Casa Grande Dispatch (Newspaper) - May 28, 1997, Casa Grande, Arizona Myers homers in victory DISPATCH The rivers many uses in conflict i Law enforcement i training becomes i model for state Final Countys Daily Newspaper GRANDE DISPATCH 86th Year CASA GRANDE ARIZONA 85222 WEDNESDAY MAY 28 1997 NO 125 VOL 86 sought after Air Force 500 per copy 1 of only 14 women flying fighters 3v ARTHUR w C By ARTHUR H Associated Press Writer TUCSON An Air Force A10 Thunderbolt attack jet crashed at a desert training range in southwestern Arizona The pilot one of just 14 women flying fighters for the service was missing The plane based at Air Force Base here went down around Tuesday in the Barry M Goldwa ter Air Force Range said Gibson an Air Force spokes woman at the Pentagon The pilot was Capt Amy Lynn Svoboda identified by the Pentagon as chief of A10 training for the Fighter Squadron of the 355th Wing at There was no sign that Svoboda ejected and rescue crews werent immediately able to search the wreckage because the plane was carrying live ammunition and rockets as well as dummy bombs said Pentagon spokesman Lou Timmons Svoboda 29 of Glen Ellyn was about two hours into a training flight with another A10 when her plane went down said Capt Andy White a base spokesman The crash site was in the range near the town of Gila Bend about 100 miles northwest of Tucson and 50 miles southwest of Phoenix White said A team trained to handle explosives wait Jet Handicap awareness u Grande Mayors Committee on Dis ability Issues organized a disabled aware ness exercise for 10 participants around Casa Grande today Above Rick Miiler plan ning director stretches to hang up a phone Staff photos by Francisco Medina while in a wheelchair in his office at City Hall At right Donna Renninger Casa Grande Main director takes a look at some of the stairs at the rear of her office downtown She used the front entrance instead CG Airport Authority votes against ultralights By BLAKE HERZOG Staff Writer The Casa Grande Municipal Air port Authority voted in favor of a policy banning ultralight airplanes from taking off from city runways at a Tuesday night meeting The board voting 40 with Collings absent was unified in its concern that the presence of the ultralights would deter other pilots from using the airport The danger is having planes in with the member Dan Fogg said The airport is a public facility which means the board normally does not have a lot of say over what lands there but according to Federal Aviation Administration regulations the city can regulate ultralight glid er and cropduster traffic Chairman Jim Kroll voiced fears that the mix of the small aircraft with more conventional planes could lead to a decline of all kinds of traffic at Inside County and National Valley the airport The ULs going out to the airport would be detrimental to the airport There would be pilots afraid to fly there and it may even drive some business The question was raised by ultra light pilots currently operating from Three Points airstrip which is being put up for sale The ultralight pilots must leave the property by June 30 In other action the board also gave the nod to the airports status quo on rental policies finding nothing wrong with allowing large tenants like Nelson International as many T shades as they desire Nelson is on the waiting list for renting a fifth at the airport and board members indicated they did not have any problem with the large customers getting as many spaces as they wanted as long as favoritism is not shown toward them page 3 Marshall Plan commemorated THE HAGUE Netherlands AP President Clinton today com memorated the Marshall Plan rescue of a continent 50 years ago with a new call for the prosper ous West to help struggling Eastern Europe With Communist rule overthrown in the former Soviet empire Clinton said dawn is rising and the region desperately needs capital investments and guidance in building free institutions It is tempting to pursue our pri Marshall Plan page 3 defense rests Seeks to discredit star witness K DENVER AP Timothy attorneys rested their case today after only days and 25 witnesses ending with wiretapped phone conversations of a star prose cution witness saying he could make up a fable to cash in on the Okla homa City bombing The defense fol lowing a lean prosecution case that saw 137 witnesses in 18 days came after District Judge Richard Matsch refused to allow witnesses to discuss theories of a larger conspiracy involving foreign and domestic terrorists Instead the defense sought to raise the possibility that a mystery bomber was responsible for the blast and point out problems in the FBI crime lab Closing arguments were set to begin Thursday after the tors called just three rebuttal wit nesses who focused on FBI evi and diesel fuel co defendant Terry Nichols allegedly purchased five days before the bombing The brevity of the defenses case surprised some legal analysts who said they believe Jones proved innocence as he had promised in his opening state ment I would say that I put on more evidence in defense of a DUI than hes put on in this said Okla homa City criminal attorney Irven Box who is monitoring the trial I dont see that theyve damaged the government at University of Colorado law pro fessor Christopher Mueller said the judges rulings cut the defense case short but attorneys also recognized the government put on a very strong case Jer erases Texas subdivision like big vaci At least 27 die 2 dozen missing By JAIME ARON Associated Press Writer JARRELL Texas Rescuers crisscrossed swampy fields today looking for about two dozen people unaccounted for after a tornado devastated this central Texas town killing at least 27 The storm leveled about 50 homes Tuesday and left wreckage and bits of clothing hanging from fences cattle lying dead and a trac rig upside down in a field Where the Double Creek Estates once stood there was nothing Its not there sher deputy Raby said It was like a big vacuum sucked everything said witness Max Johnson Jr Survivors sought counseling today at a white clapboard church while volunteers at the schoolhouse sorted donated clothing into piles for men women and children Tele phone messages for residents were left on a blackboard The state Department of Public crime lab was asked to help identify the bodies In Austin the state Senate observed a moment of silence The states deadliest tornadoes in a decade ripped through four coun ties in central Texas from Waco to Austin Jarrell a town of about 40 miles north of Austin was hit hardest with the debris so scat tered that even compiling a death toll was difficult today The medical examiner and a hos pital said today they had 27 bodies from Jarrell where the tornado blazed a trail about a mile long and 200 yards wide One person was killed by a twister in Austin and another drowned in a Travis County creek In addition 23 people were counted for in Jarrell and five more were missing in Cedar Park where a grocery store collapsed injuring at least eight people Hospitals in the region reported treating at least 25 injured people Up to 150 rescue workers slogged across fields through water up to today to look for body parts or survivors In disasters weve seen like this before across the country been some miracles some people found alive after several hours and sometimes a few days We hope to still find somebody Williamson County Sheriff Ed Richards said Theres a lot of debris scattered for miles so the search is expand ing because there could be a person in the he said The tornado at fn esti mated 200 mph or was on the ground for 25 to 30 minutes said National Weather Service meteorologist Al Dreumont And Deadly page 3 f ram lha r vary greatly between the grou atmosphere as they do in this air rises rapidly condenses and forms thunderheads TROPOPAUSE 3f CAP CLOUD COLD AIR WARM GROUND UPDRAFT WARM AIR sufficient strength to extend a funnel below the cloud base to the spp ground The funnel spins at fv tremendous speeds picking up debris and dust in its path Overhead view A tornado generally occurs at the rear j of a thunderstorm drawing its strength from colliding warm and cold fronts TORNADO URAIN HOOK WARM FRONT STORM 1 DIRECTION UPDRAFT
