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City’s water level falling
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — With water
levels falling in the Edwards Aquifer,
the city Monday began bracing for
the possibility of a voluntary water
conservation plan and a long, hot
summer.
Water levels in the underground
reservoir have fallen to 625.1 feet,
less than 1 foot from the mark that
triggers the city’s voluntary conser
vation plan, water department offi
cials said.
Tom Fox, general manager of the
Edwards Underground Water Dis
trict, said the aquifer dropped 1.35
feet from Thursday to Saturday,
with Monday’s level standing at
625.1 feet.
If the water level in the district’s
observation well falls to 612 feet —
the record low recorded in 1956 — a
mandatory water conservation plan
would go into effect.
Water officials said weekend con
sumption was less than expected and
the level dropped at a lesser rate
than anticipated. It could be several
days before the voluntary conserva
tion plan goes into effect.
The aquifer, which supplies most
of the city’s water, has not recharged
because of a dry spring, and weather
officials held out little hope that
summer will be different.
National Weather Service fore
caster Larry Peabody compared cur
rent weather conditions to those that
spawned the hot summer of 1980.
“The strength of the ridge is not
as strong (as the one in 1980) and
the temperatures are not as high,”
Peabody said. “Where we had 100 or
105 degrees, we’re at 97 or 98. The
difference is really academic.”
Future astronauts trained
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Camp simulates space
Police beal
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through Monday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A red Schwinn ten-speed bi
cycle was stolen from the Throd-
morion Street bus stop.
• A dark blue Montgomen
Ward ten-speed bicycle was stolen
from the Memorial Student On:
ter bike rack.
• A blue Concord ten-speedi
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• Two stereo speakers and
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• Someone tried to pry open
the glass doors on the southwesi
side of Purchasing and Stores.
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Ludwig
Keck dons his gloves and space suit
and prepares for his shuttle mission
after just three days of training —
but he’s not in danger since it’s all
part of the make-believe world of
the United States Space Camp in
north Alabama.
Keck, from Norcross, Ga., is one
of 2,300 youngsters who will attend
the camp during the third year of
the program at the Alabama Space
and Rocket Center.
“The purpose is to stimulate inter
est in science and math so they will
be educationally prepared for ca
reers in technical fields,” Ed Buck-
bee, director of the center, said
Monday.
Buckbee said the program re
ceives “campers” from all over the
country, but most come from states
with links to the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration.
“About 10 percent come from Al
abama, and the others are divided
between the Midwest, the Southeast
and the Far West,” said Buckbee.
“We have a high percentage from
California and Texas, as one would
expect because of the space activ
ities, and quite a number from Flor
ida, probably close to as many as
from Alabama.”
Andy Eisele, whose father, Donn,
was aboard Apollo 7, which was the
first Apollo mission,” Buckbee said.
Mexican
K-cars debut
The program is open to children
12-16, who spend five days at the
camp and are housed in dormitories
in the basement of a 25,000-square-
foot building at the center.
In the three “levels” at the camp,
they are taught the history and me
chanics of rockets, work with robot
arms and run through shuttle mis
sion simulations. There’s a full-scale
model of the spacelab as well.
Two weeks ago, the nephew of as
tronaut Bob Stewart, who used one
of the shuttle back packs last April,
attended the camp, Buckbee said.
Charles Beggs, son of NASA Ad
ministrator James Beggs, also at
tended the program.
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Last week, Wally Schirra spoke to
space campers “and the week before
that, two astronauts training for the
mission next year — Woody Spring
and Jerry Ross — visited,” Buckbee
said.
Although it’s for children, Lee
Sentell, a spokesman for the center,
said that in the next few years the
program will be expanded to include
older people in “mother-daughter,
father-son” type programs.
“We’ve had a number of astro
nauts’ children. Last week, we had
Last week, President Reagan an
nounced a NASA educational pro
gram — operation Liftoff— that in
cluded the development of a one-
day space camp experience based on
activities in Huntsville that can be
packaged and distributed to other
NASA centers as specialized field
trips,” Sentell said.
DETROIT — K-cars made in
Mexico are now on sale a( Chryskt
Corp. dealerships in Texas and
number of other southern states,tit
automaker said Monday.
The vehicles are assembled i
Chrysler’s Toluca, Mexico, plantjus
outside Mexico City. A spokesim
said all parts for the cars are maden
the United Stales, but the engine
are Mexican made.
Chrysler plans to import 3,0111
Mexican K-cars — 1,000 per moral
through August — to supplemea
production of the mid-sized autost
its St. Louis plant.
The K-cars are identified as Me»
can-made on both the price slide
and an accompanying label.
The autos are being sold mainljii
Texas and nine other states.
Sanctuary Movement backers planning vigil
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BROWNSVILLE — Sanctuary
Movement backers from several
Texas cities plan a vigil beginning
Tuesday outside the federal court
house where Colorado social worker
Stacey Lynn Merkt will be sentenced
for transporting Salvadoran aliens.
A Presbyterian minister, the Rev.
Jim McCloud of McAllen, said Mon
day that about 70 Sanctuary
Movement supporters from Dallas,
San Antonio, Austin and Houston
would carry out the vigil while await
ing Merkt’s sentencing Wednesday
by U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela.
McCloud said if Merkt is given a
jail sentence, the Sanctuary
movement will continue its vigil out
side the jail and if she is given proba
tion, the group will conduct a prayer
service and refugees she has helped
will serve her a rice and beans meal.
Merkt, 29, a Mennonite attached
to the Bijou Religious Community in
Colorado Springs, Colo., works as an
English teacher to Central American
refugees staying at Casa Oscar Ro
mero, a haven sponsored by the Ro
man Catholic Church at nearby San
Benito, Texas, which immigration
officials say is the first stop on an
“underground railroad.”
She was convicted by an all-His-
panic jury on May 14 on charges of
conspiracy and of aiding and abet
ting the transportation of two Salva
dorans and could be sentenced to a
maximum 15 years in prison and
$14,000 in fines.
Since then, Catholic, Lutherans,
Methodist and Jewish groups have
passed resolutions supporting the
granting of religious sanctuary to
refugees fleeing war-torn Central
America.
Merkt, Catholic Nun Dianne
Muhlenkamp, and Dallas Times
Herald reporter Jack Edward
Fischer were arrested by the Border
Patrol near remote Guerra, Texas,
last Feb. 16 and charged with tra»
porting Salvadorans Mauricio Valii
and Brenda Sanchez-Galan and tk
woman’s 18-month-old daughw
around checkpoints.
Sister Muhlenkamp was given
year’s deferred adjudication for he:
cooperation, and the case agains
Fischer, who testified as a govern
ment witness in Merkt’s trial, mi
dropped.
Since the Feb. 17 arrests, the Bor
der Patrol also charged Sanctuan
Movement Jack Elder, 40, a Vietnam
veteran who directs Casa Oscar Re
mero, with transporting threeille
Salvadoran aliens to a bus station.
Towns fight losing battle against pom
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EAST HAVEN, Conn. — For two
years residents of two small, neigh
boring Connecticut towns have been
fighting — and apparently losing —
twin wars against a man believed to
be the nation’s largest dealer of por
nography.
Angry townspeople in East Flaven
and West Haven, thwarted by the
courts from keeping pornography
out of their tranquil communities,
wonder what ever happened to par
ent’s rights.
It is a dilemma facing many
American towns.
In East Haven, the “Foxon Road
News and Tobacco” sign hangs in
front of the town’s only pornogra
phy bookstore. Down the road, an
other plain sign reading “West Ha
ven Country News and Tobacco”
decorates an empty building in
tended as the site of another porn
store.
Both are part of a chain of five
Connecticut stores owned by porn
tycoon Rueben Sturman of Cleve
land, who has already won court bat
tles to open stores in East Haven,
Milford and Bridgeport, Conn.
“They say these people have a
right to run the business,” said West
Haven City Councilman John Dil-
Iman, marching with other picket-
waving residents outside the empty
store.
Much to the dismay of those who want to concen
trate on the moral issues raised by the presence of
such (pornography) stores, they are being forced to
fight on another battleground — the well-scarred
turf of the First Amendment.
"What about the rights of the par
ents?” Dillman said, as motorists
honked to show support in response
to signs held by the protesters.
Much to the dismay of those who
want to concentrate on the moral is
sues raised by the presence of such
stores, they are being forced to fight
on another battleground — the well-
scarred turf of the First Amend
ment. The courts and the owner
contend that what is at stake is free
dom of speech.
“I am here in defense of the First
Amendment,” said Daniel Silver, a
New Britain lawyer whose firm of
Pudlin and Silver represents the
plaintiffs in suits involving both
towns.
Losing one court battle after an
other has beefed up the resolve in
East Haven to at least regulate the
pornographic establishments, keep
ing them as far away from young
sters as possible.
“Naturally we’re against it. I don’t
want to expose the young people to
this,” Mayor Anthony Proto, Jr. said.
“But what we’re learning is that
the judge ruled you can’t stop them.
According to the First Amendment,
under the Constitution, you can’t
stop them.”
The last hurdle fell quietly.
Late one night, as the mayor
watched and a man snored in a cor
ner of the Senior Citizens Commu
nity Center, the Planning and Zon-
ing Commission voted for
regulations permitting peep shows.
“I don’t see much choice,” Com
mission Chairman Pasquale Romano
told board members before the vote.
“What’s happening is what’s hap
pening in the rest of the country —
we’re being inundated.”
The Zoning Commission voted to
amend town regulations in response
to a judicial decision by U.S. District
_Court Judge Ellen B. Burns that
spelled defeat for the town officials
Burns ruled against the towns
blanket zoning, passed in 1982,tbs
prohibited all uses not specifiedl)|
the town and would have included
peep shows. She also ruled
forcing peep show operators to bell-
censed by the police chief.
East Haven officials refused
give up. They decided if they co
not stop the business, they could ai
least regulate it through restrictions
“The court said as a matter of la*
towns cannot unreasonably pr
freedom of speech and express®
of operators of the store,” assistaid
town attorney Michael Albis said
The commission subsequenili
voted for rules restricting the movi
booths from within 500 feet
churches, schools, day care centen
and bars or restaurants servingaltf
holic beverages other than beer and
wine.
“If we don’t do this, we’ll beallo*
ing them to go anywhere they want
Romano said, “If we have to ha' 1
them, I think we should conird
them.”
In West Haven, town officialsand
residents remain undaunted c
another succession of legal defeat
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