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I 268-1407 696-9578 | CarePlus Dental Centers I Exp. 09-30-94 _ J Page 12 ' .. . : ' ■ ' , ■ ' . : ■ The battalion Monday August 29,1994 Tornadoes wreck havoc over Wisconsin Special services we offer • Sports Orthopedic Rehabilitation • Occupational & Motor Vehicle Injuries • Back Neck Injuries • Human Performance Testing Evaluation • Pre-Employment Occupational Testing Sports o Back &' Clinic 2011 A. Villa Maria • Bryan, Texas 77802 (409) 776-2225 BIG FLATS, Wis. (AP) — Shirley Andersen looked up from the floor and saw her house was gone, ripped away by a tornado. A couple in their 60s rode out the storm in their bathtub. The town hall was squashed “like a soda can.” Four people were killed as tor nadoes tore across Wisconsin dur ing the night Saturday, ripping up small communities and farms. One tornado gouged a 13- mile-long swath through central Wisconsin and turned this small town’s main street into a tangle of metal, lumber and trees. “All I could think about was all this stuff was going to come down on my head and it was go ing to hurt,” said Shirley Warn er, 57, who was staying at a friend’s mobile home in Big Flats with her 6-year-old grand son, Nicholas Forslund. “I tried to pull the mattress over my head but I couldn’t get it off the bed. And then all of a sudden, ‘Wooooof.’ It was over.” The walls were torn away and most of the furniture blown out. Damage from the tornado in Adams County, where Big Flats is located, was estimated at S4.5 million, Sheriff Robert Far- ber said. The bodies of an elderly cou ple were found in the wreckage of their home near Big Flats. Twenty-two people were in jured and five remained hospi talized Sunday, Farber said. Authorities knew of 24 houses destroyed in Adams County and about 175 damaged. A tornado in Eau Claire County in western Wisconsin killed a 3-year-old girl when a trailer home was blown into a ditch. A woman riding in a van that was blown off a highway also died. More tornadoes touched down in Green Lake and Juneau coun ties, wrecking houses and bams and leaving dead cattle in pas tures. Adams County Emergency Government Director Frank Zer- nia estimated up to 400 of the 740 residents of Big Flats, 80 miles north of Madison, were affected by the tornado. The town sits in a flat, heavily wooded area of pota to farms and vacation homes. Trees were draped with pink insulation, power lines lay across roads and broken glass and splintered boards were scattered throughout the area. The buzz of chainsaws working to clear fallen trees from yards and roadways seemed nonstop on Sunday. The only recognizable feature of what used to be the town hall was the concrete vault used to x' WISCONSIN Tornadoes touch down Saturday night \ MINN. IOWA 50 miles 50 km store public documents. The sheet metal siding was strewn a few hundred yards away in a field, crumpled like a wad of pa per. National Guard Capt. Scott Meske, one of the 40 service men sent to the area, said the Arf Has Moved! Look for 4.0 and Go All sorts of Tutoring across from the Hilton in the Village Shopping Center near the Golden Corral and Blockbuster Video. Look for reviews in the following classes to start on the following dates: Acct 229 - Sept. 12 3pm and 7pm Acct 230 - Sept. 19 Bana 303 - Sept. 12 again Sept. 18 Math 151 - Sept. 19 again Sept. 18 Math 152 - Sept. 12 again Sept. 19 Alaskan community faces flooding, isolation as local river violently surges ANCHORAGE, Fairbanks. crews, Bergman said. some people in there municipal building looked as though it was crushed “like a soda can.” Big Flats residents Bob Geiger, 65, and his wife, Mari on, 60, rode out the storm in their bathtub as their roof was torn off and windows shattered. Geiger said they crawled into the tub because it seemed like the safest place. “Glass was flying, you could hardly see anything. Things were whirling around,” he said. “I was really scared.” Shirley Andersen, 58, looking at the wreckage of her trailer home Sunday morning, said the last thing she remembered be fore the twister hit was the lights going out and her hus band reaching for a candle. “And that was it. That fast. It was over,” she said. “We hit the floor. It seemed like a half a second later I raised my head up from the floor and looked to the north and there was nothing there. Everything was gone,” she said. Anderson, her husband and two granddaughters escaped without serious injury. All that remained of the trailer home was the foundation. Job growth expected to 3pm and 7pm 5pm (1 week early) (Sunday) 9pm 11pm (1 week early) (Sunday) 7pm and 9pm 9pm (Iweek early) 5pm For more information, dial 846 - Tutor (8886) HURRY, BUT KEEP YOUR PANTS ON! THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER YOUR ORGANIZATION FOR THE MSC OPEN HOUSE! SPACE IS LIMITED!! DEADLINE: Sept. 6,1994 at 5:00 P.M. PRICE: $22 (For one table only) HOW: Reserve a table from 8-5 with Nancy Adams in the Student Programs Office, Rm 216 MSC. THE MSC PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMUTE ANCHORAGE Alaska (AP) — Army helicopters were sent Sunday to evacuate residents of the village of Allakaket after the Koyukuk River surged to its highest level in 40 years. “We’re completely surrounded by water,” Allakaket Mayor Agnes Bergman said. No injuries were re ported and nobody was in immediate danger, National Guard Capt. Mike Haller said from Anchorage. One house in Allakaket was up rooted and a neighbor said only the electric wires were keeping it from being swept downstream. The community of about 175 people is 180 miles northwest of Fairbanks. The river has been rising because of heavy rains last week in Interi or Alaska. It was not ex pected to crest until Monday at Allakaket. Most of the village’s 35 to 40 homes were flooded with about 4 or 5 feet of water, Haller said. Allakaket villagers were putting belong ings on top of houses and building a heliport on high ground for the evacuation. The town’s only airplane landing strip was under 5 feet of water. Making matters dif ficult, most of the able- bodied men from the remote, largely Alaska Native community were in the Lower 48 as part of firefighting crews, Bergman said. Marian Acker took refuge at the school af ter her cabin flooded. “I also lost my gar den,” she said. “I was waiting for the first frost to pull the pota toes out. But they’re gone now.” Water was rising at a rate of 1 1/2 inches per hour near the school, where many sought shelter, but would not enter the building until some time Monday, if at all, school principal Mary Moses-Edwin said. Both Army and Na tional Guard troops were headed to the vil lage in the Army heli copters, Haller said. “It’s real serious, and for the sake of life and limb we’re getting some people in there,” Haller said. The Red Cross was arranging food and housing for an expect ed 127 evacuees at the Army’s Fort Wain- wright base in Fair banks, he said. Four sections of the Dalton Highway, Alaska’s only road north to the Arctic Coast, were washed out Saturday, tem porarily stranding truckers and tourists. “We’re looking at the highest flood on that river in our recorded history,” Na tional Weather Service hydrologist Paul Mey er said. Records for that section of the riv er have been kept for 40 years, he said. O J. 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Simpson’s attorneys have claimed in court pa pers that Fuhrman hates blacks and other minori ties and once tried to frame a black suspect. The Police Department has opposed the defense request, as has Fuhrman, whose attorney por trayed the request as a desperate act. The defense is also seeking Fuhrman’s military records and police department records on other of ficers tied to the case, including Detectives Philip Vannatter, Tom Lange and Fuhrman’s partner, Ronald Phillips. In a motion filed earlier this month, the de fense claims that Vannatter and Lange lied and concealed facts to obtain a warrant to search Simpson’s estate, and that Phillips violated po lice procedures. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito will decide whether to make the records available and, if so, which ones. Last week, Ito ruled the prosecution didn’t have to share blood samples the defense said it wanted for independent genetic testing. Simpson has pleaded innocent to the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, 25. Discrediting Fuhrman is important to the de fense because the glove he said he found the day after the Jupe 12 killings may be among one of the most incriminating pieces of evidence. Trial is set to begin Sept. 19 with jury selection. remain steady NEW YORK (AP) - Job growth in the United States should remain steady during the fourth quarter, despite what some analysts see as signs of a slowing economy, a survey Finds. Milwaukee-based Manpow er Inc., a temporary help firm, says its quarterly telephone survey of 15,000 businesses, being released Monday, shows 26 percent plan to hire more workers. Ten percent plan job cuts, 61 percent expect ne change and 3 percent are un certain. Fourth-quarter hiring pro jections are lower than the pre vious two quarters but better than the fourth quarter of last year, when 22 percent planned to add workers and 11 percent projected cuts. “The nation’s job machine is now producing at a continuing and steady pace but it is stilt tempered by a concern for total labor costs in a very competi tive pricing environment,” said Manpower chief executive Mitchell S. Fromstein. Merrill Lynch & Co. senior economist Bruce Steinberg said the survey results are “consistent with what we’re seeing in the economy — it continues to grow but not as rapidly as it was in the first half of the year.” One factor slowing the econ omy is rising interest rates, Steinberg said. Another is uncertainty over the effect of proposed health care reforms on businesses said Raymond Worseck, chiel economist with A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in St. Louis. “There’s a great reluctance to hire people on a full-timek sis if firms can possibly avoid it,” Worseck said. 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