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Friday, September 2, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7 nviromental group guards srare cave creatures’ welfare s AUSTIN (AP) — Members of the ■vironmental group Earth First! phdged Thursday to continue Harding three caves until federal ofilcials declare five kinds of crea- tures found inside them to be en- Hngered species. ®‘We are determined to remain in :caves until we can get some legal (utection for those cave inverte- \tes,” Barbara Dugleby, Earth ^st! coordinator, said. he caves — named Tooth, Am- and Kretschmarr and located in Hthwestern Travis County — and are home to a unique group of cave- adapted species, Dugleby said. Five Htne species, including beetles and spiders, have been proposed as “en- Higered” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "T ! h e environmental activists began occupying the caves early Monday, charging that nearby development 2 be !. was threatening them and the crea tures inside. Dr. Fred Purcell, owner of the property, has denied that the caves are oeing threatened. Purcell said he is working with city officials and re searchers to keep the caves intact. University of Texas entomologist James Reddell, author of about 100 articles on cave environments, said this week Purcell had been “totally cooperative” with researchers who have explored and studied the caves. An Earth First! spokesman, Christi Stevens, said the organiza tion wasn’t allowed to take part in a meeting with Fish and Wildlife offi cials Thursday. Dugleby said she thought the session was only foot- dragging, anyway. “The Reagan administration is putting business and politics ahead of protection once again,” she said, saying authorities are disucssing such things as the size of buffer zones ancl types of threats pre sented. “That’s irrelevant,” Dugleby said. “Questions about what is threaten ing the caves have been answered. Years ago, scientists wrote letters ex plaining that.” “What we’re requesting is that they list the species now — the infor mation is there, the scientific docu mentation is there — and quibble later over how much buffer is needed.” Earlier this week, entomologist Reddell critizied Earth First!, saying the activists could be harming the caves by their presence. Dugleby said the Earth First! members weren’t living in the caves around the clock and were being careful. “We’re there, next to the caves, observing the activities going on around them,” she said. Rescuers help plane’s pilot in last attempt I DALLAS (AP) — The last sur- ■ivor of Delta Flight 1141 Beached by rescuers was the pilot, Bho passengers say coaxed them out of the burning wreckage while pinned on his back beneath debris. B Capt. Larry Lon Davis, 48, was listed in fair condition at Park- »nd Hospital on Thursday, the day after the plane crashed on takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The jet lost power suddenly nd bounced three times before skidding to a stop at the end of the runway and catching fire. At least 95 people survived the ash; 13 died, including two ight attendants. Many of the survivors escaped near the cockpit, which broke off from the fuselage and rolled slightly. K David Carmichael, a 35-year- old restaurateur from Monticello, IlMk., said he coidd hear Davis telling passengers to remain calm Ks they scrambled to get out of phe plane near him. T “The pilot’s seat back was bro ken so that he was lying flat on his >ack with all this debris on top,” armichael said. Mailing respondants have money returned BEAUMONT (AP) — A property company accused of attracting 5,000 people to a Liberty County resort through fraudulant mailings will re pay $50 to each person who re sponded to the promotional letters, a federal attorney said. “These people are still operating but they have stopped the fraudu lent mailings,” U.S. Attorney Bob Wortham said of Lebanon Prop erties, which does business as Cy press Lakes, Cypress Lakes Estates and Cypress Lakes Sports Club. “We are making them pay back everybody who went out there from Jan. 1, 1986, to June 30, 1986, and did not buy property,” he said. “Those people should be getting $50 checks in the mail.” Wortham said the mailings prom ised that the people would get such gifts as a car, fur coats or $1,000 in cash after visiting the company’s property at Cypress Lakes near Cleveland from January to June 1986. U.S. District Judge Howell Cobb on May 5 issued final judgments and cease and desist orders against Leb anon Properties and Femrite and Associates Inc., a Dallas-based mail ing company, in connection with the advertisements. His rulings came af ter federal prosecutors reached a compromise in the case with the companies. “This stuff is a true nuisance to the community,” Wortham said. “People take the whole day off from work, their wives take time off from work and they travel all the way up there to get something of value and all they (got) was junk.” Wortham said Lebanon Prop erties must pay $500,000 to the U.S. Postal Service for its investigative costs, and pay restitution totaling $200,000 to $250,000 in payments of $50 each to the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people involved. Fermite must pay $75,000 to the postal service and $75,000 in restitu tion to people who toured the prop erty, he said. 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