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Local Area News 2-4r7C Oil Agriculture 6C SAN ANGELO STANDARD-TIMES Wednesday July 20 1994-1 Long wait for local calling over Water Valley Angelo telephone charges changed by customer vote By JESSICA DeLEON Stiff Writer Water Valley telephone customer! have overwhelmingly approved i measure that will give them accesa to San Angelo and Carlsbad without having to pay long distance charges In addition San Angdosns will he able to call Water Valley and Carlsbad without kmg distance fees The vote counted last week was 97 percent In favor for access to San Angelo and 968 voted for access to Carlsbad said Joe Williams foe Western Division Coor a proposed rate of less than $3 JO per line and businesses will have to pay less than 7 per line The actual rate will be determined by the Public Utilities Com-mission by foe end of August Demere said she had no problem paying for the new fee "That is nominal to she said She added that her ranch currently receives telephone' bills with three or four pages listing calls made to San Angelo been wanting it for years and years" added her mother-in-law Jean Demere dinator for GTE Seventy percent of foe recent ballots had to he in favor of foe proposal for it to pass Williams was unable to say how many bat lots were turned in because an outside company handled the results Residents who voted for foe proposal were happy with the results "I think Just Water Valley resident Monica Demere said "I know going to save a lot of To obtain the service Water Valley customers will have to pay She added that they do most of their shopping in San Angelo and making appointments and other calls required a kmg distance charge glad to have a little bit back" die added Williams said foe next step is to set up a schedule for implementation The schedule will include dates for engineering wok order completion and foe in- service date No dates have been set for the implementation schedule but Williams said it could be completed by foe end of foe year r'Sf HERE 'MEN ROM ftANEt EARTH tnrvt iwnkr tup wrai flrt5EtfOOr VOK-THEtl: S' La tv- gp --V 'i -j 1 i Jr rf5-- I i- i rjP '-STi A- -1 'V-AW Vi r- -'5 I' a SfiJ Ht-' Li 4--- jt ft I 'z S-T Photo by Matthew Minard This is a replica of the plaque left on the moon by astronauts Dreams of space travel now distant memories We sit out on our deck watching foe sky when my 6-year-old asks: are we going to the The in the news and for a 20th-century 6-year-old an things seem possible Want to phone Grandma on the other ride of town? Push a few buttons Want to watch soccer from the other ride of the world? Push a button If you cu wrestle the remote control awayfromDad kmg would it take to drive to the foe 6-year-old asks Too long I think Longer than the drive to El Paso and far too long drive I explain if you could it would be a long "Farther than Six Imagine how long it would take to drive to Six Flap and then stand in line for the Bob Sled ride about how long it would take to get to the moon "And there are no along the way either" I add for emphasia The thought sobers the 6-year-old and she thinks about that for a while Not long ago I pulled out my walk" scrapbook and shared it with my young daughters Showed them the pictures of foe first walk old newspaper stales a souvenir copy of the plaque the men left on the moon The girls impressed by my scrapbook there a they asked There is I think of foe grainy black-and-white video that transfixed us 25 years ago and wonder how it would play to a kindergarten generation that considers an "old High drama for us An ancient myth for them How can I explain the speed-of-light excitement of foe 1960s space program when the current space biggest news is a dead newt? Back then my brothers and I lived foe lives of wannabe astronauts We read all of weird old Robert science fiction built plastic models of lunar landers and dreamed of rockets to Mars Later we made a pilgrimage to Mission Control in Houston (looked much bigger and more exciting on TV) traveled to Austin to see a display of moon rocks and touched a Mercury space capsule at a Fat Worth museum We even drove to a Lampasas Junkyard to gawk at an spacecraft toilet" that may or may not have been flushed in space It for sale Somewhere through the years though my interest in the space program flzxled and faded growing colder than Pluto's moons If" Pluto has moons you even want to go to the moon the 6-year-old Stan Kent gets into costume for a taping of a 91V episode re-enacting his mountain bike accident at a ranch outside of Blackwell His wife Nancy Harvfeux (left) and makeup artist Rene BristerChambers (right) size a halo around Kent's the same one that was used for his inury Cameraman Ron Hill and Daniel Clear set up lights for the taping captures re-enacted fall the time it was over I a pleuant person to be with" After wearing foe "halo vest" Kent wore a cervical collar for six weeks to ensure that his neck had healed Once recovered Kent wu able to participate in foe taping which began last week and ended Monday In the re-enactment Kent plays himself with a stuntman filling in for foe dangerous scenes give the meuage that I was wearing a helmet and the importance of wearing a Kent said someone sees foe show buys a helmet and wears it it's worth ease He was so sick he said he thought he would die while in the hospital Since his second life-threatening situation he said he is Just relieved to be back to nor-maL While Kent was recovering from the fall he wu confined to a device called a "halo for three months The vest is a kmg metal contraption designed to hold the neck into place It extends from the forehead to the waist and is permanently affixed to foe body by four pins which are literally screwed into the skull "I wu extremely happy when they took it off" Kent said "By in foe fan Doctors said if rescuers handled him properly Kent could have died or become paralysed Instead he has fully recovered and seems unaffected by the incident "It really (affected Kant said not really sure why There are only two things I can attribute to that it vu foe second time for me to have a near-death experience and at no time did I fed endangered (after the fan)" first with occurred several years ago when he contracted dis San Angeloan recalls her role in putting astronauts on moon And I suddenly realise that I Now enough to watch it peeking through our pecan trees playing hide-and-seek with clouds on a hot July night Now it's enough to watch it rise while listening to a symphony of cicadas serenading the soft summer breeze Now Earth's enough for me But for her? "Do you want to go to the moon?" I ask the 6-year-old as we sit on the deck studying the sky "Not now" she says "Not if farther than Six Flags Bui maybe Someday Maybe By KACEE HARGRAVE Staff Writer A earners crew for foe CBS series "Rescue Ml" has gotten its footage and is ready to begin edit-ing its latest segment called Biking Blowout" which was being taped in San Angelo and Blackwell over the past several days show recreates an accident Involving San Angelo resident Stan Kent who fell 15 feet down an embankment and a remarkable rescue by his fellow cyclers and local paramedics Kent survived but sustained a broken neck Hartman trial begins with police witness By ARMANDO RIOS JR Staff Writer £The involuntary manslaughter trial of TTavis Hartman of Iraan began Tuesday in a courtroom filled with family members of both Hartman and Robert Allen Ullrich foe man who died in a Nov 5 1993 accident Hartman is charged in connection with the death of Ullrich of Wan who died Nov 5 while the two allegedly were racing their pickups north of San Angelo on Tessa Highway 206 The trial continues today in district court -tTesas Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Treece said Hartman wu over the center line in a no-passing area at a curve when Ullrich attempted to pass him and both of their pickups bumped1 In the opening arguments the prosecution said Hartman's truck bumped while the defease argued it was the other way around vehicle bumped Treece who spent most of the 1st Texas Calendar By JENNY STRASBURG Staff Writer In 1969 in an office building in Greenbelt Md one San Angelo woman filled a supporting role in connecting the Earth with the moon Thou Greenbelt offices held the Federal Systems Division of Univac which had contracted with NASA to link Apollo 11 and several flights 1 before and after that one with mission control at NASA's Manned Space Center in Houston From 14 land-based and four shipboard situ worldwide Univac provided communications between the United Statu and foe spacecraft being watched by the whole world Terry Hawkins a San Angeloan for foe last 17 years wu project secretary at the time overseeing administrative dutiu for about 170 people who were supervising the computer communications network She remembers computer operators perfuming around-the-clock tests on programs over and over again with no tolerance for bugs or glitchu is very stressful to worry about mistaku in a computer when the computer is sending men' to foe moon" she said "We were responsible tor an the astronauts that went up" When something with foe system did go wrong NASA in Houston often would find solutions at the Univac office in Greenbelt Hawkins Please tee TERRY Page SAN ANGELO TODAY Noon "Fueling Your High-Powered Lifestyle" seminar sponsored by Angelo Community Hospital Health Club of San Angelo Classroom 3 3336 Loop 306 Cost $8 for ACH employees and Health Club and 55Plus members Others will be For information call Obidinskl at 947-0961 a 1:30 pm today through Saturday All-American Hereford Expo Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry speaking at 1 :30 pm Rocking Chair Ranch near Fort McKavett pm Leadership San Angelo Alumni Association an- nual meeting Meor Que Nads restaurant Heavy hors and cash bar available Pteaie tee CALENDAR Page I S-T Photo by AAatthew Minard Terry Hawkins who worked on the Apollo mission in Maryland displays her picture album of astronauts Please tee TRIAL Page 2C £-nSf-Ar.