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flaklanfr (hribune Section Friday, Juno 27, 1980 fribuM phoios bp KnowlHiri Bobby Rtynoldo Malkin up a storm on tho midway in Ploasanton. By Pttar Cowan Tribune Staff Writer Down in Camytown, the talkers were talkin Watch the dollar bill now. Ladies and Gentlemen, you are in for a very special treat tonight. A very 'special treat You watchin the dollar bill, kid? On the other side of the park, the agents workin the Joints were hustling their on, mister. Is that all you're gonna win your girl? That spindly little thing? Step right up and win a prize! Anyone can do it How about you, son? The bug yellow and lime green lights were beginning to brighten-and the crowd was growing bigger as darkness fell on the Foley and Burk carnival at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.

Caraies, the men and women who work the carnival rides, shows and concessions, are a breed unto themselves. Street-wise and thick skinned, they may seem a little chewed around the edges, but you'd be too if home was a trailer or a mattress underneath 'a truck and your job was entertaining people 12 hours a day. Camies have taken a lot of abuse over the years and their tough exterior is probably as much a defehse as anything else. They are tired of being blamed for causing trouble or thought of as second-class citizens, the old gypsies, tramps and thieves syndrome. Camies know what they provide.

They can see it on the face of a determined coin tosser or a jittery baseball pitcher. -They see it in the proud eyes of a boy handing a stuffed lion to his girlfriend or in the toothy grin of a kid coming down off a crazy ride. Fun is what they're selling, a chance to escape the troubles of the world for a few hours. When the music is blaring and the smell of corn dogs and cotton candy is in the air, the ohadren-. alin starts pumping.

The Foley and Burk Carnival, which runs with the fair through 6, has some 80 games. There's the bushel basket toss, the milk can throw, mini-basketball, the dime in the saucer, the hoop throw, the cat rack, the water pistol gallery, the red star range, darts and skee ball, to mention a few. Each joint has its loot prominently displayed overhead. There are lions as big as Lassie, pandas larger than 30-gallon trash cans and Saint Bernards that couldn't fit in some Japanese cars. Some people get lucky and win the first time out.

Others wind up spending more for a prize than it would have cost them at a store. But going to a store is no fun. Everyone knows carnival games are supposed to be rigged, but camies say no way" and tell you tales of famous athletes who couldn't do it but little kids who could and walked away big winners. As one man named Skip put it, If it couldn't be done, I wouldnt be here. Everything today has to be on the up and up, said Mike Schwartzberg, an older gentleman wearing a red hat and an apron for his change.

If youre not honest, youll only hurt yourself. In a trailer with red-flocked wallpaper behind the sideshow tent, Bobby Reynolds, the biggest celebrity on the midway, took a breather and gave a visiting reporter a few pointers. Reynolds is in camy jargon, the -guy who talks it up on the midway and draws people into his concession. Hes been doing for 32 years and is a walking, talking testament to the stereotypical image people have of camies. His hair is razor-cut perfection a streamlined slash of silver and black that sharpens his features.

The man likes to be seen. He wears lots of white white patent leather shoes, white socks, white doubleknit trousers, a white turtleneck sweater and a gray tailored sport jacket with, white window panes. I've been talkin all my life, Reynolds said. It's a ton of aggravation, but I keep coming back to it. I started out' on the street as a shoe shine boy.

then worked my way up to a pitch man. I'm a high pitch man, as opposed to a grind pitch man. I sell nostalgia and entertainment For 15 minutes, I get a person all Involved so he forgets his worries about the price of gas or the bills he's got to pay. Camies, Reynolds says, are survivors. "Once youve done this for a living, you know you could go anywhere and make a buck.

You could drop me on a desert island and Id get some kind of action going. They are a clannish bunch that seem to stick together. During a shows ran, they dont stray too far from the midway. It's a city within a city, Reynolds said. You got your mayor (the owner), your shopkeepers (the joint operators), your transportation (the rides), your police (the security guards), your entertainment (the walk-in shows) and your housing (the trailers and bunkhouses).

We've even got our own laundry out here. The Foley and Burk season runs from March through October and covers a territory from Santa Rosa to Fresno. Foley and Burk is the oldest continuous carnival show in America. What makes a good camy? Dedication and an inherited love for it, said See CARNY, Page C-4 Fledgling Random Hold dares to try some original sounds New ways to relieve dental pain researched NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) A team of New Jersey researchers is experimenting with sedatives and analgesics in its search for new ways to take the pain out of going to the dentist Studies by the team of dental professors at the dental school of the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey involve the use of sedatives like Valium and pentobarbital while a patient is undergoing surgery, and various new analgesics for alleviating post-operative pain.

Working in CMDNJ's Oral Surgery Clinic, the researchers are testing and comparing the effectiveness of new, investigative analgesics, which, says Dr. Stephen A. Cooper, director of research and an associate professor of oral surgery, may revolutionize oral therapy. The analgesics used in the tests. Cooper said, are Flurbiprofen, Butorphanol and DiflunisaL He said they relieve pain by altering the patient's perception of stimuli without producing anesthesia or loss of consciousness.

These analgesics, which are swallowed after an operation, operate similarly to aspirin but are far superior to codeine" in killing pain, according to Cooper. He said they are non-narcotic and cause no sensual side effects such as euphoria or sedation. Usually prescribed to calm or relax nerves, sedatives can also be used to lessen pain because they interfere with nerve Impulses to the brain, spinal cord or skeletal muscles. In one of the projects, which will continue through 1981, sedatives such as Valium are inject ed into a vein in the arms of patients with impacted wisdom teeth, and the effects of the drag are compared with the anesthetics commonly used by dentists today. A dentist will be able to take the patient down to a desireable level of sedation, perform the surgery, says Cooper, and then when the doctor deems it appropriate, he can reverse all the effects of the sedation with an antagonist or reversal agent We think that's a feasible goal in the near future.

Cooper says the problem with local anesthetics. which control pain in specific areas, is they do nothing to affect a patient's consciousness. By Larry Kelp TUhhw Music Critic The band is Random Hold, and it plays modem tribal music for the new suburbs. We weren't musicians, really. David Ferguson said.

We started with pre-recorded tapes of insects and vacuum cleaners slowed down, that sort of thing. Instead of joining the rest of the new wave crowd. English avant-rock band Random Hold attracted the attention of the art and classical-rock intelligentsia of Europe. Random Hold seems to have all the credentials needed to score big. All except one: it refuses to make pop songs.

Instead, the quartet has plunged into the nether reaches of sound, playing quirky games with instrumental textures and shifting exotic rhythms, and only a hint of new wave straightforwardness. If we'd gone out to be a hit, we'd have done more blues licks and disco beats, a. few guitar solos and grown our hair longer, electronic keyboardist Ferguson quipped while in San Francisco for the group's first local concert earlier this week. The band had been the opening act for cult hero Peter Gabriel. That English star had heard Random Hold, liked the musicians' attitude, and hired them to open his English tour, rchired them for his present American tour, and will probably drag them across Europe later in the summer.

Gabriel cares enough to show up early at each poncert and introduce Random Hold to the audi-. cnee: They're one of the best bands I've seen in a long time. Not bad for a group founded by two total amateurs. The debut album, just released in the United States, Etcetera ville" (on Passport is hot the most comfortable listening matter to drop onto the stereo after a hard day at the steel mill. The sounds are quite reminiscent of the Bowie-Eno-Roxy Music-Tuxcdomoon brands of dark, com pelling sounds that take a lot of patience to appreciate.

This is not the finished product of a mature band. Its a first step, with some lapses and loose ends. But it's also fresh. As with the band's concert here, the music is exciting because it does pursue a newer direction.X Listen to thq instrumental track on Montgomery Gift." At first it is irritating, but within -moments it draws you into its heavily rhythmic web. Ironically, Random Hold was launched when Ferguson attended a concert by a short-lived experimental rock band, 801 (which included Brian Eno and Phil It was a bit dull: something was missing, Ferguson, 26, says.

I told the guy next to me, David Rhodes, that Jt'd be nice to take the same premise and make it work. So the next day we formed a group. I was a theater technician and had never played a musical instrument in my life. The other David was in a garage band with my little brother. We spent the next two years making little noises on anything we could find.

When they were ready to perform, the two recruited a rhythm section, and by coincidence got bassist Bill MacCormick, who had been in 801. Peter Phipps plays drums. We got into our style for the same reason the new wave people were into theirs." Ferguson explained. "We didn't like what was available in music, the tired old men trotting out the same old recycled classical riffs. You know Yes.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer. But unlike new wave, we weren't trying to push social causes while going to the old styles of early rock, the rockabilly, ska and punk. For me. the Sex Pistols' album was great, and everything else since then has been copies. It's hard trying to come up with something new, but it's far more interesting.

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