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Hollys Texa By VERN GRIFFIN opley News Service It would be nice to say that recognized great talent when first saw Buddy Holly It would be nice but it wouldnt be true Holly was pretty much like any other good ole West Texas boy back in the early 19505 when followed behind him in high school in Lubbock Texas There wasnt much to separate him from everybody else He wore the same tight hip hugging Levis and slicked down hair that most of us wore Oh he did carry around guitar sometimes Still this wasnt all that unusual guitar is almost as much regulation issue as cowboy boots in West Texas He played the high school hops and heard later he had local radio show never ran across it on my car radio though PRETTY MUCH COUNTRY can even remember walking out of one dance where he was playing As recall his music then was pretty much country western with lot of guitar didnt stick around or the whole dance remember leav ing probably so that could beat the crowd to the local Hi DHo Drivein Hamburgers were important to me in those days My wife whos also from Lubbock says they still are No didnt discover Buddy Holly back when he was in high school But it didnt take me and million others long to Dying Up the Streets Len Carlou left and Don Franks star in CBC Feb 28 The show focuses on the drug and pro televislons Dying Up the Streets being aired on stltution subcultures that Infect big city life CP Photo To make shopping easy In the Golden Years Senior Citizens savings Are listed for you here GOLDEN CIRGLE CLUB AGGOUNT we deSigned just With todays rising prices SMITTYS offers all Senior Citizens break Every Monday thru Friday I0 will be Cheques Come andoin ourGolden Circle 10 Club loull find our staff SENIOR CITIZENS NEWS This is your column Please send in any news you have concerning Senior Citizens such es special anniversaries birthdays and coming events which would be of interest to aurte cAairdyflny Senior Citizens If youre titty years or better heres special nonchequing savings account or you Interest calculated and paid monthly Specral withdrawal privileges at any Municipal Branch And no charges tor Travellers ssiigeerthe municipal gszztlzd from all orders excluding friendly and willing to help 3223 Saw195 loan corporation Dunlo and Owen 7269311 85 5m cmmn sm Georgian Mail 7260340 mm Deposit Insurance Corporation will be fiven to warm WWW OURYCLEANERS 0° hwm Ha syns with this IndieIarfirsemfireiits nnhn SENS élllZEaNTSl DISCOUNT 180 Innisfil Street Th ays nos ucbmy Pmuon°ul lb 20 off Perms Si 00 off Shampoos and ay ield Mall 544 le Is Deelep ms 7253912 spamming our or rows commas Shocks Au Oily 7262900 Exhaust Systems Specializing In others who are reading this page Address envelope to Childrens Cuts lbe Ienie km 10 To All No cull us Amlnllertee enior Citizen Tuesdays clased WednestYS an mm Sh IT In 310 726422 31 titti et Isse F2 1263133 Ienie om mu the examiner Friday Feb 23 1979 5A beginning remembered by reporter start taking notice of him after that never saw Holly in person after that school dance But sure heard lot of him Buddy Holly and his Crickets soon chirped their way to musical history He came out with such songs as Thatll Be The Day Maybe Baby and Peggy Sue Then came the plane crash 20 years ago that put an end to his alltoobriet career at the age of 22 Back in Buddy Hollys heydey Lubbock hadnt yet been discovered by the shoppingcentre developers or the electronics industry COTTON TOWN It was still very much cot ton town and you could measure the high times and the lean times by the height of the county cotton crop Its people trace their roots right into the solid bedrock Theyre the ones who stuck it out even when half of Lubbock County blew away in the Dust Bowl years Lubbock folks are used to see ing sudden spell of bad weather wipe out the years crop and guess thats what lot of us figured sort of happen ed to Buddy Holly For some reason no one could understand the young musical genius was cut down after just two years Some tears were shed but West Texans have never been to good at showing their senlt timentality Calculated and Paid Monthly Custom Bending Free Inspection Lifetime Guarantee