The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 17

SECTION EDITOR: CRAIG DURRETT, 459-3233 WEDNESDAY, November 4, 1992 Obituaries: 18A Business: 19A Weather: 24A "rrarfTrrn WEATHER NEWS BRIEFS 1 IOM nmairk its stoira ONI HUH. Pioneers make donations The Shreveport Police Department will get a new police dog and the Shreveport Fire Department will get a Dalmatian costume and puppet, in a two-barreled donation from the Telephone Pioneers of America Shreveport Works Council and Life Member Club. The presentations will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the main lobby of the local plant at 9595 Mansfield Road. The new police dog, Rex, is a 2-year-old male Belgian Malinois, trained in Holland for use in narcotics-detection.

The Dalmatian costume is a fan-cooled costume that will allow firefighters to stage fire-prevention demonstrations for children. The puppet will also be used to aid in this instruction. i A 7 Mess: Trees topple, cars crash and power falters but no serious injuries. By FERNANDO PIZARRO The Times Shreveport-Bossier City today will begin cleaning up the mess left by Tuesday's brutal storm that went through the area faster than a presidential candidate on a last-minute whirlwind tour. The storm destroyed hangars at the Shreveport Downtown Airport, caused scores of traffic accidents, uprooted trees and ripped down power lines in Shreveport and Bossier City.

No serious weather-related injuries were reported. Calls about houses hit by falling trees or branches, as well as reports of downed wires, kept local police and firefighters hopping, said Capt. John Autry of the Shreveport Fire Department. "Calls were about three times as heavy as normal," he said. David Edwards, deputy director of airports for the Shreveport Airport Authority, said about 12 hangars at the Downtown Airport were damaged.

An undetermined number of aircraft were also damaged, Edwards said. He estimated the damage at several hundred thousands of dollars. Metro Aviation owner Mike Stanberry said his three hangars were damaged as well as airplanes and helicopters one 1 Times photoMARI DARR A tornado touched down Tuesday afternoon in Arcadia creating hardest hit by the storm. Trees were toppled, power lines were a three-mile stretch of damage. The downtown area was the downed, but no serious injuries were reported.

sou Twister rips Arcadia La. Tech professor receives award RUSTON Tommy Phillips, associate professor of accounting in the Louisiana Tech School of Professional Accountancy, has been named the KPMG Peat Marwick Faculty Fellow for the 1992-93 academic year. The position was created in 1991 from contributions by partners and employees of the firm to recognize and reward an outstanding accounting faculty member in the School of Professional Accountancy. Camp re-creates feel of space Students can feel like astronauts in space during the Northwestern State University's Neutral Buoyancy Day Camp from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov.

14. The camp, held at the Nesom Natatorium, is for students ages 10-17. The fee is $25, and the application deadline is Friday Nov. 6. Participants must bring a snorkel and be able to swim across the pool.

For details, call 1-800-259-9555 or 1-357-5186. Church presents 'TCU Today' Texas Christian University officials will be at Kings Highway Christian Church at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 to give a program for prospective students and their parents. The TCU Today program will feature TCU faculty, admissions officers and students.

Reservations, which must be in by Nov. 6, can be made by calling 1-800-TCU-3746. Damage extensive: Tornado's path of destruction stretches over three miles, a half-mile wide. By CURTIS HEYEN The Times ARCADIA Volunteers and National Guardsmen sealed off this Bienville Parish town Tuesday night after a tornado cut a half-mile wide swath through the downtown area around 3:22 p.m. Work crews will continue clearing roads of trees and downed power lines today.

No serious injuries were reported in possibly the worst tornado to hit the town since the early 1930s. But damage was heavy along the twister's worth $2 million. Huge trees downed Across town, Alberta George, 66, was headed to vote at South Highlands Elementary Magnet when a huge oak tree fell on her leg. "I was going across the street," George said, sitting at the edge of the toppled tree after medical workers bandaged her leg. The wind started blowing.

I went and stood under this tree. Then I heard it crack." Emergency crews took George to LSU Medical Center, where she was in good condition in the center's emergency room Tuesday night. Particularly hard hit was the Highland area of Shreveport. Audrey LaBorde was backing out of her daughter's driveway in the 300 block of Gladstone Boulevard when she saw leaves twisting and heard a "creaking" sound. She said she decided to pull back under the carport when seconds later a massive tree in her daughter's front yard crashed into the street, leaving a 20-foot-wide hole in the sidewalk and smashing into the 1989 Honda Civic that Erica Patterson had bought just six weeks ago.

The 200, 300 and 400 blocks of Gladstone were impassable Tuesday as trees, some estimated to be a hundred years old, slammed into the street, taking down power lines and leaving neighbors amazed that no one was hurt. Kathryn Overstreet was breathing a sigh of relief after the fast-moving storm sent a huge oak crashing in her bedroom, but injured no one. Overstreet, of the 200 block of Gladstone Boulevard, said she left the master bedroom minutes before a huge oak tree came crashing through the roof. Though the bedroom was destroyed, Overstreet said she was thankful no one was hurt. Times photoBILLY UPSHAW An overturned Cessna represents damage that Southern Aviation suffered at the Shreveport Downtown Airport Tuesday.

three-mile-long path. It began by wiping out the golf course southwest of town, Sheriff Joe Storey said. "A cloud started forming out at Bryceland. It started moving counter-clockwise," said 'Storey. "But the tornado came out of this other deal west of there.

When it got to the golf course, stuff just started flying." Deputies tracked the storm as it traveled northeast through town, ripping roofs off Luigi's restaurant and a handful of other businesses on Railroad Avenue. The steeple at First Baptist Church toppled onto Police Jury President Bill Sims' truck as he tried to escape the storm. The church sustained extensive damage. A nearby warehouse building, formerly a car dealership, was demolished. Winds blow out windows The winds blew out windows and doors on the front part of Storey's home, a half-mile from the parish courthouse.

Nearby, a small wood-frame building Storey uses as an office was twisted around on its foundation, he said. Storey's wife and maid were at home listening to deputies track the storm when it struck. "When she heard that the golf course went up, she knew it was coming for the house," the sheriff said. "They got in a closet and stayed." Sammy Evans, 57, of West Monroe was walking into a service station on U.S. Highway 151 when the storm blew the canopy down on his tractor truck and toppled a high-rise billboard.

Melissa Powell and her 9-year-old son, Kyle, had just walked in the door seeking safe shelter in their Myrtle Street duplex. "My side (of the duplex) is all right," she said. "But the other side has a big hole in it; and my car looks like a sardine can." Powell, cold and wet and munching on a sandwich at the Sheriffs Department, said OJO aaa PhonePoll Times photoDARRELL ELLIS at the Charter Food Store on Barksdale Boulevard. Times reporters John Andrew Prime, Kristin Harty, Alisa Stingley and Bill Bowen contributed to this report. she had a good attitude.

"The way I look at it, I do not have to pay rent this month and I do not have to pay a car note," she said. Glenn Frith (left) and Frank Cereswell survey the damage after Tuesday's storm GAMBLING MPC recommends checks on gaming applicants TODAY'S QUESTION: Do you agree with Earvin "Magic" Johnson's decision to re-retire from basketball? To participate, call 222-6397 and, when asked, dial 988. Then, please answer "yes," "no," or "undecided." Calls are taken until 4 p.m. daily. YESTERDAY'S QUESTION: Do you think Ross Perot's candidacy has had a positive effect on the nation? i YES 60 NO 31 UNDECIDED 9 Total number of 53 Juneau said if city councilmen add video bingo to the ordinance, he hopes to have the bingo machines installed next week.

1 Councilmen are requiring that a separate room be built for bingo machines and children barred from entering. Proceeds from video bingo are split between the machine owner, the bingo hall and charitable organizations that lease them for fund-raising. pull-tabs, bingo and other charitable gaming. They meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, Texas Avenue at Murphy Street.

"I'm glad they're doing it," said Jerry Juneau of Red River Bingo, explaining that his hall already has to get a state license and background check. "If you can pass the State Police gaming check, you can pass any gaming check." MPC members suggested that city police conduct the local background checks. Red River Bingo on Hearne Avenue that the city approve its proposed operation prompted the action. State law makes the City Council responsible for approving video bingo. The MPC's role is to approve where the machines can operate.

Red River Bingo wants to install from 20 to 35 of the video poker-like machines. Councilmen are expected to vote Tuesday to add video bingo to an ordinance allowing keno, video bingo machines. The Metropolitan Planning Commission voted Tuesday to make the recommendation at the same time city councilmen are reviewing ways to regulate overall gambling in the city. Video bingo is the latest addition to a local gambling mix that saw the addition of video poker last summer. MPC members want licenses issued to applicants for gambling establishments, such as video bingo operators.

A request by. Video bingo: City Council looking at ways to regulate overall gambling. By STACY SULLIVAN The Times Concerned about controlling the expansion of gambling, Shreveport planners are urging background checks on applicants who want to operate things like Times graphic i.