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NCAA regional: Texas 15, Houston 3 Sports, J1 The Class of '87 UT graduates look toward the future with hope Lifestyle, E1 Austin A Weather Cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. High, 80s. Low, 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Details, A 16.

Sunday May 24, 1987 One dollar mencan-ttttusman My hometown is now no town jf-i)'1 S'-t'S i iOL' 'flK-rt I VJ 5 No building untouched in Saragosa By Pete Szilagyi American-Statesman Statf SARAGOSA The residents of Saragosa say it was a modest town, with adobe buildings, dirt streets and a few shade trees. Not much to look at, maybe, but with a crop of cantaloupes in the nearby fields, children's voices in the streets, and the comfort of close friends and relatives, it was as classy as any city, they say. Today, Saragosa is gone reduced to piles of lumber, adbbi, twisted steel and the muddy, sodden effects of everyday life. The town, in the plains north of the Davis Mountains, was leveled by one of the worst tornadoes in Texas history at 8:14 p.m. Friday.

That is when the town's clocks stopped, when Saragosa ceased its existence. Only about five of the 60 or so structures in Saragosa remain standing, and not one of them was undamaged. Twenty-nine people six of them children attending a preschool graduation died, and 121 were injured. Twenty-eight of them remained hospitalized late Saturday. Some survivors accepted the destruction stoically, others tearfully, others pragmatically, others be-grudgingly.

"My hometown is now no town," said Blasa Lujan Nino as she sifted through the rubble of her parents' home searching for heirlooms. "This is like a nightmare. I'm' still asleep and dreaming," said Sergio Candelas, who was watching See Tornado, A12 Ca4 rHntn hu lav tf Diana Castillo, 14, rescues icons of Joseph and Jesus that survived the collapse of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mi ission church in the tornado that devastated Saragosa. Parents die shielding children O. Saragosa: A Texas tragedy A special section focuses on the disaster in West Texas, with more -color photographs.

Beginning on A17 building and huddled over their children. Turnbough said the survivors were strangely quiet as rescue crews, relatives and neighbors used jacks and torches to get them out. "They were sitting there with a husband or a wife or a child dead next to them and they were calm. Maybe it was shock," the firefighter said. In the aftermath Saturday, the ruins of the community center looked just like another pile of concrete, adobe, tin or wood left by the tornado on the flat, featureless plain of Saragosa.

But upon closer examination, the debris gave away its secret. Two trays of pimento cheese sandwiches no one ever had a chance to eat. A muddied gallon jug of red Kool-Aid. A shattered plastic tape player. And there on "The bodies were lined up against the walls on the east and south side.

The walls of that old building are thick concrete. They were crushed beneath it. "The parents were crouched over their children. Many of them were on their knees. There was enough weight (from the collapsing walls) that it killed them instantly, but the children underneath, it saved them," Turnbough said.

"A lot of the children were saved by their mothers," said Q.A. Crenshaw, chief of the Balmorhea Fire Department. Turnbough said the people inside Guadalupe Hall knew death was outside its door. "They definitely knew it was coming. They went outside and saw it and then went back inside," he said.

That's when they lined up around the walls of the By Steve Reed and Robert Cullick American-Statesman Staff SARAGOSA The heroes are dead. But their children live and will remember them. Most of the 29 people killed by the tornado that destroyed most of this West Texas town are thought to have been crushed in the collapse of a church community center, Guadalupe Hall. About 100 parents and friends had gathered Friday to watch 20 preschoolers graduate from a Head Start program. Most of the children survived, many shielded by parents who lost their lives.

Larry Turnbough, a Balmorhea firefighter who worked through the night to find survivors, said he found many of the living children under their parents' kneeling bodies. Six children died. A17 A twister' rage How to help A17 A18 List of the dead Survivors' stories m. i A18 A21 A24 The storm system Staff photo by Tom Lankes Neighbors help out See Parents, A13 The Martinez family comfort one another. State hospital staffs include restricted doctors Today's sections By Denise Gamino American-Statesman Staff Hospital has no board-certified psychiatrists, and Big Spring State Hospital has one.

At most other state hospitals fewer than half of the psychiatrists have passed the competency test given by the national board of psychiatrists. The doctors with currently or recently restricted medical licenses work in Terrell, Vernon, Kerrville and Wichita Falls state hospitals, according to an analysis of records by the State Hospital is receiving state-ordered therapy because of severe mental problems in 1984. The psychiatrist thought the FBI had shot him with laser beams; he set his house on fire and apparently shot 50 to 100 bullets into the ceiling in attempts to kill imaginary people, according to medical board records. Terrell State Hospital officials said the psychiatrist is fully recovered, is do-See Doctors, A11 The medical license restrictions were imposed by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners because the doctors had psychiatric problems or were abusing drugs or alcohol. The restrictions differ for each doctor, but include: limiting medical practice to the state mental hospital, banning the prescribing of certain drugs, and requiring doctors to receive ongoing psychiatric care or evaluation.

One psychiatrist hired by Terrell At least half of Texas' eight state mental hospitals employ a physician who has a restricted Texas medical license or who has been disciplined by the state medical board in the past, state records show. In addition, state mental hospitals have a shortage of board-certified psychiatrists, records show. Vernon State News Section 1-23 CityState Section B. 1-13 News Section C. 1-15 Insight Section D.

1-8 Lifestyle Section E. Travel Section 22-25 Homes Section 1-15 Classified Section 1-42 Business Section 1-14 Sports Section J. 1-14 Show World Magazine Index Supernova twin observed Scientists see 2 points of light after stellar explosion Indy incidents High-priced race cars are bouncing off the walls in Indianapolis at an alarming rate. Sports, J1 Bastrop grows up Bastrop sees a new wave of immigration. Business, H1 Budget talks Negotiations over the state budget stall.

CityState. B1 New York Times Service Bridge Lifestyle E21 Crossword Lifestyle E21 Dear Abby Lifestyle E8 Deaths City B11 Editorials Insight D2.3 Ellie Aucker E1 Entertainment Show World Horoscope Lifestyle E21 Jumble Lifestyle E21 Newsmakers A 16 Personalities E2 TV Log Show World Weather News A16 DEATH AT SEA The Stark attack throws a strong light on the weaknesses of the U.S. foreign policy. Insight, D1 about 10 times brighter than its companion. Since neither was present before the explosion, astronomers assume that, mysteriously, both arose from the same blast.

From the outset. Supernova 1987A has behaved in unexpected ways, but the discovery that its blazing debris has a companion is one of the most startling findings to date. He said it was remotely possible that the two supernova images were an illusion created by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. in which a massive object in space bends light near it and creates a "lens." Noyes said the objects are only about 3,000 astronomical units a unit is about 93 million miles apart. But if they stemmed from the same explosion, they must have been moving apart at more than half the speed of light.

NEW YORK The violent stellar explosion that flared into view over the Southern Hemisphere on Feb. 23 has apparently spawned a mysterious twin, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics report. The observations that led to the discovery were made at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile on March 25 and April 2, but computer analysis of the results took more than one month. Astronomers became aware only two weeks ago that they had discovered something extremely peculiar. According to Dr.

Robert W. Noyes of Harvard-Smithsonian, the observations show that the bright exploding star, or supernova, is two points of light, close together, one Who were the 37 sailors who died? Al Iraqi attack not the first such incident A7 U.S. investigating team goes to work Al Young crewmen see the world differently now A3 Meet the Editor session Tuesday American-Statesman editor Arnold Rosenfeld will conduct a Meet the Editor session at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the AGE Center, 3710 Cedar Drive, at the corner of Cedar and 38th Street. The public is invited to this informal discussion.

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