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United Press International
CUSHING, Okla. — The
[search lasted decades, but Hazel
[Beatrice McGonaha and four of
[the five children she was forced
[to give up for adoption 38 years
[ago will meet again today in
[Dallas.
The reunion will not be com-
[plete, though, because Walter
[Elmer McGonaha, who was born
[after his father died, still has not
|been found.
Paul Ithamer McGonaha
[died in 1942, leaving behind a
[wife and four young children.
McGonaha was uneducated,
[unskilled and unable to provide
[for her family. W'hen Walter was
srn, she nearly had a nervous
breakdown.
The best thing to do, she de
cided, was to allow the state wel
fare department to take custody
af the children until she was able
i provide for them. McGonaha,
vho was raised in an orphanage
lerself, reluctantly turned them
[over to the state in 1944, with the
assurance they never would be
keparated.
Now, after decades of sear
ching through telephone books
and running ads in newspapers
and magazines across the coun-
Itry, most of the children and
[their mother are finally getting
pack together.
The family said Walter, who
[would now be 38, may have lived
vith a family named Cox some-
vhere in Oklahoma. He was less
khan a year old when he was
Adopted, and may not even real
ize he grew up in a foster home.
Maxine Terrel, the third
bldest sibling, has spent nearly
BO years trying to reunite the
family.
Terrel, 48, now lives in Mul-
lane, Kan. James Albert McCo-
jiaha, 51, is flying in from Moses
Lake, Wash., for the reunion.
Ceorge Dean, 45, and Wilbur
Francis Dean, 42, who were
kaised by the same foster pa
ints, live in the Dallas area.
Barbara June McCoy, 36, a half-
kister who was born a few years
Vter the rest of the children
vere adopted, lives in Stillwater,
5kla.
Their mother, 71, returned
lo the Southwest when she redis-
kovered George and Wilbur,
and now lives near Dallas.
When her father died after a
long illness, Terrel said, her
mother was unable to cope with
raising the family.
The children were sent to fos
ter homes in Stillwater. Some
then were sent to Perry, Okla.,
where they were split up again
and sent to Guthrie.
“We were separated from the
beginning,” said George Dean,
now a chief engineer for a Dal
las-based electronics firm. “I
have very vivid memories of our
life before the separation and
they are the driving force for
making the reunion happen.”
Terrel said it became a per
sonal obsession over the years to
find all the children.
Starting in 1953, she sent out
search letters, placed ads in pap
ers and spent hours examining
phone books. She joined the
Wichita Adult Adoptees Club,
and recently hit paydirt when a
letter intended for Walter was
recognized by George and
Wilbur.
“I knew I would succeed
eventually,” she said. “You have
to have a lot of faith in the Lord.
When you’re adopted it leaves so
many blank spaces, and I can’t
put into words the heartbreak I
went through.”
A number of factors further
complicated a seemingly impos
sible task.
Wilbur once was told all his
family members were dead
when he tried to find the
brothers and sister he vaguely
remembered.
State laws also complicated
the search, as did the fact that
some of the siblings never may
have been formally adopted by
their foster parents.
“Oklahoma has a closed re
cords law for adoptees that I
think for 40-or 50-year-old
adults is completely stupid,”
George said.
His mother also ran up
against roadblocks when trying
to find her children, George
said.
“You can tell she has quite a
bit of bitterness in her because of
that,” he said. “But now she just
wants to spend the rest of her
life with us.”
exas Air wants
merger of airlines
United Press International
HOUSTON — Continental
kir Lines Inc. could become a
wholly owned subsidiary of
lexas Air Gorp. if shareholders
[pprove a plan proposed by the
ro companies.
Texas Air, parent company
kf Texas International Airlines,
[Iready owns 51 percent of Con-
Inental common stock, but the
pnancial combination of the two
prriers proposed Wednesday
Vould place both airlines under
lie control of one company.
Both airlines would continue
>operate with their own identi-
> if the plan isapproved injune
stockholders, officials said.
Terms of the transaction spe-
jify the outstanding 49 percent
KContinental’s publicly owned
ock would be exchanged for
Nr-tenths of a share of Texas
kir common stock and S4 in li-
nidating value of a new issue of
Jexas Air preferred stock. The
new stock would pay an annual
dividend of 15 percent of the
value.
Company spokesmen said the
proposed combination would
result in operating cost reduc
tions and increased revenues.
The two carriers would syn
chronize their respective sche
dules to provide feeder traffic
for each other and improve con
nections at the hubs of Houston
and Denver.
Spokesmen said they expect
to officially file terms with the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission in early April and will
present the proposal for share
holders’ approval at meetings in
early June.
Texas Air is a Houston-based
holding company that owns
Texas International Airlines
and 67 percent of New York
Airlines. Continental Airlines is
headquartered in Los Angeles.
otorcycle gang
hreatens Garland
United Press International
GARLAND — Members of a
orcvde gang, already ac-
**<1 of harassing one city em-
ee this week, have
^tened more violence
a, nst the city, police say.
Police said people believed to
members of the Scorpion
orcycle gang made the
rf ats after two members of the
were arrested and charged
murder in the death of a
woman.
Ernest Brandon, 32, and
r^ld Smith, 35, ere charged
March 16 death of Eli-
Gavin, 21, also known as
A Saw > er » "hose body was
m a pickup truck in Gar-
^ ‘"o men on “chopper-type
^orcycles I uesday harassed
dler department employee
driving a truck, police said.
When the driver stopped his
truck, the two men banged on its
locked door, but could not get
inside.
The driver's dispatcher re
ceived a phone call from a man
who said the drher would be kil
led if police “did not release our
friends from jail.”
Last Wednesday, the Garland
SWAT team surrounded police
headquarters after police re
ceived a call saving someone
planned to get “our friends" out
of jail that night. How ever, the
suspects were transferred with
out incident to Dallas Countv
Jail the next dav.
Police Chief Jesse Young
blood called the threats “Mickev
Mouse stuff.” hut said thev were
worth attention and the depart
ment would take precautions.
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