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vide a meeting place in each of the States which would be a regional focus
and impetus to the preservation of our physical and cultural heritage and
would bring citizens together to plan the preservation of the quality of our
total environment for the present and for the future.
Without going into the technicalities of the act, note simply that the bill
tries to turn around the plundering of historic sites in the name of develop-
ment which has become such a local sore spot in so many communities.
It would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant up to one million
dollars to enable an applying authority to acquire and restore an authenti-
cated historic site for use as a Meeting House. We will watch Senator
Tower's effort with great interest, concern, and approbation.
Sports Illustrated for January 14, 1974, contained an intriguing article,
"A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller," by Edward Hoagland.
The story tells how the big-eared, short-coated, stilt-legged red wolf has
been killed off or mongrelized by coyotes, true wolves, and wild-running
domesticated dogs throughout its original area from Florida to the Edwards
Plateau until only a ragtag remnant of about 200 survives in the area be-
tween the Brazos River and the Atchafalaya. Biologists were late discovering
this last habitat, and in only 1973 was any real funding ($40,000) provided
to begin an organized recovery effort. So in the middle of the most indus-
trialized section of Texas, surrounded by Houston, Galveston, and Beau-
mont, in an area where a calf may smother from the balls of insects that
fasten inside its nose, the red wolf somehow survives and even thrives.
In 1965 I read in the paper that Dr. Norman Laird McNeil had been
named president of Sul Ross State University. Since I did not know any
Norman McNeil, the announcement was of only casual interest to me.
Some time later Joe Neal said to me, "What do you think about old
Brownie being made a college president!" I replied that I had not heard
the news. Joe said that he was the new president at Sul Ross at which I
exclaimed, "You mean Norman McNeil is Brownie !"
I had known Brownie McNeil for approximately twenty-eight years as
a fellow student and then as a colleague in the academic field, had sat
around campfires with him, and had listened to him singing border songs
as softly as the wind sang through the mesquites. I had heard him on the
King Ranch, and in the Big Bend. I knew that he was Lady Bird Johnson's
favorite singer when she brought groups of Washingtonians to Texas. But it
had never occurred to me that his name was anything other than Brownie.
And I had always thought of him as a singer, guitar player, and folklorist83
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