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A6 THE TULSA SENTINEL THURSDAY AUGUST 12 1993 Travel Tip Beauty in the badlands JENK JONES JR Cedar Canyon in Woodward County offers some of most picturesque views i 1 4 1 7 tl: I "MP ja Jk rT 7 ur 1 "Z' 'C3 i 4s jjjMjy f' Mio 3K' At Owl Cedar Canyon is one of Okla most picturesque as it descends northeast toward the Cimarron River in northern Woodward County A part of Alabaster Caverns State Park the canyon lies in rugged gypsum country Not particularly deep but quite at tractive with a creek lined with trees it invites exploration or long walks along its rim Just a few yards from where this picture was taken is the cave that gives the park its name and uniqueness it is be lid'ved to be the only alabaster cave open to visitors in the world It not only is interesting with its veins and boulders of alabaster stream carved pas sageway and underground wa ters but tours that last about 45 minutes provide a great way to cool off for a spell Alabaster Caverns combines with other northwestern Okla homa state parks at Boiling Springs Roman Nose Little Sa hara and Great Salt Plains for scenery that is radically differ ent from that of the east ern counties Unexpected Oklahoma Jesus of Prague line the sanctu the sacrament altar with relics on the levee Questions? 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Write Okla co 46th State Historical Research PO Box 3294 Edmond OK 73083 The Holy Cross estal clothing and crosses worn by the Infant Jesus of Prague are displayed in a cabinet nearby hang photos and paintings and reproductions of important documents One of the most remarkable items is a linden wood statue by ather Wifrid of the Benedictine Monastery in Beuron Germany Though both his hands had been aged nation by carved representations of One of the first victims' of the Mary and Joseph A free new officially atheist regime was the Catholic Church Land wasconfiscated property seized parishes disbanded and priests imprisoned and from the St tional shrine And in one of the most ironic twists find anywhere in Oklahoma not 50 yards down the highway and just off the grounds of this holy and venerable place is a metal sign greeting all in coming travelers with the words: Oklahoma Red Devil brochure at the entrance offers a self guided tour and is vital to understanding the full scope of the small but impressive church (A'eift shoo is also open Monday Wenceslaus Church of Prague a through riday from 9 am to 19 inch tall 350 vear old statue 3:30 pm) of the infant Jesus disappeared Every year thousands of people blown off during the war the 75 Catholic and Protestant alike year old priest strapped a mallet i i rl i oxl 4 1 10 Ulie di Hi C1I1V4 a tiuaci iu me There is more to see than the other to carve mis eiegani repre Mary ana oaoy Jesus crucifix and stations of the cross to the south facing Oklahoma 99 stands a granite monument in the shape of the world the twin Pragues of Oklahoma and Czechoslovakia are prominently marked with a marble statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague on top of it and a X7 111V11 Lvlll) JUv Cl VI 1 11 ululUv of the infant Jesus disappeared Stained glass windows depict notation proclaiming the One of the most venerated ob ing the history of the Infant church status as an interna lects of Catholicism was gone That same year however a ary and others are located in the replica of the lost statue was es baptismal chapel To the right is tablished in another St Wences the sacrament altar with relics laus Church in another place of the manger of Bethlehem and named Prague Pope Pius xii soon declared it an international shrine and since then devotions to the Infant Jesus of Prague have been offered at its new home just off Oklahoma 99 in the heart of the state The church and shrine at Prague are located in a tan brick complex on the south edge of town and are open to the public In 1949 Czechoslovakia was in come to visit and pray rill ri rvtl rt LUllIlUIl 1 lie HU1IU13 Ui Vtuuu A 11 Vi rn luvi vxz TT War II were only a handful of likeness of the child Jesus sentation of the Sacred Heart years past and the Communists which is centered behind a Outside to the north is a quiet were seizing control of the rav white marble altar and flanked meditation garden with a marble 1 aa: nrtd hnhv locnc 11 The infant Jesus of Prague CLARK DUE irst line of defense in flood of HARRY LEVINS St Louis Post Dispatch ST LOUIS Levees have been the front line of defense during the Great lood of 1993 But how are they built? What vulnerabilities do they have? What can be done to combat Warning possible well in advance of severe storms weaknesses? Although a levee straddles the topsoil a good levee never uses topsoil It lacks the necessary thickness and is much too loose Beneath the topsoil in most places rests a layer of clay: gooey thick stuff that resists BYRON SPICE Pittsburgh Post Gazette When severe storms brought tornadoes and flooding to cen tral Oklahoma on Day nature was duplicating a mathe matical storm raging hours earli behind the other was a day when the (computer) model did particular ly said Paul Janish a re search scientist at the National Weather Service Experimental orecast acility in Norman in the heart of Tornado Alley daily in an operational setting Someday perhaps all weather forecasters will use such tools Instead of weather radar pro viding perhaps 30 minutes of warning about a severe storm for the locality it is bearing down on storm scale computer models water Engineers call the thickest stuff or raw material levee builders want clay as plas tic as possible clay that holds water at bay To make it even tighter the builders compact it with rollers burrow a channel opened by tree ASSOCIATES Later that afternoon torna does struck Healdton and Ryan and were spotted west of Dun can while rains to the north con tributed to heavy flooding in Ok lahoma City much as the com itself Piping: This happens when In May the height of tornado season researchers in Okla homa pumped the latest weather conditions into the Pittsburgh computer at noon each day By 1 pm: they would get back a picture of the types of storms likely to develop in the late af ternoon and early evening had never seen output from this type of model Janish said Computer models designed to predict the develop ment of individual storms are not new but this was one of the first times they had been used Custom Patios and Wood Decks Grading Landscape Boulders Custom Design AcceralSecurify Lighting Lamm Maintenance Loader Work Sod Services Sprinkler Systems Snow Removal Stone or Tie Retaining Wall Construction Tree Trimming and Rmoval Year Round Weed eed Seed Program Waterfall Construction er inside a Pittsburgh computer Provided with information about temperature wind and humidity conditions the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Cray C90 labored dur ing the noon hour that Sunday' readings had suggested periorming up to 15 billion cal culations per second as it built a mathematical model of how the winds would come sweeping down the plain In the computer's world it was as if the weather over a 60 square mile section of southcen tral Oklahoma had been shifted to fast forward The computer model of roiling at mosphere suggested several "su intense thunder storms often accompanied by tornadoes would develop in the hours ahead and line up one REE ESTIMATES REERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Tulsa iener since 1969" They pile the clay in the shape of a dam Like a dam a levee is thicker at its base than at its top One reason is that water press es more heavily at the bottom against the levee wall A cubic foot of water weights 62 pounds 10 feet down those 62 pound cubes have stacked themselves into 620 pounds of pressure With levees engineers also add thickness at the bottom to frus trate underseepage water working its way under the levee The thicker the base the longer the seepage path A berm a sort of stairstep against the base lengthens the path even more Once the basic levee is shaped grass is planted The roots guard against rain erosion and mowing makes visual inspections easier Builders do not want trees or bushes on their levees The roots can carve open areas for water to move around in and their vegeta tion can hide holes from inspec tors Most of all builders want burrowing animals like ground hogs When waters rise a ground tunnel turns into a freeway for Hood water Levees get into four types of trouble rom the top down they are: Overtopping: This is just what it sounds like water run ning over the top of the levee It can quickly erode the landward 1660 East 71st Street Suite 2 I In the Bridgepointe Center at 71st and Trenton 494 0624 Offer Expires October 31 1993 andscape 742 0253 7071 121st Bixby Your family name is one of your most prized possessions Celebrate it with a beautiful amily Crest Ring featuring your crest and a REE name a $50 value Our library of over 450000 names is sure to contain yours the perfect gift for any family member! A VALUE $5Q might provide a highly accurate prediction hours in advance In Oklahoma that might mean the residents of Healdton would have had earlier warning of the tornadoes heading their way Or it might mean a town man ager could alert snow removal crews confident the predicted blizzard would not turn out to be an expensive false alarm Weather forecasts now are based largely on atmospheric in formation gathered by weather balloons which are released twice a day at sites about 280 miles apart Unless a storm happens to be forming where one of the bal loons is released that storm can slip between the sampling sites said Kelvin Droegemeier co founder of the University of Ok Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms A research team led by Droegemeier developed the Ad vanced Regional Prediction Sys tem computer program used for month long experiment Droegemeier envisions the program eventually being linked to a network of Doppler radars that could take readings of pre cipitation and wind direction and speed every quarter mile or so That might permit precise computer modeling of storms Droegemeier hopes to test such a system next year This May however the tests were based on weather conditions measured at slope and eat through the levee a single place each day itself ine preaicnons spewea out ot the Pittsburgh center thus were water finds its way into an animal not able to pinpoint the storms burrow a channel opened by tree Tulsa's ine Jewelry and Art Mart When the rains come or don't come When weeds grow and the grass won't When the snow blows Think AG Landscape OUR SERVICES INCLUDE: TWA 1 aHG VO roots or some other opening The water quickly widens the burrow thus weakening the levee per haps to the point of collapse Saturation: The water satu rates the clay interior of the levee weakening it to the point where like a sand castle in the rain the levee can no longer cany its own weight Underseepage: This is when pressure pushes the water into the sand layer under the levee If it can punch out through the ground the flowing water will carve small caves (called in the sand layer Sooner or later the weight of the levee will col lapse into the void Engineers have different tac tics to fight each A The approach to overtopping is simple: build higher with rocks sandbags or whatever Piping is tough In dry times the US Army Corps of Engineers inspects often to prevent piping so that come a flood nobody will have to fix it In high water pip ing sometimes gives itself away with a whirlpool on the surface Rock can be poured there to plug the entrance Saturation reveals itself with surface water and concave de pressions on the land ward slope The countering tactic calls for dumping rocks against the base of the depressions so the weight will stop the slippage Underseepage is the most com mon enemy this year Built in wells can ease some of the pressure When pressure bursts out on its own in crews can ring the area with a small circular levee of sandbags They keep stacking the sandbags until the water runs out of pressure to push itself higher GLENN OLTMAN Attorney Counselor At Law The Law Center Telephone 1809 East 15th Street Office: (918)749 2222 Tulsa Oklahoma Residence: (918) 585 2222 CRIMINAL AUTO ACCIDENTS DIVORCE INSURANCE DISPUTES purs Week of August 3 9 83 OGANS Lionell 48 WILLIAMS Lloyd Dwayne 31 HICKS Tonya Renee 21 GRUWELL Dean A 33 STEPHENS Steve Ray 21 ARE Wayne Ernest 35 84 HORNER Richard Lee 34 STEAVENSON Joe Kevin 27 CHAPUT Michael 33 SEL1GE Donald Stephenson 23 WILLIAMS John Henry 44 HEDGES Steven Ray 30 STANDINGSOLDIER Mary Beth 47 BALL Raymond Louis 20 CAGLE red Mark 43 ROBERTS Allen 37 HILL Richard 23 85 EWTON Phillip Ray 35 WILSON Ashly Lara Shackell 24 GOSE Danny 59 KENDALL Terry Ellis 34 HAWORTH Michael Adrian 30 JACKSON Ronnie Lee 32 COLBERT Donald Lee Jr Barnes 26 SULLIVAN Catherine 34 COMBS rankie Laverne 51 MARKHAM Terry Lamar Randall 22 86 ARNOLD Kendell Lee 26 BOWERS Abbie Dale 52 OSTRANDER Thomas Eugene 35 DECKARD Leonard Wayne 58 PRZYBYLAK Peter IL 32 SYNAR Scott Alan 31 TALBERT Donnie Ray 30 EDWARDS Melissa Anne 24 MCKINNEY Carol Ann 28 DUI Driving under the influence of alcohol or rugs DUI arrest information obtained from records division of the Tulsa Police Department ARMSTRONG Johnny Carrell 49 SMITH Charles Kimble Edward 42 GIPSON Pete Edward 30 HILL CW 37 87 MARSHALL Thomas Martin Jr21 SNYDER Gary Dewayne 36 BENSON Bunny Lea 43 BLAIR Monica Gail 26 BEAR Teddy Gerald 25 SMITH Harold Tyrone 23 LATIMER rederick Brian 22 COOKE John Allen 26 BRADLEY Tija 41 ROSE Mark Leon 26 CAROTHERS Collen Mary 23 KAISER Robert Donovan 20 LYPTER David Craig 37 SAMPSPON Robert Benjamin 35 MURPHY Haskell Jr 28 88 HEMMERT Lewis 49 JONES Thomas Roland 37 MASON Cecil Lee Jr21 COZART Keith Edward 20 JACOBS Pamela Jean 38 MORGAN Roy Marvin Jr 38 QUABNER Lawrence Wayne 26 EDWARDS Alonzo Carnell 49 SANTANA Hugo Zuniga 26 SCHRIMSKER John Russell 26 PLUM Mitchell 30 89 THOMAS John Wesley 46 MOLES Howard Lee 26 SADAVANDI Ahmad 43 WHITE Grayson Lee Jr 42 THOMAS John Wesley 46 DORMAN Tommy Allan McAllister 34 LOTUS Melanie Holbrook 25.