The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 64, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 26, 1973 Page: 16 of 36
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, December 26,1973
Big Spring Upset By
A irline Withdrawal
, BIG SPRING, Tex. (AP) —
Texas International Airlines
has a simple solution to its an-
nounced goal in this West
Texas town of “zero passenger
complaints.”
Zero passengers!
But, passengers or not, Big
Spring is complaining. And
complaining loudly. All the
way to Washington.
“It’s a damned mess,” says
Howard County Judge A. G
Miteheil“They’re doing theirf,
best to defeat this community,
But they got ahold of a wasp’s
nest!”
Big Spring is one of 25 cities
across the nation where the
airlines seek to withdraw all
air service because of the fuel race<*ias^e to clear pas-
shortage.
Big Spring is the only city in
Texas were the 100 per cent
cutback is proposed. And, in
g’s case, it would
Big Spring’s ..
mean termination of Texas In-
ternational’s four remaining
flights daily.
If you have an artist’s eyeTor
the lure of vast plains then this ri^i"1
city of 30,000, sitting amidst
stubby foothills, is in an inter-
esting if not pretty area.
pied by about 3,000 airmen, is w jl ,
perched on the south side of Midland, 100 miles to San An-
town, its pilot training
program lured here by ideal
flying weather
Occasionally you see a really
beautiful woman driving a lux-
ury car. A big rancher’s wife.
Most people here are hard-
working by vocation—shop-
keepers, clerks, support
personnel for the ranching and
farming industry. They like
their town.
There’s a Ritz movie house
downtown, few long-haired
people, plenty of wide-
brimmed hats and stovepipe
boots,
gelo, more than 100 miles to
Abilene
People here are used to long
distances, long, perhaps, by
is no bustling airdrome. But
Big Spring considers its com-
mercial air service vital
The “terminal” is an office
in a prefabricated steel
hangar. ——
- A softdrink machine, «.
couple of plastic couches and a
wall map oRhe -United States
are flanked by the Texas Inter-
national counter atone end and
the Hertz Rent-A-Car counter
at the other,
A little sign in the Texas In-
ternational office reads: “Our
goal—zero passenger com
plaints.” Help-yourself coffee
stews on a hot plate
The whole airport squats on
a vasty brown table-like plain
where tumbleweeds roll into
pockets of sandy depressions,
The Hertz clerk interrupts
his work to reach for a micro-
phone, lean through the win
dow and radio an inbound
private pilot, “There ain’t
nobody coming. Come on in.”
A few moments later, the
lone Texas International ticket
agent was notified'by radio
that Flight 666 was inbound costly and
and, “We’U be there in a, few
minutes."
A half dozen passengers
shuffled nervously. Some had
noted that the pilot, at the last
minute, may decide to fly over
Big Spring.
The twin-engine plane, its
propellers, roaring furiously,
swept onto the deserted run-
way.
the field and motioned the air'
craft to a parking place near
the hangar. Assisted by
deputy sheriff, the pair pitched
a few suitcases into the plane’s
rear hatch. The agent then
sengers for boarding,
The plane leaped into the,
gathering darkness.
If Texas International
lowed to withdraw service, Big *iarve
win or so
Spring residents say they
be left isolated on the treeless
plains except for bus service
To some extent they are
fight over Big Spring and
leaves people standing on the
ground watching the plane go
right past us. Then you haye to
race to Midland to catch a
plane.”
Mitchell, who is a farmer
and a rancher, says he often
needs delivery of machinery
parts in a hurry.
“If I need a combine part to
est I can’t wait for a week
to get it while the birds
are eating the crop. I’ve got to
use air freight and get it in a
hurry,” he said.
But there is at least one man
A bullet fired at eye level ^ere w^° doesn’t worry about
from this brick and clapboard
island in the plains could travel
the economics and inconven-
iences of the world outside
davs before hitting anything. His world is a hospital room
It is 60 miles to me airporfaf andw^oiHrhl^lie^MbdBg.
the yardsticks of others. But Pard. acting director for
Voluntary Services at the
Veterans Administration
the townspeople say they won’t
stand still for the airline’s plan
to withdraw service and force
them to use the airport at Mid-
land,
“We’re going to fight them
all the way. We may not win
but we’re not going to give it to
them,”' says George
McAllister, president of the
Chamber of Commerce. “They
set this thing up by
The Howard County Airport rearranging the schedules so
that nobody would use the
airline. Then they can point to
declining passenger boardings
to show it isn’t economical to
continue operating here.”
In 1969, when there was an
early morning flight to Dallas,
Big' Spring generated 5,493
early flight was discontinued
and there were 4,549 passen-
gers. It’s gone downhill since
Texas International has ap-
plied to the Civil Aeronautics
Board for permission to dis-
continue the four flights in and
out of Big Spring because there
aren’t enough passengers
going to or coming from Big
Spring to make it worthwhile
Additionally, they cite the
shortage of aviation fuel,
Jack Gulley is traffic man-
ager for the Cos’den Refining
Co., one of Big Spring’s biggest
industries,
We ship maybe $1,000 or
$1,500 a month in air freight,
We’ll have to use motor
freight, the, railroad or send a
pickup truck to Midland. It’s
-—--
Beamingly yours.
Jim Beam
he said,
“Hell, their schedules are
lousy. There are two flights
westbound and two eastbound
a day. None of them put you
anywhere where you can make
connections,” said Judge Mit-
chell.
Clothier Adolph Schwartz,
member of a committee to
fight the cancellation, said the
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To Babu’s Two Names
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couple recently went to an of. away in (he winds of de-Stalini-
fice here called ZAGS to regis-
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ZAGS said, “Nyet.”
“Why not?” The couple
wanted to know,
“Because it’s two names,”
said ZAGS.
“Well, write it as one word,”
the couple said
Nyet,” said ZAGS, “it’snot
possible.”
Had they wanted, they prob-
ably could have named her
ZAGS. ZAGS is an acronym
from the Russian initials
standing for Registry for Acts
of Civil Status,
It wouldn’t be the first time
since the revolution that'first
names were made this way
There are people walking
around the Soviet Union today
with the name “Villor,” de-
rived from “Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin, Initiator of the October
Revolution.”
And there’s- “Melor, ” from
Marxj®ngels, Lenin, October
Revolution. There are even
cases of a “Melor” who used to
be “Melsor.” The missing “s’
shifts in the political tides are
thousands of women named
“Stalina.” ----
With Lenin, though, you’re
always right. . ”
People named “Lenina” ’or
“Vilen,” from V.I. Lenin,
haven’t much to worry about.
Another set of first names
dates from the early days of in:
dustrialization and collective
farms. Thus “Domna,” the(
Russian word for blast fur-,
nace, ‘USlektrina” and
Traktorina.” 1 '
There’s also “Oktyabrina,”
from the Russian word, for Oc-
tober in memory of the “Octo-
ber Revolution.”
The official- at ZAGS
wouldn’t accept Annamaria as
one word or two.
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service
HUGH WOOD
FORD
1801 DECKER DR
422-8121
of multiple sclerosis.
He can’t use his arms or his
legs. He can barely whisper.
“His wife’s visits are all he
lives for,” said Dene Shep-
GIANT
YEAR-END
Hospital.
“He has no family here. His
wife must fly in from El Paso.
She comes at least once a
month, usually more. She is
German-born and an ex-
pensive cab trip from Midland
to here is more than they could
handle. You can’t believe what
her visits do for him. But
without air service ...”
Big Spring has five hospitals
and is becoming a medical
center for West Texas. The VA
Hospital servicei 52 counties
plus some in New Mexico.
Without commercial air serv-
ice, Big Spring thinks this po-
tential will be shattered.
A major company planning
to settle in Big spring witn a
multi-million-dollar facility
already has said it will have to
back out if there is no com-
mercial air service.
“I don’t know what to do,”
said Mitchell. “This will hurt
us bad. I mean really bad.’,’
Many People
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 64, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 26, 1973, newspaper, December 26, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104625/m1/16/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.