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Up is
SAA shanty
torn down
by vandals
Emergency service gives
advice for tornado season
By Juliette Rizzo
STAFF WRITER
Because of the possibility of an increase in severe
weather in Brazos County during the spring, emer
gency planning officials want citizens to be aware of
safety precautions.
As part of “Severe Weather Awareness Week,” the
Brazos County Office of Civil Defense 8c Emergency
Planning is offering helpful tips for citizens in case of
tornado-producing thunderstorms, hail, high winds or
flooding.
Jake Canglose, Brazos County emergency manage
ment and civil defense coordinator, said people need to
be reminded that severe weather is a possibility during
this time of year so they can be prepared ahead of time.
The peak season for severe weather in Texas is
March through July, he said. The severe weather tapers
off after the spring and then picks up again in the
months of November and December. Severe thunder
storms that may produce tornadoes are caused by
weather fronts moving through the area, he said.
The Brazos Valley usually has a lot of these thunder
storms often accompanied by high winds, hail and flash
flooding.
Canglose said that when such storms occur, the cre
ation of tornadoes is a possibility.
A severe tornado blew through Caldwell in Novem
ber 1987, causing several deaths and severe property
damage.
In November 1983, a tornado struck Allen Farms in
the southern portion of Brazos County, hurting several
people and causing substantial damage, and in Decem
ber 1984, Feathercrest Farms, located east of Bryan on
Highway 21, also was hit by a tornado.
Canglose said the loss of life and property damage
can be reduced by being knowledgeable of safety pre
cautions and aware of severe weather bulletins.
Knowing the difference between a tornado watch
and a warning could save your life, he said.
A watch means conditions are favorable for torna
does to form. A warning means a tornado has been
sighted in the area and precautionary safety measures
should be taken immediately.
Other safety measures to follow in the case of a tor
nado include:
• If a tornado warning is issued or a tornado is sighted,
take shelter away from windows, in an interior bath
room, hallway or closet on the ground floor — do not
stay in a mobile home or a car since both are easily
moved by a tornado.
• If inside, take along blankets and sleeping bags for
protection from falling debris and shattering glass.
• If outside, lie flat in a ditch or ravine and cover your
head with your arms — do not try to outrun a tornado
or drive away from it in your car.
• Have a portable radio, batteries, flashlights, prescrip
tion medicine and bottled water readily available, be
cause if a tornado strikes, electricity, gas, water and
sewer service may be temporarily disrupted.
• If you experience damaging weather or tornado ac
tivity, call your local law enforcement agency.
Additional information on severe weather safety pre
cautions is available at the Brazos County Emergency
Management/Civil Defense Office.
Woman sues officials, MHMR
after 51 years of confinement
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
The shanty that Students
Against Apartheid built on cam
pus between the Academic Build
ing and Harrington Tower on
Sunday was torn down Wednes
day night, and the organization’s
president said he thought rep
resentatives from a dormitory
may have been responsible.
Organization members discov
ered the shanty in a pile Thurs
day morning. Kevin Shive, presi
dent of SAA, said it had been
vandalized two nights before it
was destroyed.
Shive said it was only hypo
thetical that the halls were in
volved in the shanty’s destruction.
Three letters, “E.S.L.,” had
been spray painted on the wall of
the shanty on Wednesday by
someone that Shive said was not
related to the organization. He
said it was possible the letters
were a derogatory slogan written
by one hall toward another.
Shive said the two halls are in
volved in a competition, and de
stroying the shanty with the let
ters on it could have been a
possible motive because the struc
ture was in a high visibility area.
“The saying on there meant
nothing to me,” Shive said.
“There are two dorms that are in
big time competition with each
other on campus right now. The
words meant nothing to me but
apparently everyone who lives in
dorms on campus knows what it
is.”
The organization’s permit al
lows them to keep the shanty up
until March 8. Shive said the SAA
plans to rebuild the shanty this
weekend and keep it up until the
permit expires.
This was the fourth shanty the
SAA had put up since the spring
of 1988. One shanty last semester
was vandalized by two students
who pinned a dead bird on the
structure’s wall.
The University Police is investi
gating both the tearing down of
the shanty and the possible com
petition between the two halls.
AUSTIN (AP) — A woman who
spent 51 years in Texas mental insti
tutions received “pathetic and
abysmal” care, and is entitled to $2.2
million because her unnecessary
commitment robbed her of normal
abilities, her lawyer says.
But an attorney for the state told a
district court jury that Opal Petty,
70, is owed “not one dime” because
she legally was committed for treat
ment of schizophrenia and received
the best available care after being
abandoned by her family.
Petty spent 37 years in the Austin
State Hospital for the mentally ill af
ter being committed at age 16 in
1934. She later was transferred to
San Angelo State School for the
mentally retarded, where she spent
14 years before being released to a
foster home in 1985.
Her attorneys contend that Petty
is not, and never has been, schizoph
renic or mentally retarded.
The suit filed by Petty against the
Texas Department of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation and four
current or former officials alleges
that her half-century confinement il
legally deprived her of “liberty, pri
vacy, and other fundamental rights.”
It also alleges the state did not
provide proper services and failed to
release her to a community home af
ter her psychiatric problem subsided
within months of her 1934 commit
ment.
“Because of 51 years of involun
tary confinement, Ms. Petty re
treated to stereotyped behavior typ-
ically found in a person
institutionalized in a prison-like en
vironment,” the suit states. “Ms.
Petty was denied the ability to learn
the basic skills necessary to function
independently.”
Since 1986, Petty has been living
in San Angelo with her nephew,
Clint Denson, and his family.
Denson and his wife, Linda Kauf
fman, located Ms. Petty in the state
school after learning about her for
the first time at a 1985 family reun
ion.
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