Thursday • October 27, 1994
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The Battalion • Page 9
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Walking away a winner
Beth Yohe, a junior speech communications major from
Garland, snags an apple from the apple bobbing tub at the
MSC Film Society booth set up in front of the MSC
Wednesday afternoon. She won a chance at a pair of free
movie tickets.
Violent thunderstorm
rips through McAllen
McALLEN, (AP) — A violent
thunderstorm stunned people
with its suddenness as it swept
through Hidalgo County, tearing
up property from poor rural
neighborhoods to one of McAl
len’s fanciest hotels.
“At first I thought it was go
ing to be a little rain, then all of
the sudden the roof took off and
fell on its side,” said Ramon
Banda, whose Tuesday night
dinner was interrupted by se
vere winds and rain. “Every
thing turned over. I’ve never
seen anything like this before.”
Residents were cleaning up
Wednesday.
Although the National
Weather Service didn’t confirm
reports of small funnel clouds,
county officials said the twisted
damage looked more like a tor
nado’s aftermath than that of a
thunderstorm.
“You can’t have that roof way
over there without a tornado,”
County Judge J. Edgar Ruiz
said, pointing to the roof of the
Alton Senior Citizens Center,
which was lodged into the
awning of Junior’s Supermarket.
Part of the supermarket’s roof
also collapsed.
The storm struck without
warning, leaving downed trees
and power lines, shattered win
dows and damaged signs across
an area from McCook to Pharr
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
At least 15 homes lost roofs
in Alton “colonias” — poor, rur
al communities lacking basic
services.
There were no immediate re
ports of serious injuries.
“Everything is ruined,” said
Noelia Olivarez, who returned
from a visit to relatives to find
the roof, porch and walls miss
ing from her mobile home north
of Alton.
“We had a big porch and
everything was tied down. It just
flew away,” Mrs. Olivarez said
Wednesday by telephone from
an Alton shelter.
Phyllis Krekel of Columbus,
Ohio, was bruised in the head by
a 2-by-3 foot piece of Plexiglas
that fell from the atrium of McAl
len’s Embassy Suites Hotel. Lex
Gemas, also of Columbus, suf
fered lacerations in the incident.
“If they had stayed three more
seconds, it would have been a
very different story,” said their
friend. Dein Boyle of Columbus.
The storm temporarily
knocked out power to much of
McAllen. Lightening apparently
took out the emergency genera
tor at Rio Grande Regional Hos
pital in McAllen, leaving the
220-bed facility without electric
ity for about three hours.
Ocker said the thunderstorm
developed near Jim Hogg County
and traveled east through Zapa
ta, Alton, Mission, McCook, Edin
burg and McAllen and weakened
once it crossed into Mexico.
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The Association of
Former Students
Fall Induction
Banquets
Seniors
Tuesday & Wednesday, November 8 & 9, 1994
COLLEGE STATION HILTON HOTEL
GRAND BALLROOM - 6:20 P. M.
Graduate Students*
Thursday, November 10, 1994
CLAYTON WILLIAMS ALUMNI CENTER - 6:30 P. M.
All December '94 graduates are invited
Complimentary tickets may be picked up in the
MSC Hallway, November 1, 2, & 3 (9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
TICKETS GIVEN ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS
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The Student Law Counsel and the Office of Professional School Advising
present
The 1994
Law School Caravan
Monday, October 31
Noon to 4 p.m., MSC Flag Room
Over 60 law schools will be present. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with
representatives from the top law schools in the U.S. Great door prizes!
Admission is free!
SEE WHAT ALL THE NOISE IS ABOUT
V^reated by the British group Yes/No People,
Stomp has been hailed around the world as a
striking, unforgettable combination of music, dance
and theatre. Regardless of musical taste, YOU
shouldn't miss this visual and aural treat as Stomp
opens the Texas leg of its U.S. tour at Texas A&M.
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by phone at 845-1234
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to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our ability.
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7:00 p.m.
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Moderated by Dr. Kurt Ritter
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