Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, October 24,1983
Rains stop; runoff
Warped
by Scott McCnl
threatens Oklahoma
United Press International
Sunshine returned to flood-
ravaged Oklahoma Sunday but
authorities braced for a record
high bubble of water generated
by days of heavy rains that was
expected to sweep down the Red
River on the state’s southern
border.
“The bubble of water is mak
ing its way down the Red River
right now,” said Robbie Robin
son, director of programs for
the Oklahoma Civil Defense.
“It’s going to do some damage
around Jefferson and Love
Counties.”
Runoff from relentless
storms that dumped more than
13 inches of rainfall in several
areas of the state was expected to
push the Red River to a record
10 feet above flood stage late
Sunday or early Monday, he
said.
The flooding was expected to
be worse than the record flood
ing of 1981, when waters six feet
above flood stage rushed
through, sweeping away bridges
and closing roads.
“There’s a limited number of
things you can do to get ready
for a flood of that size,” Robin
son said.
Some evacuations were ex
pected along the sparsely popu
lated river bottom.
Robinson said after the wa
ters pass the Interstate 35
bridge, they will pour into Lake
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longer be a danger.
Simon Kennedy, sheriff of
Jefferson County along the Red
River, said the river was the
highest it’s ever been.
“I’ve been here for 65 years.
This is the worst I’ve ever seen,”
he said.
He said some residents along
the river were evacuated during
the rains, but only cattle, crops
and oilfield operations were
damaged.
Flooding from steady rains
chased some 1,500 or so people
from their homes around cen
tral and southern portions of
Oklahoma Thursday and
Friday.
Some 50 square city blocks of
Guthrie in central Oklahoma
were flooded in the worst dam
age done by the heavy rainfall.
One man was believed drowned
in Guthrie, but the death still was
not confirmed.
Mauled
Woman killed by canines trained to fight
High waters from the storms
also caused some flooding Sun
day along the Washita River
near Pauls Valley, Alex and
Lindsay in Grady and Garvin
Counties, Garvin County Civil
Defense director Eddie Patchell
said.
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HARPER, Kan. — Author
ities plan to file the most serious
charges they can against th3
owner of two pit bull dogs that
mauled to death the elderly
mother of a Texas woman
Saturday, Police Chief Ed Starks
said Sunday.
Starks said he, the Harper
County sheriff and the county
attorney were to meet Monday
morning to discuss charges to be
filed against David Reynolds,
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away from the victim, 67-year-
old Grace Parsons.
“There are going to be
charges filed,” said Starks. “We
just don’t know how far and
heavy we can go. We are going to
go to the maximum of anything
we can do because of the negli
gence involved.”
Starks said people in this
southern Kansas town of 1,800
were appalled at the incident,
which prompted some of them
to report their own problems
with the dogs.
"It’s not a panic type thing,
but people are appalled by the
fact that it was an adult person
being mauled to death by a dog,"
he said.
Of the dogs, Stark said: "One
man came around and said one
of them bit him, but it didn’t
draw blood so he decided not to
mess with it. I’ve had 15 people
who said they saw the dogs run
ning loose, but no one ever re
ported it."
The dogs, pedigreed male pit
bull terriers, are 2 years old and
3 months old. Starks said the
older dog was trained to fight
and the younger one “was just a
follower.
"This dog was trained to Ik* a
four-legged bodyguard for a
human oeing," he said, noting
both dogs were confiscated by
authorities.
Starks said he was called to the
house about 8 a.m.
woman s
Saturday by a neighbori
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United Press International
MOBILE, Ala. — Some
$39,000 worth of radio trans
mitters were confiscated in the
Mobile area for allegedly using
frequencies set aside for
emergency use only, but no
arrests were reported, federal
officials said Friday.
Sherry Jones, a spokes
woman for the Federal Com
munications Commission in
Atlanta, said the seizure was part
of an ongoing crackdown on
illegal ship radio usage in the
Gulf of Mexico, including Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas.
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Search warrants were issued
by U.S. Magistrate David Bag-
well of Mobile. Jones said U.S.
marshals and FCC agents seized
5S radios from the See Inc., of
Bayou La Batre, andfrc|
nearby residence Wedm
Jones said the unautli
land radio stations weren
ing on frequencies seu,—-
police, fire and otherem Jtaul
transmissions. ai U s
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“urgent complaints on f
emergency unitsaboutilxi
ference.
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