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'Westward Ho Ho Ho art, writing contest winners listed. Page IE. BUSINESS elt; Weather-beaten crops. Page 1G. 104th Year El Paso, Texas, Sunday, December 23, 1984 Price: One Dollar ir nrr un shines on Terns 9 Sun Bowl, record crowd By Colleen Heild And Ramon Bracamontes Times staff writers Maryland and the Sun Bowl Association emerged as the winners of Saturday's Slst annual Sun Bowl classic, which shattered attendance records and defied a previous tide of bad luck.

As the 12th-ranked Maryland Terrapins overcame a 21-point halftime deficit to squeak by the Tennessee Volunteers 28-27, the Sun Bowl began its second 50 years with most everything going its way. A record 50,126 people nearly filled the Sun Bowl stadium. The crowd basked in needed a little luck to secure the victory. With 1:26 left in the game. Tennessee was marching down field for the winning score when quarterback Tony Robinson fumbled at the Maryland 25-yard line.

"This has got to have been the best-ever Sun Bowl game," Sun Bowl Association President Larry Wood said. Wood estimated that from 15,000 to 18,000 fans Saturday had never been to a Sun Bowl game. All were El Pasoans, Wood surmised. El Pasoan Dave Cunningham Please see Sun Bowl, 12A balmy 54-degree weather, with the sun shining through partly cloudy skies for most of the game. Last year's classic drew what had been a record 41,412 people who braved 20-degree temperatures and a wind-chill factor that dipped to 6 degrees.

Weather conditions for the 1982 classic were about as dreary. But Saturday's combination of good weather, good college teams and good timing on the weekend before Christmas spelled a needed success, Sun Bowl officials said. "We're going to see great things for El Paso kicking off with this game," said El Paso Fire Chief Joe Wilson, a member of the Sun Bowl Association. "This just makes you feel good inside." Sun Bowl Executive Director Donnie Duncan proclaimed, "This is the best bowl game in the country, I'll guarantee you." Despite a record-breaking 100-yard kickoff return by Tennessee's Pete Panuska with 10 seconds left in the third quarter, Maryland still managed to live up to its reputation by coming from behind to take the lead for good with only 2:28 left in the game. Maryland scored all of its 28 points in the second half, but still Timet photo by Rudy Gutierrez Maryland head coach Bobby Ross is carried on the shoulders of Danny Swingle, left, and Mike Jones.

1 Halftime revue stirs oohs, ahhs 'Look Up, America' hailed by spectators By Mary Benanti Times staff writer A I 1 I 1 4 rvH fti Tennessee fans were stunned, but Helen Douglas of Spring City, had a special interest in Saturday's game her grandsons play for the Vols. Meanwhile, some of Maryland's most fervent fans flew in from Mexico City to see their heroes, live. These are just a few of the stories from the stands. Page 12A. Keeta Covington knocked the ball loose and brother Al recovered the fumble as Maryland stopped a late Tennessee drive and pulled out a 28-27 victory.

Page ID. Maryland's Terrapins buried a ghost or two as the nation's No. 12 team won Saturday's Sun Bowl. Page ID. Pat Ferguson of Mesa, is the man credited with starting the first "full-circuit wave" at the Sun Bowl.

Perspective, Page ID. Kicker Fuad Reveiz was all set to kick a winning field goal for the Volunteers before disaster struck on Tennessee's final drive. Page 2D. Bill Bates, All-Pro special teams player and defensive back for the Dallas Cowboys, was in El Paso to watch his alma mater, Tennessee. Page 2D.

El Pasoans who live south of the University of Texas at El Paso may be wondering where all the pigeons came from Sat urday afternoon. If you have a few new ones cooing in your rafters, they probably came from the Sun Bowl halftime show, "Look Up, America." Their release during the nine-minute production brought surprised "oohs" and "ahhs" from the spectators. A lot of that kind of "oohing" went on during what most folks seemed to consider the Sun Bowl's best halftime ever including the stirring seven-minute performance of the University of Tennessee band. But it was not without minor, snags. The all-collegiate singers and dancers had to "fake it" for the first minutes of the routine while their platform was being built by the field crew.

"We just went on with the show because we had to be with the music," writer-performer David White said. Members of the 20-member troupe carried on as if people weren't standing in front of them moving props. Once that was completed, the show continued as planned. The entrance of "Rocket Man" seemed to be the children's favorite part of the program. He soared out from the south end of the stadium and landed in the center of the field.

1 Ui wiiv Times photo by Joel Salcido nines jjiiuiu uy Sam the Eagle leads a group of performers onto the Sun Bowl's playing field during the halftime performance The sound of his rocket booster overshadowed David Wade's singing in El Paso's version of "Free to Be You and Me." That left the formation of the outline of the state of Texas by flag drill teams and the story of El Paso's three cultures something for the crowd to guess at. But the appearance of Indians, square dancers and folklorico provided clues as to what was happening. Otherwise, the production hit its intended mark, if the reaction of the spectators is any sign. "That's the best halftime show I ever saw here," Rob Crowson, 12, said. "They usually just have bands and stuff." "I usually don't like half-time" said brother Brett, 10, "but I liked the rocket man." The 500 people on the field during halftime included members of the U.S.

Army and Air Beryl Baker said. The balloons drifted into the firework display making it even more impressive. "It made me cry," Baker said. Another grown-up spectator, Red Thacker, said the all-America show made him proud. "It's the best show they've had in I don't know how long," Thacker said.

Force, the UTEP choir, Boy and Girl Scouts, Brownies and Cub Scouts, flag teams from area high schools, a children's choir from Grace Methodist Church and Sam the Olympic Eagle. The finale was televised nationwide and included the unfolding of a huge flag, a four-jet flyover, the release of thousands of red, white and blue balloons and fireworks. "Fantastic," adult spectator good morning PEMEX blamed for gas explosion Miners Officials predict no survivors after 12 more bodies found New defense chief Marshal Sergei Sokolov, for 52 years a career soldier in the Soviet mold, is appointed to succeed the late Dmitri Ustinov as the Soviet Union's defense minister. WORLD, Page 3A. Chuckle Marriages may be made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Some clouds El Paso area skies will be partly to mostly cloudy today. High will be 58, low 28. WEATHER, Page 2B. MEXICO CITY (AP) An official report Saturday found the state oil company responsible for a gas explosion that killed at least 490 people at a northern Mexico City suburb last month and ordered the company to pay reparations. A news release from the oil company, PEMEX, said it would comply.

In a brief statement late Saturday, the attorney general's office said the fiery blast, the worst industrial accident in Mexico's history, began when a PEMEX flare ignited a gas leak originating from four liquid petroleum gas and butane storage tanks at the plant. The Nov. 19 explosions destroyed the PEMEX plant and most of the surrounding town of San Juan Ixhuetepec on the. northern edge of Mexico City. The statement, based on a lengthy report submitted to Pemex Saturday, said the exact mechanism of the explosion was not known because the evidence was destroyed by the force of the blast.

But it said there were "suffji-cent elements to sustain a technical opinion with a reasonable degree of certainty" that the blast occurred because of a "massive gas leak" from PEMEX tanks. The report said PEMEX "must give the respective authorities the necessary quantity to repay the material and personal damages, under a concept of social responsibility." The gas leak Ignited a series of at least 13 explosions that leveled a 20 square block area around the plant Union blames company 13A operated by Emery Mining for Utah Power Light. Thirteen bodies were found Friday, but the fire flared up again early Saturday, and ers were unable to get back into the mine until Saturday afternoon. Then they advanced rapidly, finding the air was clearing, and hopes revived that some of the trapped miners might still be alive. But late Saturday, they found 12 more bodies.

I "An attempt was made to establish a barricade," Henries said. Asked how long they might Please see Miners, ISA ORANGEVILLE, Utah (AP) A search team discovered the bodies of 12 miners late Saturday, bringing to 25 the number of workers found dead in a smoky mine fire. Two others still trapped inside were believed dead, officials said. "We believe there will be no survivors," said Emery Mining Co. spokesman Robert Henrie.

"They are looking for the bodies. It could be several more hours before those bodies are located. "Clearly there is relief it is over. And we have a terrible sense of tragedy at- the outcome," Henrie said. The miners 26 men and one woman were trapped Wednesday when fire broke out as they tried to break a one-day production record at the Wilberg Mine, Index Ann Landers HE Business 1G Classified 6-16C Crossword HE Horoscope HE Kaleidoscope IE Local IB Movies 8E NM scrapbook 7B Obituaries 2B, 6C Old El Paso 8B Opinion IF Over the 2nd cup HE Sports ID Stocks 4G Weather 2B Times lumbers If youf newspaper is not delivered by 6:30 a.m.

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