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United Press International
A sixth straight day of rain again
threatened the sodden Texas Hill
Country, where four people have
died, two remain missing and
2,000 had to be evacuated in wide
spread weekend flooding.
Four out-of-state sightseers
who ventured onto rocks protrud
ing from the rainswollen Perde-
nales River were swept away by
the raging river Sunday. Two
died, their bodies found in brush
in the fast moving river, and offi
cials resumed their search for the
two missing at daylight Monday.
Officials said they feared the
missing had drowned.
Although the heaviest rains
occurred Saturday night and early
Sunday, runoff from the slow-
moving storms continued to pour
into the numerous winding creeks
and rivers that cut through the
central Texas Hill Country.
Rivers and streams were at near
bankful and minor flooding was re
ported in the Universal City and
Schertz areas northeast of San
Antonio as Cibolo Creek crested 2
feet above flood stage.
A flash flood watch was in effect
Monday for much of the Hill
Country and south central Texas,
the National Weather Service
said.
Cibolo Creek crested shortly
before 4 a.m. at 19 feet, a Univer
sal City police department spokes
man said, and the Farm Road 78
bridge was closed due to high
water.
However, waters began reced
ing shortly before dawn and only
minor flooding in low areas was
reported, police said. No reports
were received of homes being
threatened by high water.
Several area creeks and rivers
were expected to crest today and
officials feared any more rainfall
would cause widespread flooding.
“We’re just watching and wait
ing,” Department of Public Safety
information officer Bill Carter
said. “Nobody knows what’s going
to happen. We re hopefully look
ing at the sky.”
The persistent storm system,
however, continued to hover
Monday over the waterlogged
area.
“We re just at the saturation
point,” said Carrol Golden of the
Kerrville Fire Department Sun
day. “If we get any rain of any
kind, it’s immediately going to run
off. If we get any heavy rain now,
we’d be in the same situation as
the floods of’78. They killed about
25 people.”
Most of the worst flooding — in
San Marcos and Austin — had be
gun receding early Sunday but
officials worried additional rains
could send the swollen waterways
over their banks again. San Mar
cos officials said late Sunday they
expected the Blanco River to crest
about 25 feet out of its banks early
today but cause only minor
flooding.
“The river has dropped about
15 feet today,” a Hays County
Sheriffs Department spokesman
said. “It crested once at about 2:30
Sunday morning and we re hoping
the Monday morning crest won’t
be so bad.”
San Marcos received more than
13 inches of rain during the
“weekend, forcing evacuation of
1,700 residents of the picturesque
town of 22,000 located at the foot
of the Hill Country. Most people
were allowed to return home on
Sunday but some, upon surveying
the damage, turned around and
returned to emergency shelters.
“Some went home but they
can’t stay there because their
clothes, mattresses and other be
longings were damaged too heavi
ly,” said Red Cross spokesman Ro
ger Colunga. “Some lady called to
complain that she couldn’t stay in
her house because there were
snake tracks on the floors.
Rains ceased during the night
and all roads in Hays County were
open, although a flash flood watch
remained in effect, a sheriffs de
partment spokesman said
Monday.
In Austin, about 30 miles to the
north, most of the 100 Onion
Creek subdivision families evacu
ated by helicopter and four-wheel
drive vehicles the night before re
turned to their homes despite
warnings more rain could send
Onion Creek over its banks again.
Residents of the capital city, site
of Memorial Day weekend flood
ing that killed 13 and caused mil
lions of dollars worth of damage,
again Sunday found themselves
cleaning up.
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AUSTIN — Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Monday proposed a $469.8 million rate increase for
its Texas customers, 87 percent of which would come
from increases for local telephone service.
Paul Roth, vice president for revenues and public-
airs, said the “substantial” local rate increases
ere necessary because revenues from longdistance
Jates can no longer continue to subsidize losses from
local rate charges.
| “Local service is price well below cost,” he said.
■Rates for the service must cover more of the costs.
The time is here for local service to begin standing on
its own.
I The proposed increase would mean a charge of
■5.45 per month for one-party local residence ser
vice, and up to $14.40 per month for one-party busi
ness local service.
E The compariy also asked the Public Utility Com
mission for increase in private line services, touch
tone services and custom calling charges. No in
creases were proposed for long distance, WATS,
coin calls or directory assistance charges.
I Last year Southwestern Bell asked the PUC for a
$326.3 million increase, but the regulatory agency
reduced the request to $114.3 million earlier this
year. Last November the telephone company insti
tuted, under bond, a $152.8 million rate increase.
The telephone company appealed the Texas Sup
reme Court for an injunction to allow Bell to con
tinue the $152.8 million rate increase after the PUC
approved only the $114.3 increase. The court denied
the telephone company’s request last month, and
$22.5 million are currently being refunded to cus
tomers.
Roth said the court’s denial did not affect the
company’s proposed rate increase.
“We would have filed this rate increase request
regardless of the appeal, ” he said. “The PUC has just
not given us sufficient rate increases.”
Roth also said competition on long distance ser
vices by other companies was a reason revenues from
that service could no longer subsidize losses from
local service.
“Increases in long distance service would only lead
to further erosion of our revenues,” he said. “If
anything long distance rates should go down.”
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two inmates per cell said Monday
a Supreme Court ruling that dou
ble-celling in Ohio is legal does
not signal reversal of the Texas de
cision.
| Attorney Donna Brorby of San
Francisco told UPI by telephone
she had not read the opinion early
Monday but had inquired about it
and believed the Ohio and Texas
f ases were significantly different.
“The lower court (in Ohio)
found that housing two people in a
65-square-foot cell was per se a
constitutional violation,” Brobry
laid. “The Supreme Court is tell
ing us now that that’s not true.
“But the Ohio case is nothing
IJike the Texas case. In Texas, we
have old buildings, instead of new
buildings. And we have 45-
|.vsquare-foot cells instead of 65-
Square foot cells. Forty-five
Square feet is substantially less.
T “The bottom line in Texas is
we’re not talking about just a little
bit of crowding. We re talking ab
out crowding which has had a
■nalignant effect on every aspect of
prison life.
I “fm sure it (the new Supreme
Court ruling) is not controlling. As
amatter of law, I don’t think it has
much to do with our case at all.
■The Supreme Court hasn’t made a
^definitive ruling in this area. And
it still hasn’t.”
| Texas Attorney General Mark
[White, Texas Department of Cor
rections officials and Justice De-
—Partment lawyers who partici
pated in the case were not im
mediately available for comment.
In a sweeping prison reform de
cree, U.S. District Judge William
Wayne Justice earlier this year
Jrdered TDC to end the practice
of housing two inmates per 45-
squarc-fopt cell by Aug. 1, 1983.
Texas has indicated it will
appeal that ruling.
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