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HIGH W'ATER ABOUNDS on the Lavaca River
Monday afternoon from flooding upstream due to
she heard "a loud bang and then some
popping" about 8:05 p.m. Monday.
“I guess it was the thing cracking."
she said.
"I looked around and saw a car fly-
ing through the air. I just jumped out
of the booth and started running I only
saw two guys on the ground ... one of
them was in pretty bad shape," Ms.
Brown said.
Glenn Freeman, operator of another
ride on the midway, said he saw a car
on the "Enterprise" shaking about two
hours before the accident. Freeman
said he told the operator of the "Enter-
prise” about the problem and said the
two examined the ride and found a
damaged weld on one of the cars.
Freeman said he told the operator to
send fora welder to repair the joint.
though there are "individual incidents
which are taking place "
McFarlane said the U.S. role in
Lebanon "thus far has been vital to
getting us as far as we have come."
A national reconciliation conference
is scheduled to open Thursday, and
McFarlane said all sides seem in-
terested in a successful outcome that
could restore peace and democracy to
Lebanon
"There is promise that the process
now set in motion can be successful,
giving us a chance not only to pull out
our own forces, but those of other coun
tries. " McFarlane said
Monday's high was 81 with an over-
night low of 72 Temperature at 9 a m
today was 76 Recorded rainfall at The
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not apply to Texas.
Autry was convicted of murder in
the 1980 slaying of a Port Aruthur con-
venience store clerk.
Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox,
who filed the motion with the court,
told reporters that Autry’s case had
been "heard and heard and heard" by
the courts and that "this man has
received a fair hearing."
Now “it's proper for the state to
carry out the execution,” Mattox said
at a news conference on the Supreme
Court steps.
seventh grade “for competitive pur-
poses" goes on the ballot without the
council’s recommendation for ap-
proval Under the proposal, a student
would lose one year of high school com-
petition eligibility for each year he or
she is held back.
The practice has been used to give
football players an additional year of
growth before playing in high school
Council members did recommend
member approval of a 10-day limit on
the number of school days a student
can miss to participate in debates
Before approving the proposal, the
council had to decide what a school day
is. Participants in debates usually
miss only a portion of their last class of
the da v
Dense fog this morning mainly
southeast Texas and coastal bend
Elsewhere considerable late night
and morning low clouds becoming
partly cloudy, warm and humid
during the afternoons Scattered
mostly afternoon and early evening
thunderstorms.
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Port Lavaca will receive $26,589
as its share of the 1 percent sales
tax for the period ending Oct. 7, a
report from the state Comptroller's
Office says.
The October payment brings the
city’s total sales tax payments so
far in 1983 to $414,048, down 15 per-
cent from the same time last year.
Seadrift will receive $4,343 this
month, bringing this year’s total to
$46,791, an increase of over 57 per-
cent from 1982
Point Comfort's check of $536 will
bring the year's total to $18,829,
down 33 percent from last year
State Comptroller Bob Bullock
said the October payments
statewide are 7.2 percent higher
than in October of 1982, but 1983
totals are still less than what the
cities had received by this time last
year.
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People's voice...........
Sports.......................
Wavelengths................
Tides
Tidal information is based on com-
putations for West Gulf tides For tidal
corrections at Indianola, add 25
minutes to highs and subtract 15
minutes from lows. For Port I^avaca,
add 40 minutes and subtract 25
minutes
Low of 0.6 at 9:19 pm Tuesday. On
Wednesday a high of 16 will occur at
4 07 a m and a low of 1.9 at 10 a m
Also a high of 1.5 at 3 :41 p.m and a low
of 0 7 at 10 p m
Sunset today at 6:56 p m
Sunrise Wednesday at 7:32 a m
Also approved was a proposal to
penalize coaches and sponsors for
violating UIL rules
Bobby Hawthorne, a UIL activities
director, said many school ad-
ministrators have said debate tour-
naments cause more school absences
than any other extracurricular activi-
ty
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fashion, and are constitutionally ade-
quate ....”
White had granted the stay on the
basis of a last-hour appeal that Autry’s
case had not been reviewed for propor-
tionality, or insuring that death
sentences are being applied uniformly
in cases of similar crimes.
The death of a 1-year-old Port
Lavaca boy has been tentatively
ruled an accidental drowning after
the infant fell into a bucket that
reportedly contained water and
diluted cleanser, said Precinct 1
Justice of the Peace Frank Kelly.
Justin Lee Pugh, son of Mr and
Mrs.' Mark Pugh, was pronounced
dead at Champ Traylor Memorial
Hospital at 2:58 p.m. Monday
following unsuccessful attempts to
revive him.
Henry Barber, director of the
local Emergency Medical Services,
said his office received the call at
1:18 p.m. Monday and went to the
child’s residence at 1810 Holloman
Upon arrival, the EMS personnel
found the child in "full arrest,"
meaning they could find no pulse,
and the child was not breathing.
Barber said. The EMS crew at-
tempted to revive the child on the
scene, but after attempts failed
they rushed him by ambulance to
the Champ Traylor Emergency
Room
"We transported him immediate-
ly to the hospital, where doctors and
the United States and the Western
world that we do everything we can to
further the peace process in the Middle
East."
Other administration officials
acknowledged for the first time Mon
day that the l.fiOO US Marines in
Lebanon are "the target of attacks '
They wouldn't speculate who the at-
tackers are
A senior Lebanese official, who in
sisted on anonymity, told reporters
here last week that radio communica-
tions of the Druse militia were
overheard during recent fighting in
which the\ wore telling their fighters
that if they could kill 15 Marines in a
Alan Romberg, the State Depart
merit's deputy spokesman, said the at-
tacks were essentially "sniper fire
which is unmistakably in this case
targ'-'ed" on the Marines But h<‘ also
said it is the administration's position
that the cease-lire is holding even
“current scholarship rule" banning
UIL participation to students not pass-
ing four courses
UIL council members on Monday
looked at several proposals aimed at
keeping lost class time at a minimum
The recommendations are part of UIL
Director Bailey Marshall's package of
reforms, proposed in the wake of
Select Committee on Public Education
Chairman H Ross Perot’s criticism of
extracurricular activities
But UIL council Chairman J.C. Mc-
Clesky, Slaton superintendent, said the
matters were under study before
Perot's criticism started He said the
actions were based on “input we
received from the general public long
before" recent criticism
The council voted to study several
topics heavily criticized by Perot, in-
cluding:
— Curtailing junior high school
sports.
— Reducing the number of games in
some sports.
— Amount of school time lost to ac-
tivities
The penalty for repeating the
WASHINGTON (AP> - Robert C.
McFarlane is taking over the White
House national security adviser's job
made famous by Henry A Kissinger,
but McFarlane says he won't use it as
a pulpit for promoting his own views
with President Reagan
"My role now is not to be an ad-
vocate. but to be a coordinator."
McFarlane said Monday after he was
appointed to succeed William P. Clark,
who is leaving to head the Interior
Department. "I intend to do that, and I
don't expect any difficulty."
The appointment of McFarlane, a
retired Marine lieutenant colonel and
foreign policy professional who work-
ed in the Nixon and Ford administra
tions. disappointed hard-liners and left
in doubt the plans of U.N. Ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick, who was passed
over for the national security adviser's
post.
In a statement from her office. Mrs
Kirkpatrick said, "I am committed to
remaining at the United Nations
Local infant dead
after fall in bucket
technicians worked on him to no
avail," Barber explained.
Port I^avaca Police Department
officers assisted EMS technicians
at the scene and conducted an in-
vestigation of the death. Assistant
Police Chief Joe Pena said that his
office agrees that the death was an
accidental drowning
Kelly tentatively ruled it an ac-
cidental death, but said this morn-
ing that this ruling is subject to the
results of the autopsy The autopsy
was ordered to determine if the
child died of drowning or toxic
shock since the cleanser the infant
came in contact with was toxic
Kelly said this morning that the
autopsy had been performed but the
report was not back and could take
longer if microscopic tests were re-
quired
Justin was bom Oct. 2, 1982, in
Port I>avaca.
He is survived by his mother. Fran-
cis Aguilar Pugh, and his father.
Mark Pugh Funeral services will
be at 10 a m. Wednesday in the
chapel at Richardson Funeral
Home in Port Lavaca. Father
Albert Fecci and the Rev A.R.
McGee will officiate Pallbearers
will be Richard Brush, John W.
Brown. Joe Rivera and Mike Orme.
Lower Coastal
East and southeast winds around
15 knots today, tonight and Wednes
day Seas 3 to 5 feet today and
tonight Winds and seas higher in
and near widely scattered thunder
showers
South Texas
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single day, the Americans might de-
mand that the Marines be brought
home It was not possible to obtain in-
dependent verification of his account
Sunday marked the third con-
secutive day of attacks on the Marines
and resulted in the shooting death of
(apt Michael J Ohler. 28. of Hun-
tington. N V
Halford said the accident will be
thoroughly investigated. Fair officials
barricaded the area around the ride
immediately after the accident and
impounded the car.
The ride, known as ‘‘The
Enterprise," is a popular European
ride that revolves in a circular motion
while rising to an 80-degree angle,
Halford said. Owned by Continental
Park Attractions of Farmingdale,
N.Y., the ride had been used at the fair
for about seven years, he said
"These things are inspected daily,"
said Halford. "The ride operators have
a check list that they fill out each day.”
Before the Oct. 7 opening of the State
Fair, the ride last ran at the Oklahoma
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The council did not set a passing
grade although its policy committee
on Sunday had talked about setting 70
as passing. Passing grades vary in the
state.
If approved by UIL m. mbers, the
rule would be effective for the spring
1984 semester, meaning students must
pass four courses in the fall semester
in order to participate in spring UIL
activities.
Also Monday, the UIL council
recommended member approval of a
rule barring a student to participate in
a league activity if it meant missing a
class he or she was failing
Council member B J Stamps,
Amarillo school superintendent, said
that rule could end with parents
"chartering a plane to take (an
athlete) to a game" after the student
attended a late class he was failing
Jack Frost. Georgetown superinten-
dent. said such things might occur, but
added. "I don't believe we can
legislate everything "
In addition to requiring four passing
grades in the previous semester, the
council recommended approval of a
Nearby, about a half-dozen death
penalty opponents demonstrated quiet-
ly, carrying signs that read, "Why do
we kill people who kill people to show
that killing people is wrong’’"
"I appreciate their deep concern
about the penalty," said Mattox, but he
said that officials in Texas don't "deal
with it lightly or in a cavalier fashion."
In their motion, state officials said
Texas’ procedures for implementing
the death penalty "are sufficient to en-
sure that sentences. ..are imposed in an
even-handed, rational and consistent
McFarlane, who has been Reagan's
chief Middle East envoy.
Other officials said the armed
groups, who they declined to try to
identify, were seeking to undermine a
national reconciliation process for
Lebanon that the United States has
helped arrange
Although a sixth U.S Marine was
killed Sunday, Reagan also said the
U.S role in Lebanon is crucial and in-
dicated no wavering in the U.S resolve
to keep them there until their job is
done
Speaking with McFarlane at his
side. Reagan told reporters, "I think il
is vitally important to the security of
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 1,600
U.S Marines in Lebanon have become
the target of attacks by armed groups
trying to force the Americans to leave,
says Robert C. McFarlane. President
Reagan's choice as the next national
security adviser
"There are some who have an in-
terest in diminishing U.S. support to
the extent that they think threatening,
killing, will cause us to pul) out,"
McFarlane told reporters at the White
House Monday after Reagan
nominated him to succeed William P
Clark.
"Their expectations are wrong I
think that has become clear," added
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through the 38th session of the General
Assembly." Its session probably will
end around Christmas, and she
reportedly is eager to return to
Washington
Mrs Kirkpatrick, offering no words
of congratulations to McFarlane, said
"the president has the right to appoint
anyone to any position in the ad
ministration, and. as always. I support
the president’s decision."
Reagan said she will remain at the
United Nations. “As far as I know
she’s happy," the president said "I
think that she has done so much for
this country."-
Conservatives had argued that the
blunt-spoken Mrs Kirkpatrick carried
more clout than McFarlane and would
do a better job in presenting the case
for higher defense spending, being
tough with the Soviet Union and taking
a hard line approach in Central
America.
In his new job, McFarlane is respon-
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to
hear arguments next month in a
California case which raises questions
of whether such reviews should be re-
quired.
UIL seeks stricter academic requirements
AUSTIN (AP) - High school
students who want to play football or
be in the school band would have to
meet stricter academic requirements
beginning next fall if proposed new
rules are approved by UIL member
schools.
A vote will be taken in February, and
the results should be in by early
March
If member schools approve recom-
mendations proposed Monday by the
UIL legislative council, students would
have to have passing grades in four
classes, instead of the current three, to
be eligible to participate in extracur
ricular activities.
The February ballot also will include
a proposed penalty for having a stu-
dent repeat the seventh grade in order
to gain an additional year of growth
Under the council proposal, a stu-
dent would become academically in-
eligible for UIL activities, including
sports, the semester after he or she did
not pass four courses, not including
physical education Students in most
Texas schools take five academic
courses.
McFarlane: Marines won't be scared out
DALLAS (AP) — A car on a popular
spinning midway ride broke loose,
hung precariously for five or six
revolutions and plummeted more than
50 feet into a crowd of people at the
State Fair of Texas, killing one man.
seriously injuring two others and sen-
ding five other people to hospitals.
Bob Halford, assistant general
manager of the fair, said the dead man
and the two seriously injured men
were in the five-passenger car when it
separated from the ride, flew about 50
feet and fell between another ride and
a root beer stand about 8:05 p.m. Mon
day.
Robert Breckenridge, a field agent
for the Dallas County Medical ex-
aminer’s office, said a 19-year-old man
was pronounced dead at 9:14 p.m at
Court asked to overturn stay of
WASHINGTON (AP) - Texas has
asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow
it to return James David Autry to the
gurney where he was strapped earlier
this month when a last-hour appeal
won a delay in his scheduled execution
by injection.
Texas officials on Monday requested
that the court overturn the stay of ex-
ecution granted Autry by Justice
Byron White on Oct. 5, about a half
hour before Autry was scheduled to die
in Huntsville. They contended the legal
issue that led granting of the stay did
depths of two feet over the roads. (Wave photo by
Keith Thompson)
State Fair ride kills one, injures
Parkland Hospital Claude McCain.
night administrator at Parkland, iden-
tified the dead man as William Phillips
of Allen, about 25 miles north of Dallas
Marion T Phillips. 23. a brother of
the deceased, and Michael Olivarri, 15,
who recently moved from San Antonio,
were reported in serious condition at
Parkland. Halford said the three had
attended the fair together.
Five other people were sent to Dallas
hospitals with lesser injuries, and fair
officials said nine other people were
treated at first aid stations for
accident-related ailments ranging
from possible ankle and neck injuries
to upset stomachs
Mary Brown. 19, of Dallas was work-
ing at a cotton candy stand on the mid-
way of the State Fair of Texas when
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ruins exceeding .'> inches in sonic places. Several
area roads were cut oil In the waler which real lied
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Surber, Chester C. & Potter, Tim. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 34, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 18, 1983, newspaper, October 18, 1983; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1288449/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.