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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981
Wo men questioned in connection
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Fake bomb found at bank door
United Press International
tunnel J DEKALB — Two men were
est i n: ; ptioned in Idabel, Okla., con-
ng a fake bomb that was
:d at the door of DeKalb State
in an apparent robbery
pt, but authorities would not
rm if they were suspects in
ase.
“A van they were driving fit the
description of one seen in the
neighborhood of the bank early
Tuesday,” Bowie County Deputy
Sheriff Dwayne Cannon said.
Officers from the Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety, the FBI and
the Bowie County Sheriffs de
partment questioned the two
Tuesday, Cannon said. Officials
would not say whether they were
released or kept in custody.
A device initially believed to be
a bomb and two men were spotted
by a bank employee at 7 a.m.
Tuesday. The sack on the bank’s
back door contained only a port
able radio, officials said.
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MARILLO — Amarillo air-
officials said eight striking
rollers who have offered to re-
to their jobs unconditionally
lot work until President
changes his stance on their
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1 TIf® 18 telegram mailed to control
1 ilvjwer chief J.V. Vinyard, striking
mtrollers at the Amarillo In-
iational Airport announced
day they were giving up the
;e and were prepared to return
'ork, but the FAA refused to
them their jobs back,
al union president Eugene
ler said he and seven striking
bers of the Professional Air
gitrollers Organization sent the
jgram to Vinyard,- stating the
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uld notwBc “unconditionally. ”
wheretlwhuler said Vinyard allowed
tantlynkM returning workers into the
pwer complex only to state FAA
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gineer who saw their speedboat
circling wildly out of control and
made a daring leap onto the ves
sel, authorities said.
Bill Jennings, was credited
Monday with saving Bill Dryer,
39, and James Walker, 43, who
were knocked unconscious when
their 26-foot boat collided with a
buoy in the Houston Ship
Channel.
Dryer, who suffered cuts on his
throat when he crashed into the
windshield, was reported in fair
condition Monday at John Sealy
Hospital in Galveston. Walker
had a collapsed lung and three
broken ribs and was in serious
condition, a hospital spokesman
said.
Dryer and Walker were plea
sure boating Sunday when their
craft, the “Hot Stuff, ” crashed into
the buoy.
“They were not paying atten
tion to what they were doing and
drove into the buoy, ” Petty Offic
er Matthew Walter said.
Friends in another boat were
unable to get close and summoned
the Coast Guard, which dispatch
ed a 41-foot utility boat.
“Our engineer. Bill Jennings,
jumped onto the boat, stopped it
and killed the engine,” Walter
said.
Jennings said, “When our crew
got there, that was the only way to
get on the boat and stop it. We
tried to throw lines aboard but
they kept getting tangled up. So
jumping was the next thing.”
He said when the out of control
vessel got close to the Coast Guard
utility boat, “I got hold of the rail
ings of both boats. Then the small
boat started moving away and I let
go of ours and somehow ended up
on the small boat. The men were
unconscious so I just shut the en
gines down to neutral and took
control of it.”
Jennings agreeing that his man
euver was somewhat dangerous,
said: “I don’t know how I ended up
going (aboard). I didn’t really have
time to think about it — I guess I
was the closest one.”
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Jisti long PATCO members who
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ta shorter work week and better
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chessefeagan. Federal employees are
r laborat bhibited by law from striking,
’vtiet’s' The Amarillo controllers’ effort
egain their jobs contrasted
rallies held by PATCO work-
elsewhere in the country pro-
ing Reagan’s action and vow-
to continue the strike.
In Dallas, PATCO members
I ithered for their first Labor Day
cnic, saying they had been un
de to hold them before because
(many of controllers were work-
ig on the holiday.
But in Amarillo, Shuler con-
snded the FAA and the president
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“We have done all we can,” he
lid “Management has won this
pG ling and we are at their mercy. ”
Controller John Lake, local Un
vice president, said, “We are
itrollers and we want to go back
work.”
Dave Tidwell, who stated last
lonth he was glad to be out of the
•Wer and on strike, was one of the
irkers who asked to be rein-
ited Monday.
marillo airport officials said
ough the tower is understaffed
13 people, the eight striking
kers will not be allowed to re-
im to work until the president
langes his policy on the firings.
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The employee, who was not
identified, saw a note on the rear
door of the bank attached to an
“Army back pack” with a walkie-
talkie protruding from it, said De-
Kalb police Sgt. Herman McCul
lough.
“The note said a rifle was
pointed at the employee’s back
and that the employee should put
on the back pack,” McCullough
said. “At that point, the employee
dropped the note and ran.”
Don Moore, who lives a half
block from the bank, said he was
going out to get a newspaper and
saw a white van backing out of his
drive.
“I noticed it had Oklahoma
plates and just wrote the license
number down,” he said.
A few moments later at the cafe.
Moore said the bank employee
came running in.
“I figured it had to be the same
van and gave the police the license
number,” he said.
Authorities said they traced the
license to Idabel.
During the period the “bomb”
was being examined, authorities
evacuated an entire downtown
block.
Army explosives experts from
Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas ex
amined the device at the bank for
40 minutes before dismantling it
and pronouncing it a “hoax” con
structed from a portable radio.
DeKalb, with a population of
2,000, is located in the northeast
part of Texas near the Arkansas-
Oklahoma border.
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