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01104111011 Sunday Hot and wet Cloudy with continued chance of storms High in the lower 80s overnight low in the upper 60s Weather data on Page 44A 'Opporttinit sells worne on military Living Pagt Bob Bass Member of wealthy family trades privacy for leadership roles Newsfronto Page lAA Sunday A Opportunity Mears sits Bob Bass 4 1 pretty 4 s'" Hot and wet Cloudy with continued 4 Vc sells women- pole pre Member of wealthy P'' chance of storms High in the lower 'r family trades privacy 80s overnight low in the upper 60s itkg on military at Indy 500 1- for leadership roles Weather data on Page 44A Living Page 1C Sports Page 1 Newsfront Page 'IAA Sunday May 25 1986 PRICE 75t No rth I horm nays 1 0) CA NUS Mother and son drown in flood Trinity Park trees uprooted 33A Eyewitness accounts 33A Touring the aftermath 33A Escaping the water 33A Photo page 34A Bowling tournament threatened 38 It37 erY03)V 777 i :14 i i ir i 1 A 'NI li lk Niiph41 'i- 1 11: :2 I vAt -4" 1- 1 itv-: 1 1 4 ic qi I t'' :4 -i' -i ''k iv 'nit a 4 '1 1 10i 4- '1 A '41 '2 -w -i A '4 4 4 -It fi 4 11 1 -1 I 4ini -t I -ei i 1 1 ti'- 7 It' 4 0--- :4: 1- 14 1 4o A sr 1k --'k 2 101ftc-ei'l 1-i i 7 0 4 1--' -7'4' 4-4- '04 g' 414 l'' I' -N''' '-i'i NI" 1 i ti 4 0 '114 ''44 Iv) 414 11 1 I to i 1 44 ri? 1't i' Ft -41' 4 oviT 1 1s-- i vigtc- '''''''6 tL-' 14: R- 4 I'''''''' ''i 1'' I i '1444i: pworsosmootii'411" Awagothowmidoitadi 4tookai-'''' dwaf" 7 kiwiti404oRP5451A -i 4: i -(': Y-:" -e 4'-: '1: :1: s4 i 4 11s: 1446ota4 By JAY LEWIS Star-Telegram Writer A monster storm ripped through 1 Tarrant County with the violence of 1 a bombing raid Saturday shattering the power grid flooding streets cav- 'kit ing in the roof of a packed bowling alley violent a drowning ow ni il mother cg a a said a her son in a flooded underpass Two other people died from heart attacks blamed on stress caused by th Fort Worth was still reeling from the storm late Saturday night Arl- ington wasn't faring much better And power was still out in some :1 areas of the city and county and in 4: counties to the north 4 -4 The main culprits were the wind which was reported at up to 90 mph hurling tree limbs and signs that ripped out utility lines the rain which sometimes fell horizontally flooding low-lying areas and the lightning which struck at least 10 houses Marble-sized hail fell so heavily in places that it drifted three feet deep 4c--t and collected in floes along the streets "I have never seen wind and rain of the intensity that took place today" Fort Worth City Manager Douglas Harman said at an evening news conference "It was really incredible" He said it would take days to assess the damage Workers at the Emergency Management Center in the old Fort Worth police station coped with the situation while sloshing in water after the roof sprang a leak The floodwaters swept away and drowned a 30-year-old woman and her 8-year-old son after the woman Please see Two on Page 2 Star-TelegramJ4SYCE M'ARSHALL Lanes Stories photos on Pages 33-41A 4LL lA Lanesumtwimimmitomp Rescue workers try to uncover a victim Saturday of the roof collapse at Don Carter's All-Sta oof of bowling alley in Fort Worth collapses Rescue 1 -w OliMMMIg Star-TelegramLAMBERTO ALVAREZ Locker room offices etc Roof Collapses Pool room Game room Main entrance Roof and a portion of a wall collapses and windows are shattered by the storm When the storm hit 300 people were in the building watching a state bowling tournament Carter Country Don Carter All-Star Lanes 0'313 itgarsox'st'' US 80 Carter i Collapses 4 1 i I ik Lanes Wall 41re zs' a a 1 1 Locker Pool Gam Bar' Grill 4 1 room room room I offices tit ic etc I I ::::1:::: I 1 de en 1 1 Side entranoe 7f' c-) '-3 1 2 i- Don Carter 11' i All-Star Lanes Roof and a portion of a wall collapses and windows own River rtp are shattered by the storm When the storm hit 300 town u) TA '39 7 cusam people were in the building watching a state bowling 1 tournament moon -MI 111111" viv 1 NEE USRa8mada Inn 7- I IS (- 1-: A damaged i1- 3 '1 1- -4'-- '1- Nivivinvia I Star-TelegramLAMBERTO ALVAREZ Vickery Blvd 1 1 ks A tik AgsA0LAP4 404 f' 4 11: 1 it: i 'N' 14 111 t-'''-f 1 -2 7 By DEBRA DENNIS Star-Telegram Writer High wind large hail and heavy rains combined Saturday to cave in the roof of Don Carter's All-Star Bowling Lanes just east of downtown Fort Worth injuring 14 people trapping several others and sending about 300 scurrying for safety Seven people were taken to hospitals and seven others were treated at the scene said JP Hall a spokesman for the Fort Worth Fire Department Shortly before 4 pm the roof of the bowling alley at 1750 Beach St collapsed under the weight of the rain and hail At the Ramada Inn across Interstate 30 from the bowling alley flying glass carried by gusting winds injured three people none seriously Fire officials evacuated the motel for fear the roof there also would collapse under the weight of floodwater At the bowling center firefighters battled for more than an hour to rescue one man He was taken by a CareFlite helicopter to Harris Hospital "He was coherent and kept saying his arm was hurt" said Hall "But he was all right" A woman was pinned under debris for about 30 minutes but employees and bowling patrons man High vb Saturday Bowling injuring sending Seven others spokesmi ShortI3 alley at 11 of the Interstati carried I none seri Fire of roof then floodwat At the more tha by a Can "He wr: hurt" sal A worn minutes aged to free her said David Goodwin district manager for Carter's "We just tried to help as manY people out as we could" said Goodwin "We just tried to make sure everybody was out" Firefighters had to use air bags and Jaws of Life prying tools to rescue some victims from the wreckage Hall said "It all happened so fast Just a big wind came up and I just felt exhaustion like wind sucking air out of your body I just hit the deck" said bowling alley employee Wes Allen Ramona Gardner 29 of Fort Worth was in good condition with back injuries at John Peter Smith Hospital said hospital spokeswoman Drenda Witt Richard Berry 32 of Longview also was taken to John Peter Smith and was in good condition late Saturday with back injuries Michelle Stepp 27 of Cedar Park and Harold Fosque 49 of Austin were both treated for minor cuts and released Witt said Listed in good condition at Harris Hospital were Thomas Minkle 25 of Houston Jose Gonzalez 48 of Pfluegerville and Tom Gebert 36 whose address was unknown Please see 14 injured on Page 2 Supplies depleting in hunger war County charity workers face loss of publicprivate money Tarrant will be in line lltmesklilissA9L099" with 300000 hands klivalakat) Tar 111 ISWILleatiblitidtlitiiiLMbli fk Foodstamp applications are complex 13A I Profiles of hunger 13A Good luck from the president 7A Network coverage 8A That same economic downturn plus federal budget policies are hampering their ability to provide that help they say "There are probably more hungry and homeless people on our streets now than at any time since the 1930s" said Karen Spicer executive director of Catholic Social Services Federal cutbacks in domestic programs are throwing more and more of the burden of feeding the poor on states and private local organizations But Texas is facing its own Please see Supplies on Page 13 By GAYLE REAVES StarTelegram Writer If they were asked to hold off a fresh enemy army using only tired troops and empty guns Tarrant County charity workers could not sound much wearier or more disheartened than they do now Their enemy is hunger a problem they say is growing while resources to fight it are shrinking President Reagan's statement that people are hungry only because they don't know where to go for help makes them shake their heads By BRUCE MILLAR Star-Telegram Writer Organizers predict that more than 150000 people will turn out Sunday along the 39-mile segment of the Hands Across America route that winds throughTarrant County Trees or not One volunteer insisted that damage from Saturday's storms is not extensive enough to hamper the goings-on not even in counties where flood waters were rising and roads were strewn with fallen trees and branches By Sim Organize than 15000 Sunday alor the Hands that windst Trees or One volui age from extensive goings-on where floor roads were and branch The route follows US 80 from Dallas That's Main Street in Grand Pral- rie Division Street in Arlington and Lancaster Avenue in Fort Worth At downtown Fort Worth the route goes north on Main Street through the Stockyards and continues north on US 81287 to the county line The route stays on US 287 all the way to Amarillo where it heads west on Interstate 40 to New Mexico "Literally if we have to move a tree or climb over we'll do it" said Vicki Walker a volunteer coordinator in Fort Worth "The weather won't affect anything We may have to move something but we' just not worried about it" Weather forecasters said Saturday there was a 30 percent chance of Please see 300000 on Page 12 "He hasn't been here" one worker said The problem they face the charity workers say is that they don't know where to go for the help they need if they are to be able to continue feeding hungry and homeless people who are coming to them in record numbers due to Texas' limping economy Truck drivers will guard weapon shipments Trt INDEX Almanac 23A Arts Sec Bushess Sec Books 6-70 Class Sets (LW Deaths 23AI3A Editorials2-3AA INDEX Living Sec Local 21A Newstront People 6A Reviews 1040 Sports Sec Travel Sec Weather 44A By GAYLORD SHAW Los Angeles Times News Service IVASIIINGTON The Pentagon has tightened security on commercial shipments of military weapons by allowing civilian truck drivers to be issued guns and be counted as guards The Pentagon plan in response to warnings that such shipments are "extremely vulnerable" to hijacking by terrorists on America's highways calls for a 10-fold increase in the number of truck shipments protected by armed guards from 400 to By Los Aug IVASHIN has tighten cial shipme by allowing be issued guards The Pent warnings "extremely ing by terr( ways calls the number lected by ar ble to theft" said an Army inspector general's report in September "Naval ordnance shipments are vulnerable to threats of espionage terrorism and carelessness" said a Navy report issued in May 1985 "We have become too cavalier" in safeguarding sensitive shipments the head of the Naval Sea Systems Command said in a memo several months earlier And at about the same time the Defense Department's inspector Please see Drivers on Page 12 4000 annually effective June 1 But it would give the drivers weapons rather than requiring the addition of trained security personnel The Defense Department's low-budget response falls far short of meeting the threat and could even pose a danger to innocent civilians critics in Congress and elsewhere charge Giving shotguns to civilian truck drivers and telling them to resist hijackers "insofar as humanly possible" as the Pentagon has mandated "will not help security" and could endanger innocent people said Rep Cardiss Collins DU chairman of a House transportation subcommittee Trucking companies that haul munitions also are unhappy about the directive but "don't have any choice" but to abide by it an industry spokesman said Army and Navy investigators warned in classified reports prepared last year of the possibility of hijacking thousands of shipments of munitions everything from crates of hand grenades to shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles Concern over in-transit security of ammunition explosives and weapons especially small missiles and other portable munitions has risen with the tide of international terrorism according to documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times And the secret Army and Navy investigations that prompted the Pentagon plan portray a problem of alarming dimensions: "Commercial transportation of ammunition is extremely vulnera 346 Pages In 19 Soctioos EIGHTY-FINST YEAR 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