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Wednesday, September 1, 1993
Last two black residents of
Wdor leave all-white town
The Associated Press
VIDOR — Ugly catcalls have
iken their toll on Bill Simpson
djohn DecQuir. After just six
jonths, Vidor's only remaining
jlack residents are packing their
kgs, frightened by too many in-
itances of harassment.
"There are good people here,
jon'tgetme wrong," said Simp-
ion, a 7-foot, 300-pound trans
plant from nearby Beaumont.
Cut it's overshacfowed by the
■egativity, the hostility, the big-
jtiyof this town."
A federal judge last year or-
iered the eastern Texas town,
ome to 11,000 whites, to desegre-
|ate its 70-unit public housing
amplex. A few blacks moved in
istFeb., becoming Vidor's first
iack residents in at least 70 years.
When they walked through town,
they were hailed with racist slurs.
Simpson, 37, and DecQuir, 59,
are the last of the arrivals to leave.
They were preceded by two black
women and their five children,
who fled in July.
DecQuir moved out some of
his belongings Tuesday — he's
heading back to his native Beau
mont — and Simpson is planning
to depart on Wed. to an undis
closed location.
While no one has physically at
tacked them, the men say the de
risive yells, the threats and the op
pressive fear have become all too
much to bear.
"I've had people who drive by
and tell me they're going home to
get a rope and come back and
hang me, physical gestures,
derogatory words," Simpson said.
The police department said
someone phoned in a bomb threat
six months ago, prompting them
to post a 24-hour guard at the
housing complex.
Simpson and DecQuir rarely
leave their apartments, which are
shielded behind the housing es
tate's chain-link perimeter fence.
"It's too much pressure," said
DeQuir. "People just won't leave
it alone."
By that he also means the me
dia. Journalists from as far away
as Australia have come to town to
meet the men.
The two moved to Vidor as the
result of a 1980 class-action law
suit filed against the U.S. Depart
ment of Housing and Urban De
velopment by three blacks who
were refused available public
housing because of their race.
Funeral set for UTEP track athlete
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Services are Wednesday for Travis
Hiomas, a standout college track athlete at the Uni-
ersity of Texas-El Paso who died in a car crash that
i!sotook his mother's life.
Thomas, a 20-year-old
MP junior and his mother,
Catherine Thomas, 46, were
led Friday morning on their
ay to the school when Travis
til asleep at the wheel and the
;arveered of the road and
lipped over three times.
Joint services for Travis and
Katherine Thomas are sched-
dedforll a.m. Wednesday at Riverside Baptist
lurch in South Dallas. They will be buried in Lau-
ilLand Memorial Park.
Friends, coaches and teammates from South Oak
QiffHigh School and UTEP were saddened by the
ieath of a student whose future looked bright on
id off the track.
"He was the kind of person who lit up a room
"He said he couldn't wait
to come back to school."
- Bob Kitchens, UTEP head
track coach
when he walked in," said Bob Kitchens, head track
coach for UTEP.
Kitchens had recruited Thomas from South Oak
Cliff High School two years ago. He received an ath
letic scholarship and went on to lead his track team
to several major victories including a first place per
formance in the 400-meter
Texas Relays.
Last spring Thomas lost fo
cus and his grades began to fall
and he left school. Kitchens
said. After taking several sum
mer classes, Thomas stopped by
to tell his coach that he had got
ten things together and would
be returning in the fall.
"He was really focused and
determined to come back," Kitchens said. "He did it
all by himself."
At a track meet in April, Thomas told his best
friend and teammate Andrew Tynes that he was
looking forward to rejoining the team.
"He said he couldn't wait to come back to
school," said Tynes, a junior who ran the second leg
on the relay teams.
Psychiatric hospital pays S.A. teen
(300,000 after FBI investigation
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO - A teen
ier whose detention in a mental
hospital led to state and federal
westigations of private psychi-
itric institutions has been award
ed $300,000 in a lawsuit settle
ment with the hospital.
Sid and Marianne Harrell, the
hoy's grandparents and legal
guardians, agreed in court docu
ments as part of the settlement for
leramy Harrell not to reveal the
Mount awarded.
The $300,000 was paid "into
the registry of this court for the
sole use and benefit of Jeramy
Harrell," stated an agreement
sanctioned by state District Judge
Michael Peden and quoted Tues
day in the San Antonio Express-
Hews.
The Express-News first report-
fd the April 1991 apprehension of
Harrell, then 14.
Ensuing state investigations re
sulted in a legislative package of
mental-health industry reform
measures that Gov. Ann Richards
signed into law in June. The re
forms take effect Wednesday.
Defendants agreeing to the
lawsuit settlement with the Har
rell family included Colonial Hills
Hospital of San Antonio, which
closed May 1992, and its corpo
rate owners. National Medical En
terprises of Santa Monica, Calif.
Last week, the FBI raided Na
tional Medical's corporate offices
in Santa Monica and four regional
offices, including one in Dallas.
The agreement with the Har
rell family stated the Harrells
"understand that this is a com
promise of a doubtful and disput
ed claim and that such payment is
not to be construed as an admis
sion of liability on the part of any
of the (hospital, its corporate
owners and others), each of
whom expressly deny any liabili
ty-”
Hospital officials consistently
claimed Jeramy Harrell voluntari
ly accompanied two private secu
rity officers to the hospital and
that his grandparents agreed.
But the grandparents charged
that the two officers, working for
the now-closed Sector One Mental
Health Services, intimidated them
by threatening that the boy could
be held longer at Colonial Hills if
the family forced them to obtain a
mental health apprehension war
rant.
Harrell was held five days and
released only after U.S. Rep.
Frank Tejeda of San Antonio, ob
tained a court order. Tejeda then
was a state senator and the fami
ly's attorney.
In May 1992, Colonial Hills
Hospital was found guilty of
wrongful seizure of the teen-ager,
a misdemeanor, and fined
$10,000.
After the Harrell case was re
ported, state Sen. Judith Zaffirini,
along with Sens. Mike Moncrief,
and Chris Harris, were named to
a special state Senate investigative
panel that held public hearings on
mental health issues in San Anto
nio, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston
and Austin.
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