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Fulgham, 87, died May 12 of a central nervous system infection at a San Antonio long-term care facility.
A celebration of his life will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Rainbow Senior Center at Kronkosky Place in Boerne.
Fulgham never lived in the Dallas area but spoke here often on behalf of his son’s Urology Research Foundation.
Born on a farm near Grapeland, Fulgham grew up in Pasadena, where he graduated from high school in May 1945. He joined the Army Air Forces two months later and became a pilot before World War II ended.
In 1946, he joined the Air National Guard and entered the University of Houston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1950.
On April 16, 1947, he was headed to his pre-med classes in Houston when when he learned a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded in Texas City. He hitchhiked his way to the disaster scene, where he helped recover survivors and bodies.
“They did that for 24 hours,” his son said. Once the bodies were collected, he hitchhiked to Galveston to assist at the hospitals.
In 1952, he married Ruth Joyce Potts. Ruth Fulgham, who later taught in the Richardson schools for 30 years, died in 2011.
Fulgham flew 100 combat missions during the Korean War as an F-84 fighter-bomber pilot. He became a pilot-researcher at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. His unit explored the uppermost atmosphere — near space — with high-altitude balloons, before the U.S. developed suitable rocket boosters.
In 1958, he and four other veteran pilots were observed for five days in a 17-by-7-by-6-foot sensory-isolation capsule to measure the effects of tight quarters on astronauts.
“He told me that was one of the more harrowing things that he ever did. That’s a lot, coming from him,” Pat Fulgham said.
Fulgham took hundreds of high-altitude jumps to test escape systems for experimental aircraft, including the X-15 and XB-70, as well as for the Mercury and Gemini programs. He was the sole test parachutist on the X-20 Dyna-Soar escape system and pressure suit.
Most of Fulgham’s jumps were from a KC-135 aircraft.
“He never jumped from 100,000 feet, but he certainly jumped from the edge of the navigable atmosphere,” his son said.
On an early morning test flight on May 21, 1959, Fulgham was a pilot on a low-profile balloon test from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. He was injured when inclement weather forced an emergency landing in a field about 10 miles from Roswell.
Fulgham was pinned by the balloon’s gondola. Rescuers had to pry his helmet from his swelling head.
Fulgham’s nose was barely visible on his swollen face, his eyes swelled shut and black, his skin turned yellowish. A bandage wrapping his head created the image of the classic science-fiction alien. Days later, he returned to Ohio and his wife didn’t recognize him.
“He had a profoundly alien appearance,” his son said.
In 1961, Fulgham earned a master’s degree in human factors from the Air Force Institute of Technology program.
He returned to combat during the Vietnam War, piloting an F-4 Phantom for 100 missions over North Vietnam and 33 over Laos and Cambodia. In June 1967, he was shot down. He took part in Operation Bolo, during which seven Russian MIGs were shot down over North Vietnam. His honors included the Distinguished Flying Cross w...
He later earned a doctorate in experimental psychology from Purdue University and worked on flight simulators in Arizona.
He was a colonel and director of the medical research laboratory at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio when he retired from the Air Force in 1978.
Fulgham returned to civilian life as general manager of Technology Inc., a firm that supports Air Force research. Then he was director of biosciences and bioengineering at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio for 10 years. He formed his own consulting company in 1998.
In addition to his son, Fulgham is survived by his wife of more than 29 years, Dawn Armstrong Fulgham of Boerne; daughters Tracy Kaestner of Houston, Bonny Absher of San Antonio, Janet Clark of Albuquerque and Lorena Zuehl of Spring Branch; another son, Danny Fulgham of New Braunfels; Dawn Fulgham’s daughter, Misty Tho...
Wheeling Arts Fest participants are invited to join the Marian House Drop-In Center in creating a community mask display.
The theme for the display is “We Are All Individuals,” and the masks will be made through a process called face casting, which involves applying medical-grade plaster cloths to the faces of those who make the masks. These are the same plaster strips that doctors use to create casts for broken limbs. They take two to fo...
The public will have the chance to make a mask at the Wheeling Arts Fest, and those who create one can either add it to the community display or take the mask with them. Those who want to be part of the display can still choose to pick up their mask at a later date and location, or they can donate it to the Marian Hous...
The Marian House is a drop-in center on 18th Street for individuals diagnosed with a mental illness, run by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The purpose of the Marian House is to ease the isolation and stigma experienced by many individuals with a mental health diagnosis, and the mask-making project offered at ...
Benson went on to describe how the process of deciding the theme required the whole group of consumers to collaborate and reach consensus.
“Negotiating these types of decisions helps the members of the Drop-In Center learn assertiveness, problem-solving skills and collaboration. It helps them to accept themselves and other people better, and is part of the therapeutic process,” Benson said.
Benson hopes the mask-making project at the Arts Fest will help break down the barriers surrounding mental illness.
“Sadly, there is often a stigma that these individuals only take from society, but this activity puts them in a role where they give back,” Benson said. Benson described how this is another therapeutic benefit of the community mask-making project.
Benson acknowledged the Wheeling Arts and Cultural Commission, which offers the festival. “The Wheeling Arts Fest is now in its fifth year, and the Marian House is happy to have this opportunity for our consumers to participate in a community art event.
“We hope you will add your face to our display at the Wheeling Arts Fest!” she said.
San Angelo author Russell S. Smith has published a book about publishing books - "How I Published 4 Books in 6 Years (mistakes included)" (CreateSpace, $9.99 paperback).
In practical, down-to-earth terms, Smith tells about his experience of self-publishing four books (now five). The other four are: "The Gun That Wasn't There," "No Reason to Kill," "One Policeman's Lights and Siren" and "Steps into God's Country."
If you're interested in self-publishing, Smith's book is a good place to start.
"Writing books was a dream I didn't accomplish until my 50s," he writes. "However, the business of peddling books is something else altogether. It is a lot of work. If you have long dreamed of writing your own book, I'd suggest you do that - write it (in your own words). Then you can worry about editing, how to get it ...
The book is available online or by contacting Smith at fiftysixsouth@yahoo.com or calling 325-234-7407.
� Storyteller: San Angelo rancher and hunting outfitter Skipper Duncan loves to tell stories, and he has published his second book of yarns, "Tales Galore… and a whole lot more," following up on last year's "Characters and Critters: Hilarious Tales from a West Texas Rancher-Outfitter."
Both books are $19.95 paperback and you can get ordering information from his website, adobelodge.com.
"Tales Galore" includes more than 50 short, punchy, humorous tales, the kind that might be told around a campfire. The stories are grouped together under headings such as West Texas Lingo, Classic Insults, Dynamite Stories and Horse Trading.
"Humor seems to be an effective antidote for many ailments," Duncan says. "No matter how tense things get, a bit of humor always seems to help."
� Wildflowers: Willa F. Finley of Lubbock and LaShara J. Nieland of Odessa, who teamed up to write and photograph "Lone Star Wildflowers: A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants," published in 2009 by Texas Tech University Press, have followed up with a similar volume on "Land of Enchantment Wildflowers: A Guide to the Plant...
� Set in Texas: Iowa novelist Dorothy Garlock's latest historical romance, "Under a Texas Sky" (Grand Central Publishing, $30 hardcover), is obviously set in Texas.
It features young actress Anna Finnegan, who arrives by train in Redstone, Texas, in 1932 to shoot a movie and immediately collides with local blacksmith Dalton Barnes. Sparks fly. Troubles mount. Love is in the air.
Garlock, a native Texan, has had more than 50 novels published, many of them bestsellers. Read more about her at dorothygarlock.com.
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Los Angeles Kings’ forward Dustin Penner is returning the coveted Stanley Cup to his hometown today.
Penner will be in Winkler, Manitoba to show off the shiny piece of NHL hardware from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Southland Mall.
Fans will be able to get autographs signed and take a picture with the Cup.
Penner brought the Cup to Winkler in 2007 when he was part of the Anaheim Ducks organization.
The 29-year-old two-time Stanley Cup champion recently signed a one-year, $3.25 million contract to remain with the Kings.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - The families of murdered Slovak and Maltese journalists on Friday backed Romania’s former chief anti-graft prosecutor’s bid to become the EU’s first fraud prosecutor - against the wishes of her country’s government.
The EU wants to set up the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) next year to tackle graft, VAT fraud and other crimes involving the bloc’s multi-billion-euro joint budget, and Laura Codruta Kovesi is a frontrunner for the job.
During Kovesi’s five-year tenure as head of Romania’s DNA anti-corruption office, conviction rates for political graft jumped, drawing praise from the European Union, civil society groups and investors. But her EPPO bid is opposed by Romania’s ruling Social Democrats, who forced her out of the DNA last year.
Kovesi is backed by the European Parliament, while France’s candidate Jean-Francois Bohnert has already been named the preferred candidate of the Council of EU member states.
In an open letter to the EU Council on Friday, the families of murdered journalists Jan Kuciak, from Slovakia, and Malta’s Daphne Caruana Galizia urged member states to choose the Romanian.
They called her “the bravest and most distinguished candidate ... who has shown herself willing to bring charges forward when all other institutions within a member state have failed to act.
Caruana Galizia, who penned an anti-corruption blog, was killed by a car bomb near the Maltese capital Valletta in October 2017 - a murder that raised questions about the rule of law on the Mediterranean island.
Three men suspected of having been commissioned to carry out the killing have been arrested. They have pleaded not guilty.
Kuciak reported on fraud cases involving politically connected businessmen before he was found shot dead at home with his fiancee in February 2018. The murders, for which five people have been charged, stoked public anger over perceived corruption in Slovakia.
A Cambridgeshire dinner lady sacked for accidentally serving pork to a Muslim pupil is being backed by UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
Farage denied jumping on the political bandwagon by supporting Alison Waldock.
Ms Waldock said she forgot the dietary needs of the seven-year-old pupil when she asked if she wanted roast gammon, and the youngster said yes.
Mr Farage appeared on ITV's Daybreak this morning, saying the sacking was outrageous.
He said: "The reason that Alison's been sacked is that we're so terrified in this country of causing offence to anybody, particularly the Muslim religion.
Asked if he was jumping on a political bandwagon, he said: "No, I think it's important, because I think actually what's been happening with this whole politically correct agenda is lots of decent ordinary people are losing their jobs and paying the price for us being terrified of causing offence."
He added that there was nothing 'malicious or deliberate' about Ms Waldock's decision.
Inayat Bunglawala, founder of campaign group Muslims4UK, told the same programme that the sacking, for a one-off mistake, was, on the face of it, an overreaction.
He said: "If mistakes are made, then we'd expect employers to resolve this in a sensible manner."
"I am a bit concerned a leader of a political party would seek to make capital out of this, because it is a minor issue, it does need resolving.
"I'm concerned by Nigel saying people are becoming overly sensitive to Muslim communities, I think it makes it a far more divisive issue than it needs to be."
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by Rachael Daum on Dark Company: A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights by Gert Loschütz, from Seagull Books.
Rachael (with an “A-E”, thankyouverymuch) I believe it’s been mentioned before, is a former intern-student of Open Letter, and a great friend to and advocate for literature in translation. She won out in the mad grab to get her hands on this book to review: Seagull has been putting out some really exceptional stuff lat...
If you open Gert Loschütz’s new novel Dark Company expecting a clear answer as to who the titular dark company are, and why the protagonist’s grandfather warned him against them, you are sadly doomed to disappointment. Indeed, if you want a clear linear plotline neatly laid out, a consistent character set, or a steady ...
Dark Company is marked as a book “told in ten rainy nights.” In fact, each of the ten chapters opens with a different facet of a cold, rainy night: the rain itself, the chilling wind, the fog, or the artificial light that shines, but offers no comfort to those outside or inside. Indeed, as the book progresses, the weat...
For the rest of the review and more darkness and rain, go here.
A warning, you might find some of the images in this report disturbing.
Rescue workers in Mosul are still searching through bombed out buildings, seven months after the Iraqi government declared victory over ISIL in the city.
They've found more than 3,000 bodies, and there's still much work to do.
A group of volunteers is helping out, young people who despite the stench in the air and the emotional and security challenges, say they want to bring Mosul back to its old glory.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid reports.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – POLICE on St. Kitts are investigating another armed robbery; this time on Wellington Road in Basseterre.
According to a police communiqué, investigations revealed that at about 10:30 p.m. on Sunday (Apr. 7), three masked men, one of whom had what appeared to be a firearm, had entered a restaurant on Wellington Road and robbed the customers of an undisclosed sum of cash.
Investigations into this incident are ongoing and the police are once again asking members of the public who might have any information pertaining to the robbery to contact the Criminal Investigation Department at the Basseterre Police Station by dialling 465-2241, the nearest police station or the Crime Hotline at 707...
This is the third armed robbery in the twin-island Federation in as many days; two on St. Kitts and one on Nevis.
Police on Nevis had reported that sometime after 1:00 p.m. on Friday (Apr. 5), three armed masked men had confronted Ralph Ottley of Brazziers as he was about to enter the yard of his home.

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