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Austin American-Statesman citystate Tuesday, Juna 1 7, 1 980 1 School bus riders increase More students will ride Austin school buses this fail, but officials say the longest routes are not related to the court-ordered desegregation plan. Page B2. Stricter dog control sought The Williamson County Commission votes to urge stricter enforcement of existing dog-control laws rather than pass a new ordinance. Page D17. istoric label john kelso City raises a flap, ousts tent-dweller for Congress a step closer Bob Donnelly and Tony Bell took down the tent when the law told them to, but they didn't necessarily like it.

"It seems to me somebody ought to be able to set up a tent in a friend's back yard, and live in it, so long as that friend gives you permission," I told Bob Donnelly, 32, who works as a carpenter, a sheet rocker, a painter and a tree trimmer, among other things. "It seemed that way to me, too, since it wasn't getting in the way of anything in particular," he said. "But it DA seeks Yarbrough security -if' i. ftC i i 'T flf: -vT lift i- Staff Photo by Larry Murphy nm mi um wwwhp www 3iilijy seemed so unfair that it didn't seem worth arguing about. I don't see a building permit and a tent being the same thing." Let's explain.

For eight years, Donnelly, who also labors part-time on a ranch outside Mason chasing cows and cleaning troughs, lived in a house on Mount Bonnell Road. He collected quite a menagerie out there. There were the two pheasants he wanted to keep around since "I've been with 'em since they were just eggs," he explained. And there were nine cats and nine aquarium goldfish. When the landlord died, heirs took over the property and raised Donnelly's rent from $135 to $175 a month.

So he had to move, for lack of money, along with By MIKE COX American-Statesman Staff The city's Historic Landmark Commission unanimously approved the idea of a Congress Avenue historical district Monday night, but an actual declaration of such a district still is a long way off. Architect Tom Lea applied for the district designation. He told commission members that Congress Avenue a thoroughfare surveyed when Austin was the capital of the Republic of Texas is "clearly the most significant street in the state." He said it is the avenue "as a whole, not all its buildings" that makes it historically and culturally important. To allow further development without consideration of its history, Lea said, would be to "throw it Into the hands of a few speculators who want to make a killing on Congress Avenue." Under the city's historic zoning ordinance, the next step in the historic district process Is the development of a preservation plan and the definition of restrictions. The proposal then would have to go through the Planning Commission and the City Council.

As commission member Sam Houston Clinton said just before the idea was approved, "Everybody will get an opportunity for a laboring-over" of the preservation plan. Martha Hartzog, giving a brief, slide-illustrated history of the avenue, said lt was "Intended for a national capital, and is the center and heart for the city and state." Betty Brown of We Care Austin said the sought-after designation would not mean "progress would screech to a halt." The commission also unanimously recommended historical zoning for the 1860-vintage Robinson-Rosner Building at 504 Congress Ave. The brick building, which has its original facade covered, has recently been bought by owners of the Sam Witch Shop, which has operated in the building for two years. By LUCIUS LOMAX American Statesman Staft Ronald Earle, the Travis County district attorney, says he will oppose granting Donald Yarbrough, a former Texas Supreme Court justice convicted of perjury, permission to go to medical school In the Caribbean unless Yarbrough's bail Is increased. Earle also wants proof that the tiny Caribbean country of Grenada, where Yarbrough hopes to attend St.

George's University School of Medicine, has an extradition treaty with the United States. Yarbrough, who Is appealing his five-year sentence on conviction of aggravated perjury before a Travis County Rrand jury, is out of jail on a $5,000 personal-recognizance bond. Earle says he wants Yarbrough's bond changed to a surety, which requires that cash or property be posted as security. "We would want it at an amount that would cover the costs of extradition In case he runs," Earle said. "I don't want the taxpayers to have to, pay for extradition." Grenada and the United States have an extradition treaty, according to Dick McCoy of the State Department's Caribbean Desk.

Yarbrough's lawyer, Waggoner Carr of Austin, has called Yarbrough's interest in medical school an attempt "to get the threads of his life Smoke victim Staft Photo by Bob Daemmncti Bob Donnelly sits in what used to be home sweet home. the animals. A weary, smoke-choked firefighter catches put out. Investigators said it probably star- his breath during mop-up operations after a ted from carelessness. The heavy smoke fire at the David Medrano Upholstery and that took its toll on this fireman sent Lt.

Wil- Refinishing Company, 709 Barton Springs liam McDonald to the hospital. Eighteen Road. The fire Monday night was quickly men in two companies fought the fire. Immunizations absent 3 victims of lockjaw treated in Austin State hears gripes on creek's runoff Mall developers defend practices And he didn't want to get rid of the cats since he had already cured them of ringworm. DONNELLY GOT IN TOUCH with Tony Bell, a buddy who lives on Garner Avenue, and asked if it would be all right to put up a tent in his back yard for him, the cats, the fish and the birds.

Bell was glad to have the visitors. "It gave me an added sense of comfort as a watchdog factor," he says. The Austin Building Inspection Department was less comfortable. The department told Donnelly to move it, after he had been living there a couple of weeks. A tent without a building permit is not a tent, the city allowed.

Seems if you're going to live in a tent in an Austin back yard, you've got to have a bathroom in it and hot water, among other things. It was a fine, 9-foot by 12-foot tent, Donnelly claims. He notes that he had a bathroom to use in Bell's house and hot water every evening. He rigged up a shower outside by throwing a hose over a tree and heated the water by stringing the hose along a fence during the day, where the sun warmed the hose and water for evening showers. AND HE'D STAND OUTSIDE in the yard and clean off, next to the tent.

There was a shower curtain, too, Donnelly says, so nobody could see him: "It wasn't as if I was out there obscening the block. "I had everything a man would need in there. I had three days' supply of clothes so I could swap out, canned goods, a coffee maker, cat food and cats, fish, a radio, and an old Army bunk-type spring set up on railroad ties 'cause the place did have seasonal running water." It was a superb location to enjoy the outdoors as well, out there among the yard weeds, and every so often Bell and Donnelly would sit in the old, rusty lawn furniture next to the tent and have a toddy. DONNELLY DOESN'T know which complaining neighbor turned him in or why. Maybe it was his showers that were offensive.

Maybe it was the fact most of his cats ran off into the neighborhood. "But they shouldn't mind that too much because I had 'em all fixed before we moved in," he said. "Sure was a nice tent, though. When they get you for living in a tent, there's not much else you can do." Except move into Tony Bell's front room, which Donnelly has done. through their clenched teeth, 'I think I have Matthews said.

In advanced cases, the victim's arm and leg muscles will be drawn up. In untreated cases, the persons back arches severely during spasms. Constricted chest muscles make the patient feel as if he is buried under a mountain of sand or being squeezed by an elastic band. The patients cannot breathe, and risk suffocation. The three patients, two at Brackenridge Hospital and one at Seton Medical Center, had to be placed on respirators because of their constricted chest muscles.

To prevent severe spasms, the patients had to paralyzed with medication. One patient, Mrs. Viola Hester, 64, just got out of the Brackenridge's coronary care unit, where she had been since May 8. The other patients could remain, in hospitals for six weeks, Matthews said. "I have never suffered so much pain in my whole life," said Hester of Lexington.

"I had had dental work done, and I thought my mouth was sore because of that. But it got smaller and smaller, and I couldn't open it up very much at all. My body was so painful I've never been that sick. "I am going to tell everyone not to pass up that shot." About 100 cases of tetanus are reported See Tetanus, B3 By ABBY KAIGHIN American-Statesman Staff Three elderly patients have been lying in Austin hospitals paralyzed and on respirators as part of the treatment of the disease commonly called lockjaw. The patients, all from small Central Texas communities, are evidence that many elderly persons have never received tetanus immunizations, said Dr.

Earl Matthews. Tetanus shots are given routinely to babies, but the elderly or persons not born in the United States may not have been immunized. "This is a horrible disease. I wouldn't wish it on anyone," Matthews said. Some people may have received booster shots and thought they were protected, but without the primary immunization, the booster will not protect them, said Matthews, a specialist in infectious disease and the director of the Central Texas Medical Foundation.

The tetanus bateria can thrive in any wound where there is dead skin and no oxygen. The disease causes severe and painful muscle contractions. One of the earliest symptoms of tetanus is a stiffening of the jaw muscles. "I've seen patients come in who couldn't open their mouth and who would utter Wild Basin )J By CHERYL COGGINS American Statesman Staff State Highway Department commissioners were warned by environmentalists Monday that silt, clay, gravel and other sediment from Loop 360 construction has begun to clog the Bee Creek drainage system In the Wild Basin Wilderness Park. Loop 360 recently was extended north of Bee Caves Road several miles from the site of Barton Creek Square Mall.

Representatives of the Wild Basin Wilderness Committee complained to the commission that bales of hay are not stopping the runoff of sediment from the Loop 360 construction as it feeds Into the basin's creeks. David Mahler, program director for the Committee for Wild Basin Wilderness, complained that the bales were rotting or being washed aside. "There are three creeks which lead directly Into the basin where the hay bales were washed away," Mahler said, referring to Bee Creek, North West Hollow and North Hollow. Erosion control has not even been tried on another creek In the basin's drainage area but not Inside the park, Mahler said. "If the bales had been properly maintained and kept in place, the vegetation would have had time to grow behind the bales ar dthose gullies would not have developed," Mahler said.

2 planes collide, crash onto base runway Bee Creek's flow through Wild Basin becomes troubled. The gullies, which Mahler showed to the commissioners In a slide show, are conduits for sediment flowing Into the creeks. They are another sore spot with the Wild Basin Wilderness Committee. "One of the points we want to stress Is these gullies are getting deeper and they're getting wider," Mahler said. "What we feel is that there Is no doubt from our research that the sediment has come directly from the highway and lt Is still coming In and unless something Is done, the gullies will continue to get larger." Mahler said every creek bed In the basin has been affected by the sediment.

Members of the Highway Commission declined to comment after the presentation. SAN ANTONIO (AP) A 1930s-vintage biplane and another plane apparently collided in midair, then crashed on a runway at Randolph Air Force Base Monday night, killing two persons and injur ing two, authorities said. Authorities and witnesses said persons in one plane apparently were taking photographs as they flew over the base. Sgt. Art Cheatham said the planes had been cleared to fly over the southwest corner of the Air Force flight training base when they collided The planes crashed on the airport runway about 150 from each other, the witness said.

He told the television station he could see a camera lens protruding from one of the planes just before the crash. Mack Kardys, owner of Kardys Airport, said the planes took off "some time before 8 p.m." Both planes were stored at the airport, he said. Kardys identified the planes as a Stearman, an antique plane painted to duplicate 1930s Army Air Corps planes, and a Bellanca Citabria, a high-win-ged craft. Officials would not release the names of the dead. The injured were identified as Tom Van Etten and Michelle Shankle.

They were taken to nearby Brooke Army Medical Center, but a spokesman there declined to release any information on their conditions. One witness told KSAT-TV that the two crafts were flying along side each other, about 1,000 feet above the ground, when one plane appeared to rip the wing off the other. while making a turn at about 7: 45 p.m..