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Capitol fire repairs start
United Press International
AUSTIN — Workmen
turned the heat and the lights
back on in fire-ravaged Senate
side of the state capitol late
Monday, and lawmakers took
the first step toward provid
ing the money to restore the
historic structure.
Meanwhile, firefighters
were recalled to the building
about 2 p.m. Monday to inves
tigate a report of smoke on the
fourth floor. But they found
no fire or smoke.
Members of the Senate,
most of them wearing over
coats and gloves, shivered
through a one hour meeting
in 55-degree temperatures
Monday morning as they tried
to conduct business as usual in
the wake of Sunday’s pre
dawn fire.
A bill — granted emergen
cy status by Gov. Mark White
— was filed to appropriate $7
million to rebuild portions of
the Capitol’s east side, which
was blackened by the fire that
killed one person and injured
seven.
“We’re going to have to be
patient,” said Sen. Roy Blake,
D-Nacogdoches. “We don’t go
through this every day. I think
it’s been about 100 years since
we went through it.”
Texas’ previous Capitol
burned down in November
1881 and prompted the con
struction of the present build
ing, which was finished in
1888.
White, in an impromtu
speech to the Senate, prop
osed a complete restoration of
the 95-year-old building,
saying the restoration could
be a gift to the state on its
150th birthday in 1995.
The governor said that pri
vate funds could be raised “to
restore this building to its for
mer glory.”
The Senate chamber had
no heat or electricity early
Monday, but it was virtually
undamaged except for a
blackened area around a back
door and scorched windows.
Since there was no electric
ity, the lawmakers had to rely
on sunlight to illuminate the
huge two-story chamber. And
they had to speak louder than
usual because microphones at
their desks were discon
nected.
Austin firefighters and
Capitol police were com
mended by the Senate for
leading three guests from the
burning lieutenant governor’s
Capitol apartment and saving
the building, which fire offi
cials thought at one point was
lost.
One man, Matthew Han
sen, 23, of New Caney, a guest
at the apartment, died in the
fire. Six firefighters and one
security guard were injured.
Officials have not deter
mined the cause of the fire,
but believed it may have been
ignited by a television set.
“We had a tragedy, but we
have much to be grateful for,”
said Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-
Austin. “There was a great
deal of personal courage de
monstrated.”
When the Senate consi
dered a commendation of the
security officers, Lt. Gov. Bill
Hobby said, “You can add the
name of the lieutenant gov
ernor in capital letters on that
one.”
Hobby’s daughter Kate,
18, was one of those rescued
from the burning apartment.
The fire damaged the
offices of nine senators, but
they were moved to tempor
ary quarters in a nearby state
office building.
Officials first estimated the
damages to the Capitol at
$500,000, but Blake, chair
man of the Senate Adminis
tration Committee, said, “It’s
going to be much more than
that.”
“We don’t intend to spend
that much, but we’ve got to
have it there,” said Blake,
whose committee will oversee
the repair and restoration.
Space food is behind 11
in NASA’s program |s
United Press International
HOUSTON — In two de
cades, the space program has
gone from one-man suborbital
flights to re-usable spacecrafts.
But officials say that one aspect
of the technical developments
has not kept pace — the astro
nauts’ meals.
On shuttle flights, meals in
clude plastic packaged food that
must be rehydrated.
“The appearance alone is
enough to make the food less
appetizing to astronauts simply
because they are not used to it,”
said Charles Bourland, a food
scientist who works for a NASA
contractor refining the foods
taken into space.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration has
awarded a $25,000 research
grant to the University of Hous
ton Hilton School of Hotel and
Restaurant Management to re
commend ways to improve
space food and its consumption.
Sandy Louvier, a graduate
student, and Ganesh Sivaraman,
a doctoral candidate in business,
have been working on the pro
ject since June and hope to pre
sent a final report to NASA in
May.
Louvier said she and her co
worker are studying past space-
flight menus and surveying past
and present astronauts to deter
mine which foods they liked and
dislike and why.
“NASA prepared 112 chicken
sandwiches for the Apollo Prog
ram and only seven were eaten,”
Sivaraman said.
For the extended space flights
of the 1990s, Sivaraman &
that he is most concerned li
the logistics of getting the pro,
er amount of food intosps
and then developing some n
tern of accounting for thek
eaten so astronauts know it
much to re-order.
‘Taste is another
Louvier said. “Food loses its p
of its taste in space becauselh
is no gravity to move molecu
in the air so astronautscansu
it. We will probably stf
adding more spices to soi
foods to enhance their
Now you know
United Press International
When a swarm of locusts in
vades an area, it devours every
scrap of available food, leaving
behind wasteland. To Find these
pests, the U.N. Food and Agri
culture Organization is testing a
system of satellite surveillance
locust breeding grounds ini
Third World.
If satellite surveillance it:
cates that a locust plague iso
minent, insecticides can be
plied as an emergency mean
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DALLAS — A North Holly
wood, Calif., truck driver, 33,
who took off from his girl
friend’s front yard in a lawn
chair suspended by a cluster of
balloons, has received the
annual Bonehead of the Year
Award from the Bonehead Club
of Dallas.
Larry Walters’ flight last July
was supposed to take him across
the Mojave Desert. But he just
went up about 16,000 feet until
the cold got to him, and he shot
out the balloons with a pellet
gun. His descent was through
power lines into a residential
neighborhood in Long Beach,
Calif., which was blacked ou^ for
no frills
20 minutes.
“His 16,000-foot,
flight of fancy has caught the
attention of every Casper Mil
quetoast who has the dreams of
a Walter Mitty,” Bonehead Club
spokesman Brad Angers said
Monday.
The Bonehead Club, made
up of leading Dallasites who
search out the unusual and pay
tribute to the hapless, each year
presents an award to indi-
vuduals or organizations that
have titillated their sense of the
bizarre.
“The Bonehead of the year
award is the club’s highest honor
and is made each year to a per
son or group that has committed
an act or participated in ah event
that, in the eyes of the Bone-
heads, is a monumental goof,”
Angers said.
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Comedian admitted
for heart checkup
United Press International
HOUSTON — Comedian
Jerry Lewis was admitted to a
Houston hospital Monday,
seven weeks after undergoing
double coronory bypass
surgery.
Methodist Hospital spokes
woman Nan Bush confirmed
that Lewis, 56, was admitted to
the hospital Monday, but she
said he was listed as a “no infor-
checkup for the double bypass
surgery he received in Las
Vegas, Nev., on Dec. 21. He was
reported to be a patient of
famed heart surgeon Dr.
Michael DeBakey while in
Houston.
mation” patient.
It was learned, however, that
Lewis was admitted for a routine
Lewis, who has starred in
dozens of movies, is best known
for his portrayal of a kindly
moron caught in confusing
situations. He also has raised
millions of dollars to fight mus
cular dystrophy.
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We rejoice together every
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