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;h f r d f I' ABILENE — Rushing home for a
.j II r fried chicken dinner can have its pit
falls. Ask Randall Leonard, who says
I TO wound up pinned under his
Vfeetkl^P truc ^ ^ or ^ hours in cold
weather because he was a little too
to see . ,
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Fhe truck slipped on a jack, trap
ping the 30-year-old oilfield worker
t y ,! until early Tuesday, when he was
P ll - f re ed.
i^ *\HThe Abilene man was at work
sl ^" Monday night when his wife Susan
t i wondti»i e( j to tell him what she planned
for dinner.
"mi 'il' ^ e to ^ nie over l ^ e we
’ M ' were having fried chicken and
ng t Hte, mas ) ie( j potatoes and gravy,” Leon
ard recalled Tuesday. He said the
' rel meal sounded so good he was in a
hurry to get home.
elitesoltsl |_j e was c hanging the tire on the
the corrtcKjntage road of U.S. 277 when the
truck slipped.
fi'ty cenle pfLeonard said he was never under
11 ' s the truck’s full weight. He said was
d0 not in great pain, but began losing
‘ ll ' drculation in his legs.
^ 00 situps, everything I knew
lone h how, to keep the circulation going,”
>t nu ^ he said.
^Leonard said he did not suffer
much from the 31-degree tempera-
tUle because he had put on a sweater
-J,before starting to change the tire.
^■Leonard said he tried to attract
the attention of passing motorists by
waving them from under the truck,
bui most drove by, apparently think-
gfn<
§0% ing he was just being friendly.
VfC Relief came when Keith Middie-
vTljton, a state Highway Department
i worker, found him, officers said.
■Leonard was taken to an Abilene
hospital for treatment of a com
pressed ankle and released.
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8682 6- eonar d said he has taken a great
deal of libbing from friends who
-Pd him they believe he cooked up
accident to spend a night away
'■'Hroni his wife.
Slouch
By Jim Earle
“I have these spells of nervous depression, mostly when Pm
in class, and especially on Friday afternoons... ”
Future is bright
for Texas films
Associated Press
DALLAS — The Texas movie in
dustry, which enjoyed more than
$90 million worth of business from
30 major feature productions in
1984, should enjoy another good
year as producers seek realism and
shoot more on location, a state offi
cial says.
Joel Smith, director of the Texas
Film Commission in Austin, says the
recent trend away from California’s
dominance of the industry shows no
sign of slowing down.
“Movies are being made more and
more on location because audiences
demand realism,” Smith says. “A lo
cation often is a co-star in the pic
ture.”
Texas provided more than a few
varied locations for major produc
tions during 1984. Many of them
will be released during 1985, Smith
says.
Smith, whose duties include pro
moting Texas to filmmakers ana as
sisting those who decide to film in
the state, says that despite increasing
competition from other states for
out-of-California shooting, Texas is
developing a more well-rounded in
dustry.
“What is beginning to happen in a
very modest way is that independent
producers in Texas are starting to
make movies in Texas with the help
of established entries elsewhere,”
Smith says. “That’s a good sign.”
Competiton from other states will
help, he says.
“As long as film-making grows in
other parts of the country, it contrib
utes to the decentralization of the
film industry and that’s good for
Texas,” he says.
Thirty major features films were
shot in Texas in both 1983 and 1984,
although the total budgets for the
films dropped from $ 115 million to
$90 million, Smith said.
“We had the tighter budget pic
tures (in 1984),” Smith says. “In a
way, that’s good because it reflects
that more of the films were pro
duced by Texans involved in some
production aspect.”
Major productions filmed in
Texas and slated for release in 1985
include “1918,” written by Oscar
winning screenplay writer, Horton
Foote, and filmed in Waxahachie;
and “Dragonslayer,” filmed in Cor
pus Christi and starring Helen Slater
of “Supergirl” fame.
Martin Jurow, producer of
“Terms of Endearment,” last year’s
Best Picture, used the Marfa-Alpine
area for “Sylvester,” starring Melissa
Gilbert ana Richard Farnsworth.
“Places in the Heart”, starring
Sally Field and filmed in Waxaha
chie in 1983, has been nominated
for seven Academy Awards, includ
ing Best Picture and Best Actress.
Mini-series as well as the prime
time soap opera “Dallas” were also
filmed partially in Texas.
Snapshofoffers the only real glimpse of the city
Pop bottles
aid search
for children
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — A soft drink
bottler is adding its resources to a
growing campaign to find miss
ing children.
Abarta Inc. of Pittsburgh,
which bottles Coca-Cola and
other soft drinks in Bethlehem,
Pa., Cleveland, and Buffalo,
N.Y., is placing photographs with
descriptions of missing children
missing
bottles distributed
in
will appear
paper aprons attached to the
ttles, which will be on store
on pop
those cities.
The information
on
bott
shelves this week
Abarta President John Bitzer
said the idea comes from a Chi
cago public relations firm. Seve
ral Midwestern milk producers
are picturing missing children on
milk containers, while the Chi
cago Transit Authority is showing
the children’s pictures on buses
and commuter trains.
“The epidemic of missing chil
dren is such an immense moral is
sue at this point that all of us are
compelled to become involved,”
Bitzer said.
npany
of miss
new group ot missing children on
500,000 bottles every three
weeks, he said.
Paris, France it’s not, but it’s not ‘Paris, Texas’
Associated Press
PARIS — The residents of the
Northeast Texas town of Paris are
worried about the movie “Paris,
Texas” — which wasn’t filmed in Pa
ris and, in fact, has little to do with
Paris.
“It might as well be titled ‘Ko
komo, Ind.,’ ” says Patrick Ryan,
manager of the Paris Chamber of
Commerce.
here.”
Onh
‘None of it was shot
one glimpse of Paris is in
cluded in the 145-minute film—a
snapshot of a vacant lot.
Thomas Steely, a banker whose
f reat-grandfather founded Paris in
839, fears the movie will tarnish the
town’s reputation.
“There’s no question we’ll get lots
of exposure — but will it be good or
not?” Steely asked.
The movie, which won the 1984
Cannes Film Festival, was made by a
German director and financed by
French investors.
The film’s main character, Travis,
turns up wandering in the Texas de
sert after a mysterious four-year ab
sence. He tries to reunite with his
family and dreams of moving to Pa
ris—the town where he believes he
was conceived.
At one point, Travis holds a
snapshot of a vacant lot in Paris
where he plans to build a home. But
Trivis never reaches Paris. His quest
becomes a symbolic search for lost
roots.
“Our character froze in the
1920s,” he said. “It may sound
strange to you, but I like seeing the
people I’ve known for 50 years.”
During the 1930s, Paris was a cot-
ton-farming boomtown and railroad
center.
Industry is now the major em
ployer. Campbell’s soup and Hug-
gies diapers are made in Paris.
“A Campbell’s soup plant is noth
ing to sneeze at,” Steely said. “It’s
better than an oil well.”
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