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,age 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, June 1, 1983 T PUTT THEATRES SKAGGS OEiNTFIR 1346-6714 ‘CHAINED HEAT” (R) 1:15-3:30-5:45-8:00-10:00 “BREATHLESS” (R) 1AWM:13^;30-^U5-10j0O Sherrif officials predict more avalanche trouble 1*45-3:00-5:lV-7:3«^9:45.S, CINEMA III POST OAK MALL 764-0616 ‘BLUE THUNDER” (R) 2:30-4:55-7:20-9:45 Dan AykrQyd as "DR. DETROIT” (R) 2:00-4:00-6:00-0:00-10:00 ‘FLASHDANCE” (R) 1:45-3:45-5:45-7:45-9:50 5 SCHULMAN THEATRES OFF ADULT TICKET ^ ■ 1st SHOW EACH DAY SCHULMAN 6 775-2463 775-2468 2002 E. 29th 2:40 5:00 7:20 9:40 SPACE HUNTER ’> IN 3D 2:45 5:05 7:15 9:30 SPACE RAIDERS 2:40 5:00 7:20 9:40 SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES 2:45 5:05 7:15 9:30 LONE WOLF McQUADE United Press International RENO, Nev. -r— Sheriff s offic ers searched Tuesday for more victims of a giant mudslide that rolled down a steep mountain and narrowly missed two parks filled with Memorial Day pic nickers and crushed houses clos ing two highways. One man, a pastor working on a friend’s house, was con firmed dead. Washoe County Sheriff Vince Swinney said six people were hurt and other vic tims might be trapped beneath the deep layer of rocks, mud and debris that was up to 15 feet deep. Residents of at least three plush houses fled to safety and watched the torrent demolish theij~ homes and sweep vehicles and horses away. Some were able to return home Tuesday. “There are some areas where the mud is 15 to 18 feet deep and if people got caught in there ear ly, they could be buried and nev er recovered,” Swinney said. Authorities were checking license plates of the mired vehi cles to see if they belonged to missing campers, hikers or fishermen. One official had re ported three people were killed, but Swinney said he could not confirm the number of dead. “We won’t know until we can check all reports of possible mis sing persons and thoroughly search the mud,” he said. Thousands of people, out for a day in the country in the 90 degree sunshine, were told to leave parks shortly after the dis aster below 9,694 foot Slide Mountain, about 20 miles south of Reno. “It looked like a huge wave of chocolate pudding,” said Rick Talovic, 24, who watched the spectacle with his fiancee from the shoulder of U.S. 395. “The flow was coming down from the top of the canyon and was pouring out like a water fall,” he said. “When it hit the valley where all the cars were, it flipped over a yellow school bus. There were several dozen cows freaking out and running back and forth.” The avalanche, touched off by a heat wave that melted the snowpack on Slide Mountain, first rumbled through Upper Price Lake, at the 8,000-foot level. It accumulated enough force from the tons of water in that lake to power through Low er Price Lake a half-mile below, punching out its earthen dam. The avalanche slammed into about 20 expensive homes, de molishing three and severely damaging the others. Cars, trees, propane gas tanks and other debris tumbled into the slide as it began to fan out on a half-mile-wide front, swirling into the blue Lake Wasse in the valley at the foot of the moun tain. Swinney said the avalanche rolled down the steep incline of the mountain about 3 miles, a vertical drop of about 4,500 feet. Joseph Valenzuala, 36, of Gardnerville, Nev., was killed in the slide. He’d been helping a friend remodel his house and his crushed body was found under a truck. The injured people, suffering from shock, crushed ribs and leg injuries, were taken to nearby hospitals. Swinney said the heat wave also could affect many other areas in the Sierra Nevada. Already a mudslide precipitated by melting snow has closed a sec tion of U.S. 50 about 20 miles from the Slide Mountain avalan che, and three days ago a huge mudslide caved in several homes about 20 miles away on the Cali fornia side of Lake Tahoe. “Because of the supersatu rated earth, the steep terrain and the snow melt, it could hit anywhere in the Sierras,” Swin ney said. Helicopters searched the de vastated area until dark Mon day, and volunteers with picks and shovels poked through the rubble looking for signs of life. The search effort was ex pected to continue for at least three more days and included a check of license plates of cars found buried in the mud to find out if the owners were safe. Fee-lines 2:30 4:50 7:25 9:45 MY TUTOR 2:30 4:50 7:25 9:45 TOOTSIE MANOR EAST III 822-8300 MANOR EAST MALL 4^004:40 7:20 9:55 RETURN OF THE JEDI Dolby 3 2:35 4:35 7:25 9:45 . THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER JJ!, l 2:45i:05 T-M 9:5tr !J " ,Wa "’ a STILL SMOKIN SKYWAY TWIN 822-3300 2000 E.29th HIGH ROAD EAST TO CHINA BEST FRIENDS MfBQl-THE ENTITY OTE9 ■ VISITING HOURS Depending on your last name you either got a -»• -r • • • 1 short break or a long haul. Students were Virginia growers namecl stacked in the familiar lines again to pay fees. a in harvest-related suit i An Apple for the Teacher. .71 BARGAINS FOR YOyj Battalion Advertising Serving Luncheon Buffet J. Sunday through Friday | 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. , t Delicious Food Beautiful View -<§£■ Open to the Public United Press International Cigarette smokers could be puffing away on tobacco har vested by foreign workers at the expense of unemployed Amer icans who needed a job. Attorneys for Texas Rural Legal Aid in Laredo and Here ford have accused the Virgina Agricultural Growers Associa tion, VAGA, of offering paid transportation to foreign work ers but failing to give American workers the same opportunity. A Washington D.C. attorney representing VAGA denies the charge, and the incident is under investigation by the U.S. Labor Department in Philadel phia. The issue involves the tire some, labor-intensive work of harvesting tobacco and the de sire of growers, according to TRLA, to hire the most docile and manageable workforce to do it. Judge says FBI liable in beating “Quality First” The Diamond Store Introduces A Special Texas A&M University Student Charge Account If you are a junior, senior or graduate student, stop by Zales and apply for your account today. The Diamond Store Post Oak Mall 764-0016 Manor East Mall 822-3731 United Press International KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Freedom Rider beaten by a mob of white segregationists at an Alabama bus station more than 20 years ago may sue the FBI for damages. The ruling was a victory for Walter Bergman, 84, of Grand Rapids, who filed a $1 million lawsuit claiming the govern ment was at least partly respon sible for the attack at the Annis ton, Ala., bus staton on May 14, 1961. The suit determines the gov ernment was liable for damages. The actual amount Bergman might receive, however, would have to be determined in a sepa rate action. In an 83-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Richard A. En- slen said there was sufficient evi dence to indicate the FBI was aware of planned violence against Freedom Riders but took no action to prevent it. rvn tht L r wa n me ' piat r forced overdi judges ■ebts spouse knew there was a conspiracytd tween the Ku Klux Klan aam police departments in AnnistsM, ■ ^ and Birmingham, Ala., B E rc - mount violent attacks agaiiisB - ^ the Freedom Riders. t At his trial, Bergman clainv! jj 0me he suffered crippling injuriesuB an indirect result ol the atuc‘| p , r , leaving him wheelchair-bout SH( . | (i for life. Other Freedom Ridei j t() se jj both black and white, aisowertp beaten. Bergman, a former professtl at Wayne Slate UniversityinDt troit, is white. ^ Fnslen said in his ruling tk f ()rc i o; there was “reasonahle causefo the government to see thal,& sent federal intervention, tit conspiracy against the Freedou Riders would proceed and tie Riders would be threatened l beaten and injured.” x ■ The FBI, he said, “hadsped fic information from a numbet of sources concerning the na ture of the conspiracy.” Jill ^ 10% START SUMMER SCHOOL OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT Bring in This Ad and Get a 10% Discount on All Regular Price Merchandise Now Until Saturday June 11th Nobody knows the athlete’s foot like -Athlete's IK FOOt« Kaepa* Post Oak Mall — Near Dillards Hwy. 30 College Station 409-764-1000 Open 10-9 Visa - Mastercard American Express Accepted 10°/c BODY WORK “AT THE BODY WORKS, THE BODY WORKS!” THE FUN WAY TO WORK YOUR BODY INTO SHAPE- YES! WE ARE HAVING A SUMMER SPECIAL! 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