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Thursday • April 3, 1997
times force second evacuation
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FILM SOCIETY
[Uthorities still have not
located the source of the
noxious odor.
| ■
| lORT WORTH (AP) — About 30 people
ofking inside an office building were hospi-
ed Wednesday with symptoms similar to
ose that sickened hundreds in the same
ding Tuesday.
he source of the noxious odor in the nine-
Overton Centre Tower was still a mystery
nesday afternoon. Fire officials said the
ding would be closed indefinitely, and a Dal-
company specializing in toxic fumes was
d for assistance.
We’ve just about exhausted our capabilities,”
fire Lt. Kent Worley said. “We never like to get to
the point where we put up our hands and give up.
But there may be a point where they’re going to
have to contact a consultant.”
Building management decided to open the
building Wednesday morning after an all-day
evacuation Tuesday and an all-night exhaustion
of the air, Worley said. The name of the building
management firm was not immediately available.
“We were back here at 6:30 this morning to go
through the building one more time,” Worley
said. “We couldn’t find anything with our meters
or noses, so we left it up to building management
and they decided to open it back up.”
Within two hours, people on all floors began
complaining of nausea, headaches and short
ness of breath. Some were so weak they had to be
wheeled out in their desk chairs.
“As they were trying to make it to the bath
rooms and stuff, at that time they started vomit
ing and some of them passed out,” said Stanley
Harris, a worker from the building. “It’s a big con
cern, especially because they can’t find anything.”
About 60 people were treated in a makeshift
treatment center in the hospital. Ambulances
took 15 people to four hospitals; about 15 more
were taken by bus to a fifth hospital.
“One lady said that from the time it began,
within two minutes it got to the worst flu-like
feeling you’ve ever had,” Worley said.
Lorri Beauchamp said she had suffered a
headache for three days before becoming over
come by the fumes on Wednesday. She also said
she was reluctant to return to work.
“What’s frightening is that they keep sending
us back into the building,” Beauchamp said.
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cholarship proposal gets new twist
he HOPE scholarship
program would provide
mandal aid for students
nth 'B' averages.
MJSTIN (AP) — Lottery players
ild scratch for more than cash
| a inder a state senator’s proposal.
“y could help fund college
I scholarships through a new
1 "!atch-off ticket.
[‘Although I have never bought a
[ery ticket in my life, people like
[would certainly buy many lottery
lets if we knew that that money—
Jhe unlikely event we lose—would
Pto funding the HOPE scholarship
program,” Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-
Houston, said Wednesday.
His proposed HOPE (Helping
Outstanding Pupils Educational
ly) scholarship program would
provide financial aid for Texas
students who had a ‘B’ average in
high school, maintain it in col
lege and agree to perform com
munity service.
A similar scholarship program
was created by Texas lawmakers in
1990 for lower- and middle-income
families, but it isn’t linked to the lot
tery and wasn’t funded until 1995. It
currently receives $150,000 a year.
Ellis’ bill would expand the cur
rent program but still restrict it to
lower- and middle-income families.
“We think this is a
doable idea.”
Steve Levine
Lottery spokesman
Under his proposal, the Texas
Lottery Commission would estab
lish an instant-ticket game in which
net proceeds would be placed in a
tuition fund.
Ellis originally proposed funding
the HOPE program, which would
pay tuition and fees for four years,
with 5 percent of Texas’ share of lot
tery proceeds. The two-year cost es
timate is $134.7 million.
Lottery spokesman Steve
Levine said the new scratch-off
ticket is considered a more viable
option. He said other states have
dedicated income from a specific
lottery ticket to a project, such as
a stadium.
“We think this is a doable idea,”
Levine said. “The nice thing about
this is it focuses attention specifi
cally on this project.”
Levine cautioned, however,
that it would take about six
months from the time such an
idea was approved to issue tickets
for a new scratch-off game.
The proposed operational date is
Jan. 1, 1998.
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tew York cracks down on famous honkey-tonk
Hogs 8c Heifers displays a
collection of celebrity bras.
NEWYORK (AP) — Hey, Julia Roberts — get
wn off that bar! And Drew Barrymore — don’t
|BaS ake your booty like that!
City officials have put a halt to hoofing at Hogs
Ha PHeifers, a downtown honky-tonk known for its
collection of celebrity bras donated by visitors
[fifiJike Roberts, Barrymore and Darryl Hannah.
Icrg Those stars and other patrons have been
known to mount the Hogs & Heifers bar in spon-
taneous bursts of late-night dancing. But it turns
|s^)Ut a Prohibition-era ordinance requires a
5alfbaret license for such footloose activity.
| Last Thursday night, Hogs & Heifer owner
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Allen Dell said, a dozen police
officers walked in, told him
that undercover cops had
witnessed dancing in the bar
the previous weekend, and
shut him down.
“It’s a sad world when they
padlock a guy for dancing,”
Dell said.
He went to court the next
day and had the bar re
opened. And despite signs in
side and out reading “No Dancing by Order of
New York City Department of Consumer Affairs,
Cabaret Division,” at least a dozen patrons on a
recent weeknight were bopping to country mu
sic blaring from the jukebox.
Roberts
“Music is about dancing. Music is about
therapy,” said Helen Glantz of London, gyrating
with a friend to D.A. Coe’s “Never Even Called
My Name.”
Richard Levy of England called the ban a dis
grace. He added: “This is supposed to be the land
of the free and the home of the brave.”
Shonna Keogan, a spokeswoman for the De
partment of Consumer Affairs, said the city is
simply enforcing the law evenhandedly.
The ordinance is normally used against bars
whose unlicensed activities annoy people living
nearby. Hogs & Heifers is in the city’s meatpack
ing district, and Keogan said she doesn’t know
whether anyone complained, but “it would be
unfair of us to be giving padlocks to bars in resi
dential areas and not to Hogs & Heifers.”
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