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■ MINERAL WELLS — When
;the Army suddenly decided to
dose the world’s largest primary
(helicopter training facility, this
[town was jolted by losses of $1
million from its annual economy
■and one-third of its population.
I But Fort Wolters is bustling
pwith activity again — as an in-
1 dustrial park — in a testimonial
to this town’s ability to survive.
I “We’ve gone from a resort
dpwn to a military town to an
'industrial town,” said Paul
;Schneider, president of Mineral
■ Wells Savings and Loan, and in
Kharge of the town’s industrial
; foundation.
I The servicemen’s bowling
calley is now a meat company,
■he base library is home to a tool
Brin and a building that was un-
■istakably once a military bar-
Bcks now contains modern ex
ecutive suites.
■ The sprawling former milit
ary base, which was home to as
many as 40,000 men at a time
during the Vietnam War, today
also houses a school for dis
turbed children and an agency
that finds day jobs for the hand
icapped.
But most of the scores of
military-abandoned buildings
contain businesses.
There are 38 industries rang
ing from electronic components
to clay product manufacturing,
69 oil and gas-related firms and
dozens of businesses housed at
the facility on the east edge of
Mineral Wells — which fell from
a population of more than
20,000 in 1970 to 14,300 after
the fort was closed.
Today the population is
16,700.
The shutdown announced in
1973 would have been devastat
ing to any town and some feared
it would be the deathknell for
Mineral Wells.
“At the end of the Vietnam
War, they moved the helicopter
training to Fort Rucker in Ala
bama,” said Frances Marquess, a
longtime Mineral Wells resident
who worked with the fort’s pub
lic information office. “They
said it was more economical, but
I think it was political.”
The folks who live among the
mesas on the edge of West Texas
had survived the end of the re
sort business that grew up
around the mineral waters once
thought to cure everythine\
And they fought back from
the closure of 7,500-acre Fort
Wolters, which the Army once
said would become a permanent
military institution, by turning
to industry.
The town’s Industrial Found
ation commissioned a $6,000
appraisal and learned the main
area of the fort was worth an
estimated $2.5 million. But the
U.S. Corps of Engineers, which
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I WASHINGTON — Mistreat
ment of dogs is widespread in
the Soviet LInion with the need
for warm clothing making
canine hats a hot item on the
black market, a research group
savs.
| The Advanced International
Studies Institute, a Washington-
based think tank associated with
the University of Miami, said
iiere has been a spate of anti-
I dog mail appearing in Soviet
journals. One reader called fora
b Secree to destroy all dogs,” the
j institute said.
| Citing articles in govern-
jnent-controlled Soviet news-
jpapers and journals, the insti
tute reported increasing mis
treatment of man’s best friend.
It cited one case where stray
flogs were used for “target prac-
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it ntlier than ■ Dogskins can be sold for 3.75
.is parents offertdl rubles to the government as raw
should I take i " 1;iteria , 1 - the institute said. But a
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affordable prices and insuffi
cient amounts” and because
“dogskin hats are a real hit
among young people of both
sexes,” Sovietskaia Rossiia re
ported.
Hats made from “Irish setters
and collies, simulating red fox
fur; German shepherds, simu
lating wolf fur and Pomera
nians, simulating polar fox fur,”
are particularly popular, the
article said. It said skins from
larger dogs like St. Bernards are
sometimes used for coats.
The article cited by the insti
tute said even pets are shot by
ambitious hunters, “sometimes
shooting them in full view of
their helpless owners,” the insti
tute said.
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often by retirees trying to stretch
their incomes and youngsters
trying to make “easy money,” is a
“booming business,” the insti
tute quoted the newspaper as
saying.
I The popularity of hats and
Boats made from dogs is increas
ing because of the “unavailabil
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was given jurisdiction of the
property, wanted $6 million.
“As it turned out, they leased
it to the city, which turned the
lease over to the Industrial
Foundation and we’d lease it to
industry,” Schneider said.
This went on for about two
years until the U.S. government
began selling building sites to
the industries and selling off
surplus buildings. The govern
ment also gave parcels of land to
several entities, including the
city.
“The buildings were so cheap
when the government started
selling off the buildings, indus
try found you could move into
Mineral Wells at a very reason
able price,” Schneider said. “All
the main industrial property
now has been taken at the main
fort.”
However, the Industrial
Foundation owns a nearby in
dustrial park with several acres
of undeveloped land and the
town actively is seeking more in
dustry.
“Mineral Wells desperately
needs to broaden its tax base,”
said Tom E. Roy, head of the
Ghamber of Commerce.
Roy, Schneider and utility ex
ecutive Jim Hutto, who also is
active in trying to attract new in
dustry, say Mineral Wells offers
a labor pool with a good attitude
about work, a good geographic
location 42 miles west of the Dal-
las-Fort Worth area and suffi
cient water and sewage capaci
ties.
“We are seeking whatever in
dustries would be compatible to
the community,” Hutto said.
Meanwhile, Fort Wolters is
flourishing in its latest capacity.
The facility was closed and
reopened several times by both
the Army and Air Force in sev
eral capacities since it first began
in 1921 as a Texas National
Guard camp. During World
War II, the camp became the site
for the nation’s largest Infantry
Replacement Center.
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Soviet law dictates only muni
cipal dog catchers and “special
brigades of communal and
veterinary services” have the au
thority to hunt strays, the insti
tute said, but the law is little-
known and rarely enforced.
“The military paper Red Star
of Sept. 9, 1982, reported that a
certain major used dogs as
target practice, shooting them
from his apartment’s balcony in
front of the military town’s
population, ‘including chil
dren,”’ the institute said.
It said different laws in Soviet
republics governing cruelty to
animals are either nonexistent
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