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Construction magnate dies
I United Press International
HOUSTON — George
■ Brown, a shop owner’s son
I turned construction magnate,
■ who boosted Lyndon B. John-
Ison along the road to the pres-
| idency — died Saturday at St.
I Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. He
| was 84.
I- Brown and his brother, Her-
E man, left the hardware business
I their father operated in Belton
■ 'as soon as they were old enough
land built Brown & Root Inc.,
l one of the world’s construction
I giants.
I' Brown’s personal fortune
I when he died is said to have ex-
■ Jceeded $100 million.
I" Along the way, the Browns
IjDecame involved with a political
upstart named Lyndon Johnson
and, for decades, were closely
associated with his political rise.
In return, Johnson, as con
gressman and senator from
Texas and as president of the
United States, helped Brown &
Root get many federal contracts.
“We always believed in good
government and keeping good
people in office,” Brown once
told an interviewer. “Those
things go hand in hand. There’s
a place for both.”
In 1926, George — who
joined the Marines in 1918 and
attended Rice Institute and the
University of Texas before
obtaining a Colorado School of
Mines degree — opened the
Houston office of Brown Sc
Root.
New Deal contracts fed the
company well during the De
pression. World War II made it
a giant.
Although road and bridge
building was a key to Brown 8c
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built the Corpus Christi Naval
Air Station, the Marshall Ford
Dam on the Colorado River near
Austin, Johnson Space Center
and began the South Texas Nuc
lear Project.
After Nuclear Regulatory
Commission criticism and bad
publicity. Brown Sc Root was re
placed by Bechtel Power Corp
on the project.
The company also became a
pioneer in offshore construc
tion, building the first offshore
drilling platform that was out of
sight from land.
In 1962, the brothers decided
Brown Sc Root needed a new
owner and put 80 percent of
their interest in the company
into the Brown Foundation.
In 1962, Herman died at age
70. A month later, the company
was sold to Halliburton Inc. for
$37 million and George became
chairman.
George Brown retired in
1975, but remained active in
Texas Eastern Corp., which he
founded with his brother. The
company was involved in natu
ral gas production and distribu
tion.
WKidneys needed for kids
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Inmate donors rejected
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GALVESTON — A proposal
ry
[J to allow prison inmates to volun-
1; tarily donate kidneys to children
»needing transplants has been re
jected by a hospital administra
tor who said the plan posed leg
al, moral and ethical problems,
officials said.
Dr. Luther Travis, head of
the pediatric kidney transplant
unit at John Sealy Hospital, said
his department would not parti
cipate in any program with pris
on inmates.
“If you have a group of pris
oners, and put them in a room
(asking for volunteers), that is
coercion,” he said. “And the risk
of removal (of a kidney from a
living person) makes it a highly
moral and ethical question.”
The idea of approaching
prisoners through the Texas
Department of Corrections and
asking for voluntary kidney
donations began when the
three-year-old son of Alvin
lawyer Ben Wagner, 30, was suf
fering from kidney failure and
needed a transplant.
In September, the child’s
body rejected his mother’s kid
ney. Neither Wagner nor any
other relative has the necessary
matching blood type to the boy.
TDC officials agreed with the
proposal, but TDC Director
W.J. Estelle Jr. said those in
mates who donated kidneys
would receive no special prom
ises or benefits.
Wagner said Red Cross offi
cials discussed kidney trans
plants with about 26 inmates at
the Darrington Unit of TDC in
Brazoria County. Fifteen im
mediately volunteered to have
their blood tested to determine
if they could be matched with a
child in need of a kidney.
“The ones who signed up we
ren’t asking for favors. They just
wanted to help someone,” Wag
ner said.
Despite Travis’ refusal to par
ticipate in such a program, Wag
ner said he would continue to
pursue the idea.
“You can’t imagine what it’s
like seeing your child slowly de
teriorate before your eyes,” he
said. “There’s no reason why
volunteers can’t be used to save a
child from that kind of life.”
Meanwhile, Wagner’s child
received a healthy kidney from a
child who died in Miami last
week. He remained in stable
condition following transplant
surgery.
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ALTON, Ill. — One of three
men accused of abducting an
abortion clinic owner and his
wife and threatening to kill them
if he did not stop performing
abortions has pleaded guilty, au
thorities said Saturday.
Wayne A. Moore, 18, of New
Caney, pleaded guilty Friday to
■ a U.S. District Court. District
Judge William L. Beatty set sen
tencing for Feb. 18. Moore
could face 20 years in prison.
Moore pleaded guilty to one
count of conspiring to obstruct
interstate commerce by threats
of violence in a plea-bargaining
arrangement.
Don B. Anderson, 42, of
Pearland, is another suspect in
the abduction of Dr. Hector
Zevallos and his wife, Jean.
Anderson is scheduled to go on
trial Monday before Beatty.
The third suspect, Moore’s
brother Matthew, 20, is awaiting
trial. No trial date has been set.
Authorities said the three sus
pects were charged with
attempts to force Zevallos to
close his Hope Clinic for
Women in Granite City, Ill. Fed
eral kidnapping charges could
not be filed because no state line
was crossed.
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