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Page 4 The Battalion Monday, October 4,195J
Judge orders Brenham
explosion site review
The Associated Press
HOUSTON - A Washington
County judge wants state offi
cials to review with a "fine
toothed comb” a gas company's
application to resume operations
where a 1992 gas explosion
killed three people.
"Maybe we can't do anything
about the past, but we can sure
watch out for the future,” Judge
Dorothy Morgan said after the
National Transportation Safety
Board's re
port was re
leased last
week.
In that re
port, Semi
nole Pipeline
Co.'s safety
system,
which failed
to detect a
gas leak that
sparked the April 7, 1992 blast,
was criticized as badly designed.
Brenham is 53 miles north
west of Houston.
Morgan and other county res
idents say the Texas Railroad
Commission should hold Mapco
Natural Gas Liquids accountable
for the accident before deciding
on the company's request.
Seminole is a division of Map
co, a Tulsa, Okla.-based firm that
is seeking approval from the
Railroad Commission to reopen
the facility about eight miles
south of Brenham.
"The findings (of the federal
probe) don't come as any sur
prise," Morgan said. "The bot
tom line is that it looks like
Seminole was very, very care
less. That has been verified with
the federal investigation."
One activist group battling a
new permit is the Brenham Area
Concerned Citizens, represented
by San Antonio attorney Jon Al-
worth, who failed to persuade
the commission to delay its hear
ing until the federal investiga
tion is completed.
"The NTSB has resources far
superior to
those of the
Railroad
Commission
to investi
gate and
find out the
real facts,"
A 1 w o r t h
said. "And
their find
ings confirm
our worst suspicions about the
Seminole operations."
The early-morning explosion
occurred after a cloud of the
leaking gas had accumulated
over a large area.
A passing car ignited the gas
and the resulting blast registered
between 3.5 and 4.0 on the
Richter scale.
Killed in the explosion was 5-
year-old Derrick Meinen, who
was sleeping in his family's trail
er home.
The blast also injured Gloria
Diver, 46, and her daughter. De-
lores Medve, 27, both of whom
died several days later.
"Maybe we can't do any
thing about the past, but
we can sure watch out for
the future."
- Judge Dorothy Morgan
State Fair of Texas
Brown wood teen's animals
draw fair's record proceeds
The Associated Press
DALLAS — A 17-year-old Brown wood youth — with his lamb
and cow — have taken the State Fair by the horns, drawing in
record proceeds at the livestock auction.
Hilton Wise made a record $35,000 off his grand champion
livestock — a top-prize steer named Possum and his champion
lamb. Slick.
"This is the biggest day I've ever had," Wise said, as bewail
ed for the sale of his third entry, a nameless lamb that added
$1,100 to the $30,000 selling price of Possum and the $5,000
brought in by Slick.
The previous record sale prices, set last year, were $17,500 for
a steer and $2,000 for a lamb.
Auction organizers also said it was the only time they could
remember one person winning both the steer and lamb categories
at the annual State Fair livestock competition Saturday.
In all, 100 steers were auctioned for $240,370, and 73 lambs
brought $48,937, said Nancy Wiley, fair spokeswoman.
Possum, the best of 217 steer entries, had a real-world market
value of about $700.
Dale Wamstad, better known as Del Frisco, owner of the Dou
ble Eagle Steak House, bought the animal at 42 times that price.
"It's a great piece of beef," he said. "But it won't end up in the
restaurant."
He donated the animal to the Salesmanship Club of Dallas (or
consumption at a youth facility.
Slick the lamb was purchased by Jack Evans Jr. ; president of
Tom Thumb Food Stores.
The auction price was about 100 times the animal's $50 market
value. The lamb will be sold and the proceeds given to charity,
Evans said.
Hilton, a high school junior, is a member of Future Farmers of
America. He said his winnings would help pay for him to attend
the Texas A&M University School of Veterinary Medicine.
Hilton said he spent two to three hours daily grooming, feed
ing and doting on his six steers and two lambs. Upbeat after the
sale, he revealed not a hint of sadness at having patted his 18-
month-old cow for the last time.
"It's just, 'So long,"' he said. "It's part of the business.''
State News Briefs
Renovations disturb
Corpus Christi residents
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) - Downtown
Corpus Christi is undergoing a face lift, hut
some residents say that the changes — rather
than improving the city — may instead leave
it scarred.
In the past five months, five old build
ings have been demolished by a develop
ment company that owns 25 percent of
downtown property. The same company is
now in the process of tearing down a land
mark restaurant.
The move is designed to clear the
cityscape of unsightly, deteriorated structures
and to minimize insurance liability, said Jim
Caldwell, president of TRT Development Co.
"We are trying to give downtown a better
look," Caldwell said. "We're of the opinion
that once we create a new landscape, people
will be quicker to come up with new ideas for
using those spaces. By starting with a clean
slate, you open a lot of possibilities."
Mayor Mary Rhodes and a prominent
downtown developer, Charles DeCou, say
the demolitions probably make good busi
ness sense and will improve the appearance
of the downtown area.
Officer rescued from car
as it burst into flames
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities are crediting
quick-thinking residents with saving a Houston
police officer from his wrecked patrol car just as
it burst into flames.
Officer R.A. Lowe was pursuing a drug sus
pect at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday when he
swerved to avoid another motorist and struck a
utility pole, said Alvin Wright, a Houston po
lice spokesman.
Wright said three alert residents dragged
Lowe from the car just as it burst into flames
near a southwest Houston restaurant. The offi
cer, who was not seriously injured, was treated
by Hermann Hospital and released Saturday.
Al Walters, a diner at Doneraki Restaurant,
ran to the scene and with an unidentified high
school teacher and a jogger, pulled Lowe from
the patrol car.
"We finally got the window cracked open a
little and then we got it open enough to pull
him out through the window," said Walters, 43.
"It was starting to get really warm at that
point."
Mitch Thompson, a marketer with a local
television station, was jogging in the area when
he saw the cruiser slide out of control.
"We pulled him out and dragged him down
the street," Thompson said.
Seconds after the trio pulled Lowe out, the
car went up in flames.
"The car was totally engulfed," said Walters.
"Then all of a sudden it went poof and it incin
erated."
The drug suspect surrendered a half-block
from the wreck scene and faces charges of pos
session of a controlled substance. His three
companions were also arrested and face charges
of drug possession.
Community uneasy
about illegal dumping
FOUR CORNERS (AP) - In its heyday,
this small unincorporated community south
west of Houston was a thriving cotton and
rice farming center.
Now residents say, it's quickly becoming
the trash capital of Texas.
Garbage trucks making their way to a
nearby dump already compete with school
buses. Illegal dumping is rampant and
dumpers are often hold. Some residents have
given up trying to free the ditches and road
sides from old tires, construction debris and
household garbage.
"Look how we live around here. Our
streets are not wide. The trash trucks don’t
respect the school buses. People dump all the
time," said Donald Blake, a Four Comersres-
ident. "We might complain, but ... this is the
way it always has been." I I
With another landfill on the way, courtesy I
of Houston businessman Donald Poarch and
partner Joseph Swinbank, residents in this
area about 30 miles southwest of Houston are
even more riled.
Winona waste company
to resume operations
AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas Natural Re
source Conservation Commission has given
an F.ast Texas hazardous waste processing
company approval to resume operations.
The agency had banned Gibraltar Chemi
cal Resources of Winona in September from
receiving any more waste pending a review
of operations.
The order resulted from a Sept. 9 chemi
cal reaction at the plant, which occurred be
cause incompatible wastes had been mixed.
A state investigation revealed Gibraltar
workers failed to do basic testing before the
mixing occurred. In addition, officials found
that Gibraltar delayed reporting the accident
to the TNRCC for a day and lacked expedi
ency in turning over all records once agency
investigators arrived.
Gibraltar said it has since upgraded oper
ating procedures and retrained^ staffers.
The company will be allowed to receive
waste in increasing amounts over a five day
eriod, state officials said. During the first 24-
our period, the company will be allowed to
process no more than 30 percent of its average
capacity. The percentage will be increased
over subsequent days until the It reaches 70 to
75 percent of the plant's average capacity,
’'This will allow Implementation of their
revised operating in a highly regimented
and controlled fashion," said Tony Grigsbv,
TNRCC executive director.
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