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tasspoiling the popular stream.
River proprietors also say a
insistent and recently slow river
bwhas kept inner-tubers and
liters coming to town at a stead-
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iven't disappeared along a 22-
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"We've made a lot of progress,
twe've still got a ways to go,"
id Comal County Judge Carter
Casteel, who has floated the river
surveying the situation.
"It's much better than what 1
saw last year," she said. "The
public awareness has certainly
made a major dent in this all."
Zero Rivers, owner of Rockin R
River Rides, one of the largest out
fitters on the Guadalupe, said in
creased law enforcement has
helped. But he contends educating
the public is the key to maintain
ing river quality.
"The way to attack this is not,
'You slobs, quit coming here.' It's
education," Rivers said.
Bill Perkins and John Guenzel,
who have run the Rio Raft Co. on
the Guadalupe since 1976, also
said more education is necessary,
along with more law enforcement.
"The problem is there and it's
going to be there, in my opinion,
until we get a program of educat
ing the people before they get on
the river and enforcing the rules
that we have," Perkins said.
After last summer's riotous
ending, when tubers and rafters
packed the river the final six
weeks as water conditions finally
were conducive to recreation, lo
cal officials pledged to clean
things up this year.
"There was a consensus that
people had gone too far and gotten
too rowdy, ' said Comal County
Sheriff Jack Bremer, who this year
set up checkpoints on a major road
leading to river establishments.
Officers checked for minors in
possession of alcohol, drug pos
session and criminal back
grounds. The sheriff's department
also increased the number of offi
cers on patrol, Bremer said.
From Memorial Day weekend
until late August, those efforts
had resulted in 330 public intoxi
cation arrests; 182 criminal tres
pass arrests; 145 driving while in
toxicated arrests; 108 possession
of a controlled substance arrests;
and 37 assault arrests.
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; SAN ANTONIO-The 59th
Southwest Open state chess
championships has attracted
young and old players alike to
ahotel that hostecf Texas' first
such event.
More than 100 chess play
ers, including about a dozen
youths, competed this week
end for trophies and cash
prizes from $100 to $1,000 at
theMenger Hotel. It was the
site of the first Texas chess
championship on Feb. 27,1892.
Among the players was a
ind man who used a special
laying board that allowed
lim to feel pieces without
moving them and a disabled
player who reclined in his
wheelchair as he made moves.
Topping the tournament
slate and playing in the open
section against chess masters
Saturday was Florentine Gar-
mendez of Linares, Mexico.
The Mexican government
pays Garmendez, who has a
U.S. rating of 2,500 points, to
leach chess to youths and
compete in about 25 tourna
ments annually.
'There's a lot a dead person can do'
Woman finds out she's
been dead for 11 years
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — A Central Texas woman is dead serious about getting
the record straight on her records.
Late last month, a credit bureau told Madeline Cheney that com-
puter records listed her as dead and asked her if she could prove
she's still alive.
Cheney told the Austin American-Statesman that convincing others
of that fact may yet be the death of her.
The Williamson County woman was shocked when she learned last
fall that the Social Security Administration considered her dead — as of
11 years ago.
In January, she walked into the Austin Social Security office and an
nounced: "Hi. I'm here. And 1 just wanted to say I'm alive."
She said a woman punched her number into a computer, dropped
her mouth open and said: "You've been dead since April of 1982."
Since that January day, "This has just mushroomed into a massive
effort on our part and on theirs, too, in trying to make her alive
again. It's not as simple as you'd think," said Madeline's husband,
Gerry Cheney.
Last fall, the Cheneys were moving from Massachusetts to Austin
when a prospective landlord checked their credit and told Gerry: "We
thought we'd let you know that your wife is coming up dead with her
Social Security number."
Then the Cheneys discovered that Social Security had accepted taxes
on her behalf and had recorded a change of address and change of
name when she married.
"There's a lot a dead person can do," Cheney said.
However, Social Security officials said they could not tell Cheney, a
certified optician, whose account was credited with the employment
taxes she paid through the years.
The Austin Social Security office's manager, Carroll Ferguson, said
such cases "happen from time to time," usually when people change
their Social Security numbers.
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