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Coed In Coma Page 8B NAPA REGISTER Saturday, September 23, 1967 Flooding Threatens International Bridge former teacher, now retired, from Custer, S.D., where she lived until moving to Denver while still in high school. Everyone you talk to thinks she was the greatest girl in the world, said an official at Spalding House. Servicemen by the hundreds became her pen pals two years By BURL OSBORNE Associated Press Writer DENVER, Colo. (AP) Shar-ie Ann Duncan, the sleeping beauty of Colorado, has been in a coma for more than a year now, and there is little save her mothers unflinching hope-to indicate she ever will emerge. PIO GRANDE CITY, Tex.

passable by heavy high-wheeled (AP) The greatest mass of vehicles, floodwaters in three decades Thousands of refugees who thundered down the Rio Grande fled inland to escape the winds ger Thursday and Friday from the raging floodwaters, from massive rains and from 95 tornadoes that spun off the mon-strous storm. Many had to be re-evacuated. and tides of Beulah found themselves faced with greater dan- It was Sept. 17, 1966, when ago after seeing her photograph as Miss Bleed-in, during a nationally-recognized university campaign for blood donations for Vietnam war casualties. She found time, between her job with a plastic firm, philosophy studies at the universitys Denver extension center, and visits to other casualties at the Armys Fitzsimons Hospital here, to answer each letter.

The letters still pour in, many from the Vietnam battle zone, but now they are answered by her mother. The cause of the accident nev-er has been fully explained. Sharie was thrown from her car, 150 feet down an embankment when it struck a guard rail as she started to leave the free, way scarcely half a dozen blocks from home. Shades mother theorized that she was tired and fell asleep at the wheel. Sharie had been reg.

istering for her sophomore year at the university, had worked that morning and baked a birthday cake for a 7-year-old neigh, bor girl that afternoon. massive head injuries suffered in a mysterious automobile accident thrust the beautiful University of Colorado coed into mental limbo. Since then, despite two brain operations and the most intense therapy medical experts could muster, Sharie has remained in a deeply semicomatose state. We never like to give up hope, but at this point its be-youn our hands, said a spokesman at Spalding House, a gleaming new convalescent cen-ter operated under auspices of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado. Nevertheless, Mrs.

Joan Man-fredi, Shade's mother, said Ive never lost faith that shell get better. I think Sharie has come a long, long way already. the accident, according to those who knew her, Sharie was a shapely, vivacious 22-year-old who crammed 25 hours of living into every day. I thought you were the-prettiest and the friendliest and the nicest girl I knew, wrote a ROCKETTES picket Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The precision dance troupe, ballet corps and choral group are waging their seventh day of protest in a salary dispute with the theater management.

Leaning over for chat with passerby is Rockette Viva Corrigan. (AP Wirephoto) GOP Chief Seeks 'Conservatives' Medi-Cal Abuse Charges Denied THE RAILROAD bridge at Victoria, spanning the Guadalupe River was washed out by the flooding river Friday, but the highway bridge was still standing at left. The rivers of South Texas were sent on a rampage after Hurricane Beula dumped heavy rains on the area. (AP Wirephoto) Lt. Gov.

Robert H. Finch casting the deciding vote. But so far, the Republicans havent agreed on anyone to oppose Burns. Halley predicted the convention would support a resolution backing the Reagan favorite son delegation. Darling and Rae agree.

But they did not agree on what to ed to 19.1 per cent of the $576 million spent for Medi-Cal, with 30.8 per cent going to hospitals and 20.3 per cent to nursing homes. These compared with national figures of 22.1 per cent to physicians, 32.8 per cent for hospitals and 3.2 per cent for nursing home services. today, imperiling the Interna-tional Bridge at this border town and promising new hardships for the lower Rio Grande Valley 40 miles down stream. Torrential rains up to a staggering 30 inches also sent crests rolling down scores of other South Texas rivers and streams as Hurricane Beulah, the cause of it all, finally blew herself out against the mountains of northern Mexico. Some one million persons remained isolated by high water in a 40,000 square-mile area in the wedge of South Texas.

The death toll from the 14-day-old hurricane stood at 36-while damage estimated were put at $1 billion. Nine died in Texas. A deputy sheriff at Rio Grande City said Saturday, "Its going to go when asked about the International Bridge there. He said the rivers flood-waters covered about a fourth of the town shortly after mid-night. It looks like the rivers coming into the downtown area, he added.

Numerous streams in the disaster area continued to spill from their banks today and heavy rains persisted, although they were tapering off. Beulah slammed into the Texas coast at Brownsville early Wednesday. The Rio Grande was 20 feet above flood stage and a mile wide, here, 110 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. W. E.

Walker, principal engineer for the International Boundary and Water Commission, said Rio Grande floodwa-ters had eaten away the abutments of the bridge linking Rio Grande City and Camargo, Mexico. We expect it (the main part of the bridge) to go anytime, he said late riday. "This is the highest discharge since 1938, he said. Its a very large flood; Its very serious. South Texas was a world gone made with water.

Attempts at cleaning up the soggy mess were started at the few points where waters receded. -A hand-lettered sip on the wall of the Raymondville Hospital told this story: Our syringes and medicines are sterile. Our hearts and hands are clean. Our smiles are real. Only our floor is wet and a few pys with pts are keeping us going.

A volunteer team of men and boys- some from the high school football team- kept flood-waters to a low level in the hospital with pumps, buckets and sandbags. Chief Physician Dr. Charles Spence said the volunteers pitched in and kept some women from having to have their babies out in that mud and filth. White-clad nurses were barefoot. Doctors wore high boots.

The latest death was that of Jean Blackwell of Kingsville, who apparently drowned when a pickup truck was swamped near Alice. Two other persons died early Friday when a car plunged into a flooded creek in San Antonio. Virtually all roads south of San Antonio remained blocked today although a few became Oakland Shooting Kills 3, Hurts 1 USSR Aid do if Reagan keeps his word nad refuses to become a serious candidate for President. A reporter asked Darling and Rae what the delegation should do in the event Reagan gives it permission to do as it wishes. I hope they do not vote for Rockefeller, Romney or Percy, said Darling.

He referred to Michigan Gov. George Romney, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and 111. U.S. Sen.

Charles Percy, all favorites of Republican moderates. Rae, however, said the delegation should be as capable of supporting Reagan as Romney or Rockefeller- they should sup. port the man best capable of winning for the Republican party. Reagan has repeatedly said he is not a serious candidate for President and will be Californ-ias favorite son only to prevent a party- shattering Presidential primary. But the leadership of the favorite son delegation would give him solid command of a group second only in size to New Yorks and a solid base from which to build if he becomes a serious candidate.

Reagan has said all segments of the party should be represented in the delegation. He will pick a three-man screening com-mittee early next year that will select the delegation to appear on the June primary ballot. SUnE THING LOSE INCHES Master Charge Napa Health StudicT 2414 Jefferson 224-9533 By BILL BOYARSKY By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM (AP)- The presi-dent of the California Republi-can Assembly called today for a conservative majority on Gov. Reagans favorite son presidential delegation. Dick Darling, after meeting with leaders of his conservative minded volunteer group, during the Republican State Central Committee Convention, told a reporter, I personally feel it should definitely be a conservative delegation.

But, Matthew Rae, president of the more liberal, but smaller, California Republican League, replied the 86 person delegation should be as evenly balanced as anything you have in politics. The disagreement came during a three-day meeting in the new convention center across the highway from Disneyland. The session is designed to present a united Republican front against the Democrats in California next year. In another development, James. W.

Halley, Republican state chairman, warned GOP state senators to quit bickering and agree on a single candidate to oppose Democratic Senate President. Pro Tem Hugh M. Burns of Fresno in January. The party expects they will get together and there will be a Republican- president pro tem, Halley told newsmen, The GOP came within striking distance of seizing the senate machinery when Republican Milton Marks of San Francisco was elected to the upper house in August. That gave the Republicans a 20-20 split with GOP SAN FRANCISCO (AP)- The president of the California Medical Association has denied statements that patients or doctors are abusing the state medi-Cal program which provides health care for the needy.

Dr. John G. Morrison said Friday facts show that both charges and payments have been reasonable and that the state has paid for needed medical care of good quality at a reasonable price for welfare recipients. Gov. Reagan, opening an eight state conference on medical aid programs Wednesday, criticized Californias program.

He said Medi-Cal costs were spiraling because there were no restrictions on patients seeking treatment for trivial illnesses nor on doctors having patients return for checkups on such ailments. Dr. Morrison said payments to physicians last year amount- Hughes Buys Third Casino CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -Millionaire industrialist Howard Hughes prepared Friday to take over his third gambling casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Hughes filed an application with the State Gaming Control Board for permission to have his wholly -owned Hughes Tool Co.

of Houston, buy the Castaways Casino from licensee Oliver Kahle. The Castaways reopened in May after being closed for about a year. Kahle indicated in July he had set a price for Hughes, an offer had been made and decision was expected. Ben Jaffe is principal owner of the adjoining motel. MOSCOW, (AP) The Soviet Union promised today to send warplanes, antiaircraft guns and missiles, artillery and other weapons to North Vietnam in 1968.

The promise was contained in aid agreements signed with a North Vietnamese delegation, an announcement said. The agreements covered gifts toithe Hanoi government, loans and trade, said a communique made public by the Soviet News agency Tass. In addition to weapons, North Vietnam will receive "equipment, vehicles, oil products and other goods necessary for the forther raising of the republics defensive capacity and for' its economic development, Tass said. OAKLAND (AP)- Police say a single-shot 12-guage shotgun killed three persons Friday, just five hours after Arthur Owens Jr. completed serving a three-month jail term for failing to support two children.

Dead are Owens, 27; Inez Myrthal Dana, 23, the childrens mother, and Mrs. Myrthal Dana, 48, the childrens grandmother. Wounded was James Dana, 50, Myrthal Danas husband. Police said Owens lured the parents into a rear-lot house at 716 36th St. and shot them there.

After that, they said, he found Inez hiding under a car and killed her before returning to the rear house where he laid laid down on a bed and took his own life. The Danas and their daughter were in a front lot house at 714B 36th St. when Owens telephoned them that Tw nkie will be in trouble if you dont come to the back house. Twinkie is a nickname for the childrens mother. Dana, who told police he and his wife had been trying to break up the relationship be.

tween their daughter and Owens, said his wife and he en-tered the house from different direction, the wife carrying a 22-caliber pistol. Dana was shot in the right shoulder, all the rest in the head. The children, a boy of 2 and a girl of 3, were not at home at the time of the shooting. Owens had lived at 1076 18th St. $2 Million Economy Is Proposed SACRAMENTO (AP) Streamlining of the State Professional and Vocational Stan dards Department, with a pos sible savings of $2 million, was proposed Friday by the states Little Hoover Commission.

The commission, in a forma report to Gov. Reagan, proposed abolishment of boards regulating dry cleaners; mar raige and family counselors; shorthand reporters; socia work examiners and yacht am ship brokers. Several other regulatory boards in the department shouk be examined closely for possible abolition, said the commission, formally titled the Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy. Gov. Reagans own task force of businessmen, seeking economies in government, has proposed revision of the depart ment, with a saving of about $2 million.

The task force propa sals vary widely from the Little Hoover Commissions recom mendations, however. MAUREEN REAGAN, 26, daughter of California Gov. Ronald Reagan, is shown in New York during her trip around the country teaching people to have professional attitude toward politics. She took the job six weeks ago of field services director for the Constitutional Alliance, a small political education organization based in San Diego. (AP Wirephoto) Welding Light Fabrication ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK 255-1871 1837 Tanen Street "In all my years in the Automobile Business I've never seen as much car for the price! This 1968 Rebel is family pride and fun at a price to fit a family pocketbook.

See it drive it prove it to yourself Carroll Thibault Carroll will be happy to show you all the cars in the 1968 Rambler line. Be sure to visit us soon. REBEL 770 STATION WAGON THE NEW YORK skyline provides the background in this aerial view as the Queen Mary sails the Hudson River Friday on the last leg of her 500th trans-Atlantic round trip. The liner ound for England and retirement after 31 years. (AP Wirephoto) (Eolnttial Sitting Snnm 7150 St.

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