My name is Bill Broughton Aka BB . Worked with Jack for several years at McClelland Engineers in Houston. We were Drillers taking soil samples for the company. We worked onshore,, offshore and in foreign countries. All the guys called Jack by his last name Hawk Later on His CB handle was Mud Bug. All of the guys liked to drink after a hard day's work. Hawk and I were leading 2 drilling crews on a project LOOP near Golden Meadow,Louisiana. We were working in the marsh and stayed at Roland's Motel in town. Any way there was a lounge (Stagecoach) right at the entrance to the property where we were working.
We stopped there alot and drank quite a few beers. We got to know the owner
Harris quite well. He told us he had an apartment for twelve dollars a night. So we moved from Roland"s to there. It was a six unit complex mostly occupied by offshore workers. A guy called Sailor was our next day neighbor. Anyway early one morning about 5 I smelt
smoke. Had trouble getting Jack out of bed but finally did . We went outside and sure enough there was smoke coming from Sailor's room. I called the fire department while Jack Was knocking on Sailors door. He finally woke up. He ran outside in his birthday suit
with a panicked look on his face.. He fell asleep while smoking and caught the mattress on fire. Fire department got there in about 30 minutes. They threw a suction hose in a bar ditch and a very small stream of water came out ,prompting Hawk to say:-- I can PEE a stream stronger than that!! Any way the whole place burned down!! Moral of this story dont smoke in bed This all Happened in 1977.
Hawk was a great friend I am sure he is in Heaven telling people how to take core samples and drive trucks !!!
