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Page 14 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1980 Four killed in plane crash Tllfts * S tuff i XI c Ifel LlPi Ln £ United Press International HOUSTON — Four bodies have been recovered from an airplane that crashed into a reservoir unreported and was undiscovered for nearly 24 hours, authorities said. Officials said the twin-engine plane was found in Lynchburg Re servoir in northeast Houston about 1:30 p.m. Monday. Two men, a woman and a 4-or 5-year-old child were found dead. The plane crashed Sunday night. Harris County sheriffs deputies said residents of the area reported hearing a plane in distress but no one saw the crash, and a preliminary search turned up nothing. Another plane crashed in northwest Harris County the same night. Two of the Lynchburg Reservoir crash victims were identified as Eduardo Henera, 46, of Miami, Fla., and William May, 53, of Basile, La. Officials said the plane was en route from Phoenix, Ariz. to Lake Charles, La. Wayne cares. So do we. 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Hospitality & Basement Committees ‘Fixture’calls it quits in local government United Press International MIDDLETON CORNERS, N.H. — This town of fewer than 600 resi dents boasts the state’s largest flag, one of its oldest churches — and the Tufts family, a fixture in local govern ment for nearly a century. Until just recently, a Tufts family member had served on Middleton Corner’s three-member board of selectmen since at least 1887. That’s as long as Clyde Tufts, 78, can re member and he spent 43 years on the board himself. Tufts shared the local civic chores with his grandfather, father and uncle. But the family tradition of keeping an eye on local government recently ended when the wiry widower de cided he was through with small town politics. A dispute with another selectman was “making my blood boil quite a lot,” Tufts said. So on March 1, with two years left on his term, Tufts handed in his walking papers. With brown suspenders breaching the girth between his blue trousers and plaid flannel shirt, Tufts settled into an armchair in his trailer home and spewed forth the memories that have helped to write the town’s his tory. Tufts saw electricity and the auto mobile come to Middleton Comers in the 1920s. Running water was in stalled in the Town Hall in the mid- 1950s and toilets were added in 1962. “Before that we had to run out to the sheds out back, ” he chuckled, his blue eyes disappearing into grizzled cheeks as he broke into a grin. The town bought its first snow plow, built a fire house and hired a Police Department during his te nure. And it was Tufts’ grumping about the town’s main drag being “so rough a dog couldn’t get over it” that prompted the state to pave the first road in Middleton Comers, a quar ter-mile stretch that runs past Tufts’ house on Middleton Hill. The selectman’s job paid $25 for two years. So to support himself, Tufts worked as a carpenter and con struction supervisor. “I moved up to field superinten dent and couldn’t even write my own name,” he said. His formal schooling stopped at 13 so he could help support his 16 brothers and sisters. “I graduated from DiPrizio’s,” Tufts said, referring to the lumber company down the road where he still stops in “to make sure they don’t take my name off the payroll.” Tufts learned enough writing “to do for a selectman” and made it through “with the help of the missus.” “She kept the books,” he mused. His wife Eva died two years ago of cancer. Tufts also was president of the Middleton Comers’ Old Home Asso ciation, which evolved in 100 years from a picnic club to the town’s most respected civic organization. The association bought the town New Hampshire’s largest flag, a 26- by-40 foot piece of cloth bedecked with 46 stars. It flies between two flagpoles on at least one August day each year. The association also holds services once a year in one of the state’s oldest churches, a 1795 structure that town fathers jacked up and built a town hall underneath. Man of a thousan boats builds his k gavENSEN-s Super Meal Deal Get a FREE Super Soda or Treasure Island Float with the purchase of any Sandwich or Hamburger. (Save $1.15- $1.45) ANY TIME WE’RE OPEN Culpepper Plaza • College Station Open.- 11:30 Mon.-Sat. • Noon Sunday ^n'M'n'nVTnVM 1 f dt di i^TnT United Press International HARKERS ISLAND, N.C. — The early spring sun hung low above the sound, harshly illuminating the tent where 71-year-old Earl Rose is building his 1,000th — and last — boat. After a 52-year career constructing everything from 14-foot skiffs to 65- foot yachts, Rose’s finale is in the form of a 39-foot commercial fishing vessel. But Rose doesn’t plan on retiring once he finishes the “Eloise” (named for a granddaughter) this summer. He said he will use the boat as a commercial fisherman, and stay in that job until he dies. “I hope when I pass on and go over I’ll be aboard that boat,” he said with a laugh. “I’ve never looked forward to retirement. I don’t want no easy life. I only deserve what I work for. ” The son of a whaler, Rose grew up on now-deserted Cape Lookout and Harkers Island. He never attended school past the fourth grade and nev er had electricity in his home until he was in his 30s. By the time he was 15, Rose was laboring on a tugboat in Chesapeake Bay. But then the Depression hit, forcing him to return to Harkers Is land and build boats for $1 a day. During World War II he ran crews at Portsmouth, Va., sometimes working around the clock to repair crippled ships. Rose said those years gave him a toughness that he claims isn’t in peo ple who grew up since World War II. actually tSXyto e^n’a living," he said. “They’ve had too much of a Tufts’ political retiremejlj^ been short, just about at local residents tried to mil ■] shorter. __ At Middleton Corners'll^’ town meeting in March, theia mounted an 11th hourwritei, paign to put Tufts back on thetw For th men’s board. It fell two votej|Texas At the top were pc College zine. Texas Conferei Arkansas Houston 17th. /'It Kent, T< was one gravy train. Before World llibeen rea you take a boy like me. IfUsakl the something I had to work toKtoj hold “But since World WarIItritonro turned over, changed. Aniiteam is 1 young men, young girls ^p. fWe’ri automobiles. Their parentsfccan get e them gas. They just have a die said. r the young men that you hire Mo [move and time, they ain’t worth r and 13t they don’t know nothin arrcpining t won’t try to learn nothin, matches Rose started his own boathf^nt, I firm in 1946, workingwitha hon and brother who stayed with him Reckoned died last year. During thosewM^he A built all types of boats, incite a™! have that cost $450,000. s °n and Rose never advertised, bii'2P emso n never lacked for work beca. close ma pie from as far away as M tournamt Massachusetts and Missouri l^e sar asking him to build boats. ‘ n SV “Each boat was its ownad»»The mi ment, he said. ^& s ' s C01 He said he especially lik«:j*W ! sign boats, coming up withvaif® sc ( , 01 on the Harkers Island boat:- 1 '. 3 1 1 stl that is wellknown along the a 1 Seaboard. He draws blueprints wheiw 1 1 tomer demands them, biitili/J 1 ', ? “Eloise” the drawings are! L R ' head. l.f’ Wind ma Rose said he will turn the ter over to one of his two sons 41 quits, although he wondersln they’ll be able to stand the *| Rose said there will henera? no champagne broken aerrapt bow when the last boatisfiii| u,, “If there were champae» BOSTC probably drink it,” he said, Robey say tai n rn < UNIVERSITY CENTER I ines the SCHEDULING NOTICES" APPLICATIONS FOR MEETING ROOMS IN TO UNIVERSITY CENTER COMPLEX FOR RECG ;ics in >eries wit] NIZED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS, ANight at GOVERNING BODIES WILL BE ACCEPTED Ffe- THE 1980 FALL SEMESTER (SEPTEMBER 1 CEMBER 12, 1980) IN THE SCHEDULING 0FFI 2ND FLOOR RUDDER TOWER BEGINNING Alt A.M., TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1980. APPLJCATlf FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED IN THE SCHEDW OFFICE, 2ND FLOOR, RUDDER TOWER. Attention Senior Women If you are a member of Alpha Lambt Delta and have maintained a 3.5 or belt then you are eligible for a Senior Certifi from the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Sod ty. 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