Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 10

ISA Abilene Reporter-Newa Mon Eve June 2 1966 9 Storms kill 5 in Texas ve At least five people died and a teen-ager is still missing today after another wave of weekend thunderstorms washed across Texas flooding scores of creeks roads and rivers as it pounded the state Workers were to begin searching anew a dam in San Antonio's The unidentified woman covered Sunday and an autopsy was to be performed today authorities said The National Weather Service posted tornado warnings in parts of West Texas the Dallas-Fort Worth area where flash flood warnings were issued for not only Dallas and Tarrant counties but also several adjacent counties The intermittent rains pushed the Trinity River nearly six feet above the 30-foot flood stage but apparently caused no damage be- cause excess water spilled into levees according to Mike Thompson a civilian hydrologist with the US Army Corps of Engineers ngineers including Big Spring Ackerly and Seminole but authorities there said no funnels appeared to have touched down City streets from Dallas to San Antonio and El Paso were flooded by weekend storms that dumped up to 6 inches in some areas and stranded several motorists but no major damage or other injuries were reported The nasty weather also ruined 25 attempts Saturday and Sunday to hoist the Goddess of Liberty statue atop the state Capitol and officials said they're post- this morning for a 13-year-old boy who was swept away Sunday afternoon in Duncanville's Ten Mile Creek on the southwest edge of Dallas police Sgt Dan Robertson lie said the boy and a 16-year-old companion were playing in the creek about 6 pm when it was flooded to a depth of up to 6 feet The 16-year-old managed to escape but a witness saw the other boy washed away The weather that prompted flash flood watches over much of the state was also blamed for four traffic fatalities Saturday in Denton Collin and Dallas counties and the death of a woman who was swept over Three people die cally injured in Collin County Saturday when a car crossed the center line of State Highway 380 during torrential rains struck an oncoming car and then spun into a pickup truck said Justice of the Peace Ken Bangs Dead in that 6:15 pm accident were Da- i that 6:15 pm poning the project indefinitely (story "on -vid Alan Kuykendall 22 and Jill John' 5A) son 17 both of Greenville: and 12-year-old of Sunday's heaviest rains were in Stephen Williams of McKinney have never met her but they all know he said Becky would come home work on her science fair project then Mrs Goa Gossard lawsuit ordered retried on appeal particulars charged by including failing to mall at night leasing By ROY A JONES II Senior Staff Writer A 104th District Court's 1984 Standly open space to Reading -Continued from Pg 1A was bored" Becky said But luckily teachers in her school in Simi Valley Calif found a way to enrich kindergarten experience A sixth-gnule teacher tutored her in first-grade subjects during re- Ken Elliwortti Reporter-Newi int against Westgate Mall been reversed and remanded for a new trial by the llth Court of Appeals at Eastland Judge Billy John Edwards had ruled that First Union Management Inc doing business as Westgate Mall is due none of the back rent it sought from Billy Standly doing business as Clothiers because the tenant was "constructively evicted" from the mall through breach of the original lease Attorney Dave Haigler appealed cl turning the jury verdict ed Wi meant Standly owed Westgate PICKET LINE: Communications worker TL Pool walks a picket line On 4th St following a nationwide walkout early Sunday against American Telephone and Telegraph Pool an installer in the technology division is a 82-year employee the a nightclub and saloon and taking an unreasonable length of time to repair fire damages in 1982 Band on the jury finding that the mall had evicted former partner GA Bandy Judge Edwards concluded that the landlord could not collect rent from the evicted tenant and denied FUMI the 143460 which the jury awarded for breach of the lease agreement court said however that it would not tell whether there was a constructive eviction In an opinion by Justice Raleigh Brown of Abilene the court said the trial court erred in failing to at least award West-gate the amount of rent which had accrued prior to the date of the alleged constructive eviction Since those damages cannot be measured without a finding of when the constructive eviction occurred the entire case was remanded for retrial she's Mrs Gossard said Becky never got into serious trouble at school but she recalls a brief fight with a Lincoln student who thought she was trying to knock his beret off slapped me and I got she said So Becky nit back Result: Three days detention for her in-school suspension for him As Becky tends not to stick up for herself her mother was proud of her while agreeing with tiie penalty Mrs Gossard said don't usually hit Becky said not violent" just always been a very good said her mother very amiable She always cares about pleasing people" Becky plans to enroll at Tu-lane University then attend medical school to become a pediatric surgeon No one doubts that achieve her career goal Her mother is counting on it so Becky can pay her back all her expenses to attend an expensive university like Tulane Becky said Expensive that is before you take into account all the scholarship money waiting for bright students like Becky 343450 in back rent and more than 816000 in attorney's foes In an 11-1 verdict the jury ruled FUMI breached its lease with by failing to keep the mall occupied and by changing managers so often then was no consistency between the merchants and the various man- Strike Continued from Page 1A see a lonely guy walking up and down the sidewalks" he said in describing what Abilene residents will see of the strike spread pretty But telephone-users trying to place person-to-person collect third-number-billing or credit card long-distance calls will run School officials offered to let Becky skip first made but her mother hear of it Not ready socially she ruled Becky spent the first three of her elementary school years in Simi Valley and the last three in Abilene nearly 2V4 at Bonham Her seventh-grade year at Lincoln is to be her last in Abilene as her stepfather and mother left Abilene in February to pursue jobs in the Fort Worth area The Siokes left Becky with good friends and next-door neighbors John and Shirley Gossard to finish the school year Becky will attend Meadow-brook Junior High in Fort Worth next year Both Gossards teach at Hawley although Mrs Gossard finished the school year on leave to have a baby Although they see Becky as a typical youth in many ways the Gossards marvel at Becky as a student Gossard says he Becky out as a shining example to his junior high students all know Becky They nut St telephone company offices from 7 am to 6 pm during the strike Reyes said the workers are only trying to keep what they have gained over the years he said following in the footsteps of other unionized businesses the past few years is trying to back" benefits from workers to cut expenses He said it is hard to estimate how long the strike will take before it is resolved but noted the bargaining continues His experience tells him most of the strikes last more than a few weeks But he said it settled by this weekend we could be out for quite awhile" Jurors also ruled the mall did not breach the lease in 12 other 417 LaSalle 100 Cypress 030 032 270 200 into some deli id rill picket town Post Oak Road and Wal- Where it rained 1 Hawley Merkel 070 020 320 440 Weather Albany Baird Cisco Eastland Moran Ranger Throckmorton 148 110 070 075 040 030 018 252 130 180 L35 270 080 049 Continued from Pags 1A 44 weather Today weather forecasters -in Abilene declared a flash flood watch in effect for the Big Country along a line to the south of Merkel to Abilene to Baird TTiia includes Taylor Callahan Coleman and Brown counties The ground across the watch area is saturated so forecasters said additional heavy rain will produce rapid runoff and the threat of flash flooding Tuesday pop music will be broadcast tween 9 am and 6 pm with classical heard from 6:30 pm to midnight Other programs will include Things Considered" a 90-minute news program from 6 to 6:30 pm daily nod Morning news from 6 to 9 each morning Weekend features will include American Public "A Prairie Home from 6 to 7 pm each Saturday The music and comedy program starring best-selling author Garrison Keillor has attracted a lot of attention locally said Tim Graham operations director At this ceremony special recognition was given to Earline Perry wife of the late Lowell Perry who first developed ACU's radio program KACU Continued from Page 1A for their lives beyond this Teague said in a ceremony before the sign-on KACU also will serve as a learning tool for broadcast students at ACU Hardin-Simmona University and McMurry College said Larry Bradshaw ACU's director of broadcasting But the station represents a major new direction for the radio program KACU can be heard throughout much of the Big Country and will in words a kind of window 6n the world for much of West Classical music was to be played this afternoon Beginning Four-Day Total 229 705 sheimer said the city's normal daily water usage in summer is 33 to 36 millions gallons compared to the 13 to 16 millions gallons during the past few days -of cooler rainy ABILENE Airport Total for Year Normal (Year) 1334 Lfllius 330 271 264 Carbon Comanche Dublin Gorman 230 140 140 080 001 871 050 280 Tht Forecast for 8 pm EDT Tue June 3 East Abilene Regional Forecast WEST TEXAS Mostly oloudy areawtde becoming partly cloudy fkr west on Tueaday Scattered to numerous thunderstorms through Tuesday a few possibly severe and aome pro' heavy rainfall south and possibly severe and aome producing i heavy rainfall south and aoutnc Continued from Page 1A as early as May 11 East was convicted of the Nov 23 1981 murder of Mias Sears at her home 1609 Say lee dence showed East is one of two Taylor County men on Clifton Charles Russell now 23 received a stay from his scheduled July 10 1984 execution and still has an appeal pending He was convicted here in 1980 of the 1979 murder of Hubert Otha Tobey an Abilene Federal Aviation Administration air controller during an abduction-robbery No convict from Tajrlor County has been executed since 1942 when Texas used the electric chair Executions now are done by lethal injection Flash flood watch in effect si and thunderstorms likely cally tied the elderly woman to a elderly won 70 show-Lo- rain possible High wind Bain chance and Tuesday of 'thunderstorms Low mid 80s High Tuesday low 80s Light wind Rain chance 40 percent 50 percent Tuesday An accomplice testified East chair hit and kicked her and poked her with a knife to make her tell where she kept her valuables Then she wee stabbed in the neck and locked in a closet where she bled to death evi High Tmpraturts tonight Lows 55 mountains 57 far west and 56 north to 54 Concho Valley Highs 75 north and 82 Concho Valley to 86 far west lower 90a Big Bend NORTH TEXAS Scattered show-era and thunderstorms continuing through Tuesday Highs will range from upper 70s to lower 80s Lows tonight generally In 80s ARKANSAS Mostly doudy tonight Partly doudy sfaewharo scattered thundershowers statewide Partly doudy and warm with scattered thundershowers Tuesday Lows tonight In 80s Highs Tuesday In Me LOUISIANA Partly doudy with widely scattered mainly daytime thunderstorms through Tuesday Highs near 90 Lows tonight about 70 NEW MEXICO Moody doudy asst and partly doudy west tonight and Tuesday with widely scattered ahowan and thundershowers Lows tonight upper 30s and 40a mountains with 50s alae- Temperatures FRONTS: Warm -w CokJ-ww Occluded -w-w Stationary Gromyko calls stance on SALT II a MoaSwam lunSaye-m 74 71 Showarg Rain Flurries Snow NaSonai WeaVier Service NOAA Deo of Commerce 77 74 1:04 1:01 5:09 4:00 1:00 4:00 7:01 0:00 0:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 47 44 47 47 49 73 Itj Texas 71 71 70 a 11 am: 00 and jdoy: 4:13 wn-: 4:0 Ifc a data: 745 In raMafl: 171 feu High and law tar 44 hours lading 4a year: 94 and 41 night: aromaOar at 11 am: 5994 few Humidity at 11 am: 70 pet (omodoh iunmt loot night: Uttle warmer Tuesday with hlgha In 00s to lower 70s mountains with 70s and 90s remainder of stats OKLAHOMA Scattered showers and thunderstorms continuing through Tueaday Soma locally heavy rains possible tonight Low tonight upper 50s Panhandle to near 70 east High Tuesday upper 70s to mid 80s Rational MOSCOW (AP) Soviet President Andrei Gromyko was quoted today as saying President Reagan's announcement that the United States may exceed arms limits agreed to by the superpowers is a not supported by the American people "The SALT II treaty has been dealt blow after blow by the United States and the latest blow is an explosive charge under British Labor deputy Martin Flannery quoted Gromyko as telling visiting British lawmakers during a 214-hour meeting in the Kremlin Reagan said Tuesday ha would not feel bound by Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty limitations on strategic nuclear weapons unless the Soviets show willingness to correct what Washington contends are violations of the 1979 accord SALT II was hot ratified by the US Senate The Soviet Union responded Saturday by denying any violation and said ft would break with the accord if the Americana do so Secretary of State George Shultz said Sunday on the that the Soviets have violated the treaty by encoding messages from missiles on test flights and by deploying about 70 SS-25a a new missile barred by the pact There was no Soviet report on meeting the do not believe the American people want to bury this treaty" the former Soviet foreign minister was quoted as saying make a distinction between the American people and the politicians" Members of the British delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minuter Lord Whitelaw told a news conference 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