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Grocery, hardware stores packed
as Texans prepare for hurricane
Storm coupled with full moon could produce very high tides
GALVESTON (AP) — As Hurricane Jerry
churned up the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and con
tinued to lumber toward shore, Texas residents
stocked up on bottled water and batteries and se
cured their homes and boats.
“We’re jam-packed,” Joey DeRanier, service
manager at Randall’s grocery store, said.
“They’re picking up water, batteries, everything.
We opened at 7 a.m. — the regular time — but I
don’t know what time we’ll close.”
Twelve checkers were busy with long lines of
customers, another employee said. “It’s been
packed all morning,” she said.
At hardware stores, customers bought nails,
masking tape and other supplies to secure their
homes and windows. But one clerk said it was too
late for many to erect plywood covering on their
windows.
“With this late a warning, there’s not a lot you
can do,” said Roy Straw, who was running his
brother’s Straw Fox Hardware on Jamaica Beach
Sunday.
“There’s nothing you can do now,” Straw said.
“The winds are picking up, and it’s starting to
rain. People can’t handle plywood in the wind
and rain.”
He said many of his customers would be leav
ing the beach areas, and he planned to close his
store by 2 p.m.
Bob Fields, a National Weather Service spe
cialist in Houston, said the full moon already was
producing high tides up to a foot above the nor
mal 1V2 to 2 feet above sea level.
“The storm could put those tides up to 6 to 9
feet in the Galveston area if it hits right,” Fields
said.
“It’s the wind force (of the storm) that’s push
ing the water onto the shore,” Fields said. “It has
a scooping effect into the Galveston Bay. If the
storm hits at precisely the right point, it could
cause flooding. If it hits east of us, you’ll have
considerably less in the bay.”
Galveston Mayor Jan Coggenshall asked resi
dents to take precautions such as moving lawn
furniture and other outdoor equipment inside,
or tying it down.
“I think it’s an unusual situation that we have
this lunar tide at the same time that we have a
hurricane,” Mayor Coggenshall said.
Boat owners in the area moved their vessels,
tying them down throughout the day.
Bonnie Hughes, manager of Galveston Yacht
Basin, said many boat owners with outdoor slips
had found harbor in the 500 slips she oversees.
“A lot of other boats are coming from other
marinas because we have covered slips,” she said.
“We’ll secure them in the slip and let them spend
the night here until the storm’s over.”
She was advising owners of vessels with high
masts or towers to dock them outside. “If their
boat has a tower, it’s apt to go through the roof,”
Hughes said.
City Manager Doug Matthews said officials
were asking Houston residents not to come into
the city after 3 p.m. because they could become
trapped on the causeways leading into town.
Meanwhile, the city had opened its first shelter
at Alamo Elementary School. Gary Stone,
spokesman for the Emergency Operations Cen
ter, said residents from the west side were being
advised to move to hotels or shelters in the down
town area where they could be protected by the
seawall.
Air force jet crew dies in crash; Democrats
Fort Worth officials investigate fo^campaVns
FORT WORTH (AP) — An Air Force jet on a train
ing mission crashed Sunday morning at Carswell Air
Force Base killing both people on board, a base spokes
man said.
The F-16 fighter crashed about 9 a.m. at Carswell,
said 1st Lt. Stephen Norton, base spokesman. The
names of those killed were not released because rela
tives had not been notified, he said.
Norton, reading from a prepared statement Sunday
afternoon, told the Associated Press: “Access to the
crash site is restricted pending cleanup of the fuel spill
following the crash and of unspent ammunition which
was on board the aircraft.”
He did not elaborate.
Fort Worth police were asked to help direct traffic
around the base following the crash, said Pamela Hawk
ins, a dispatcher.
The jet was assigned to the 944th Tactical Fighter
group, Air Force Reserve, stationed at Luke Air Force
Base near Phoenix, said Luke AFB spokesman Captain
Joe Davis.
Norton said the aircraft was en route from Dallas Na
val Air Station to Carswell on a training mission when it
crashed.
A board of Air Force officers was being convened
Sunday afternoon to investigate the accident, he said.
Sunday’s fatal crash was the second accident in three
days. Earlier in the week, an Air Force RF-4C jet went
down in a pasture near Bangs killing one of its two
crewman.
In that crash, 1st Lt. James M. Poppo Jr., who was pi
loting the plane, died. The weapons system operator
ejected safely.
The RF-4C was stationed at Bergstrom Air Force
Base in Austin, about 150 miles from Bangs in central
Texas.
Shrimpers without turtle devices
may receive fines beginning today
HOUSTON (AP) — Shrimpers
could be fined $8,000 or more start
ing Monday if caught with nets that
lack turtle excluder devices, gates
that allow endangered sea turtles to
escape from the nets without drown
ing.
Shrimpers, who had hoped that
President Bush would grant a last-
minute reprieve, complain that the
devices, known as TEDs, cause them
to lose nearly a third of their catch.
Government studies have shown
losses of 5 percent to 10 percent.
Although shrimpers have been re
quired to use TEDs since Sept. 8, un
til Sunday the federal government
had forgiven the penalties — at first
in whole and later in part — if a
shrimper bought and installed a
TED after being caught without one.
But beginning Monday, a
shrimper can be fined $8,000 for a
first offense and $15,000 for a sec
ond. A third offense could cost
$15,000 and confiscation of the
shrimper’s vessel, catch, or both.
The change in enforcement won’t
change how the U.S. Coast Guard
monitors shrimp boats, Lt. Scott La-
Rochelle in Galveston said.
“What we’ve been doing in nor
mal law enforcement operations is
stopping boats randomly while in
the water,” LaRochelle said. “If we
happen to stop shrimp boats we’ll
check for TEDs.”
The Coast Guard reports viola
tions it finds to the National Marine
Fisheries Service, which imposes the
penalties.
“Our policy remains unchanged,”
said Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd
Class Robert Morehead, in New Or
leans. “We still continue to look for
TEDS in routine boardings. As far
as the Coast Guard is concerned,
there was never a stoppage of that.”
Pat Philben, a Coast Guard
spokesman in New Orleans, said
compliance with the TEDs regula
tion is improving. He and Gene
Proulx, a National Marine Fisheries
Service enforcement official, agreed
that compliance is very good off
Florida and good along Texas, but
said it is poor off Louisiana.
LaRochelle said Coast Guard offi
cials in the Galveston area have re
ported about 50 percent compliance
of TEDs on shrimp boats they
searched.
AUSTIN (AP) — To discourage
negative campaigning in the March
1990 primary, county Democratic
leaders in Texas have created a
“Code of Campaign Ethics” for all
statewide contenders.
In an unprecedented move, the
county chairmen also have decided
to form a special monitoring com
mittee, the Dallas Morning News re
ported Sunday.
“We’ve seen too many instances
where Democratic opponents beat
each other senseless and whoever
comes out of the primary is so weak,
they can’t stand up to the Republi
can,” Ron Gay, Brazos County’s
Democratic Party chairman, said.
Some Republican consultants are
worried as well about the need to
rein in their candidates, the newspa
per said. But GOP officials plan no
formal action, saying they doubt the
Republican field will hit below the
belt.
Gay, president of the county
chairmen’s association, said he will
ask all statewide Democratic office-
seekers to sign a pledge to abide by
the code. Those who “step over the
line of fair campaigning” would be
publicly reprimanded, he said.
The proposal is similar to a tactic
used by Texas Republican officials
in 1986. Then-state GOP chief
George Strake made the three Re
publican gubernatorial candidates
sign an agreement that they would
follow the party’s “11th Command
ment” — speak no ill of another Re
publican.
But current Republican Chair
man Fred Meyer said he does not see
any reason for such a requirement in
1990.
“I don’t think we’re going to have
the kind of primaries the Democrats
are going to have,” Meyer said.
Comes on strong, then it’s gone
Wesley Otken, a junior from Company K-1 of the Corps of Cadets,
picks up a beer can Saturday morning. Otken’s outfit picks up
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
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