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Monday, January 16, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 esidents uneasy bout secret sale United Press International MERIDIAN — Landowners 'in this community HO miles .ouilwest of Dallas are uneasy about General Dynamics’ secre- •ysurrounding the defense con- factor’s purchase of more than !,000 acres in Bosque County, a iwspaper reported Sunday. Secrecy concerning various '""•n and deals, rumors about land d ise and concern about fire pro- >eduled ec tj 0 n are making local ran- ivellasd hers nervous, the Fort Worth "any ns jtar-Telegram reported. * Wesitt The newspaper reported (hat ^ashici andowners have heard diffe- eekingtli ■ent stories from General Dyna- muiics ii wm c. Dyt— issile laili n ics about how the land will Ixr )n s will ised. A General Dynamics official n December told the Meridian uritycd Tribune newspaper that the educeildjand would he used to test radar I* Iniennas, but the Star- CromvliM'elegrain reported attempts to heir felonfirm the report proved un it anoikluccessful. infereiwl Landowner O.E. Mullins said erabenil man called him in November, jofafe-Iffering to buy 350 acres of bis land. Mullins said he was una ware at the time that the man represented General Dynamics. Mullins said the man told him “they were going to put in a land preserve.” But several hills have oeen blasted with explosives to make way for a road, the news paper reported. Joe Heartsill, who owns land adjacent to the property, told the newspaper he can see an 8- foot chain-link fence topped with barbed wire going up around the land. His brother, Tom, sold 315 acres to the contracting com pany, hut said he wishes now that he hadn’t. Dynamiting to build the road may have ruined his water well, Heartsill said, although General Dynamics has offered to pay for repairs. Heartsill said he also will have to patrol the fence sur rounding the land. “Not even Comanche Peak (nuclear power plant) has a chain-link fence all the way around,” Heartsill said. When Heartsill sold his land, he was told it would he used to lest radars. He said the buyer also mentioned “sending mes sages into outer space.” “He told me (the project) would he five years, and they would be through and sell the land. But I don’t know if that’s true,” Heartsill said. “I just don’t want to see an atomic dump site or an MX missile site there in five or 10 years.” If General Dynamics intends to install a dump site, a permit from the state would he re quired. But no such application has been made, the Star- Telegram reported. Heartsill, a real estate agent, is concerned about depreciation of the land. Others are are wor ried about fire threatening their grazing land or cattle. About eight acres belonging to J.L. Varley burned when a brush fire spread from General Dynamics’ land onto his land in late December. KSI/lan gets last wish i the presF — — londayit Tort to l*| /e relatioi Cowboy burial held United Press International COLORADO SPRINGS, lolo. — Friends of John Man- mo th the Bu i, Sir Geof- iscussedi I tiding Bft he U.S,ij! _ IBB memberoi nisay the late cowt>oy will be vealth. ressed in his Western-best sed Howti ritches, hat and bools before IafezAs»]|is “last ride” to be wrapped in a lorse blanket and dropped in a in Danwlack on Deer Mountain, apparentl'l That was Mancini’s last wish, nessageaslt will come true at noon - that tb[Tuesday. oop withl A district judge ruled last tslbeaban peek that Mancini, 58, was in a illconskklound mental state when he )ops fror|ommunicated the desire to tends. The judge ruled against lancini’s wife and son, who anted him buried at F'ort igan National Cemetery south Denver. Mancini died of a stroke Jan. lataColorado Springs hospital, "is ex-wife, Patricia Bower, and |n, Bob, 15, both of Wheat- K Wyo-, claimed the body, tessed it in a business suit and [ranged for burial at Fort )gan. But several of Mancini’s lends, recalling his love for Mountain and his desire to ft buried there, filed a petition l 1 ." Diurth Judicial District F Richard Hall. Hall then stponed the scheduled Nnesday burial until a hear- gcould be held. One friend, Malcolm Smith, said Mancini had sent him a Christmas card in which he ex pressed his desire “to be drop ped in a crack on Deer Mountain when I take the last ride.” Hall ruled that burial on the mountain was “consistent with his (Mancini’s) lifestyle itself, and is an understandable and appropriate expression on his part.” The judge said he was “not only satisfied the wishes of the decedent were made clearly known, I do not find those wishes were the result of mental incompetence.” Hall gave Mancini’s friends until Tuesday to come up with the money for a propoer burial through a mortuary. “John Mancini had a thousand friends,” said E.A. Tripp of Lake George. “They’ll come forward if we need them.” One of Mancini’s friends, Di ane Payton, said she would take Mancini’s cowboy clothes, in cluding his cowboy britches and vest with horse-hide stitching, boots, hat and a pipe, to the fun eral home so they can “dress John properly for his last ride.” A spokesman for the Swan- Law Funeral Home in Colorado Springs said that after the body is re-dressed in the cowboy clothes Tuesday it will be taken as far as possible up to the moun tain’s base by hearse. Then it will be transferred to a horse-drawn sleigh. “We’ve had some unusual re quests (for burials),” said the funeral home employee, “but this is in a class by itself.” NEED CASH? We offer premium dollars on used Books. .. gpioupors*! Cheek on our Trade Policy I—■,I.I.I.Ugn'J— I and Save 20% More. 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