Wednesday, Auguat 22,1964/The B^ttaHon/Pagc 13
The Cosmic Cowtoy
Murphy’s back
NASMVILUE — TW brmtuk the
lMf» honkv (anker, (he Commc Conr-
ba> — Mk KjmH Martin Murphv Km
Kern (Mrnrd with afl the Utbe* durmar
floor of the
of them rv
nr hr looks out the iiFMidbo of
mut mi Taos. New Mexico, and
at the Colorado Rockies The
the musf mduati > is not ndhcs.
fame or No I hits Success is surei-
%d» *
Murphev, S9. u a “lone wolT’
nnurr-wTSter who happens So work
in a business filled with sharks and
shysters. That may explain why he
has chosen hfe amongst the sane
brush and rattlesnake! for the but
“» T**r»
“I need to have a stimulating envi
ronment that m comfortable to me m
order in be able to create " Murphv
said m a phone interview from Taos.
tarn-type country has always stimu
lated me the moat, hke Austin Also,
I am the kind of person who doesn't
enjoy the pohucs and competition m
the industry I work more from a
lone woM posnt of mew ."
The demon to live at Taos with
tut third wife and children has cost
money He u removed from where
a‘t "happening, from the creative
„ centers, from job contacts, from peo-
"You have so, I had to do this. I
I to live in LA. for five years~.hr
L “I had to pay my dues —- dive
lives to learn how a worth."
Cliff. the eldest son of Pink and Loss
Murphev His fa
plmtar ukulele. a
s a - a—a
nc tooted ins
•Mh playing m I
bar. then change
late *60s by moving to Los Angeles
where he studsed Latin at UCLA by
day and worked honky tanks by
night He wandered bnck to Team m
the *70s and became Austin's sainted
Cosaasc Cowboy as Wdhe Nelson and
the “out
He
thought
but then
he lost hw wife, has
He headed for his hsdeaway near the
Rockies and emerged from the val
ley with "Wildfire.'* a song that
earned him hu first gold record and
made him a star
Hn record company wanted to
push him to pop. but Murphev re
treated to hu country roots. The ght
ter of pop success dimmed some
what hack on the honky tonk circuit
as Murphy made the fui circle from
valley to peak hack to the vaRev
SlowH. he hm climbed back again
In 1983 the Academy of Country
Musk named him Best New Male
Vocahst." 11 albums and S3 years af
ter he first strummed that plastic
ukulele bnck in Oak Chff
A greatest hits album is m the
works, with some of the old songs
being updated with a fresh sound,
and he n working on a screenplay
for a movie called “Wildfire "
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Company’s bugged
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HOUSTON — A mayor corpora
tion hopes a $25,000 reward wifi
prompt someone to reveal who m-
st alien or attempted to install an
eiectronK listening device in the
board chairman's offioe. an attorney
said Tuesday
Attorney Robert Shuks said the
reward will be paid to anyone sup
plying information before Oct. I
trading to the arrest and conviction
of the people responsible for ieiatal-
» install, the sur-
equipmem
Evidence of the bugging was dis
covered m mid-June during a rou
tine check for surveillance devices.
ShukS said A ceding tile m the chair
man's office had been hollowed out,
aw if to hold a microphone, and a
nearby area had been reinforced, as
if to hold a recording or transmitting
device
Shuks refused to identify the ex
ecutive or the corporation, except to
say it wm a "mayor corporation and
a "diversified national business" with
headquarters in the GaMena area of
dtouaton
* Shuks said the sweep for bugs “is
routine but not rr^uLf and the
June search preceded discussions
over “very sensitive" matters at the
corporation
A report of the finding was
turned over to the FBI. he sakT
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Emerald Air suspends
flights, faces $$ debts
u«kMim
travH
«iu rem
ind leasing
suspended
I filed for
AUSTIN — Saddled with $13
hun in long-term debt and
abhgations. Emerald An
operations Tuesday i
protection under the federal bank
ruptc v code
But the Auatm-based regional ear
ner said M hoped to resume service
"ia the near future "
Even though load factors were rn-
treasing. spokeswoman Debra T ret
fads said efforts to negotiate a set
tlement of Emerald s debts since a
new management team took over
two years ago had been unsuccess
ful
Emerald claimed net losses of $9.4
million m 1982 and 1983 and $3 5
mihson in the first three quarters of
1984 TreffaMs said the company
would ask the federal bankruptcy
court to reschedule ns debts while it
attempts to resume service.
"We intend implementing a strat-
egu plan that wiM make Emerald Air
continue to be the fastest growing
regional tunununter earner m the
country." she said
T reft all* said that as pan of its re-
uraramzation plan. 80 percent of as
263-member, non-union workforce
would be asked to staff the new com
pany at original pay scales
Those who are laid off might be
eventuaRv refuted, she said
Emerald also said that fuR-fare
ticket! issued by other awfcnes or
would be honored by
agents
other ai nines
The first evidence of Emerald's fi
nancial problems surfaced July 16
when the airline temporarily sus
pended service to Austin and
Houston airport, and said
mg off or transferring 25
But company officials termed the
move a "reaJftocatson of services '.
" "> d “"tS
d M was lav
workers
_ IS. the cyv ot Austin
the airline 20 days
On Aug
gave the .
$58,000 m it owes the city
rent for space at Robert Mueller Air
to pay
in back
At that time. TreffaMs said. "We
have no intention of going bank
rupt Everybody usually runs on a
LX
Using a fleet of prop planes, three
retired Air Force officers formed
Emerald as a cargo earner in 1978 to
haul freight out of South Texas for
Emery Air Freight
But Emerald, which began fui
passenger service m 1981, was reor-
■aaiaea m 1982 with the hiring of
former Bramff executive Thomas R.
McCauley as the company’^ presi
dent
Air Transport World ranked Em
erald as No I mi the nation last year
among small regional-commuter
carnets mi mdes flown and No. 2 in
passer err boardings
Cop charged with assault;
photograph to be released
SAN ANTONIO — A ponograph charged with sexuaMy aasi
.1 - ‘ricrjn t-.J,. r i.vr iuucm during the city's Fiesta cele
wwa asaauh must be released bratson m April The woman told
Mi the pubhc under the Team Open ^ became lost and was at
Records Act. am attorney general i
Tuesday.
tacked by Herd after she accepted a
Gary Rope, the cky’s legal advisor rule back to her hoteft-H
to the poute department, said he .
sought the opinion after receiving “Without doubt, the release of a
oqu«-%ti for the photograph from " x'-*ph of a person arrested for
the San Antonso rewwtu. sexual assault u highly embar rasing
"II have to read h (the opinion). ’ •o person
“I don't know what wiM
TW photograph is that of Jem * from
that k is of iso lemtimate m-
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