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Irvington Slates Activities An active week has been calendared for students at Irvington High School, beginning Saturday night with the Junior Prom. With the theme "La Soiree En Paris" (Evening in Paris), a Parisienne setting has been planned for the event. French store-fronts and tables covered with checkered clothes will be located near replicas of the Arc de Triomph and the Eiffel Tower. The Pre-Dawn Left will entertain during the dance, which will 'begin at 9 p.m. and conclude at midnight in the school cafeteria.

Next on the agenda for Irvington students will be Scholarship Awards Night in the Valhalla Building on Monday at 7:30 p.m. News commentator Rolfe Peterson will speak during the event, which is sponsored by the South Fremont Lions Club. Awards will be presented to students who have maintained a 3.5 grade point average during the past school year. Those on the awards list for the first time will receive a Sage pin and a certificate, while repeat winners get a certificate. Gene Bradley, president of the Lions Club, will make the presentations, along with Joe Tranchina, principal of Irvington High.

Last on the busy week's slate of events is the annual Spring Festival, which will be held on Wednesday. Regular classes will be conducted until noon, then a half- day of class competition will be held, spotlighting sports and the arts. Each of the four classes will have representatives in sporting events, including football, baseball, and basketball; and in the arts, including plays, sketches, music, painting, and cooking. A Convention Without Riots At Mission San Jose High Recreating the chaos of a national political convention, but without riots, are students at Mission San Jose High School. At left, Les Pennelly, 17, and Thelma Whitcher, 17, campaign for their man.

At right, beating the drum for their candidate, are Candy King, 18, and Natalie Kimball, 17. Student dele- 4-21' 4-14 Weeks on Chart 1 1 Aquarius-5th Dimension 6 2 2 You've Made Me So Very Happy--Blood, Sweat Tears 5 3 5 It's Your Thing--Isley Bros. 5 4 7 Hair--Cowsills 4 5 6 Only The Strong Survive--Jerry Butler 7 6 3 Galveston--Glen Campbell 7 7 4 Dizzy--Tommy Roe 11 8 10 Twenty-Five Miles--Edwin Starr 6 9 11 Don't Give In To Him-Union Gap 5 10 22 Sweet Cherry Wine--Tommy James 3 11 34 Hawaii FiveO--Ventures 2 12 16 Gimrne Gimme Good Lovin'--Crazy Elephant 5 13 20 Do Your Thing--Watts 4 14 19 Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show Neil Diamond i 15 8 Rock Me-Steppenwolf 7 16 40 The Boxer--Simon Garfunkel 1 17 9 Times Of The Seasons--Zombies 10 18 18 Traces-Classics IV 9 19 26 Chokin' Kind-Joe Simon 4 20 24 I Can Hear Music--Beach Boys 3 21 27 Memories--Elvis Presley '3 22 28 Time Is Tight--Booker MG's 3 23 35 Will You Be Staying After Sunday Peppermint Rain 2 24 25 1st Of May-Bee Gees 5 25 31 My Way-Frank Sinatra 3 26 37 Wishful Sinful-Doors 2 27 38 Mercy--Ohio Express 2 28 30 Is It Something You Got-Tryone Davis 2 29 32 The Way It Used To Be--Englebert Humperdinck 3 30 23 Try A Little Tenderness-3 Dog Night 4 31 15 The Letter--Arbors 5 32 29 You Gave Me A Mountain--Frankie Laine 8 33 36 It's Only Love-B. J. Thomas 2 34 39 To Know You Is To Love You--Bobby Vinton 2 35 33 Mr.

Sun, Mr. Moon--Paul Revere Raiders 8 36 Gitarzan-Ray Stevens 1 37 I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothin' James Brown 1 38 Pinball Wizard-The Who 1 39 The Composer--Diana Ross Supremes 1 40 Atlantis--Donovan SPRING TURNS the thoughts of young people to romance, but the beautiful weather provides competition, and kite-flying is a powerful lure to active youths. Attempting to get their homemade kite air-borne in the i above photo art Dave Hunt and Steve Hunt, both students at Williamson High School in Fremont. The boys made the kite as part of a class project. Mexican -American Heritage Week Set San Francisco Now Center For Blues California's rich cultural background will be colorfully dramatized when students at Newark High School celebrate i a n-Ameriean Heritage Week, May 5 to 9.

Among the speakers scheduled to speak during the weeklong festivities is Manuel Gomez, president of the 'Mexican- American Student Confederation (MASC) at California State College at Hayward. Gomez will address students during an assembly on Monday, May 5, on the subject of the historical aspects of the Mexican-American in California and the Southwest. OTHER GUEST SPEAKERS' will be from Chabot College, Cal State, Logan High School, Ten- Hyson High, and Sunset High, according to Rose Rodelo, a member of the Uewark High planning committee. from the high schools will give talks in social science classes on all four grade levels. Newark students will have an opportunity to select an activity or workshop in which to participate on Tuesday during an enrichment period, Rose added.

THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, a variety of entertainment emphasizing Mexican-American cultural activities will be held, including El Theatro Urbano and Ballet Folklorico, she said. Individual departments on campus have slated activities, such as the English department, which will show movies; the homemaking department, which will prepare Mexican food; and the physical education department, which will have Mexican folk dancing. The song goes: "I got the blues from my baby down beside the San Francisco Bay." This is traditional blues and it is just now coming true. San Francisco, just a few years ago a haven for psychedelic rock, has turned into a center for white blues. the much-publicized acid rock of San 'Francisco became popular in 1967, and when the city became widely known as "the music center of America," rock musicians migrated here from all over the country.

They set up camp in the lofts of San Francisco and in the sur- round'ng towns and cities: Mill Valley across the Golden Gate Bridge is a center of life for many rock artists. BUT TIME AND ENERGY ran out on acid rock early last year. The blues began to emerge as its successor and the new musical residents of San Francisco turned to it for inspiration. For many of them this was easy. The blues runs through America in patches.

It exists deep the ghettos of the Northern cities, and throughout the Southwest it is a vital force. Many of the musical ex- patriots who came to San Francisco to be discovered are from the Southwest, Texas in particular. They are just now beginning to emerge. THE GREATEST OF THEM is Janis Joplin, who comes from Port Arthur, Tex. Since leaving Big 'Brother and the Holding Company to form her own band, she has become much more of a soul-blues singer than before, when she was foiied to outshout Big Brother's booming psy- chedelia.

Janis has always been a blues singer. Now she is singing more gutsy, powerful songs in the combined blues-gospel-soul style typical of Texas. EVEN MORE TYPICAL of this is Doug Sahm, leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet. Doug is from San Antonio and sings in an earthy but gentle blues style. His album "Honkey Blues" on the Smash label was one of 1968's best products.

He and his band live in San Francisco. a Nelson isn't from Texas, but her band, Mother Earth, is. And she sings in a gospel-blues-soul style similar to Janis Joplin. 'Mother Earth is a driving soul and blues band, much more powerful now than indicated on their first album, "Living with ine Animals," gates represented different "states," wings of the school, during the recent convention. Elections at Mission will be held tomorrow.

Other Fremont high schools are also conducting the mock conventions, including Kennedy High's which is scheduled for next Wednesday. Grammy Awards Flayed BYMIKEJAHN The Grammy Awards comm' i 11 consistently displays about as much taste in music as Pat Nixon does in clothes. The Grammys are presented each year to recording artists, producers, and songwriters by the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARS) And each year, the judges manage to prove that they have no idea as to what's happening in music. Just a minor example: The top award for Best Country and Western Female Vocal Performance went to Jeannie C. Riley for "'Harper Valley P.T.A.

In case you never heard the record, the quality of the singing makes Tiny Tim sound like Frank Sinatra. More Examples: The Album of the Year was "By the Tune I Get to Phoenix," by Glen Campbell. This piece of sweet pop nothingness was chosen over such sterling nominees as "Fell- ciano," by Jose Feliciano, and "A Tramp Shining," by Richard Harris. Another nominee, "Magical Mystery Tour" by the Beatles, wasn't a 1968 release, the year supposedly under consideration. Filling all tie nomination slots with artists such as Richard Harris and Jose Feliciano is like the situation you would have if the Academy Awards only considered Julie Andrews and Elvis Presley pictures for Oscars.

The Best New Artist was Jose i i a chosen over the Cream and Blood, Sweat and Tears, who weren't even considered, nor, really, were any of the other truly creative groups who emerged last year. In one case, however, a reasonably good choice was made: "Both Sides Now" by Judy Collins, for Best Folk Performance. But Unicorn" by the Irish Hovers, was nominated for the same award. Junior Prom At Kennedy "Barefoot in the has been selected as the theme for Saturday's Junior Prom at Kennedy. High School.

Music by the Night Caps will be featured during the event, which will begin at 8:30 p.m. and end at midnight in the school gym. Other activities at Kennedy in the near future will include a mock political convention to choose candidates for student body offices. Slated for Wednesday, the convention will be viewed on closed-circuit in classrooms throughout the school. again, Texas blues relocated to San Francisco.

THERE ARE OTHER good bluesmen in the San Francisco Bay area. Mike Bloomfield, one of the greatest, lives in Mill Valley. The Steve Miller Band calls San Francisco home, as does 'Pacific Gas and Electric, a great'new blues band. 'Psychedelic music isn't entirely gone from the city. Jefferson Airplane continues to dominate the San Francisco scene and shows no sign of getting tired.

Their type of acid rock- jazz continues to get better years after they first came to popularity. And two of them, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassady, will soon produce an album of their own. Along with jazz and rock, it will contain, not so strangely, some folk.