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11-year-old Texan
attempting to fly
from coast to coast
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11-
year-old boy settled onto two pillows
so he could see out the window and
took to the sky Wednesday in a bid
to become the youngest person to pi
lot a plane across the United States.
“It’s not a big deal to me,” said
John Kevin Hill, who has had 150
hours of flying experience and
hopes to fly around the world two
years from now. “I’m used to flying
long distances.
“It’s something to do for the sum
mer.”
He was confident, he said, be
cause “I’m better than most pilots.”
Morning fog burned off in time
for the Arlington, Texas, boy’s take
off in a single-engine Cessna 210
from Whiteman Air Park in subur
ban Pacoima en route to his first stop
at Cedar City, Utah.
Dressed in jeans, a “Texas” T-
shirt, tennis shoes and a ball cap with
his name on it. Hill was accompanied
by flight instructor Mike Fields and a
newspaper reporter.
Because Hill’s not old enough to
obtain a solo pilot’s license, Fields is a
required companion on the week-
long, 3,500-mile trip. Fields, who
will take the controls only in an
emergency, has been Hill’s instruc
tor since the boy started flying at age
9.
Hill’s longest previous flight was a
7,000-mile trek with Fields across
the northwest United States and
Canada last year.
The journey could get Hill’s name
etched in the Guinness Book of
World Records, which lists a 9-year-
old for setting a record in 1983 with
a solo flight over Mexico. But there
is no entry for the youngest pilot to
fly across the United States.
Hill found the sky over Los An
geles crowded.
“It’s very hard to take off from
here because there’s a lot of traffic,”
he said, remarking that he would
have to rely on instruments rather
than control-tower radar because
Whiteman has no tower.
“I’m a little nervous,” he had said
Tuesday. “Well, I guess I’m excited
and nervous.”
Hill has a stopover Friday in Love
land, Colo., north of Denver. Then,
it’s on to Kansas City, Mo., and St.
Louis for a stop Sunday. On July 1,
Hill is scheduled to reach Washing
ton, D.C.
In Loveland, he will get the keys
to the city from Mayor Don Riedell,
who will proclaim Friday as John Ke
vin Hill Day. A reception also is
planned in Washington, where Rep.
Dick Armey, R-Texas, has invited
President Reagan, Vice President
George Bush and Transportation
Secretary Elizabeth Dole to witness
the landing.
His father, Johnny Hill, said, “In
two years, he’s going to fly around
the world. It’s already set. And he
wants NASA to let him ride on the
next shuttle. Heck, he has more fly
ing time than those senators they
sent up.”
Hill bought his son a $20 intro
ductory flight when the boy was 9.
Soon, the boy began asking for
more lessons.
His mother, Patsy Hill, didn’t
want him to fly but acquiesced after
seeing his dedication. She thought
her son would lose interest, but now
predicts he’ll probably stick with it
into adulthood.
At a sendoff Monday in Arling
ton, about 200 well-wishers gathered
to see Hill off. The Texas Rangers
gave him an autographed baseball
and the Dallas Cowboys gave him an
autographed football.
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Night Alive” meeting at 6 p.m. in 510 Rudder.
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fore desired publication date.
Patrolman aquitted
of murdering friend
may get old job bac
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A pa
trolman acquitted of murder could
get his job back unless of ficials find
he broke departmental rules in
shooting a fellow officer, the city’s
personnel director said.
Farrell Tucker, 36, was acquitted
in the Aug. 18 shooting death of his
best friend, Stephen R. Smith, 31.
Tucker claims self-defense in the
shooting of Smith, a suspected vigi
lante cop who Tucker said planned
to kill three top law enforcement of
ficials.
Joe Constantino, city personnel
director, said Tuesday that Tucker’s
case doesn’t come under a provision
calling for his entire disciplinary re
cord to be reviewed before allowing
him back on the job.
Constantino said under those
guidelines, it would seem Chief Wil
liam O. Gibson probably has little
choice but to allow Tucker back on
the force.
“There has to be something stem
ming out of the Smith-Tilde
dent, the shootiig, that Cite
allege to be a viohtion,” Consit
said.
Meanwhile, Cty Attorney I
Garza said he wil continue Its
search for Gibson
“We are plottng a lot of
ground,” Garza sad. "Thaiii
taking so long. Wedon't haveii
precedent to deal vith.”
Si.iu- law gives city offim
days to decide whether Tudt:
be reinstated.
“We don’t want owaiuk
but we still want t< directs!
time to it so we’re all cotnft
with the outcome,” Carzasaid.
Gibson said Tueslay, “Tfc
not yet been identiied any |t
reason why Officer Tucker
• not be put back to wok.”
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If Gibson doesn’t nakead
within the 30 days, Ttckerro
reinstated automaically,
stantino said.
Wife confirms testimony of husband
as McFadden murder trial continues
BELTON (AP) — A woman confirmed her
husband’s testimony Wednesday that a teen
ager was in a car similar to one driven by Jerry
“Animal” McFadden the day the youth and two
others were seen alive for the last time.
Lavita Pace Boykin of Lake Hawkins told ju
rors in McFadden’s murder trial that she saw
Bryan Boone of Hawkins, who went with Suz
anne Harrison and Gena Turner on a weekend
outing in May 1986.
Her husband, Gregory, gave similar testi
mony Tuesday.
McFadden is accused in the beating-strangu
lation death of Harrison, 18, whose partially
clothed body was found the day after she disap
peared from Lake Hawkins.
Authorities found the bodies of Turner, 20,
and 19-year-old Boone 10 days later. McFadden
has not been charged in those deaths.
Boykin, 20, told jurors that her husband said,
“ ‘Hey, look; there’s Bryan.’ I slightly turned
my head and said,‘Yes, it sure is.’ ”
But defense attorney Vernard Solomon, in
cross-examination, asked Boykin if she remem
bered telling police in a June 1986 statement,
“We did not wave at Bryan or anything.”
Boykin said in the third day of testimony she
now' remembers that her husband waved at the
teen-ager who was sitting in a blue-and-white
Bronco similar to one McFadden was driving.
Two other witnesses testified they saw a blue-
and-white Bronco traveling on a road about
three miles from Lake Hawkins.
Harrison’s mother, Mary Ann Harc
sobbed Tuesday as she recalled thedavof
daughter’s death.
Clutching a handkerchief, Harrisinio:
rors her daughter would have gradaiec
honors three weeks after she was killei.
kei
She gave a list of student activities hr
ter participated in and said she hadte
cepted at Texas A&M University.
Harrison said her daughter spent the
Turner’s house the day before she w
and then spent most of May 4, 1986,witi!t
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work bei
Later that evening, Turner and Boom
Harrison up at about 6 p.m. and saidthtj
not be out past 7 p.m., Harrison said.)
said it was the last time she saw herdaug
Convicted killer executed by lethal injectioi
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A con
victed killer whose drug use made it
difficult for prison officials to ad
minister a lethal injection was exe
cuted quietly early Wednesday for
the 1982 robbery-slaying of a Beau-
montjeweler.
Although Johnson was brought to
the death chamber shortly after mid
night, it wasn’t until 12:43 a.m. that
the lethal drugs began flowing
through his veins. Death came 12
minutes later, Attorney General Jim
Mattox said.
down during a daylight robbery on
Aprils, 1982.
After waiting in a nearby prison
office for word of Johnson’s death,
Granado’s daughter, Rosie Moreno,
said, “I felt I had to be here for this.
I had to seejustice is done.”
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Elliot Rod Johnson, 28, of Port
Arthur, asked for forgiveness while
family members of his victim waited
across the street from the Texas De
partment of Corrections Walls Unit
to assure themselves the execution
had occurred.
Mattox said prison officials tried
his right arm several times but could
not find a suitable vein for the nee
dle. Finally, it was decided both nee
dles would go in the left arm.
“He went to sleep in a peaceful
fashion,” Mattox said.
Johnson, a lOth-grade dropout
who also dropped out of the Army
because he couldn’t cope with mili
tary life, insisted he was not in the
store at the time of the shooting.
State and federal courts Tuesday re
jected his final appeals.
About four hours beforetl
cution, Johnson made a
to his mother, Luanna, win
month began serving a sbl
prison term for theft. | T he ag
contributi
Johnson, whose record ir cola-area
two drug convictions, said ;:toward d
the three others convicted iaccomodr
Granado slaying drove toBeif
on April 8, 1982, to buy somt
but he was ill and waited outsiii
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“I’m very sorry for bringing all
the hurt and pain to everyone who
loved me so much,” Johnson said in
his final statement. “I hope all my
friends find it in their hearts to for
give me.”
Johnson was killed for the shoot
ing death of Joseph Granado, 67,
and a fellow employee at his down
town Beaumont store, Arturo Me
lendez, 45. The two were gunned
Johnson and another man, Mau
rice Andrews, were sentenced to
death for the Granado slaying. An
execution date has not been set for
Andrews. A third man received a life
prison term and a fourth got 30
years.
Testimony at his trial, hi
placed him inside the stert of the pla
Granado and Melendez vet County ct
execution-style. A jury tools ;nexaticn
utes to convict him. ida was i
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Johnson was the fourth
mate to be executed this f q ov g 0 ‘|
the 24th — more than in an officials ;
state — since the state resunf Jo t0
cutions in 1982.
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