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University Daily Kansan, October 6, 1983
Flooded Arizona qualifies for federal aid
By United Press International
TUCSON, Ariz. — President Reagan declared Arizona a major disaster area yesterday, but some embittered flood victims complained of the way state authorities had handled the storm in recent months, missing, thousands homeless and caused damage estimated at about $300 million.
The presidential declaration, which will bring federal reconstruction funds to the state, coincided with rising fears of looting and disease in Arizona's flood-ravaged south. Police in Clifton, near the New Mexican border, instituted a day-to-day curfew in the debris-strewn copper mining town to ward off looters.
Plows clearing Main Street along the San Francisco River left piles of mud
like snowbanks on each side. Clifton's water supply underwent tests because of concern that pollution could bring hepatitis and other illness.
ALTHOUGH SOME RESIDENTS had had enough, others were determinate.
Joe Gomez's home of 15 years was destroyed by the 8-foot wall of water that crashed down the San Francisco River.
"I feel like killing someone," he said.
"Ive got nothing - I've got nothing to lose."
Some Clifton residents have become severely distraught because of bitterness about the loss of jobs from the lengthy copper strike against Phelps Dodge Corp. followed by the loss of 300 jobs to flooding, Gov. Bruce Babbit said.
"We've been in this canyon 100 years and we've had both Apaches and a flood
AT AVRA VALLEY west of Tucson, two men dressed in military fatigues and apparently posing as National Guardsmen tried to force people to evacuate by warning of a non-existent "wall of water" headed their way.
try to chase us out," Ruby Martinez said. "I'm going to rebuild if I have to do it myself."
"There were a lot of elderly people living here who you could say are helpless, but there was no effort to evacuate them," said Arthur Campbell, a Rillito resident. "It's just terrible."
terror.
The death toll rose to 15 with a report that two people were presumed drowned after their vehicle was swept Monday into the flooded Gila River near Sacaton.
Santa Cruz County Emergency Services Director Mike Byers said he thought the emergency was over in
MANY ROADS WERE impassable on the 4,000-square-mile Papago Indian reservation near Tucson.
Nogales. The county adjacent to the Mexican border sustained at least $5 million in damage.
"There are 30 to 50 families in many, many of these villages whose houses have up to three inches of mud on the ground," Neil Saunders of the Salvation Army.
In the Alpine-Turkey Creek area, the Grahamer was surprised by both water.
Babbitt hopped among flood areas Tuesday and yesterday in helicopter inspections trips. In eastern Arizona, rancher John Parks told him: "We're sure glad you stopped here. We were getting a little lonesome."
"I've been here 15 years and this is the first time I've seen this creek come up in the pasture," Grammer said.
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CLIFTON, Ariz. - The Seers, Roebuck and Co. store in this Arizona mining town was devastated by the flooding of the San Francisco River.
House OKs $42 million for Centralia
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The House approved yesterday legislation containing $42 million to relocate the residents of Centralia, Pa., who have been menaced by an underground mine fire for 21 years.
The House voted 363-30 to approve a $445 million supplemental spending bill that was mostly earmarked for education, and so included the money for Centrica.
The bill now goes to the Senate, which is expected to consider it later this fall.
Sens. John Heinz and Arlen Specter, both R-Pa., have said that they thought Senate Republican leaders supported the money for Centralia, and they predicted a favorable Senate vote.
Numerous efforts over the years to control the fire have failed, and residents have been threatened by intense heat, sudden cave-ins and potentially deadly gases emitted by the fire.
The $42 million is to be used to purchase 391 homes and 37 businesses in Centralia whose owners have said they wanted to relocate. Another 76 homeowners have said they did not want to move. The money will also cover relocation costs.
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Chilean rioters demand Pinochet's resignation
SANTIAGO, Chile — Riot police fired buckshot and tear gas at 10,000 protesters yesterday who burned President Augusto Pinochet in effigy and tried to march on the national palace, shouting "Democracy Now." Witnesses said 12 people were injured.
The violence erupted at the end of a five-hour rally by 10,000 students and miners in the Aguirre Cerda Plaza five blocks from the palace.
"The dictatorship will fail!" the protesters shouted, demanding immediate elections and an end to Pinochet's 10-year-old military regime.
An effyf of Pinochen — clad in black and bearing a sign saying "Enough of crime and fortune" — was raised aloft with the chants of flames of "Out with Pinochen."
As the group marched toward La Moneda palace, about 100 riot police in helmets and carrying plastic shields beat dozens of demonstrators and fired tear gas and buckshot pellets, witnesses on the scene said.
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Three people, including a young girl, were struck by the pellets, they said. About 15 people were seen as they were running away from the police colonel said one officer was injured.
A spokesman for the protestors told the crowd a sixth nationwide protest march, Oct. 11. A total of 41 people have been killed in the previous monthly demonstrations.
"Murderer! Murderer!" the crowd chanted at the mention of the secret police.
The rally originally was staged to support out-of-work miners, but it swelled to include students, workers and professionals protesting Pinochet's regime.
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