Thursday, August 6,1987/The Battalion/Page 5
MSC Dinner Theatre 4^
and
Aggie Players
present
SAVING GRACE
August 5, 6, 7, 8
A zany tale of a warmhearted girl who mistakes a telephone repairman for a
burglar. She tries to convert him from his life of crime and ends up having to
pretend he is her husband. All of this causes a stir with her straight-laced sis
ter’s fiance, who just happens to be an evangelist.
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onations for victims of tornado
h Saragosa discovered missing
mocrat.
rsity of
ity laws
■ PECOS (AP) — Two truckloads of
glods donated for victims of the
May 22 tornado at Saragosa are
missing, and both the Reeves County
omeyfapjeriffs department and leaders of
lealsandSthc small farming community say
trictattonjtlfe other should take the responsibi-
utive (fejlitjy.
id Count'iHThe goods were being stored in a
Hirehouse at Pecos, about 20 miles
art Chief jndrth of Saragosa.
ocatedcM“We don’t want to be blamed for
which * it, that we couldn’t handle the things
d McConsthat were given us,” assistant disaster
some forcjcoordinator Felipe Lopez said,
for appe^jLopez said the sheriff s office had
ion of fc taken charge of the church-group
he said shipment and five tractor-trailer
Pads from northeast Louisiana do
nors, one of which was stored in Pe
cos after arriving in mid-June.
“They were in charge of distribu
tion and now something has gone
wrong, they know nothing about it,”
Lopez said.
The sheriffs department is inves
tigating the apparent theft of the
items, which were sent by groups in
Austin and Monroe, La., to benefit
residents in their recovery from the
tornado that killed 30 people and in
jured 161 others.
Reeves County Sheriff Raul Flo
rez said that responsibility had been
turned over to the residents of Sara
gosa. “We didn’t take control,” Flo
rez said. “We just found places to
store it.”
The missing goods are under in
vestigation now, he said.
“If it is gone illegally, I’m respon
sible, just like I’m responsible for ev
erything in the county,” Florez said.
“But if it was given out, there’s noth
ing we can do.”
Saragosa officials discovered the
goods missing from the warehouse
about a week ago when Lopez was
looking for air-conditioning units,
he said. Most of the items, ranging
from toys and clothes to appliances,
came from a batch of donations sent
by the church group Saragosa-Aus-
tin Cares.
The Rev. Ray Noble, who coordi
nated the Austin drive, said more
than a thousand donors had sent
down everything from designer
clothing to washers, driers and med
ical supplies.
Reeves County Community Coun
cil Director Mary Mitchell said the
disappearance of the goods disap
pointed and saddened those in
volved with the Saragosa effort, but
she wasn’t sure anyone could be as
signed blame for the situation.
Meanwhile, earlier this week the
Saragosa Building Committee de
cided to send a check to victims of
the tornado that devastated Edmon
ton, Canada, last week.
Lopez said $250 would be sent on
behalf of Saragosa residents as soon
as they found someone to send it to.
For more information, call
MSC Box Office 845 1234
t Agencies
* |o search
for youth
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after GK|
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■ AUSTIN (AP) — Two state
agencies will help in the search
for the remains of a 17-year-old
youth who was washed away two
weeks ago by the rampaging Gua-
Halupe River, Gov. Bill Clements’
rclusion ani 2 ou need Wednesday.
•fvlifpltjl John Bankston Jr. has been
!/ jjjMiissing since July 17, when flood-
jijHaters swept away a busload of
Ballas-area church campers re
aid the® 1 ™ 11 ® fr om a cam P near Com-
t was foelwT', . , . , ,
■ The youth was last seen help
ing others to safety during the
river’s worst flooding in 55 years.
that co«j
P 61156 piJhe bodies of nine other teen-ag-
were recovered from the river
0 usl and 33 people were rescued.
■ “We’re real grateful for the ex-
. tra two days,” said Dwight
Prather, pastor of the New Haven
Baptist Church in Mesquite,
Bankston’s home church. “We’d
-a»|Teally like more.”
^/kIB Prather said a group of volun-
# ^ Bers was being put together in
Balias and appeals were being
Bade on San Antonio radio sta-
mebegf . tions for volunteers to assist in the
said. Barch today and Friday.
M Bankston’s father, John
is with/j Bpnkston Sr., on Monday visited
; y° u i Bth Hillary Doran, the gover-
“Mr. b nor’s chief of staff, to ask for the
,e freed- state’s help in finding the body,
ay juO l ||5 Reggie Bashur, Clements’
^ascoH press secretary, said the state
jntinuii’fl Highway Department would as-
cocaitfjsig’i heavy equipment and crews
cnnii 1 to search debris piles along the
ies an^rherbanks today and Friday.
1 a po si|t B The Texas Forest Service also
Bll donate equipment for the
Barch, Bashur said.
5‘ n 8 a $M“If there are no results, on
rney • Monday and Tuesday the Texas
oted d Association of General Contrac-
jinpoi 11 tors has agreed to send in volun-
,alued : teers and equipment to continue
cocaifl e th< search,” Bashur added.
40
Experts: Persian Gulf perils
may cause higher oil prices
HOUSTON (AP) — Panic oil buying, hoarding, sky
rocketing prices and huge economic disruption could
follow a choking off of petroleum supplies from the
Persian Gulf, two oil experts said Wednesday.
“You’re going to go through the ’70s cycle of gas
lines, school shutdowns and problems all over the na
tion,” said George P. Mitchell, chairman of Mitchell En
ergy & Development Corp. “The national security is at
stake.”
During a news conference, Mitchell and Houston
economist Arved Teleki, president of Hydrocarbon
Consultants Inc., presented their view of Persian Gulf
perils facing the United States and the global economy.
Teleki estimates chances of a total cutoff of supplies
from the Strait of Hormuz now stand at about 30 pe
cent, up from about five percent earlier this year.
“We are up against a very, very confused, confusing,
disturbed, complicated situation,” Teleki said. “To an
extraordinary extent, the decision-making process has
been lost by us and has been transferred to one of the
most dangerous areas of the world.”
Iran has threatened to attack Kuwaiti oil tankers and
per-
U.S. military convoys escorting them. Iran and Iraq
have been at war for seven years.
Teleki estimated that a 90-day disruption of access
through the Strait of Hormuz could drive oil prices as
high as $55 per barrel, assuming roughly 8.5 million
barrels per day are taken off the market as a result.
If a short-term crisis passed with no major conflagra
tion, prices would stabilize around $30 per barrel, he
said, emphasizing that a number of factors could
change this scenario.
Mitchell has long argued for government support for
the domestic oil industry, beginning with repeal of the
windfall profits tax and an increased national emphasis
on lowering imports.
“The greater our dependence on imports, the
greater will be the effect of a disruption on our econ
omy,” Mitchell said. “Now we’re importing nearly 40
percent of our needs.
“Last year, the United States consumed more oil than
the year before and produced less, with imports filling
the void. This year will be the same: higher consump
tion, lower production and increased imports.”
Lawmen in Kerr County continue
search for missing wife of banker
KERRVILLE (AP) — Foul play is
suspected in the disappearance of a
banker’s wife, whose clothing and
jewelry were found in a creek near
her ranch home, authorities said
Wednesday.
Law enforcement officials are
continuing their search for Joyce
Louise Walters, 44, said Kerr
County Sheriff Cliff Greeson.
“We do not have any concrete sus
pects. We do have some clues and
are following up on them,” he said.
Greeson declined to say whether
there was a struggle at the house or
creek or whether blood stains were
found at either place. He also said
no ransom note was found and did
not know if anything was missing
from the house.
Texas Rangers, Department of
Public Safety troopers, FBI agents
and local officials were searching for
the woman Wednesday in the Verde
Creek area, about 5 miles from her
Prison Canyon Ranch home and
where the clothes and jewelry were
found Tuesday, Greeson said.
The woman’s husband, Roland
Walters, chairman of the board of
the Bank of Kerrville, called Gree
son Tuesday morning to report his
wife missing.
Walters was on a business trip in
Houston and became concerned
when he was unable to reach his wife
by telephone about 10:30 p.m. Mon
day, the sheriff said.
A dress Mrs. Walters was last seen
wearing, a bracelet, watch, belt, un
dergarments, shoes and a purse with
credit cards and identification were
found in or on the banks of the
creek, which is less than a mile from
a store she owns, authorities said.
The search for the items began af
ter a bicyclist, a doctor from Temple,
saw a bracelet on the creek bank.
The man gave the jewelry to con
stable Tommy James at the Camp
Verde store at about 2 p.m. Tues
day. When officers returned to the
creek, they found the other items.
James contacted the sheriffs de
partment, which notified Greeson,
who was enroute to Prison Canyon
Ranch to check on Mrs. Walters.
Greeson said Waiters told him his
wife was alone in the house Monday
night. The last person she was
known to have talked to was a Camp
Verde store employee about 9:30
p.m. Monday on the telephone.
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