Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1979 Page: 1 of 36
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77th YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — NO. 42
DENTON, TEXAS. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 20. 1979
36 Pages in 4 Sections
Fair onlooker
Quake rocks Italy
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Heavy Texas rainfall moves east;
leaves coastal flooding in its wake
Bargains, dismissals reduce
number of alleged conspirators
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to draw the residents together for good fun. The
story introduces the Record-Chronicle’s new
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of the city appeared as this residential section
shows, and National Guardsmen were called in to
maintain a 6 a m to 6 p.m. curfew.
Owen Cook of Pilot Point poses outside an aban-
doned harn near the Pilot Point Square during
weekend festivities at a town gathering Both Pilot
Point and Sanger featured town festivals Saturday;
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Clearing
DENTON AND VICINITY — Oc-
casional rain ending today; partly
cloudy tonight and Friday Low
tonight in the mid 60s, high Friday
around 60.
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WEATHER REPORT
Low this morning
High Wednesday
Low Wednesday
RAINFALL-
Last 24 hours
Total for month
Normal for month
Total for year
Last year to date
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were removed from the true bill by
the time a revised indictment was
handed down July 10
Several other defendants' names
influence on their deliberations
The number of defendants who face
charges of participating in a
racketeering and smuggling ring that
imported 172.000 pounds of marijuana
into the United States has dwindled
since the first smuggling conspiracy
indictment listing 27counts against 24
Heavy rain totaling 13 inches forced residents from
their homes today at Aransas Pass. Many were
evacuated from low areas of the city. A large part
recessed court until Salter's arrival
In announcing the delay to jurors.
Fisher also castigated what he termed
"inaccurate reporting” by the
Beaumont area press, and again
questioned jurors about whether they
had read any news accounts of the
trial
Two jurors said they had heard
brief radio and television reports on
the trial, but said the broadcasts had
not caused them to form any opinions
about the case and would have no
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Red Cross spokesman Bill Baron of
Harris County said 600 persons were
in seven emergency shelters in the
county early today.
At least 300 Corpus Christi residents
and several hundred other area •
residents were driven from their
homes Wednesday by flooding.
HOUSTON <AP> — Four davs of
rain that punished the.Texas coastal
area at times with hurricane-force
w inds moved on to the east today after
swollen bayous and creeks forced sev-
eral thousand persons from their
homes
An estimated 3,000 were evacuated
in the Houston area alone as the long
downpour produced major flooding
problems a third time in less than two
months.
Swollen bayous that crisscross the
flat coastal plains began to fall
quickly once the heavy deluge ended
early today .
"Most major bayous are falling and
we have sunshine here at the office,"
said Jim Green, assistant Harris
County flood control director.
Cypress Creek to the north of
Houston still had not crested,
however, and civil defense officials at
8:30 a m made another appeal for
flat-bottom boats for use in any ad-
_ di tional evacuations that might. .
become necessary.
Green said Cypress Creek was still
on the rise
“The rate of rise is tapering off but
the lower end of the creek is ex-
periencing higher water than during
Hurricane Carla in 1961," hesaitT
The American Red Cross reported
an estimated 1,700 persons spent
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By NITA THURMAN- \
Associate Editor
BEAUMONT — Widespreld coastal
flooding delayed for at least one hour
this morning final arguments in the
drug smuggling trial of 12 defendants
in U.S District Court.
Frank Salter, attorney for two of the
defendants, notified the court he was
waterbound at his Lake Charles. La ,
home, but hoped to reach the
Beaumont courthouse by 10:30 a m
U.S. District Judge Joe Fisher
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Index
Arts-Leisure —’
Classified
Comics
Editorials
Food News
Notepad
Regional
School Menus
Sports
Stocks
TV Log
Weather Mao
LAKE LEVELS
Lewisvilla
One year ago
Grapevine
One year ago
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Wednesday night in -32 shelters in a
six-county area By mid morning,
however, the number of shelters had
been reduced to 28
Among those at the shelter at
Houston's St Benedict Catholic
Church was Maria Contreras, who
said it was the fifth time in five years
for flood waters to force her from her
home.
“It usually happens in June or July
but this year it was in September."
she said
Harris County assistant Civil
Defense director John Caswell said
“We've .had more widespread
flooding, more requests rescues and
opened more shelters than at any time
I know df .”
persons was issued in May by a
federal grand jury
Charles Elbert "Muscles" Foster of ■
Denton. Who is accused of being a
leader of the smuggling ring,
disappeared in December 1978
Two defendants. Larry Dale
Washington and Dayton Bud Evans.
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Rescue workers climb through the wreckage of two houses destroyed
by an earthquake in San Marco, a town near central Italy. A strong
quake, followed by nearly 300 weaker tremors, rattled the moun-
tainous heart of the country, killing at least five people. Damage was
concentrated in Norcia, a town 70 miles north of Rome?
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were gone before the trial opened last
week in U S. District Judge Joe
Fisher's Eastern District of Texas
Court Charges against some were
dismissed Other charges were
removed in plea bargain agreements
with prosecutors
Willis Judge Butler of Mesquite.
Charles Noel Talkington of Denton
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Skies dump .8"
of rain on city
Denton got .7 of an inch of rain up
to daybreak Thursday to go with 10
Wednesday, according to the
Record-Chronicle rain gauge
Chances of more rain diminished
to 20 percent Thursday afternoon
Although August was a wet month,
especially for August, it had been
nearly 25 days since the last rain
That was on Aug. 27 when Denton
got 40
Rainfall for August was 4 35 in -
ches. compared with the norm of
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Flooding delays final arguments in drug trial
widespread panic was cited in other casualties and that architectural
areas not as severely damaged Most monuments such as the Colosseum
of the 40,000 citizens of Rieti, halfway and the Forum appeared intact
between Rome and Norcia, took to the Residents of Florence said they felt
streets, and long lines of c ar s'headed the {remonTbut saw no damage.
for the countryside from nearby In Riett , chief ctry of the ancient
Amatrice, Castel Santa Angelo, Sabines, the earthquake knocked
Leonessa and Montenero. down battlements from 13th century
Police reported some damage in town wall, and chimneys and cornices
Rome, but said there were no from medieval palaces
and Robert Hamm of Florida became
witnesses for the government AL
traded testimony for promises at
leniency.
The ranks thinned even further as
the trial proceeded —
Carlos Gerdes of Tennessee who
was accompanied into federal coum
by his wife and baby, ant Elmer
Glenn Culver were not amecg the
defendants when court opened
Tuesday Court records indicated they
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ROME (AP) — A strong earthquake
followed by nearly 300 weaker
tremors rattled the mountainous
heart of Italy, killing at least five
people, damaging buildings in dozens
of towns and sending thousands of
terrified citizens from their beds into
the streets.
"I saw the walls trembling from
floor to ceiling," said a nun operating
the switchboard at the Vatican outside
Rome late Wednesday. "The quake
swung a door open and kept it going
and banging My chair slid under
me. ”
Damage was contentrated near
Norcia,,amedtevattownof7,000in
hilly Umbria 70 miles north of Rome
All five deaths were reported in vil-
lages close to Norcia, where St.
Benedict was born 14 centuries ago
In San Marco, three members of the
same family died when their house
collapsed, and police said two persons
were crushed by falling debris in
Chiavano.
Authorities evacuated the Norcia
hospital, and streets in the town and
villages throughout the Nerina Valley
were covered with stones, bricks and
fallen wall fragments.
The earthquake shook palace and
church walls in Rome and the
Vatican Chandeliers swayed and
mattresses slid to the floor Dogs
howled and the earth's movement set
off thousands of antiitheft sirens on
automobiles
Romans fled into the streets still
clad in pajamas and tugging crying
children Similar scenes occurred in
dozens of towns and cities, including
the port of Naples, whviv some
women took mattresses into -The
streets and slept in the open with their
children
, Tens of thousands of people camped
out overnight in Umbria, and
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