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V The Battalion FTM^IFFIlMr 1 Hi Ij it 1 £j r llilj Pagi Wednesday • October9, Getting the Boot Rachel Redington, The Battalion PITS officer Jesse Kochenderfer checks on a car that had a boot put on it in 30-minute parking. Campus PITS, UPD sponsor free bike program A free all-day bicycle identifica tion and registration program is be ing held today in the breezeway be tween the Rudder Complex and the Memorial Student Center. The program is sponsored by the University Police Department and the Department of Parking, Traffic and Transportation. Officers from PTTS will com plete all paperwork to register bicy cles, and officers from UPD will en grave bicycles with the owner’s drivers license number. and it hurt to pull him through the chimney,” said Lt. Steve Coffman of the Dallas Fire Department’s high angle rescue team. Fire department spokeswoman Sherrie Wilson said the boy was trying to help his mother when he climbed into the chimney. El Paso developers sue CBS for libel ‘Superman’ pushed out of chimney DALLAS (AP) — It was a good deed that turned bad, but it had a happy ending. It all started Monday night when a woman and her 16-year-old son got locked out of their house in the Lake Highlands area and the boy decided to come to the rescue by playing “Superman for his mom,” police said. The boy tried to climb down the chimney and got stuck about 20 feet down when it began narrowing. Dallas firefighters had to spend about two hours rescuing him. “He was very tired, very scared, EL PASO (AP) — A group of de velopers have sued CBS in federal court, alleging their reputations were ruined by a 60 Minutes seg ment depicting poor living condi tions in border developments called colonias. Kasco Ventures Inc. and five in dividuals are asking for more than $50,000 in damages. They say the Oct. 8, 1995, story cast them as villains. The news program re vealed their ownership in several El Paso County colonias. 60 Minutes stands by the seg ment, titled "The Other America,” said Kevin Tedesco, spokesman for CBS Inc. in New York. The story featured an interview with Deborah Kastrin, one of the plaintiffs. The other plaintiffs are list ed as William J. Kastrin, Socorro Kas trin, William F. “Fred" Kastrin and Veronica Kastrin Callaghan. The segment alleged fraudulent real-estate development and un healthful living conditions in Texas colonias, some of which are sub standard subdivisions lacking even basic water and sewage service. Also featured were allegations of unethical business practices be tween developers and politicians involving prosecution of colonia de velopers. The report questioned how U.S. Rep. Ron Coleman, D-EI Paso, could have close personal and political ties to the Kastrin family while also fighting for feder al money to improve conditions in the colonias. After the report, Coleman dropped William “Bill” Kastrin as his re-election campaign chairman and Kastrin’s son, Fred, as trustee of Coleman’s blind trust. -'i Edwards Aquifer water level rises southern Travis and nortto counties, is in a Stage24 alert declared last summer, There are three stagesc‘ji alerts. Stage 3 is the mostei with required reductioesi! sumption by up to 33 percerf. A couple of stormstii three inches of raineacliw enough to get water intoci and sinkholes to replemsl aquifer, Schriver said. The aquifer is the sole souBnf drinking water for the near- lion residents in SanAnto some residents in south Ausi also serves as home to ernlan plants, fish and amphibians, Rainfall and soil condfe at near-normal levels across state, according to the ill) severity index of the Texasl Development Board. anjan I AUSTIN (AP) — Water levels in the Edwards Aquifer are steadily improving, and a few good rains should bring the levels back to normal, officials said Tuesday. “The water levels in the wells are starting to come up, and we are just hoping for rain — big, in tense rains in the right places ... in the recharge and contribution zones,” said Steve Schriver, envi ronmental analyst for the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conserva tion District. “And we need people to conserve.” The district, which includes Correction In a front page story or 30. an editing mistake was Dr. Larry Crumbley, anacs ing professor, should hare quoted as saying the policy* courage professors to core? on receiving good evaluate “The professors who the better grades (to student covering the least material iin will be getting the better! evaluations." Crumbley said. Tome people al ^ Some peoj / Ranjan Na , is one of thes In his seven yea has become c itarajan is friend ent organizatio iceata time, his There’s a story itarajan said. “A 1 everywhere.” Now Natarajan, leaving his many The former Inte lirror philosophy here will help hi Natarajan arrive leering degree in s degree and di enticed him But Natarajan hi phome to cure 1 C'^down was to wa [would walk a say howdy to s i liool I s’e; ► This day in history Weather (AP) — Today is Wednesday, Oct. 9, the 283rd day of 1996. There are 83 days left in the year. On this date: In 1701, the Collegiate School of Connecticut — later Yale University — was chartered in New Haven. In 1776, a group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco. In 1888, the public was first admitted to the Wash ington Monument. In 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif. In 1958, Pope Pius XII died, 19 years after he was elevated to the papacy. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Gue vara was executed while attempting to incite revolu tion in Bolivia. In 1974, Czech-born German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews dur ing the Holocaust, died in Frankfurt, West Germany; at his request, he was buried in Jerusalem. In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1985, the hijackers of the “Achille Lauro" cruise lin er surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt. Five years ago: President Bush declared “total con fidence” in his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, who was accused of sexual harass ment by former aide Anita Hill. Today Tonight Tomorrow Highs & I Today’s birthdays Today's Expeciedl 85°F Tonight’s Expecied' 54°F Tomorroiv’s Expected Hig Rock musician John Entwistle (The Who) is 52. Singer Jackson Browne is 48. Actor Scott Bakula is 41. 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