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Tuesday, September 8, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local on Catholic police official heads 11 papal security effort for Mass mane. I wonder; rm allowed then SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Deputy 'dice Chief Robert Heuck has pro- KGB officerenifecfcd hundreds of dignitaries dur- ti ched mylugt:,ig his career, but the Catholic po le the shoulde cenian sa y s his latest assignment to cr-irc tKot TOtect Pope John Paul II will be Cv/*vl olaloUull r • n n • i • • •rotessionallv challenerine and spin- nine from anan« yupliftin 7 g made me unrti; Beuck is a 27-year veteran w'ho tad hidden am ias been coordinating the police’s ead all the lid 'apal security effort, purchased and Heuck will be in the lead patrol n j u . S (U n. ar in the pope’s motorcade on Sept. nmimitr Kirti ..j upside,- an honor to have ng them, net : €en chosen to participate in this read it. nd have looked forward to putting •r guard was fir he thing together,” Heuck, a for- loved on. Wet ler police chief said, i igishovep' "hve done other things like this efore, but in magnitude it’s differ- htheth.cknor: nti .. hesaid » ti hed-wue tenet Bund reds of Vatican and U.S. Se- lortllied at inter ret Service agents will protect the blow ers. The; »ope during his nine-city tour of the past it backinh United States. ^^Bnd the agents are keeping mum . i bout their security plans. 1 i’ '”’ K It San Antonio, federal agents (incss pos5esse. nust con tend with more than er. I had just It ,00,000 people at a 144 -acre Mass had grown to ite and with hundreds of thousands etum soon, tiore worshippers along several pa- adt routes. Some businessmen along the pa rade routes are seeking the agents’ permission to be in their stores when the pope passes in his bullet-proof popemobile. Secret Service agents did not re turn repeated telephone calls from the Associated Press. The Rev. Thomas Murphy, chair man of the papal visit security com- Four hundred sheriffs deputies and 800 National Guard troops will also be there. Fifteen sheriff’s deputies on horseback will also patrol the Mass site. Also, 150 Texas Department of Public Safety troops will be stationed at the Mass site and at major roads leading to San Antonio. “J consider it an honor to have been chosen to partici pate in this and have looked forward to putting the thing together. ” Deputy Police Chief Robert Heuck s a senior histo: d a co/umnist: orrnonths Agents have been visiting the sites mittee, said “I think you can appre ciate the importance of security and that it really is an important factor in the whole visit.” He declined to say how much se curity is costing the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, thousands of city, county and state law enforcement officials and National Guard troops are preparing for crowd control and traffic coordination. Heuck said 800 policemen, in cluding 500 within the Mass site, will be on duty. More than 125 deputy constables will work in the downtown area. Heuck said the police department will spend about $362,000 for papal security and crowd control. Gov. Bill Clements, who will greet the pope upon his arrival, has said the cost for the National Guard will be about $ 180,000. Spokesmen for the other agencies say they don’t know how much they will spend. DPS Capt. Oscar Armstrong of San Antonio said troopers from out side the district probably will be needed. All troopers working the Mass will receive compensatory time off in stead of overtime. “I have never seen anything this big before,” Armstrong said.“This is one of the largest things of this type that has happened in Texas. I really don’t know how much it’s going to cost us.” Heuck, however, said the various agencies are accustomed to working together for previous dignitary vis its. “This is nothing relatively new,” Heuck said. “It’s just huge, plus you’ve got the pope visiting six to tally different sites and you can equivocate that with the president of the United States coming here six times. “You have to have total security wherever the pope goes, but it cre ates a logistics problem. You have to move people from one area to an other.” FBI spokesman Pat Cowley said agents will be on alert for the visit, but are not involved in security ef forts. “I’m sure we’ll have some sort of presence in the Secret Service com mand post, to be there in case some thing happens, but it’s their ball- game,” Cowley said. Flying club members make flight at dawn, honor space shuttle By Missy Sims Reporter At 6:37 a.m. Saturday, a small passenger plane made its way through the murky darkness of the early morning and landed at Easterwood Airport. The pilots, Buddy Walker and Tony Cariker of the Texas A&M Flying Club, landed the airplane to commemorate the first docu mented predawn landing of a space shuttle. The space shuttle Discovery, NASA’s first spacecraft to land in the dark, returned from its suc cessful maiden voyage at the same early-morning time Sept. 5, 1984. Walker, who graduated from A&M in May, said flying condi tions Saturday morning basically were the same conditions the Dis covery crew experienced three years ago. “It was hazy, but it was a beau tiful flight,” Walker said. Walker and Cariker made a quick flight over the Bryan-Col- lege Station area before request ing permission to land from the control tower. Despite the tower operator’s warning of the danger of landing in the dark, the aviation history buffs landed the flying club’s Cessna 172 on Easterwood’s Run way 22, adding extra significance to the flight because Discovery landed on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The twilight flight was more than just an adventure for the young men, who say they feel linked to the Discovery crew be cause they, too, find joy in flight. For Walker and Cariker the Cess na’s flight was an expression of faith in the country’s space pro gram. “The general public sees only the tragedies in the space pro gram,” Walker said. “In reality, the space program makes many vital achievements. Symbolically we’re saying that we believe in the space program.” Walker said the National Aero nautics and Space Administration will mail the club a certificate to recognize the flying club’s efforts to promote America’s space pro gram. —Holiday deaths total 24; CS woman included in fatalities (AP) — Although 42 traffic deaths were reported in I iredicted during the Labor Day weekend on sidewalks. T |exas, the total stood at 24 Monday, in- >ple drive allt r l uc l in g one from College Station, and De- rv square ilk' iartinem °f Public Safety officials said , i ierc was a chance the toll would not be as Sicydes arear igh as dicted 1 about a hunr ►coolers. However, DPS spokesman David Wells autioned the numbers could rise before jtice the traffn tielofficial counting period ended at mid- ooters, bievdt a ght. “We're still hopeful that we’re going to be ble to end this count after the period is )ter drivers,i"'ver and still be well below the estimate,” : ilou.sv So Veils said. <. al means of because youd > make it rougf ter, youroutlof! do quite differ;: Ten fatalities were reported on Texas roads on Monday. Mary Ferrell Rice, 55, of College Station, was killed as a passenger of an auto that col lided with a tractor-trailer at the entrance of a service station on U.S. Highway 70 near Buffalo at about noon Monday. Maxine Dawson Woodward, 51, of Alvin was killed about 12:50 p.m. Monday when the vehicle in which she was riding went out of control near the intersection of Texas highways 35 and 172 about six miles east of Port Comfort in Jackson County. An unidentified man, believed to be His panic and in his late 50s, was struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident about 1 p.m. Monday as he tried to cross Farm Road 149, northwest of Houston. Debra Sue Reynolds, 33, of League City was killed in McKinney about 1:45 p.m. when her vehicle went out of control on the northbound U.S. 75 and veered into the southbound lanes, where it collided with two other vehicles. William K. O’Brien, 37, died Monday morning when the motorcycle he was rid ing struck a concrete wall in the median of a Fort Worth street. O’Brien was thrown from the motorcycle onto a freeway and was struck by three vehicles, Wells said. Stanley Erickson, 26, of Austin, died of injuries suffered in a five-car collision at about noon Monday on an Austin street. Erickson was driving one of the vehicles. Herman A. Neeley, 58, of Houston, a pe destrian, died Monday morning of injuries he suffered Sunday evening when he was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 35 West about 4 miles north of Alvarado, Wells said. Other accidents include Douglas Arnold Anderson, 36, of Boerne, who died early Monday after he was thrown from his vehi cle on Texas Highway 46, four miles east of Boerne, DPS spokesman Mike Cox said. A 22-year-old man also died early Mon day in a one-vehicle accident on a Corpus Chris ti street. Kathryn Leslie Sullivan, 20, of Del Rio, died at about 2:30 a.m. Monday when the vehicle she was riding in overturned several times and burst into flames on Spur 239 in Val Verde County. Two others were in jured in the wreck. The toll predicted this year is slightly lower than the 48 deaths predicted for the 78-hour holiday period in 1986. Last year, 38 of the 51 Labor Day traffic deaths were the result of accidents in which drunken driving was a factor, officials said. 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