Byline: David Hendricks
Oct. 3--WYATT'S PENALTY SWEET: Oscar Wyatt Jr. is going to jail.
Just typing those words seems bizarre. That was the scream headline the San Antonio afternoon newspaper editions in 1977, not 2007, wanted to publish but could not.
Wyatt was public enemy No. 1 in San Antonio three decades ago. Elected officials and City Public Service customers alike were howling at his Houston company's breach of contract to deliver natural gas here.
Utility customers were hurting, paying painfully high natural-gas bills. Lo-Vaca Gathering Co., a subsidiary of Wyatt's Coastal States Gas Corp., had contracted to deliver natural gas for 23 cents per ...