Times Record News from Wichita Falls, Texas • 1

Wichita Falls Texas Thursday June 6 1996 Vol 90 No 21 50C I HoWNowM Jobi Brown? skies over southwest Oklahoma to Sheppard Air Force Base military 1 officials said Wednesday The move could mean new dollars in construction as well as added personnel flowing into Sheppard as Air Force officials look at beefing up their current air traffic control system to handle the load Information about how much will be spent and what additional manpower will be needed was not available Wednesday from Sheppard officials Shifting of Fort air traffic control responsibilities to Sheppard will mean more construction dollars and more personnel Brett Jones Times Record News Air traffic control operations at Fort Sill Okla will be shut down around the year 2000 shifting responsibility for safety in the In that meeting a Lawton attorney questioned whether the effort to reclassify the airspace was part of a larger move by Sheppard to take over control of Fort operations and pump amounts of money into the base" and out of Fort Sill Col Kenneth DeCuir responded by calling the remarks a and that Sheppard (fid not welcome the change airspace is being shoved down our throat" DeCuir said In a prepared statement Air Force officials said they were in discussions with the Army to transfer responsibility for the airspace from Fort Sill to Sheppard The change will require the addition of new radar equipment at Fort Sill as well as Sheppard the Air Force Baid The plan first came to light during a March meeting concerning request to the Federal Aviation Administration to tighten restrictions on airspace over the city are getting that airspace but we would rather have controllers at Fort Sill In its plan to tighten airspace rules over Wichita Falls Sheppard air traffic controllers would be in charge of directing aircraft along their routes when they fly between the altitudes of 1200 and 4800 feet above the ground in a 10-mile radius to the north south and west sides of the base Now controllers keep watch over a five- Please turn to BASE Pag 8A Hiring hoopla City familiar with affirmative action issues Le Templar Times Record News The angry confrontation at City Council meeting was not the first time city staff had clashed with those who claim city hiring practices fail to meet the needs of women and minorities Wichita Falls and the issue of affirmative action have developed a long and many times uncomfortable relationship in the past three decades Today a wide gulf continues to divide those who support the efforts in this area and others who believe the city has not done nearly enough to hire minorities Affirmative action was introduced by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as a method to correct past discrimination in employment and education Four years later the city of Wichita Falls adopted its own affirmative action statement that said the city would strive to hire qualified minority applicants In 1975 four women filed a class-action lawsuit in federal district court against Wichita Falls because the city refused to hire women as full-time police officers Before the case went to trial the city changed its policy and agreed to pin police badges on women The city also agreed to a 10-year consent decree from the court that required 25 percent of all police officers hired to be women As the period of consent decree approached its end a study by the Times Record News found the city had failed to meet the requirements in six of the previous eight years City Personnel Director Jan Stricklin Baid at the time that applications from women always exceeded 25 percent of the total pool But male applicants outscored most of the women and civil service laws require the city to take the best candidates "We hire persons from the top of the eligibility she said at the time "No male has ever been passed over for a female with a Please turn to CITY Page 2A Garden-hose fun Jason Peck 9 takes careful aim as he 1 2 with a garden hose as the two tried douses his brother Tim Pueblo Colo Temperatures climbed into the mid-90s in the to cool off Wednesday in Pueblo area Heelers keep cowboys in saddle Folks might remember that June 10-14 will be National Dog Bite Prevention Week It is co-sponsored by the Humane Society and understandably the US Postal Service Region' Wichita County pay-checks delayed three hours Page 4A Young County waiting for word on funding for Juvenile detention center Page 4A The Times Record News will host a roundtable discussion in cyberspace today on America OnLine The discussion starts at 7:30 pm in the private chat room Falls" The topic is Wichita action program Our Time: Look for the debut of our expanded movie coverage Today partly cloudy with chance ot thun- JyL der- storms High 94 low 68 Page 2B is ram Accolades (Comics MM flat ha 6Di Classified 1604 Crosswords 7C DearAbby 7C! Editorial 6A (Horoscope mifuiiiiii Markets 4-6B) Movie Obituaries (Sports 1-5D Television 7C 1 TbdWi 64709 00 01 ti or nmii rwoon mm i racycM nmnpiM ivourpipanat Ralls Ana Food Bank 1230 Mi The Associated Press directly helps the said Ty Murray a six-time world champion all-around cowboy "If we didn't have the Justin Heeler program see a lot more guys that wouldn't be able to ride You see guys that get injured that can come back and compete whereas without the Justin program you wouldn't see a lot of those guys "I rodeoed for three years with a torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) and I feel like they're what made that All medical advice and treatment is free said Bill Zeigler the Justin trainer at this year's Red River Rodeo the program that keepB on giving even after a injuries heal Please turn to HEELERS Pag 2A Leary will get his wish to ride light into space Steve Clements Times Record News Professional rodeo cowboys learn to live with pain the price of doing risky business with one-ton livestock "If I ever felt good when I woke up go to the said Rick Young a rodeo clown and bullfighter for 35 years "I hurt every dang morning with something But just pain You just put it out of your mind I pay attention to it If you do that here in the wrong Despite his constant nagging pain Young still rides tall thanks to the Justin HeelerB trainers with the Justin SportsMedicine Program who specialize in putting busted cowboys back in the saddle launch Among the other scheduled passengers is Gene Roddenberry the creator of "Star who died in 1991 Some of his ashes made an earlier trip to space aboard a space shuttle But why did Leary want his ashes in space rather than being spread over a mountaintop or the ocean? "I think the vastness of the universe represents the freedom that Timothy was all about" Rosin said Tuesday "He always wanted to travel in space and had some experiences doing it mentally consciously and now he will have the chance to really do In September or October remains will be among those to he strapped to the final stage of a rocket being launched by Orbital Sciences Corp said Charles Chafer a Celestis vice president In orbit the cosmic mausoleum will separate from Orbital primary is satef- yload a Spanish communications i Founded in 1980 the program sends trainers to more than 125 rodeos each year The Justin Heelers make their home at two permanent facilities the Lazy Arena in Guthrie Okla and the Mesquite Texas Arena and the staff of two fully equipped mobile sports medicine units works closely with local medical centers to ensure that the best fastest care is available to banged-up bronc and bullriders a great program: one that truly Hairy TonemahTime Record Newt Cool tool Patrick Briaud of College Station Texas who competed in the Dr Pepper Texas Junior Supersectionals cools off Wednesday with a Squeeze Breeze body cooling device The water is squeezed through the fan which blows the mist onto the body Tournament story 1 Panel suggests universities set own tuition rates Alden Brown Times Record News The first question Midwestern State University students asked Wednesday when they heard a senate committee recommended Texas universities set their own tuition was: "Does that mean (tuition) is going asked senior accounting mqjor Claudia McEwen of London Probably if such a recommendation were to become law in the next legislative session was the answer from MSU President Dr Louis Rodriguez The Senate Education Committee voted 6-3 on Wednesday to recommend that public universities and colleges in Texas be allowed to set their own tuition rates Sen Tom Haywood R-Wichita Falla voted in favor of the recommendation one of several 'to be forwarded by the committee for study Please turn to TUITION Pag 8A Michelle Koidin The Associated Press HOUSTON Two days before he died Timothy Leary watched a videotape of a satellite blazing a trail of light as it 1 up while plunging into atmosphere What he saw was himself "He said That's me that light finally going to be a space longtime friend Carol Rosin says Leary the inner-space traveler and prophet of LSD who died Friday at the age of 75 derided he wanted Celestis Inc of Houston to pack 7 grams of his ashes into an aluminum capsule the size of a lipstick and blast them into orbit Celestis a 2-year-old company that advertises space funerals for $4800 plans to launch the ashes of at least 15 people on its this foil hitchhiking on a commercial satellite launch The price includes a commemorative video of the Celestis says the ashes should orbit for Please turn to LEARY Pag 8A Rags design by Bruce SmHh IT 1 I at.