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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1979 he nation "iarthen dam hursts in Florida, 0 flee, damage hits $4.35 million Jnited Press International CEECHOBEE, Fla. — Mil- of gallons of water that had gd through an earthen dike re- sd gradually Thursday, but 5 was no telling how soon area jlents would be able to live on land again. ifficials said they could not ersltand why the Florida Power Ught Co. dike gave way early Wednesday. It had been inspected Tuesday and was reported sound. A 300-foot section of the dike at Indiantown burst without warning about 1 a.m., releasing enough water to cover 80,000 acres around the northeast shore of Lake Okeechobee with 1 foot of water. The swirling water drove hun dreds of people from their beds, sent cattle stampeding for high ground and derailed a Florida East Coast Railway freight train. Up to 7 feet of water covered parts of the 60 square miles of scat tered farms, fishing camps and trailer parks from Port Mayaca northward for about 20 miles. Dozens of people were rescued from rooftops and cars by boats and helicopters, but officials reported neither serious injuries or fatalities. At least 700 people were forced to evacuate in Okeechobee and Martin counties, said Clyde E. Kauffman, Okeechobee County Civil Defense director. He gave a preliminary damage es timate of $4.35 million. The figure included 255 trailers, 62 homes, nine commercial buildings, a motel, 30 boathouses and a 13-mile stretch of U.S. 441 that had been flooded. Charles Scheer, an FPL spokes man, said the water had begun to recede slowly by Wednesday night, but he made no estimates on how long it would take for the water to disappear. “There wasn’t any reason that we could expect this to happen,” said an FPL spokesman. TACOS.. . AND MUCH MORE! DELICIOUS, SPICY AND FAST FRIENDLY SERVICE. 3312 S. College — Bryan 107 Dominik — College Station ******* mble is, he was hanged in 1903 tardon possible, if man asks for it w j m »s part ofi ge, saidt at govern. 1 !; United Press International CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Gov. Ed Herschler said Wednesday he uld consider pardoning a notorious western range detective if the personally requests it. [rouble is, Tom Horn was hanged in 1903. le whole thing began when Warner Brothers started making a lOvie about the life of Horn, who was convicted of fatally shooting a ear-old boy in Platte County. The studio’s publicity people light it would be a nice gesture if Herschler would grant Horn a humous pardon at about the time the film is released, loe Zuver of the state Archives and Historical Department con ed Wednesday that her agency had conveyed a request for i s pardon to the governor, on behalf of Warner Brothers and ■ Corp., a company owned by Steve McQueen. McQueen stars e movie, which is not yet finished. On Wednesday, Herschler’s droll reaction to the request was: iWhen Tom Horn personally requests a pardon I will give some nsideration to it. ” iState Travel Commission Director Randy Wagner said the first he leard about a pardon request was right after Warner Brothers inished a rough cut of the film, when he received a call from the studio's public relations director. “He said that having been involved in the production of the film it convinced him that Horn was innocent,” Wagner said. “He suggested it would be quite nice if a pardon would come at the time the film was being released.” Horn has been blamed for the killing of many cattle rustlers in both Colorado and Wyoming, but it was the fatal shooting of Willie Nickle, 14, that was his downfall. After being convicted of murder, he was hanged in Cheyenne at the age of 43. Travel Commission spokesman Ernie Over said that at one point the studio had thought about shooting some scenes in Cheyenne. “They wanted us to work with the Cheyenne merchants to take down all the neon signs and put dirt on the streets,” Over said. “They wanted to revert Cheyenne to the time of the movie. “They didn’t even get to the starting box with that proposition. They took it down to some fake town in Arizona. ” A sneak preview of the movie was shown in Cheyenne Friday and one of those attending was former Supreme Court Chief Justice Rod ney Guthrie. He said the film was not intended as a documentary. Instead, he said, it portrayed Horn as a man who lived beyond his time. *****1 pool tournaments every Monday night ZACHAB1SS OBBEimOUSE club & •*mc vsMor never a cover charge OPEN 4 pm DAILY 1pm WEEKENDS HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY TILL 7 ZACBURGERS & HAPPY HOUR SAT. & SUN. 1-7 P.M. 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I was ving a trail of hair in bathtubs and eves you fcs and everywhere I went.’ make pr Wearing a wig while testifying, can be' ; sa id she went to J.C. Penney in f youre mary of 1978 to receive the wise If 1 ! treatment. When she finished the treatment she testified her hair looked like steel wool and she developed a large burn on the back of her neck. She said she complained to the store manager and received a second treatment free of charge. After the second treatment, she said, “I really had Phyllis Diller hair.” She said her hair soon began breaking off, then falling out in handful. “Hair was all over me,” she said. “In my bed, on the carpet.” She said in March of this year she shaved off her hair and said it has grown back only partially. Hempen said she still suffers eruptions on her skin and estimated she had permanently lost 20 percent of her hair. as served| charged in rape dismissed ted NatiouP Office i<| United Press International MONTVALE, N.J. — Mercedes-Benz says its experimen tal diesel-fueled vehicle designed to reach maximum of fuel economy set a record of 3,020 miles per gallon. The automaker said Wednesday the mileage record was set at the International Fuel Saving competi tion at Veltheim, Switzerland, by a I torpedo-shaped vehicle with bicycle | wheels, driven by Frank Maier, 17, of Stuttgart, Germany. The mark was accomplished by sacrificing speed. The little car moved at only 10.3 miles an hour for 60 miles. SUPER GUITARS, SUPER LOW PRICES Reg. 310.00 Sale 229.00 ALVAREZ JUMBO WESTERN NO. 5024 A handsome dreadnought, popular with country western groups. Scroll guard plate with rose and dove is mounted on white spruce top. Ring inlay around sound hole; white celluloid bound edges. Rosewood bridge has individual fourway adjustment for meticulous setting. Back and sides are Nato mahogany, dark burgundy finish. Sleek Nato mahogany neck facilitates fast chord runs. Rosewood fingerboard is celluloid bound. Chrome in dividual machine heads with enclosed gears. United Press International ivNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A judge i dismissed charges against nine 1 ’men and a Knox County deputy ere accused of a gang rape in a Ouse. .Sessions Judge Harold Wimberly opped the charges Wednesday, tififl FOOl^g it was unlikely that the al- 1 ^ ;ed assault “occurred in the man- I3X. r described” in the complaint id by a 22-year-old woman. The charges stemmed from a complaint filed by a woman who said she was tied to a bed at the fire station and assaulted by 25 to 30 men during an 18-hour period. But defense witnesses said the woman was elsewere during the time of the alleged attacks and was seen drinking bourbon, offering sex to bystanders and exposing her breasts. 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