Thursday, December 1,1983/The Battalion/Page 5
>afe of Muster could
hange due to holiday
by Holly Powell
■ Battalion Reporter
I The Student Government
luster Committee is consid-
Jing changing the date of
luster this year because it
Md conflict with students’
lister weekend,
f The traditional date of the
lemorial service, April 21,
Ills on the Saturday before
fcster this year, which may
■use fewer people to attend,
luster Committee chairman
lancy York said.
I "We’re really sitting on the
Ince here,” York said. “We
have to decide to uphold tra
dition or make Muster avail
able to everybody.”
The committee will vote on
the issue at a Student Govern
ment meeting next week.
“There is no precedent for
this, so after they vote I’m sure
they will get a lot of opposi
tion,” director of student acti
vities Carolyn Adair said.
The committee surveyed
students in mid-November
for reaction to changing the
date of Muster. The majority
of the students surveyed said
they would not stay for Muster
on April 21 and that the date
should be changed.
The committee also re
ceived input from the School
of Military Science and the
Association of Former Stu
dents, York said.
The general consensus of
the former students was to
change the date. The basic
attitude of the military science
department, however, was
“You don’t change Christmas
because it comes at a bad
time,” she said.
killed, 6 injured
Trailways wreck
United Press International
[LIVINGSTON — A Trail-
I bus rammed the rear of a
ed truck before dawn
nesday, catapulted off a
ilicked U.S. 59 bridge and
ned into a creekbank be-
ulling six people and injur-
x others.
me witnesses said the badly
ed driver suggested he
t have blown a tire, but a
nger said he thought the
r, at the wheel less than an
1 U()na lur, might have dozed off. A
*er said the bus apparently
lemlu ijs speeding.
lets andi'he Texas Department of
eral CoijiBjc Safety said there were 12
for theM)| e aboard. Six were killed
id sofo . including three mothers
compuieiftfeling with young children
taied toiBsurvived — and six, includ-
:ces na'vhe driver, were injured.
Rescuers had to cut through
[oof of the crumpled wreck-
three miles north of this east
Is town, 75 miles northeast
,. (hil Houston, to gel to the dead
e regei id injured.
)fachai[»H but four rows of seats,
:h ii 1 fcgage and the rear lavatory
dectronisBt seat were found piled in
ical enpBfront of the bus. Pools of
hence. Kpd stained the creek,
could gofcie truck driver involved,
- elecmBard Palomo Garcia, 43, said
omputfiBiad just left home in his
dbedwed trailer truck when the
he said lithbound Trailways bus, en
Be from Shreveport, La., to
fusion, hit his truck about
45 a.in.
|He thought the bus tried to
HS him because most of the
irmierhpage was on the left side of
10-spei is trailer.
ackweM |fhe crippled bus careened
oss the median of the four-
10-speeJ
>se to
lent,
these
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lane road, crashed through a
guardrail, became airborne
briefly and landed on the bank
of Milton Greek 31 feet below,
investigators said.
Garcia said two trucks had
passed him moments before and
the bus shocked him when it
slammed into his truck.
“I never saw it. I don’t know
where it came from,” said Gar
cia, who was unhurt.
“That bus hit me hard,” Gar
cia said. “I didn’t know what had
hit me, so I parked across the
bridge and ran back. I knew
something went down off the
bridge. When I ran back, I saw
All but four rows of
seats, luggage and the
rear lavatory toilet
seat were found piled
in the front of the bus.
the bus down there.
“It was quiet and that scared
me. I hollered and one lady
answered there were people
hurt.”
Garcia ran to his house a half
mile away, called authorities and
his wife, Dale, came back with
him in his pickup and helped
him aid some of the victims..
The bus landed on its side
with the door toward the sky,
witnesses said. The bus driver,
Edward Perry, 37, of Houston,
was pinned inside and had to be
cut free before being taken by
helicopter ambulance to
Houston.
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m thewipU BBOCK — Mothers
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tion against the bill.
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will ask Salinas and others why
they did not support the bill that
would have banned open liquor
containers in cars.
“We’ll put them on the spot,”
she said, adding MADD mem
bers would return to Austin next
session to lobby for legislation
outlawing open alcoholic con
tainers in automobiles.
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Wrecked plane’s tapes
could determine cause
Mora, 40, who said he was an
illegal alien from Veracruz,
Mexico, living in Nacogdoches,
Texas, said he was sitting behind
the driver and thought he might
have dozed off.
“I think he fell asleep,” Mora
said in Spanish to reporters at
Livingston Memorial Hospital.
A DPS spokesman said the
official cause was undeter
mined, but the road was rain-
slicked and Trooper David
Sandlin at the scene said “there
was an indication of excessive
speed” by the bus.
Garcia, who said he was going
about 40 mph in the right lane at
the time, said it was not his fault.
“I really think there was no
thing I could do. He just hit me
and went down,” Garcia said.
Business Manager Myrle
McLaurin of Livingston Memo
rial Hospital said the 45-bed
facility was overloaded by the
accident, which forced Adminis
trator Robert Finch to declare a
hospital “disaster.”
Four injured were taken to
Hermann Hospital in Houston
by helicopter ambulance, in
cluding the driver, another man
and two 12-year-old children, a
boy and a girl. Their conditions
were listed as satisfactory.
The two admitted to Living
ston Memorial, a 10-year-old
girl and Mora, also were listed in
satisfactory condition.
Trailways said the bus left
Shreveport, La., at 1:55 a.m.
GST, stopped in Logansport,
La., and Nacogdoches, and
changed drivers in Lufkin. The
bus was due in Houston at 7:30
a.m. Greyhound does not serve
the route.
United Press International
EL PASO — Tapes from a
twin-engine plane that crashed
into the Franklin Mountains last
weefc:, killing all four people
aboard, will tell whether an air
controller led the plane into the
mountains during a windstorm
or the pilot made an error, an
aviation expert said Wednesday.
“I am drawing no conclu
sions,” said J.O. Johnson, a Na
tional Transportation Safety
Board investigator, “until I have
heard the tapes of the transmis
sions” between pilot Lyle Foster,
46, of Temple Gity, Galif., and
an air controller from Albu
querque, N. M., 266 miles away.
Johnson said he was told by
the chief of the Albuquerque
Air Traffic Gontrol Center that
an Albuquerque air traffic con
troller was in contact with Foster
when he flew his Cessna 210 into
the side of El Paso’s Franklin
Mountains in the early mofning
hours of Nov. 22.
Johnson said the Albuquer
que controller was in contact
with the pilot before he made an
instrument takeoff from El Paso
International Airport and after
the plane was airborne asked
Foster if he could maintain a
260-degree heading — west by
southwest — which would send
him directly into the mountain
unless he climbed over it.
Johnson said Foster re
sponded that he could maintain
the heading and was told to fly at
10,000 feet.
El Paso air controllers said
they usually instruct pilots to fly
directly south over the down
town area of El Paso before turn
ing west into the pass. El Paso is
located at the southern tip of the
Rocky Mountains. The city’s
name is the Spanish word for
“the pass,” indicating the end of
the Rockies and the beginning
of the Sierra Madres.
Whether the crash was
caused by an Albuquerque air
controller’s directions or pilot
error will be determined by a
study of the tapes, Johnson said.
Johnson said there is no local
air control at El Paso between
the hours of midnight and 6
a.m., a condition that has existed
since the traffic controllers’
Whether the crash
was caused by an
Albuquerque air con
troller’s directions or
pilot error will be de
termined by a study of
the tapes,
strike of 1981. Foster’s plane,
owned by Gordon Coker of San
ta Fe Springs, Calif., crashed at
12:40 a.m.
Foster was killed in the crash,
along with Coker and his two
daughters, Cynthia Ann, 14,
and Becky, 12.
Johnson said all major air
ports in the country have an
“approach plate,” a standard set
of instructions concerning the
individual airport. In El Paso’s
case, he said, the standard in
structions for westbound air
craft are to fly south around the
Franklin Mountains.
“If he (pilot) was flying visual
ly, he would follow those in
structions,” Johnson said. “If he
was flying by instrument and
Albuquerque Air Control, I
would think he would still be us
ing his approach plate, too, but I
don’t know that.”
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