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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1901
Five-star general Omar Bradley turns 88 Thursday
United Press International
EL PASO — Five-star Gen.
Omar Nelson Bradley, who has
spent 69 years in the U.S. Army
and has commanded more combat
troops than any general in history,
turns 88 Thursday.
Bradley, the nation s only sur
viving five-star general and the
first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, will be honored with a party
Saturday at his adopted home of
Fort Bliss.
Confined to a wheelchair be
cause of knee problems stemming
from his days as a member of the
West Point football team, Brad
ley’s last public appearance was at
President Reagan s inauguration,
where he served as grand marshal
of the inaugural parade.
He spent two days last week
hospitalized at Beaumont Army
Medical Center in El Paso be
cause of a viral infection, but said
he intended to attend the fourth
party in his honor at the Army
post.
Bradley’s birthday party among
friends and colleagues at Fort
Bliss has become a yearly tradi
tion, with presents arriving from
the powerful throughout the
country.
Major Gen. John B. Oblinger
Jr., post commander, will host the
festivities Saturday. Among those
expected to attend are Rep.
Richard White, D-Texas, the
mayor of El Paso and West Point
Cadet 1st Capt. Stanley March,
captain of the football team and
brigade commander, marking the
first time since 1953 a cadet has
held both jobs.
Bradley never retired, and still
is considered on active duty. He
was awarded special status for a
five-star general, and still addres
ses officer and leadership classes.
He has been a resident of El Paso
since November 1977.
A 1915 graduate of West Point,
Bradley attended school with
Dwight Eisenhower. He did not
go overseas until World War II
and won his first star at the age of
50.
He served in North Africa
under Gen. George Patton but
Patton served under Bradley dur
ing the invasion of Normandy.
Under Eisenhower, who was
Supreme Allied Commander,
Bradley was field commander for
the American forces that stormed
ashore and opened the western
front on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Bradley commanded more
combat troops than any other gen
eral in history.
He followed Eisenhower as
chief of staff in the 1950s, becom
ing the first chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff under President
Harry Truman. But his greatest
pride came in being the epitome of
the infantryman, the foot soldier.
“They consider me one of
them,” he told UPI in an interview
in 1969.
Bradley’s rank is equivalent to
that of a British field marshal.
He served as chairman of the
military committee of NATO.
He remained as chief of staff
until 1953, when he became chair
man of Bulova. He was kept on
active duty but his salary was
frozen.
Bradley reached the pinnacle of
military rank as a five-star general
of the Army. The only other Army
men so honored were Eisenhow
er, Henry Harley Arnold, Doug
las MacArthur and George C.
Marshall, who also received five
stars, and John J. Pershing.
Bradley’s wife is reportedly
working on a television script
about her husband’s life.
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Wills Point
father kills
family, self
United Press International
TERRELL — A strident, fun
damentalist minister, who was as
enchanted by guns as he was fear
ful of the outside world, likely de
vised a suicide pact with his family
to avoid a two-year prison sent
ence, a surviving son said.
Ralph Simpson, 57, killed his
wife and two daughters with a . 22-
caliber rifle, set the house on fire
and then killed himself Monday,
police said. His son, Jim Simpson,
27, who had moved out of the
house last week, said the prison
term facing Simpson may have
triggered the killings.
“The idea of going to prison and
being away from his family, I
think, had a lot to do with what he
did,” Simpson said. “I think pris
on to him was just like death and
he didn’t want his family to face it
without him. He was regarded as a
fanatic but he cared very deeply
for his family.”
In August 1979 Simpson was
convicted of aggravated assault for
threatening a Wills Point neigh
bor with a rifle. He defended him
self, was sentenced to two years
and had been free on appeal.
Gloria Newman, who lived
near Simpson in Wills Point, said
she was scared of Simpson.
“He always said that he had
been in the military and that he
was a weapons expert and he was
always shooting guns — all kinds
of shotguns, deer rifles, pistols —
at all hours of the day and night, ”
she said. ,
“There were times that the bul
lets would pass over our house. He
talked about shooting animals, all
kinds of animals and how much fun
it was to blow up birds’ nests with
his shotguns.”
She said she rebuffed Simp
son’s evangelistic efforts and he
sometimes would pace the high
way in front of her house with a
long-handled ax to scare her.
Firefighters discovered the
four bodies — with Simpson lying
across the women — when they
arrived to put out the fire Monday
morning. A typed, one-page
suicide note, signed by all four,
was found wrapped in a plastic bag
on the window of his car, appa
rently so it would not be destroyed
in the fire.
Justice of the Peace L.T. Smith
said only that the note said, “We
choose to die by our own hand.”
Religion was not mentioned.
Simpson, who had no congre
gation but was the evangelist
leader of Herald of Hope, repor
tedly kept his family away from
contact with others, to the extent
of teaching his daughters, Rebe-
cah, 17, and Patti, 12, at home
rather than allowing them to at
tend public schools.
“He had a very deep-seated re
ligious conviction and it carried
into the lives of his children,” said
Felix Massey, principal of a Wills
Point school where one of Simp
son’s daughters studied briefly.
“He just had a knack for bringing
out the hostilities in people.”
“He found things like ERA, gay
rights, militant civil rights advo
cates real disturbing,” Jim Simp
son, a car salesman, said.
Bandidos
told to leave
NewCaney
United Press International
NEW CANEY — Police
arrested 32 people at a gathering
of the Bandidos motorcycle club
and told the members to hold their
meetings somewhere else.
The arrests Sunday were for
driving while intoxicated, public
intoxication, carrying prohibited
weapons and possession of drugs.
Sheriff Joe Corley said the Bandi
dos caused no major trouble dur
ing the gathering, but said he had
informed Bandidos president
Ronald Hodge his club was not
welcome in the city-
“I told him to find somewhere
else to party,” Corley said.
About 200 Bandidos from
across the country were camping
over the weekend on land belong
ing to a friend of the club. Corley
raided the group with 50 officers
from city, county, state and feder
al agents.
The grOup was in town to
attend national indoor motorcycle
races in Houston.