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OKLAHOMA CITY —
Jtrong, erratic winds forced
democratic presidential con-
ender Gary Hart to stay in
exas Sunday, preventing his
ttendance at a $l,000-a-per-
on reception for him.
Instead, he went to Hous-
onand took advantage of the
irief respite in his schedule
iy visiting Gilley’s in nearby
’asadena, where he did some
ountry-western dancing, but
efused to ride on one of
hree mechanical bulls.
Hart booster Jim Barrett
aid the reception raised
oore than $75,000 for the
Colorado senator’s campaign.
Barrett said there was
general disappointment”
among the 70 people at the
eception when they were in
formed that Hart would not
aepresent at the buffet.
“People who are going to
spend money like this to sup
port Gary Hart are com
mitted,” Barrett said. ‘‘Their
commitment is no less.
They’re enthusiastic.”
‘‘Nearly everybody in that
room has been with Gary
Hart at least a half dozen
times,” he added.
Hart boosters also went
ahead with a free public re
ception featuring entertain
ment and political speeches.
Barrett said he doubted
that Hart would be able to
visit Oklahoma before the
slate Democratic convention
next weekend.
Winds at Oklahoma City’s
Will Rogers World Airport
were 50 to 60 mph at the time
Hart originally was scheduled
to land, Barrett said.
Barrett said Secret Service
officers feared that if Hart
got into Oklahoma and had
to be diverted because of the
wind shear, “they had no se
cured area within the region
where they could take him,
outside of Houston where
they already had Secret Serv
ice contingents.”
“We have Secret Service
agents here assigned out of
Tulsa,” he said. “If they got
here and were diverted to
Tulsa, they had no Secret
Service agents in Tulsa.”
Barrett said the decision to
cancel the Oklahoma City ap
pearance was made on the
runway at the Corpus Christi,
Texas, airport.
“There’s more money than
that raised by Oklahomans,
but not from Oklahomans,”
he said. “Oklahomans that I
know of have raised money in
New Mexico, Arizona, Texas,
Kansas, New York, Iowa and
Nevada.”
Illegal aliens struck by train
while crossing Texas border
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SARITA — A freight train bar
relled into a group of about 30
illegal aliens crossing a railroad
trestle Saturday night, killing
four and injuring seven, offi
cials reported Sunday.
The El Salvador aliens were
“sneaking into our country with
a smuggler,” said Kenedy
County Sheriff Jimmy Chan
dler.
The aliens, who reportedly
paid $600 apiece to a smuggler
who was to take them to Hous
ton, scrambled to get away from
the Missouri Pacific freight
train which was traveling about
40 mph, said Tim Hogan of
Missouri Pacific.
Some of the aliens jumped
off the trestle, which was about
30 feet above a small creek. It
was unclear how many were
struck by the train and how
many were killed and injured in
the fall. Chandler said.
Thomas Franklin, of the
Turcotte Mortuary in nearby
Kingsville, where the bodies
were taken, said most of the vic
tims appeared to have died
from falls.
“The injuries basically were
from the fall,” he said. “They
were on a trestle, ^nd they fell
some 30 to 40 feet as they
jumped off this raU roac f trestle
and landed on a very rocky sur
face along a creek, 2 waterway.”
Franklin said the train came
around a curve and approached
the trestle, and because of the
curve, the engineer was unable
to see the aliens until he was
about 200 feet from them.
Hogan said the engineer
braked as soon as he saw them,
but “it wsts impossible for him to
stop that quickly.”
Chandler said rnany of the
aliens on the bridge scattered as
the train passed, but he
rounded up 13 — four womem
and nine men — and took them
to his jail in Sarita.
The victims were identified
as Delia Rosales Alvares, 21;
Jose G. Mancias, about 30; Pe-
tronila Coreas, 38; and her 7-
year-old. son, Moises Martin
Five of those injured were
taken to Corpus Christi Memo
rial Hospital.
The bridge, owned by Mis
souri Pacific, is located about
four miles north of Sarita,
about 85 miles north of the
Mexican border, an area fre
quented by Salvadoran aliens.
The area from the lower Rio
Grande Valley north through
Kingsville is the main route for
Central Americans entering the
United States.
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TURKEY — Texas Playboys
both past and present —
ayed an outdoor western
g concert for hundreds of
non be- seated in lawn chairs Satur-
e-regis- tyin memory of Bob Wills.
The Panhandle community
700, about 100 miles north-
st of Lubbock, swelled into
ie thousands dmi/ig the 13th
mV ibute to Wills, the town’s most
ilebrated native. Festivities in-
uded dances, a parade, barbe-
fieand fiddlers’ contests.
Wills combined jazz with fld-
le music to develop western
Lgand a huge following.
[Steel guitarist Leon McAu-
Ife of Rogers, Ark., leads an
ght-member band composed
i men who worked with Wills
bring the big band era of the
Adam Aj 630s and 1940s. About 30
[her former Playboys also at-
p an j e l i tnded the Bob Wills Day and
j| evin J ardcipated in performances.
l, e studitl Wills, crippled by heart prob-
san nnl ms, reassembled the eight-
tsaiett ember group about two years
'„ ave injii fore he died in 1975. The
r | ]( ^ md now conducts 16 perfor-
^ a antes a year, splitting the
i v [q| ioney with Wills’ widow, Betty
conlW leets of Fort Worth.
“I get to play enough. You
ddjobsan! [®’t ever lose the desire,” the
Diddle'5 Uear-old McAuliffe said. He
reerin® Ided none of the eight band
ledinM embers will consider return-
a Chief ,g to the rigorous louring
[isfirst* hedules they had done with
d “Bo Dd Is before World War II.
ithespra
die topiS “We’ve had enough ol the
juescUi )ad,so we’re not going tea do it
, ter again,” McAuliffe said.
The band does not practice
t° nl 8! . etween performances because
M antl ® never adds any new songs, he
Tinreinf#' Our public doesn l want new
ines," McAuliffe said. He said
lecurrent western swing audi-
Kealso included a generation
[younger fans.
Charles Townsend, a teacher
West Texas State, agreed,
Jding this was the 50th annir
isary of the original Texas
flayboy group. The band had
(eluded various members since
twas first assembled.
The whole world has now
iscovered what you people in
Police Beat
he following incidents were
[ported to the University Po-
ice Department through Sun-
y,
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A student’s wallet was sto-
ifrom an unlocked locker in
HD Blocker. T he wallet con-
lined her driver’s license, stu-
entl.D. card and $45 in cash.
• A student’s purse was sto-
bifrom on top of a card file in
erling G. Evans Library. The
irse contained her wallet,
iver’s license, student I.D.
td, $10 in cash and several
J edit cards.
* ;l The exempt license plate
d is stolen from a horse trailer
the Polo Genter.
REFERENCE:
• A student was arrested for
theft of a Unitec model CX-
stereo from 355 Medical
ience. The theft was reported
April 20.
HARASSMENT:
• A student in Aston Hall re
nted he has received several
irassing phone calls from a
irson who hangs up when he
iwers the phone.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT:
• A parking patrol officer
rted seeing a person speed-
out of Parking Annex 60
id down Houston Street. The
Ion was honking the horn
id made an obscene gesture at
lofficer.
West Texas and Oklahoma
knew 50 years ago — Bob Wills’
music,” Townsend told those at
tending the concert.
A barber in Turkey, Wills
played for West Texas dances
until embarking on his music
career in 1929. Last year, the
Playboys made a trip to Europe
that included a concert in Ge
neva, Switzerland.
Celebration organizer Arville
Setliff said he believed Saturday
was the biggest celebration so
far.
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