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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.”
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Drilling executive forecasts
recovery for energy in ‘84
United Press International
DALLAS — Ed McGhee
sees a faint, flickering light
down that long dark tunnel
through which the drilling in
dustry is passing.
“I expect 1984 to be consid
erably better than 1983,”
McGhee, executive vice presi
dent of the International
Association of Drilling Con
tractors, said recently. “It just
won’t get started right away.”
The first quarter of every
year finds the U.S. domestic
drilling industry in a seasonal
slump caused by harsh weath
er and uncertainty over taxes.
Since the economics of drill
ing are influenced — some say
dominated — by tax consider
ations, many independent oil
field operators aren’t certain
until later in the year how
much money they will have
available for exploration, he
said.
But after the traditionally
slow first quarter, McGhee
sees an upturn in the second
quarter and a continual rise
throughout the year.
At the end of the year the
U.S. rig count was 2,870. “I
will be vastly surprised if it
doesn’t exceed 3,000 (rigs in
1984) and I expect that we
might get as high as 3,400,”
McGhee predicts.
One reason the long-
awaited upturn will take place
this year, he said, is that “final
ly the gas situation will become
a little clearer to everybody.
“What we’ve had in the way
of weather this winter so far
will make people ask questions
about how much of a supply of
gas do we really have.
“We do not have an adequ
ate gas reserve right now, but
of (
just a surplus
ity,” he said.
deliverabil-
Such a shortage will be
even more likely, he said, “if
this winter of ’83-’84 con
tinues to be as harsh as it has
been.”
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