Page 10 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1979
Food poisoning hits school
300 rushed to hospitals
United Press International
HUGO, Okla.— Health investi
gators and school and hospital offi
cials Tuesday were trying to learn
the cause of apparent cases of food
poisoning that sent more than 300
students and teachers to hospitals.
Classes were canceled Tuesday as
School Superintendent Simon Par
ker and state Health Department
officials continued their investiga
tion.
Parker said there was a report of
vandalism during the weekend at
Benjamin Franklin School, but it
was not known if the vandals entered
the kitchen.
“Whether it was in the cafeteria or
not, I don’t know, ” Parker said of the
vandalism. “They turned the fire ex
tinguishers loose and they cut up the
couch in the faculty lounge.”
Parker said first and second grad
ers ate in the cafeteria Monday with
no ill effects. He said students in
grades three through eight later ate
in the cafeteria and were stricken
with vomiting and abdominal
cramps.
Tacos, okra and peach cobbler
were served Monday.
Lab tests were being conducted
on throat cultures and samples of
vomit and food that had been air
lifted to the state Health Depart
ment lab in Oklahoma City and at
area hospitals, officials said.
Students and teachers were
rushed Monday to area hospitals by
private car and ambulance and filled
all beds in Hugo and nearby Paris,
Texas, health facilities.
At least three hospitals im
plemented “disaster plans,” bring
ing in off-duty doctors and nurses.
Choctaw County Hospital Admi
nistrator Gerald Shaeffer said the
hospital admitted 58 persons and
transferred 80 more to other hos
pitals.
“I don’t know what they ate, but it
was all over the hospital, ’ Shaeffer
said.
At Paris, Texas, McCuistion Re
gional Medical Center administrator
Jesse Hayes said eight patients were
admitted, including one in the inten
sive care unit, and 112 were treated
and released.
“They were being brought in by
ambulance and private cars,” Hayes
said.
Coalgate, Antlers and Idabel hos
pitals, in southeastern Oklahoma
near the Texas border, also treated
victims. At least 10 students were
admitted at Antlers and at least four
at Idabel, officials said.
Man wounds
3 policemen,
dies in seige
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A series of
police bullets Tuesday killed a
man who shot a policeman, barri
caded himself inside a house for
nearly three hours and then
charged out shooting, injuring
two more officers.
Police identified the victim as
Javier Sanchez, 19, who was mor
tally wounded after he opened
the back door of the house where
he had sought refuge and came
out shooting his .357 Magnum at
offieers creeping up to the home.
The siege was touched off ab
out 11 a.m. when officer Mike
Young stopped two “suspicious”
young men riding a 10-speed bi
cycle near Wheatley High
School, located about 10 blocks
south of downtown.
Witnesses said one of the two
youths pulled a small caliber pis
tol and shot Young in the leg and
index finger. The two then ran
toward a house where Sanchez
held off police until his death, and
the second
escaped.
suspect appareal
Fifteen carloads of police.]
well as a SWAT team, conveijj
upon the house.
Lour
As tar as we can understiT
there is no motive,’ said fcj
Capt. Ramiro Estrada. Hj
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Estrada said they were si
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but “we haven’t gotanyideanj
he is.”
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Herbert E. Schmidt, chairman of
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“If the main brake failed and the
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