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Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, Novembers, 1986
State elections
(Continued from page 1)
Wallace defeated Republican chal
lengers, and Robert Campbell hand
ily beat his Libertarian opponent.
Democratic state Sen. Oscar
Mauzy won the Place 1 seat on the
court over challenger Charles Ben
Howell, an appeals court judge.
Unopposed for seats on the Court
of Criminal Appeals were Rusty
Duncan and Justices Marvin O. Tea
gue and Mike McCormick, all Demo
crats.
In congressional races, Democrats
secured their traditional majority of
the 27-member Texas delegation by
• returning seven unopposed U.S.
House members and at least 10 in
cumbents in contested races.
Republicans, seeking to hang on
to several of the seats won in Ronald
Reagan’s 1984 victory, were winners
in at least eight races.
In contested races with major
party candidates, Democratic incum
bents Ralph Hall of Rockwall, John
Bryant of Dallas, Jack Brooks of
Beaumont, Jake Pickle of Austin,
Ron Coleman of El Paso and Martin
Frost of Dallas whipped GOP con
tenders, while Mickey Leland of
Houston beat a Libertarian oppo
nent.
Republican incumbents Dick Ar
mey of Denton, Tom DeLay of
Sugar Land, Beau Boulter of Am
arillo, Larry Combest of Lubbock,
Jack Fields of Humble and Steve
Bartlett of Dallas beat their challeng
ers.
Two freshman Republicans, Rep.
Mac Sweeney of Wharton and Rep.
Joe Barton of Ennis, were clinging to
narrow leads at midnight. Sweeney
battled West Columbia lawyer Greg
Laughlin, while Barton tried to fight
off Fort Worth attorney Pete Geren.
In the 21st congressional district,
which stretches from San Antonio to
the Big Bend, former Bexar County
Commissioner Lamar Smith beat
state Sen. Pete Snelson, D-Midland,
for the seat Republican Tom
Loeffier vacated to make his bid for
a gubernatorial nomination.
In legislative races. House
Speaker Gib Lewis, D-Fort Worth,
was an apparent winner over GOP
challenger K. Wayne Lee with 82
percent of the vote counted.
All four amendments passed, one
allowing branch banking, another
changing the Legislature’s subject
caption requirement on legislative
hills, grant some mutual insurance
companies permission to sell policies
to political subdivisions, and allow
counties to value rolling railroad
equipment — tanks, boxcars and en
gines — for tax purposes.
FAA investigates
a near collision
of jet, small plane
CHICAGO (AP) — The Federal
Aviation Administration said Tues
day it is investigating a near collision
in which a small plane passed right
under the nose of an American Air
lines jet carrying 50 passengers.
FAA spokesman Mort Edelstein
said Monday that the close call be
tween the Boeing 727 and single-en
gine Cessna occurred about 30 miles
southwest of O’Hare Airport on Fri
day.
John Hotard, an American Air
lines spokesman in Dallas, said there
were no injuries in the incident in
which the pilot “reported that a sin
gle-engine Cessna passed right un
der the nose of his plane.”
Edelstein said the pilot, who has
not been identified, filed a near mid
air collision report.
Officials said the pilot of Ameri
can Flight 654 from Austin, Texas,
had to raise the nose of the Boeing
727 after the small plane came
within 100 feet vertically and one
mile horizontally of the jet.
Planes flying near a major airport
are supposed to be separated by five
miles horizontally and 1,000 feet
vertically.
“He did not have to pull up
sharply to avoid missing the aircraft,
but he did bring his nose up and
level out a little bit,” Hotard said.
The incident occurred about 8:45
a.m. Friday, officials said.
Hotard said the pilot was not
warned that the small plane was in
his vicinity.
Phillip Wood, a lawyer represent
ing more than 20 air traffic control
lers, said the FAA’s Chicago Air
Route Traffic Control Center in Au
rora used to have “four or five” con
trollers assigned to warn commercial
traffic about nearby small planes.
But since a 1981 strike that led to
mass firings of controllers, he said,
the positions have remained un
filled.
Fugitive minister, son
sustain minor injuries
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Texas
fugitive minister W.N. Otwell and
his son escaped with minor injuries,
but a man who warned them of an
approaching car died when the trio
was struck while trying to assist at an
accident.
Terry Wayne Corbett, 21, of Ard
more, Okla., was killed early Satur
day, officials said.
Otwell fled Texas several weeks ago
to avoid a contempt of court citation.
Corbett was warning the Otwells
of the oncoming car at the scene of
an accident in which three women
were trapped in a vehicle, a spokes
man for the Oklahoma Highway Pa
trol said. The car then struck the Ot
wells and knocked them into a ditch,
the spokesman said.
Otwell is pastor of a suburban
Fort Worth church that is under
court order to license its boys home.
“A highway patrolman said it was
a miracle that we were not killed,”
Otwell told the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram Monday.
Otwell and his son Randall Scott
Otwell, 26, were driving south on In
terstate 35 just before 1 a.m. Satur
day. They stopped their car on the
shoulder a half-mile north of the
Main Street exit to Norman when
they saw a three-vehicle collision in
the northbound lane, Otwell said.
They stopped to aid the people
trapped in the cars.
Otwell and his son were taken to
Norman Regional Hospital, where
they were treated for cuts and
bruises and released, a hospital offi
cial said.
Worker sues maker of ovens
used to bake microchips
AUSTIN (AP) — A high-tech as
sembly worker who said she was dis
abled from a 1984 chemical leak has
settled out of court with the man
ufacturers of an oven vised in micro-
chip production.
Terri Timmins, was one of 46
workers exposed to the chemical
Dowtherm A on Jan. 25, 1984, at a
Motorola plant.
Timmins filed suit against Trio
Tech International. She alleged that
the California-based company was
negligent in the design, testing and
inspection of the oven, where the
leak occurred. Motorola was not
named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
treated with medication and respira
tory aids.
Attorneys for Trio Tech could not
be reached for comment.
In an answer to Timmins’ original
complaint, the company denied any
negligence in connection with the
oven. Two other companies involved
in the manufacture of the oven were
brought into the lawsuit by Trio
Tech as third party defendants.
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The lawsuit had been scheduled
for trial Monday in state District
Court.
Jack London, Timmins’ attorney,
declined to disclose the amount or
details of the settlement.
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Timmins said in the suit that she
suffered from chronic coughing,
nosebleeds, bronchitis, asthma,
headaches, blisters around her eyes,
and bleeding gums and mouth.
The chemical leak occurred inside
an oven used to heat memory chips
and components used in products
from computer games to pacemak
ers.
London said the leak developed in
a bend of a heat exchanger inside
the oven’s walls and spread through
several rooms at the plant before the
building was evacuated. He said
Timmons was in the room where the
oven was located.
“I’m disabled,” Timmins told the
Austin American Statesman. “I can’t
work. Not like this.”
Timmins said she was being
“She probably got the biggest
dose,” London said. “She was closest
to the oven.”
Motorola officials said 44 of the
46 workers exposed to the chemical
returned to work the day after the
leak. Timmins is listed as a Motorola
employee on extended leave but said
she has not worked since July 1985.
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