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Fort Worth Star-Telegram TarrantTexas Page 21 I Section 1 Sunday October 1 1989 State Fair of Texas schedule Page 25 A therapeutic move New psychiatfic unit designed to improve patients' care 4Wv4 7 tt1c4' igy "pm 444 I 1 4-i i Li i 411 erre'l us a 1 si -i- 1 I cltivetr it k- 1- Si 1 It'll!" 44 '4 4" l' A 1 444 'IVO 4 4-it '11 I I 4 'Of 0 J'4 '4'' 4N 4 f' '-l''''''' 7- 4 1fftc ik tc N' ir "i '4 114 A -4 I AP I 'T Nk- 4 fL -1 k' ik '144 44- 4'cf 4- 4447 AA Ilk 41 i 4i'4' 4 4 414 14 4' ''''''71 II' I 111rA feel 3 7 14 toe I 4 tr 4 i OrV 44411 4 4 4--- 4- --1- IN i- 4 t4 r444 '10 it C061 "010111''' i 4 017k 4 AN dt ze-Lt ilvtil 1411011 -Witte tolsor 'elf lot '1110k 00 chairs available for its new Trinity Springs psychiatric pavilion Her son has been in the psychiatric unit at John Peter Smith Hospital lour times in the last four years Trinity Springs the hospital district's new psychiatric facility is to be dedicated in a public ceremony at 2 pm today No one ever claimed that the old unit housed on the ninth lOth and I 1 th floors of JPS's medical-surgical tower was ideal Many said it was totally inadequate An active member of the Tarrant Alliance for the Mentally Ill Oletta Davie has been a critic of the facility and of the lack of services for the mentally ill in Tarrant County Last week she said she was optimistic that services for people like her son whose mental illnesses were diagnosed as schizophrenia and manic depression will improve as much as the facilities JPS' old psychiatric unit is a dingy crowded smoke-filled space that was converted on an emergency basis to house psychiatric patients from Elmwood Sanitarium when Elmwood closed 10 years ago because it didn't meet basic health and safety standards Trinity Springs is a clean well-lighted space with a piano a fireplace a large aquarium an herb garden and three enclosed courtyards with roses crepe myrtles jasmine holly and decorative stone walkways The pavilion will have dozens of ways to separate patients: individually in small groups with family members (More on PAVILION on Page 24) Fort Worth Star-Telegram MARK GAIL Jane Dunkelberg of the Tarrant County Agricultural Extension Service arranges flowers at the Trinity Springs Pavilion sky is their stage Wo '0'1 li tt 'i lit ok "00NHI it ie1 1ii 1 1 i 4 4 is4 11-N 4 All the BY LORRISA GIPSON Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH An estimated 50000 people crowded onto the grounds of Meacham Airport yesterday to watch Japanese Zeros attack silver jets swoop and silky white parachutes float through the sky as part of the 1989 Fort Worth Air Show "The crowd was at best a lot better than the best day last year" said Melvin Haas chairman of the Fort Worth Aviation Heritage Association "We've been getting a lot of compliments and we've had no problems or fatalities" The Aviation Heritage Association is the sponsor of this year's show Proceeds from the show will help create an Aviation Heritage Museum and Hall of Fame at Meacham Crowds are expected to be near 100000 for today's show officials said Pat Cowan a spectator came prepared to catch all the action as she relaxed on a blanket with binoculars by her side "I mostly came to see the planes on display We like it a lot" Cowan said One of the featured acts of the two-day show is the "Six Pack in the Sky" presented by Miller kite The crowd watched attentively as the six white parachutes soared high in the sky Team leader Arch Deal narrated the entire skydiving show from the sky swinging under the parachute The performers have an average of more that 2000 jumps each His love for airplanes brought Stan Thompson out to the air show in the pounding heat and under beautiful skies "I mostly like the jets" Thompson said People young and old were scattered across the fields and runways of the airport in north Fort Worth Two-year-old Erin Williams seemed unconcerned about the events around her as she dashed playfully away from her father Bobby Williams The Confederate Air Force re-enacts 6 011100 I) 0k (1 ir 7 et 1 Charlie Hillard and the Eagles Aerobatic Team race over Meacham Airport By CAROLYN POIROT Fort Worth Star-Telegnmt When Oletta Davie's 37-year-old son is very sick he responds with a vengeance to the voices that have haunted him for 20 years He curses tears up furniture kicks in walls beats the ground with whatever club he can find and destroys all but the toughest inanimate objects around him That is why his mother said she helped the Tarrant County Hospital District choose the strongest tables and Notjust another pretty face After years of Capitol renovation facades officials are glad that real restoration plans didn't go up in smoke BY KAREN FIASIINGS Fort Worth Star-Telegram Austin Bureau AUSTIN After years of fiddling with pretty drapes costly carpet and other cosmetic changes state leaders say they're finally on the right road toward shedding the Texas Capitors firetrap image Thursday's blaze in the basement of the I 01-year-old statehouse was a pungent reminder of just how quickly they need to act and how serious the consequences of further neglect could be "We feel very lucky that the damage wasn't worse and that the fire was detected before it had a chance to spread" said architect Laurie Limbacher who is working on restoring the historic pink granite statehouse "It was a very sobering reminder of what could indeed happen" While workers cleaned up after the smoldering fire and technicians tested for asbestos contamination work continued on a $154 million project that includes extensive repairs and a massive underground expansion on the north edge of the Capitol This week the restoration project (More on CAPITOL on next page) Co-workers say burn victim was dedicated nurse BY SUSIE STECKNER Special to the Star-Telegram FORT WORTH Janice Stovall had been planning the slumber party for a week as part of her I 2-year-old daughter's birthday celebration She came home Friday afternoon toting bags full of party supplies But her daughter's 13th birthday would never be celebrated Stovall was killed Friday after she was doused with gasoline and set on fire inside the garage of her South Side Fort Worth home police said Her estranged husband Martin Stovall is being held in Tarrant County Jail without bond this weekend Murder charges are expected to be filed today Fort Worth homicide Sgt Paul Kratz said yesterday The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office which performed the autop(More on DEATH on Page 23) Bud Kennedy Let me shriek to the manager HI oft Vi LiJip Museum suspect out of jail 23-year-old angered by private detective' BY JANICE JouNgroN Fort Worth Star-Telegram GRAND PRAIRIE A Lewisville man whom police had described as their strongest lead yet in a fire and the deaths of two employees of Wax Museum of the Southwest was released yesterday on a $500 bond Stanley Lester Poynor 23 posted bond at 1:05 am yesterday after being charged with burglary said Grand Prairie police Jailer Jerry White Authorities said Poynor tried to take a ledger from the rubble of the museum which burned Sept 9 1988 His bond was reduced from $100000 to $500 at 9:55 pm Friday by Justice of the Peace Cameron Gray said police Sgt Martha Srocic "The bond initially was set high because we couldn't let him out until we had a chance to investigate" Stock-- said "The bond was reduced because we checked his story out and no longer needed him in the jail here at this time" Arlington Police Sgt Jay Gustafson lead investigator on the October 1987 strychnine poisoning death of wax museum co-owner Patsy Wright said Poynor took a lie-detector test Friday evening shortly before his bond was lowered "He was cooperative He was calm He was talkative" Gustafson said "He was intent on explaining his part in being there at the museum I don't think anything grand came out of it" Poynor who works as a custodian at a Lewisville funeral home said last night that he is perplexed and angry about the accusations made against him "It upsets me because what (private investigator Bill Dear) is accusing me of is not true" Poynor said "I'm a student I work full time He almost caused me to lose my job my schooling He could actually ruin my whole future in the profession I'm in "But he's not going to because I'm telling the truth I'm innocent No one paid me to go out there to get that book I don't have any connection with the museum in any way" i Dear was hired by Wright's family last spring to investigate her death He did not return phone calls yesterday Police had searched unsuccessfully for Poynor since Sgt Steve Burton saw him combing through rubble at the museum Sept 24 1988 In a news conference Tuesday Burton said he saw Poynor duck police (More on POYNOR on Page 23) Slumber partiers called hotel staff loudly to remove their guest (And to fill a more urgent need: Bring more toilet paper) Frontier justice: The next morning five famished women trudged down to Booger Red's restaurant The waiter took their orders for omelets eggs grits He returned with a huge platter And served their beady-eyed roommate now smoking a cigarette Five women jumped up and gave chase They pursued every hotel staffer in sight across the lobby and restaurant Now they want revenge McCafferty has turned into a Leona Helmsley in Levis: "If they ever do anything like that to me again I'll kill them" she swore last week "They'd better watch for the last boot to drop" "Bud Kennedy's Fort Worth" appears nightly in the Evening far-Telegram si "I came out because I like to watch the aerobatic acts" Williams said "I think it's great that they can do that stuff" Another added feature to the show were three aircraft manufactured by General Dynamics: the B-241 the 8-58 Hustler and the F- I 6 Fighting Falcon People waited anxiously at the stairway of the B-24J in hopes of getting an inside look at the big machine The B-24 Liberator which left the plant's as -7'14 4 4 A 16'4 1 ii A '4 -1 4 4 ot' '-'071 r7f 2 4 41Va 71 A -4t tN i 4 A 44 1 i kl -t 1 2' i k- i ii 'I 41 4 I --i 1 Vt i' it w4- stit ItlY 4 -I i I' rtlit 44 4 1 it eeelee: 1 I i 4' 1 11' 44' ee' 1 1 V' 411 I t''' 4 sembly line in August 1944 is the only fully restored flying aircraft of its type in the world Other features of the show include: Tom! Tom! Tom! the Confederate Air Force's re-enactment of the attack on Pearl Harbor Charlie Hillard and the Eagles Aerobatic Team Gene Soucy's "'Showcat" with wing walker Teresa Stokes and Howard Pardue performing aerobatics with his Bearcat Gates will open at 9 am today Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12 out screaming: "Oh no!" The lights didn't work But from the hallway the women could see only one thing: toilet paper Everywhere The Parlor Suite was now the TP'ed Suite with no lights And there was no steak and lobster Even chocolates on the parlor table had been crushed one by one Pink crustacean: McCafferty found light in the bathroom But the shower curtain was drawn Psycho-style You never know where Anthony Perkins is hiding McCafferty slowly drew the curtain "I saw these two little beady eyes looking up at me" she said "Then I let out a scream you could hear all the way to the courthouse" For the Stockyards Hotel's special guests it was lobster Flesh lobster Very fresh Swimming in the bathtub 1 Fort Worth Star-Telegram! JERRY HOEFER the Pearl Harbor bombing (left) as about 50000 spectators crane their necks skyward Tales from the Western front Five hardy frontier women found life too rough in the Stockyards Hotel last weekend Sue McCafferty and pals found an unexpected guest inside their suite They rented the hotel's Parlor Suite for Pioneer Days But they never dreamed it came equipped with a critter with huge claws Or without light bulbs Or toilet paper It's the Stockyards bull story of the year and it began at Pioneer Days 1988 for McCafferty She's the outspoken queen of the Stockyards campaigner for cowboys cattle trains and everything smelly She and friends Becky McCash Kathy Rainey Judy Wagner and Deanna Williams decided to stay out all weekend They booked a suite for a grownups' slumber party but they didn't get there 'til 2:30 am They were starving But only one dish was left in the hotel: pecan pie "We ate pecan pie" McCafferty said "And w4hed it down with wine coolers Yuk" i Yuk is right If Bonnie and Clyde ever come back for their old room I bet that clerk finds something better than pecan pie One year later: That night a rollaway bed collapsed McCafferty sounded off all year to new hotel manager Richard York Last weekend York made McCafferty a promise: "He told me he'd fix me up" she said McCafferty knew the "fixing" would be unusual especially after a touring artist painted York's portrait and McCafferty said: "You ought to call it Double Ugly" But later York comforted her again: "Ns year" he promised "you'll have steak and lobster" New wallpaper: Pioneer Days '89 was busier than a topless bar during a Cowboys game The women worked all day dreaming of that late dinner In the wee hours they hit the hotel Mc Cash opened the door Then she ycked 1 4.