Battalion/Page 9
September 6, 1982
national
Warped
by Scott McCuIlar
TODAY IS THE BE6/VNIWG OF
STUDENT PARKING APPRECI
ATION WEEK,"THE WEEK WHEN
ADMINISTRATORS, FACULTY
AND STAFF MUST PARK IN THE
LOTS ACROSS WELLBORN ROAD.
A4M
UPDATE
WITH
MERRITT
JENNINGS
ALL THIS WEEK ALL NON-STUDENTS
MUST GIVE UP THEIR CONVENIENT
PARKING SPACES WHERE THEY
WORK, TEACH AND RESEARCH
FOR THE REMOTE PARKING
SPACES ACROSS THE RAILROAD
TRACKS.
SIMILAR TO V 'HAND/CAPPED APPRE
CIATION DAY," WHEN OFFICIALS
SPEND A DAY IN WHEELCHAIRS,THIS
WEEK IS MEANT TO INCREASE
PEOPLE'S AWARENESS Op THE
PROBLEMS STUDENTS FACE WHEN
TRYING TO PARK ON CAMPUS.
HEY, X THINK I'M GONNA LIKE
THIS WEEK.
Apartment fire kills 18;
officials blame panic
P Leaders pledge to unify
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United Press International
R STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. —
Ku Klux Klansmen from both
sides of the Mason-Dixon line
met Saturday to try to forge a
united front and to rally around
a burning cross on Stone Moun
tain, as they have done on Labor
Day weekend for the past 57
years.
, The Klansmen, representing
at least three factions — some
from as far away as Canada —
gathered on property owned by
fGeorgia Ku Klux Klan leader
James Veneble.
The hooded order’s own
guards, none with weapons
showing, kept watch on the
front gate, marked with a “No
Trespassing” sign.
Veneble’s land is located at
the foot of Stone Mountain,
where Klan leaders say the orga
nization, founded following the
Civil War, was reborn in 1915
after being on the brink of ex
tinction.
The Klansmen chose a spot
near Stone Mountain’s business
district for their Saturday night
rally, capped by the cross
burning.
Don Black, Grand Wizard of
the Knights of the KKK, said
groups from Alabama, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Michigan and Canada were
attending the weekend meetings
to see if they could “form a un
ited front.”
Black, 29, dressed in a dark
pin-striped suit, strolled in front
of Veneble’s red-brick Klan
lodge while other Klansmen en
tered the grounds in late model
cars and pick-up trucks.
Black said the various Klan
factions were meeting separate
ly Saturday before sitting down
for the merger talks. During the
meetings, applause could be
heard inside the lodge but the
public was not allowed to enter.
“I think there will be some de
gree of working cooperation
that will lead to a unified move
ment,” Black said.
United Press International
! LOS ANGELES — A pre
dawn fire raced through a Sun
set Boulevard apartment build
ing Saturday, killing at least 18
people — including nine chil
dren — who panicked and fled
the safety of their rooms into
smoky, dark hallway deathtraps.
The bodies of mothers with
babies still in their arms were
sprawled in the charred hall
ways while, just a few feet away,
their tiny rooms were virtually
untouched by searing flames.
“A great many of those peo
ple would still be alive if they had
stayed in their rooms and waited
for firefighters,” Fire Depart
ment spokesman Ed Reedhe
said. “What happened is that
they panicked, opened the
doors, left the rooms and went
to the hallways where they were
trapped.
“The heat and smoke is what
got them.”
Fire officials said at least 26
residents were injured, six of
them critically. Some people
jumped from windows of the
four-story, Dorothy Mae apart
ment hotel near downtown to
escape the flames and dense
smoke.
Firemen tried to keep the
burned survivors — many of
them children — cool by
spraying water on them gently
and wrapping them in water-
soaked sheets before ambu
lances arrived and rushed them
to hospitals. Scores of survivors
were sheltered at a Red Cross
facility.
One resident said neighbors
caught babies who were thrown
out the windows by terrified pa
rents.
“I saw about five peoplejump
from the windows,” said Ed
Danal, 42, a construction worker
who lives across the street from
the building. “The fiames were
so intense you couldn’t go inside
without getting scorched.”
Officials said four infants and
five juveniles were among the
dead, but said it would take at
least several hours to identify
the charred bodies.
Mayor Tom Bradley and in-
2 children killed, 1 hurt as
preacher drives car into group
United Press International
age 3. SAN FRANCISCO —A street
is the; preacher, ta.unted by a band of
ited a. - letnutgers, got in his car and
.ml will drove it into a group of pedes-
s kinds! trians, smashing two children to
• exec11 death, and critically injuring
imixtiti another.
ral Am The driver was beaten merci-
nenwl! 1 ess ty by witnesses of the bloody
jlQig incident late Friday night. He
lebut was rescue( J by a nearby
• , storekeeper who used a gun to
( ^ ( hold off an angry crowd, and
” then jailed on murder charges,
orchesj Police said the mother of one
. of the dead youngsters, a hoy
ities l)V bout 3 or had taken the other
'• victim, a girl about the same age,
to the circus with her son.
) “I was just trying to do a good
iolinist deed,” said the sobbing woman
id $5.0' at the scene.
stantwi The coroner’s office said it
13,000.' was unable to identify the bodies
ybecause they had been crushed
so severely when the automobile
smashed the children against
the wall of a building.
The boy was believed to be
Lament Metoyer, and the girl
Tiffany Sommers. The injured
child was identified as 18-
month-old Griffin Tamaris.
Police said the Tamaris child’s
mother, Brenda, jumped to
safety, but the infant suffered
stokinf severe injuries and remained in
e IjqJi critical condition Saturday,
elite sup Blood was spattered for sev-
vCoriif era l yards, and the stucco and
s( s (,o, wood wall was splintered and
( | oses0 ' smeared with flesh.
ea | s (-oil [ The driver was identified as
‘tie William Daguman, 23, of San
fid wlif Francisco.
>rStu( w “He ran them down deliber-
choleP ately. It was just crazy,” said an
-nificaiH elderly man who saw the inci-
“ gjiji dent, which occurred near the
Cow Palace after a performance predominantly black neighbor- 1975 Mustang,
of Ringling Bros, circus. hood about sin and drugs. Sev- Police said he drove around
Witnesses said Daguman, a eral teenagers taunted Dagu- the block, headed the car over a
Filipino, was preaching and ca- man, who scuffled with them curb and straight into the group
joling people on the street in the and then jumped into a white of people waiting for a bus.
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terim chief fire engineer Allen
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afternoon and discounted ear
lier statements that the fire was
probably arson and that the
building violated fire and safety
codes.
They blamed the large loss of
life on panic.
Evansen said the cause of the ..
fire was still under investigation
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ing it a suspicious fire.”
The fire, described by offi
cials as “extremely hot with a
tremendous amount of smoke,” * (
was reported at 4:27 a.m. PDT,
but may have burned for half an
hour before being called in.
Nineteen engine companies!
and more than 80 firefighters
worked about an hour to exting
uish the flames, which apparent
ly broke out in a first-floor boiler
room.
Several of the initial firefigh
ters on the scene reported smelly
ing gasoline when they entered^'
the burning building, but that>!
was later discounted.
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