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Five Texans Win Carnegie Hero Fund Medals
Five Texas men win bronze medals and support from the Carnegie Hero Fund Committee. Posthumous honors go to Elroy Gautreaux for a June 1962 Port Arthur sewage plant rescue. his son Todd receives the Medal and $500. Others are Kenneth Slough of Carrouzett, Reginald Beaty of Angleton, and Raymond Allen and Howard Brimer of Houston for rescues in Oklahoma and Texas, including saving youths from drowning and aiding boat rescues.
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Pittsburgh
Texas
Carnegie Hero Fund Committee
Elroy Gautreaux
Nederland
Kenneth “Slough
Carrouzett
Reginald Beaty
Angieton
Raymond Alien
Howard ‘Brimer
Houston
Gautreaux
Gary Johnson
Port Arthur
Johnson
Todd Gautreaux
Slough
James Collingsworth
Darrel Duke
Fort Supply
Okla
Bonnie Getz
Beaty
John Norsworthy
Angleton
Norswarthy