The Battalion
STATE & LOCAL 3
Friday, June 9,1989
Tornadoes rip across Louisiana;
2 dead, dozens of homes destroyed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A tornado smashed nearly a
square mile of a small, rural town in
Louisiana early Thursday, killing
two people. Tornadoes, rain and
high wind from thunderstorms also
caused damage in parts of Missis
sippi, Alabama and Florida.
The violent weather began devel
oping along the Gulf Coast on
Wednesday, when a man who
sought shelter in a metal-roofed
shed near Stapleton, Ala., was killed
by lightning.
Tornadoes skipped across several
Louisiana parishes early Thursday.
One twister struck the small town
of Grosse Tete, La., about 6 a.m.
Thursday, destroying at least 25 res
idences and injuring at least 15 peo
ple, in addition to the two people
killed, authorities said.
“We can’t imagine how more
aren’t dead,” Willie Hurdle, a mem
ber of the Iberville Parish Police
Jury, said of the town of 790 people.
“This is devastating. There’s about
20 houses that aren’t even here any
more.”
No serious injuries were reported
15 miles away in Baton Rouge,
where Fire Chief Ron Spillman said
at least four twisters touched down
19 times, destroying or damaging al
most 70 mobile homes and 25 to 30
houses.
Spillman estimated that between
400 and 600 people lived in the de
stroyed or damaged residences. A
shelter was set up at a high school
for those left homeless.
Pieces of mobile homes were
strewn in tree tops in Grosse Tete.
About 100 people were evacuated
and were put up in emergency shel
ters, Hurdle said. The storm left the
town without electricity, natural gas,
water and most telephone service.
One elderly woman was rescued
from the rubble of her home after
rescuers used a power saw to cut
through a pile of wood. Dogs were
Lawmaker lists plants
with high cancer risks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here
is a list of the Texas industrial fa
cilities identified by the EPA as
releasing toxic chemicals with a
severe cancer risk. The list, by
risk category, includes the plant
and the city.
Some plants are listed more
than once due to testing of differ
ent chemicals.
A cancer risk of at least one in
10:
Texaco, Port Neches.
A risk of at least 1 in 100 but less
than 10 in 100:
Arco Chemicals, Channelview.
Goodyear Tire, Beaumont.
Polysar, Orange.
Arco, Channelview.
El Paso, Corpus Christi.
Shell Oil, Deer Park'. >
Texas Petrochem, Houston.
B.F. Goodrich, Port Neches.
Gen Corp., Odessa.
Goodyear, Houston.
Uniroyal, Port Neches.
ICI Americas, Bayport.
Texaco, Port Neches.
Texas Eastman, Ixmgview.
A risk of at least 1 in 1,000 but
less than 1 in 100:
Asarco, El Paso.
Denka, Houston.
Firestone, Orange.
Phillips, Borger.
Corpus Cristi, Corpus Christi.
Dow, Freeport.
Exxon, Baytown.
Mobil, Beaumont.
Phillips, Borger.
E.I. Dupont, Beaumont.
Dupont, Corpus Christi.
SDS Biotech, Houston.
Temple Eastex, Silsbee.
E.I. Dupom-Hypalon, Beau
mont.
Champion International,
Houston.
Champion International, Luf
kin.
American Chrome, Corpus
Christi.
Amoco, Texas City.
Diamond Shamrock, Deer
Park.
Formosa, Point Comfort.
Shell, Deer Park.
Johnson & Johnson, Sherman.
Sherwood Medical, Com
merce.
PD Glycol, Beaumont.
Dupont, LaPorte.
taken to the area to search for more
bodies and trapped survivors.
Over a two-hour period, torna
does also were reported in the pa
rishes of West Baton Rouge, St. He
lena, Livingston and Tangipahoa.
The early morning tornadoes in
southeastern Louisiana followed a
night of violent weather in the west
ern and central part of the state in
which several homes were destroyed
or damaged late Wednesday, but no
serious injuries were reported.
A line of thunderstorms that
pounded the Florida Panhandle
produced several tornadoes that de
stroyed a house, damaged a super
market and knocked down two tem
porary buildings. At least 6 inches of
rain fell at Milton, the National
Weather Service reported.
A U.S. park ranger suffered a
broken arm and cuts Thursday
when a tornado destroyed the en
trance station at the Fort Pickens sec
tion of the Gulf Islands National
Seashore on the western Florida
Panhandle. She was thrown 10 to 15
yards and only the concrete founda
tion of the station was left, officials
said.
Another tornado hit Ellisville,
Miss., damaging buildings and
uprooting trees.
Aggie Volunteers receive
exposure to patient care
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
To help train volunteers in the
line of hospital patient care, Hu
mana Hospital-Brazos Valley has or
ganized the Aggie Volunteer Pro
gram to give participants exposure
to hospital care.
The program begins June 16 and
will run throughout the summer
school sessions.
The hospital will hold an orienta
tion session tonight at 7 in the Hu
mana Hospital Classroom to give
hopeful volunteers an overview of
hospital policies and procedures, a
hospital tour, a discussion of job de
scriptions and information on the
submitting of applications and
schedules.
Applications for the program can
be obtained at the orientation ses
sion and volunteers can schedule
their own hours to help fit their vol
unteer work into their academic and
work schedules.
Aggie Volunteers are not allowed
to participate in actual hands-on pa
tient care, but they are exposed to
many hospital experiences such as
nursing service, intensive care,
emergency services, physical the
rapy, laboratory, radiology, phar
macy, business office and medical
records.
Handgun opinion by Mattox
causes dissent among judges
HOUSTON (AP) — The attorney
general’s opinion that Texas judges
can’t tote guns outside the court
room has raised the ire of some jur
ists, who say they’ve held the right
since Judge Roy Be^n governed the
land west of the Pecos.
Harris County Court-at-Law
Judge Jimmie Duncan said Texas
judges have been carrying guns
since a court ruled they had that
right nearly a century ago.
“That old case is still the law, no
matter how old it is,” Duncan said. “I
think (Texas Attorney General Jim)
Mattox is wrong. He’s just a lawyer,
and that’s just a lawyer’s opinion.”
Bean, a saloon-keeper and justice
of the peace, was noted for holding
court at one end of his bar and rely
ing on his six-guns to keep order. He
gained notoriety for his colorful de
cisions and his boasts that he was the
only “Law West of the Pecos.”
From a practical standpoint,
judges have little to fear, said Dun
can.
“Not many police officers are
going to arrest a judge for carrying a
gun,” Duncan said.
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