Page 10A THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1981
Kin planning how they will spend money
Paternal relatives battling over Hughes’ estat
United Press International
HOUSTON — Charles Ireland, a 68-year-old
retired barber from St. Louis, cites physical evi
dence to support his claim to some of Howard
Hughes’ vast estate. He bears a strong resembl
ance to the late tycoon.
Ireland has heard so many people say it that, at
the start Monday of yet another probate court
hearing on who will inherit Hughes’ millions, he
was confident enough to talk about the money.
“If I inherit that money, I’d do several things:
probably buy a new home, a new car, things like
that,” said Ireland, who never met Hughes.
Ireland, who says Hughes’ grandmother was
his great aunt, was one of 100-plus relatives of
Hughes’ father who came to Houston to fight for
the paternal half of the $163 million to $1.2 bil
lion Hughes left when he died in 1976.
Including the many who did not come, lawyers
count 500-plus paternal claimants trying to over
turn the claims of five closer paternal relatives —
three daughters of Hughes’ first cousin and two
step first cousins — to inherit.
Judge Pat Gregory already has ruled Hughes a
Texan who left no will, living parents, wives,
children, brothers or sisters. Gregory has
awarded the maternal half of the estate to 14
relatives of Hughes’ mother.
On Monday, lawyers started the two- or three-
day process of picking a six-member jury to help
decide which relatives of Hughes’ father inherit,
the five close relatives or the crowd of more
distant paternal claimants.
Many of the distant relatives who came were
middle class working folk on vacation, although
teacher Robert C. Hughes of Wilsonville, Ala.,
had to hire a substitute for the duration. Some
drove several hundred miles. Some flew.
Housewife Evelyn Askins Trautwein, her
brother Tom Askins, a sheriff s deputy, and sister
Colleen Askins Delgman, a nursing home super
visor, drove from St. Louis, stopping en route to
visit Elvis Presley’s mansion in Memphis.
Many were staying in hotels near the court
house. Some bought food at grocery stores to eat
in their rooms to reduce spending at restaurants.
One of the few distant relatives who claimed
they had met Hughes was Dorothy Bacon Wil
son, 63, of St. Louis, retired beautician, chef and
amateur genealogist who has made eight trips to
Houston for Hughes estate hearings.
Wilson said she met Hughes “sometime in the
mid-1920s” when she was about 11 and he was
about 19. She remembers little about the meet
ing at a cousin’s house: “He was shy, very nice
looking, thin, with dark hair. ’’
But he was rich even then, and the memory of
the visit, his subsequent legendary exploits and
Wilson’s definite family tree tracings — “We are
definitely the blood heirs” — fueled the dreams
of her cousin, Lucille Hopes.
Hopes, 51, of Orwell, Ohio, a school bus driv
er whose husband drives a truck, said she was
“saving or borrowing” to make her second trip to
Houston. Just being a potential Hughes heir has
changed her life.
“You have big day dreams,” she said. “I think
we all have big day dreams. Our favorite words
are ‘if and ‘when. ’ It’s like being in a soap opera. ”
They all have plans for the money.
“I made one promise and that was all-jj
give 10 percent to the church right i
After that I don’t know, ” said John Asia®
his wife, Mable joked: “I’ll give youanotl}
percent to go to the Pussycat Club."
“Put a new roof on the house—that conn.
— and new gutters,” Hopes said, “frago®
have a good yard sale, sell everything»
house, and start over.”
But she was practical: “I haven’t orders
Cadillac yet.”
Gregory and the lawyers say, no matters
the outcome of the current paternal heirip;
ceeding, it may be years before any in
actually is disbursed, and inheritance tus
take 77 percent of it.
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Jumping for joy
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SOUTH EASTON, Mass. — A
veteran skydiver says he will try to
shatter a world record by making
264 parachute jumps in 24 hours
— then give all the proceeds to
cerebral palsy research.
Bruce McLaughlin, 35, plans to
begin a nonstop 24-hour series of
2,000-foot parachute jumps at 2
p.m. Sept. 15 at the Taunton
Muncipal Airport. He said he
picked the date because weather
forecasters have predicted a full
moon.
“I’ll either break this record or
they’ll carry me off the field,” he
said.
McLaughlin has already raised
most of the $6,000 he said is
needed to defray expenses. Ev
erything collected above the
$6,000 will be given to the United
Cerebral Palsy Fund of Southeast
ern Massachusetts in Brockton.
The current record for most
jumps in 24 hours is 233, set two
years ago in England. McLaughlin
hopes to surpass the record by 31
jumps.
All in the family
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WINFIELD, Kan. — George
Jenkins’ step-granddaughters say
when they asked him to pay rent
for the house he lived in, he lo
wered the boom—with a bulldoz
er.
Jenkins, 61, a carpenter, was
bound over for arraignment and
trial Monday after witnesses at a
preliminary hearing testified he
leveled two houses owned by his
step-granddaughters with a bull
dozer in a rent dispute.
Jenkins’ wife died four years ago
and willed two houses in Geuda
Springs, Kan., to her granddaugh
ters, Susan Reed Johnson of
Wichita and Teresa Byers of
Arkansas City. Jenkins lived in
one of the houses, while Jim John-
drow and his wife rented the
house next door.
Jenkins had completely remod
eled both houses and got angry
when he was told he would have to
pay rent, authorities say.
They charge he removed his be
longings from his house, then
allegedly destroyed both houses,
valued at about $35,000 a piece.
The Johndrows also lost $15,000
worth of personal property.
Jenkins did not testify Monday
and was unavailable for comment.
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