Page 12/The Battalion/Monday, September 5,1983
Holiday traffic deaths
fewer than predicted
Warped
by Scott McCulla
600D EVENING. TONIGHT WE AT
STATION WRPD BEGIN OUR
SERIES OF EDITORIAL REPORTS
ON PARKING AT AM*.
PROBLEMS, TRENDS AND
IMPRESSIONS.
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The holiday traffic death toll
for Texas reached 19 early Sun
day when a pedestrian was
struck by a truck in Longview,
but officials said they did not be
lieve the predicted toll of 51
fatalaties would be reached.
David Wells, Department of
Public Safety spokesman, said
the number of accidents was
running behind the pace the
DPS anticipated for the Labor
Day weekend.
Fifty people died in traffic-
related deaths during the 1982
Labor Day weekend. TOPS re
cords deaths for a 78-hour
period which began Friday at 6
p.m. and ends today at mid
night.
Walter Joe Wallace of Long
view was struck by a pickup
truck Sunday morning in Long
view as he walked down a city
street. No charges had been
filed in the case.
Authorities in Houston said
Sunday charges of involuntary
manslaughter were pending
against a 22-year-old Houston
man who lost control of his truck
and ran into a ditch, killing a
passenger. Brian Neal Erke, 22,
of Humble, died in the Saturday
night accident.
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Bexar County authorities
charged a 24-year-old Corpus
Christi man Saturday with in
voluntary manslaughter in con
nection with a rear-end collision
on Interstate 10 near San Anto
nio that killed Terri L. Renty,
26. Steven B. Long was being
held in lieu of $ 17,000 bond, au
thorities said.
Billy Clement Lawhon, 41, of
Sandia died Saturday evening
when his sports car struck a dead
cow which was blocking High
way 37 near Pleasanton, in Atas
cosa County. Three other pas
sengers were treated for injuries
and released.
Beverly Adelaide Newsome,
15, of Arlington died when the
car she was driving ran off a city
street Saturday night.
Thomas Orlen Haley, 28, of
Mason also died Saturday night
when his motorcycle ran off a
road near Mason. Authorities
said the victim was not wearing a
helmet.
Stephen Lane Grass, 32, of
Southlake died early Sunday
when he was thrown from his
truck on a road in Denton
County.
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CARRIES THE CONNOTATION
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AM MERELy HAS REMOTE PLACES
FOR STUDENTS TO LEAVE THEIR
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Maps delay protection
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WASHINGTON — Fifteen
years after the establishment of
the National Flood Insurance
program, 333 floodprone Texas
communities still lack the de
tailed rate maps necessary for
residents to buy more than mini
mum coverage.
adopts and enforces adequate
flood plain management regula
tions to protect lives and proper
ty from future floods.
“The amount of insurance
available is lower and the data
they should have to manage
their flood plain management
programs is not available,” says
Brain Mrazik, Federal
Emergency Management Agen
cy official, whose division maps
flood insurance rates.
Communities initially join on
an “emergency” basis, receiving
a map that broadly outlines
hazard areas so they can adopt
minimal flood plain manage
ment regulations. Homeowners
can buy a maximum of only
$35,000 in federal flood insur-
“As a result, FEMA hasui
time-consuming and expenst
detailed mapping in conunui
ties with low developme
potential,
mapping was appropriate,
GAO said.
Demanding p<
15 1
Of the 782 Texas communi
ties in the flood insurance prog
ram, about half still need the de
tailed maps that may take years
to complete, he said.
In the regular phase, the limit
is $185,000 for a singlefamily
home, but further coverage is
available for contents after com
munities receive a detailed map
and adopt specific regulations.
Music School.
There are 7,000 communities
nationwide lacking the rate
maps although Congress set an
Aug. 1 deadline for completion
Mrazik said mapping is de
layed because Congress
approved the program based on
an Army Corps of Engineers list
of 5,000 communities.
Only growing commumti
need the detailed risk zoneai
flood water height informadt may also be one
in a detailed study — whicha approaches to teai
take up to four years tocomp'
— before they can developnt Thomas Mastro
construction flood plain mai Catholic Universi
agement regulations, says i
GAO.
In the rapidly-growing
suburb of Irving, 24,972 of ill 1
109,943 residents live in il [.
flood plain. There are 335 pci
cies worth $ 12.1 millionineffa
under the regular phase oftk I
program.
This year, the
largely on their ov
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cucumbers, squa
corn, peppers an
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can make in tryir
offspring to app
thing besides rod
music school deal
of that part of the mammoth
program, established in 1968 to
offer disaster assistance.
Congress is considering legis
lation to grant a two-year exten
sion to the program, which is
scheduled to end Sept. 30.
“The list contained only com
munities with populations of
10,000 or greater, or with river
flooding hazards — not coastal
flooding,” Mrazik said.
The GAO said rate mapsci
be drawn for other coiiynuuiM
from existing data in a iwo-y
study or by converting gene
maps into rate maps, will
takes about a year.
Thin
attac
FEMA officials say it will take
another 10 years to complete the
rate mapping at current fund
ing levels of $50 million annual
ly — even if they eliminate de
tailed studies for 3,000 com
munities with little likelihood of
flood plain development.
FEMA officials later found
20,000 communities that were
hazardous flood areas, he said.
Although Liberty and Odes
were scheduled this year fordt
tailed mapping under
emergency phase, theGAOsai
neither required such a study
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Limited funds also delayed
the FEMA project, Mrazik said.
The flood insurance division
also conducts a maintenance
program and reviews previous
studies before beginning new
A detailed study of Rouii
Rock development potentials
suggested by the GAO. .
500 of the Hill Country com
munity’s 13,000 residents liveii
the flood plain and one fifthd
them have policies.
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Leftist rebels t
and electricity p
s and ai
troops Sunday ir
to take El S
jest city — o
daring attacks o
dvil war.
“Most of whaf s remaining to
be done, with few exceptions,
are small, more rural communi
ties,” Mrazik said.
Property owners in flood-
prone areas can buy federal
flood insurance if their com
munity joins the program and
The General Accounting
Office, the investigative arm of
Congress, recently criticized
FEMA for not systematically
assessing the flood-prone com
munities to determine what type
of mapping they need.
Mrazik said FEMA plans
hire a research consultant todi
termine which communii*
need full-blown $70,000 studio
which require the $8,
isting data maps and whichcii
be converted for about ’
each.
A Salvadorai
man said the reh
ter a 10-hour a
dents reported
shooting continu
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