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Open to the Public U.S. Air Force jet slams 185 into warehouse in Austin AUSTIN (AP) — A U.S. Air Force RF-4C Phantom II jet slammed into a row of mini-ware houses Monday moments after its two crew members ejected from the cockpit and parachuted to the ground, officials said. The crash ignited a fire in the warehouses about one mile from Bergstrom Air Force Base, but there were no injuries on the ground, said Austin Fire Chief Bill Roberts. Col. Roger Grimsley, 47, of Lees burg, Ohio, and Capt. Terence Ga- niko, 30, of Honolulu, were taken to a Bergstrom hospital for treatment, said Lt. David Fruck, an Air Force public information officer. Grimsley was pilot of the plane. Ganiko was its weapons system of ficer. Air Force officials did not release any information about the crew members' condition Monday. The airplane, a reconnaissance version of the F-4G fighter plane, was stationed at Bergstrom and was returning from a “low-level training mission’’ when it crashed at 12:17 p.m., Fruck said. Lynn McDonald, manager of the mini-warehouse complex, said her husband and another person were at the location when the plane crashed but were not hurt. McDonald had gone to lunch and saw the crash from her car, several blocks away. “1 saw an airplane coming down, and 1 knew it was in this area. All 1 could think was, ‘Thank God I’m not there,’ ” she said, adding, “I had an angel on my shoulder.” There are several residential art; nearby, including homes on ih other side of Riverside Drive. Mann el Coy, an area reside said be saw the plane bursiii flames in the air as he walkedu store. “It kind of like turned, andfe back end exploded and wesawlk two dudes jump out. The airpla kept on going. It kept on lower and lower after theyji out,” he said. Fire Department Lt. Larry said pieces of the plane were tei ed in tire area. T he mini-warehouse complex is just off Riverside Drive in Southeast Austin. “As far as I can see, theairctjjJ in several small pieces, a lot of® pieces,” he said. Fruck said the Air Forcewi convene a hoard of of Ikes toinvRl gate the crash. MHMR will utilize funds for further asbestos removal AUSTIN (AP) — Although they say it poses no immediate health haz ard, mental health officials are rec ommending comprehensive asbestos surveys and removal of the sub stance from mental hospitals, state schools and related facilities. The department has long been aware that its facilities for the men tally ill and mentally retarded still contain asbestos that is “nonfriable,” not crumbling or releasing cancer- causing fibers into the air. Much of it has remained, how ever, because the department has had to pay for asbestos clean-up with money left over from construction funds, MHMR officials say. But voters approved in November a $500 million bond package ear marked for institutions for the men tally disabled and criminal offend ers. About $3.4 million of that will go to asbestos cleanup in MHMR fa cilities, the Austin American-States- man reported Monday. MHMR officials say patients, state school residents or workers are not endangered because the asbestos is nonfriable, but it wants to remove all of the asbestos. “We have not kept a master list of where all this asbestos is.” Fom Gampbeli, MHMR chief of mainte nance and construction, said. “We think they ought to” comply with the new federal law to protect mentally ill patients, retarded residents and state workers, Campbell said. Texas voters return to tor runoffs far Asbestos that is crumbling, flaking or damaged has been removed from the institutions in various stages since the late 1970s, at a cost of about $858,877, said Pat Terry, di rector of support services. Mental health officials said the ever-escalating cost of asbestos abatement may mean the 1988-89 money earmarked for asbestos pro jects may not pay for all the nec essary projects. AUS TIN (A 1’) — Texasws head back to the pollsTuesdaii finish what they started Marcti — picking nominees for offti ranging from L.S. Senate i county sheriff. l opping the list is a Reputt can Party runoff for the rights challenge incumbent Democrat Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, who won re nomination against tokenopp tion in his party’s primary las month. Either Amarillo Congressns: Beau Boulter or Houston te nessman Wes Gilbreath vtfije the GOP’s nod. That race was o peeled to bolster turnout, pari officials said. “Our turnout in the primaii (Ma rch 8) was 1 million, we’re expecting 200,000 in runoff,” Republican Parti spokesman Mark Sanders s Monday. 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