Tuesday, January 19, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
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Heavy fog delays planned arrival
of Navy ship headed for Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — The Navy’s
:west and most technologically ad-
iced guided-missile cruiser fell
ctim Monday to Mother Nature as
;avy fog blanketed the Houston
S[np Channel and delayed for at
last a day the planned arrival of the
[SS San Jacinto.
The ship, bearing the name of the
little which gained the Republic of
•xas its independence, waited at
ahchor at the mouth of the ship
channel near Galveston while Navy
o! icials scrambled to reorganize a
bi sy week-long series of events that
|ill culminate with the Saturday
mmissioning of the vessel by Vice
esident George Bush.
“It’s the rules and regulations of
le ship channel,” Ed Klecka, a Navy
spokesman, said. “They don’t want
violate them. The harbor pilots
a| e advising the captain that this is
[hat he should do.”
Klecka said that if the ship were in
ie open sea, it would be able to pro-
ed regardless of the fog.
I “The ship would continue, defi-
■tely,” he said.
■ Although the other nine ships of
tie Aegis class of cruisers are all
■timed after historic American bat
tles, the $1 billion USS San Jacinto is
Hnique in that the commissioning
will take place within sight of its
■amesake battlefield.
I The San Jacinto is named after
tlie 18-minute battle in which the
Hjtnumbered Texas army, com-
■tanded by Sam Houston, defeated
One killed in Houston private plane crash
HOUSl ON (AP) — At least one
person was killed and six others in
jured Monday when a private jet
crashed in heavy fog in a marshy
field near a runway at Houston’s
Hobby Airport, officials said.
One of the surviving passengers
told authorities she was among seven
people on the flight, which origi
nated in Monterrey, Mexico, and
stopped in Laredo.
“It came in, hit the trees and
broke in half,” Houston Police Lt.
Kenneth Ginn said.
“It looked like he fell out and the
plane kept going,” said J.D. Sellers,
an ambulance supervisor who was
the first rescue person at the scene
of the accident. “The plane skidded
about 200 to 300 feet before it
>ed.”
Those injured were suffering
stoppt
head injuries, dislocations, fractures
and possible internal injuries, Sellers
said.
One woman passenger, however,
managed to escape the wreckage
without serious injuries.
“It felt like we hit and started fish
tailing and then it just flipped over
and over,” Jennifer Jeffers of Hous
ton said.
She said she was asleep in the rear
of the plane and woke up to hear the
pilot saying they might have to land
elsewhere because of the fog. After
the crash, she ran to a business about
three-quarters of a mile away to call
for help.
The airport had been closed inter
mittently Monday morning because
of heavy fog. Helicopter ambulances
initially were blocked from reaching
the scene because of the poor flving
conditions but later brought two
people to Hermann Hospital for
treatment, a spokesman said. Four
others were brought to the hospital
by ground ambulances, she said.
Their conditions were not imme
diately available.
Scattered power outages were re
ported in the area, but Houston
Lighting & Power Co. spokesman
Geri Konigsberg said it was uncer
tain if the plane caused the outages.
The wreckage of the aircraft was
in a field at the west side of the air
port.
Besides the fog, the marshy
ground and tall grass hampered the
efforts of rescuers to get to the acci
dent scene. Authorities used four-
wheel-drive vehicles.
Investigators from the Federal
Aviation Administration were called
to the scene to studv the crash.
the Mexican army on April 21, 1836,
under Gen. Santa Anna. The battle
field site, at the junction of the San
Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou,
about 15 miles east of downtown
Houston, is now a Texas state park
and home to the Battleship Texas.
Plans called for a 21-gun salute to
be exchanged between the San Ja
cinto and a cannon on shore.
The San Jacinto is the fourth ves
sel to bear that name and the third in
the U.S. Navy.
The first San Jacinto belonged to
the Texas navy in the early days of
the Republic and was wrecked in a
hurricane near Galveston.
The second San Jacinto — and the
first to fly the U.S. flag — was a frig
ate built in 1851 and was used to ex
periment with a screw-type propel
ler. After fighting in the Civil War, it
ran aground on a reef in the Baha
mas on New Year’s Day, 1865, and
the hull eventually was sold.
The most recent San Jacinto was a
World War II aircraft carrier which
included George Bush among its
Fighter pilots. It served until 1970.
Resolution made
by faculty senate
puts off changes
By Karen Kroesche
Sta ff Writer
A resolution that will postpone
for two years a “technology, rene
wable resources and society” re
quirement in the core curriculum
was passed unanimously Monday
at the Faculty Senate’s first meet
ing of 1988.
The resolution was proposed
by the Academic Affairs Commit
tee after it was discovered that the
College of Engineering did not
have suitable courses to meet the
requirement, said Peter J. Hugill,
chairman of that committee.
In April, President Vandiver
approved the core curriculum
with the exception of the technol
ogy, renewable resources and so
ciety component, which was de
signed to include either an
agriculture or engineering course
in the requirements that all stu
dents will have to fill under the
core curriculum proposal.
The Senate also approved the
dates for Faculty Senate elections,
which are set as follows:
• Feb. 29 - March 11: nomi
nation period.
• March 28 - April 1: absentee
voting.
• April 4 - election.
• April 6 - runoff election, if nec
essary.
In his opening remarks. Fac
ulty Senate Speaker C. Richard
Shumway praised President
Frank E. Vandiver’s accomplish
ments and expressed sadness at
his announcement that he will re
linquish his post effective Sept 1.
“I am saddened by his resigna
tion, and deeply appreciative of
the period that he’s served as our
president,” Shumway said. “He
has been a strong advocate for a
core curriculum. He has sup
ported faculty participation in the
selection and evaluation of ad
ministrators, he’s honored and
shown respect for faculty in both
substantive and symbolic ways.
He has been an effective spokes
man for higher education and
Texas A&M in particular.”
Shumway credited Vandiver
with the existence of the Faculty
Senate.
“I think it’s fair to say as we
near the end of our fifth year as a
Faculty Senate that without his
unwavering commitment to par
ticipative government we would
not exist.”
Monday’s meeting set a new
Faculty Senate record. Lasting
only 30 minutes, it was the short
est that anyone could remember.
“I’m not aware of any shorter
(meeting),” Shumway said.
former Gov. Connally and wife prepare to auction off personal items
■ HOUSTON (AP) — Former Texas first
lady Nellie Connally, surveying hundreds
ol personal items Monday that awaited auc-
ti< n later this week, said it looked “sort of
ll:e the end of something.”
■ Mrs. Connally and her husband, former
three-time Gov. John B. Connally, are sell
ing off prized possessions to help pay $48
million in debts. Connally, 70, filed for both
personal and business bankruptcy in July.
■ “I don’t like it at all, but it’s something we
have to do,” Mrs. Connally said of the up
coming auction, which begins Friday eve
ning.
“Most of the things we hate to give up are
the gifts from friends and staff,” Mrs. Con
nally, 68, said at a preview at Hart Galleries
where the auction will be held. “It’s sort of
like the end of something. We got into this
so we have to do this.”
As she gave a tour describing the posses
sions, Mrs. Connally said, “It seems strange
that they’re mine and that they’re here. I’m
looking at these things with detachment.”
Connally, who served as governor from
1963-69, was in New York on business
Monday but was expected to return to
Houston by Friday to attend the auction
with his wife.
The former governor, who also served as
secretary of the Navy under President Ken
nedy and treasury secretary under Presi
dent Nixon, launched several real estate
ventures at the peak of the oil boom with
former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes as his
partner.
When the boom went bust, it took Con
nally, Barnes and others in tow.
Under bankruptcy rules, Connally is sell
ing all properties except his house and 200
of the 3,400 acres at Picosa Ranch, his
homestead in Floresville south of San Anto
nio.
The law allows Connally to keep $30,000
in personal possessions.
Mrs. Connally said many have told her
she’s in good company considering the
number of bankruptcies filed in Texas.
She agrees, but adds, “It’s a nice club, but
not one 1 lobbied to become a member.
“Don’t you ever fear we’ll do something
like this again,” Mrs. Connally told report
ers. “We’re never going to be out until we’re
really out.”
She said the auction will probably be
tough, but that they have been through
tough times before.
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