The Kerrville Times from Kerrville, Texas • Page 2

K. KKMI I.I- I) TIMES Tuesday. Drrpmhrr 29. 1987 STATE HCnrrottU AFTER DERAILMENT, SPILLS Marshall Water Declared Safe MAHSHALL (AP) Water pumps for the city of Marshall were turned back on after the test of the water in C.uldo Lake, the source of the city's drinking water, showed it free of contamination. The test results were announced Monday night as emergency crews battled one last fire and continued repair work at the site of a weekend derailment, which occurred when rain-weakened culverts collapsed, officials said.

Pumps at the lake had been shut off after a train loaded with chemicals derailed Saturday afternoon about five miles northwest of Marshall, triggering explosions and a Tire that shot 300 feet into the air and spilling che- micals into a creek that eventually leads to Caddo Lake. The city was down to about 20 hours worth of water reserves Monday afternoon. Water samples were flown to Fort Worth early Monday afternoon and after thorough testing, Marshall public works director Cecil Forester reported that no level of contamination had been found. Union Pacific Railroad spokesman Tom LaHood of Omaha, told The Associated Press earlier Monday that preliminary studies by the Environmental Protection Agency indicated only a trace of chemicals in the water and no danger. Clean-up efforts continued Monday and a train loaded with ties, rails and other equipment was parked in Woodlawn, ready for track repairs once the remaining tank cars are removed from the track.

"The track won't be fixed until late Tuesday at the-earliest," La- Hood said. "They are pulling the cars out one at a time and trans- loading the remaining product from rail cars to trucks and hauling them out." He said workmen were attempting to extinguish the last fire with foam. The train's four crewmen were injured, but all walked away from the wreck. Union Pacific spokesman Alex Tice said. A brakeman was released from Marshall Memorial Hospit- al, and the other three crewmen still were in the hospital for observation and tests, he said.

Some 50 residents within a mile to the north and northwest of the derailment were evacuated, primarily because of threat of fire in the heavily wooded area, but only one family was kept away from their home Sunday night, officials said. The water in rain-swollen Grays Creek and other streams in the area was checked for contamination by chemicals leaking from the derailed cars, Tice said. Grays Creek is a tributary of Little Cypress Creek, which flows into Caddo Lake, where the city of Marshall draws its water. Holiday Fatalities Six Below Prediction By Associated Press A strong winter storm could have kept some motorists from driving during the holiday weekend that brought at least 36 deaths on Texas highways, six below the predicted total, according to the Department of Public Safety. Bad weather over the Christmas holidays was blamed in at least six of the fatalities, DPS spokesman Mike Cox said Monday.

Cox said the weather was believed to have lowered the overall count by persuading many Texans to stay safe at home. "Perhaps the bad weather in northwest Texas may have kept some people off the roadway which" in turn possibly contributed to our estimate too high," said Cox. TheDPS' prediction of 42 traffic WMhs covered a holiday counting period that began 6 p.m. and ended at midnight Sunday. The DPS was pleased to have missed the estimate, said Cox.

"We make that estimate each year, hoping that we'll be wrong. We don't make it for the purposes for showing how good we are with statistics," he said. The DPS predicted 35 more people will lose their lives on the state's streets and highways over the New Year's holiday period, which runs from 6 p.m. Dec. 30 through midnight Jan.

3. The prediction of 77 traffic deaths over the Christmas and New Year's holiday periods compares to 48 last year, when the counting period totaled 108 hours, about half as long as this time. Josephine PasquaJe, 48, of Fort Worth, was killed when the car she was driving collided with the rear of a parked wrecker on a Fort Worth street early Saturday morning. Ex-Lawmaker Again Pursued Officials Seek Mike Martin On Child Custody Charges DALLAS (AP) Former state Rep. Mike Martin, once pursued by authorities on allegations of staging his own assassination, is a fugitive again following an indictment on child custody charges.

Officials say Martin failed to return his two children, Michael Trent Martin, 10, and Arie Anne Hewitt Martin, 6, to his ex-wife's home in Garland after a 1986 visit, The Dallas Morning News reported today. Martin was indicted October 1986 by a Dallas grand jury on a charge of interfereing in child custody. Federal officials filed a similar complaint the following December and now the FBI has joined the Texas Rangers in the search for Martin. If convicted, Martin could be sentenced to 10 years in prison amd fined $5,000. Martin's first flight from the law in 1981 ended two weeks later when he was found hiding in a stereo cabinet at his mother's home.

But now officials don't even know if Martin is in the country. "He jumps around a lot," said Texas Ranger Ron McBride. "We feel like he's overseas." Martin, a Republican from Longview, resigned from the Texas Legislature after officials accused him of arranging an attempted assassination on himself to further his career. Martin was slightly wounded in the elbow during a July 31, 1981 shotgun attack outside his mobile home in Austin. Martin's cousin, Charles Goff, later said that Martin promised him a state job if he would act as triggerman in the attack.

Martin said he was innocent and contended the shooting was the responsibility of a Satanic cult, Guardian Angels of the Underground. But he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge and resigned in a plea bargain with prosecutors. The only bill Martin introduced during his one term in the Legislature would have required teaching of creationism in public schools. Martin and his wife, Debbie Case, were divorced in 1984, after eight years of marriage, Mrs. Case said.

Mrs. Case said she last saw her children July 15, 1986 when Martin stopped by for a visit. "After he walked off with them, we never saw them again," said Mrs. Case, who has since remarried. "We don't know how they are.

We don't know if they're dead or alive. It's like living in a question mark." Martin's mother says his son ran off with the children because he was concerned about their well-being. Mrs. Case says that concern is baseless. Weather Hurts Cotton, Helps Wheat WICHITA FALLS (AP) The cotton harvest across North Texas was 75 to 80 percent complete before the rain, sleet and slow of Christmas weekend, gin managers across the region reported.

The manager at Farmers Cooperative Gin in Burkburnett said Monday that many modules still were in the field and unable to be moved because of the mud. Cotton still on the stalk has been hurt by at least one grade because of rain and ice, officials said, and the cotton also is beginning to "string out" after weekend rains and rains of the previous week. However, Wichita County Agent David Finley said the moisture was a blessing for wheat farmers. "Now there is enough moisture to root the wheat and there should be ample grazing if we can only get some warm weather to get the plants growing," Finley said. He said the two weekends of rains were good for runoff water to help fill stock tanks that were becoming low in Archer and Young counties.

Doodle Zachry, owner of the Byers, Texas, gin, told the Wichita Falls Record-News that everything related to cotton production in the Clay County area was brought to a standstill by the inclement weather. "We have a lot of modules in the field that need to be hauled into the gin, but it is just too muddy," he said. Zachry said 90 percent of the cotton in North Texas is off the stalk He has about 1,000 bales awaiting ginning at his yard and he estimated about 700 to 800 bales are yet to be harvested, he said. A ginner in Wilbarger County said most good cotton has been harvested or stripped, but in some sandy land areas, cotton is still in the fields. He said in the White City area, 70 to 75 percent of the cotton has been stripped or picked.

But the moisture was ideal for wheat farmers, and if the temperature warms up soon, wheat grazing should improve significantly, farmers said. "But this December through January period is the normal dormant period for wheat, as it doesn't grow vary rapidly in cold weather," Zachry said. CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS AND SELECTED GIFTS OFF THE (iKKENKKV Weathervane By Ttw Associated Clew ikies and cool were common acrou Texu early this morning high preuure dominated the itate't weather Only a few wiipt of high level clouds were observed floating over the mid-and lower coastal plaint, the National Weather Service said. Temperatures before dawn were mainly in the 20i acrom the western half of the state, with 30s in the northeast and 40s in South Texas. Extremes at 4 a.

m. were 20 degrees at both AmarUlo and Marfa in West Texas and 46 degrees at Brownsville in the lower Rio Grande Valley Early morning temperatures around Texas included 31 at Fort Worth. 28 at Abilene, 25 at Wichita Falls, 22 at Lubbock. 21 at Midland. 24 at El Paso.

23 at San Angelo, 40 at San Antonio and Corpus 34 at Houston and Austin, and 32 at Waco. Northwest winds at 10 to 15 mph flowed across the greater part of the state. The forecast calls for fair skies over the state through Wednesday. Afternoon highs today will be in the 40s and SOs in most areas, but will reach into the 60s in the deep south. Overnight lows tonight will be in the 20s and 30s in most places with 40s along the lower coast.

Forecast South Texas Sunny and mild this afternoon, increasing clouds tonight and Wednesday. Highs Ml north and Ms south, overnight lows mid-20s Hill Country to mid-40s lower coast. Extended South Texas Cloudy and mild Thursday with showers central and southeast. Clearing and cooler New Years Day. partly cloudy and cool Saturday.

Lows Thursday in the upper 40s to the upper 50s south and highs in the 60s except a few 70s south. Lows Friday and Saturday in the 30s central and southeast to the 40s south. Highs in the Ms. Snow ranged across broad sections of the Midwest and East today while a Pacific storm blew snow and rain into the West Low pressure systems in Pennsylvania and off the North Carolina coast combined to produce snow from the Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes across much of the southern and central Appalachians into southern New England and New Jersey. A mixture of rain and snow extended across Delaware, Maryland and northern Virginia.

Winter storm warnings were posted in northern Ohio and much of Pennsylvania for up to 6 inches of snow. Winter storm watches were in effect in Maryland, Delaware and northern Virginia. High-wind alerts covered the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Gale warnings were posted for the coast of the Carobnas, the northern Atlantic Coast and lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario. Tuc-dj Tf mdicati high and overnight low Albanv.N Albuquerque Amanllo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic I Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Brimnsulle Burlington Casper hat lesion harleslon .1 IcM-land ojumbus oncord Dallas Kl Worth ton Derucr Detroit Duluth Kl I'JM, previous dav a i Ml 4U l.i 17 EsT l.o Fn Ollk Id (H rlr 17 cdi 18 12 27 ,14 II 4ti 40 UiKsUill (jrjnd Kanid 11real H.irtlnrd Ht-lena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson Miss Jacksonville Juneau III I.

Hi INI 41 41 40 J2 II 24 44 21 ill 4i 10 Id IH 1J II IK IIH Jl J.I ill 07 04 18 t) II -'4 04 i-fr dr ilr (fr sn clr ill clr clr clr clr idi cfr Kansas (. l.as Little Hock Angeles l.omsullc l.ubhock Memphis Miami Midland Milw auktn' Mpls St Paul Nasru ilk- New Orleans New York NorlolkA i Nort i M.IIM i im.ih.i i irlandn Philadelphia I'orlland lire idence K.ilcith Kapni HK hmiind S.H r.iniriiin Louis l.akct itv N.IM Anloniu s.m Uivgo San Krantf.cn San Juan I' Sic Marie sea tile Shrexeport Sioux falls Spokane 4.i 48 41. 4K Ki 41. JM .11 .14 OJ ((I 44 IK) (H 114 IV4 III J-J 4H 41) l.ioipa si I'lr-hi; 'lopeV, Ml liKMin ill I i iK i Ml Kiiliilj like-, Barn Uilmmglun Uei clr National Temperature clr Mond.u jl Korth clr I.O\A morning dr I'resque Ule Maine 14 (II 2li III Jl hxtremes larrii Beach l'i clr rn clr clr cfr clr clr clr ClU cfr clr cfr si) rdx cfr sn i I'r cdv clr edv Ui cfr li Ir clr High Kla TU jl Big Carwash 212 Main can Drive-Thru Automatic Carwash Stay in your car while it is washed Quick Easy Convsnlsnt! NEVER CLO8EDI Coupon tion wy Inmates Locked Down After Stabbing HUNTSVILLE (AP) About 125 inmates remained locked in their cells today at the Ellis II Unit following the wounding of two prisoners in a weekend stabbing. Ricardo Olivarri, 23, and Steve Lopez, 21, were injured in the Saturday night attack, which grew out of a fistfight in a prison recreation room over what television program to watch, said Texas Department of Corrections spokesman Charles Brown.

The injuries followed an inmate stabbing Christmas Eve at the Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony, Brown said. Inmate Andrew Whitaker, 30, was injured in the upper back following a quarrel with another inmate. He was released after treatment at the Anderson County Memorial Hospital. KERR COUNTY PRODUCE, INC. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC WEDNESDAYS ONLY! 10A.M 5:30 P.M.

215 Street 896-7330 CATFISH PLATTER Served with 2 choices from GORDO'S GARDEN Homemade Roll or Cornbread 3.99 Heg 599 PRE-INVENTORYSALE at FORT '-i RANCHERS SAVE UP TO OUR ENTIRE STOCK WE WOULD RATHER SELL IT THAN COUNT IT 1117 Broadway (Hwy 27E) 896-6176 Valid 12 24-87 mru 12-31-87 ALL IN PARTY BARBEQUE RIB PLATTER of or PorkRIbc Served with 2 choices from GORDO GARDLN Homemade Roll or Corntue. 3.99 699 VaiuJ tJ 4 tit ji ALL IN PARTY FAJITA BAR Beet CrncKfci! djilas Ailh the Inmrniriyt, plus SdldU Bill 2 QQ Allfl Ifhb LCJUpOll Htry )yy Nol i ji UK a 1 ..) 0' ALL IN PARTY lUNl HtON BUHL I SIAHJb 11 din NUS 'S MI PflMTC ROOD.