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reviewjudice(SoulHeplan withAbraham L. Freedman of Phila- abo delphia, was appealed Feb. 2 by attorneys for the Moose lodge. Hesist;Without a liquor license most H. I social clubs would die, the ap- cy ( peal said, since clubs depend on mar the sale of drinks to offset inva- ger, riably losing restaurant opera- rity lions. InT raced ytrens t ojtionboato tpro,(Continued From Page 1) ofoot vessel broke in two in 15- ‘ ^ foot seas and winds of 40 to 60 sl‘s* knots before the Coast Guard req!learned of the tragedy,The word came in the form of Hl!ANix-two messages from the Sass-town saying it had picked up 11 survivors in a life raft. P,!UthrianeBoth messages, the CoastGuard said, reported 20 crew- j° ( men missing—last seen by the 'lzf? survivors as they abandoned the * stern section of the 20.084 - ton 1tanker about 5:30 a.m. Sunda\ PnmoA Texaco spokesman in Port MeArthur, said however that re- try cords showed 44 crewmen sa]aboard. a jThe Sasstown, en route to 0ff, New York, sighted the life raft not about 4 p.m. Sunday. stiiThe Coast Guard had difficul- v tv learning details of what hap- hjn pened, but a spokesman said hot one message from the Sasstown sm quoted the survivors as saying m0 the stern section they aban- thr doned sank half an hour after- Wii ward.wBrboThey were reporttxi to have said the other crewmen were D( scattered throughout the rest of the ship, which they saw for the last time at midnight, 18*/2 hours after thev launched the „ raft. They did not see the rest of the ship sink, nor did they see anv other rafts the Coast Guard |, rsaid. ’ “By the time the Coast Guard got a plane into the air late Sun- ' day, all it found was a huge oil slick. The pilot, Ft. Cmdr Pa- 1 trick H. Cannon, said the S.tss- wi town by then was 145 miles east ' of Elizabeth City, N.C., in seas bu running 8 to 10 feet. !i'The Texaco Oklahoma was en rni route from Port Arthur to Bos- nu ton with a cargo of 220,000 bar- an rels of sulphur fuel oil, the nCoast Guard said !!1Cannon said he spotted an oil slick at least 50 miles long drifting in a northeasterly dirlt; tion well off the coastThe Texaco Oklahoma wa built in 1958 at the BethleherYards in Baltimore, Md., andwas listed as being owned by the Wilton Shipping Co. m New York but managed by Texaco.It was described by Texaco officials here as one of the largest and strongest of the ) Texaco fleet,” with a net ton-* nage of 33,000, It could carry unto 260,000 barrels of light oil, but was carrying only 220,000 barrels when it sailed from Port Arthur last week.He said the vessel went through a routine checkup at a
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Port Arthur, Texas, US
Mon, Mar 29, 1971
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