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As Much As 4 Inches

Texas Drenched By Heavy Rains

Thunderstorms moved east across Louisiana and Mississippi today, leaving parts of Texas drenched by as much as 4 inches of rain that closed highways and flooded rivers. Saturating storms also reached as far north as Kansas. Highway department crews opened an 81-mile stretch of U.S. 64-87 between Clayton and Raton, N.M., Monday allowing travelers snowbound by 12-foot drifts from a weekend storm to resume their journeys. The highway is a major traffic artery through New Mexico's northeast corner. New York City residents opened their coats and left their scarves home as the temperature reached 51, offering a taste of spring. Showers and thunderstorms reached from southwest Mississippi across Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, northern Texas and Oklahoma into south central Kansas. A flood warning was in effect for North Texas today with State Highway 19 still closed at the Sulphur Springs River crossing.. Two other state highways and numerous farm-to-market roads also were closed. The warnings extended to southern Mississippi as the storm moved east. Since torrential rains began at midday Sunday more than 4 inches was recorded in Greenville, Texas, and nearly 3 inches drenched Shreveport. La. Lowland tlooding caused about six families to flee their homes in Greenville. Police Lt. Barry Harris said the flooded areas were low-lying and usually flood in heavy rains. The NWS said many rivers and streams were out of their banks in the eastern third of the state and any additional rainfall would pose the threat of more flash flooding. Rising water levels near 'Cooper, Texas flooded Texas Highway 19 and several other highways in the northeastern half of the state were closed by flooding. Work crews reopened one lane of U.S. 101 on the southern Oregon coast about 12 hours after a mudslide triggered by relentless rains blocked both lanes of the major north-south coast route. A weekend storm that swept across New Mexico at the Colorado border left behind a 14-inch snowfall " in Des Moines, N.M. halfway between Clayton and Raton. Winds gusting to 40 mph whipped up mountainous drifts. Gwen Harris. 33, of San Angelo, Texas, and several family ' members were en route to Colorado Springs when their car was immobilized. "Snow just took it over and we couldn't go no further," she said. About five hours later, a tractor and a chain finally helped get the family vehicle back into town, she said. Dozens of people trapped since Saturday were huddled in jammed motels. a schoolhouse and an aban-.

doned hotel in hamlets along U.S. 64-87. "I can see the top of my pickup. That's it," said Helen Yeargain of Des Moines. "My car's sitting out here in my yard. Yesterday, 1 couldn't see anything but the grille. We have drifts here from anywhere from 5 to 12 feet," she said. -

Starflight Is Retread Category

he invariably winds up portraying unpleasant people with some of -the most hackneyed lines in show business. In this case he is the unpleasant czar of an aviation corporation that has just developed a hypersonic rocket-driven airliner capable of streaking from Los Angeles to Australia in just two hours. No sooner is the inaugural flight under way, however, than a sattclite launch from Australia goes awry, blows up and, against what should be some staggering mathematical odds, lays several tons of shrapnel right in "Slarflight's" path. Pilot Majors has to hit his rockets and climb to escape, NEW YORK ( U P I ) - Just but the rockets malfunction when it seemed that Hollywood finally had run out and he can't turn them off. As airplane of "Airport" movie cliches, a result, the big is quick which someone to along comes the Six-Million- point out several times "was Dollar Man with another not designed as a space ship" hangar-full. If there is such a roars right out of the'atthing as justice in television, it mosphere and into orbit. is in hiding. At that point, the audience But "Starflight: The Plane stand That Couldn't Land" - can only at whatby in pitying poor actors honest, that's its name is wonder for a living. must do more than just another heavily cast, lightweight in To simulate weightlessness prison, they ripoff of previous ripoffs. This are their orbital clumsy ballet one actually rips off its own withforced into a elbows flapknees and parody an earlier feature ping in contrived slow motion. film exercise in happy in- It looks very much like the one sanity called "Airplane II." had the hippos At least "Airplane" laughed Walt Disneythe crocodiles in doing with at itself. "Starflight," which "Fantasia." ABC will air most solemnly In an the Sunday from 9 p.m. until stranded effort to rescue the passengers, midnight, takes itself very Space Shuttle Columbia is seriously indeed. pressed into service. With The plot for this retread is the same one used in all the "turn-around time" on launch miraculously cut down to two "Airport" movies im- hours, it flies to and from possible perils, illicit love, rendezvous with the stricken saints and sinners, cowards liner, getting very little done and heroes, glory and guilt. in the process. Only the cast has been Throughout the melodrama, changed to protect the in- cliches are mouthed as though nocent, no doubt. they were Holy writ ("I'm Lee Majors stars with "I'm scared, too"), Lauren Hutton, Hal Linden, scared." nadir of the absurd but the Robert Webber and poor old occurs when people on the Ray Milland who keeps get- ground decide that Hal Linting suckered into these den, who designed the plane, groaning disaster flicks where must be rescued at all cost so

he can get his trusty computers on the job of bringing it back to earth. But how to get him from "Starflight" to the Columbia? In a coffin, that's how. The stricken liner just happens to have one in the cargo bay where the recently deceased Australian ambassador has been biding his time on the return to his homeland. It's a simple matter to evict the ambassador, wrap a blanket around Linden, put him in the coffin and close the lid, then have Columbia's astronauts space-walk him through a cold hard vacuum that would have his blood boiling and his body exploding in a matter of seconds. Purists will flee, screaming, to other channels at this point, but then this is no movie for purists anyway. This is an "Airport" movie. It has nothing to do with reality.

In N.Florida

Britain's Prince Ends Visit

MAYPORT, Fla. ( U P I ) Britain's Prince Andrew ended his five-day visit to north Florida without leaving a clue as to whether he was able to get together with softporn movie actress Kathleen "Koo" Stark. .The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, on which Andrew serves as a helicopter pilot, was to weigh anchor and depart the Mayport Naval Station for the Caribbean today. Despite frequent dashes from the U.S. base in fast cars with police escorts and reported sightings of Ms. Stark at a beachside resort 12 miles south of Mayport, the two were not seen together publicly. The Andrew-Koo mania that seemed to grip the north Florida coast was typified by the dozens of callers who responded to a Jacksonville disc jockey's request for information about the couple's whereabouts. It had been reported in London that the 23-year-old prince, nicknamed "Randy Andy" by the British press, would meet with the 26-yearold American starlet at some point during the Invincible's visit to Mayport. The couple spent a Caribbean holiday together last October and had been seen after that at several London nightclubs. While Andrew was in Mayport, Ms. Stark was reported at one time or another to be in Spain. England and Switzerland as well as New York. A source close to her mother, Kathi Caruso, of Venice, Fta., said Ms. Stark was not in north Florida during Andrew's visit and had no intention of going there before his departure. "Koo's career demands, with her current appearance on the cover of 'Tattler' (a British fashion magazine), necessitated that she leave New York for an undisclosed destination abroad," said the source, who asked not to be identified. A private security guard at Sawgrass resort, where Ms. Stark was said to be a guest in one of the beachside villas Sunday, insisted Monday that she was still there, but had moved to another villa "in the main compound" Sunday night after her whereabouts

Safeguarding Their Child

Wayne and Mary Brasco of Waltham, Mass, examine fingerprint forms with their youngest child Katie which are designed to safeguard her from becoming one of the nation's 150,000 missing juveniles. The couple began their campaign to make their neighbors aware that such a tragedy could happen in their own hometown. became known. A Jacksonville newspaper, quoting unnamed shipmates of the prince, reported that Andrew spent most of the day Monday in south Florida. Lt. Cmdr. Sam Falcona. public affairs officer at Mayport, said he had no idea where the prince was or when he would return to his ship. Both' the U.S. and British navies have said they have no interest in the prince's private affairs. charges the administration mishandled the agency's toxic waste cleanup program for political purposes. The bill, similar to a measure Scheuer introduced last year, would create an independent five-member body, appointed by the president to staggered sevenyear terms of office. The president's nominees would have to be confirmed by the Senate, and could not come from the same political party. Mitchell said the commission's main responsibilities would be policy formation, with day-to-day management by an executive director. Cosponsoring the bill are powerful House Intcior Committee Chairman Morris Udall, D-Ariz.. and Reps. Claudine Schneider. R-R.L, and Joe Moakly. D-Mass. Levitas was to meet today with House leaders, including Speaker Thomas O'Neill, to brief them on the historic agreement he reached with the White House over access to EPA files. The pact between Levitas' subcommittee and the administration ran into important opposition Monday from Dingell. who warned ft "sanctifies" a president's ability to hold back information on government misconduct. Two other subcommittee chairmen. Scheuer and Rep. James ~Florio. D-N.J.. have already voiced similar concern. Dingell argued the elaborate settlement between the administration and a Levitas' panel sets a bad precedent that will create procedural nightmares for Congress in future tugs-of-\var with executive branch agencies. His strong criticism is a sign of mounting opposition within the House that could endanger the pact and spark a new round of constitutional confrontation between Capitol Hill and the administration.

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Burglary Loss Placed At$1,328

Household items valued at 51,328 were stolen during a burglary at a property along TR 359. Hopewell Twp.. one mile north of Saxton. near Weaver's Bridge. The victim is Bruce A. Johnston, York, R.D.22. Huntingdon state police said numerous household items were taken during the burglary which occurred between Feb. 16 and Feb..20. when it was discovered. Loot included a Westinghouse washer and dryer, a bed, dining room table and maple chairs, end table, lamps, clothing, storm door, bar stools, radio, clock, blanket and numerous other items. Investigation of the incident is continuing, police said.

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(Cont'd from Page 1) Congress over secret agency documents. Levitas last week reached an agreement with the White House that will give congressmen access to the files. The controversy over the EPA and its handling of money marked for toxic waste cleanup has prompted a group of congressmen to endorse legislation that would make the agency independent and free from presidential control. The reform legislation was to be introduced today in the House by Rep. James Scheuer. D-N.Y.. and in the Senate by Sens. Daniel Moynihan. D-N.Y., and George Mitchell. D-Maine. The drive to create an "Environmental Protection Commission'' is prompted by

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