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December 5 fiig e 3 • I FH-. Ba I 1AUON ^TATE Friday* December 9, 1994 headacf arolers are sin; here, and evei ■e again too, 1 lon’t let the pi eporter gives first person ccount of killer bee attack CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Working on a ary about mountain lions, reporter Vivienne eines scanned the thick brush, wary that a lioness might attack to protect her cubs. The attack came suddenly — but with tiny ingers instead of claws and roaring teeth. Heines wrote a first-person account about the secondrno; swarme d by suspected Africanized bees, inguish from! ‘f’ mmon ^ called “killer bees,” in Thursday “litions of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The attack occurred Wednesday while eines and Caller-Times photographer eorge Gongora were trailing three mountain 'lions on the Dobie-Welder ranch, between ireer and Cotulla. One of their guides, Louis Harveson, a -aduate student at Texas A&M University- ingsville, was stung at least 50 times. “I’d !!®ther be mauled by a lion,” he quipped. Michael Tewes of A&M-Kingsville’s Caesar leberg Wildlife Research Institute and ildlife tracker Frank Smith of New Mexico ere also on the trip. “Accompanied by Smith’s five lion-tracking /alker hounds, we drove down dirt roads dot- seem to put To help contjj] tie more detail, msion headacfe ost predominat: massing 90 pert;; raines andte;] i experienced, J iast a higher lei ith the least co r a headache, 1-balanced diet dache onset, i mends the folk int causes physi; ffeine should If! ill cause heat o These may pm entation. eople, these; t and may act nin A, such as! ted with cow chips, trying to pick up the lions’ radio signals on our transmitter,” Heines wrote. “We eventually set out on foot for a creekbed and stand of thorny mesquite where, the lions were waiting. One eager hound; Freckles, was chosen to go on the search.” Harveson warned: “She (the lioness) could be really upset when we walk in there. Stay with the group. Do not run. Do not yell, un der any circumstances. Keep your voices low.” Freckles located two 2-month-old cubs, and Harveson let Heines hold one while he refas tened a radio collar used to track them. “The cub, about the size of an adult house- cat, hissed fiercely as Harveson maneuvered carefully around the cub’s sharp teeth and claws. But the other cub was in a tree filled with bees, and our arrival sparked an attack,” Heines wrote. Gongora, who was attacked by bees several months ago while on assignment, shouted for the others to run. Getting stung 15 times did n’t stop him from snapping off pictures of the hasty retreat. “When I asked what to do with the cub, Harveson told me to take her with me,” Heines wrote. “But after being stung twice by bees — and it’s hard to fight off bees while holding a lion cub in your arms — I asked him again if I needed to bring the cub and he told me to release her.” Tewes said later that the cubs probably were not attacked because they are small enough to hide in the grass. Smith was stung 10 times. Freckles was warmed apd was taken in shock to a veteri narian. Smith expected the dog to survive. Gongora and Harveson were treated and released from Frio Hospital in Pearsall, about an hour and a half from the site of the attack. “I’m just real glad no one was allergic be cause it took too long to get to the hospital,” Heines said Thursday by telephone. Since January, 65 Texans have been in volved in attacks from Africanized bees, better known as “killer bees” because they are more aggressive in defending their nests than Euro pean honeybees. The bees first showed up in Texas from Mexico in 1990. Vliami casino cruise line shirking debt in state port may help pro reen vegetables, _ GALVESTON (AP) — Gold o not apply tof|»Star Cruises, which has its eye or example, wtiJin possible casino business if questions refejigambling is legalized in Texas, is about $140,000 short on its ebt to the Port of Galveston, fficials say. The Miami-based firm is be- ind on dock rentals and other 5es. Gold Star was supposed to lake a $94,000 payment to the ’ort of Galveston last week but ame up with only $10,000 when Saturday agical Society: Aim he ri bi '! ca ™; ^e. /ill be held from 11a.' :h Park. There willti s, t-shirts, prizesan: Sunday ent Fellowship: Me Port officials don’t know when or if — they will get the rest, aid John Unbehagen, chairman information call Dai fthe port’s board of trustees. Gold Star sporadically offered ay cruises on the ship Star of [exas out of Galveston between November 1993 and November 994. Promising to return next University Lulhera’ the firm moved the ship to dent Center lo gofclj istor’s. For more Rev. Richard Mad y questions, f at 845-3313, l/liami last month, renamed it [ucky Star and began hauling ourists on Bahamas cruises. . Gold Star executives did not [mediately return The Associat ed Press’ phone call on Thursday. Despite the company’s failure to make timely payments, port of ficials still are hoping Gold Star will be back in business here next year, Unbehagen said. “Hopefully, they’ll make some money down there and get back here in April,” Unbehagen said. “We don’t have anybody else beat ing down our doors.” Port executive director Ernest Connor said he expects Gold Star to have a representative at a spe cial trustees meeting Monday. “We are going to keep working away at it until we can come to a mutual agreement,” Connor said. Gold Star wants to get into the dockside casino business in Kemah if the Texas Legislature and the state’s voters decide to le galize gambling. Gold Star has signed a lease- purchase agreement on 30 acres of bayfront land about a mile south of the Kemah-Seabrook bridge on Texas Highway 146. Preliminary plans call for a dockside casino and hotel complex that would cost about $30 million to $45 million to build and pro vide 500 jobs, officials said. 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