Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 82, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 1, 1985 Page: 1 of 18
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Alcoa, driven by Paul Marion Moses of Pori Lavaca. Thi
Nguyen, a passenger in the truck, was transported to
('hantp Traylor Memorial Hospital with a fractured
wrist. Moses was ticketed for driving with no liability
insurance. (Staff photo by Gary Fulghum)
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VAN THONG NGUYEN of Seadrift was ticketed
Monday afternoon after running the red light at the
intersection of Austin Street and Mena Drive Police
said Nguyen's pickup truck was traveling east on Austin
when he ran the red light, hitting a car traveling north on
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Hv (.ARY FLLGHUM
W»»t Stall Writer
The start of the 1985 political year
w .s to begin today with nine of the
recently elected public officials
representing Calhoun County being
sworn into office.
Included in the list of officials to be
sworn in were five constables, two
county commissioners, a tax
assessor-collector and a third-term
sheriff
The group was to be sworn in at
the commissioners courtroom in the
County Courthouse on New Year’s
Day at 10 a m by County Clerk
Mary Lois McMahan.
Sheriff A P Ijcy one of only
three candidates involved in con-
tested races, will begin his third
four-year term in office
Taking the office of tax-assessor
collector for her first four-year term
will be Jo Ann Evins
Evins has served as a deputy
county tax assessor and worked with
the county tax office for 15 years
before seeking office
In the county commissioner races,
Roy Smith will begin his first term
as a commissioner for Precinct 3.
replacing < ommissioner Peggy
Lindsey Mrs Lindsey was serving
out her late husband's unexpired
term and did not run for re-election
Smith served 18 years with
Precinct 3, 15 years spent as
precinct foreman
Incumbent Precinct 1 County
Commissioner l^eroy Belk was re-
elected in an uncontested November
race for a third term.
Belk has been a commissioner for
10 years serving two full terms and
a two year unexpired term in 1974
Constables to be sworn into office
were B B Browning. Precinct 1;
I "on Klimitchek, Precinct 2. Edgar
< < .< r Precinct 3, Wayne Daggs
Precinct 4 and John E Taylor.
Precinct 5
Precinct 5 Justice of the Peace
Christine Taylor was sworn into of-
fice Nov 7, filling the unexpired
term ol Allen Berger
Following the swearing-in, the
Commissioners Court will meet to
approve bonds on the elected of-
ficials
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Officials to
be sworn in
c«tMbMKT UFDICII SERVI
AMBOia
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New Year's Eve
ed 198'
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portur
ked
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vaca
new
drinkers from driving,
ems in New Jersey and
iffered free rides on sub-
s or buses In Kansas Ct-
e cab rides from taverns
weeks ago
Donna Rahming. 25. and her hus-
band George, 28. of Miami welcom
ed their second child at three
seconds after midnight
"We weren't even paying any at-
tention.' said Mrs Rahming's
obstetrician. Dr L. Cantor. "I just
happened t<. look up and saw the
clock.”
imagined the quantity of
narveled Roger Licht, a
I Beverly Hills, Calif., al-
l's a once in a lifetime op-
but I'm out of my mind to
college football fans, today of
a pigskin fix of five bowl
s Among them was the Cotton
in Dalias, in which Heisman
iv w inner Doug Flutie plays his
an/ as quarterback for Boston
' .which meets Houston
|>ilic< it meant being on the
jt for drivers who'd had too
bubbly Authorities nation
up hundreds of blockades
■heckpoints to catch drunken
flowers and the old torch trom tne
statue of Liberty, ^hieh is being
refurbished
In Detroit, gun owners fired off a
traditional midnight hail of bullets,
but police said there were no injuries
and the gunfire tapered off by 12:30
a m Th. indisi minate gunfire has
tveen blamed for three deaths and a
dozen injuries in the past two years.
It luoded like World War HI at
midnight." said patrolman Robert
Devore of suburban Redford
Township "It reminded me of the
tirefights when 1 was overseas in
Vietnam
In 1 • \ngeles similar gunplay
erupted near the downtown police
helijMirt No one was injured, but
police grounded their three
helicopters a- a precaution, said
police officer Jim Mahon
Xbout 15 state troopers and four
deputy sheriffs turned out in the
enter of Bethlehem. Ga . on Mon-
da> night to put a stop to a 25-year
• >;d tradition driving around in
pi kup trucks while fellow revelers
explode firecrackers and homemade
bombs.
About five of the 150 people who
showed up were arrested, but the
night was relatively quiet, said Bar-
ow Count. Sheriff Gerald Thomas
About 30 memtiers and guests of
the AdArnAn Club so named
because it adds one member a year
welcomed 1985 with fireworks at
midnight from the 14,UO-foot sum
n it of Pikes Peak near Colorado
Springs. Colo
Artificial he .rt patient William J
Schroeder welcomed a new year he
had not expected to see and thanked
friends back home in Jasper. Ind
for their support during his recovery
: >.m ' .mpl'■ more than five
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with 20 million
keeps police busy
Detroit residents welcom-
with a barrage of gunfire to-
500,000 people jammed
s Times Square, 200.000
nt the night along the
the Rose Parade in
Pasadena. Calif., and police nation
wide worked to keep overzealous
revelers off the roads
•esident Reagan. New
iy means the end of his
I he president toasted the
at an exclusive black-tie
the Palm Springs. Calif .
if publisher Walter An-
in Pasadena, 200,000 people who
spent the night along the route of to
lav Mftth annual Rose Parade
celebrated at midnight with cham-
pagne and beer as they huddled in
sleeping bags Police said they ex
pe< ted 1 million sjxwtators for to-
day's parade.
New York City, a half-million
le packed Times Square to
h a sphere lit up like a big red
1 sink down a mast marking the
.econds of 1984 Twelve hundred
e officers chaperoned the giant
rep.
no
■ from beneath the debris.
1'hank God she s all right,’ he
She s all I care about.”
r Monday, a twister hit the
.1- of Sweeny, about 70
■: vest of Houston, but no
• nd minor damage were
American Airlines spokesman Al
Becker
After the plane landed. Spiro said,
about a half-dozen khaki-uniformed
Cuban soldiers came on board and
led the prisoner away A stewardess
then announced that the hijacker
was off the plane "and everybody
applauded." Spiro said
LaBeet was "under the control of
Cuban authorities." the official
Cuban news agency Prensa I^itina
said in a brief dispatch monitored in
Mexico City
The plane was en route from St
Croix Virgin Islands, to New York
when 141 Beet commandeered it at
6 17 p m . about three hours alter it
took off and an hour before it was
scheduled to land, the FBI said The
pilot was ordered to turn around and
fly to the communist island
LaBeet. 37. was being taken to the
Metropolitan Correctional Center in
New York City, to be transferred to
the federai penitentiary in
Lew isburg. Pa . where he was serv-
ing eight consecutive life terms for
the slaying of eight people on a St
Croix golf course in 1972
He was in an aisle seat near the
rear of the plane with three guards
in the same row. said Lee Elsesser,
American's director of corporate
and intermediate-range weapons
Separate talks on strategic and
medium-range weapons were held
separately before they were
suspended in 1983
The president's meeting with
Shultz. Weinberger and McFarlane
was occurring at the walled estate of
publisher Walter Annenberg. where
Reagan and his wife. Nancy, have
been guests since Saturday
Never venturing from behind the
walls of the lavish 200-acre estate,
the president met with McFarlane
on Monday to discuss preparations
(Please see Reagan. Page 21
boards fell on me.” he said "I don't
know how long it took me to free
myself I got out of there but it's real
hazy after that "
"i heard my bedroom window
crash and glass started flying
everywhere." said Sabrina
McDowell, who was in her apart
ment when the storm hit "I fell to
the floor in my bathroom and I
prayed to God like I've never prayed
before."
About 8.000 people were without
power at the height of outages,
Houston Lighting and Power Co
spokesman Steve Gonzales said
The Red Cross set up two shelters
and could handle "a couple of hun-
dred people, maybe more, maybe
But this time we do have some in-
juries. unfortunately "
Police spokeswoman Betty Parks
.nd damage was greater than the
earlier storms and could hit $5
million
"It's a lot worse than the last
time," Ms Parks said. "This is an
estimate and a conservative one,”
Most of the injuries were minor
We have a few head injuries and
'hat s about the extent of it — loss of
blood due to serious cuts," said Jim
Fostei assistant administrator at
Pasadena Bayshore Medical Center
Craig Stemgrader was treated for
a broken nose and shoulder injuries
after he was trapped in rubble
"The roof fell in on me and a lot of
communications
"He ended up with a weapon and
took control of the marshals and the
plane," Elsesser said
today's editions that when Shultz
meets Gromyko in Geneva next
week, he will propose two sets of
arms talks that could begin as early
as March
The newspaper quoted uniden-
tified administration officials as
saying U.S negotiators would pro-
pose one set of talks on offensive
weapons and another on defensive
weapons, such as Reagan's proposal
for a "Star Wars," space based anti-
missile system
The talks on offensive weapons
would, in effect, merge the discus-
sions on intercontinental missiles
ouebed down in
Sargent. Matagorda County,
damaging two trailer homes and
downing power lines but causing no
injuries, authorities said.
Other tornadoes were reported in
Tomball, north of Houston, and East
Bernard, north of Wharton, but
damage there was minor, officials
said
PASADENA <AP) Today was
not a very happy New Year’s Day
for hundreds of Pasadena residents
whi -e homes were destroyed and
belongings scattered by a series of
tornadoes which slammed into the
communitv east of Houston
For the second time in 21;. months,
Mayor John Isbell on Monday
surveyed homes broken by twisters
triggered by cold air that began
breaking up a record heat spell that
had lasted for more than a week
Monday's storms were among at
least eight tornadoes to hit southeast
/ Texas in the late morning hours, ac-
zording to Ron Stagno, a
Tneteorologist with the National
Weather Service
Except for Pasadena, which also
susi.nned tornado damage on (Jet
22 damage was minor in most
areas
Unlike the earlier tornadoes, the
la'est storms to lash Pasadena left
injuries in addition to destruction
Wc ve had 38 injuries to date but
deaths whatsover." Isbell said
complex, roofs were peeled off leav-
ing the apartments looking like war-
time bombed-out buildings
"All of a sudden the lights clicked
off." resident Kathy Simon said "I
ran into my closet, the closest place
and got to the floor The noise stop-
ped I walked out of my closet and 1
looked up and I could see the sky ”
For Virginia Woodward, the
devastation was a repeat of an ex-
perience she had during Hurricane
Alicia in 1983
"You can't believe stuff like this
when it happens twice to see all
your stuff gone again. " she said
Don Hamilton lost his mobile
home and shop that was adjacent to
it and rescued his daughter. Kimber-
Convicted murderer hijacks jetliner
NEW YORK (API - A convicted
mass murderer who hijacked a
DC 10 carrying 198 people apparent-
ly retrieved a gun from a restroom
before overpowering three guards
who were taking him to New York,
passengers said today after the
jetliner returned from Havana
The convict, identified as Ishmael
Ah LaBeet. was being transported
from St Croix, Virgin Islands, on an
American Airlines flight when he
pulled the gun on his guards and
commandeered the plane,
authorities said
LaBeet, convicted in the slaying of
eight people at a Virgin Islands golf
club was taken into custody by
authorities in Havana, and Flight
626 continued to Kennedy Interna-
tional Airport, its original destina-
tion The plane landed at 1:59 a m.,
officials said
At least two passengers said they
saw I ui Beet retrieve a gun from a
restroom
“Became from the bathroom and,
with the gun out. went straight up to
the three marshals.said Dr Joel
Spiro. 45. of Albany. “He took their
guns and stood there, brandishing
twoof them, western-style ”
"The fellow ran up to the front
with two guns, one in each hand."
said Arnold Chemoff, an attorney
from Fairlawn, N J “It was the
scariest moment of my life ”
Chemoff's 15-year-old son,
Richard, said he was sitting next to
his sister, Melanie. 18, and "we just
held on to each other " in fear
Another passenger. 40-year-old
Barbara Boses of Plainview, said
she saw one marshal reach for a gun
he had strapped on an ankle
"The prisoner said. 'Don t be
foolish. Get down on the floor. " she
said, and the guard "flattened '
No one was injured, but the
passengers and 13 crew members
spent neraly three hours on the
ground in Havana on Monday before
the plane took off for New York, said
Reagan finalizing arms talks
PALM SPRINGS. Calif (API
President Reagan, finalizing
strategy for nuclear arms talks with
the Soviets, is interrupting his vaca
tion for a New Year's Day meeting
with his chief foreign policy aides
After celebrating New Year's Eve
at a black-tie dinner for 90. the presi-
dent was to confer today with
Secretary of State George P Shultz.
Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger and National Security
Advisor Robert C McFarlane about
Shultz's meeting Jan 7 8 w ith Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
The Washington Post reported in
less," said Elizabeth Gonzales,
deputy coordinator for civil defense
in Pasadena.
By late Monday, at least 60 people
had sought temporary shelter, said
Ray Beall, a Red Cross spokesman
in Houston
Extra police were summoned to
the ravaged neighborhoods to keep
out potential looters, authorities
said
"It was just your basic standing-
right-next-to-a-freight- train." said
Ron Wade, vice president of Texas
Commerce Bank Pasadena
Wade said the change in air
pressure from the funnel "sucked
the doors out" of his bank
At the Vista Hollow apartment
east of Houston
Tornadoes slam into areas
Tuesday
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Bv I.Ol ISE POPPLEWELL
W»vr suit Writer
.As the New Year begins, burn
victim John Calzada remains in
critical condition at the Universi-
tv of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston
A second blood drive was held
Friday to supply blood for addi-
tional operations In an earlier
drive, 86 units of blood were
donated in Calzada's name
Calzada received second- and
third-degree burns over 65 per-
cent of his body when he. along
with his wife Sandra, returned to
their burning house Dec 7 in an
unsuccessful attempt to rescue
their 15-inonth-old son Another
son survived the fire
Mrs Calzada, who received
burns over 15 percent of her body,
has been released from the
hospital
Happy New Year 1985
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Wavelengths
Sunset at 5 42 p m. today
Sunrise at 7 22 a m Wednes
day
Extended Forecast
Tonight and Wednesday:
Windy and colder with a 20 per
cent chance of drizzle Lows in
the mid 30s Highs in the low
North wind 15 to 25 mph and
• gusty
Weather
Calhoun County
I he high Monday was 78. with
an overnight low of 50
Temperature at 9am today
50 Rainfall of 15 inches
has been recorded at The Wave
in the last 24 hours
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Surber, Chester C. & Hildebrand, Linda. Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 82, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 1, 1985, newspaper, January 1, 1985; Port Lavaca, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1298072/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Calhoun County Public Library.