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Nation Friday, June 9, 1995 Kerrville Daily Times Page 3A Twisters rip through Panhandle Power struc gle reported in Perot's 'United We Stand' Damages, injuries left in tornadoes' wake PAMPA, Texas (AP) Lewis Marcy, 83, fled his mobile home in west Pampa when he saw a "spinning wind." Marcy said he drove his van away from the storm Thursday afternoon and waited until it appeared safe. When he returned to his home, it had been demolished by th storm. At least five peop, were injured and dozens of homes and businesses were destroyed or heavily damaged Thursday afternoon as a tornado ripped through Pampa, officials said. Several hours later, a tornado hit the community of Allison, 50 miles east of Pampa in northeast Wheeler County. The twister cut a swath about a mile wide, said an official with the National Weather Service.

A Department of Public Safety spokesman said five or six rural homes were destroyed in the area outside Allison, but no serious injuries were reported. Coronado Hospital in Pampa treated five people for injuries: a 14-year-old girl, treated and released for a cut hand; a 54-year-old woman, in the intensive care unit after going into cardiac distress because a power outage cut off electricity to her oxygen generator; a 55-year-old woman, in stable condition with a fractured rib, suffered when her house was destroyed around her. She was being transferred to an Amarillo hospital; an 18-year-old boy, alert and undergoing tests after stepping on a downed power line; a 16-year-old girl, admitted after being tossed around in her residence and suffering seizures from anxiety. The Pampa tornado struck the southwestern part of the city just before 4:45 p.m. The twister devastated several industrial buildings near the intersection of Texas Highway 152 and Farm-to-Market Road 282.

Miles O'Loughlin said he watched a tornado form in a field near his office at WO Operating Company on Texas 152 west of Pampa about 4:45 p.m. "I bet it sat in that field for five minutes, getting bigger and bigger," he said. When the twister grew to an estimated one-eighth-mile wide, O'Loughlin said he "jumped in the car and headed due west as fast as I could." "We watched it, and it hit all kinds of industrial oil field buildings along that road. Some of them are just gone and some others are a shambles. I could see that it hit at least half a dozen to eight (buildings)," O'Loughlin said.

The tornado then worked its way through a residential area, uprooting trees and damaging dozens of homes. Homes in a 45-block area were still without power Thursday night. Christy Scroggins of Pampa said she "sat here and watched the tornado tear up the houses. There are pieces of insulation all over town." Cocaine smuggling case highlights role of Texas DALLAS (AP) A huge legal case against suspected cocaine smugglers, money launderers and their lawyers sheds new light on the growing stream of drug shipments from Mexico into Texas, investigators said. U.S.

officials this week announced the indictment of 62 people in what is being called a serious blow to U.S. operations of the world's largest drug organization, Colombia's Cali cartel. Texas' role becomes more prominent in the latter stages of the indictment, which lists the charges in progressive order from 1988 to 1994. The shift of cartel operations to Texas came as federal agents proved more successful at detecting shipments through Miami, the preferred port because of the ability to move large shiploads of narcotics, Frank Figoroa, an assistant special Customs agent in Miami who helped supervise the investigation, told The Dallas Morning News for today's editions. Medical officials: Mantle's stardom not a factor DALLAS (AP) Officials at Baylor University Medical Center are defending themselves against accusations that Mickey Mantle received a liver promptly because he was a New York Yankees' star from 1951 through 1968.

The complaints even prompted a review by the United Network for Organ Sharing, which said it found no policy violations. Dallas HQ seeks reorganization By JOHN KING AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A power struggle in Ross Perot's United We Stand America is undermining unity within the organization just as Perot tries to reassert himself as a force in congressional debatef and the upcoming 1996 campaign. The dispute stems from a recommendation from Perot that United We Stand chapters dissolve their state corporations. This arrangement would leave chapters under the direction of Perot's handpicked state executive directors, and strip away the powers of state chairmen and boards elected when Perot turned his 1992 presidential campaign organization into what he promised would be a grassroots political movement. "This is purely optional," Russ Verney, United We Stand's national executive director, said in an interview Thursday "The last thing it is about is control We are saying, 'Do as yon please He disputed the notion there was turmoil in the organization "except in the minds of the folks who can't decide which way they want to go." Rut some longtime Perot backers who have become disenchanted don't see it that way.

characterizing Perot's recommendation as a power grab from the Dallas headquarters. "We are basically in constant conflict over who really represents United We Stand America," said Ed Stanek, an elected board member in Ohio. "Is it the grass roots? Or is it the corporate structure?" Ohio is one of a handful of chapters where at least some senior leaders are resisting the reorganization recommendation. Others include Arizona, Utah, Alaska, California and Washington. Ironically, these were among Perot's best states in the 1992 presidential election, when he got 19 percent of the total vote as an independent.

H. ROSS PEROT "They can't have it both ways," said Mary Lou Stanley, the executive director in At izona "Ifyou are saving this is a grassroots organization, then that is where the authority has to lie." What makes Stanley'- resistance remarkable is that she is Perot's handpicked state executive director. "I am not a white shirt from Dallas," she said defiantly. Top Perot deputies in Dallas say the protests are overblown. "The majority of states have found that the board process was cumbersome and the titles and so on unnecessary," Perot spokesman Sharon Holman said.

"We are giving them much broader latitude." Sweeping requests made for Waco reports WASHINGTON (AP) A pair of House subcommittees want the Clinton administration to hand over documents relating to the fiery federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. In letters to the White House and departments of Justice, Treasury and Defense, the chairmen of the House Government Reform and Oversight subcommittee on national security and the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime asked for a full accounting of events surrounding the 1993 face-off. Four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents and 85 Davidians, including sect leader David Koresh, died. A joint hearing of the subcommittees, which is scheduled for July 12, will examine both Waco and the case of white separatist Randy Weaver. Federal agents seeking to arrest Weaver on weapons charges killed his wife and teen-age son in a 1992 siege at Weaver's UMMER SAVINGS! Idaho mountain cabin.

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