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BOVCC DITTO LIBRARY
P O BOX 39*
Mineral lAFeiis index
82nd Year Volume No. 58
One Section 10 Pages
A Newspaper Dedicated To The People It Serves
Moaday July 12,1982
Twenty Five Cents
Mineral Wells. Texas
Gloria Gilbert crowned 1982 Miss Texas
$20,000 wardrobe for the Miss America
best
Violent wind currents
may have caused crash
(Larry Crump Photo)
Queen calm during chat
of
with palace prowler
In the Morningside subdivision, where
Britain to return 593
Argentine prisoners
Weather
3,500
revue
won in the local pageant in February.
Though she did not win in the talent
competition this year in the Miss Texas
pageant, Gloria and Homer were
favorites with the audience during,their
Police
named
Dellow,
LONDON (AP) — Britain announced
today it is satisfied Argentina considers
hostilities ended In the undeclared war
over the Falkland Islands and said it will
return all remaining 593 Argentine
prisoners.
LONDON (AP) - Queen Elizabeth II
found a prowler sitting on her bed in
Buckingham Palace and chatted with
The queen’s husband, Prince Philip,
was sleeping in a separate bedroom at
the time of the incident, it said.
A Conservative Party member of
Parliament, Harry Greenway, said he
would question Home Secretary William
dirty T • shirt and jeans, was ordered
• held without bail pending trial. Scotland
Yard refused to say why Fagan was not
immediately charged with the second
break - in.
The spokesman, who declined to be
identified, said the message was received
Sunday through the Swim Embassy In
Buenos Aires, which has been looking
after British interests there since
Argentina Invaded Britain's Falkland
Islands colony April 2.
The men have been aboard the 8,987
• ton British passenger ferry St. Edmund
in Falklands waters for about a week. It
will sail for the Argentine port of Puerto
Madryn “as soon m detailed
arrangements have been made," the
Foreipi Office said.
Britain had been demanding that
Argentina formally acknowledge an end
to the 74 • day conflict before It would
release the last 593 of nearly 11,800
Argentines captured before the
surrender of the Argentine garrison at
Stanley, capital of the islands 250 milea
east of southern Argentina.
Other publications, including the
respected London Times, picked up the
Express report. The tabloid Mirror
newspaper said Police Commissioner Sir
David McNee was “farious” at the
breakdown in palace security, which
includes military units, police servants,
burglar alarms and dosed - circuit
television.
The Daily Express said an
unidentified intruder entered the
queen’s second - floor bedroom and sat
on her bed. The queen talked to him
quietly for about 10 minutes until she
gained his confidcence, then summoned
a footman on the pretence of getting
the prowler a cigarette, and the servant
hustled him away, the report said.
MINERAL WELLS AREA
— Mostly cloudy, continued
warm tonight and Tuesday
with low tonight in the mid
70s. High Tuesday in the mid
90s.
Wednesday through Friday
the forecast calls for clear
nights and partly cloudy days
with seasonably warm
temperatures. Lows 70s.
Highs in the 90s.
KENNER, La. (AP) - Cockpit
recordings from a Pan Am jet may show
whether the crew heard control tower
reports of potentially dangerous wind |
currents before the plane took off in a i
thunderstorm and crashed minutes later,
investigators say. <
The National Transportation Safety
Board said two wind shear alerts were
issued about a minute apart, 7% minutes
before Flight 759 crashed after takeoff
Friday just outside New Orleans, killing
all 145 people aboard and eight on the
ground.
But the board refused Sunday to
speculate whether wind shears -
unpredictable downward bursts of wind
that disrupt normal air currents - caused
the nation’s second - worst plane crash.
Jefferson Parish Coroner Dr. Charles
Odom said the identification of the
dead should be nearly finished today,
and the bodies released to relatives.
The victims, laid out in refrigerator
trucks in a huge Delta Air Lines hangar
at Moisant Airport, were examined by a
team of pathologists, medical experts
and the FBI’s identification unit
1982 Miss Texas
Gloria Gilbert, former Miss Mineral Wells and Miss Palo Pinto County was all smiles after being crowned 1982 Miss Texas
during Saturday night’s pageant finals in Fort Worth. She faces a busy schedule before competing in the Miss America Pageant
at Atlantic City in September. (See story)
number, “I’ve Been Everywhere.” _
But she did win the swimsuit
competition on Friday night in the
preliminaries.
And when she was named winner
over 74 contestants, the largest group
ever to compete in the Miss Texas
Pageant, Gloria received a standing
ovation from an appreciative audience.
The Miss Texas crown was the
culmination of a dream Gloria had had
since before she received her first
pageant crown at the age of 8 in the
Little Miss Mineral Wells contest.
The previous year she had ranked as
first runner • up in the Weatherford
Little Miss contest.
An avid pageant - watcher as a child,
Gloria realized she would have to
develop a talent to be able to participate
in the competitions. After watching
Shari Lewis perform with her puppet,
Lambchops,” Gloria decided on
ventriloquism, and she received her first
figure at the age of 7 as a Christmas
present.
She graduated to her sidekick,
Homer, about seven years ago, and has
performed extensively in the local area
for civic groups, at parties and banquets
and conventions and in talent shows and
pageants.
She has been a regular weekly
performer in the Johnnie High Country
Music Revue In Fort Worth for the past
year and was voted the female vocalist
of the year for 1981 by the
member country music
association.
Rated as among the
ventriloquists he’s seen, Magness says
Gloria’s unique talents will give her a
good shot at the Miss America title.
But besides her talent, Gloria is a
hard worker and went through a, be attending the Miss America Pageant
" in September at which a block of 50
seats will be* reserved. Local pageant
committee members will be accepting
reservations for the seats, and persons
wishing to attend should notify a
pageant member within the next two
weeks, Mrs. Slaton said.
breaking into the palace on June 7 and
stealing a half • bottle of wine. Police
said he was arrested inside the palace
main at about 3 a.m. Friday, apparently
after his late • night encounter with the
rigorous routine of weight lifting,
exercising, suntanning, dieting and
speech training to prepare for the Miss
Texas pageant
As winner, Gloria will receive a full
one - year scholarship to North Texas
State University, a car, a $15,000 to
dry cleaning, and $25,000 in jewelry
from Zales Jeweler's, among other
prizes.
While she fulfills her Miss Texas
committments and prepares for the Mae
America Pageant Gloria will continue
her education as a radio, TV and film
major.
A 1980 graduate of Millsap High
School where she was dass Salutatorian,
Gloria attended Weatherford College for
a year and then transferred to Texas
Christian University where she carries a
3.80 grade point average.
With her sights set on the Miss
America Pageant Gloria is determined
to represent her state as best she can.
“Ill do the best I can do and thatk all I
can do,” she said.
Sharing the spotlight Saturday night
with Gloria were the four runners - up
who included Belinda Moreland, Miss
Greenville, first runner > up; Dana
Rogers, Miss Haltom - Richland Area,
second runner • up; Kerri Coats, Miss
Lubbock, third runner - up; and Cindy
Green, Miss Hurst - Euless * Bedford,
fourth runner - up.
Miss Lubbock, Kerri Coats, is a
former Mineral Wells resident who
captured the Little Miss Mineral Wells
title when she was 9 years old.
Also acquitting henelf well in the
Miss Texas competition was Miss
Mineral Wells, Sonna Warveil.
Although Sonna did not place in the
finals, she was chosen to perform at the
finals Saturday night with her trick
roping act that won the special judges*
award for the best variety act.
That award netted Sonna, a student
at West Texas State University, a $550
scholarship.
Her performance was the second in
the history of the Miss Texas Pageant in
which a non - finalist was asked to
perform at the finals.
A contingency of local residents will
of the Argentine forces on the
Falklands, will be returned “as soon as
possible," the Foreign Office
announcement said.
The 200 nautical mile war zone
imposed by Britain around the
Falklands will remain in effect pending
“farther consideration,” as will the 12 -
mile blockade along the Argentine coast
and British economic sanctions against
Argentina, the announcement said.
The Foreign Office referred today to
593 prisoners. Previously, Britain had
said it was holding 590 Argentines.
There was no explanation for the
change.
Earlier, a Foreign Office spokesman
said the government was studying
Argentina’s reply to a request for formal
confirmation that the undeclared war in
the South Atlantic was over.
9ueen- 51, to investigate security breaches at hostilities are at an end.”
The defendant, who appeared in the palace following the fifth intrusion The prisoners, including Brig. Gen.
court Saturday barefoot and wearing a in the past 12 months. Mario Benjamin Menendez, commander
him for 10 minutes to keep him calm
until she could summon a footman to
take him away, the Daily Express
reported today.
It said the 56 - year - old monarch
was unharmed and “unruffled by her
ordeal.”
“The queen was very brave,” the
Express quoted an unidentified senior
police detective as saying. “By being
calm she did not alarm the man - or he
would have panicked and it might have
been a completely different story.”
The report of the bizarre encounter
Friday prompted calls from legislators
for a government inquiry into security
for the royal family. Workmen spent the
weekend stringing barbed wire atop the
old iron spikes on the brick wall around
Buckingham Palace.
A palace spokesman appeared to
confirm the Daily Express report,
saying: “We cannot add any more
(because) a man has been charged.”
Once a person is charged with an
offense under British law nothing can be
reported about the suspect beyond what,
is said in court.
Police said Michael Fagan, a 30 - year j
- old vagrant, was charged Saturday,with Whitdaw today In the House of
. _ Common, on whether security is
adequate for the royal family.
Scotland Yard said
Commissioner McNee had
Assistant Commissioner John
The announcement came a month
after the surrender of Argentina forces
on the Falklands June 14, a period in
which fighting had stopped but Britain
waited for Argentine assurances that
hostilities in the South Atlantic were
over.
The Foreign Office announced that
following an exchange of messages and
“various other indications,” Britain is
now satisfied that “the Argentine
government accepts that active
to consider
course changes
The Mineral Wells 1SD board
trustees will discuss plans for the 1982 *
83 school year that may involve
curriculum changes at their 6:15 p.m.
meeting Tuesday in the school
administration office, 102 N.W. 6th
Ave.
Other items to be discussed include _
repairs to the buildings, roofing bids for the background noise.
the high school dome, student in the Morningside subdivision, where
insurance, approval of the high school the plane devastated 11 houses along a
handbook, 1981 82 budget quarter • mile strip, the process of
amendments, and routine business. demolition continued.
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INDEX
Classified ..........4-6
Sports 3
Comics 7
Dear Abby 10
Bridge .............7
Crossword Puzzle ......10
Astrograph 7
Lifestyles 8-10
TV Log : .7
Obituaries 2
Las Vegas, Nev., and San Diego.
NTSB spokeswoman Barbara Dixon
said it was possible the crew never heard
the wind shear alerts. The pilot could
have switched radio frequencies from
ground control, which governs taxiing
planes, to local control, which instructs
takeoffs and landings, she said.
But the presence of wind shear alone
does not warrant cancellation of a
flight, said NTSB vice chairwoman
Patricia Goldman. Investigators will
learn more when the “Hack box”
cockpit voice recording is processed by
an FBI lab, she said.
The recorder's container was
damaged by fire after the crash. The
tape was not affected, but it contains
background noise, such as sounds of the
plane’s windshield wipers, and the
quality Is poor, Mrs. Goldman said.
Investigators plan to use sophisticated
recording equipment to try to eliminate
By Sue Sterling
Staff Writer
Gloria Gilbert, the new Mm Texas,
May have represented Palo Pinto
County in the 1982 pageant, but local
folks are going to have to share the
gtunning miss with the rest oflhe state,
Ind hopefully, the rest of the country,
as she prepares for the Miss America
Pageant in Atlantic Qty, NJ. in
September.
Gloria’s manager, Vicki Slaton, said
today that the very excited, but also
Wry tired, beauty queen has been
Spirited away by Miss Texas Pageant
officials who will keep her “under lock
and key” for probably a month before
tiw will be able to return to the county.
Gloria moved in with pageant
chairman B. Don Magness and his family
^Sunday, and will undergo a week of
review of the judge’s critiques, her
wardrobe and her act before moving in
with official pageant chaperone June
Graves next week.
Meanwhile, an elaborate homecoming
is being planned by local pageant
, committee members for Gloria, with
Miss Texas pageant officials, franchise
holders and contestants to be among the
special guests.
While the Miss Texas crown is
securely in place on Gloria’s golden
brown curls, Mrs. Slaton, who shared
the Miss Texas suite with Gloria
Saturday night, said the newly crowned
winner was still having trouble believing
that her lifelong dream had come true.
At a news conference on Sunday,
Gloria told reporters she did not think
she had placed. “I was so happy for the
other girls it took me a minute to realize
that they had called out Palo Pinto
County.”
While the 20 - year - old ventriloquist
, may have been surprised at her win,
observers had believed that Gloria had
an excellent chance of capturing the
title this year, her second in the pageant
competition.
Last year, Gloria was first runner - up
Jp the pageant and won the preliminary
T^went competition with her “figure”
Homer. Though she could not compete
as Mas Mineral Wells again this year, the
pageant committee took out a second
franchise to keep Gloria close to home
as Miss Palo Pinto County, the title she
“There probably will be some that
will be almost impossible to identity,
but once the fingerprints are in,
indications are 90 percent will be
identified,” Odom said.
The flight of the Boeing 727
originated in Miami and was headed for
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