The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 14

hi-A THE DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1994 GALVI-STON COUNTY, TEXAS Woman, unborn child killed in auto wreck By CHRIS WILLIAMS The Daily News LA MARQUE A woman in her ninth month of pregnancy was killed in a car wreck at Bayou Road and Main Street Wednesday. Natalie Thompson, 20, of La Marque died at 4:22 p.m. at the University of Texas Medical Branch after an auto accident at 12:19 p.m. Wednesday, police reports state.

Her unborn child also died in ihe wreck, a hospital spokeswoman said. She. her husband and her 3- year-old son were riding in a red 1981 Toyota pickup truck that collided with a 1992 Toyota Tercel. County Police Thompson's husband and son were taken to Mainland Center Hospital. No report on their condition was available.

The vehicles collided at Bayou Road and Main Street. Both were extensively damaged, police state. Katherine Manetas, the driver of the Tercel, was wearing her seat belt. She also was taken to Mainland Center Hospital. No other details were available.

indecency charge TEXAS CITY Police arrested Allen H. Hewitt, 55, of the 1300 block of Appomatox Drive at 5:16 a.m. Tuesday on a warrant charging him with indecency with child, police reports state. The charge comes from a Jan. 14 incident involving a 14-year- old child, said Sgt.

Brian Goetschius of the Texas City Police Department. Bond was set at $40,000, reports state. Armed robbery LA MARQUE A 25-year- old Dickinson man told police two men robbed him at gunpoint at 2:06 p.m. Wednesday in a convenience store parking lot in the 2400 block of FM 519. The victim told police the robbers came from behind a trash bin.

One man pointed a small- caliber revolver at the man, who surrendered $50 in cash, police reports state. The victim could not provide a detailed description of his attackers. Suspect arrested HITCHCOCK Police arrested the second suspect in the burglary of a Texas City police officer's property in the 6700 block of Overtoil at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Police charged Burnett Pines, 32, with burglary and held him on $40,000 bond.

Police Chief Glenn Manis said police arrested Pines without incident. He said police were prepared to arrest him for about a week. They waited until they could arrest him safely. "We just picked and chose our time," he said. At 4:30 p.m.

Jan. 25, a Texas City police officer found two men at his Hitchcock home. They were stealing saddles and other riding accessories. One suspect hit the officer with a flower pot when the officer tried to arrest him. He was caught that afternoon and charged with attempted capital murder and burglary.

The other man escaped. Spring training Irene Milner of Dickinson directs her miniature pinscher dog Sammy over an obstacle recently at Lobit Park in Dickinson. She was training her dog in the park for a dog show coming up this month in League City. (Photo by Jim Stotts) Gilot Continued from 1-A This time, Gilot will be displaying new pieces as well as drawings and paintings from an older collection. Many of the drawings are from the 1983 book "The Gods of Greece," written by her friend Ariana Stassinopoulos Huffington.

The book was re-issued at Huffington's request last year with illustrations by Gilot. "Ariana thought my paintings would illustrate the story she wanted to tell," Gilot said. "She's been a friend for years and a collector of my work. "The first time the illustrations were just photos of Greek temples. It made the book look a bit like a travelogue." It was that book, and Gilot's well-known artistic and personal fascination with Greek art and mythology, that led to the Mardi Gras exhibit and visit to Galveston.

The pieces in the Galveston exhibit are from a lifetime's work and from a collection that is on exhibit at the Severin Wundermann Museum in Irvine, Calif, as part of a four- city national tour. Some are on display in the United States for the first time since 1966. "The work I have sent to Galveston will be especially appropriate. The drawings and paintings evoke the joyful spirit of carnival," she said. ''They are much more festive than the California paintings." Gilot said stories of ancient Greece are nourishment for her.

As a young child, mythology books were on the shelves next to the Bible and Roman Catholic catechisms. She said she loved the tales of gods and goddesses, of heroic deeds and adventures. "They were more pleasant stories and happier than the ones in the Bible," Gilot said. As an artist she has been drawn to mythological themes. In the body of this work, Gilot takes a fresh look at the stories, "feels" the characters and draws them based on the images that form in her mind's eye.

Her dreamy images are the compelling attraction of her "floating pictures," the dual- sided canvases for which she is known. "They do float, you know. You can hang my paintings from the ceiling, in the middle of a room and when the breeze catches them, they float," she said. Another part of her celebrity stems from her decade-long relationship as friend, lover and muse of Pablo Picasso. Her professional renown is based on a life's work at the easel, where she switches deftly from right to left hand depending on whether she's drawing "large or small." "I paint large with my left hand and I draw small with my right hand," she said.

"I was born left-handed, but I was obliged to write with my right hand. Now I go back and forth without thinking." Gilot also vises two languages interchangeably; her native French gives way to English most of the time and all of the time when she is working on one of her frequent book projects. She also speaks Spanish and some Italian. "But I don't use it much," she said. "You forget if you don't have someone to speak it with." She said she always spoke French with Picasso, who was born in Spain.

Archivist: Richards' staff erred The Associated Press AUSTIN Gov. Ann Richards" staff didn't follow state record-keeping rules when they destroyed 2. 1 years worth of long-distance telephone records last summer, the head of the State Archives said Wednesday. Archives director William Gooch said Richards' staff apparently misunderstood the rules requiring detailed listings of monthly calls be saved for three years. "They misinterpreted those rules," Gooch said, adding that the governors office and other agencies have been reminded to keep the records for three years.

"We've received a letter from the (governor's) chief of staff. They're going to keep the telephone hills for the three-year period, as required," Gooch said. On Tuesday; Richards staff chief John Fainter said he decided last August to destroy the detailed listings of long-distance phone calls because the office was "drowning in paper." Environmental forum set today in Houston By DAVE YEWMAN The Daily News HOUSTON A team from the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission will hold public hearings at the George R. Brown Convention Center today to seek public comments on environmental issues. The forum will run from 9 a.m.

to noon and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The convention center is at 1001 Avenida de las Americas, off U.S. Highway 59. Pane! members are commission Chairman John Hall and commissioners Pam Reed and Peggy Gamer.

Mayors, county judges, community leaders and other officials have been invited to address the panel. Members of the public also will be given an opportunity to address the panel, commission spokeswoman Rose Churchill said. "The Houston forum will enable the TNRCC to find out what environmental issues are most important in this part of the state," Hall said. "And that, in turn, will allow us to be more responsive to our customers." Another pail of the outreach effort is a questionnaire on environmental issues that will be sent to each mayor and county judge in the state. The information compiled will be presented at a statewide meeting of elected officials this summer.

Hall has pledged to help facilitate a partner.ship between his agency and industry, while warning he would crack down on persistent environmental violators. Similar forums have been held in Amarillo and Harlingen. The commission is the primary state agency responsible for protecting the state's land, air and water resources. It was formed Sept, 1 by the merger of the Texas Water Commission and the Texas Air Control Board. Do you know someone who wants to learn to read better? Call the Galveston County Literacy Hotline at 744-3031 Galveston County Literacy Organization Quick Look Francoise Gilot's exhibition is a part of this year's Art- Walk, a series of opening receptions at participating Galveston art galleries.

Art- walk will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday. Gilot's exhibition follows the theme of this year's Mardi Gras Galveston, "A Greek Odyssey," and is made up of many of the works illustrated in her book "The Gods of Greece." Her works will be displayed at the Galveston Mardi Gras Museum on the third floor at Old Galveston Square 2211 Strand. The exhibition marks the grand opening of the museum and is sponsored by Nations- Bank and the Galveston Renaissance Foundation.

"But he left Spain when he was 18 and so he spoke French with a bad Spanish accent and Spanish with a bad French accent," she said. Gilot learned English as a child during summer holidays in Great Britain. "I used English to write in my secret diary," she said. "It seemed a suitable language for what I wanted to She also learned art at an early age, watching her artist mother and learning her watercolor techniques. "I loved going to the Louvre, and we also had a house in Italy so I became very familiar with the museums in Florence," she said.

She counts her mother as a great influence on her own artistic development, along early Renaissance painters Botticelli and Giotto. Later, she learned from Gauguin, Van Gogh and Picasso. "In art you can choose your own ancestors," she said. Galveston man charged in robbery of teen-ager By CHRIS WILLIAMS and JANICE SIMON The Daily News GALVESTON Police charged a Galveston man with aggravated robbery in connection with the theft of a University of Texas jacket Tuesday. Island Police The arrest was made at 2:43 p.m.

in the 3100 block of Avenue after three armed men robbed a 16- year-old boy, police reports state. Nathaniel Eldridge, 29, of the 1500 block of 41st Street was held on $10,000 bond. Teacher attacked GALVESTON A second-grade teacher at Alamo Elementary School was sent home Wednesday after she was attacked by a student, a school district spokeswoman said. The teacher reportedly was hit and kicked by the 8-year-old Wednesday mom- ing, said Sheila Lidstone, Galveston school district spokeswoman. The teacher was not hurt in the attack, Lidstone said.

No police report was made, and school police were not called to the elementary school, she said. Guns missing GALVESTON Up to 23 guns from U.S. Guns Manufacturing, 1700 block of 23rd Street, were reported missing to the Galveston police at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The widow of the previous owner discovered the missing guns when she did an in-depth inventory, reports state.

All the guns that could not be accounted for are being treated as stolen. The appropriate serial numbers have been entered into a national computer, said police Sgt. Jim Franks. The business was sold after the previous owner's death. Some or all the missing guns could have been legally sold in 1992, Franks said.

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