—The Daily Collegian Monday, October 2, 1972 that brought you Electron, 1972... Spiro, Sarge, Martha, Henry, Shirley, George, Ted, Edward, Hubert et al. Hurry! Limited offer! GET YOUR 18"x22" ELECTION COLLECTION POSTER AT... COLOR IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL 1. Buy a bunch of Flair pens. You need black, brown, orange, yellow, purple, and green (You need them anyway for school) 2. Color in the picture according to these color guide numbers. (1). Black (5). Brown (6). Orange (7) Yellow (9). Purple (12). Green. Do not color unnumbered areas KEELERS The University Book Store MINI POSTER" OF ONE OF THE CANDIDATES! %I,f h i 1 g f . 3. Congratulations! You have created a / genuine full color portrait of someone you know and love. Maybe. If he is not your favorite presidential candidate, have patience. You'll see your favorite next in the Flair Election Collection! (Don't forget to ask about Flair's running mate, the Flair Hot Liner.) Charlie Smith: the oldes BARTOW, Fla. (AP) Charlie Smith stared warily at the microphone propped in front of him and began speaking into the tape recorder. "I am the oldest person alive, no question of it," he said. "I have crossed the sandy desert and I knew Jesse James." Smith, who claims to be 130 years old, was being in terviewed by a representative of the Martin Luther King Center of Boston University. The center has decided to record and photograph Smith for his unique contribution to black history. "Smith has personally lived through a vast sweep of American history," said Kenneth Edison, who is staying in Tampa while recording Smith for the center's oral history division. Charlie claims to remember a distant summer 118 years ago. He was a boy of 12 on the coast of Liberia. "I was playing on the beach," he said, staring directly ahead in the shadowy Griffith fund established A new scholarship fund, to be known as the Cameron John Griffith (Class of 1931) Memorial Scholarship Fund, has been established for the benefit of students at the Altoona campus of the University. The fund, established by Mrs. L. C. Griffith, of Mid west City, Okla., in memory of her husband, provides for an annual scholarship of $2OO. Contributions to augment the original fund of $2,900 may be go away.•• Amsterdam London Dec. 14-22 1972 $310.00 Fly KIM Jet Hotel in both cities Breakfast daily Welcoming Party Theatre Tickets in London Many, many extras Centre for Travel 114 S. Heister 238 4987 room. "There was a boat tied at the dock, all gaily colored and what. My mother, she was making lard from fat, so we kids went up to the boat. This man came up and said there was 'fritter trees' on the boat. "So some of us kids went on board and down into the bottom of the boat and there were fritters, with syrup all over them, hanging from this tree on the table. The man told us there were fritter trees all over America. When we went back up to the top of the ship we were out in the middle of the ocean. I never saw my mama again. The slave ship arrived in New Orleans the first week in July and Smith was soon on the auction block. His real name was M'lcha, but a Texas rancher called Charlie Smith gave him his name when he bought him. Growing up near what is now the Great King Ranch near Galveston, Charlie recalled learning the ways of the cowpuncher. He remained on the ranch the year he made by alumni, student organizations, friends, businesses, or 'any other in terested individuals or groups. Preference in awarding the scholarships will be given to candidates who are graduates of the Hollidaysburg High School who have been offered admission as full-time fresh man associate degree or baccalaureate degree students at the Altoona campus. turned 21 when President Lincoln freed the slaves. "I didn't need to be freed, I'd been treated like a white man all my life." He would stay on until the rancher died a few years later. The next quarter of a century comes in the hazy swirls of memory belonging to the old man sitting alone on the sofa. Charlie tells of traversing the great Southwest during the stormy days of the Civil War and claims to have known one of the more notorious men of the time, Jesse James. "I knew all of the James boys," he says. "It was James who taught me how to shoot. A Sociai Security worker found him high in a tree, picking oranges at the age of 115. The agency ran a check for months and finally found reliable documents in New Orleans confirming his sale into slavery and also found papers in Texas that mat ched. Now Charlie sits alone in a darkened store, about the size of a one-car garage. The faded sign painted on the outside of the building says, "Charlie Smith's Soft Drink and Candy Store." But inside the dimness gives way to plastered walls, cracked and peeling and stacks of empty cola bottles and torn cardboard candy boxes. The pleasures in life are small, a little wine and the few people who stop in to hear the tales of the oldest man on record in America. Jazz Club free to have better concerts this year By RICK SCHWARTZ Collegian Staff Writer Their hands have been tied until this year, but now they are going to shine. This is how Abbey Konowitch, president of the Jazz Club, described this year's membership prospects. Konowitch maintained the Jazz Club has not been par ticularly strong recently due to a directive by the University Concert Com mittee which states that in dividual organizations may only spend up to $l,OOO for any one concert. Konowitch said a good jazz group could cost anywhere from $1,200 to $2,000. As a result, the Jazz Charlie Smith ... 130 years old Club had no concerts last year, although they did sponsor the Bonnie Raitt appearance. This year will be different, Konowitch said: "People who are really interested in jazz should get in the club " Konowitch said he has gotten approval to go over that $l,OOO limit with approval of the concert committee. In fact, the first concert the club is planning will go over that amount. The group is Weather Report which he described as "an impressive jazz group." Konowitch is also planning a major reorganization of the club. There were 150 mem bers last year, this year he is shooting for 500 members. He said, "300 or 400 members is operable." Other reasons Konowitch cited for joining? "We will have at least one major jazz concert per term and one blues concert per year Members will get a sizable discount on tickets," he said. An example of this is the Weather Report concert. Non members will pay $2.50, while members pay only $1.50. man Photo by the Associated Press Members will also have access to the Jazz Club record collection in the HUB. which contains ol,er 150 "up-to date" albums, according to Konowitch. Primarily though. Konowitch stressed the ac tiveness of the Jazz Club this year "depends on the support we get from the students, and the type of students we get " He said. "We are assuming there is a sizable jazz population at Penn State A lot of them play instruments but want to see someone they're interested in " Kono‘s itch said he feels a strong club could promote closer-knit activities like jamming together and could ork at getting music listening rooms and lecturers. He would also like to see more of an experiment the club had last year with various quadrophonic equipment Last year, Konowitch said, most of the jazz club's money was used for loans to the Folklore Society and then was returned This year Konowitch plans on "high quality concerts" and none of the inactivity of last year which he feels caused many members to become disillusioned He stresses, however, that it will largely be up to the quality of the member who joins this year and that member's "desire to see a working club. Correction The Daily Collegian in correctly reported Thursday in a check-cashing chart that McLanahan's, 414 E. College Avenue, does not cash two party checks In fact, McLanahan's does cash two party checks from the parents of the casher MCAT-DAT-GRE LSAT-ATGSB OCAT NAT'L. 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