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8 ARRESTED 500 Stones (DBid fans left Xr'' It was just one of those sleepy Sunday night concerts. cold gas More than 18,000 people showed up, some with rocks, some with gas masks, a lot with grass and jugs of Boone's farm apple wine and a few platoons with riot sticks. It is a pleasure to report that casualties were relatively light and only two serious attempts were made to uproot the building. For anybody who hap THE ARENA IS INTACT, RELATIVELY i (7 At drytf pened to miss the great Trappers Rendezvous of 1832 in Pierre's Hole, Idaho, however, or the first triumphant stages of the French Revolution, I recommend a Rolling Stones concert at the Met Arena. I will confess to being unprepared, both from the standpoint of musicology and armor.

The last Sunday night concert I attended was a performance of the Bulgarian chamber music quartet. The musicians played Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and I sipped drip-grind coffee with a demitasse and a crooked little finger. Last night the Stones played "Gimme Shelter" and I got gassed, muscled, partially asphyxiated and in addition took a minor indirect hit on the trunk of my car from a chunk of thrown asphalt. Insiders tell me this is nothing more than the usual harmless off-stage percussion at a Stones concert. I don't want you to get the impression that there was any "We came to crash the gate," said John Cartier, 16, who said he was from Edina.

He was not alone. More than 500 persons, mostly teen-agers, showed up without tickets for the Rolling Stones concert at Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington last night When they were unable to break In, the "scene" degenerated into 2 hours of rock and bottle throwing. Police used tear gas and Mace to clear the youths away from the center. There were eight arrests, four of them juveniles. Two were charged with aggravated assault and inciting to riot, The others were accused of disorderly conduct.

Several policemen were injured. One officer, Sgt. Robert Seitz, Bloomington, was hospitalized with a jaw injury. Bloomington police said they knew of no injured gate crashers. Five squad car windows and windows in the center were smashed.

About 300 security guards, ushers, Bloomington and Richfield policemen, Hennepin County sheriff 's deputies and Minnesota highway patrolmen were on duty for the concert. Just after the 8 p.m. official concert starting time, a man in his early 20s blond hair tied in a pony tailand his girl friend and dog started gathering a group of gate-crashers outside the east end of the center. "You gotta a ticket? No, well come on with us, man, we're going in," he exhorted to young people standing around. He was easy to follow in his red and white flannel shirt.

He walked around the east end up the long north front, gathering people as he went. "Come on, let's rush that gate," he shouted and the rowing crowd picked up the cry. "Get in there, push," from the rear of the crowd that he had gathered at one north side entrance. "Come on, you hippies," he yelled as he pranced around the outer edge, far away from the police. "Come on, they can't stop us." The crowd tried to get in, there was some shoving, some Mace was sprayed and the crowd fled down the hill into the parking lot.

The flannel-shirted leader, girl friend and dog walked to their car in the parking lot, stayed for five minutes pitcned war or noting the arena. The 17,300 who got in by far the great percentage of whom were still conscious at the finish were well-behaved and only occasionally hysterical. I went to the Stones' recital at the urging of a neighborhood check-out kid who advised me, "Man, you just got to be awed by this Mick Jagger. I mean Mick Jagger is the whole package Billy Graham. Bobbv Kennedy.

ROLLING STONES' MICK JAGGAR APPEARS IN PURPLE JUMPSUIT Cave the capacity crowd some strutting, bumps and twists 3 MICK JAGGER Most stayed conscious State roads' weekend toll more than 20 The Minneapolis STAR MONDAY. JUNE 19, 1972 711 and at 8:20 p.m. the couple walked casually to a north side door, politely presented two tickets and entered. One minute later police were warning those in his crowd that if they didn't disperse they would be Rolling Stones gone; memory of sound excitement lingers Police use gas in clash with locked-out fans Joan of Arc and Angela Davis all rolled into one." You have to be impressed by that kind of versatility. I drove up at 7:15.

The concert-goers had by then filled much of the parking lot, most of them were wearing Farmer Brown overalls. A uniformly sociable group was milling around the west entrance, where the Stones were scheduled to descend. The building manager, Bob Reid, was walking around with a bull horn and a look of carefully subdued panic. "GOVERNMENT PEOPLE I RESPECT tell me that Stones' security is more grim and more ingenious than what the U.S. did around the Manhattan atomic bomb project.

They have already sent three limousines in here as a diversion. The kids aren't sure whether the Stones are in the building or not." "Are you?" I asked. "Yes. They are not. This very moment as I'm talking to you an unmarked camper is making its way toward this west entrance.

It's like any other camper except that in it are none other than the Rolling Stones. It will be the next vehicle here, in precisely 30 seconds." A CALL ON HIS intrabuilding jiffy communica-tor interrupted Reid. He adjusted his bull horn and said through thin lips: "The Stones have been in the building for 20 minutes. They went in through the east entrance. They didn't even tell me." Fifteen minutes before the Stones surfaced on stage the first wave of gate-crashers hit the north door.

They were repelled by the combined forces of the Bloomington police and Hennepin County sheriff's office and what appeared to be a few advisers from the CIA. A providential gust of wind helped. It not only dispersed the tear gas over a broad front but seemed to stymie the charging rock throwers and turn their best shots into harmless knuckleballs. Lucklessly, the wind suddenly shifted when I reached the battlefield at exactly the moment the gendarmes were turning the gate-crashers' right flank. I caught half a canister of tear gas in the throat and eyes.

Groping miserably, I was led back to the balcony floor by a humanitarian kid who was wearing jeans of vertical red and white stripes with large star spangled cuffs, and on the seat of his pants a flag which he mysteriously identified as that of the republic of Luxembourg My full eyesight had no sooner been restored when it was aggravated by a large cloud of pot fumes, moving slowly toward the west. I now discovered another distraction. A tall, extremely bountiful girl was gyrating to the Stones' feverish art. What set this one apart was the novel styling of her two-piece outfit. She had pink mini pants.

The other half had either been misplaced or capitulated. I was scared to death she was going to maim the guy sitting in front of her me, The place bulged with security men and unclassified observers. Mayor King of Bloomington was there, disguised in a fire engine red shirt and ice cream pants intended to give him a relevant look. Well, Jagger was predictably awesome if incomprehensible. So was the money split for two hours of rock about $62,000 for the Stones, about $15,000 for the promoter, $8,000 for the building owners, $4,000 for Bloomington and $5,000 for the state, "I thought Mick Jagger," said an adoring fan, "had the cutest little Three state couples were among more than 20 persons killed in Minnesota traffic accidents over the weekend.

Two of the couples were killed in one accident on Hwy. 55 near Kimball about 7:15 p.m. yesterday. Donald Ertl, 22, and his wife, Carol, 20, St. Cloud, were the victims in one car, and Dale Hewitt, 22, and his wife, Barbara Ann, 21, Kasota, were the victims in the other.

David Vannet, 27, and his wife, Marthe, 24, Beardsley, were killed and their daughter, Sharon, 2, injured, in a collision on Hwy. 75 a half-mile south of Breckenridge. Mrs. Patricia Groff, 28, Sioux Falls, S.D., the driver of the other car, and her husband, Jacob, 29, were in satisfactory condition at a Breckenridge hospital. Kevin L.

Oliver, 14, 1800 Aldrich Av. was killed as he crossed Hwy. 101 in Shakopee about 12:30 a.m. yesterday with Debra L. Wynn, 19, 2728 Alabama St.

Louis Park, She was injured and reported in good condition at a Shakopee hospital. Walter M. Jensen, 18, rural Owatonna, was killed when the motorcycle he was riding as a passenger collided with a car on a county road south of Owatonna early yesterday. Jo Anne Fromm, 17, Sleepy Eye, was killed when she was struck by a car on a Brown County road a mile east of Sleepy Eye early yesterday. A sheriffs office spokesman said there was no report available on the accident, but admitted there had been an accident.

Michael Klasse, 16, Clearbrook, was killed when the car in which he was riding struck a bridge abutment about 5 p.m. yesterday. Greg Odden, 17, Granite Falls, was killed shortly after midnight yesterday, when the car in which he was riding struck an embankment on a Renville County road 5 miles south of Sacred Heart. An Embarrass, man died shortly before midnight last night of injuries he had received earlier in the evening when his car left Hwy. 169 and rolled over near Virginia.

He was identified by the highway patrol as Kerry J. Tehus, 21, who was alone in his car. In previously unreported accidents earlier in the weekend, the victims in separate accidents were Samuel J. Smith, 54, Ball Club, Minn, in an accident near his home; Edward Hamlin, 19, rural Walker, in an accident near Brainerd, and Lorraine Rosenow, 49, 1218 N. Dale St.

Paul, in an accident near Sauk Centre. the outside skirmishes between tick-etless Stones' fans and police began filtering into the building, it became decidedly unpleasant to breathe. But the concert did demonstrate convincingly the excitement the Stones bring to a live performance. The excitement, of course, centers around 28-year-old Mick Jagger, the Stones' raw-voiced lead singer. From the beginning, Jagger has epitomized the Stones' hard-rock, blues-oriented sound.

On stage -he ap peared in a purple jump suit with a pink sash Jagger is continually in motion, sometimes bounding with gymnastic leaps, at other times creeping cat-like around his microphone. His voice is hard, sexual, sassy and compelling. Complementing Jagger are lead guitarist Keith Richard, who occasionally sings; guitarist Mick Taylor; bass guitarist4 Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. All but Taylor have been with the Stones virtually since the group began nine years ago. Predictably, the emphasis of the concert was on up-tempo rock, in-cluding "Jumping Jack Flash," "Street Fighting Man" and'Gimme Shelter." The Stones also performed several songs from their new double album, "Exile on Main Street" "Tumbling Dice," "Rocks Off" and, among others, my favorite from the album, "Sweet Virginia," a tune combining rock, blues and a twinge of country-western.

Considering the acoustics, which couldn't have been much better on stage than in front of it, the Stones sounded remarkably coordinated. The arrangements were thankfully not thinned for the live performance. When it was possible to hear clearly, the reward was solid rock music played well. ij i The concert, in short, was worthwhile quite apart from its tremendous attraction as an Preceding the Stones was Stevie Wonder, a blind singer-musician whose strength is his ability to mold a tune to his own tempo and style. Wonder is the type of finger who sounds best in a controlled arrangement.

Despite the presence of nearly a dozen back-up singers land musicians, he didn't come off as well during his 45-minute set as he does on record perhaps because? the 'sheer volume of his accompaniment drowned out most of his vocal efforts. Wonder's most effective showing was a 10-minute drum solo in his opening number. Reviewed by ROY M. CLOSE Minneapolis Star Staff Writer The Rolling Stones are excite-, ment. Understand that and the message of last night's rock concert at Metropolitan Sports Center is clear.

It was the Stones' first concert here since 1964. In that time they have evolved into pop music's foremost symbol of nonconformity, anti-establishment behavior and rage; They have become masters in the art of using music to bring an audience to fever pitch. And, with the breakup of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones are without question the most popular and most important rock group in the world. Last night's concert was no treat for the connoisseur. It was often difficult to hear.

It was all but impossible to move, as the aisles were clogged with spectators. And by the end of the concert, as tear gas from It would make a great I gave it to our music expert, review. Wet bed is dead, doctor says By GORDON SLOVUT Minneapolis Star Staff Writer children were cured dry for 21 consecutive nights after one course of treatment, and the rest usually straightened out with a short second course of similar treatment, he said. Merrill said in the interview that he thinks bed-wetting should be treated by a doctor by the time a child reaches the age of 5. There are studies indicat ty, Merrill said.

The human bladder's capacity increases from one ounceat birth to 16 ounces at maturity. Merrill, an instructor in urology at the University of Minnesota medical school, says a doctor can usually rule out physiological causes or infections quite easily without exotic testing. Then he can go about treating the vast majority of bed-wetters who are either deep sleepers, or have small bladders, he said. In complete work-ups of 39 bed-wetters at the university, he said, roughly half were in each of the two major categories. Eighty percent the i 1 1 's message is simple: Deep sleepers can be "cured" in a few weeks by having them wear a dampness sensor, in a athletic supporter-like arrang-ment, that sets off an alarm as soon as it is touched by a bit of urine, he said.

Youngsters with small bladders can be cured with "holding exercises" and a drug called tincture of belladonna, he said. The cures take from 30 to 90 days. In the "holding exercise," the child is told to "hold back" some of his urine. That seems to increase's bladder capaci SAN FRANCISCO. Cal-if.

Most 5-year-old- children who wet their beds either sleep too deeply or have too small bladders, says a Minneapolis urologist who says he has found a cure. "It isn't like discovering a cure for cancer," Dr. Daniel Merrill said in an interview before his lecture today at the American Medical Association's annual meeting here. But his lecture on a problem faced daily by thousands of the nation's doctors is the type that attracts attention at this kind of meeting. ing mat a Dea-wetter ai 1 4 1 i it untreated, has an even chance of being a bed-wetter at 10, he added.

It is very difficult, he said, to cure an older child or adult. He said 5 is a "good age to start" because a child at that age or any older, Rets a "social stigma" from bed-getting. Pholoi for Minneapolis Star by Boyd Hagen BOB REID, MET SPORTS CENTER MANA GER, TALKS TO THE CROWD OUTSIDE Beore police i used tear gas to disperse those'wltbput tickets 4.