The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 54, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 3, 1988 Page: 12 of 30
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Sunday, January 3, 1988
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Military briefs
Pvt. Patrick C.R. Dade, son of
IPatricia A. and John W. Dade of
.‘Channelview, has completed
phasic training at Fort Dix, N.J.
During the training, students
£ received instruction in drill and
~£stfremonies, weapons, map
“ieading, tactics, military
rcourtest, military justice, first
""‘aid, and Army history and tradi-
tions. ......
He is a 1985 graduate of Chan-
£nelview High School.
ZZ Air Force Reserve Airman 1st
"Class John C. Hilbreth Jr., son of
; Susan D. Hilbreth of Baytown;
■^as graduated from the U.S. Air
■ Force heating systems course at
“-Sheppard Air Force Base.
«T During the course, students
-were taught to j operate and
Maintain heating systems from
,tgja§ space heaters to steam and
'hot water heating. They also
framed credits toward an
-associate degree through the
Community College of the Air
J'orce.
Z He is a 198C graduate of Robert
3E. Lee High School.
Pvt. Robert W. Frederick, son
of Robert G. Frederick of
Dayton and Peggy L. Frederick
of La Porte, has completed the
unit level communications main-
tainericourse at Fort Sill, Okla.
The unit level communication
maintainer troubleshoots and
repairs tactical' radio and field
wire equipment and systems to
include radioteletypewriter and
FM radio sets, wire and swit-
chboard equipment and other
electronic accessories. -
He > is a -1987 graduate of
Dayton High School.
Joel L. Koon Jr., son of Joel L.
and Sara J. Koon of Highlands,
has received the silver wings of
an Army aviator and was ap-
pointed a warrant officer upon
completion of the rotary wing
aviator course at the U.S. Army
Aviation School, Fort Rucker,
Ala.
The course provided training
in leadership and helicopter fly-
ing techniques as well as instru-
ment flying.
He is a 1979 graduate of Ross
S. Sterling High School.
Sgt. Frank L. Wood, son of
Emory C. and Evelyn S. Wood of
Baytown, has been decorated
with the second award of the Ar-
my Achievement Medal in West
Germany.
The Achievement Medal is
awarded to soldiers for
meritorious service, acts of
courage, or other ac-
complishments:^ ^
He is a missile systems
mechanic with the 3rd Air
Defense Artillery Brigade.
He is a 1984 graduate of Ross
S. Sterling High School.
Airman Kim Ellis, daughter of
Kenneth R. and Mary C. Gross of
Highlands, has graduated from
the U.S, Air Force missile
systems analyst course at
Chanute Air Forceikise, 111. —”
During the course, students
were taught to use consoles and
optical equipment for the
calibration of missile systems.
They also earned credits toward
an associate degree through the
Community College of the Air
Force.
She is a 1986 graduate of Chan-
nelview High School._
Fort Sill, Okla.
During the training, students
received instruction in drill and
ceremonies, weapons, map
reading, tahtics, military
courtesy, military justice, first
aid, and Army history and tradi-
tions. • , —......
He is a 1983 graduate* fitLa
Porte High School,
Airman Todd E. Bartek, son of
Walter J. Bartek Jr. of Spring
and Sandra K. Moore of
Baytown, has graduated from
the U.S, Air Force inventory
management course at Lowry
Air Force Base, Colo.
During the course, students
were taught property accoun-
ting, customer support, stock
control and equipment manage-
ment for a base supply system.
They also were taught to inven-
tory supplies using electronic
data processing machines. The
graduates earned credits toward
an associate degree through the.
Community College of the -Ain
Force.
He is a 1987 graduate of Klein
High School in Spring.
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Spec. 4 Patrick N. Croucher,
son of Clyde D. and Carole J.
Croucher of Channelview, has
been decorated with the Army
Achievement Medal in West
Germany.
The Achievement Medal is
awarded to soldiers for
meritorious service, acts of
courage, or other ac-
complishments.
He is an administrative
specialist with the 54th Engineer
Battalion."
He is a 1981 graduate of Chan-
nelview High School.
Pvt. 1st Class David C.
Anzaldua, son of Lucinda and
Jose A. Anzaldua of La Porte,
has completed basic training at
Pvt. Raymona V.D. Ates,
daughter of Gloria A. McFarian
of Baytown, has completed an
Army administration course at
Fort Jackson, S.C.
Students were trained in the
preparation of military records
and forms. Instruction was also
given in fundamentals of the Ar-
my filing system, typing and
operation of office machines.
She is a 1987 graduate of Ross
S. Sterling High School.
Christopher J. Roux, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Don Roux of
Baytown, has recently enlisted
in the Air Force’s Delayed
Enlistment Program. He is
scheduled for enlistment in the
Regular Air Force on June 23,
1988. Upon graduation from the
Air Force’s six-week basic train-
ing course at Lackland Air
Force Base in San Antonio he is
scheduled ; to receivq technical
training in the Mechanics Ap-
titude career field;. ‘
He will be earning credits
toward an Associate Degree in
Applied Sciences through the
Community College of the Air
Force while attending basic and
technical training schools.
He is a 1987 graduate of Robert
E. Lee High School.
Matthew S,Tekker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Larry J. Tekker of
Baytown, has recently enlisted
in the Air Force. Upon suc-
cessfully completing graduation
from the Air Force’s Six-week
basic training course at
Lackland Air Force Base in Sart
Antonio, he is scheduled to
receive technical training in the
-Electronics career field.
\ He will be earning credits
toward an Associate Degree in
Applied Sciences through the
Community College of the Air
Force while attending basic and
technical training schools;
He is a 1986 graduate of The
American School of the Hague,,
Tpe Netherlands High School.
jRussell W. Liles, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles W. Liles of
Dgyton, has recently enlisted in
the Air Force. Upon successfully
completing graduation from the
Air Force’s six-week basic train-
ing course at Lackland Air
Force Base in San Antonio, he is
scheduled to receive technical
training in the Medical Ad-
ministration career field.
He will be earning credits
toward an Associate Degree in
Applied Sciences through the
Community College of the Air
Force while attending basic and
technical training schools.
He is a 1987 graduate of
Dkyton High School.
- Michael L. Shipman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Shipman of
Devers, has recently enlisted in
the U.S. Navy for guaranteed
training at the Navy’s Interior
Communications Electrician
.school....,.............._
Enlisted under the Delayed \
Entry Program he will complete
high school before reporting for
active duty in August 1988 to
Recruit Training Center in San
Diego, Calif, where he will
undergo basic training.
Upon completion of basic.
training, he will begin 21-weeks
of schooling at San Diego, in the
interior communications field.
Interior Communications Elec-
tricians operate and repair the
electronic devices used in the in-
terior communications systems
— closed circuit television
systems, public address
systems, electronic
megaphones, and other announ-
cing equipment, as well as. the
gyrocompass systems.
Billy Russom, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James DuBose of Baytown,
pas recently enlisted in th&U.S,
Navy for guaranteed training at
the Navy’s Boiler Technician
school.
Enlisted under the Delayed
Entry Program, he will report to
Recruit Training Center in
Great Lakes, 111. in March 1988
for active duty, where he will
undergo basic training.
Following basic training, he
will begin 12-weeks of schooling
at Great Lakes, in the boiler
technician field. Boiler Techni-
cians operate and repair marine
boilers and fireroom machinery,
and they transfer, test, and in-
ventory fuels and water.
Because the propelling agent of
our large naval ships is steam,
the navy relies on boiler techni-
cians to keep its ships moving.
He is a 1987 graduate of Ross
S. Sterling High School.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - “If it
ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” •
A California consultant says
that’s poor business advice at a
|-time when industrial acciderits
and product-tampering ter-
rorists can ruin the reputation of
say billion-dollar corporation
without warning.
More and more corporations,
acknowledging that catastrophe
may occur, are planning
damage-control strategies
ahead of time, says Steven B.
Fink, who makes his living tell-
ing businesses how to survive
crises.1' ...
- In a 1985-survev of the Fortune
500 companies, "nine out of 10
said crisis in business is as in-
evitable as death and taxes,”
says Fink, the president, of Cen-
. fury City-based Lexicon Com-
munications, a public relations
firm that specializes in crisis
management,
“If Union Carbide’s carnage in
Bhopal, India, Johnson &
Johnson’s Tylenol poisonings
and the Ohio bank failures have'
taught the world anything, it’s
that a crisis in business can oc-
cur with little or no warning,
anywhere, anytime,” he says.
Fink learned his trade the
hard way — as spokesman for
Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thorn-
burgh during the 1979 disaster at
the Three Mile Island nuclear
plant.
Fink, 31 at the time, had bee:
press secretary just two month:
when the leak of radioactive ga
occurred. His state tourism pro-
ject swept aside, he was thrown
into a crisis management team.
‘»‘From our perspective, we
handled it veryyCvell in that we
calmed the fears of a panicked
public, whereas Metropolitan
Edison (the plant’s operators!
did a terrible job,” he says,
“They were withholding in-
formation and lying to the
public.”
Three Mile Island forever
altered the'way Fink viewed
crises. ' !
“I realized they are indeed
solvable and companies don’t
have to be victimized,” he says.
Communication is the ..key.
Oie of the most effective com-
munication devices set up dur-
ing the Three Mile Island crisis
was a rumor-control hot line
with a toll-free telephone
number.
i Fink credits a similar hot line
with helping create the relative-
ly smooth way Johnson &
Johnson handled the 1982
Tylenol crisis, when capsules
were found to be laced with
cyanide. In addition to
Establishing the consumer in-
formation line, the company also
recalled shipments of all cap-
sules anfl introduced tamper-
fr ee packaging.
In December 1985, the fifth
floor of what is now the Coast
Federal building in downtown
Los Angeles collapsed while
under construction, killing three
workmen.
Within 24 hours, the project’s
general contractor, San
Francisco-based Swinerton &
Walberg, brought Fink in to
organize a damage assessment
team and deal with the media.
The company came away clean
when it was determined that a
subcontractor had overloaded
the collapsed steel bay.
Swinerton also learned the
hard way. Four years before, the
company was involved in a
similar fiasco in which two
workmen were killed.
Because the company did not
practice good crisis manage-
ment and did not talk to the
media, Fink says, they were
heavily fined by the state.
“They had the book thrown at
them,” he says, including
manslaughter charges filed by
theJ county District Attorney’s-
Office.
Fink’s company was called in
to investigate. Four years later,
fault was again levied elsewhere^
and all charges and fines were
dropped or reversed.
“The point is, by talking open-
ly with the media and respon-
ding to the charges, the com-
pany came out a lot better, a lot
quicker, the second time
around,” Fink says.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 54, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 3, 1988, newspaper, January 3, 1988; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074756/m1/12/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.