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The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 8

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Gina Swainson wears crown of Miss World 1979 (AP photo) Statuesque Bermudan beauty is crowned Miss World LONDON (AP) A statuesque, young wine expert from Bermuda, 21-year-old Gina Swainson, was crowned the new Miss World here over a field of 70 international beauties. A brown-eyed, dark-haired woman with measurements of 36-24-38, she works for a Bermuda- based wine exporting firm and someday hopes to have her own wine business. Miss Swainson, who attended the University of Wisconsin for 18 months taking general studies but left without graduating, was crowned at London's Hoyal Albert Hall Thursday night. Runner-up was Miss United Kingdom, Carolyn Seaward, and third was Miss Jamaica, Debbie Campbell, an 18-year-old student. Second-favorite in the betting for the title, Miss Swainson told reporters after the big moment: "Just after I was crowned I cried.

I thought Miss UK would beat me and I was prepared for that. Now I propose to stay in London and live here." Afterwards, she celebrated at the Coronation Ball in London's exclu- sive Grosvenor House Hotel before retiring to bed in the early hours. She was up bright and early this morning for a photo session and planned to leave London this afternoon for the English Channel Island of Jersey for a weekend charity event. Miss Swainson said one of the first things she wanted to do after winning the title was telephone her mother, who she said was in a Bermuda hospital waiting to undergo surgery. "I know it (the Miss World title) is going to cheer her up," Miss Swainson said.

As Miss World, she will receive prize money and a guaranteed $32,250 for work contract. A last-minute strike by British Broadcasting Corp. television sound crews interrupted the live transmission scheduled to reach 300 million viewers in some 37 countries. But the event went ahead as planned, and for Miss Swainson, the climactic moment before a live audience in the Albert Hall brought the usual flood of tears to a beauty queen's eyes. found that I could only be active in one area and I chose to devote my time to Circle Circle Is a service club affiliated with the local Klwanis clubs.

Echols admitted the Circle Club was very active and said potential student government leaders have directed their energies towards the club. Several students said they wouldn't mind getting involved, but they live in outlying areas and don't have the money to spend on gas to drive back and forth just for a meeting. It would be hard to schedule a meeting when every board member would be on campus for classes. Apathy also Is apparent in the lack of student participation in social and academic events unless the event is required for a class. "Students don't go to dances or class because the students are only here for an education, not social life," a student said.

The students do not feel it is a lack of money that prohibits clubs from having activities. All full-time students pay $3 each semester as an activity fee which provides clubs and student government with funds for programs. Part-time students pay either $2 or $1 depending upon class hours. Because there have been no government first semester, the money from all this year's fees will be available for second semester. Echols said he estimates about $7,000 will be paid in activity fees this year.

The four student governing boards receive most of the funds although clubs can receive seed money and some funding. Bolke said it will take more money to see real improvement in student activities on campus, espcially if a student union building was established on campus. Echols said there is a reserve built up in the fund but Coss Republicans notified of meeting to pick councilman LOGANSPORT, Ind. Letters are in the mail informing Cass County's Republican precinct committeemen of a meeting to choose a successor to Cass commissioner Ned Grable. Grable, who was serving as president of the Cass County Board of died last Friday.

At the meeting, to be held Nov 29 at GOP headquarters here, the committeemen will select someone to fill the vacant seat, as required by state law. County Republican Chairman Donald Heckard said Thursday the meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Persons interested in being considered for the position must submit their names in writing to him no later than noon Nov. 29. 'Wanted Continued from page 1 THE MONEY MARKET CERTIFICATE SIX-MONTH 10,000 MINIMUM 12.479% ANNUAL EFFECTIVE ON THE 11.945% ANNUAL EARNING RATE EXAMPLE: INVESTMENT 182 DAYS INTEREST PAID This Rate Good from November I5th-Nov 21st effective rate when bated upon reinvestment after six of both principal and earnings, however, tt Is subject to change at renewal.

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9TH ST. 773-4871 CARMEL: 20 RANGE LINE RD. 846-5603 MEMBER FSL1C Sffvifiyt tiiintt Ifllv'H If not enough for capital expenditures such as a building, The campus activity expenditure budget will be about $25,000 this year. Income comes from the student fees and fund raising and ticket sales. A student activities board decides, with approval from the chancellor, how the student fee money is divided among the student groups.

Echols said the money received through student fees can only be used for student activities and does not revert back to the general fund. Plaintiff Continued from page 2 He said the plaintiffs only have to show there is a substantial case in order for the bond request to be denied. "Why did they spend $542,000 when they could have spent Why did the state tax board overrule the recommendation of its lower board? These are questions that need looking into," he said. In his closing argument, Beckner presented a brief history of the building project and restated superintendent Robert Moore's testimony that the school corporation is in "desperate need" of new schools. "The only dispute which has been disguised here today the only dispute is the decision by the board to build two schools instead of one," Beckner said.

Shipman took the matter of the bond under advisement and asked attorneys for both sides to deliver proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law to him by Wednesday. No date has been set for a continued hearing or for a ruling on the bond. Moslem (Continued from page 1 Reza Pahlavi, ousted by Khomeini's forces in January, be extradited from the United States before the captives can be released, and there has been no sign the crisis is about to end soon, foreign diplomats in Tehran told The Associated Press in Bonn by telephone. Further complicating the situation was an apparently growing dispute between some Iranian government officials and the demonstrators who seized the embassy. The conflict, which intensified Thursday, left it unclear who would decide the hostages' fate.

Take stock in America Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Tribune review 'Rimers of Eldritch 1 good drama with limited appeal By Douglas North Tribune contributing writer Carriage House Theatre Thursday opened a three-night run at Havens Auditorium with "The Rimers of Eldritch" by Lanford Wilson. The author is better known for his Broadway success "Hot-1 Baltimore," which had little relation to a miserable television adaptation. "The Rimers" has many similarities in structure to another of his pieces, "The He introduces a devious and insidious set of human interactions among his characters, generates a tolerable degree of menace, and culminates with an unreasonable act of violence. In fact the play is almost undone by its own complexity compounded with numerous flashbacks.

From a technical standpoint, this production is effectively mounted on a multi-level, simplistic set with appropriate area lighting. The time and location transitions are smooth even when the dialogue is choppy. Fortunately, the elevations compensate for the general tendency of the cast to play out of the facial plane, looking down at the stage. The case exhibits a disparate range of acting capabilities with the strongest role turned in by Jimmy Nicholson. His portrayal of Skelley Mannor is exciting in performer energy, mobile in expression and consistent in interpretation.

Brian Newlon, Eldon Perdue, Brian Alexander and Steve Timm have well-defined characters with a natural stage presence, although they tend to underplay their threatening function. Libby Hoover and Linda Fiona are very effective as the casual gossip Wilma Atkins and the sophomoric Patsy Johnson. Student director Kathi Burrow, working with faculty adviser Susan Sciame, has staged a substantial production of a difficult and obtuse play. It is an opportunity for the community to view the work of an author who is not widely produced in commercial theater. It is not recommended for individuals who will be offended by earthly language or sexual references.

(Douglas North is a science teacher at Kokomo High School and a veteran actor with Kokomo Civic Theatre.) Most Continued from page Western help. Under the Oman! plan, oil producers and leading consumer nations notably the United States, Britain, West Germany and Japan would be expected to combine their financial, material and technical resources. The Arab oil-rich states of the gulf, which do not include Oman, would provide funds to buy patrol boats, reconnaissance aircraft and electronic surveillance equipment from the West. Western powers would provide the expertise, while Oman supplied the manpower. Iraq denounced the Omani plan and accused its sultan, Qaboos ben Saeed, of intending to play the West's "small policeman" in the gulf.

Iraq, which until recently purchased the bulk of its weapons from the Soviet Union, advanced a counter- scheme for the collective security of Arab gulf states. According to Arab press reports, the Iraqi plan contains internal security features. This reflects the concern of Arab leaders that their Moslem Shiite minorities might be stirred up to follow Khomeini's lead. Khomeini is the spiritual leader of the Shiites, who form a majority in non-Arab Iran. The majority of Arabs, however, are Sunni Moslems.

The rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran also has met with a sympathetic response from elements in Afghanistan and Pakistan, both Moslem states on Iran's eastern border. Afghanistan's Soviet-backed leadership is worried that rebel tribesmen will begin drawing material aid in addition to the moral support they already are receiving from Iran's revolutionaries. Pakistan, on the other hand, is believed to be using the collapse of the West's military posture in Iran as an added argument for obtaining more arms from the West to guard against Soviet penetration. Although fear of Soviet expansionism has been shoved into the background by recent events in Iran, anti-communist states in the area remain concerned that a worsening of Iran's internal political situation could strengthen the hand of well-organized leftist elements there and that this could have a domino affect on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf. 9 RJ REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO Of the two lowest tar brands: tests prove Now is more satisfying.

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