Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 211, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 1978 Page: 1 of 40
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TEN THOUSAND — Easily Simmons of Brownwood was the
10,0006 person to ride out of Brownwood oa Eagle Airlines, the
“world's smallest airline.” Eagle has been ferrying Central
OFF AND RUNNING — Two contestants in
the Heart of Texas Rod Run Saturday par-
ticipate in the "Squat and pop” race at Com-
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Of fathers
Today ia Father's Day. and m >U ob-
servance, the Bulletin rolls out a
variety of features, one below, and
others featuring fathers who are
famous.
The baseball skills of teller Peto Rose
reflect just one sort of human ex-
cellence, suggests Ira Berkow A Rose
is a Rose is a Rose
By RICHARD MASON
Bulletin Staff Writer
The world’s smallest airline passed another
milestone Friday in its short, happy existen-
ce.
Eagle Airlines carried its 10,000th
passenger from Brownwood Municipal Air-
•+port with the fanfare that has characterized
the plucky commuter service since its
inaugural flight Dec. 1,1970.
Number 10,000 was Brownwood resident
Emily M Simmons, who was on her way to
Dallas, Los Angeles, the Orient and South
Pacific.
“I didn't know they had that many
passengers,” Mrs. Simmons said after
Brownwood Mayor Truman Harlow made the
announcement and awarded her a gift cer-
tificate. “I thought we were waiting while
they repaired the airplane. "
■“It’s a remarkable thing,” Mayor Harlow
said later. “The airline is a great service for
Brownwood.”
Eagle President Gerald James handed out
a selection of goodies to the passengers riding
on the flight including the official Eagle
Airline feather duster and usual fare of a
drumstock and sourdough biscuit, the plane's
inflight “meal.”
“History is being made in Brownwood
today,” Mayor Harlow said in his com-
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meree Square. The race was one of the ac-
tivities planned for the run, which concludes
today in Riverside Park. A related story on
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following eassay om Fathers Day ••• written by Erma
Bombeck, whose columa rm three time, a week U the Browiwood Bulletin Her
usual Sunday column is tound on page 1C today
When the good Lord was creating fathers He
started with a tall frame.
And a female angel nearby said. "What kind of
father is that? If You're going to make children
so close to the ground, why have You put fathers
up so high? He won’t be able to shoot marbles
without kneeling, tuck a child in bed without
bending, or even kiss a child without a lot of
stooping.”
And God smiled and said, “Yes, but if I make
him child-size, who would children have to look
upto?”
And when God made a father's hands, they
were large and sinewy.
And the angel shook her head sadly and said,
“Do You know what You’re doing? Large hands
are clumsy. They can't manage diaper pins,
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could contain herself no longer. “That’s not fair.
Do You honestly think those large boats are
going to dig out of bed early in the morning when
the baby cries? Or walk through a small bir-
thday party without crushing at least three of
the guests?”
And God smiled and said, “They'll work.
You’ll see. They’ll support a small child who
wants to 'Ride a horse to Banbury Cross,’ or
scare off mice at the summer cabin, or display
shoes that will be a challenge to fill. ”
God worked throughout the night, giving the
father few words, but a firm, authoritative
voice; eyes that saw everything, but remained
calm and tolerant.
Finally, almost as an afterthought, He ad-
added — tears. Then He turned to the angel and
'Said, “Now, are you satisfied that he can love as
much as a mother?"
The angel shutteth up.
small buttons, rubber bands on pony tails or even
remove splinters caused by baseball bats.”
And God smiled and said, “I know, but they’re
large enough to hold everything a small boy em-
pties from his pockets at the end of a day... yet
small enough to cup a child’s face."
And then God molded long, slim legs and broad
shoulders.
And the angel nearly had a heart attack. “Boy,
this is the end of the week, all right," she
clucked. “Do You realize You just made a
Father without a lap? How is he going to pull a
child close to him without the kid falling between
his legs?”
And God smiled and said. “A mother needs a
lap. A father needs strong shoulders to pull a
sled, balance a boy on a bicycle or hold a sleepy
head on the way home from the circus.”
God was in the middle of creating two of the
largest feet anyone had ever seen when the angel
memorative address.
Following the talk, Gerald James and the
Eagle crew unveiled a laurel wreath for the
airplane along the lines of those presented to
horses for winning the Kenturcky Derby.
“This one little, small airplane has per-
sonally carried all those passengers," James
said.
Later, seated in the relative security of the
airline office (relative because his name is
written in chalk on the plaque above the door-
way), James briefly reviewed the airline's
operation. Its six-day-a-week flights have
piled up a completion on-time record of 99.996
percent.
Despite a 50 percent increase in the number
of flights. Eagle is flying full or almost full
everytime it leaves the airport.
"We're going to have to add additional
capacity," James said.
Furthermore. James said an an-
nouncement is planned within the next 30
days of an additional city to the airline's
route
In the meantime, the company seems to be
content with its image of being the littlest
airline traveling to the world's biggest air-
port. Life is a little homespun around the of-
fice, James said.
When people ask about inflight meals, he
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★ It's your duty' Carter says *
By JAMES GERSTENZANG year and control of the water- way and permitted two large U.S Army’s Southern Com-
Associated Press Writer way by the year 2000. freighters, the Lberian Orien- mand, had maintained a very
FORT CLAYTON, Canal Zone The president spoke to booing tai Leader and the American high level at preparedness to
(AP) - President Carter said and general applause after tak- Apollo, to transit from the Pa- defend the canal "through a
Saturday that American citi- ing a 50-minute ride in a heli- cific Into the Caribbean. long and difficult period."
zens who deeply and emotion- copter along the length of the Carter and his wife, “I am not here to justify (the
ally oppose his Panama Canal canal, from the Pacific Ocean to Rosalynn, watched from a bal- treaties) or to suggest that if
treaties are duty-bound to turn the Caribbean Sea and back. It cony as the Apollo gilded past. you just underMood the treaties
over the waterway and the Ca- takes a ship 12 hours to make They ate lunch of shrimp and better you would like them," the
nal Zone they call home to Pan- the same trip one way. cold cuts in a scenic pagoda president said. "I know that you
ama as smoothly as possible. After his speech, Carter shook overlooking the canal before re- do understand them, because
"That is your duty, and the hands with some of the Zone turning to Washington. The for you they are not just a
people of both nations expect residents and came face to face president's plane, Air Force distant and impersonal foreign
nothing less,” Carter told sev- with a poster held by a man in One, departed Panama shortly policy abstraction, but
eral thousand American civil- the crowd. It showed before 3 p.m. EDT. something that alters your lives
ians, military personnel and Panamanian strongman Omar In his speech to the civilian in a direct and Immediate way
their families who live in this Torrijos and declared sarcasti- and military residents of the "A few of you will be leaving
narrow U.S.-administered strip cally "Re-elect President Car- Canal Zone, Carter said his visit the only place on earth you have
on both sides of the canal ter The Best President Pan- was “not to win you over to the ever called home. That to a hard
They have operated and de- ama Ever Had.” decision made by me and the and painful thing to do. The
fended the waterway for dec- As part of his first tour of the Congress" but to say their work adjustments and uncertainties
ades. canal, Carter ducked out of a was appreciated and that he you now face will not be easy."
The treaties Carter nego- heavy rain and into a control and Americans in general care The canal, he said, ’will in-
dated and came to Panama to tower at Miraflores Locks, about their future. creasingly be a place at Pan.
exchange yield control of the where he started motors that He said the military resi- amanlan employment. Some of
Canal Zone to Panama next changed the level of the water- dents, mostly members of the See PANAMA on Page 2-A
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