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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday. Auguat 5, 1985
Tuesday forecast
Chapman wins in runoff
Hargett won’t contest 1st district results
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A- weak cold front generated
showers in the Texas Panhandle
•>, early Monday, and forecasters
• predicted widely scattered
thunderstorms to spread into
" other areas of the state later.
,vv The front stretched from the
• ;<* northeast comer of the Panhan-
dle southwestward to near
— Amarillo and into southeastern
New Mexico. A small area of
showers developed in the
eastern Panhandle.
The National Weather Service
said heavy thundershowers were
detected some 75 miles offshore
east and southeast of Galveston.
Skies were mostly clear across
North, Central and Southwest
Texas while a scattering of high
clouds covered the rest of the
state.
DALLAS (AP) - Republican
$dd Hargett said he won’t seek a
recount despite his narrow
defeat in this weekend’s 1st Con-
gressional District runoff elec-
tion.
Democrat Jim Chapman won
Saturday’s balloting by a slim
1.87 percent margin, capturing
the seat his party has held for 114
years.
Hargett, who outspent his
Democratic challenger 3-to-l,
said he believes the close finish
in a traditionally Democratic
stronghold will be recorded in
GOP history books.
“A Republican has never even
had a chance to win in this
district, and Just the fact that we
got that close made history,”
Hargett said from his home in
Linden. “We came up just a few
centimeters short.”
National and state GOP
leaders claimed Hargett’s
strong showing proved that
Republicans are making inroads
in areas like East Texas, which
have long been considered
Democratic territory.
GOP leaders had viewed the
race as a test to determine true
Republican strength in rural
Texas.
Final but unofficial returns
from the 20 Northeast Texas
counties, showed Chapman
received 52,670 votes, or 50.9 per-
cent, to Hargett’s 50,737 votes, or
49.1 percent.
“The Republican Party fired
its best volley, a $1.5 million
volley, and they came up short.
This wasn’t Just the; Republican
Party of Texas, it was Ronald
Reagan, George Busb, all of
them,” a~jubilant Chapman said
Saturday night.
Chapman, 40, a lawyer and
former district attorney from
Sulphur Springs, took pains dur-
ing the campaign to call himself
a “conservative Democrat” and
repeatedly said he did not toe the
line of the national Democratic
party.
“I ran scared for six months,”
Chapman said, when asked
about the close finish. “But the
Democratic Party is back in
Texas and is ready to go.”
Chapman won despite the
Republicans spending more than
$1 million in a campaign that in-
cluded television commercials
by President Reagan and ap-
pearances by Vice President
George Bush and Treasury
Secretary James Baker.
The election was held to
replace former Rep. Sam Hall, a
Democrat who became a federal
Judge after being recommended
for the post by Republican U.S.
Sen. Phil Gramm, his former
“boll weevil” Democratic col-
league.
“The election results
demonstrate two things,” said
Democratic National Chairman
Paul Kirk. “First, the talk about
realignment is still only a
Republican dream. And second,
Democrats will continue to win
when we campaign on moderate,
mainstream issues that ‘con-
nect’ with the concerns of the
average voter.”
“Score one for the Texas
Democrats over the national
Republicans,” said U.S. Rep.
Tony Coelho of Califoria, chair-
man of the Democratic Congres-
sional Campaign Committee.
Hargett, 38, an engineer who
played In the 1968 Cotton Bowl
for Texas A&M, switched to the
Republican Party and entered
the race at the urging of
Gramm.
“We have not won an election
here tonight, but we made
history,” Gramm said Saturday
night.
“To even be competitive in
that district is indeed a historic
realignment,” said U.S. Rep.
Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan,
chairman of the National
Republican Congressional Com-
mittee.
Countered Gov. Mark White, a
Democrat: “His (Chapman’s)
winning this hard-fought elec-
tion reaffirms a tradition of sup-
port for the Democratic Party.”
Chapman was helped by the
large turnout Saturday.
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terstate 40 was closed to east-
* bound traffic Monday after one-
ton military bombs on a 1,300-
mile highway trip to North
Carolina blew up in a traffic ac-
cident, leaving a hole 35 feet
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" This eastern Oklahoma town
" of 6,000 people was evacuated for
about eight hours after the blasts
' Sunday. Most of the injured suf-
fered effects of shockwaves
from the explosions or from
•" breathing smoke.
The flatbed truck carrying 10
bombs collided with, a car pull-
ing onto the roadway from the
shoulder near the U.S. 69 inter-
change, the Oklahoma Highway
Patrol said.
The car caught fire and the
blaze spread to the truck and the
*; bombs, triggering the explo-
sions, a state police report said.
* The blasts rattled homes, scat-
tered debris
and touched off grass fires that
sent smoke billowing for miles.
Plate glass windows were shat-
tered and ceiling fans fell in
some homes.
“1 decided I know now how it
must feel to be in a war,” said
Thelma Blackburn, one of those
evacuated early Sunday.
She said of the three blasts,
“The big one lit up the sky. We
just thought it was a holocaust.
The whole house shook.”
The blast left a crater 35 feet
deep and 27 feet across in the
highway.
Eastbound lanes of the
highway were closed, and traffic
was being diverted onto a near-
by state highway, said Highway
Patrol dispatcher Nathan
Taughman in Muskogee. Traffic
was normal in westbound lanes.
The clock at Checotah Middle
School, about 200 yards away,
stopped at 4:20 a.m. Sunday. The
explosions broke glass and shook
ceiling tiles loose throughout the
building.
The truck was hauling 2,000-
pound bombs from the U.S. Ar-
my Ammunition Plant at
McAlester to Sunny Point Ter-
minal, N.C. From there the ord-
nance is shipped to military
points overseas, said Cmdr. Ray
Feller, a spokesman for the
plant.
Another truck carrying 20
bombs was also on the road, but
was not affected by the accident
and returned to the plant, of-
ficials said.
A passenger in the car, Ruth
Ross, 75, of Peggs, was in fair
condition at Muskogee Regional
Hospital with second-degree
bums and chest injuries Sunday
night, said Ronnie Crisp, nursing
supervisor. The truck driver and
a* passenger were unharmed,
authorities said.
The car’s driver, Dolly L.
Madjenobich, 64, of Ashland,^
Wis., was treated and released.
At least 45 people, mostly
firefighters and other emergen-
cy personnel, were treated and
released at Muskogee Regional
Hospital for abrasions and
stress, said Nancy Stolper, a
hospital spokeswoman. Two
other people were treated at
Eufaula Municipal Hospital and
released. .
Col. Walter Busbee, the am-
munition plant’s commanding
officer, said each bomb contain-
ed 1,000 pounds of explosive,
primarily TNT.
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Texas prisons record 17 deaths
HUNTSVILLE * X
Texas prisoner became the 17th
: inmate to die as a result of
violence within the Texas
Department of Corrections, a
prison spokesman said.
John Marshall, 24, died at 10
p.m. Saturday »at Huntsville
Memorial Hospital after he was
stabbed in the head and chest as
he waited to go to dinner at the
TDC Ellis II Unit, TDC
spokesman Phil Guthrie said.
Fellow inmate Alvin Davis, 26,
also was stabbed in the chest and
upper right shoulder. He re-
mains in stable condition at the
prison infirmary, Guthrie said.
Man slain
in camper
’ Mafsnaii, serving a 12-year
sentence for sexual abuse of a
child and aggravated robbery
with a deadly weapon in Dallas
County, and Davis, serving 75
years for a Dallas County con-
viction of unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle and three counts
of aggravated robbery, were
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The two were stabbed with a
toilet flusher rod which had been
sharpened, a ladle and a seven-
inch metal shank, Guthrie said.
Davis is the 147th inmate in-
volved in non-fatal attacks
within the Texas prison system.
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and sexually assaulted, police
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Homicide investigators said a
gunman shot James Sizemore
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::: p.m. Friday, and then dragged
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 237, Ed. 1 Monday, August 5, 1985, newspaper, August 5, 1985; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074517/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.