections with liberal and moderate factions of the party. "I consider Billy an extremely fair person," Hill paid.

"He has a rare ability to work with various factions within the party and has done so for many years." State Democratic Chairman Calvin Guest, friend and political associate of Gov. Dolph Briscoe, has said he will not seek the post again, now that Briscoe lost the nomination. Briscoe told newsmen that he will not oppose Hill in naming a new party chairman or in organizing the state convention. Hill said that Goldberg had been active in the Democratic Party for 35 years and served on the state committee between 1960 and 1962. He recently was on the National Democratic Party's finance committee.

He presently served as cochairman of the Harris County John Hill Finance Committee. "More important to me is the party program that Billy outlined to me as a condition of his accepting my support," Hill said. "It will be his desire, if I am elected, to build the best state Democratic Party in the country by encouraging participation by more Texans in party activities. AT LAST! THE TRUE Listening Habits Of The Paris Market! STATIONS BEING LISTENED TD BY THOSE RESPONDENTS LISTENING AT THE TIME OF SURVEY CALL: 1. 2.

3. HPRE KPLT ijJBAP KRLD 32.5% 27.5% 17.5% 7.5% 6. 7. 8. 9.

KGVL 2.5% 2.5% 2.5% UFAA 2.5% 5. 5.0% TOTAL SHARE OF AUDIENCE: 1. 2. 3, k. 5.

B. 7. 8. KPLT KPRE UBAP KRLD KLIP KKDA 32.0% 29.1% 3.7% 2.1% 1.1% 1.1% 9. KSKY 10.

UFAA 11. 12. 13. KPBC U. KBOX 15.

KGUL 16. ALL OTHERS 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED BY PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICES. IT IS A COMPLETELY IMPARTIAL REPORT OF A SPECIAL STUDY ON RADIO AUDIENCE LISTENING HABITS WITHIN THE AREA SURVEYED. THE SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED BY THE INCIDENTAL TELEPHONE METHOD. THE SURVEY CONDUCTED WAS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1978, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7-10 A.M., 11-1 P.M.

AND 3-6 P.M. 50 PERCENT OF ALL THE ATTEMPTED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS WERE PLACED AT RANDOM TO PARIS, 10 pERCENT TO POWDERLY, 5 PERCENT EACH TO BLOSSOM, SUMNER, ARTHUR CITY, CH1COTA, DEPORT, PATTONVILLE, DIRECT AND BROOKSTON NUMBERS. OVER 640 ATTEMPTS WERE MADE, 382 COMPLETED. These Results Are Available For Public Inspection During Regular Business Hours At KPRE, 210 First City National Bank Downtown Paris. seatbelt around the world? That is one force the police cannot do much about." In Snyder, 20 miles south of the quake's epicenter in Scurry County, Jane Neely said she had just gotten out of bed when she felt the thought there had been an explosion of some kind.

It sounded like the distant rumble of a train going by. It was weird." Billy Huddleston, whose ranch is in the northwest part of Scurry County, said the quake was a "rolling, rumbling sound." "I had several thoughts. We have a large gasoline plant about two miles away and I thought of a possible explosion. Since there was no sound of explosion, I immediately realized it must be a tremor." off to Houston where he began to write and sing songs about life in the city with greatest number of blacks in the South. "It's a struggle in Houston, man, just to stay alive.

I don't mean you'll die of starvation. I mean you gotta watch out for bullets, bottles and a struggle in Houston, man, just to stay out of Ben Taub (emergency hospital). You're liable to get your head bashed in if you break a twenty after dark." population in the South. Bonner has been in poor health since an operation for stomach ulcers in 1963 and now has trouble with his feet. He has seen young white musicians appropriate the blues idiom and turn it into the money-making business it never was for the black singers who lived the blues before they sang them.

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