Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 4, 1985 Page: 1 of 36
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Officials were still trying to account for all the deceased, he said.
All three members of the cockpit crew were killed, he said. They included
Capt. Ted Connors, 57; first officer Rudy Price, 43; and second officer Nick
Nassick, 44, all of Atlanta.
Connors had 31 years of experience with Delta and the trio had a combined
total of 25 years experience with the L-1011, according to Guilfoyle.
An infant died at a hospital, and a witness said a man was decapitated
when the jet struck his car on Texas Highway 114. At least 34 people were ”
injured, including a person not on the plane, hospital officials said.
But the urgency was directed toward the living.
District went to the polls Saturday to
elect a new congressman in an
election that some said might dispel
or substantiate claims of party re-
alignment in the South.
By DOUG CRICHTON
Associated Press Writer
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bell Fire Department spokesman.
The spokesman said it rained in
down between Campbell and Lone spots but not in downtown Campbell,
Oak Friday at about 3:30 p.m., ac-
cording to Gloria Moore of the
Sulphur Springs Police Department.
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County late Friday afternoon, but
Sulphur Springs officials reported no
rainfall during the time.
Election to determine
new congress member
Voters in Hopkins and other
foreign trade bill with Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of counties in the 1st Congressional
Texas, said Chapman would work to keep
and develop jobs in East Texas if elected to
congress.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — Workers using a huge crane searched today
for bodies in the wreckage of a Delta Air Lines jumbo jet carrying 149
passengers that crashed in heavy rain and exploded near Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport, authorities said. More than 120 bodies had been
recovered today.
Dr. Charles Petty, medical examiner for Dallas County, said this morning
that the bodies of “more than 120” people from Flight 191 were recovered.
Linda Harrison, a secretary at the medical examiner's office, said the
chief investigator at the scene told her about 130 people were killed.
“They’re waist deep in debris and they’re digging for bodies,” said Royce
Shields, a Fort Worth district fire chief, hours after the crash. “There are a
few pieces in there that you can tell it was plane. The rest is just debris. ’ ’
Twenty-nine passengers and three flight attendants survived the fiery
crash of the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, which went down about a quarter-mile
north of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport at 6:05 p.m. Friday, Delta
spokesman Matt Guilfoyle said this morning
Surviving passengers described the anguished moments prior to the
crash. •—~
“I saw the ground coming up,” said passenger Christopher John Meier of
Temple, Texas. “The left side came up and disappeared. Then the right side
came up and disappeared, too. I thought I was going to die.
“I walked away and started rounding up the people that weren’t hurt to
help the people that were hurt,” Meier, 35, a wholesale grocer, said at
Parkland. “There was a lot of screaming and yelling."
Hundreds of people gathered at a blood center across the street from
Parkland, the city’s major trauma center. They also crowded into makeshift
waiting rooms at the hospital itself to donate blood.
Medical staff members volunteered in such numbers that many were
turned away, said Dr. Erwin Thai, coordinator of the emergency operations.
Also gathered at the hospital were relatives of victims, many crying as
they waited for word. They were secluded in a waiting room near the
emergency room, not talking to reporters.
Willie Biggins, director of nursing for intensive care, said of the number of
blood donors: “It seems like there are thousands.”
Hours after the crash, rescue and cleanup workers struggled to sort out
the remains.
“They’re waist deep in debris and they’re digging for bodies,” Royce
Shields, district fire chief from Fort Worth said about 10'p.m.“There are a
few pieces in there that you can tell it was plane. The rest is just debris. ”
Armond Edwards, National Transportation Safety Board investigator,
said two pets onboard the plane survived.
“Two live dogs came out of the tail when we got the flight recorder out,” he
said.
There was no immediate official explanation for the crash. Jack Barker,
an FAA spokesman in Atlanta, said it wasn’t known whether wind shear —
an abrupt change in wind direction and speed — was involved in the crash.
Misty fog shrouded the field as dense smoke streamed from the charred
hulk of the jet. Wreckage ranging in size from 6 inches to 8 feet was scattered
over several hundred yards. The tail section, with engine, was the largest
recognizable piece.
U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., thanks
congressional candidate Jim Chapman for
his introduction before delivering a speech
for Chapman Friday at a rally at City Park.
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spawns storms
The weather that produced thun- In Hunt County, no injuries were
derstorms in the Delta crash at reported, but buildings near Camp-
Dallas-Fort Worth International bell on the properties of Hugh
Airport Friday night also brought a Spradling and Glenn Frey sustained
small tornado in neighboring Hunt wind damage, according to a Camp-
County.
The tornado was sighted touching
but high winds were reported in the
downtown area.
The brief storm was apparently
Hopkins spawned by the meeting of hot air in a
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moisture from the Gulf of Mexico,
according to weather service reports.
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In a district that is heavily and
historically Democratic — the two
previous congressman from the
district, Democrats Wright Patman
and Sam B. Hall, combined to serve
over 60 years and no Republican has
been elected since Reconstruction.
Tragedy strikes D-FW airport
The jumbo jet crashed and exploded during a heavy thunderstorm while it
headed toward a landing.
Witnesses counted 40 to 60 bodies draped in yellow plastic on the tarmac
near the wreckage of the Lockheed L-1011, which went down shortly after 6—
p.m. CDT near the airport’s northern boundary. The flight had originated in
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and was en route to Los Angeles.
Guilfoyle said the plane was carrying 149 passengers and 12 crew mem-
bers. The survivors included 29 passengers and three crew members, he
said.
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By KAREN SULLIVAN TURPEN
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Pittsburgh Steelers for three
and worked as a NFL official
years.
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reporters
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was at her parents' shoe store on the
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Mayor David Baucom began in the
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he' sold LAM Chesterfield State Bank is now. He was 11 years
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division of MBank Dallas. Mrs. Walls has been with MBank
She’s a 1948 graduate of Cumby 'for 27 years and began there as a line
High School, and her first job was in teller.
Gafford Chapel
as his first job.
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Bagwell has been an internal
medicine physician in Dallas for 44
years and retired last September
Sally (Spencer) Wiedemann is
Director for Business Education at
Insurance.
Clarence Jones, city safety director
and former Dallas County Sheriff,
ran an elevator in a department store
when he was 14.
VaLinda Hathcox is an attorney in
Austin, and her first Job was at
Haynsworth Jewelry during the
Christmas holidays.
She later taught English and
French at East Texas State
University and got involved in law
when she passed an exam given on
campus.
She said she had never thought
about entering law until she took that
exam, but she enjoys her work now
and does a lot of lobbying at the Texas
legislature sessions
• Ike Harper, district manager for
Texas Power and Light, mowed
lawns in Sulphur Springs when he
was 10 years old.
Don Looney is now an independent
oil operator in Houston, and he
worked for the Coca Cola bottling
plant here when he was 16 years old
feeding bottles into a bottle-washing
machine.
Potential success
Reid Willmenn, 11, mows yards and does trim work during
the summer, and he said this Is his firtt job. Only time will
tell where Reid will end up and in what profession, but he
shows potential for success by taking the initiative to work
at his young age. Some local successes told the News
Telegram about their first working experiences.
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Sam Attlesey, political reporter for and bicycles. the address-o-graph department of A.
the Dallas Morning News, sacked Ima Lou Walls was recently elected Harris and Co. (now Sanger Harris)
groceries at the local Piggly Wiggly vice president in the capital markets as a clerk-typist,
when be was 14.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in
political science from Baylor
University and a degree in jour-
nalism from East Texas State
University. He worked at the News
Telegram for a short time before he
was hired by the Morning News.
Hopkins County Judge H.W. Scott
said the first job he had would
probably have to be with the Navy —
he went directly into the service after
graduating from Sulphur Springs
High School in 1962.
But, on further consideration, he
said he did pull cotton for 82 per 100
bolls when be was younger, and he
ran a rural milk route for Carnation
when they used tin milk cans for
pickup.
After he served four years in the
Navy, he went to work for Rockwell
Manufacturing Co. as a machine
operator, then to E Systems In
Greenville as a security guard.
Then he served on the Sulphur
Springs police force, the Hopkins
County Sheriff’s Department force
and the Texas Department of Public
Safety, respectively, before he ran
for county judge.
Jim* Chapman, candidate for
congress and former district at-
torney, worked for Albert’s Repair
Shop in Sulphur Springs when he was
12 years old repairing lawnmowers
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Some people are born with a
natural flair for it.
Others work a lifetime to achieve it.
But however they get there,
everyone has to start somewhere.
A survey of some “successes” born
in and around Sulphur Springs
revealed the people from this area
started their careers in a wide
variety of jobs from farm laborers to
newspaper employees. < * devil to
Professional football coach Forest
the Texas Education Agency, a post
she was recently appointed to as a ,
result of lobbying activities with the
Teachers Association of Texas
Professional Educators.
_ _ _ _ Her second Job was with the News
SpringT High School’s top football Telegram. In high school she was ,
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who coached the worked summers filling in for ,
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first Job, which she worked the ,
years she filled in at the paper.
Between his soda and petroleum
played football for
Texas Christian University four
years, played professional football
for the Philadelphia Eagles and the
years
for 12
Co. in 1955, he said. He splits his time now between his
Mack Pogue threw newspapers for city duties and his business, Baucom
thej<ews Telegram when he was 11
years old.
He now owns Lincoln Property
Company in Dallas, a real estate
development company, and some say
he’s the richest man from Sulphur
Springs.
A printer’s devil for the News
Telegram was Dallas physician John
S. Bagwell’s first working position
when be was 12 years old. (A printer’s
Jresort lead type
characters when someone at the
Gregg’s first job was chopping cotton newspaper office dropped a tray
in Hopkins County when he was 11
years old for |3 a day.
He is a coach for the Green Bay
Packers, a position that follows an
illustrious career in football that
began at Sulphur Springs High
School, continued to Southern
Methodist University, led to a stint
playing for the Packers and finished,
as far as a player, with the Dallas
Cowboys.
Gregg is considered Sulphur
product, and the legendary Vince editor of the school paper, and she
Lombardi — who coached the - «- «—
Packers when Gregg played for them
and they won Super Bowls I and II -
called him the best player he ever
coached.
Another local resident, Bobby
Price, part owner of PriceJ-’ord in _
Sulphur Springs, milked cows in business world carrying g
Gafford Chapel for room and board his grandparents’ store
Secret of success may begin at early age
More information about the Dallas-Fort Worth In-
ternational Airport — including the weather at the time of
the flight, eye witness accounts, information about the
aircraft, and response from Gov. Mark White — can be
found on Page 3A.
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