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Arson seen as possibility
Hotel fire cause unknown
United Press International
FORT WORTH — Investiga
tors have not ruled out arson in
the Ramada Inn fire that killed
five people last week, although
laboratory tests so far show no
sign of gasoline or other fuel in
the carpeting where the fire
started.
“No accelerants were found
in six of seven samples,” Deputy
Fire Chief Don Peacock told a
news conference Monday con
cerning tests conducted by the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms in San Francisco. “The
seventh was inconclusive and
the lab has requested an addi
tional control sample from an
unburned area (of the carpet),”
he said.
Officials of the Fort Worth
fire department and the ATF
planned to meet Tuesday to re
view the investigation and to
coordinate their future activi
ties, Peacock said.
The rolls of carpet had been
left in a hallway of a two-story
building at the five-building
Ramada Inn Central during re
novation.
Last Tuesday’s pre-d^wn
blaze killed five guests at the
motel: a woman from Texas,
two men from Kansas, a man
from Oklahoma and a man from
Illinois.
Another 34 guests were tre
ated for various injuries, includ
ing smoke inhalation, lacera
tions and broken bones received
when they broke windows in
their rooms and leaped out to
escape the fire, which destroyed
the 87-unit building. Peacock
said officers were questioning
motel employees and guests but
had not singled out a possible
arson suspect.
He said the absence of flamm-
ables would not rule out arson
because the paper and plastic in
which the carpeting was wrap
ped could have been quickly
ignited by a match.
The Ramada Inn Central was
one of three Fort Worth hotels
plagued by fires in the past
week.
A two-alarm fire Sunday at
the Hyatt Regency Hotel caused
no injuries but called out 12
pieces of apparatus and 35 fire
fighters.
Fire officials said it was the
fifth arson blaze at the Hyatt in
10 days.
Department spokesman
Capt. Roy Knight said the fire
began in a maid’s closet on the
sixth floor of the east tower of
the downtown hotel, which
housed about 50 guests. The
guests were transferred to
rooms in the hotel’s west tower.
Professor joins nuclear protest
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EL PASO — Religious and
academic figures joined about
100 other people at the entrance
to Fort Bliss for an International
Nuclear Disarmament Day de
monstration.
John Haddox, a philosophy
professor at the University of
Texas at El Paso, said he was
protesting the nuclear arms
buildup “just to make people
aware of the extremely danger
ous position in which we find
ourselves and to encourage the
governments of the United
States and the Soviet Union to
continue to seek nuclear dis
armament.”
The protesters, who included
the Rev. Jaime Madrid, chancel
lor of the Roman Catholic Dio
cese of El Paso, and the Rev. For
rest Johnson, a Unitarian minis
ter, sang and prayed in the 100-
amuel’s
degree heat for about an hour
Monday.
Madrid said a commitment to
peace is “more than just the abs
ence of war. We need to build
peace, like a great cathedral. We
must prevent the use of any nuc
lear weapons.”
Fort Bliss is a 2 million-acre
facility where guided missiles
and other weapons are tested.
One of the protesters. Gene
Keller, said he was taking part
because he wants his son, 11, to
have a future.
“We need to take these bil
lions of dollars we’re spending
on arms and spend it on the
poor,” said Trip Sullivan, one of
the organizers of the demonstr-
tion. “We need to get rid of the
Vietnam mentality that the way
to save a village is to annihilate
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on vehicles on a 1,500-foot
stretch of beach on Bolivar
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dents and beachfront homeow
ners complained of traffic and
trash. They have agreed to re
consider the ban because of
complaints from merchants and
other residents.
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beach traffic is not being en
forced yet, and county commis
sioners have not indicated when
they might reach a final deci
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FREEPORT — Sheriffs de
puties called off the search for
the last of four missing children
sill not found but believed
drowned less than a mile from
an area where warning signs had
been taken for firewood.
The bodies of the other three
were found Monday by Brazoria
County officials on Sergeant
Beach west of the San Bernard
River and near the mouth of the
river, a sheriffs spokesman said.
Capt. Gene Smith said the body
of Darrin Duhart, 13, had not
yet been found.
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ple of treacherous water at the
mouth of the San Bernarcj were
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