The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 24, 1988, Image 4

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Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, February 24, 1988
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34 oil workers
flee sinking rig
GALVESTON (AP) — Thirty-
four oil rig workers arrived safely on
land Tuesday morning after their
platform sank into the Gulf of Mex
ico, forcing them to flee in water
tight escape capsules.
The workers on the rig E-302,
owned by Keyes Offshore Inc. of
Sugar Land, were evacuated Mon
day night in capsules from the rig,
82 miles south of Galveston, then
transferred to the workboat “Casey
Chouest” for transportation back to
Galveston, Bill Keyes, president of
Keyes .Offshore, said.
The vessel radioed the U.S. Coast
Guard at 1:17 a.m. that it had picked
up the workers, Coast Guard
officer Don Merwin said.
duty
when one of the 396-foot legs
punched through the Gulf floor,
Keyes said.
“It resulted in bending the three
legs on the rig,” he said. “The rig
was about five feet above the water
because we had not jacked up all the
way.”
Workers had been at the site
about three hours before the acci
dent, which happened in seconds, he
said.
Crews were able to get out to the
rig Tuesday morning to assess dam
age to the rig, company spokesman
Bill Flores said.
“It appears to be salvageable,” he
said of the rig. “It doesn’t appear as
bad as it originally looked.”
The research vessel “Geco
Longva” relayed a distress call to the
Coast Guard from the rig at 10:17
p.m. Monday, Merwin said. Coast
Guard rescue ships were dispatched
from Houston, Corpus Christi and
Sabine.
The workers were pre-loading the
180 -by 125-foot, triangular rig
“It’s a phenomena that this hap
pened in the Gulf,” Keyes said. “In
certain areas, the sand will support
the rig for a while and then it gives
way.”
Keyes said his company had
jacked up another rig in an adjoin
ing area with no problems and had
gathered information on the present
location, finding it suitable.
Mayor tells police
where to find body
before killing self
ADDISON (AP) — The death of
Mayor Jerry Redding, who was un
der investigation for allegations of
fiscal mismanagement, was ruled a
suicide, the police chief said.
Redding was found by police
Monday with a bullet a wound to his
right temple, Police Chief Rick Sulli
van said. A handgun was found on
the ground beside him, Sullivan
said. His body was found near a jog
ging trail in this Dallas suburb.
Sullivan said Redding called them
shortly after 3 p.m. Monday from
his car telephone and told the chief
to “get someone down here to find
me.”
“It was a casual call at first,” said
Sullivan, who got the call at his of
fice.. “He just said, ‘What are you
doing?’ ”
. Sullivan said Redding asked him
if he knew how to find the jogging
trail, a short distance from Addison
Town Hall.
“He said, ‘All right, I want you to
have somebody find me before
somebody else does,’ ” Sullivan said.
“I said, ‘Jerry, what are you talk
ing about?’ and he hung up on me. I
tried to call him back, but he had
killed the car and the phone
wouldn’t ring.”
Redding, mayor for 13 years, was
one of several town officials under
investigation for allegations of fiscal
mismanagement at Addison Town
Hall.
He was fired from Vernon Sav
ings and Loan Corp. after federal
regulators declared the Addison-
based thrift insolvent. Regulators
said the thrift was drained by run
away growth, risky loans and exces
sive compensation to some bank offi
cials.
Sullivan, who found four notes at
Redding’s home, said there was no
evidence the mayor’s death was
prompted by the investigations or
his firing last spring from his job as
an assets manager at Vernon Sav-
ings.
“The notes did not give some de
finitive answer as to why he did it,”
said Sullivan, who declined to reveal
details. “Most of the notes’ concerns
were of the welfare of his wife, child,
frifends, mother and father.”
City. Manager Ron Whitehead
said Redding had not seemed upset
lately and said he doesn’t know if
Redding’s suicide had anything to
do with the investigations.
The following were reported
to the University Police Depart
ment from Feb. 15 through Feb.
22:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Three backpacks were re
ported stolen from the Commons
dining area. All were left unse
cured.
• Five bicycles were stolen
from various places on campus
and six cars were broken into and
had various stereo components
stolen from them.
• A student reported that
someone had stolen her black Ya
maha Razz moped from where
she had parked it in front of De-
Ware Fieldhouse.
• Two drivers reported that
the left side-view mirrors of their
cars had been stolen while the
cars were parked in the blue lot
across from Zachry.
• While on patrol, officers ob
served that the right rear tire of a
red, 2-door Nissan Sentra,
parked in the red lot behind the
Commons, was missing. Upon
contacting the owner, the officers
were advised that she was un
aware that the tire was missing.
• A student reported that her
wallet and checkbook were stolen
from where she had left them un
attended on the fifth floor of the
Evans Library.
• Several signs were reported
missing over the weekend, in
cluding the street signs at Lewis
and Spence streets and the “No
parking from here to the corner"
sign that was on Jones Street.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMA
TION — FELONY THEFT
• A student reported that
someone had stolen his 1980
Mazda RX-7 from where he had
parked it in the fish lot. He later
reported to the UPD that his
roommate had borrowed his ex
tra set of keys and driven the ve
hicle to San Antonio. No charges
were filed.
FELONY THEFT:
• A student reported that
while she was working out in the
Read Building weight room,
someone stole three rings from
her purse that she had left unse
cured. She later reported thatthe
rings were in her purse when she
went to work out in the weight
room but she did not check tosee
if they were missing before going
to 24 Hour Gyms of Texas where
her purse was left unattended in
a common-use area.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone reported that the
convertible top of her 1987 red
Ford was slashed while parked in
the fish lot.
• Two residents of Schuh-
macher Hall identified two other
Schuhmacher residents as being
involved in throwing water bal
loons at the residents of the
dorm.
• In two separtate incident
residents of Schuhmacher re
ported that four windows had
oeen broken out by somekindof
projectile.
• It was reported that five
cars, parked in the mall area be
tween the old and new architec
ture buildings, were damagedon
the afternoon of Feb. 14.
ELUDING AN OFFICER:
• While on patrol, an officer
observed a driver run the stop
sign at the intersection of Lub
bock and S. Bizzell. The driver
then tried to elude the officer but
eventually was stopped between
the 707 T exas complex and 708
Texas.
ASSAULT:
• A student reported that,
while she was walking though the
Corps Quadrangle to Aston Hal,
she was shoved against the wall by
a man walking by, causing herto
bump her head.
HARASSMENT:
• A resident of Dorm 5 re
ported that she had received sev
eral obscene phone calls between
Feb. 12 and Feb. 14. Shewasad-
vised of the procedure toobtaina
trlrphonr tl .U v.
RECOVERED ITEMS:
• The oboe that was reported
stolen from the Zachry Building
on Feb. 2 was recovered under a
stairwell in an unreported build-
ing.
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Professor: Faculty behind
underground newspaper
CANYON, Texas (AP) — West
Texas State University trustees
fa
He said that figures from the
state’s comptrollers office show that
$100 million a year could be added
to the state’s economy by 1994 from
pari-mutual gambling.
Tuesday questioned the faculty sen
ate president about the anonymous
publishers of an underground news
paper that has criticized the school’s
president.
Gary Byrd, a psychology profes
sor, appeared before the regents
during their regular meeting in the
first such presentation by a faculty
representative.
In response to questions from re
gent Dee Osborne, Byrd said he be
lieved faculty members were behind
the publication.
“I believe there are indeed theii-
volvement of faculty in someformn
well as others,” he said.
“The individuals may believetk
this is a way of creating awarenessio
a set of problems that they feel ex
ist,” ' : - J
he said.
The newsletter, called "The Res
of The Prairie,” appeared on can
pus last fall and contains editorial!
and letters highly critical of TO
President Ed Roach.
“The Prairie” is the name of
school’s student-run newspaper,
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