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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Rock n’ roll pioneer Roy Orbison,
whose surging falsetto mourned the
misery of fading romance, suffered
a heart attack and died. He was 52,
and was enjoying a comeback with a
new generation of fans.
The Grammy Award-winning Or-
bisoh, famed for hits like “Oh, Pretty
Woman,” “Only the Lonely” and
“Cryin ,” died shortly before mid
night Tuesday at Hendersonville
Hospital, where he had been taken
by ambulanpe, Melanie Lamb, a
spokesman for the suburban Nash
ville hospital, said.
“He was and always will be one of
the greats of rock n’ roll,” former
Reatle Paul McCartney said. “We
toured with Roy in the early days
and he was a really good guy.”
A singer, guitarist and songwriter
who was instantly recognizable by his
ever-present sunglasses and dark at
tire set off by an ebony pompadour,
Orbison had 27 straight records on
the charts during his heyday in the
early 1960s.
But his biggest success came with
“Oh, Pretty Woman,” about a flirta
tious episode, which sold more than
7 million copies in 1964. A cover ver
sion later was a hit for the heavy
metal band Van Halen.
In 1977, Elvis Presley, one year
Orbison’s senior, introduced him as
“the greatest singer in the world.”
Bruce Springsteen saluted him in his
song “Thunder Road. ”
Last year, he re-recorded his 1963
hit “In Dreams” after the song had
been revived in the movie “Blue Vel
vet.”
But it was Orbison’s recent re
cordings as one of The Traveling
Wilburvs — alone with ex-Beatle
George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob
Dylan and Jeff Lynne — that
brought him a new generation of
fans. The group’s “Handle With
Care” is No. 45 on the charts, and
their swift-selling album “The Trav
eling Wilburys” is No. 8.
The upturn in his career sur
prised him, Orbison said last week as
he was leaving London’s Heathrow
Airport for home.
“I’ve been rediscovered by young
kids who had never heard of me be
fore the Wilburys,” he said. “They
are getting into my original songs
and apparently the old stuff is sell
ing at the rate of 20,000 copies a
day.”
“It’s very nice to be wanted again,
but I still can’t quite believe it.”
Orbison was upbeat a few weeks
ago when he met with record pro
ducer Fred Foster, who had worked
with the singer since the early days.
“He seemed in good health,” Fos
ter said Wednesday. “He was exer
cising and all that. He was the most
talented man I ever worked with.”
Orbison got his early recording
experience in the 1950s with Sun
Records of Memphis, the label that
launched the careers of Elvis Pres
ley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Le
wis.
His career peaked in the first half
of the ’60s but tailed off in the af
termath of two family tragedies: His
wife died in a motorcycle accident in
1966, and in 1968, two of his three
sons, ages 10 and 6, died in a fire
that destroyed his lakeside home;
His third son is in his 20s, and he
had two teen-age sons from his sec
ond marriage. His wife and three
sons survive him. The family lived in
Nashville.
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DALLAS (AP) — The first black
lawman to become a Texas Ranger
says he is happy to he a role model,
but looks forward to the day when
publicity will come not because of his
race, but because of his accomplish
ments solving a case.
Lee Roy Young Jr., after roughly
three months on the job, is taking
special training and investigating
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“I find the work to be very I
challenging. You’re trying
to find or to obtain some
thing unknown . . . it’s that
challenge in itself that I
find most exciting. ”
—Lee Roy Young Jr.,
Texas Ranger
The 15-year veteran of the Texas
Department of Public Safety said he
wants to be viewed as another per
son working for the Texas Rangers.
“The only time I’d be brought out in
the limelight is when I’m working on
something that’s a large investiga
tion or something, where there’s a
lot of people involved,” he said.“Of
course, I would much rather it (the
publicity) just diminish and just fade
away.”
The lawman, 41, is stationed in
the Dallas suburb of Garland. He re
ceived his badge in early September.
Young got a lot of attention when
his promotion to Ranger was an
nounced in July. The Texas Depart
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cused by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People of passing over black officers
for promotion and discriminating
against them in other ways.
Young is the first black to become
a Ranger in the 165-year history of
the force, which now numbers 94
men.
He said he hasn’t personally en
countered discrimination, and he
hasn’t seen others discriminated
against.
“I don’t see it,” he said. “Of
course, I haven’t really been looking
for it.”
Although he at first found the
publicity surrounding his promotion
annoying, Young said he’s getting
used to it and sees the benefit ctf be
ing a role model.
“There’s always that possibility,
that someone will see me and say, ‘If
he was successful in his chosen field,
then I can go forth and do the same
in mine,’ ” he said. “You set your
sights on something, and you work
toward obtaining that goal, and
don’t let anything else get in your
way.”
Young dreamed of being a
Ranger as a child in South Texas
and said the reality has lived up to
the dream.
“I find the work to be very chal
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find or to obtain something un
known, or that’s not easily found or
disclosed, so it’s that challenge in it
self that I find most exciting. ”
Young said that in the short time
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ping, murder, narcotics, forgery,
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Rangers are charged with four
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PORT ARTHUR (AP) —The
familar orange disc that shines
brightly over thousands of service
stations and oversees the pumping
of millions of gallons of gasoline is
going the way of the Packard, De-
Soto and Studebaker — into the
American motorists’ memory.
The Gulf name and orange disc
logo is being retired in favor of
Chevron, the name of the company
that merged with Gulf in 1984.
“It’s something that marketing
has done by studying the market
place and determining that this is a
more aggressive marketing pro
gram,” said Art Spencer, spokesman
for Chevron U.S.A. in Port Arthur,
birthplace of Gulf Oil during the
Spindletop boom years at the turn of
the century.
“What they’re going to do is
change the colors, upgrade the sta
tions and make them more conve
nient for the customers’ usage,”
Spencer said.
By this time next year, the orange
disc and Gulf name will be but a
memory for thousands of motorists
in the Southwest.
Some stations and gasoline opera
tors in the Northeast have licenses to
use the Gulf logo until the turn of
the century.
“This will affect all Gulf stations in
Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and
New Mexico,” Spencer said. “There
vill be no change in the products or
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it’s a jobber operation, a company-
owned station or an independent. ”
“I think it’s a good idea,” said Roy
Bruno, owner of Alamo Service Sta
tion in Port Arthur, a Gulf station
since the 1940s.
“They are going to really make all
the stations first class and I don’t
think the customers can help but like
it,” he said.
While Bruno said he was in favor
of the change, he couldn’t help but
feel a little twinge of sadness to see
the old orange disc go.
“I started here in 1941 and I
bought the station in 1944 and it’s al
ways been Gulf,” he said. “Sure, I’ll
be sad to see it go; it’s been a big part
of my life.”
The change is slated to begin early
in 1989 in Houston, but will not be
seen in the Golden Triangle area un
til next summer.
“They’ll start the procedure in
Houston and Dallas in January,”
Spencer said. “Hopefully it will be
done by the end of 1989. They won’t
get to the Golden Triangle until at
least the third quarter. ”
“We hate to see the Gulf name go
away, but it was going to happen,”
Joe Darby of Darby Oil Co., a dis
tributor for Gulf-Chevron products
in the Port Arthur area, said.
“We have a new image coming out
and it will be attractive, one I think
the customers will like,” he said.
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