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tate ulal tornadoes touch Galveston THE BATTALION Page 5B WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1981 ■' < ctoti Three brothers die in flood consumers ) Gardner, a ctices are tl e exception will| ies. ise of one bad bole bunch,” i 1 that in one in who had infined to a itened bycolledji lim “a United Press International Three brothers drowned in ing near Shiner and at least en tornadoes touched down in Iveston in a Gulf storm that iped up to 16 inches of rain on :s of southeast and south cen- Texas. | Shiner Mayor Arthur Ward lid 17-year-old Glenn Mights and |o of his brothers — Johnny, 15, id Bradford, 13 — drowned ear- ■Monday trying to escape rising ct nases fV > ters on Rocky Creek in Lavaca L,rc fr- 100 miles eas * rf Sa " calls and ii| * l * * * * ™" urth brothei% 16-year-old leg Mights, survived the flood o Commission h lich swept away the family’s oh to grant or if? |obile home. He was rescued as it is granted, pii|( he clung to a tree in the swollen e held on thepupfeek. If they denylh* The boys’ father, Glenn easonforthertjuHights, was working in San Anto- iven in writing, nio, and their mother, Mozella ■ghts, was in a San Antonio hos pital with undisclosed complica- 9 Kns when the floodwaters . ___ Bproached. No one else was in ' 1 ft the home. ■Authorities said the brothers ijparently heard the water and •"l /I ^ ree w ^° went * nto a | I rj mme house in front of their ■bile home while Greg went speth was oiitsii onto r0 °f of the frame house od line, eitherl|j mposter, fore cannot htt d Hughes, in 1976 leavinp 1 at $163 millioti about 4:30 a.m. The bodies were found more than four hours later over a half mile stretch of the creek about a mile downstream from where the mobile home and frame house were, said Shiner justice of the peace Daniel Peters. The heavy rains, unofficially measured up to 16 inches within 24 hours in some areas, were sparked by remnants of a tropical depression that pushed inland over south Texas. As many as four other people were reported missing in Hallett- sville, 10 miles east of Shiner. “Witnesses saw three people in a car get washed away,’’ Lavaca County Deputy Sheriff Sheila Perkins said. “Other people saw a man get swept away and we found his lunch bucket nearby.” She said the reports were un confirmed. However, a Department of Public Safety spokesman in Vic toria said the DPS had reports of only two men missing in Hallett- sville. The spokesman identified them as Herman Reyna of Yoakum and Sam Goode Jr. of Hallett- sville. “Their vehicles were found abandoned near the flood area,” the spokesman said. “They are presumed missing.” Officials abandoned their search for the men at dark Monday and planned to resume looking Tuesday. In Galveston, officials reported seven tornadoes touched down by late Monday, tearing the roof off of the Broadway movie theater downtown and damaging an air port hanger. Winds at the muni cipal airport were clocked at up to 92 mph. Strong winds caused a 430-foot freighter, the Amoa, to break loose from its moorings at Pier 22 of the Galveston Wharves. Steve dore Mario Flores said the wind picked the ship up, whirled it around and rammed it into a Del Monte ship. The island received 10.5 inches of rain in a 13-hour period begin ning at 8 a.m. Officials said there were scattered reports of injuries, but could not say if any were se rious. Widespread flooding in Hous ton forced the Metropolitan Tran sit Authority to pull all 350 buses off the streets at noon, stranding 80,000 commuters, but bus runs restarted when rains slowed later in the day. South American fire ants the move westward , brothers, sM S and awardeib| United Press International of the HuM ;LUBBOCK — The red im- tg heirs ofHujfe , || rtec l fire ant, already a pest to ■mers and outdoorsmen in nine ■ithem states, is on the march r jury is heWand researchers at Texas Tech vhether ElspMiversity are trying to find ways was a legitimrlb eliminate it. t Hughes. If 11 The quarter-inch long ants, aims by herd® lich are native to South America i-sister and t nd known for their powerful :p-brother. (ing, are “extending their do- yer for 400distil Bin,” says Texas Tech etomolog- d a 1977 fail it Dr. Oscar F. Francke. livide the eslt i “Can they go as far as the dry relatives, indi: Was of far west Texas or Arizona? io claim throii| I'll they survive in the High |ins of Texas? We do not know. ” |The pesky ants are prodigious rge Parnhamss iilders and Franke says they ing of the jury 4 fistructhuge mounds that dam- uires close fai ; ? farm equipment and impede ify Elspeth w; harvesting. The mounds are usually 1V4 feet high with dia meters up to three feet. Core samples from newly dril led water wells show the ants can burrow down to 25 feet in the ground to reach water tables. Cold weather and arid condi tions are two of the ants’ enemies, and etomologists are not sure how far west and north the ants can spread. Francke is currently ex perimenting with temperature and humidity conditions under which red imported fire ants can survive. He hopes the answers will allow accurate predictions of how far the insect will spread. The ants can be found south of a shifting line running west from South Carolina to the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma. The western flank is a line running from Dallas to just west of San Antonio, near Bandera. Although freezing tempera tures are recorded in much of the area, the fire ants can survive tem perature and humidity extremes by staying inside their mounds. Franke said if ground tempera tures rise, the ants go deeper into the mounds. He said they are amazingly resi lient, foraging at night during hot summers and only during the war mest part of winter days. Franke says he is now trying to develop a new, slow-acting pesti cide that the ants will carry back to their nests after foraging. ted to a clause: pacifying any» •eement trying 3e excluded fc state. Specialists question miracle surgery H MALL ■9315 >AT 10-6 INDAY United Press International ) — Some north Texas Jje specialists claim a new and implc surgery they have been ex- erimenting with for three years minates the need for eyeglasses nearsighted persons but the tional Eye Institute warns the iperation remains unpredictable. The institute has appropriated $2.4 million to eight medical iooIs to conduct a five-year dy to determine the short- and ig-term side effects of the oper- Son, known as radial keratotomy. The specialists, however, feel : success of the operation has been proven and say the funding is |» waste of money. “The federal study is a duplica- fon of effort,” said Dr. Ronald ichachar, a Denison eye specialist who says he has performed 700 of operations with his brother, j Schachar said federal officials Were disregarding research done trough the private practice of phthamology and that data could >e easily obtained from the pri vate sector. IHowever, the 10,000-member merican Academy of Ophthal mology has sided with the insti tute and warned the operation ust only be considered ex- rimental. Institute officials, in calling for 4c study, said surgeons pre- nted inadequate information iring a June meeting at which tticy’d been asked to furnish data Hid did not include complete fol- Wups on patients. The institute estimates some 3ti) specialists have performed LOGO radial keratotomies across 4e nation. More than 800 such operations have been performed tt Dallas, Denison and Sherman, Be institute said. I The operation, which involves ^ incision in the cornea, costs ab- <Hit $1,000 and the specialists say Icould have far-reaching implica tions for the estimated 40 million Americans who suffer from myopia or nearsightedness, i Dallas defense attorney Richard |jnderson said he had been legally in both eyes and had been Rearing glasses since the third ade. After three operations, he id, he has 20-20 vision and no Inger needs glasses. I But institute officials said an Oklahoma operating room nurse Undergoing the operation suffered O'ercorrection in one eye and Hndercorrection in another eye. lasses can no longer correct her sion adequately and she faces problems in her occupation, the sey of the University of Oklahoma, officials said. who has performed 220 such oper- “I think that patients aren’t ations and will participate in the being adequately informed of the proposed institute study. “They risks and complications from the ar 6 being persuaded to have the surgery,” said Dr. J. James Row- surgery prematurely, he said. 500KPACKS THAT LAST... ^Lifetime. Guarantee^ SEE. OOR LfcRQE SELECTION SEFORE VOU &UY *\qo 0FF ANY PACK \N STOCK WITH THIS COUTOU GOOD THRU SEPT. 30,19SV WHOLE LARTH PROVISION COMPANY 105 Boyett 046-8794 In the Aldine area of north Houston, more than 100 students were forced to stay after school Monday because roads leading to their subdivisions were flooded. As flooded areas cleared at night, the students were taken home. Classes were canceled at the University of Houston and Texas Southern University because of street flooding on the southside of downtown. National Guardsmen were ordered to Hallettsville and other flooded communities to prevent looting. Police officer Jimmy Bums said there were several incidents of looting in Kenedy and other inci dences were reported in Hallett sville. Several hundred people were evacuated from Hallettsville, Shiner and Moulton with all three cities mostly submerged from floodwaters and remained in eva cuation shelters late Monday, a DPS spokesman in Victoria said. Glistening honeysuckle Photo by Becky Swanson Students at Texas A&M were probably honeysuckle probably welcomed it after disheartned at having to attend their first several weeks of dry weather. The deluge day of class in the rain, but this of rain resulted from a Gulf storm. COLD HARD CASHt FOR YOUR USED BOOKS NOW! 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