Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 16

2-B THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS AbileneTexuSun MoreSept 301979 Flying High With "Wsshlngton then had many good guitar players as any place I could Imagine And all take time to help They'd come from all over this world and thb country to work to the government Clark who occupies the pbne's left seat the cap- tain's seat a pretend pilot a dabbler He has an instrument rating and 4500 hours logged mostly twin-engine time was one of those kids who stood In a field and heard an airplane coming and watched It all the way out of sight" says Cbrk Even so he afford flying lessons until 1958 Even then Roy who now owns 20 guitars had to hock a round-hob Gibson guitar for 825 to hb first lessons at Beacon Fbid in Northern Virginia In 1988 he wu sufficiently in the chips to buy sn old Piper Tri-Pacer which he still owns But he used it only for practice In 1968 he bought a used single-engine Beech Debonair for hb work He's aware light plane crashes have taken their toll of country music folk such as Jim Reeves killed in 1964 and Hawkshaw Hawkins Patsy Cline Cowboy Copes and Randy Hughes all killed in one crash in Tennessee a year earUer but you figure weft either going to happen or not" he says cant dwell on ft Which why he kept flying that Beech alone to datesi packing hb guitar some clothes and on occasion in bad weather some very unwanted lee on the wings Bouts with bad weather and the fact Just one engine kept him aloft caused some thought So he bought a twin-engine Cesana 310 But he still flew alone for a while Finally in 1971 when he shifted from the Cessna to the heavier faster pressurised Mitsubishi on hb third one now he hired a co-pilot who doubles as aide de camp on a full-time basis cattle horses two radb stations and a minor league baseball team the Tuba Drillers But he never forgets that this two-way admiration the fans for the star and the star to the fans the traditional way of country music even up here in Yankee land No matter that hb music pure country Sure Cbrk a short good-natured man with a barrel chest and thick muscubr arms and wrists of sturdy country stock born in tiny Meherrin Va midway between Richmond and Danvilb And sure he starts hb show with the Hank Snow ebssic Movin'On" But hb "medley of hit" includes "Yesterday When I Was Young" Which by Chsries Axvanour a good boy from France Yes he does Banjos" with hb sidekick a brilliant picker name of Buck Trent whom Cbrk wont to pbyfully penalise "IS yards to unauthorised with the melody But Roy also plays "Laura's And after fiddling a bluegrass tune so briskly a rusty cloud of resin rises from hb bow hell pick up hb 12-strlng Ovation guitar to some fast tough flamenco work Country he Yet Musk a new album he cut with bluesman Gatemouth Brown bst year includes the old Woody Herman hit and 'Take the A a Jaxs evergreen Something for everyone It no doubt bugs the pure of music in Nashville But nothing new for Clark It began when he was a kid when hb father Hester moved the Cbrk clan to Washington DC ft was there the senior Cbrk a government worker who moonlighted on guitar and banjo at area square dances bought young Roy hb first guitar a 81495 Sears Silvertone to Christmas in 1947 In two weeks Roy slready proficient on banjo and mandolih was playing guitar behind hb dad working Ms first date for 81 (he now fetches up to 890000 per gig) His memories of the esrly yesrs: EDITOR'S NOTE: They cell Roy Clirk Superpicker ud it could be an understatement He plays bit country music at nearly ISO one-night giga a year at up to tSOOOO per He shows up oo TV Sometimes even at home in bis Tulsa Okie mention But the place he likes best is high over the clouds piloting hit propjet and thinking about nothing but flying By JAY SHARBU1T Associated Press Writer NORTH TONAWANDA NY (AP) Roy Clerk Is dog-tired when he gets in the csr It's 1 nm an hour after the second of two shows he and his 11-member troupe have played at the Melody Fair Theater He's startled to see two elderly couples waiting out aide in the cold night air All the 1400 country music fans who puked the little theater here have gone all but these four who hope to meet him been waiting all this time?" he asks genuinely touched "Let's stop He gets out Like sn old-fashioned campaigner he gives them a warm howdy swaps small talk hugs the womenfolk poses with them to Instamatic history True two of three flashbulbs don't fire But the old folka are tickled beyond repair at meeting Roy Clark the "Hee star the frequent show guest the headliner in Las Vegas believe the Roy Clark says later gratified at their enthusiasm as his car finally heads back to nearby Buffalo where grab a rest before the next day's two shows at 2 and 7 pm He still gets an obvious kick from such diehard fans even though he's played professionally for 32 of his 46 years and now despite his plain-folks style is a wealthy man He owns a mansion in Tuba Okla where he and hb wife Barbara have lived since 1978 He flies hb own twin-engine nine-seat 811-million Mltsubushi propjet from date to date And hb varied business interests include reel estate ROY CLARK Loop Bow Tie or Cable Will Get You Channel 32 'Have you checked the children Carol Kane right terrified with a phone call from the man who haunted her seven years earlier in When A Stranger Calls Abo starring Charles Duralng Col-ben Dewhurst and Tony Beckley the film now showing at the Westwood Theatre cents to 8295 at the stores we surveyed Television experts say a piece of coathanger wire win work just ss weU as a loop if the wire looped to the same sixe as a commercially sold bop and if the ends of the wire are scraped eban to make good contact with the set But they also say it's probably not worth the troubb save such a small amount of money And a commercial bop easily adjustabb a homemade one isn't A bow tb is a littb more sophbticated but basbaUy the same aa a bop Bow Ue antennas seU to about 82 bid some TV dealers say that if your set a brand they sell they will give you a bow tie free if you don't have one Ask your dealer The bow tb clips on to your rabbit ears and a wire running from the bow tb attaches to the UHF terminab at the back of the set Abo avaibbb are sophisticated rabbit ears which have both VHF and UHF aerials these start at about 815 where we checked You may discover you need an outdoor aerial An the dealers and repairmen we consulted warned however that you should wait untU the new station comes on the air before rushing out to buy one You may not need it If you do you can expect prices to start at about 81895 You can Install the antenna yourself dealers assured us It attaches to your VHF outside aerial and the wiring attaches to the back of your set the same way as the VHF wire but to the terminab marked If your aerial already has a UHF antenna on it many do you'U need only a "splitter" attached to the end of the wire to separate the UHF and VHF signals The splitter in turn has two sets of wires coming out of it One set attaches to the VHF terminab on the back of the set the other to the UHF terminate If after attaching your antenna (and making sure the station's oo the air) your set won't pick up Channel 32 don't panto Some service men we talked to warned that many sets in the area have UHF receivers in them which simply have gotten dusty and need to be ebaned TV repairmen should be called to do the cleaning they said There's also the possibility that your receiver has been disconnected during previous servicing they said It's generally either inadvertent or careless they said: since Abilene has had no UHF station before now repairmen have not seen the need to troubb to reconnect the UHF connections when replscing the back panel on the television set Once sgain repairmen say they should be the ones to make the reconnection And if aU the above rigamarob doesn't take cars of picking up the signal you know what the TV repairman says to do: caU him CHRIS WIENANDT Entertainment Editor Channel 32? Where's that? As the sign-on date to KTAB Abilene's new television station nears target date to now Oct 6 a station spokesman said more and more people are wondering how they're going to be abb to receive its signal Not to worry! There be any problem according to Bill Terry president and general manager of the station and several television repair services and equipment suppliers we talked to If you're on the cable you have to make any adjustment at alL When KTAB a CBS affiliate goes oo the air it will replace the Dallas CBS affiliate KDFW (Channel 4) on the cable's channel 10 spot So touch that dial! But if you're watching with an outside aerial or rabbit ears it will be a littb mm involved If your television set was built before 1963 it may have only a VHF tuner channeb M3 and no UHF tuner (UHF covers channels 14-83) If that's the ease you'll have to get a UHF converter And you may have to do some looking Your best bet a shop specialising in television repair and not all of those carry converters If yon do find one it will run about 880 according to one dealer But he said it's relatively simpb to Install All you should have to do hook the terminab at the ends of the win on the converter to the screws on the antenna terminal at the back of your set After it's installed Just turn your channel selector to and adjust the selector to Channel 32 If you have a set made after 1963 it win have the capability to receive an UHF channeb it's been required by bw since then The markings on your UHF dial may be a littb confusing though Some sets have only the even numbers marked some only the odd and some have numbers marked only intermittently However ail sets with UHF receivers can tune in all UHF channels Simply turn the VHF knob to and adjust the UHF channel selector But back to the issue at hand: the antenna If you have a newer set there will be a UHF channel selector and antenna terminab on the back of the set for the proper antenna AH you have to do theoretically get the proper antenna Most sets will have UHF antennas already they need only be screwed onto the terminab If you don't have an antenna it wont cost much to acquire one KTAB station officii Is say that if you use rsbbit esrs to normal reception you should be abb to pick up their station with an inside aerisl as well Indoor UHF aerlab come in two types: the and the tie" The loop simply a loop of wire which t-taches directly to the back of your set Loops cost from 88 Terror Stalks in Durntog irritating the private detective and Colleen Dewhurst properly jaded a down and outer from whom Beckley pathetically attempts to solicit friendship Director Fred Wslton debuted with When A Stranger Calls and did a fine Job of it Not a camp like Halloween and not the same sort of psychological thriller as A Stranger In The House movie does arouse the ume primal fears of something not normal lurking In the dark Utilising fear of the unknown of something or someone hiding in the house with him When A Stranger Calls horrifying because of the Implied violence and the unexpectedneu of ft Rated for bnguage and scarlneu When A Stranger Calls now showing at the Westwood Theatre blea from one rejection to another pathetically pbadtog with the occupants of Los Angeles' skid row to a Hb brutal encounters with strangers who either punch him in the face or ignore him send him back into hb world of insanity no longer he telto himself wu never bon and no one can see Kane fine as first the terrified teenager and later the haunted mother Her luminous eyes and sharply defined features enhance each expression of horror shock and disbelief Her opening scenes the babysitter are some of the finest in the film The tension mounts with each ring of the phone at bast a half a dozen in the first 15 minutes of the film The startling noise of the ringing breaks the sibnee and grates on the nerves Ants Ufornefis Arts Thestre The cast consisb of five females Copies of the script arc available in drama instructor James Rambo's office in the WTC Fine Arts Building for persons interested in the show By PAT KILPATRICK When A Stranger Calls a chilling film made even more so by an excellent musical score The music to suspense thrillers oftentimes can either make or break the movie When A Stranger Calls an example of a film helped by its music as it achieves Us scsrbst moments at peak points in the score Composed by Dana Kaproff the music anticipates each fright for the audience to tense grating chords That the score sometimes works too wen becoming irritating no problem The audience isn't sure if they are shifting to their seats out of nervous tension or musical irritation and satisfied with either When A Stranger Calls stars Carol Kane as a teen-age babysitter plagued by threatening phone eaUs The cans persist with the caller eerily asking only if she has "checked the children" The police trace the calls from inside the house a horrifying thought and a series of bizarre events take place to the house before the night out The caller subsequently placed to an Insane asylum and that's that or so it seems The film awkwardly jumps seven years to ter and Kane a wife and mother when the mad caller escapes from the mental hospital Charles Dur-nlng the private Investigator who originally opened the case and assigned to find and dispose of the madman Eventually the man locates Kane and her family and makes one bst chilling phone csU before Durntog takes him out of action The man responslbb for all the terror as a lunatic phone caller to Tony Beck-ley a fine British actor who makes his American debut in thb film Beckley fives an outstanding performance aa a mentaUy deranged man who at once both pathetic and frightening The paychological torture he lives with gives a sad feel to hb character when the audience realises an the authorities Intend to do for thb man kill him The audience finds Itself rooting for the viUaln half of the time as he stum- Gallery Opens With Dali Radford GaUery officially opened its doors Thursday with a private showing of Salvsdor Dali origlnab The public grand opening was Friday and Saturday DaU the last living teg-endary artist in the gallery director Marsha King said "The collection featured during the grand opening the largest ever to be shown in the West Texss am" Thespians Hold Fall Meeting Never For Neil Young Fans By CHRIS WIENANDT Entertainment Editor very simpb If you like Nell Young you'll like Rust Never Sleeps If you don't you wont Rust nothing more and nothing leu than a filmed Neil Young concert littb attempt at embellishment no fancy camera work no apllt screen a Woodstock Nothing but Nell Young and Craxy Horse I've heard it said that a Young concert a bizarre experience The film bears that opinion out First of ail it doesn't begin with Neil Young It begins with Jlml Hendrix's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and segues into the Beatles' Day in the Life" Then five minutes of littb men in robes and luminmit mg gtesses the "Roadeyu" scurrying around on stage Betting up equipment Eventually we get to aee Young himself sitting on top of one of the gigantic speakers unfolding from huddbd-up position like a daffodil in Ume Upse photography It's a pretty straightforward concert though except for the Roadeyu making occasional appearances and for the paratrooper they capture near the concert's end without so much as the Mink of an eye from Young and the hind Young sings ume pretty well-known songs songs like a and so on no need to recite them all Perhaps the mut Interesting sspect of the film the image we get id Young himself a tousto-hatred half-erased guy who looks like he's just been let out of the looney bin Neil Young to the Bruce Dern of music But we also see the absolute devotion to music of Young and the band their love of what they're doing to the exclusion id the rest of the world close to Inspiring And even If you get to attend a Nell Young concert there's no way you could ever see the expression oo his face observe the fingering at clou hand as you do to Rust Never Sleeps It's a worthwhile two hours Rust Never Sleeps rated PG pteylng at the UA Cinema 6 in the Mall of Abilene H-SU Professor Holds Recital The Hardin-Slmmons University School of Music wUl present the faculty recital of Jaynne Middleton soprano at 8 pm Tuesday in Woodward-Dellls Recital Hall Ms Middleton assistant professor in voice st H-SU wUl be sccompanbd on piano by Dsn McAbxander and assisted by John Burton on violoncello Ms Middletoo's selections Include Sing to Him Sweeter Thsn by Henry Purcell a selection by Hugo Wolf and Airs Chantes She wUl sbo perform a selection bom Puccini's opera Turandot and "Three Songs From Ecclesiastes" by Daniel Pinkham Ms Middleton received bachelor's and master's degrees from Florida State University and has studied at the School of Fine Arts in Florence Italy and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Gras Austria She enrolled In the DMA program at North Texas State University in Denton WTC Opens With SNYDER The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in4he-Moon Marigold has been selected by the Western Texas Coi- EASTLAND Eastland Civic Theater members gathered for their first faU meeting Thursday at the BeU Hurst Plsyhouse Nettie Wilson president of the group spoke on the opportunities for learning fun and friendship afforded by the Civie Theater She also spoke on the craft of acting which includes the art of communicating voice training speech and body exercises listening and control Mrs Wilson announced the fall production the three-act melodrama On the Bridge at Midnight by Bruce Brandon Virginia Russell director of the theater set tryout readings for the melodrama for 7 pm Monday The play has parts for five men and eight women It set to the 1890s Solos duets quartets comic routines ventriloqubm and magic wiU fill the intermissions of the plsy Anyone Interested either as actors or crew invited to be on hand Monday st 7 pm or caU Virginia RusseD at (817) 629-1141 Auditions wiU continue Tuesday at 7 pm JAYNNE MIDDLETON H-SU soprano bge drama department for its season opener The show scheduled to open Nov 15 and continue its run Nov 16 17 and 19 Written by Paul Zindel the pby was the winner of the Pulitxer Prise for Drama in 1970 and also woo the New York Drams Critics Awsrd that year Open tryouts will be held 5:304:30 pm Mondsy end Tuesdsy In the Fine i I I I.