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The Battalion 2STATE & LOCAL Wednesday, June 28,1989 se )le Allison traps girl, vdatt VlcBumett Columnist lays, if a ; a lousy ( grounded, ged. The kid , if he thinks idged him, an :ermine his | dous, butsois n accepting ing Pete and e courts could: employee of ie fired, ocscd ade. (O.K ase wasn’t ridt Nadel’s decis so to speak, as f misjustice. irts into based, slot-machine, . I lowed to take weeks. Onjulf motion for a which would! case while Nn determine ot whether or is money. I do illy upsetting! i, especially but that is noi I HOUSTON (AP) — A 7-year-old ;irl swept into a storm drain by fast- lowing water from Tropical Storm kllison spent 15 hours trapped in- ide an underground sewage chan nel before she was rescued Tuesday, uthorities said. “She spent the entire night in the ity’s major sewer system with all hat flood water coming in on her, md hardly had a scratch,” Houston Fire Department spokesman Mike Warnke said. “It’s just a miracle that she could till be alive,” he said. Latricia Reese was playing outside ter south Houston home around 5 p.m. Monday when her young :ousin saw her lose her footing in he fast-moving storm water and slip into a nearby gutter, officials said. She was retrieved around 8 a.m. Tuesday by two construction work- rs who removed manhole covers near the spot where she disap peared, Warnke said. T: “We used a flashlight and saw a little figure about 30 feet under the street,” said Timothy Gabrysch, a construction worker who went into he drain T uesday morning. “It was pitch dark and she couldn’t see any thing. When she saw us, she ran to us. “It’s an experience I guess you can’t explain. I have no idea how she stayed there. It’s pretty nasty; there’s all kinds of debris.” Warnke said, “They began yelling her name, and she answered back: ‘Who are you?’ They told her and she was reluctant to come out of the hole after being in there all night hanging on through that swift wa ter.” Latricia, who suffered only abra sions to her knees and elbows and mild shock, was in very good condi tion after being admitted for obser vation at Humana Hospital-South- more, spokesman Ramona Branch said. “I think she was just a little bit sha ken, a little bit hungry and a little bit cold,” Branch said Tuesday, adding that the girl still was overwhelmed by her ordeal. “When they keep asking her what happened, she gets a little foggy about that and you don’t get really clear answers,” Branch said. “She also thought she didn’t spend the night there,” he said. “She thought she went home.” University Press founder dies Monday in Austin STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS The man who established the Texas A&M University Press died Monday in Austin. frank H. Wardlaw, 75, also es tablished scholarly publishing houses at the University of Texas and the University of South Caro lina. He served A&M from 1974 to 1978. During his 33-year pub lishing career, he oversaw the publication of more than 700 books, about 50 of which were University works. Wardlaw came to A&M after serving as founding director of the University of Texas Press for 24 years. Before founding the UT press, Wardlaw founded the University of South Carolina Press in 1945. A book series endowed by friends of the Wardlaws and pub lished by A&M bears his name and a Texas art collection honor ing Wardlaw went on display in the A&M press offices in 1983. He was bestowed director emeri tus status in 1981 by the Board of Regents of the Texas A&M Uni versity System. Services are pending for Ward- law, born Aug. 16, 1913, in In- diantown, S.C. He is survived by his widow and daughter, both of Austin, and a son who serves as American consul general in Shanghai, China. 7, in sewer for 15 hours Houston got more than 10 inches of rainfall as Allison moved slowly northward Monday, flooding streets, stalling cars and forcing hun dreds to evacuate as Latricia some how clung onto some cracks in the brick lining of the sewer, authorities said. Warnke said the water was pour ing so quickly into the drain where she disappeared that fire depart ment personnel were unable to reach her, or even conduct a proper search Monday. “The water was going in there so swiftly that they couldn’t get down to her,” he said. “The fire department diving team was called out and they refused to go in the hole because the water was just so swift that it was too danger ous,” Warnke said. “They thought that at that point, because the water was moving so fast, that she would have been swept down to the place where the sewer system empties into the bayou.” Police officers were stationed near the site to watch for signs of the girl. Tanker pilot testifies ship failed to respond before hitting barge HOUSTON ( AP) — The pilot of a tanker that collided with a barge in the Houston Ship Channel testified Tuesday his vessel failed to complete a turn shortly before the accident, which resulted in a 250,0()0-gallon oil spill. During a hearing before a Coast Guard official, pilot Michael Gale said he was trying to make a right turn into the channel when the tanker and barge collided around 6:20 p.m. Friday. Gale said he had performed all the needed maneuvers for the turn, but the vessel didn’t perform as ex pected. He said the probable cause for the difficulty he had in steering the tanker was sediment buildup in the channel. The captain of the tugboat push ing the barge testified later Tuesday that the collision occurred about three to five minutes after Gale ra dioed to him he was having trouble. “The ship’s pilot called and said he couldn’t stop,” Mason T. Ware testified. “I replied, ‘Well, it’s too late for me to stop at this time.’ ” The ruptured barge, one of three being pushed by a tug boat, spilled an estimated 6,000 barrels of crude oil, fouling a mile-long stretch of the Galveston Bay shoreline. Crews con tinued to clean up the spill near La Porte Tuesday. During the hearing that began Tuesday before Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. R.H. Arredondo, Gale said that“shoaling,” or a sediment buildup, seemed the most likely cause of the vessel’s inability to make the turn from the Bayport Channel into the Houston Ship Channel. “My only opinion is, she didn’t have enough water underneath her keel,” Gale said when asked about the vessel’s failure to make the turn. The hearing is being conducted to determine what caused the accident, not to assess blame, Arredondo said. Nine people were scheduled to tes tify during the hearing, which was expected to end Wednesday. Arredondo said his report of the hearing probably would not be ready for three months. He said he anchor in an effort to complete the turn and avoid a collision. Instead, he said, the Rachel-B sur prisingly continued straight ahead and the collision soon occurred. “It should have made the turn,” Gale said, adding that he’d had no earlier difficulty in maneuvering the ship. “She just didn’t respond to the commands we were giving her,” he said. Gale and the Korean captain of the ship, Han Sun Kim, said the ves I he ship’s pilot called and said he couldn’t stop. I replied. ‘Well, it’s too late for me to stop at this time. — Mason T. Ware, tugboat captain could recommend physical changes to the area where the accident oc curred, new procedures or even sug gest a civil penalty hearing be held in which a fine could be levied against anyone found at fault. Gale, a pilot for 12 years who said he has made 2,700 trips in the chan nel, testified that the Panamanian registered tanker, “Rachel-B” was destined for the open sea when it collided with the inbound barge. When he attempted to turn the ship into the channel, he said he re alized the vessel wasn’t turning sharp enough. He gave the orders to reverse the engines and drop an sel was either hardly moving or stopped when the accident hap pened. But Ware, who has had a li cense to operate a tugboat since 1977, testified that both vessels were moving. Ware also testified that soon after Gale radioed him he first reversed his tug’s engines, but then realized there wasn’t enough time to stop. “There was not time in this situa tion for me to stop,” he said, respon ding to an attorney’s suggestion that he should have halted the tugboat. “So I shifted to full speed ahead to get control.” Police group calls for inquiry of Clements aides AUSTIN (AP) — The state’s largest police organization on Tuesday called for an investiga tion of two gubernatorial aides, who reportedly influenced the veto of a bill after accepting free trips from a group opposed to it. And state lawmakers who sponsored the bill said they would file it again for consideration dur ing the 30-day, special legislative session. The measure, which was passed during the regular session ending May 29, required law en forcement groups to disclose how much they raise through tele phone solicitations. Ronald DeLord, president of Combined Law Enforcement As sociations of Texas, said the bill would have helped identify suspi cious organizations asking for money. He said some organizations use a huge portion of the solicited do nations for purposes other than charities. Others lie about rep resenting police organizations and keep all the money, he said. DeLord said a grand jury should investigate the governor’s chief of staff, Mike Toomey, and legislative liaison, Cliff Johnson, whom he says told Gov. Bill Clements to veto the bill. According to published re ports, Toomey and Johnson said they went on a ski trip to Utah in December as guests of the Texas State Troopers Association and two other groups. The troopers association, which is not connected to the Texas Department of Public Safety, uses telephone solicitation to collect donations, DeLord said. The group opposed the bill, sponsored by Sen. Chet Edwards, D-Duncanville, and Rep. Keith Oakley, D-Terrell. Clements said neither Toomey nor Johnson influenced him to veto the bill, which he previously said lacked “substantive changes” to the current law. '. My complai ourts mixabo 1 season tide: s. T his isalmoil :nt’s boycotting jilty of bettinj nes involving aspended for s oops 1 ffit be did bet out for life. e involved, notf r will be resolve: convince If he has to,(| nnocence in 1 ..In fact, and three jnij A n, Pete. a junior elect id a columnisif Attention A&M Students, Faculty & Staff: GET OFF TO A mjNNING START | this summer with a little help from IBM. 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