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A Newspaper Dedicated To The People It Serves
82nd Year Volume No. 12
One Section 10 Pages
Tuesday, May 18,1982
Twenty-Five Cents
Mineral Wells, Texaa
Flooding causes
kills 7 persons
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(Index Photo)
High Water
Thatcher convenes war cabinet
department Lt.
the
Emergency room care
Police nab early
tops PPG board meet
morning 'shopper'
the
Inside
DPS reports
22 accidents
Disaster team surveys Wichita Falls
the
on
blaze apparently
room sofa and
Flood waters lapped at the doors of downtown businesses at around 7:30 a.m.
today as 1.3 inches of rain pelted the already soggy area in just over an hour. The
photo above was taken against the Perry Bros, building at 221 North Oak. The curb
was virtually indistinguishable as. flood waters carried debris and large rocks down
days swept through a two - story home
today, killing seven people and injuring
another, officials reported.
off West Mountain and into the streets. Numerous vehicles flooded out as a result
of the high water on S.E. 7th Street, S.E. 6th Avenue, S.E. 1st Avenue and near the
Department of Public Safety office North of the Holiday Inn.
lightning struck transformers and high
winds knocked down utility poles.
Authorities said heavy rains caused
minor flooding in parts of north
Houston and brief power outages for
several thousand homes.
Northeast Memorial Hospital in
Houston was flooded with several inches
of water on ground floors and a
transformer was knocked out by
lightning. But officials said none of the
two dozen patients had to be moved
and an emergency generator supplied
power to the hospital.
Three tornadoes were reported in
West Texas early Monday. Twisters were
spotted near Snyder and near Silverton
and a tornado was sighted on radar near
Justiceburg in the Abilene area. An
were among about 5,000 residents who
were evacuated during the last week
because of Holliday Creek flooding.
Authorities said the recovery effort
there was hampered by another 2.04
sewer water for approximately 18
hours.
No damage was reported at the
Willow Creek Plant other than “clean •
up** of debris brought in by water.
At the water treatment plants,
torrential rains created a muddy flow of
incoming water after the near • flooding
of sources. Daugherty explained that
the feeding of more chemicals into the
water during the treatment process has
helped settle mud and dirt.
One pump at the South Water
Treatment Plant was .damaged when
water penetrated into it. The electric
motor in the pump was later rebuilt
Daugherty concluded: “The other
problems created by heavy rains
consisted mainly of manholes floating
off with the accumulated water, causing
overflow of sewer lines. One line was
washed out where the water line crosses
the creek on Highway 180 West. There
were two small, two - inch water lines
washed out in creeks in the north and
northeast parts of town.’’
blamed on careless
smoking, said fire
reflooding many streets that had been
draining after the first storm last week.
A flood warning remained in effect for
the city.
Mayor Gary Cook said more than
2,000 homes were damaged and six
were destroyed in floodwaters. Many
were victims of a tornado that
devastated the same part of the city in
April 1979.
Near Uvalde, 27 • year - old Thomas
P. Lewis and 2 - year - old Roland Hollis
Phillips III, both of Uvalde, drowned
when Lewis* car was swept off a Nueces
River bridge about 9 pan. Sunday.
Witnesses said the boy’s mother,
Cindy Phillips, swam to safety. Lewis
by commitments made.’’
Haig spoke after the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization foreign minister
conference renewed support for
War correspondent John Witherow of
the London Times reported from the
aircraft carrier Invincible that Sea
Harrier jets in Monday’s raids dropped
1,000 • pound bombs fused to explode
50 feet above ground. He said they were
effective against many targets, including
parked planes.
There were no reports on results. But
naval briefing officers said planes
dropped bombs near troop
emplacements, Witherow reported.
The British Defense Minister said the
Sea King helicopter forced to ditch
“was not the result of any action
involving Argentine forces.” It said that
none of the rescued crew was hurt.
The Sea King was the fifth helicopter
the British have admitted losing through
bad weather or accidents since the fleet
sailed from Britain April 5.
Donald Crouch.
Crouch said
started on a living
quickly spread up a stairwell.
“The house is pretty much wiped
out,” he said.
The victims were identified as Jean
Moore, 36, her five children; Alicia
Brand, 1; Duke Brown, 6; Renee Moore
8; Rosetta Brand, 11; Darlene Moore,
21, and a visiting friend Jerome Dotsun
35.
Palo Pinto General Hospital directors
will continue discussion on a proposed
program to provide 24 * hour coverage
of the hospital emergency room when
the board meets at 6 p.m. tonight in the
hospital dining room.
Hospital Administrator Mfke Slaton
was authorized by directors at the last
board meeting to continue negotiations
with Emergency Physicians Group Ltd.
of Chicago, which would provide board
certified emergency room physicians to
staff the facility.
The hospital staff was to meet after
the last session to sign over the local
physicians’ interest in the Medical
Emergency, Inc., a corporation of local
doctors who are now making monthly
contributions to help pay emergency
room physicians provided through
Emergency Medical F*
Systems. Chief of Staff Dr. R.D. Messer
told the board the physicians are finding
Downpours during the past week
have created flooding difficulties at city
sewer plants and water treatment
facilities, said water and sewer
superintendent Lloyd Daugherty.
According to Daugherty the sewer
plants picked up the incoming water “to
a point that the plants were almost
overflowing.”
He added that the Pollard Creek Plant
handled the excess water, “but had
there been more, it would have been
impossible at the rate at which the
water was coming in." No damage was
reported at that plant.
However, there was an overflow at
the Rock Creek Plant that produced
“minimal” damage to a small electric
motor. That motor was rewound and
has since been put back into service.
A flooding situation almost occurred
at the Willow Creek Sewer Plant, where
waters almost reached the top of the
diversion dam. “We were prevented
from discharging water into Willow
Creek,” said Daugherty. “This caused us
to have to hold all of the incoming
The 4 a.m. fire that left four children
and three adults dead in northwest
Baltimore was
Texas had been entered some time
between 8 p.m. and 1 a.m.
Brock was finally apprehended at
about 1:15 a.m. and charged with the
burglary of a building. The arrest was
made at the 900 block of SE 1st Ave.
following the chase.
Recovered from the shopping cart
were two cases of Michelob beer, six 12
- packs of Budweiser beer, 34 loose cans
of Budweiser, 10 six packs of Coon
beer, 28 loose cans of Coon, six loose
bottles of Schlitz beer and a can of
Fisher mixed nuts.
A governor’s office disaster team
planned today to tour flood - ravaged
Wichita Falls, where 500 people
remained homeless because of torrential
rains that caused an estimated $25
million in damage there and killed five . inches of rain that fell Monday,
people in South Texas.
More scattered thunderstorms, some
severe, were forecast across the state
today and thunderstorm and flash flood
watches were issued for much of North
and South Texas.
The bodies of a 2 - year ■ old boy and
a 27 - year - old man, who drowned
when a car was swept off a bridge six
miles north of Ulvade, were recovered
Monday. Three other people drowned in
rising floodwaters caused by a seven -
inch rain in San Antonio.
Authorities said 52 people who had
returned to their homes in Wichita Falls
Monday fled to shelters again. They
Rainfall Report
Area rainfall reports over the past
24-hour period ending at 9:30 a.m.
today are as follows:
S.E.M.W...........
A Sea King helicopter with Britain’s
Falkland Islands war fleet ditched in the
stormy South Atlantic today because of
technical problems, but the Defense
Ministry said its four - man crew
bailed out and was rescued by another
chopper.
No other incidents were reported
today around the islands. But British
warplanes bombed Argentine troop
positions around the capital of Stanley
on Monday, and Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher said she will make no
more concessions at U.N. peace talks to
settle the six • week crisis. ’
Mis. Thatcher held more talks with
her inner “War Cabinet” today on
military options in case this week’s U.N.
talks fail. On Monday she reportedly
gave Argentina 48 hours to make peace.
“Negotiations’ cannot continue
indefinitely,” said “War Cabinet”
member Cecil Parkinson, chairman of
the ruling Conservative Party. “We now
have the seventh draft of the different
proposals we have put to the Argentines
and I believe the time has come for
decisions.”
He also said Britain was disappointed
the present program, “a thom in
side,” and wanted to discontinue it.
Under the present system,
emergency room is staffed only
nights, weekends and holidays when
local physicians are not normally in the
hospital.
Administrators estimated it would
take several months to finalize the
contract with the Chicago firm after the
directors were assigned the MEI by the
physicians.
In other action, the board will hear a
report from the building committee;
discuss a proposed hospital
identification system; discuss a Zonta
Club donation, hospital liability and
malpractice insurance; hear the chief of
staffs report, consider write - offs of
Management uncollectible and charity accounts; and
discuss any unfinished business or new
business to be brought before the board. /
tried to swim with the boy, but never
made it to shore, authorities said.
About seven inches of rain fell in San
Antonio in the last two days, trapping
motorists in floodwaters and washing
some off bridges.
Sandra Bustamente, 17, was killed
when her car was swept away after it
stalled in high water.
And 18 - year - old Dawn Hamilton
was killed when her pickup was washed
over a bridge in western Bexar County.
Hie body of Michael Murray, 27, who
tried to help the woman start her truck,
was also recovered.
Murray’s brother said he was wading
back to his pickup to get a rope when
Mia Hamilton’s truck and the two
victims disappeared beneath the _________
floodwaters. apparent tornado destroyed a house on
San Antonio officials reported a Wilbarger County ranch, but no
widespread power outages because of injuries were reported.
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Sergeant F.E. Johnson, area
supervisor for the Texas Highway Patrol
in Palo Pinto County, reported that
troopers investigated a total of 22
accidents, county - wide between Jan. 1
and April 30 this year.
There was only one fatality in one of
those accidents, with another 10
persons sustaining injuries in 10 other
accidents. The fatality occurred in a
motorcycle accident north on US 281
on April 30.
In District 5A, which includes the
northern - most 29 counties of North
Central Texas, there were 295 wrecks
investigated. Nine of these were fatti
accidents with 12 people killed,
according to Highway Patrol Captain
BiHy Melton. Another 106 people were
casualties in 108 accidents involving
injuries, and property was damaged in
178 cases.
at the failure of its nine European of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. said the Britain’s position in the conflict and
Economic Community partners to fully United States stands fully behind Britain condemned what they called Argentine
renew the one - month trade sanctions in the crisis and intends to “abide fully “aggression ”
against Argentina. Seven nations - - -
renewed sanctions for a week Monday
night but Italy and Ireland declined.
But in Luxembourg today, Secretary
problems for
sewer plants
A Caldwell, Texaa man was arrested
early Tuesday after police officers
reportedly observed him pushing a
shopping cart full of beer down S. Oak
Ave.
Larry Preston Brock, 21, allegedly
abandoned the cart of golden brew and
ran when officers stopped to investigate
his presence on the street just after 1
a.m.
Policemen reportedly pursued Brock
down a nearby drainage canal. In the
meantime, other officers were
dispatched to the area to attempt to
discover the source of the . beer
recovered from the cart.
At 1416 S. Oak it was allegedly
found that the back door to the salvage
grocery warehouse of Harmon’s of
Second major
row house fire
BALTIMORE (AP) — The second “Hie victims were sleeping but had
major row house fire in this city in four awakened and were trying to escape but
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department Capt Patrick Flynn said.
“A smoke detector would have saved
them,” Flynn said. “There’s no doubt”
He speculated that heat from the
blaze awakened the victims but that
“they just didn’t have enough lead
time” toescape.
Injured in the blaze was a firefighter
who was treated at the fire department
infirmary for first • and second • degree
bums on the back of his neck.
The fire broke out just a few hours
after a Monday night memorial service
for 10 people who died Saturday
morning when a candle ignited a sofa In
another row house.
Among the victims of that blaze on
Saturday were seven children.
MINERAL WELLS AREA
— Partly cloudy with areas of
late night and early morning
fog or low clouds through
Wednesday. Low in the 60s.
High in the 80s.
Partly cloudy Thursday.
Scattered
showers
and
thunderstorms
Friday,
becoming more numerous
Saturday. Seasonally warnr
Lows 60s. Highs 80s.
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