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HOUSTON (AP) — Despite having not attend
ed a committee meeting or cast a vote in nearly a
year, U.S. Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez continues to
hold onto his congressional seat and draw a
$136,000 salary.
The 37-year veteran San Antonio Democrat,
who announced last September he would retire at
the end of the 1997 session and is not running for
re-election, hasn’t voted since last July and or been
to Washington since November.
A serious illness kept Gonzalez away from the
House for six weeks last summer.
“No one is going to openly question whether he
should resign or not because he’s Henry B.,” one
Democratic aide told the Houston Chronicle in yes
terday’s editions. “Everybody knows he’s not here
... doing the kind of job a member should be doing.
But we just sort of shrug our shoulders.”
His offices in the capital and his home district
continue to provide basic constituent services, but
his decision to keep his post has raised eyebrows
among colleagues.
However, no one in the Chronicle story was will
ing to be quoted by name as suggesting that Gon
zalez should retire, though some House members
privately said exactly that.
On July 24, the date of his last House votes, he
was unable to finish the day’s business and
checked himself into Bethesda Naval Hospital
complaining of fatigue and congestion.
Tests on the 82-year-old politician, the first Mex-
ican-American elected to Congress from Texas, re
vealed the problem was a gum infection that had
spread to a heart valve.
After a two-week stay in the hospital, Gonzalez
went home to San Antonio to recuperate. A short
time later, citing his heart condition, he an
nounced that he would resign at the end of 1997.
However, he reversed course last March and said
he was going to serve out his term to avoid passing
the cost of a special election on to the voters of his
district. His term expires at the end of 1998.
His son, Charlie, has since won the Democratic
nomination for the seat and will face Republican
James Walker this fall.
The Chronicle reported it was unable to reach
Gonzalez for comment. Aides in Washington and
San Antonio told the newspaper no one on the staff
had been authorized to speak for him.
Friends say he still gets around San Antonio and
checks in with his staff, but no one would discuss
the current state of his health.
“He’s very private. He’s been that way for the 35
years I’ve known him,” said San Antonio banker
and Gonzalez friend William Sinkin, who said the
congressman asked him not to comment on his
condition or affairs.
However, Sinkin acknowledged in the Chronicle
story that some Gonzalez supporters assumed he
would at least return to Washington from time to
time as he served out his term.
Rep. Martin Frost, D-Dallas, the second-
longest serving Texas congressman behind Gon
zalez, said through a spokesperson that Gonzalez
still is being advised by doctors to avoid extend
ed trips to Washington.
One aide who declined attribution said both Re
publicans and Democrats have come to assume
that Gonzalez won’t be around to help or hurt them
on crucial legislation.
“It’s unfortunate that his great legislative ca
reer is going to be defined by the fact that he just
didn’t show up for the last year and a half,” the
aide added.
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FORT WORTH (AP) — As a bill
moves through the North Carolina
General Assembly to give Federal
Express $115 million in tax breaks
over the next 20 years as incentive
to build a similar hub at Piedmont
Triad International Airport,
FedEx’s promoters say that such a
hub would attract big businesses
to the Triad.
But at Alliance Airport in Fort
Worth, business leaders say the
FedEx hub is just one of many
reasons that companies have set
up shop here.
“The FedEx hub is an enhance
ment,” Mike Rosa, vice president for
research and development at the
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce,
said. “It is not the be-all that ends all,
that creates an entire economy.”
Alliance also is home to major
water lines, a Burlington Northern
Santa Fe rail hub and Interstate 35,
which runs from Canada to Mexico.
“Our cup runneth over, basical
ly, when it comes to transporta
tion. The only thing we don’t have
is you can’t sail a big freighter up
and unload it,” Rosa said. “There’s
not going to be many places that
are going to have as many check
marks when it comes to access,
and this (FedEx hub) helps.”
Intel Corp. plans to build a $ 1.3
billion computer-chip plant at Al
liance over the next four years.
A couple of hundred yards from
that site, in the business park that
surrounds the airport, pharmacists
and technicians for PCS Health Sys
tems Inc. fill 20,000 prescriptions a
day and ship them hy FedEx, Unit
ed Parcel Service or the U.S. mail to
patients as far away as Maine.
A few miles away, white ware
houses are rapidly spreading to
cover the prairie on both sides of
a highway.
Being next door to FedEx’s hub
at Alliance has helped PC Service
Source Inc., the largest supplier of
repair parts for computer-service
companies. Paul Klotz, a vice pres
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Fidelity Investments, the
mutual fund giant, has contracted to buy about 300 acres
north of downtown Fort Worth for a business campus that
initially could house as many as 2,000 workers, the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram reported Sunday in a copyright story.
Citing sources close to the deal, the newspaper reported
that Fidelity would pay in the range of $35 million for 200
acres belonging to developer Ross Perot jr. and 100 neigh
boring acres belonging to Westlake mayor Scott Bradley.
Boston-based Fidelity already has a regional operating
center in nearby Irving — one of seven national)
employs 2,000 people.
Officials with Fidelity, the nation's largest mots,
management firm, declined to comment forthep
any plans for North Texas expansion.
The deal could hinge on whether a legal dispu
town boundaries can be settled among Perot;
Worth suburb of Westlake and Fort Worth. Sow
told the newspaper that the company does notw
suits to interfere with its building plans.
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DALLAS (AP) — The body of thrice-hanged Texas
outlaw Bloody Bill Longley, whose burial site has
long been missing, could be unearthed in central
Texas this week.
Scientists are set to excavate an unmarked grave on
Saturday in Giddings, the town 180 miles south of Dal
las where the outlaw was finally executed. The plot is
one of dozens they've explored in their lengthy search
for the bones of the missing and storied gunslinger.
“It's promising," University of Texas at Arlington
researcher Brooks Ellwood told The Dallas Morning
News in a story for yesterday's editions.
Samples taken from the suspected grave suggest
that it is more than a century old. And research
based on old photos indicates the site is where Lon-
gley's grave should be, the newspaper reported.
Born in 1851 in Austin County, Longley was first
hanged by anti-rustling zealots in Arkansas, but some
how lived through it. Legend holds that he was either
cut down after the lynching broke up, or that one of
the departing vigilantes fired a parting shot that by
chance cut the rope from which Bloody Bill dangled.
The crime that got him officially sentenced to
death was the fatal shotgunning of Wilson Ander
son as he plowed on his Lee County farm in 1875.
Longley apparently suspected the farmer had slain
his cousin, Cale Longley.
Longley got away, but was captured two years lat
er in Louisiana and brought back to Giddings, where
he was convicted and sent to the gallows.
At the Oct. 11, 1878, proceedings, the con
demned man, who once boasted of killing more
than 30 deserving people, told the crowd that he
had miscounted. Though he said he only killed
eight, he was hanged anyway.
Not easily, however. When the trap door fell from
under his feet, Longley dropped all the way to the
ground and collapsed in a very-much-alive heap.
Officials quickly hoisted Longley and launched
him into eternity — or myth — making it the third
of infamous gunslinger
time he danced on air. Applause broke out among
the more than 4,000 spectators.
From there, his body was reportedly buried in the
town's cemetery.
A piece of petrified wood was placed on the Lon
gley plot as a marker. But it was carelessly moved
about the cemetery, arid the grave was lost.
The Longley bones have been on the Smith
sonian Institution's most wanted list for more than
a dozen years.
Ellwood, his associate Suzanne Ellwood and
Smithsonian Museum forensic anthropologist Dou
glas Owsley will open the promising grave in Gid
dings Cemetery as they did 21 others in the grave
yard after the hunt began in 1992.
Using sensitive scientific instruments, the Ellwoods
detected 34 unmarked graves in the Giddings Ceme
tery. Each was eliminated as a potential Longley grave.
If successful, the exhumation would end years of
speculation as to his final resting place.
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tral Virginia girl. His findings were
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