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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1980
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Dalton reaches small crowd
Police shoot distraught father
By DEBBIE NELSON
Battalion Staff
The press release called Lacy J. Dalton “the Janis Joplin of
Country.”
Well, maybe. She’s not bad.
A mop of curly blond hair, seething energy and a gravel-edged husky
voice that switches from country to blues to boogie in nothing flat
makes Dalton deserve a Joplin comparison.
Lots of good music, a sparse crowd, and an audience-artist closeness
best describe the Lacy J. Dalton concert Tuesday night in Rudder
auditorium.
From her cowboy-hatted entrance to the audience’s standing ova
tion at the end, Lacy J. and the Aggies shared the concert. “You know
what?” she said, “The Oak Ridge Boys told me you were the best
audience in the whole world and I believe it was the truth. ”
Dalton, the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Artist,
wasn’t bothered by the small audience. From “Crazy Blue Eyes” to
“Hard Times,” both she and the audience had a good time.
She related. Her dimples had the crowd smiling. She posed and
flirted with an actresses’ ease.
Such as when she introduced her first country hit, “Crazy Blue
Eyes.” Dalton had sung a song dedicated to Waylon Jennings, when
she said, “Now that I know you’re friends, I can relax.”
Sitting down on the edge of the stage and leaning forward to the
audience, she asked, “You know what?”
“What?” replied the crowd.
“Wherever you find Aggies and armadillo-loving Texans and cow
boys, you’ll find bad girls.”
Whoops and hisses from the audience. “I know most of you out there
are good girls, ” Dalton said, “but for those one or two of you out there
who might have slipped, I’d like to sing the Bad Girl National
Anthem.”
The small crowd (who had declined an Aggie basketball game, an
orchestra concert and studying for finals in favor of the concert) moved
closer to the front of the auditorium during the show, giving Rudder
more of a small club atmosphere than of a looming empty space.
Well worth mentioning is Don King, the singer-guitarist who
opened the show. King had more than one Aggie sighing with his
“Here Comes That Feeling Again,” about that-someone-you-just-
can’t-forget. And more than one Aggie laughed at “Amarillo Jack.”
If you were in the crowd, count yourself lucky.
Man kills family, offers aii
Stuff photo by Grt’K Gammon
Lacy J. Dalton and the Dalton Gang played to a small-but-
appreciative audience Tuesday night in Rudder Auditorium.
Dalton, winner of a 1980 People’s Choice Award and known
for the country hit “Crazy Blue Eyes,” Dalton highlighted her
new single, “Hard Times.”
United Press International
DALLAS — Moments before police killed the dis
traught father who had systematically gunned down his
wife and four children, the man begged the television
reporter to whom he was spilling his tale to “help people
with mental problems like me.”
In a telephone conversation, Tom Ray Walker Jr.,
who police said killed his family one at a time Monday,
told KDFW-TV reporter Tom Steyer he had $700 in his
pocket he wanted used to establish a fund to help people
overcome by personal problems.
“T want you to promise me to get that money to be
used as a fund to help people with mental problems like
me, ” Steyer quoted Walker as saying. “ Write a book
about this. I want my story told. I don’t want this to
happen to other people. ”
Steyer heard Walker’s story unfold through seven
telephone calls, but it wasn’t until the third or fourth call
that he began to believe Walker might be telling the
truth.
Police confronted Walker at the phone booth during
his last call to Steyer, and when he challenged them to
kill him and he reached for his gun, officers opened fire.
In his first calls, Walker, a self-employed painting
contractor having business problems, only said he had
committed a terrible crime and needed to talk with
someone about it.
“Throughout the evening his conversation was cohe
rent and logical,” Steyer said. “Every once in a while
he’d break down and cry and talk about the terrible
things he’d done. Finally I said, let’s play a game. I’m
going to guess you shot your wife.”
Walker quickly hung up the phone, but called back a
short time later and admitted Steyer’s guess was right.
However, Steyer, who said he’d handled numerous
calls of this type, was still unconvinced Walker was
telling the truth. It wasn’t until Walker began to de
scribe — in vivid detail — the deaths of his wife, Linda
Jo, 35, and children Traci Rochelle, 14, Tammi Renee,
11, Tommy Joe, 9, and Nicholas Ray, 7, t
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talked, then hung up. The last time he called,)
managed to trace his location.
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be with his family.
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snubbed by polite society but the last
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Burke, believed to be over 90,
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Burke became a prostitute in
Juneau, Alaska, at age 16, Fenwick
said, and came to Casper in the oil-
boom days. She moved to Lusk in
1919, where a similar boom was
underway and the town’s popula
tion was 10,000. She went into busi
ness as a madam with other girls
working for her. In 1929, when the
city built an electric power plant, she
bought all of the bonds. Years later,
when a concerted effort was made to
shut her business, she threatened to
“take my money out of the bank and
turn off the town’s lights.”
She became a member of the
chamber of commerce and was active
in charity campaigns. During the
Depression, she lent money to the
city so it could maintain services.
State Auditor Jim Griffith, former
editor and publisher of the Lusk
Herald, estimated her fortune at
“probably more than $1 million. He
said she invested heavily in oil stocks
and other blue chips. She owned a
40-acre ranch east of town.
“On the streets of Lusk, where she
lived 60 years, she was snubbed by
polite society,” Fenwick said. “She
never spoke to anyone in public until
she had been addressed first. Her
place was most popular during the
hunting season when visitors come
from surrounding states. Summers
were good, too, she said, because of
working cowboys and sheepher-
ders.”
Fenwick once autographed a book
for her, writing, “To a lovely little
lady in red velvet who perhaps more
eloquently than any other woman,
can testify to the masculinity of a
truly masculine state, Wyoming.
She said she had to “watch my
tongue” because she knew “too
much about too many prominent
people in Wyoming, including poli
ticians, public officials, businessmen
and the like.
Casper lawyer Tom Fagan said
Burke was one of his greatest friends.
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