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Storms not enough to end drought
Weekend rains brought some relief to isolated parts of North Texas
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DALLAS (AP) —
Weekend rains brought
some relief to a thirsty
Texas, but not enough to
end the devastating 10-
month drought, meteorol
ogists said Sunday.
A storm that lashed
the Dallas-Fort Worth
area with winds gusting
higher than 100 mph
dropped an average of a
half-inch to an inch of
rain on Saturday. Other
showers and thunder
storms over the weekend
left 3 to 4 inches of rain
over isolated parts of
North Texas.
“The rains that we’ve
had in the last couple of
days have been benefi
cial, but it’s nowhere
near the deficit that we
have,” said Jesse Moore,
a meteorologist at the
National Weather Ser
vice in Fort Worth. “The
drought is a long-term
thing that has been going
on for 10 months.”
State agriculture offi
cials say the drought
could become the worst
natural disaster to hit
Texas this century, cost
ing farmers and ranch
ers billions.
The dryness rivals
that of the 1930s Dust
Bowl in Texas, New
Mexico, Colorado,
Kansas and Oklahoma,
experts say.
Last week. President
Clinton ordered $70 mil
lion in federal assistance
for grain producers in
Texas and Oklahoma.
While the recent pre
cipitation has helped fill
some small ponds and
boosted the levels of some
area lakes by a couple of
inches, “what you need is
heavier rain over a larger
area than we’ve had,”
Moore said.
This weekend, por
tions of Central and
South Texas reported
rain totals of between 3
and 6 inches.
“I’m sure some people
are very happy — just
not everybody,” said
has A&
|j Nelson
nl Worn-
Track
idi of the
by the
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Kermit Weiss, a Texas farmer, plows a devastated hack
wheat field for next year's planting.
1 ' 0 wlion on
meteorologist Bruce Weather Service office
Thoren of the National in San Antonio.
NCAA
and
New Riverwalk ordinance targets noise
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
There’s a new battle of sorts in
the Alamo City, but this time
the participants aren’t defenders
of the landmark mission and
Mexican troops.
A new noise-and-crowd ordi
nance that kicked in this week
end requires bars, restaurants
and other businesses along the
famed Riverwalk to remove out
door speakers and amplifiers
and to keep patrons who are
waiting outside from blocking
pedestrian passage.
It didn’t take long for the or
dinance, which went into effect
at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, to be
broken. Major violators of the
new 72-decibel maximum were
angry patrons.
“That’s so stupid,” said Deb
orah Rudd, who was listening
to a toned-down reggae band at
Tropical Drink Co., an easy tar
get for violations because it
opens into a courtyard.
The 24-year-old student said
she could be driven away if the
volume remains turned down on
the live music she enjoys hearing.
“They’re going to lose a lot of
business, including mine,” Ms.
Rudd told the San Antonio Ex
press-News.
"They're going to lose a
lot of business, including
u mine.
— DEBORAH RUDD
Riverwalk patron
No tickets were issued during
the first night. Park Rangers
have said they would try to keep
the music muted and walkways
clear through gentle persuasion,
issuing tickets only if their re
quests were flagrantly ignored.
But plenty of opinions were
formed.
A member of one band said he
doesn’t understand why the 72-
decibel maximum rule was ap
proved considering that it most
directly affects the music indus
try, which is one of the city’s big
money-makers.
“They’re cutting their own
throats,” said Kevin Weldon,
sound man for the band World
Tribe.
Tropical Drink Co. manager
John Cardenas isn’t sure how
to handle the new sound cap,
which forces sound levels into a
range somewhere between
sound created by normal con
versation and a factory.
Cardenas is hoping his loca
tion somewhat off the Riverwalk
will cut him some slack.
But, if ticketed, he has two
options in mind: “Go to court or
absorb it as an operating cost.”
Not everyone is complaining.
Jim Mathis, a member of the
Downtown Residents Associa
tion and one of a handful of re
peat callers to Park Rangers, iri | n f’
said he is happy about the 11
well-balanced” ordinance. Nev- Nelson
ertheless, he expects some es- bissixtl
tablishments won’t conform to ih ihe
the new requirements. at /
“We’ll see,” Mathis said skep-
tically as he served as a pall- )r |
bearer at a mock funeral put on recorc j
by Flard Flock Cafe to lay to rest
its now-taboo outdoor speakers,
Longtime area jazz musician 1
Jim Cullum has complained in-Rf'S I
the past about the din created by ,(, e
businesses that use a prolifera- ionship
tion of speakers as blaring “bill- nished 1
boards” to draw customers in. with 1
He was surprised this weekend 1 a
to learn that a competing restau- ,Ke .
rant registered only 76 decibels " ,"1/
on the $300 sound level meter, re
Officer Rubin Slaughter, who ner Dor
took a reading in front of one i>d for
business, said he could hear more Ihe prc
of the crowd than the music. f All-Arr
“And you can’t tell the crowd
to shut up,” he said. L^or
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FBI armored vehicles move closer to Freemen
ftcolades
100-m
laided tir
Iff finishei
JORDAN, Mont. (AP) — Fed
eral agents moved three ar
mored vehicles closer to the
Freemen ranch Sunday, within
the FBI’s road blocks around the
ranch where the anti-govern
ment group has been holed up
for 70 days.
Reporters could get no closer
than 2 1/2 miles from the en
trance to the foreclosed wheat
and cattle ranch, but there were
no indications the FBI planned
to enter the compound.
“We’ve moved them from one
parking place to another,” said a
government source who spoke
on condition of anonymity. “We
haven’t given up” trying to end
the standoff peacefully.
The FBI established addi
tional checkpoints Sunday
along a rural road between Jor
dan and the Freemen ranch 30
miles away.
According to Tom Stanton, a
neighboring rancher, the vehi
cles are parked at a spot about
four miles east of the compound
and would have access through
a back road to it.
The vehicles, which were not
visible, were last seen by re
porters topping a hill about
eight miles from the ranch’s
back gate, which was as far as
reporters could go on that road.
At the FBI staging area in
Jordan, all appeared relatively
calm. A helicopter that arrived
on Friday remained there.
The FBI has said it wanted
Hind 12th
the armored vehicles to be
available in the event it bef^
came necessary to conduct
emergency rescues or occupyiORS c
parts of the ranch.
The FBI believes 18 peopleJiyears a
three of them children, are in la| l ex 3s
side the ranch. Bon lues
Some of the adults are want p'j' 1 ^
ed on criminal charges, includ
ing allegations they circulated^. 0 .-9
millions of dollars in bogus
checks and threatened the life
a federal judge.
Gingrich supports bill opposing same-sex marriages
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
House Speaker Newt
Gingrich said Sunday he
would refuse to attend
the wedding if his lesbian
half-sister were to marry
another woman.
“I wouldn’t regard it as
a marriage, I think a mar
riage is between a man
and a woman,” the Geor
gia Republican said on
NBC’s “Meet The FYess.”
Gingrich said he ex
pected Congress to pass
by a wide margin a bill
that would define mar
riage as a union between
man and woman, making
homosexual couples ineli
gible for a wide range of
federal benefits, including
Social Security payments.
FYesident Clinton and
congressional Democrats
have accused the GOP
sponsors of the bill of
stirring up an anti-gay
issue during this election
year, but Clinton has
said he would sign the
same-sex marriage legis
lation in its current form.
Supporters say the
legislation is needed be
cause of a court case that
could make Hawaii the
first state to recognize
same sex marriages. If
that happens, other
states could have a legal
obligation to recognize
those marriages.
Gingrich said he had
been with his sister, Can
dace Gingrich, “when she
ernment or politics in the
bedroom,” he said.
He added that he op
posed same-sex marriages
mer
jnce t
"I wouldn't regard it as a
marriage, I think a mar
riage is between a man nd
remarried. I understanc
life is complicated.” W
But he said tha,
Americans “as a society
have an interest ft,
strengthening classii _
traditional marriage! , ,
and defining that marQJ^
Islrokes.
a woman.'
nage as between a ma| ;|
and a woman.
Candace Gingrich, in|place at
pre-taped interview ojkopped t
NEWT GINGRICH
Speaker of the House
had girlfriends with her.
That doesn’t offend.”
“That’s her life and I
don’t think we want gov-
“not as a puritan or a
prude. I’m divorced and
remarried, I was adopted,
my mom was divorced and
NBC’s “McLaughlin, 0:
on One” Sunday, sa
that denying gays lega
recognized unions “is
form of discriminatio
much in the same wahsday an
that allowing us to b
fired based on our orie]
tation is discrimination
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