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Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor
Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor
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Thursday, February 21, 1985/The Battalion/Page 13
ET CETERA
Jeweler is survivor
in spite of injuries
Associated Press
LONGVIEW — Having 98 per
cent of your body burned and losing
a leg at age 7 would kill most people
— but Jimmy Hammonds survived
and is doing fine 30 years later.
“I really don’t consider myself
handicapped,” he says. “I stand on
my two legs just like you stand on
yours — only one of mine is wood.”
Hammonds’ success story begins
with a young child who lost his fam
ily in a house fire and ends with a tal
ented jeweler who has a family of his
own.
In 1955, a wood heater exploded
in his Clarksville home, killing his
mother, grandfather, aunt and sis
ter,.
“Because I was so badly burned,
the doctor kept me in a local hospital
for three days to see if I was going to
live,” Hammonds says. “Then they
sent me to John Sealy Hospital in
Galveston, where I stayed for a
year.”
During his first month in the Gal
veston hospital, his leg was ampu
tated because of gangrene. Between
the ages of 7 and 18, he had 52 oper
ations.
Hammonds received his first arti
ficial leg at age 9 through the Texas
Rehabilitation Commission.
“They furnished all my legs, in
cluding the one I’m wearing now,”
he says. “And they paid my fare to
and from the hospital.”
Even with the commission’s help,
Hammonds’ childhood was a strug-
gle.
“School was a little difficult for
me,” he recalls. “I entered second
grade at age 12, and I missed a lot of
school because of the frequent oper
ations. It was a problem.
“At 18, I quit after finishing the
eighth grade. It was sort of a case of
having to. I was living with my
grandmother at the time and she
died. So, I had to get a job to support
myself.”
Hammonds worked in a bakery,
then in a gas station, and finally as a
mechanic, until at age 23, shortly af
ter getting married, he was burned
again.
“I had been working on a car and
came into the house to clean up for
dinner,” he says. “I used some gaso
line to wash off the dirt and oil, and
when I went next to the clothes
dryer, the pilot ignited the fumes
and my arm. I had third-degree
burns.*’
Hammonds’ wife, Mary Yvonne,
worked for several months while he
recuperated. He later got work, and
in 1971 Yvonne bore him the first of
their three,sons.
In 1972 Hammonds was advised
by a Daingerfield jeweler, Robert
Spurlock, to get into the jewelry
business. Hammonds liked the idea.
and so did the Texas Rehabilitation
Commission.
“Texas Rehab said they would go
along with the program if I would
move to Longview and attend Kil
gore College,” he says. “They paid
my tuition and made it possible to go
to school. I took some odd jobs,
Yvonne worked and I drew SSI
(Supplemental Security Income).
We made it through.”
When Hammonds was in the final
month of Kilgore College’s jewelery
and watchmaking course, Longview
jewelry store owner Wes Murray
came to the class seeking a new jew
eler.
“My instructor set up the inter
view and I accepted the offer,”
Hammonds recalls. “I had two other
offers from out in Abilene, but I
liked Longview and didn’t want to
move — and I like Mr. Murray.”
Hammonds says he is specializing
in jewelry, setting diamonds, re
pairing rings, gold bands, necklaces
and bracelets. He once set a $20,000
diamond in a mounting. He likes
casting — making molds which are
filled with molten gold to make jew
elry.
Hammonds credits Murray with
teaching him about jewelry. “I’ve
learned a lot about the sales end of
the business, too, from watching Mr.
Murray,” he adds.
Hammonds’ drivers license is un
usual. It states he can drive a stan
dard transmission vehicle as long as
he wears his artificial leg.
“The examiners made me take the
test four times because they didn’t
think I could do it,” he says. “Actu
ally, the statement on the license is
sort of silly, because you really can’t
drive a standard transmission with
out wearing the leg.”
Remembering his childhood,
Hammonds says he found few social
restrictions because of his injuries.
He could do everything but run, and
“everything” ranged from riding bi
cycles and motorcycles to rodeoing.
When riding a bicycle, he weights
one pedal with a piece of lead.
His sons—Jerry, 13, Tony, 9, and
Brian, 5 — are all competitive, and
each learned to ride 20-mch bikes at
age 4.
The Hammondses enjoy swim
ming, camping and playing; minia
ture golf. They are also active with
Trinity Baptist Church.
Hammonds does not consider
himself handicapped.
“I don’t like sympathy,” he says,
“and I don’t rely on it. I’ve always
felt you can do anything until you
prove you can’t do it, and don’t say
‘can’t’ until you’ve tried. And then
try again. You need a certain
amount of help to get started, but
you have to break the ties and get
out on your own.”
Austin seeks to improve
water-treatment system
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The amount of waste
water spilling into the Colorado
River has city council members seek
ing voter approval of $50 million
bond package to build a better waste
water treatment system.
Mayor Ron Mullen has challenged
other river communities — includ
ing Bastrop, which has sued the City
of Austin over the pollution of the
river — to match the treatment level
that Austin will give waste water en
tering the Colorado.
“The council will direct the staff
to take steps to significantly improve
the quality of discharge permits at all
wastewater treatment plants oper
ated by the city,” said Mullen.
“We are prepared to join others in
encouraging higher discharge per
mit standards not only on our sec
tion of the Colorado River, but the
entire river and on all the state’s wa
terways,” he said. “It is time for
those who spend their time criticiz
ing Austin to start working with us
and not against their city in this im
portant area.
Mullen said the Texas attorney
general’s office told him the city
would be cited Tuesday because of
two sewage spills that allegedly al
lowed 2.5 million gallons of raw sew
age to enter Williamson Creek, a
tributary of the Colorado.
The Department of Water Re
sources asked the attorney general’s
office to take action against the city
after the executive director of the
state agency said the spills did not
seem to be accidental, as the city
claimed.
City officials are spending $236
million to increase sewage treatment
capacity by 50 percent. Last year vot
ers approved a $955 million bond
package of which $450 million was
earmarked for water and waste wa
ter facilities.
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