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Page \4/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 14, 1988 Roy’s Ridge Crest Barber Shop * (located next to Victors Boots on Texas Ave.) Introducing our Corps Special All Corps haircuts only $ 5 oo so drive a little, save a lot Come see Roy, Don, Cecilie, John Open Mon.-Sat. 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 846-8949 Orthopedic ssociates Douglas M. Stauch, M.D., P.A. james B. Giles, M.D., P.A. Mark B. Riley, M.D. Board Certified Are Pleased to Announce the Relocation and Expansion of their Office to Brazos Valley Medical Plaza 1 602 Rock Prairie Road, Suite 360 College Station, 693-6339 (Eff. 9/12/88) On active staff at both local hospitals ARTHROSCOPY • ARTHRITIS TOTAL IOINT REPLACEMENT SPORTS MEDICINE LUMBAR DISC SURGERY HAND SURGERY & FOOT DISORDERS Effective September 12, 1988 IS YOUR ROOM BARE? then come to the MSC Visual Arts ^fr September 12-16, 9-5 in the MSC main hall and remember: be happy DUMMY BOARDS • DECORATED BOXES • WEATHERVAX.ES • HERBS • LAMPSHADES American Country Shows, Inc. presents Country Peddler Show Folk Art Show and Sale AUSTIN, TEXAS Texas Exposition & Heritage Center Arena Home of the Austin-Travis County livestock Show & Rodeo 7311 Decker Ln., Hwy 290 E. of Austin to Decker Ln. (FM) 3177) S. 3.5 ML FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1988 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1988 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1988 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM HERBS • CAHDLES • CHAIRS • RUGS • BLACKSMITH SANTAS • POTTERY • COUNTRY BASKETS • WEAVING TIN • LAMPS • COUNTRY APPAREL • QUILTS • FURNITURE The perfect street of shops — like walking through the pages of your favorite Christmas magazine Admission Adults: 03.50 • Children 01.50 < American Country Shows Inc. § Box 560 • DeWitt, Michigan 48820 • (517) 669-5162 2 • SLATEWARE • FURNITURE • COPPER • LIWNS • LACES • FRAMES • BRIDGE LAMPS • World and Nation 8000 people evacuated as fire continues to bum in California LAKE WILDWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Nearly 3,000 firefighters battled a third day Tuesday to control a rag ing timber fire that ringed a high- tech industrial complex after de stroying almost 100 homes and forc ing thousands to evacuate. At least 97 homes and 57 other buildings were destroyed, and 4,000 to 5,000 other structures were threatened by the fast-moving, wind-fanned blaze northeast of Sac ramento in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. In less than 72 hours it blackened more than 40 square miles of brush and timber north and west of Grass Valley and Nevada City in a half moon arc 12 miles long and two to five miles wide. “This is the classic forest-urban in terface. This is the fire of the 1990s,” said Ed Waggoner of the state De partment of Forestry, the operations director of the 2,788-member fire fighting force. However, fire officials said fire fighting conditions were improved Tuesday, with an easing of the 20-30 mph wind that blew Sunday and Monday, and slightly higher humid ity. “We’re not out of the woods, but we’re relieved. We have a more nor mal weather sitution today,” said De partment of Forestry spokeman Frank Bates. An estimated 8,000 people were evacuated from their homes in seve ral communities. Fire officials stressed that many homes were still in danger, especially in Rough and Ready, a community of 500 residents in the heavily wooded bottom of a steep canyon on the edge of the fire about seven miles west of Grass Valley. said the fire had grown to 29,700 acres Tuesday afternoon. Federal fire officials have call • | this the worst forest fire season ( the West in 30 years, especiallv (o" 1 sidering the fires in and around Yellowstone National Park i i fires have charred 939,270 acres m the 2.2 million-acre park since |unt° Firefighters there took advantage ol a make some headway ol \ , ruesday co| d spell to against the blazes before potentially mtji warmer weather sets in. In California, a wall ofllariff to 50 feet high surroundedr sides ol the forested Gras Hi (>roup industrial complex,' phisticated television graph produced for networks am stations worldwide. Althou-. were still within a few hundfr.l of the complex fuesdav 1 said .he danger there hadk suhstantialh. Fire planning chief Steve Iverson said saving Rough and Ready was one of Tuesday’s top priorities, but he cautioned that it was a partic ularly dangerous area for firefight ers because of limited access via a narrow road. There were reports people were allowed to return to the town but “we’ve had a flareup and they’re still evacuated there,” said fire informa tion officer Carolyn Phillips. She Republicans plan to help Hispanics Louisiana prepares for Gilbert’s arrival NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil com panies evacuated thousands of work ers from rigs in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday while residents along the Louisiana coast awaited word on whether Hurricane Gilbert would become the second cyclone to hit them in a week. Hurricane Florence took a rela tively weak swipe at the state Friday and Saturday. Gilbert, a much stronger storm swirling through the Caribbean, was upgraded to a cat egory 5 hurricane Tuesday af ternoon as winds reached 160 miles per hour. The storm was moving to the northwest at about 15 miles per hour, and forecasters predicted it would enter the Gulf Wednesday. “We began evacuating our off shore drilling personnel yesterday and we’re finishing that up today,” Shell spokesman Billy Vehnekamp said Tuesday. Other companies were following suit. Gene Graves, marketing director for Petroleum Helicopters Inc. in Lafayette, said his company’s 18 bases in the Gulf Coast region were operating at full capacity evacuating the rigs. He estimated that all the 10,000 or so workers who normally work the Gulf would be evacuated by Wednesday. “I suspect that by noon to two o’clock (Wednesday) • we’ll have cleaned off everything,” Graves said. “We’ve got to have about a 24-hour cushion to play with this one. “I don’t think anybody’s going to ride this one out, that I’m sure of.” WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate R r . publicans propose*! a series oj e( | l cation, employment and health inj. tiatives Tuesday aimed at ensuring Hispanics have ac^ss to the oppor tunities and suppoft systems alreatlv available to most Americans. But the Democratic chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Rep. Albert Bustamante, said there was not really any substance report and that its findings w election year-type nf rhetoric. “They need a primer on under standing the issue* because they a |_ ways vote wrong nn the issues. i*, n that i an areas. We don't need „ guidelines, we need votes ; Republicans to support th? grams.” 1 he Senate has no Hisp I be is, while the House hatsod Hatch said many of tbtj mendations could lx: acc with legislation while theai, lion would be encouragedi, lion through executive order. ‘id the allintr i sition out there, nio congressman, disaster for Hisparm s. But another Hispani Vehnekamp said many workers had not yet returned to Gulf rigs fol lowing evacuations before Hurri cane Florence hit the southeast Loui siana Gulf coast last weekend. Tuesday afternoon forecasts indi cated the storm was more likely to hit Texas than Louisiana. But Gov. Buddy Roemer said the the state would be ready for Gilbert should the hurricane head for Louisiana. tional Council of L issues affecting Ibspan lion’s fastest growing group. 51 put a po. Busiai San Anio- ate Rep he 1980s a back up tionary 1 fader. Rit a ting His] and, N.Y., out that of the Na- be widcl a < said the nesses. y with the s. the n a - Sen. P popu lation member I It* said the task force had i bat ked efforts to provide Cj to fund national and localli lilerat v programs. te challenged i “We had a trial run as it turned out last week,” he said, recalling Florence. “We talked every day, coordinating national guard, the of fice of emergency preparedness ... called all parishes affected, parish ' ■ I c' presidents to see what we could do. :>ing I. Th time around. This is a big dangerous unpredictable storm. In my worst nightmare, I can see that thing turn ing north-northwest and hitting Louisiana. I’m praying that does not happen.” While the oil industry was gearing up for the storm, residents in areas along the south Louisiana coast were monitoring the storm’s progress. “We have some very important people on this (task force). This is a first. This is historic,” said Di Mar tino, vice chairman of the Republi can Party in New ^ ork state and a member of the task force’s biparti san advisory committee. “I don’t know if the Democrats have had one (task force), but 1 don’t think they have. The fact is, we had the fore sight to do it.” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah and chairman of the panel, said the ef fort is bi-partisan. “ This should not fx; messed up with politics,” fie said. work w as aimed more att ministration so the new i and Congress can put logi initiative for the future." “I challenge everyone across the country to get a copy and let us know what we can do and w hat we c an do better,” Hatch said. “ 1 his (report) is a great beginning.’ But Bustamante said "people in our areas don’t read position papers, not in the barrios and the rural The report said educat most critical issue in the community. Unless drop out rates are turnrtii voting Hispanics will not be find jobs .is the United Stat« f rom a manufacturing tots ogv and service-basedecon greater needs for wortei higher skills. Hispanics are the leasi major population groupinir try, the study said. The task force’s ream lions include expanding and local initiatives to redw acy and combat a high Hisp dent dropout rate and to; programs at the federal,stale cal levels and in the privati that provide managerial sH lance to small minoritybusin 1 A Candidates deal with questions about economics, foreign policy Associated Press Michael Dukakis questioned on Tuesday how George Bush would be able to deal with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev if he couldn’t stand up to the ayatollah or Noriega. The vice presi dent preached the gospel of Republican prosper ity and said America is a “rising nation again.” GOP vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle announced to a Milwaukee audience that Duka kis had lost his top naval adviser. “His rubber duck drowned in his bathtub,” Quayle said in an other in a series of comments designed to under cut the Democratic candidate’s foreign policy and defense credentials. The Republican campaign was buffeted with more controversy when the co-chairman of “Bul garians for Bush” resigned after being identified in a newspaper report as the former head of a Nazi-aligned group formed in Bulgaria after World War II. Radi Slavoff became the sixth per son to resign from Bush ethnic organizations over allegations of anti-Semitic activities. Top Republican National Committee official Frederic V. Malek also resigned Sunday after it was reported that he had conducted a survey un der orders from then-President Nixon of top Bu reau of Labor Statistics officials to see how many of them werejewish. Bush offered no comment Tuesday, but Presi dent Reagan, in remarks before Slavoffs depar ture had been announced, said he was sure the vice president’s campaign hadn’t suffered from any appearance of anti-Semitism. He added he was certain “because I know (Bush) and 1 know the people involved, and there isn’t an iota of dis crimination in any of them.” The rhetoric and the resignation came as two fresh polls provided snapshots of a close presi dential race with eight weeks remaining. One survey indicated Bush was leading, but Ijv less than the poll’s margin of error. The other indi cated Dukakis led, but also by less than the mar gin of potential error. The image was thus of a race still forming, with the outcome likely to be heavily influenced by two presidential debates in late September and mid-October, as well as by an early October confrontation between Quayle and Derij vit e presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen NBG executives said Tuesday thenet«oi| reversed its decision and will carry the fits! j? dential debate live on Sept. 25, intemjg prime-time coverage of the Summer Ol) 1 * The other major networks said earfoj | would cover the debate as it occurred. Bush large and Dukakis battleg round made the: states durul Both through day. Dukakis, hoping to bolster his stand® candidate knowledgable about foreign pi H fered his view of U.S.-Soviet relations,cr® Bush and Quayle and invoking the opi rhetoric of John F. Kennedy. Sc Ag: “Civility is not a sign of weakness and si ^ is always subject to proof,” he quoted Kemy «g^„ saying. 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