The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 251, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 19, 1981 Page: 22 of 72
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HOUSTON (AP) -
Workers toiled for more
than eight hours to make
sure nobody was buried in
the collapse of a parking
garage that sent tons of
steel, concrete and flat-
tened cars crashing
through the bowels of the
three-story building north
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Crews began working
shortly after the noon-
time cave-in Tuesday to
clear the debris and look
for casualties. Police said
they could not be certain
no one was injured until
the last car had been sear-
ched about 10 p.m. CDT.
Firo H^orln,nnl V.
Fire department of-
ficials said a 30-by-60-foot
mid-section of the third
level caved in, creating a
domino effect that col-
lapsed portions of the se-
cond level and crushed
several nars^'ftatter than
a pancake.”
mid 90s sout
Highs Thurs.
Storms
MIAMI (APV -
Tropical storm Dennis
drifted over the Atlantic
Ocean early today after
dumping up to 13 inches of
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and forecasters said it
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Miami warned that if
Dennis developed as an- i
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Meam^dle, a tropical
depression formed in the
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News Roundup
IVdnrsday, August 19, 1961
Whites Claim Reverse Discrimination In Virginia
AKHINHTrtN f A Pi nn A nrlf>* nf fnr r» mllHamaannr askB.I 1>I_..l-i _ 1 ... ..
WASHINGTON (AP) — on a base price of $36 for a misdemeanor charges of
For the first time, whites 42-gallon barrel of crude criminally negligent
feel from shore as the of-
ficers attempted to ferry
the arrested youths
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are trying to take ad oil, while Saudi Arabia, homicide in the deaths of
vantage of the 1965 Voting the biggest producer In three black youth* who
Rights Act by asking the the Organization of drowned while In their
federal government to Petroleum Exporting custody,
„ disapprove a local elec- Countries, said it would go Limestone County
tlon law change which no higher than 134. Deputy Kenny Elliott,
they say discriminates in reserve deputy Kenneth
favor of blacks • Archie and probation of
The four white Rich- Iran hunDOat t'cer David Drummond
mond, Va., city council were Indicted after a
members, along with 25 PARIS (AP) - The grand Jury heard the
white business and civic leader of a band of anti . three men and three Other
leaders, asked the Justice Khomeini Iranians who witnesses testify abdut
Department on Tuesday hijacked an Iranian gun the June 19th incident
to use its authority under boat last week met today C*rl Baker, 19, and An-
the act to block ajgew .with FrOnclf na.val thony Freeman, 18, both
redlstrlctlng plan for the authorities at the Medlter- of Mexia, and Steve
council. ranean port of Toulon to Booker, 19, of Dallas,
The whites claimed that discuss giving up the drowned when a smali
the councils five black vessel, Foreign Minister boat capsized about 8«
members unfairly drafted Claude Cheysson an- ' ‘ '
the plan, based on the 198(1 nounced
census, to guarantee, a Cheysson said the 160 ....
permanent black major)- foot gunboat Tabarzin across Lake Mexia The
ty would be returned to the offlclrs swam to safety
During the past 16 Iranian government If it The Indictment charged
.years, black civil rights were surrendered. He the state Water Safety Act
groups have come to view said the possibility of was violated because the
the act as the nation’s asylum for the hljockers boat allegedly was
most Important- civil was being studied, overloaded, had no life
rights law, arguing that it although Iran's foreign preservers and operated
allowed thousands--of minister warned ugatnst at night without lights
blacks in tfie South to their being given refuge Witnesses had charged
register, vote and gain A spokesman in Paris the three youths were
political power for the monarchist group handcuffed when they top
They are waging a cam- that sponsored the hijack- pled Into the lake, but
.paign to convince Con- lng said the leader of the autopsy reports showed
gress to renew the act commandos, Adm. Kamal no sighs that |he victims'
before It expire* in August Hablbollahl, was hands were bound-__
1982. Many white negotiating with the The officers said they
Southerners have urgued French for fuel to'con- had arrested the three
It is no longer needed tinue his Journey. He victims on narcotics
Tuesday’s meeting was claimed the khip was still charges A toxicology
the first time whites the seal of government for . repWrt Srtoweft'mj vrScfe ol
anywhere, much less the "Free Iran.” • . drugs in the bodies of
South, ever tried to use Twenty heavily armed" Booker and Freeman The
the law for their own Iranian exll(es, members report on Baker has not
benefit of (he pro-monarchy been completed.
Azadegan group, seized ' \ v ’
the gunboat and Its 31 Ira-
and television services
were not affected by the
printers’ walkout deman-
ding more exposure on the
national an<T local media
for Solidarity
Budget Woes
LOS ANGELES (AP)—
President Refgan is vow-
ing to balance the federal
budget by 1984 without
retreating from his plan
for the" largest defense
buildup in American
history
Faced with reports that
increased military spen-
ding could undercut ef-
forts to eliminate budget
deficits within three
years, Reagan ordered
his defense and economic
advisers during an after-
noon of meetings Tuesday
to come up with a way to
achieve both goals
Reagan said later he is
1,150 miles east of the
Leeward Islands. Its
highest winds were 35
mph, 4 mph short of
tropical-storm status and
far below the 75 mph
needed to qualify as a hur-
ricane. No significant
strengthening was an-
ticipated today
HOUSTON (AP) - W
Darrell Wiggins faces up
to 30 years in prison aAd a
$30,000 fine after pleading
guilty to charges he
embezzled nearly $17
million from the bank he
worked for.
The former Allied Bank
of Texas senior vice presi-
dent entered the plea
Tuesday before U.S.
District Judge Ross N.
Sterling.
Sterling set sentencing
grand jurors looking into
the case.
"It’s obvious there is a
problem. I have no ear-
thly idea what it la," said
Les Smith, Martin's
former spokesman who
testified before the grand
jury Tuesday.
Smith and other Martin
associates who testified
say they don’t believe
Martin's story about be-
ing shot by a hooded gun-
man from an occult group
knowii as the “Guardian
Angels of the Under-
world."
Martin, a 29-year-old
Republican, was hit in the
arm by shotgun fire on Ju-
ly 31 outside his recrea-
tional vehicle here. At
first he said he did not
know who shot him or
why.
today, with the pesticide
to be targeted on an area
near downtown Tampa,
not far from where five
medflies were found. The
area is Just west of
Florida's lucrative citrus
belt. State officials have
blamed California for the
infestation.
Shooting
convinced he can hold t|j<* for September 29.
1982 budget deficit to $42 ir Wiggins,’ ah ll-year
billion in spiteof reports it employee of the bank, told
Medfly
cbuld go much higher.
White House
spokesman Larry
Speakes said any deci-
sions on additional spen-
ding cuts are weeks away
but said social programs
could suffer even more
financial trimming in the
drive to balance the
budget. •
“We will keep the social
safety 'net,” Speakes said
OPEC Rift 8k£”JuE2S5
GENEVA Switzerland' M ‘ef, H wl WARSAW, Poland 'API
(AP) Saudi Aliibla and Casablanca It was one of ~ ^ tWo-day,strike. by
Venezuela, OPEC's two ,h‘ ...... union printers kept the of-
11CI, DprdKCh said. no luaqypp uuill
But he added, "Certainly Wiggins' holdings, which
we will be looking closely Included vast ranching
at social programs and properties in Texas and
definitely we will seek to Colorado,
achieve some budget sav- . .
lng. But we will protect *
the truly needy.” •
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Venezuela was Insisting also reported without
newspapers, but local edi-
tions appeared in
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A deputy sheriff,, a officials of Solidarity, the
reserve deputy and a independent labor federa-
county probation officer lion-
were Indicted Tuesday on
The government radio
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DEER PARK (AP)-A
14-year-old cheerleader
has decided she'll turn in
her pom-poms rather than
cut her waist-length hair.
Tracy Mitchell refused
16 cdhfoFm wifh a" "Deer"
Park High School rule on
cheerleader hair length
and says she will watch
the football games from
thebleaehers4hls year.
She asked school
trustees to change the
rule! but the board refus-
ed ,to intervene after the
Deer Escorts, a drill team
governing the
cheerleader squad, voted
to keep the shoulder-
length h.air rule.
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Japan said it would begin
restricting imports of
California fruit today,
fearing a fruit fly infesta-
tion would be carried
across the Pacific, and
state legislators began
hinting of support for
"retaliatory trade restric-
tions.”
As the Japanese boycott
went into effect, several
states renewed calls for 6
domestic quarantine of all'
California produce
susc-epfible to the
Mediterranean fruit fly.
Texas filed suit Tues-
day against the U.S.
in . j ci Department of
t\Gp ^hOOtmg Agriculture to force a
* - total ban, "saying the fruit '
and vegetables are truck-
ed through Texas to the
Southeast.
And in Florida, another
round of aerial spraying
of malathion was to begin
the Judge he became In-
volved In a scheme 10
years ago to sell
unauthorized negotiable
securities to help bank
customers whose loan ap-
plications were turned
down by Allied. He main-
tained he did not personal-
ly profit from the illegal
transactions
The bank filed suit to
regain its losggs* from
WASHINGTON (AP) -
A new Treasury Depart-
ment report praises
Secret Service agents for
their quick action when a
gunman opened fire on
President Reagan but is
"full of recommenda-
tions” on how to prevent
such attacks in the future,
its author says.
The report, ordered by
Treasury Secretary
Donald T. Regan within
days of the March 30
assassination attempt and
scheduled for release to-
day, recommends closer
cooperation between the
agents who protect the
president and the White
House staff that works
with him.
The Treasury depart-
ment oversees the Secret
Service as well as the
Bureau of ALcohol...
Firearms and Tobacco,
which quickly traced the
pistol alleged to have been
used in the,wounding of
Reagan, White House
press secretary James
Brady, a Secret-Service '
agent and a city
policeman.
to determine whether the
nationwide controllers
strike has increased the
chance of an aviation
disaster.
With the strike and
subsequent firing of 12,000
controllers now in its third
week, safety is emerging
as the key issue with little
sign of going away despite
government assurances
that it is no more hazar-
dous to fly today than
before the walkout.
Wood Case
HOUSTON (AP)-Ask-
ing tor a hamburger,
onion rings, fries, a malt
and “lots of catsup,” con-
victed hit man Charles
Harrelson ended a month-
long hunger strike in the
Harris County jaiJ, his at-
torney said.
Don Ervin said his
client had fasted since Ju-
ly 17 to protest “harass-
ment” of his family by in-
vestigators probing the
1979 sniper slaying of U.S.
District Judge John Wood
Jr. Harrelson is a suspect
in Wood’s death.
tests and was transferred
Tuesday to a military brig
near Washington, the
Justice Department said.
Justice department
sources who declined to
be identified said they ex-
pect a federal grand jury
here to return an indict-
ment in the case by the
end of this week or early
next week.
The results of the
psychiatric examination
were submitted sealed to
a judge here Aug. 1.
Published reports have
said prison doctors con-
cluded Hinckley was com-
petent to stand trial and
was sane at the time of the
shooting.
-WASHINGTON" (AP) —
John W. Hinckley Jr.,
charged with attempting
to assassinate President
Reagan, has, completed-
COttrt-ODlv.\* YFtejt\an3i&i\:
AUSTIN (AP) - At-
torney General Mark
White held Tuesday that
elected city, county or
state officials may not
serve on local draft
boards.
His opinion went to Col.
Paul Dean Aikin, state
director'of selective ser-
vice.
White said service on a
draft board would violate
the Texas Constitution’s
prohibition against -
holding positions of
"profit or trust” in both
the federal government
and the state or its
political subdivisions^
' AtJSTTIR LTTPT -
Longview Rep. Mike Mar-
tin, the shooting victim
reluctant to talk to in-
vestigators, has missed
his second date with
Air Safety
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Teams of federal in-
vestigators and private
consultants will examine
computer tapes and tour
air traffic control centers
It takes so little.
It means so much.
Big Brothers & Sisters
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 251, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 19, 1981, newspaper, August 19, 1981; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020224/m1/22/: accessed November 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.