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ge 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1980 Town begins cleanup ifter tornadoes strike state United Press International LUND — Pedro and Laura Cohen ecked piles of wood and twisted etal for the remains of personal be- ngings Tuesday. A few miles across e black Central Texas farmland, *ed Lundgren looked over a pile of bble that a day earlier had been 11 actors, 35 trailers and assorted her farm equipment. A tornado that dipped from the ouds shortly before dusk Monday id torn away half of the renthouse le Cohen’s occupied in Manda, ten moved steadily across the roll- ig plains through the old Swedish immunity of Lund, damaging more than 30 homes, dozens of buildings and snapping power lines. There were four persons injured in the storm line that sent tornadoes into three counties, and one person was killed in Round Rock when a two-story house collapsed. Lundgren saw the storm approaching and fled his house. Cohen had only a few minutes warn ing, and nervously rode out the winds in his bathtub. “I saw it about 500 yards away,” Cohen said. “I opened what win dows I could and turned off the pow er, then I got in the bathtub and put a blanket on my head and prayed a lot. It was a freaky thing when you could hear the wood breaking apart, and the insulation falling on your head.” Oilspill problems to return In the rural area around Manda and Lund, neighbors converged Tuesday to help repair damages and salvage building material and per sonal belongings scattered across the plowed fields. to Texas coast this summer EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PROFESSORS, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK! AVAILABLE AT: Heaton Hall Kleberg Library Rudder Tower Sbisa Zachary PROFESSOR EVALUATION BOOKLET A century-old Lutheran church that has been the center of Lund for generations was moved 10 to 15 feet off its foundation, leaving its pews in place and stained glass windows un broken. Members Tuesday carefully carried out songbooks and other materials to a house next door, which also served as a Red Cross center. “Somebody get a hammer to get this door off, then we need some strong men to take out the organ,” one church member shouted to a group of men in denims and baseball caps who stood outside discussing the oddities of the storm that moved the large church, but left a small house beside it undamaged. Electrical crews worked Tuesday to restore power to the area, and turned back cars near Lundgren’s white farmhouse where a major powerline lay across the road. United Press International CORPUS CHRISTI — Although the Coast Guard and optimistic tour ist officials would like to believe otherwise, two scientists Tuesday warned that tar from the world’s largest oilspill may blacken the Texas coast again this spring and summer. “I would anticipate quite a lot of oil,” Arnold Bouma, geologist in charge of the U.S. Geological Sur vey’s Office of Marine Geology in Corpus Christi, said. He said if there are sustaining southeasterly winds, the situation at the coast can be expected to be the way it was in August and September, when an estimated 2 million gallons of sticky, smelly crude drove tourists away from Padre Island and cost businessmen millions of dollars. Dr. C.A. Bedinger, manager of biological research for Southwest Research Institute’s Houston labor atories, said, “I have to base my statements on my experience as a biologist, but I’ll stick my neck out and say, yes, there’ll probably be a heck of a lot more of it.” Coast Guard officials last month predicted there would be no major oil washups, but said ecological dam age cannot be determined for several years. Mexicanos, the Mexican oil monopo- Bouma and Bedinger reported “tar reefs” now lie in “guts” extend ing from the first coastal sandbar, and that southeasterly winds might bring more weathered oil toward Texas as currents shift from their southerly flow to northwesterly as the seasons change. Bedinger, who will head up a pri vate $66,000 private environmental study along 100-mile long Padre Is land from Port Aransas to Port Isabel, told reporters most scientists heretofore have downplayed any ecological damage from the oil that spewed into Mexico’s Bay of Cam peche for eight months until the well was capped March 22. opo- ly that owned Ixtoc I, have dis counted any damage to marine organisms from the spill, Bedinger said the marine environment has already been damaged. He recently completed a study of environmental effects of offshore drilling platforms for the U.S. Bureau of Management. “From a personal viewpoint, I can tell you that my conversations indi cate there has been ecological dam age. We have identified an area where we think the most likely dam age can be seen. It is obvious that these heavy areas of oil contamina tion are in a very dynamic zone right on the beach. During their weather ^ ing and decomposition, it’s fairlyeii' dent that they will be producing! many tarballs that will hit thebeaci 1 in an area of high dynamic popula tions. “Organisms that live in the area are quite likely to be affected, just from exposure as well as ingestion This area also is the known spawning ground for white shrimp, for exam pie, which should get started in the spring spawn in the next month o: so. If that near shore has enougho£ to damage the white shrimp spam we hope that we’d be able to shot this.” be wt thi ter api th dis bre lib th ing tec Doctor, hospital sued in deaths of triplets 1 Something Good is Cooking Under Our Bright Blue Roof! 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Carolyn Gilcrease of Hobbs, N.M., named Memorial Hospital and Dr. Wyatt A. Howell as codefen dants and asked for a jury trial. Gilcrease’s petition alleges Howell knowingly and improperly induced labor after having admitted her to Memorial Hospital on March 4, 1979, then left the hospili Nurses checked the expectit mother. When she had not delivered tk babies a day later, the petition state X-rays determined she was canyi; triplets. The babies were later delivered: Methodist Hospital by Cesareanset tion. All three died shortly the® ter, the petition states. The hospital is named asi codefendant, the petition states,! not requiring the physician tofolfe usual childbirth procedures. CO-OP INTERVIEW DAYS FOR SUMMER & FALL, 1980 CO-OP JOB OPENINGS AGRIC. BUSINESS ADMIN. LIBERAL ARTS VET. MED. (BIMS) EMPLOYER LOCATION(S) Brookhaven Country Club Dallas/Ft. Worth AgEc Hort PPS Mgmt Champion International Corporation Huntsville, Livingston, Corrigan, Woodville, or Cleveland For. 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