Thursday, September 1, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7 olice sting ijseci to collect Siblings drown in canal ate ticket fines on El PaSO QOlf COUrSO i r-* ^ ■MANSFIELD (AP) — Most who eirned they were not receiving a Vet trip to Jamaica, but instead atfd a free trip to jail, were good- tatured and quickly paid outstand- n ; traffic tickets, said Mansfield po- ic: of their successful undercover t^fig operation. Most of them found it kind of norous,” Mansfield police Lt. i|:niy Owen said. “Once the initial block was over, some thought it was limy as all get out.” Vfansfielcl police mailed 600 let- §s from a fake travel agency to pie with outstanding traffic war- fts, telling them they had won a Inaican vacation, use of a Porsche ■or a year or $3,000. 1 Recipients were instructed to ke an appointment and to bring d| ntification when they came to col li their prize last weekend. fhe ruse netted 54 arrests and 4(100 in fines. One man, who went out of his way collect his prize, was not pleased aut being swept up in the police jThe man called ahead to say he ■uld be late, then drove in from ^ |ie Houston area. ^ K' He pulled up after we had closed J Bwn the business and everybody Is gone,” Owen told the Fori larth Star-Telegram. “When he I fSOIlled into the parking lot to ask di- k vltions, a patrolman asked his Bne and told him it was a sting op inion and he was under arrest. I'l think he was a little perturbed II a, L tln - atlfist. I don’t know what his attitude io the ailing w hen he left. \ees idion:| o worlii J. 31, m uitingm firms v ie state, 1! pyccc IHIIIiAD yment 1 montl! iny otbeti e, then ing tha i DUCK HEADS PLEATED FRONT 100% COTTON PREWASH SLACKS. 40W AVAILABLE IN KHAKI, 3LIVE, CHAR GREY & NAVY. J 24.88 HEY MON!! GROOVE TONIGHT Thursday Sept. 1st EL PASO (AP) — A 9-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother drowned in a canal on a golf course despite efforts by bystanders and emergency workers to rescue them. Rachel and Juan Silva were pro nounced dead at Thomason Hospi tal at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, two hours after golfers pulled them from the 5-foot-deep canal on the edge of Ascarate Municipal Golf Course, sheriffs deputies said. Juan apparently was trying to save his sister, who had fallen into the 60- foot-wide canal, El Paso Sheriffs Sgt. Marvin Ryals said. “They were probably just playing, but they probably went out too deep,” he said. “The brother may have tried to save the girl.” Michael Hutcherson of Pampa was playing golf and had earlier seen Rachel and J uan playing on the bank with their 7-year-old sister. Hutcher son said he later saw Juan jumping around in the water and no sign of Rachel. He asked the 7-year-old girl whether her brother was in trouble. She said she thought so. “I knew he was in trouble then, and I hit the water,” Hutcherson said. A fellow golfer ran for help while Hutcheron pulled the boy out of the water and tried to revive him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The 7-year-old girl went for the chil dren’s mother, Patricia Silva. When the girl and her mother ar rived, a bystander asked the little girl where Rachel was. “She said the other girl was the same place her brother had been,” Hutcherson said. “I knew right then the boy I was trying to save had been trying to save his sister.” An unidentified bystander jumped in, found the girl and pulled her out. Attempts to revive the chil dren at the scene, in ambulances and at Thomason Hospital were unsuc cessful. “We got a lot of help from bystanders,” said Kevin Hobin, a su pervisor for the city’s Emergency Medical Services. “Everyone there was really pulling for those two.” Ryals said Ms. Silva had taken the children to the park Tuesday af ternoon. “They apparently were left unat tended,” Ryals said. “They didn’t know how to swim at all.” Bryan-College Station's largest se lection of activewear for men and women • Guess • Garron • Italian Boys • US Boys • Pepe • Lawman • Gotcha • Quiksilver Post Oak Mall 696-9899 D-FW crash brings bad memories DALLAS (AP) — The crash of a Delta Airlines jet on takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Wednesday brought back grim reminders of another Delta fatal accident at the airport three years ago. On Aug. 2, 1985, Delta Flight 191 crashed and burned during a severe thunderstorm, killing 137 peo ple, including a man driving along a highway, and in juring 25 others. The L-101 1 went down during a rap idly developing thunderstorm and smashed into two water tanks just short of the runway where the flight was arriving from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In that accident, 27 passengers and crew members survived. In Wednesday’s crash of Flight 1141 on takeoff for Salt Lake City, 13 were killed and 94 survived. Officials arf* not speculating what caused the accident, which oc curred as the plane attempted to take off in cloudless skies just after 9 a.m. CDT. National Transportation Safety Board investigators ruled in mid-July 1986 that the Delta 191 crash oc curred when the plane flew into a microburst con taining several wind shears. 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