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Sun. l2-6p.m. ( 693-0920 Car customizer says avocation retains youth MIDLAND (AP) — Allen Frasier remembers when he was l 1 years old and his older brother, Carl, was working on his car at Midland Paint and Body Shop and elicited his help. That was 25 years ago and the begin ning of a fascination with cars which is still growing today. “It becomes an addiction,” Frasier says. “Like anything else, once vou start it’s hard to stop. Everybody gets enthused with it.” The first car the two brothers cus tomized was a ’55 Nomad, a station wagon. “We cut it down into a pickup,” Frasier says. He laughs and adds, “Of course we wouldn’t do that now; it’s worth too much money.” Frasier, vice president of Midland Auto Buffs, is president of ARC Truck and Auto Body and president of Video Air Time. The Midland-Odessa area has sev eral nationally sanctioned auto mobile clubs, including Classic Chevy, the Permian Basin Oil Burn ers, the West Texas Street Rods As sociation and the West Texas Car Club, Frasier says. Car club members have a place to “get together and he able to swap ideas and swap labor,” Frasier says. The members in the clubs are “not just a hunch of guys running around crazy on the streets,” hut people who enjoy doing “something for the com munity as well” and have staged cat- shows for various non-profit fund raisers. Frasier organized an Autorama Car Show in connection with last week’s National Demolition Derby at the Twin Cities Speedway between Midland and Odessa. Restoring or customizing a car re quires money and time, he says. “I’ve seen guys that could take and spend a month on a car doing little things to it and have it just where they want it, and some guys take six or seven years just to restore a car,” Frasier says. But after 25 years spent working on customizing and restoring cars, Frasier finds the fascination to cen ter around a return to youth. “For a lot of guys, this really brings out the kid in them. Let’s say a guy drove a ’55 Chevy in high school. Notv, he’s made some money and wants to go hack and relive his youth of yesterday. “We’re all kids at heart; the older we get the younger we get," Fraster says. “We’re wanting to do again all the things we had fun doing hack then.” Kick! Printis “Doc" Hyde, a senior physical education major from College Station defensiveh kicks Joe Bostick. The two Fighting Arts Club. >f the ( t Galveston officials hope Gilbert will spare island M. N nn ti' §!; nu GALVKSTON (AP) — Citv offi cials, hopeful Hurricane Gilbert will continue its trek toward South Texas and spare the island, postponed call ing for any evacuations until Thurs day evening. “If the storm or hurricane contin ues in its present course, we could delay the decision to evacuate and if it doesn't intensify, we could make a decision as late as 8 pan. tonight." Citv Manager Doug Matthews said at a Thursday afternoon news confer ence. Officials, however, were warning residents of Galveston’s west end, which is not protected b\ a 17-foot- high seawall, to watch for high tides as the onlv road heading out of the area usually floods. “We're telling people on the west end that there's onlv two foot tides above normal, added weather tides could reach above normal bv Matthews said, reports indicate six to Thur He the seven leet ila\ night. He suggested if west end residents don’t lease the island entirely, that thev at least move behind the sea wall. ’ Despite when makes landiall, winds associated \ expected along coast. (»alv eston t hurricane watch I \v ai tL Sill in W Si Tho ston tr Y. b< estimate evacuate predict Galveston officials would take 17 hours to entire island. Officials predict t><) percent of the island's 63,000 resi dents will leave before the hurricane hits. Gilbert, at one point considered the strongest storm on record with winds as high as 175 mph, was trav eling west northwest in the Gulf of Mexico toward Brownsville. Fore casters, however, warn that the storm could turn north. pic M< St:! d m n< “Gilben A wav” ned m T S' a. SCj nn g' Houston residents preparing for worst as Hurricane Gilbert approachescoas to: St Yr Si I Yr i les HOUSTON (AP) — Despite indi cations that Hurricane Gilbert would vent its wrath on the southern Texas coast, Houston residents were taping up windows, buying food and water and removing tall billboards along freeways — just in case. Even in the exclusive River Oaks neighborhood, residents -were stor ing up on canned crab and lobster and jars of caviar to make sure thev could weather the storm in style. The killer hurricane, weakened somewhat after hitting the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, churned through the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and seemed headed to wards the South Texas coast f or pos sible landfall Friday. Brownsville was given a 32 per cent probability of being the spot where Gilbert will hit land, though a hurricane watch was in ef fect along the entire Texas coast as well as the northeastern Mexican coast from Tampico. Houston residents who remem bered the damage caused by Hurri cane Alicia in 1983 were stocking up on supplies and securing their homes and some even went north ward to wait out the storm. Gilbert’s threat even prompted promoters to delay Saturday night’s sold-out show featuring Frank Sina tra, Liza Minnelli and Sammv Davis Jr. until Oct. 9. City officials continued a close watch on the storm, but they had hoped Houston would he spared from any severe weather. Mayor Kathy Whitmire said since the storm seemed headed to South Texas, the citv would continue all set v ices and would not close down town Houston. “1 think at this point, the news is encouraging,” she told reporters Thursday. Several < itv employees in the base ment of the Emergency Manage ment Center kept track of the storm and checking all types of serv ices in cluding radio systems, radar and teletypes. If Gilbert should change course and a hurricane warning is issued for the Galveston and Ilouston area, Whitmire said the aMitenBB| into f ull operations ando^B 1 might he closed off bv pkH nc temporarily. W lien \lu la hit (ijhrBBI. I 983. hr.tv v i .mis .mii s' lid v pounded Houston. Tkfito sheathed skyscrapers in torin 1 Icuimc >n wet e hit In i]i jozen from other buildings. er ns nerr FBI investigates shuttle sabotag ‘ii mi i Heck. “11 SAF I LAKE CITY (AP) — The FBI is investigating at least one per son in the apparent sabotage of ()- rings used on space shuttle rocket motors and an arrest or indictment is imminent, an agent said Thurs day. HydraPak, which man u fact tires the O-rings in West Jordan, Utah, discovered in June that a small num ber of the rubber-like seals had been deliberately cut. Officials immedi ately notified rocket maker Morton Thiokol, the FBI and the National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion. and the federal agencies began a joint investigation. “We do have suspects and the case will be prosecutable," said FBI Spe cial Agent Cal Clegg. “Right from the inception, we have been dis cussing tlie case with the U.S. attor ney's office, and we feel that arrests or indictments w ill be imminent." Clegg said he did not know whether more than one person was suspected, but the number "could expand ... it depends on the evi dence that is gathered.” Charges could he Filed within the month, he said. James Dot hslader, HvuraPak v ice president of production,'.! 'ere that none of the damaged(hy been shipped to MortonIidn'i which manufactures themChat its northern l tab plant, 'ould I he O-rings are used ass®! tween segments of tho'r’Nat rocket to prevent leakage"Ttet hot gases from burningpropd'essu Alter the 1986 rhallengff ut «l sion. a presidential i". < found that an O-ring al c a e\ plume of fiery gas toescapf ev el<: nite the shuttle’s main lif istei tank, triggering the blasttfc' 111 (’.hallenger’s seven crewmen^B I I jrj Large 1 16” One Topping Thin Crust Pizza Eat In or Take Out Free Delivery 846-0379 Best Pizza in Town Northgate £C99 + tax expires 9-20-88 Small 12” One Topping Thin Crust Pizza M-F llam-12am Sat lpm-2am Sun lpm-12am Eat In or Take Out Free Delivery 846-0379 Best Pizza in Town Northgate $4" ■■ + tax expires 9-20-88 I l l l 1 l l I I MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness presents: THE OLYMPICS: AN INSIDE LOOK Speaker: Randy Matson, Executive Director of the Association of Former Students, Aggie shotputter ’64 Silver, '68 Gold