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Brownwood Bulletin
Sunday. November 1,1976
Brownwood, Texas 76801
Volume 77 No. 19
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Deason named
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$70,000
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express baggage and freight
Friday night
newspaper layout and ap-
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Eagle craft arrives;
flights begin Dec. 1
An eagle flew into Brownwood made for small packages,
HONORED — Rani C. Garcia, center, was
honored to Brownwood Saturday night as the
outstanding Mexican-American of the year.
Sharing the moment are, from left to right
Dr. Jose Rivas, last year’s recipient of the
award; and guest speaker Sergio Martinet.
See story on page J A.
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GENE DEASON
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THREE DEAD - Three persons were killed Saturday might
when a stationary vehicle at the Brownwood traffic circle was
struck by a car to a high speed chase. The occupants of the other
UNITED
WAY
HEADING UP-The Brown
County United Way has
Jumped to $46,000, more than
half of this year’s $85,000
goal, officials said this
weekend.
BROWNWOOD AREA -
Mostly fair and mild today
and Monday. High both days
near 70, low tonight near 40.
Maximum temperature
here Saturday 77. Sunset
today 15:41, sunrise Monday
6:59.
car, who are reportedly from Odessa, were to undetermined
condition early this morning.
By HARRIETTE GRAVES
Bulletin Staff Writer
A high-speed chase from Bangs to the traffic circle to Brown-
wood ended to death for three Brownwood residents around 10
p.m. Saturday night.
Dead are Curtis Eldon Nicks, his pregnant wife and young
daughter. Names of the two were not immediately available.
Listed in undetermined condition at Brownwood Community
Hospital are a man and woman from Odessa. Names were not
released late Saturday night.
According to Brownwood Police Chief Vic Fowler and Brown
County Sheriff Danny Neal, the chase began in Bangs when the
Odessans’cnr was being pursued by the Bangs Police Dept as it
approached Brownwood on U.S. 67-84 east.
Neal said the car was going in excess of 115 miles an hour.
Bangs police radioed the Brownwood Police Dept to set up a
road block at the foot of Bangs Hill
Fowler said a police car — parked at the foot of the hill ready
to stop the speeding car — was struck from the rear, spinning it
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bed. It's how she came to
Bangs to visit that sister who
had helped her through the
crisis a few years ago.
They travelled quite a bit,
too, in those years im-
mediately after the cure. But
there was one trip more than
any other that changed Mrs.
Wesley W. Porter’s life. She
and her husband were on a
ferry crossing Puget Sound
to British Columbia to visit a
son when a stewardess on
board the boat approached
her and asked how she could
smile in her condition.
Her mother, the stewar-
dess said, had been
paralyzed as well and it had
ruined her life. She com-
plained about things now and
spent all her time before the
television set
The comment discouraged
Mrs. Porter
“I was really unhappy
about this. And I wanted to
reach out to people who are
shut in,” she said.
She and her husband
decided that through visiting
shut-ins Mrs. Porter, an or-
dained minister, could help
them on a personal basis.
And they set out to talk with
those who had contacted
them, travelling around the
country in the back of the
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Bulletin editor
Gene Deason, a six-year staff I
member at the Brownwood I d22228292
Bulletin, has been named ■ d62aei
managing editor of the I As
newspaper, effective today, db
The announcement was made W
Saturday by Ronald Gray, I -aam.
associate publisher Deason E0-"70>-
(EDITOR'S NOTE As we coptinue
to make our way around the
newsroom, staff writer Richard
Mason draws this week's Hash Brown
assignment)
It was stroke that
paralyzed Mrs. Wesley W.
Porter. It froze her left side
20 years ago and confined
her to a bed. Then the other
things occurred.
There was the automobile
accident that broke her
back, and finally the onset of
cancer in the colon.
And life began to
deteriorate.
“I was down in the dum-
ps,” she recalled while
visiting her sister, Mrs. J. W.
Holmes, in Bangs recently,
“the doctors didn’t give me
very much time.”
Neither she nor the doctors
thought the radiation treat-
ments would do much good,
though she took them
anyway on doctor’s advice.
She race i v ed 22 cobalt treat-
ments and took a radium
solution which coursed
through her body for three
days. Then, mysteriously,
the cancer disappeared in
1973.
But it left her ravaged.
And when she travels now,
her husband transports her
in the back of a van where
she rests upon a hospital
Committee appoints study panels
Members of seven sub- Brownwood city council and Fry, George Day, Pat David- elude Nancy Hagood. Phil chairman.
committees which will study Brown County commissioners son, L. A. Kirksey and B. C. Watts, Felix Salazar and Lynn SIX — Evaluation of
Brownwood school financing court Drinkard, chairman. Nabers, chairman education program sub-
have been named in a report to “The committee recognizes _ _ eauitv studv committee to determine how
be presented Monday night to that the school, city and county b dmitt, "t FOUR _ Current and future students are being educated in
school trustees, Gene Porter, have elected public officials & . Tietr takes are physical plant needs sub- contrast to state and national
co-chairman of a ways and that represent the interest of newcins if taxes are uneoual committee to evaluate current norms. Study will involve a look
means panel, said this weekend, those bodies and that the Wemimendtion is exacted facilities regarding present into improved education at all
Trustees have requested committee, therefore, as how thev mav be eoualized needs and state requirements levels. Members include H. L
community members to in- represents the citizens on a incdin theFcost and tmetable and to project needs for future Cravens, Steve Pasquini,
. vestigate and validate the needs voluntary basis," the co- for Thepeimviementation. construction required by Blanche Shear, Betty Sue
of the school districi and to chairmen said. Members include Melvin growth, obsolescence and Cutbirth, Pat Bennie and
recommend legal avenues of The committee will submit in _ . . Hond Jck governmental requirements. Grover Beakley Jr., chairman.
Immediate funding, Porter writing at a public meeting its Sheitn Be Erie jof Members include George _ . . . .
indicated. finding and recommendations ShononmmttcriieF"rrig Crews, Don Johnson, Mary SEVEN - Budget needs sub-
Marion Baugh Jr. and Porter for consideration by the elected on’and gg’ Belle Fryar and Roy Simmons, committee to study cash flow
are serving as co-chairman of officials, they added. cna ’ chairman. during last three years by
the ways and means committee The seven committees ap- THREE — State and federal major income classifications
from which the seven sub- pointed last week follow: funding sub-committee to FIVE - Maintenance of and to identify expenditures in
committees have been formed. ONE - Need and feasibility determine available and physical plant and equipment the same period for state
The appointments were an- <rf consolidating taxing agencies probable programs either sub-committee to evaluate programs, federal programs,
nounced following a Thursday sub-committee to determine the available or untapped. Study present maintenance needs, salaries and other categories,
night session. The committee necessity, feasibility, legality will involve an appraisal of costs and future plans. Mem- Members Include David Camp
was formally announced at an and tax savings of such a pending funding programs bers Include H. W Mattaei, L III, Bill Jamar, Richard
Oct. 4 joint meeting with the proposal. Members include Don concerning their affect on the e. Jones, Hardy Reed, Janice Sharpe, Bob Tait and Brayton
Brownwood school board, Jordan Jr., Andy Kohn, Bob school district. Members in- Cooper and R. S. Martin Jr., Smith, chairman.
van.
They have been at it more
than a year now, and the
results have been good. Mrs.
Porter speaks with shut-ins,
showing them that things
can be done to improve their
lot if they make the effort.
“They can do something,"
she says. “I can string
beads, and can paint — with
the use of one hand and my
mouth.
"People who are
paralyzed or shut in at first
get angry, and can find no
benefit in living. They lay
down and slowly die,” she
explains.
“They don’t need to sit and
wish away their life.”
And Mrs. Porter sets the
example. Despite the pain
that still inflicts her 66-year
old body, she has travelled to
Kentucky, to her home state
of Michigan, and across the
country from her present
home in Oregon. And, of
course, she was in Bangs on
that reunion with the mem-
ber of the family who aided
her during that time of need.
Life has turned out for her,
and she says, that thought
makes her glad.
“I'm very happy. I just
want to do something to help
someone else out”
Following the Internship, with the campus newspaper.
Deason was made a regular He is a native of Burlington,
member of the staff. N.C. and graduated from
During 1975 he was wire Mayfield High School in Las
editor for the News-Journal in Cruces, N.M.
Longview. He returned to the Honors be has received while
Bulletin a year ago and has at The Bulletin include second
worked in all phases of the place, headline writing, Texas
editorial department since that Press Assn.; first place
But this Eagle is unique. It is exchange.
the first aircraft for Eagle To speed and facilitate flight
Airlines of Brownwood, reservations, a computer is
According to Gerald James, expected to be installed later
president of the company, this month, James said,
flights from Brownwood to James added that an-
DFW Airport will begin on Dec. nouncements concerning a Civil
He holds a bachelor of pearance, team effort with Bill
business administration degree Stovall, TPA contest; and
from Howard Payne University honorable mention, sports
with a journalism minor. He photography, TPA.
graduated with honors In 1972. Deason is married to the
While at HPU, Deason was an former Valeri Chambers, a day
officer in Circle K, International care licensing representative
and Press Club, and editor-in- for the State Dept, of Public
chief for three semesters and Welfare. The Deasons live at
assistant editor two semesters 1803 17th St.
It’s good news for Dallas-Fort Texas International’s request to
Worth commuters because halt service to Brownwood is
reservations for varied flights expected soon.
from Brownwood to DFW and However, Eagle will begin
back will be accepted for operations in Brownwood Dec. 1
December beginning Nov. 15. even if it results in parallel
Eagle Airlines will gate at service for a while. The Texas
Braniff Terminal at DFW’s International situation will not
Gate 1. Provisions have been affect Eagle’s planned opening.
Forty-Six Pages Today Four Sections
members to the position, "Gray f—7
said.
Deason came to the Bulletin If
in August, 1970 on a journalism
intern program between the
newspaper and Howard Payne
University.
10- Daily Sunday 25'
For Jerry Conklin, star of the over some show equipment
Spirit of 76, a magic and puppet The stage crew knew of the
show held Friday here, those incident but since Conklin said
words have taken on new nothing much about it, no one
meaning. imagined he had anything more
The veteran actor lived up to than a bruise.
the age-old tradition of the stage The entertainer continued his
that regardless of what hap- performance, which required
pens, a performer must go on. his running the length of the
The near-capacity audience stage while performing trick
of children and adults at after trick to the delight of the
Brownwood High School youngsters.
auditorium did not know that The show was being given in
Conklin — during intermission See SHOW on Page 2 A
replaces Norman Fisher who I
was recently promoted to I
publisher of the Stephenville I
Empire-Tribune. Both papers
are members of Woodson
Newspapers.
"We are glad to be able to
promote one of our own staff
389 degrees, as the vehicle catered Brownwood city limits.
The police car then joined the chase, which ended at the traffic
circle when the Odessans’ car struck the Nicks' car, which was
stationery before a yield sign.
Both the stopped car and the Odessans' car crashed into the
middle of the circle.
All three occupants of the Nicks’ car were apparently killed
instantly.
The circle is the intersection of U.S. highways 87,84 and 377,
only a block north of the downtown business district
Law enforcement officers, highway patrolmen and justice of
the peace Joe Bob Morgan were at the scene, and movement of
the typically heavy Saturday night traffic was restricted in all
lanes around the traffic circle for more than an hour.
“I have not the faintest idea why they would be running from a
police car or going through town that hard," said Fowler. “She
(Nicks’ wife) was about six, or seven or eight months prenant I
would say the child was about two or three-year’s-old. ”
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