Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas (2024)

August 5, 1986

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Corpus Christi Timesi

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Corpus Christi, Texas

Issue Date:

Tuesday, August 5, 1986

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15

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vm i wHnrwiw nryr 0 Tffifgs CORPUS CHRiSTI TEXAS Tueadty Auguat 5 19061SA marked Hiroshima attack I i HIROSHIMA Japan (AP) Bishop Desmond Tutu and two other Nobel laureates today viewed artifacts and photos of first nuclear attack and laid flowers on a monument marking Ground Zero whole thing is quite devastating" said the black Anglican prelate from South Africa who won the Nobel Peace Prize in984 He said his visit to Hiroshima made him more committed fa work so that an event such as this one will never occur Pauling who is visiting the city for the second time said impression was much like the first horror" On the progress of science which produced such weapons he said the politicans that misuse it" 1 After viewing photographs from the Hiroshima bombing as well as the remains of a building devastated by the blast Tutu said the past one thought you knew Now you've seen it you even have words to describe it" Later the three laureates accompanied by Hiroshima Mayor Takeshi Araki- laid bouquets of chrysanthemums and lilies at a cenotaph In Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park and stood under the hot summer sun for a moment of silence again ASSOCIATED PRESS An estimated -30000 people are expected to attend a memorial service in the city on Wednesday the 4 1st anniversary of the attack An atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by a US B-29 on Aug 6 1945 killed up Uv 140000 people Three days later another bomb was dropped on Naga- saki that killed about 70000 i Japan surrendered to the United States oh Aug 14 ending World War 11 Tutu Linus Pauling of the United States and Briton Dorothy Hodgkin toured Peace Memorial Museum listening to explanations and the personal recollections of museum director Yosh*taka Kawamo- to a survivor of the bombing The three came fa Hiroshima to participate in a peace forum organized on the occasion of the United High-priced gown ASSOCIATED PRESS Bishop Tutu wWs in Hiroshima's Poses Park in Peace The Mistake shall not be Repeated" reads an inscription on the cenotaph which lists the identified victims of the bombing On Monday buses from around Japan lined the parking lot and dozens of people wearing banners of regional anti-nuclear groups strolled the grounds which are dotted with memorial statues During Wednesday's anniversary ceremony Araki himself a survivor of the blast will deliver a peace declaration and 1300 doves will be released into the Security guards escorted model Julie Stevens as she wore a dress made up from 1000 50-pound (approximately $75) notes in London Monday She wore the dress to present 53971 pounds to bingo winner Lily Hargreaves 64 a pensioner Nations International Year of Peace Pauling won the 1934 Nobel in chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 Ms Hodgkin received the Nobel for chemistry in 1964 Beryl Markham 83 Search in avalanche called off true adventurer dies Chancellor Perry Adkisson named the 30-year-okl Bond to head legal affairs liaison with community leaders and governmental relations at the federal level for his office Last week Adkisson appointed Dr William Mobley as deputy chancellor in charge of business financial and related matters Both are subject to confirmation by the system's Board of Regents Rescuer drowns BELLINGHAM Wash (AP) Two mountain climbers buried under ice and snow by an avalanche on Mount Baker will probably never be found and the site is too dangerous to keep searching officials say are buried too Rich Murphy operations leader for Bellingham Mountain Rescue said Monday Expedition guide Ian Kraabel 23 son of Seattle City Councilman Paul Kraabel and Steve Raschick 21 of Enumclaw were buried under car-sized blocks of ice and snow Sunday morning at the mountain's Roman Wall 8800 feet up the 10778-foot North Cascades peak Their companions Kurt Petellin 21 and Tom Waller 19 both of Enumclaw were rescued Sunday Thirteen people equipped with specially trained avalanche dogs searched five hours Monday morning through up to 30 feet of wet snow ice blocks and a crevasse Continued searching could trigger further snow and ice slides officials said the University Medical Center officials said Dwight Kfoening a Canadian living in Phoenix was listed in critical but stable condition after the four-hour surgery on Monday three days before his 27th birthday Sixty-two of the heart-transplant recipients including one who received two transplants have survived reprinting She seemed to survive on Sports- man band cigarettes and drank her vodka straight Only deteriorating health during the past nine months kept her from her beloved horses would sum up Beryl Mark- life in two words an adventure" her biographer Mary Lovell said Her character was more African than English and her memoir reflected a view of racial relations two generations ahead of its time She had no time for children even her own son Gervase who was raised by inlaws and killed in a 1971 car crash In 1936 Ms Markham became 1 the first solo pilot man or woman to fly from England to North America battling fierce headwinds Her third career as a race horse trainer made her a local celebrity in Nairobi where she won a record six Kenya Derby victories But her horses succumbed to a mysterious BOSTON (AP) Beryl Markham was an unabashed adventurer who competed with men on their own terms and often came out best But each time she made a mark in one of her three careers as an African-reared writer aviator and race horse trainer she was deprived of material gains and commensurate fame She died Sunday in Nairobi Kenya at the age of 83 Married and divorced three times and party to numerous romances she lived and loved as a liberated woman decades before the term identified a movement She was expelled from school for her pranks and cursed in Swahili like a stable hand but wrote an educated script and produced a memoir that Ernest Hemingway called With the Night" won critical acclaim when it appeared in 1942 But war preoccupied the minds of American readers after Pearl Harbor and the book was not a commercial success unlike a later Texan hits the jackpot WASHINGTON (AP) A police officer who entered the Anacostia River in an attempt to rescue a woman who had jumped off a bridge was dragged beneath the turbid surface by the current and drowned police said Other officers pulled the unidentified 67-year-old woman from the river Monday afternoon and took her to the Washington Hospital Center where she was listed in critical condition Police recovered the body of Kevin Welsh 34 a seven-year veteran of the DC Police Special Operations Division Monday evening official selected LAS VEGAS Nev (AP) A Texas man says he has no idea what he will do with the $761980 he won Saturday night at a Strip resort Bob Ferguson and his wife Joy had been playing slot machines at Bally's Hotel and Cksino for about an hour when he lined up five sevens for the win They had been visiting Las Vegas on a holiday and vacation with his brother and 100th heart transplant COLLEGE STATION (AP) James Bond has been named deputy chancellor of the Texas University System making him the second appointee at that leveL university officials announced Monday TUCSON Ariz (AP) A physical education teacher with a diseased heart received a new one in the 100th heart transplant done by debilitating disease and could no longer compete Playgirl picks 1 0 sexiest men Deaths 1 I I i I i I I i If 1 I if ft 41 ft i 411 1 M-t! ft "I know one thing for Mohr added probably ignore Others in the top 10 were acton Don Ameche and Michael Fox musician Ruben Blades comedian Billy Crystal Sen Robert Dole R-Kan pro football player William (The Refrigerator) Perry New York Yankees manager Lou Piniella developer and pro football team owner Donald Trump and star Bruce Willis ST PAUL Minn (AP) Garrison Keillor the foremost shy person and good-looking man of mythical Lake Wobegon has been named by Playgirl magazine as one of the 10 sexiest men in America for 1986 The announcement Monday baffled some friends of Keillor who originated the public radio program "A Prairie Home and whose book on Lake Wobegon is a best-seller said Howard Mohr a Home COmnan-ion" writer who often appears on the show with Keillor RL Pike of Refugio Moore Funeral Home in Refugio Manual Qaida Sr BEEVILLE Manud Garcia Sr 74 died Aug 4 1986 in a Beeville hospital He was a retired carpenter Surviving are three daughters Idolina Arrisola of Mineral Amada Phillips of Beeville and Herlinda Moreno of San Antonio three sons Israel and Manuel Garcia Jr and David Longoria all of Beeville 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren Trevino Funeral Home of gene co*ker of Spring and two grandchildren Seaside Funeral H6me Mrs Jssals Bridges Mrs Jessie Bridges 90 died Aug 2 1986 in a local nursing home Survivors include a sister Oik Perryman a brother Sam Turner both of Cbrpus Christi and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren Jackson-Flowers Funeral Home -Mrs' Bsmlct Olson Mrs Bernice Olson 82 of Corpus Christi died Aug 4 1986 in a local hospital Survivors include a daughter Joy Borgh of Corpus Christi a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter Seaside Funeral Home Lina Zuniga of Beeville and Lusdi-vina Flores of Lubbock two brothers Charlie Suarez of St Paul and Richard Suarez of Racine Wis and eight grandchildren Colonial Funeral Home of Taft Mrs Jsuaa LmI ROBSTOWN Mrs Jesusa Leal 70 died Aug 3 1986 in a Corpus Christi hospital Survivors include 11 sons Juan and Reymundo Leal both of Corpus Christi Emilio Leal of Mission Jiitin I Ml of Drivnll snd Guadalupe Francisco Lazaro Manuel Erasmo Jesus and Antonio Leal all of Robstown three daughters Eva CavazoS of Driscoll Maria Leal of Robstown and Anita Garza of San Juan two brothers Camilo Paredez of Orange Grove and Santos Paredez of Banquet? two sisters Dominga Flores of Robstown and Leonor Jimenez of California 77 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren Ramon Funeral Home of Robs- Plavtiri nffiriaU Mid thrir choice this year were based on sexuality beyond Tiaasaiiife ST IdETARINGTAID Mrs Rowona Rich -INGLESIDE Mrs Rowena Rich 99 a former resident of In-gleside died Aug 3 1986 in a Bryan hospital Surviving are a son LW Hefner of Ingleside two grandchildren five great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren Buffington Funeral Home of Yoakum Mrs FaHpa Saldana Mrs Felipa Saldana 63 of 605 17th St died Aua 3 1986 in a local hospital Survivors include her father Crescendo Saldana two sisters Ofelia Hinojosa and Elida Firo three half-sisters Otila Mendoza Fina Ornelas and Lola Garza all of Corpus Christi and two brothers Ezequiel Saldana of Corpus Christi and Jose Saldana of El Campo Memorial Funeral Home Roberto Suarez TAFT Roberto Suarez 57 of Taft died Aug 3 1986 in a Corpus Christi hospital He was a self-employed painter Survivors include his wife Felici-tas four daughters Mary Helen Suarez of Dallas and Mary Alice Alvarez Mary Ann Hernandez and 1 Mary Estella Alvarado all of Taft' three sons Robert Jose Rolan-' do and Reynaldo Suarez all of Taft four sisters Macrina Jalomo and Gloria Molina both of Taft A Quality All Make Repair Service Hearing Aids will Improve your communication no matter how slight or how severe hear- 1barWvmnty ins loss is SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Mrs Pearl Long Mrs Pearl Long 89 of San Antonio died Aug 3 1986 Surviving are two sons Roy Long of San Antonio and William Long of Corpus Christi four grandchildren and two great-grandchild- Jack Raid co*kor Jack Reid co*ker 67 of Corpus Christi died Aug 3 1986 in a local hospital Before his retirement in 1982 he was a scout for Shell Oil Co for 26 years and for Petroleum Informa-tion for 11 years He is survived by his wife Frances two daughters Carolyn co*ker of Houston and Elaine Bailey of Corpus Christi two brothers Stanley co*ker of Houston and Eu HEARING AID BATTERIES Wrtofitr nr kmriagaU awry aria Ikt ten 4 Porter Loring Mortuary of San Antonia rmt 111 -ISM so4aaMNMmata Cwm CMML Ti 70411 tan imaiin In SOtayiV town Jotry Lm Wtglnton REFUGIO Jerry Lee Wiginton 23 died Aug 2 1986 in an automobile accident near Bayside Survivors include his mother Jeanine Smith of Refugio two brothers Gary Michael Wiginton of Fort Worth and Larry Dale Wiginton of Clovis NM and his maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs 3 Days Only cpK' On SaLr Friday OPEN DAILY 9 AM-9 PM SUNDAY DOUBLE COUPON DAY AT KMART TUES AUG 5 £0 i ul -ri? rtl Hi 10 coupon per item will be re- ion per itt Doubteredemptfonappliesfornanu- deemed at double value Other PM PM 3 On 8 One 1 facturers coupons clipped from newspapers and magazines with the coupons for identical items will redeemed at face value only Saturda''-(vV: am0 Register To Win A FREE Tandem 1 0 Speed 00 4 No rainchechs wiH be issued for double coupon items Tobacco soft drink and "free" coupons will be redeemed at face value 1 HERE'S AN EXAMPLE: following stipulations We will DOUBLE the value of coupons up fo $1 Those over $1 will be redeemed at face value If the double coupon value exceeds the 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