The Forecast for 8 am. EDT, Oct. 6 Low Temperatures 70 70 70 FRONTS: Warm. Cold. Showers Rain Flurries Snow Occluded.
Stationary National Weather Sernce NOAA US Dept of Commerce Extended forecasts Sunday-Tuesday North Texas- Chance of showers Sunday and, Sunday night northeast. Little or no rain elsewhere Monday through Tuesday. Lows upper 50s to middle 60s. Highs lower to middle 80s. West Texas Mostly fair.
A little cooler central and southeast Sunday. Panhandle lower 70s. Lows upper 40s. South Plains highs mid70s. Lows near 50.
Permian Basin and far west highs near 80. Lows lower 50s. Concho Valley highs lower 80s. Lows mid-505. Big Bend highs mid-70s mountains to near 90 along the Rio Grande.
Lows mid-40s mountains to near 60along the river. South Texas Partly cloudy. A chance of thundershowers Southeast Texas Monday. Warm Sunday through Monday. Not quite as warm Tuesday.
Lows Sunday and Monday 60s north to low 70s south. Lows Tuesday upper 50s and near 60 north to upper 60s south. Highs Sunday and Monday upper 80s north to low 90s south and 80s Tuesday. Del Rio El Paso Fort Worth Galveston Hondo Houston Junction Kingsville Laredo 70 Longview Lubbock Lufkin Maria temperatures 0.00 McAllen 85 0.04 0.06 Midland-Odessa 59 78 0.43 0.09 Palacios 66. 80 0.00 0.00 Presidio 59 0.00 81 0.00 San Angelo 63 0.49 0.00 San Antonio 80 73 0.00 Shreveport, La.
53 82 0.00 65 85 88 0.00 0.00 Stephenville 63 81 72 0.00 0.27. Texarkana 59 82 0.00 Victoria 65 84 0.03 0.32 Waco 82 0.00 81 0.00 0.00 Wink Wichita Falls 58 76 74. 0.57 0.16 Duluth 59 cdy OklahomaCity cir EIPaso 52 .05 cir Omaha Fairbanks cdy Philadelphia Evansville rn Orlando 28 coy Fargo coy Phoenix .23 Flagstaff cir Pittsburgh GrandRapids coy Portland, Me. cir GreatFalls cir Portland. Or.
.13 Providence cir Hartford cir Raleigh Helena cir Rapidity Honolulu cir Reno cdy Houston Indianapolis 65 cdy rn Richmond Sacramento 59 cdy Jackson, Ms. cdy StLouis 55 coy Jacksonville cdy StPete- Tampa 82 cdy Juneau 35 .01 rn SaltLakeCity cir KansasCity cdy SanAntonio cdy LasVegas cir SanDiego cdy LittleRock rn SanFrancisco LosAngeles cir cdy Louisville cdy SiSteMarie .15 cdy Lubbock .32 cdy Seattle 10 coy Memphis cdy Shreveport cdy MiamiBeach 80 coy SiouxFalis cdy Midind-Odessa .43 cir Spokane cir Milwaukee en Syracuse cir Mols-St Paul rn Topeka cdy Nashville cdy Tucson .02 cir NewOrleans cdy Tulsa cir New York cir Washington cdy Norfolk, Va. Wichita .02 coy NorthPlatte 53 .50 cdy Barre cir Helsinki 50 cdy Paris 43 cdy HongKong 63 cdy Peking cir Jerusalem cir Rio Jo'burg 55 cir Rome rn Kiev 50 cdy SanJuan 57 Lima 59 cdy Santiago 43 cdy Lisbon 52 en SaoPaulo 57 cdy London 48 cir Seoul 46 cir Madrid 46 rn Singapore 75 coy Manila 72 cir Stockholm 57 rn MexicoCity 55 cdy Sydney 61 cir Montreal 36 cdy Taipei 73 Moscow 41 cir TelAviv 72 cir Nassau 75 cdy Tokyo 66 cdy NewDelhi 68 64 cir Toronto cir Oslo Nicosia 46 cdy cir Vienna Vancouver 61 46 rn FORECAST: Mostly cloudy this afternoon with 30 percent chance of thundershowers, high near 80 and south wind 15-25 mph wind advisories on area lakes. Decreasing cloudiness tonight with low in mid-60s and south wind about 10 mph. Partly cloudy Saturday with 30 percent chance of thundershowers, high in lower 80s and south wind around.
10 mph. Rainfall Thursday 0.09 inch; rainfall to date 18.42; normal through October, 26.03; amount recorded last year through Oct. 5, 23.98. Sun sets 7:08 p.m. today, rises 7:26 a.m.
Saturday. High temperature Thursday 80, low 65. High humidity Thursday 90, low 47. Record high temperature for this date, 97 in 1937; record low, 44 in 1902; normal high 84; normal low 61. 24-hour National Weather Service radio 162.55 mHz.
Texas temperatures Lo Hi Pon Abilene 76 0.01 Alice 65 0.00 Alpine 51 73 0.08 Amarillo 0.96 Austin 0.00 Bumont-Pt. Arthur 58 79 0.00 Beeville 65 88 0.00 Brownsville 87 0.00 Bryan- College Sta 81 0.00 Childress 81 0.04 Corpus Christi 86 0.00 Dalhart 53 68 0.82 Dallas 80 0.02 United States and vicinity Pre Otik Albany 8 .23 cir Albuquerque .07 cdy .96 cdy Anchorage coy Asheville 38 cdy Atlanta coy AtlanticCity cir Austin coy Baltimore cdy Billings cir Birmingham cdy Bismarck cdy Boise cir Boston cir Brownsville Buffalo Burlington, Vt. .05 Casper, .03 W. V. Chevenne .20 Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland 38 Columbus.
Oh. 68 Dallas- .09 Dayton Denver 1.14 DesMoines .88 Detroit World temperatures Hi Amsterdam 59 Athens 86 Bangkok 91 Barbados 88 Beirut Belgra Berlin Bogota Brussels B'Aires Cairo Calgary Caracas Copenhagen Dublin Frankfurt Geneva Havana 83 Jury to hear lawyers in burning of man ABILENE (AP) Attorneys are scheduled to give final arguments today in the murder trial of a 39- year-old homemaker who testified she and her daughter set her husband on fire while he slept because he constantly abused his family. Cheryl Kay Oates and her daughter, Robin Renee Elliott, 18, testified thy they could not recall who first suggested throwing gasoline on Nick Eugene Oates while he slept on a waterbed and set him ablaze in March. Defense attorneys rested their case late Thursday. State District Judge Billy John Edwards set final arguments for 9:30 a.m.
today. Mother and daughter agreed in testimony that burning the construction foreman "seemed to be the only way out" of years of abuse. Both women are accused of killing Oates, who died of a heart attack in April from the sustained burns. Elliott, an honors student, unemotionally demonstrated for jurors how she threw "about a quart" of gasoline on the 38-year-old Oates as he lay, "passed out," on the waterbed. She earlier sobbed as she described how her stepfather beat her, Oates, five other children and killed family pets.
Elliott said officials withdrew a scholarship she had earned to the Air Force Academy after she was charged in connection with her stepfather's murder. "You threw all that away when you did this, didn't you?" asked Criminal District Attorney Jorge Solis. "Yes, sir, I did," she said. Cheryl Oates and Elliott denied Solis' claim that the homemaker "directed" the 18-year-old and her 14 -old brother to burn Oates. "I didn't say they should," Oates said.
"I said something like, 'I wonder if we could knock him out and get That brought on the discussion, 'What if it didn't knock Could we hit him hard PUC asked to rule on plant AUSTINIAP)- The Public Utility Commission has been asked to overrule an examiner's recommendation that a 1982 permit to Houston Lighting Power Co. for construction fo a lignite-powered plant near Malakoff be revoked. Sen. Chet Edwards, D-Duncanville, and Rep. Tom Waldrop, D-Corsicana, filed the request with the PUCT Thursday after holding a joint news conference at the Capitol.
PUC examiner Ramon Dasch recommended the permit be canceled because conditions have changed in the past two years and no longer needs the plant for its generating needs. "According to him (Dasch), this permit is like Confederate money it might look good in a picture 1P frame, but it's worthless." Edwards said. The final decision on the case will be up to the PUC. Edwards said more than $100 milthe plant's construction. lion has been spent in expectation of "To make sure the plant could be finished on time and hundreds of new employees would have needed services, a new medical clinic and shopping center have been planned and condominiums and apartments have been built," Edwards said.
"All' this based on citizens' good faith in the permit granted by the PUC." He said revoking the permit would destroy a potential $26 million annual payroll and nullify the employment of 485 people in the lignite mine plus at least 600 other workers in the power plant. FRIDAY EVENING, Recess taught me a lesson comments of a Dallas the value of recess valid today, they little amusing. She the free playtime stress of structured opportunity to act any internal con- Jimmie Cox Jimmie Cox to have occurred that these two stress and acting -could be conwere in my spoke out might be inadenew emphasis on grammar school first six grades rebut relief of fainthearted anstark continuation of class, you had basic and arithmetic. At to basic mayhem, malevolence. School, which the first seven volcano of interinfested with the of tenant farmers Victims of the they were all hunsmelly.
the recess bell, the Internal conflicts in rhetoric that newsprint. They with knuckles, and any loose obto be wielded as a Report Play starts in Arlington While the psychologist on probably are struck me as a said children need to relieve the learning: "It's an out or express ficts." It doesn't seem to the psychologist things relief of out internal conflict trary. They certainly childhood experience. The psychologist cern that recess quate under the the basics. When I attended (back before the were demoted to cess was anything stress.
The frail and ticipated it with It was, in fact, the basics. In reading, writing recess you moved manslaughter and Lorena Grammar at that time included grades, was a latent nal conflicts. It was surly offspring and sharecroppers. Great Depression, gry, angry and At the sound of volcano erupted. were expressed would ignite this were acted out fingernails, teeth ject not too heavy bludgeon.
Metro The Creative Arts Theater School, 1100 W. Randol Mill, Arling. ton, will open its 1984-1985 season with the play The Golden, Grotto. The first performance 7:30 p.m. today.
All tickets are $3 at the door. Season tickets and group rates are also available. For reservations or information on other performances, call 265-8512 or 274-6047. Fitness center opening The Wholistic Fitness Center, 1514 E. Abram Arlington, will celebrate its opening with a two-day open house from 10 a.m.
to 8 p.m. Saturday. The open house will include continuous demonstrations and lectures as well as wholistic fitness evaluations. All demonstrations and lectures will be free to the public. Backyard sanctuaries Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge will conduct a "backyard sanctuary" seminar at 2 p.m.
Saturday and at the Hardwicke Interpretive Center. Tom Wood will discuss bird feeders, bird seed, water and shelter recommendations. The public is welcome. Take Highway 199 northwest, turn right exactly two miles from the Lake Worth bridge and follow the signs. English history group The Southwest Chapter of the Richard Ill Society will meet at 2 p.m.
Saturday at 6029 Wheaton All seven grades recessed together. The older kids bullied the younger ones unmercilessly. Anyone who didn't have an older brother or friend to stand up for him endured unspeakable torment. Of course, "play" was supervised. But many of the boys fifth grade up were like 11 going on 22.
They had ways of getting supervisors even adult male ones to look the other way. You could choose any game you wanted to play softball, football (tackle without pads) or marbles. You just had to keep in mind that the game was the only an organized way of getting the gangfight going as quickly as possible. Recess was not to be wasted on anything constructive. Rules reserved playground equipment for the younger kids.
But gangfight loosers and rejects were always drifting into the forbidden zones. Thus it was that I wound upon the other end of a seesaw from a big boy whose last name, appropriately, was Moon. He promptly sent me into orbit. Like other small kids, I survived the fifth grade largely by learningto freeze in doorways and behind bushes and otherwise blend into the scenery. But even the bell didn't save you.
Re- entering the building, you got gouged, knuckled, ear-twisted and misunderstood until you got to your room. Recess might relieve stress nowadays. Back then, it just got you ready for World War II. Jimmie Cox is a free-lance columnist and former staff writer. Drive.
Anyone interested in English medieval history is welcome. For more information, call Mary Miller at 294-1805 or Roxane Murph at 923- 5056. Bands compete at UTA Sixteen Metroplex high school drum lines will compete in the Marching Percussion Festival Saturday at the University of Texas at Arlington. The UTA drum line also will perform in concert at 4:30 p.m. The day's events are open to the public.
For information, call 273-3471. SMU Law School groups Members of Southern Methodist University's Black-American Law Students Association and HispanicAmerican Law Students Association will host a special Day in the SMU School of Law beginning at 9 a.m. and running to 6 p.m. Saturday in Florence Hall in the Law School Quadrangle at SMU. The purpose of the program will be to inform members of minority communities about possibilities and opportunities to attend law school and advantages of a career in law.
For more information, contact Sherilyn Williams at 363-4901. Metro Report, published weekdays in the evening Star Telegram, is a community bulletin board. Only admission-free or low-cost events that are open to the public and sponsored by non-profit organizations will be published. Items should be submitted in writing three days in advance to: Metro Re: port, Star-Telegram City Desk, P.O. Box 1870.
Fort Worth 76101. Grand jurors still hearing police sex assault evidence By PAUL CLOLERY Star-Telegram Writer A Tarrant County grand jury was expected to continue hearing evidence today about a sexual assault in which a male Fort Worth police lieutenant and a female police department employee are accused of abusing a 5-year-old girl. Sources said the lieutenant and the civilian employee are under investigation for reportedly fondling and engaging in oral sex with the child. The Fort Worth Police Department investigated the case and has declined comment. Assistant District Attorney Larry Moore said grand jurors heard testimony Thursday and would continue to examine evidence today.
He said he did not expect the grand jury to take any action until the middle of next week. Police sources told the Star-Telegram that the investigation began after the child was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital for a urinary problem and JPS officials contacted the Texas Department of Human Resources. Police sources close to the investigation said a caseworker from the Department of Human Resources videotaped an interview with the girl in which she described being sexually assaulted on several occasions. The man and woman have been placed on detached duty. Police employees who are on detached duty receive full pay but do not work unless they are called in, city spokesman Pat Svacina said.
Prosecutors are seeking an aggravated sexual assault indictment against the pair. Aggravated sexual assault is a first degree felony pun ishable upon conviction with five to 99 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Charges expected in thrift robbery A man who police said was arrested with marked money from a savings institution robbery was expected to be charged today with aggravated robbery, Fort Worth police said. Police tactical division officers surrounded a South Side house and arrested the man, who is suspected of two recent Fort Worth financial institution robberies, police spokesman Doug Clarke said. The man is suspected in the Sept.
25 robbery at Gibraltar Savings and OCTOBER 5, 1984 Beath Notices BANKS BEN BANKS, 83, Springtown, passed away Thursday. Retired from ranchIng and Insurance business. Graduate of Texas Captain In Alr Force, Wwl. Survivors: Wife, Jerry Banks; brother, J. B.
Banks Weatherford. Services 11 a.m. Saturday White's Springtown Chapel. Rev. Rang Morgan officiating.
Interment Springtown Cemetery. Arrangements White's Funeral Home, Springtown. 523-7211 COXSEY RUBY COXSEY, 76, 611 Bluebonnet Drive, Hurst, passed daway Wednesday. Survivors: Son, BIll Duckworth; brothers, Warren Murray, George Murray; sister, Marguerite Sizer; three grandchildren; one great grandson. Services 11:30 a.m.
Friday, Lucas Hurst Chapel, Rev. John Socha officiating. Graveside services 2p.m. Saturday, Pickens Cemetery, Green Arkansas. Arrangements Lucas Funeral Home, 1321 Precinct Line Rd.
Hurst, 284-7271 FORT WORTH Death Notices BUFFINGTON MAUDE SAMATHA BUFFINGTON, 92, Route 1 Box 64A, Keller, passed away Thursday. Survivors: Sons, Harold Buffington, Darrell Buffington; daughters, Mrs. Opal White, Mrs. Oma Tillery, Mrs. Billie Jean Farmer; 14 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren.
Services pending. Arrangements Lucas Funeral Home, 1321 Precinct Line Rd. Hurst. 284-7271 COULSON SHARON MARIE COULSON, 25, 5909 Lolagray, Watauga, passed away Wednesday. Survivors: Husband, Ray Bennett Coulson daughters, Kellie Marie Coulson, Dristie Lane Coulson; parents, Raymond and Zona Delores Stewart; brothers, Raymond Tyler Stewart, Richard Allen Stewart; sister, Stacey Renee Stewart.
Services 2 p.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church of Watauga, Rev. Charles McLaughlin officiating. interment Bluebonnet HIlls Memorial Park, Colleyville. Arrangements Lucas neral Home, 1321 Precinct Line Rd.
Hurst, 284-7271 STAR- TELEGRAM 3C Death Notices COX JOSEPHINE KEITH COX, 554 South Summit, passed away Wednesday. Survivors: Brother, vin Kelth, Fort Worth; ters, Mrs. D.W. Middlebrooks, Arlington, Mrs. C.D.
McFarland, Fort Worth; nieces, Camille Keith, Carmen Tidwell, Jo Ann Ramsey, allof Dallas; nephews, Sam Middlebrooks, West Germany, Weldon Middlebrooks, James E. brooks, both of Arlington, Marvin Kelth Fort Worth; numerous greatnieces and nephews. Memorial service 10 a.m. Saturday, Greenwood Mausoleum. Family requests contributions to favorite charity.
Arrangements Greenwood, 3100 White Settlement Rd. at Iniversity Dr. 336-0584 DAVIS INEZ T. DAVIS, passed away Thursday. rangements to be announced by Greenwood, 3100 White Settlement at University Dr.
336-0584 MHMR critics call official's quitting a loss for retarded By DAN MALONE Star-Telegram Writer cdy cir cir cir cdy cdy cdy cir cdy cdv cdy coy cir cdv cdy cdy coy cdy Lo Wthr 54 cir 64 cir 81 rn' 77 cir' 72 cdy 59 cir 50 cdy 46 cir 50 cir 68 cir 41 cdy 66 cir 54 cdy 41 cdy 48 cdy 45 rn 73 cdv The resignation of the state's top administrator of programs for the mentally retarded is being lamented by some of the most persistent critics of the problem-plagued Texas Department of Mental Mental Retardation. Ed Skarnulis, deputy commissioner of mental retardation service, resigned effective Dec. 31 after telling associates he felt unable to. bring about changes in the department. Skarnulis is known as an advocate of placing mentally retarded persons in a setting less restrictive than institutions, such as group homes.
Carmen Quesada, director of the Association for Retarded Citizens, Texas, Thursday termed Skarnulis' decision "a tragedy." She described him as a "nationally renowned expert in the field of mental retardation." "I think this is a tremendous blow for the care of persons who are mentally retarded," Quesada said. "We will be hard-pressed to get somebody of Dr. Skarnulis' stature." David Ferleger, a Philadelphia attorney involved in several lawsuits against the department, said Skarnulis is "one of the most able and committed" mental retardation services administrators in the country. One of Skarnulis' associates said the 44-year-old administrator, who had held the job as deputy commissioner for about two years, had considered resigning for several weeks. "He's made the decision not to resign in the past month, always thinking that maybe he could prevent some negative consequences by staying," said one associate, who asked not to be identified.
"Increasingly, he was left out of the decision making and left without authority to take any action." Another associate, who also asked not to be identified, said Skarnulis was "dissatisfied because he felt he was unable to achieve from his position any long-term (or) any shortterm changes in the department." Skarnulis, who was in West Texas to speak to the Volunteer Services Council of the San Angelo State School, would not discuss his reasons resigning. He said he had accomplished some of his goals since joining the department early last year. "If I was to say that I was totally satisfied, that would be inaccurate," Skarnulis said. "But if I said I hadn't done anything, that would be inaccurate, too." R. co*ke Mills, the Waco attorney who is chairman of the state MHMR board, said he learned of Skarnulis' resignation Wednesday.
"I think Dr. Skarnulis is a very smart, capable man, and I think he's dedicated to the care of the mentally Obituaries retarded Mills said. "I don't think his departure will adversely affect the standards of care in this state." Superintendents of the 13 state schools mentally retarded report to five regional assistants, who report to Skarnulis. Skarnulis reports to MHMR Commissioner Gary Miller. Miller was unavailable for comment.
In a matter officials said is not related to Skarnulis' resignation, Miller fired John Gladden, the superintendent of the Lubbock State School. Gladden, contacted at this home Thursday, declined to comment on his termination. The Lubbock facility, home to more than 500 mentally retarded persons, had been cited by the Texas Department of Health for serious health care deficiencies. State schools in Fort Worth, Denton and Austin were strongly criticized this week by U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice of Tyler, who said client abuse rates were higher this year than "they've ever been." Justice's comments were included in a 20-page order authorizing an increase in fees for a Florida consultant overseeing reforms mandated by the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the state schools.
That lawsuit, filed in early 1974, challenged conditions in state schools and sought to close the institutions and move mentally retarded persons into group homes and community centers. It was settled out of court last year, when the state agreed to improve conditions at the schools and deinstitutionalize some residents. But Justice said conditions at the schools "have not improved" since the suit was settled. Skarnulis said his resignation was not related to Justice's order. Gladden, who had been superintendent of the Lubbock school since it opened in 1969, was fired Tuesday, Johnson said.
Melodie Clemons, one of Skarnulis' assistants, is serving as acting superintendent until a successor is named, Johnson said. Johnson would not say whether Gladden's dismissal was related to health care deficiencies cited by the state health department during an inspection this summer. Federal funds were withheld from the state schools at Lubbock. Fort Worth and Denton after surprise inspections. Health department officials later determined that inspectors at the Fort Worth facility had erred, and the funds were freed up.
Officials at the Denton school have corrected their problems. Officials are continuing to try to remedy the problems cited at the Lubbock State School. the holdup Monday at First Texas Savings Association, 300 W. Seventh Clarke said. "He was arrested with laundered money, literally," Clarke said.
Police said the robber in the First Texas Savings Association holdup was given exploding dye packs that sprayed red paint on the money and on the bandit. Clarke said the man arrested Thursday had red dye on him and the money in his possession. Clarke said it appeared that the man tried to wash the paint off the cash. Ben Banks Allan Rose SPRINGTOWN -Ben GRANBURY Allan Rose, 78, a retired Springtown rancher, died Tolar resident for 63 years, died Thursday at home. Thursday at home.
Funeral will beat 11 a.m. Saturday at White's Funeral Chapel in Spring. Funeral was to be at 2:30 p.m. totown with burial in Springtown day at Martin's Funeral Chapel in Cemetery. Granbury.
Burial will be in Tolar Banks was born in Wise County and lived in Springtown most of his Cemetery. life. He was a graduate of Springtown High School and Texas was Rose a retired employee of General Dynamics and was an elder in the Tolar Church of Christ for 30 University. He was a member of the First Worth. He years.
He was born in Arkansas. Christian Church in Fort was a veteran of World War II and served as a captain in the Army Air Survivors include his wife, Faye Survivors include his wife, law, Kenneth and Joann Rose of San Corps. Rose of Tolar: a son and daughter-inBanks; and a brother, J.B. Banks Jr. Angelo; two grandchildren; and Jerry a of Weatherford.
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