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Page 2 • Monday, August 2, 1999
Ne
ws
Midwest
gets break
from heat
CHICAGO (AP) — Though tem
peratures began to drop Sunday
across the Midwest, the death toll
from last week’s record-breaking
heat rose even higher, with anoth
er 30 deaths here blamed on the
heat and humidity.
In much of the country, the
worst had passed, with Sunday’s
temperatures 10 to 20 degrees cool
er across the Great Lakes and much
of the upper Midwest. Chicago
warmed to 81 by early afternoon,
compared to a high of 104 on Fri
day.
But 50 more bodies were
brought to the Cook County
morgue from Friday to Sunday, city
Health Commissioner John Wil
helm said, and officials expected
the death toll to rise. A refrigerated
trailer was brought in to store bod
ies until autopsies could be done.
The new deaths added yesterday
brought the Illinois total to 80 and
the nationwide number to at least
182 since July 19.
But for parts of the country that
were sweltering a day or two ago,
Sunday brought relief.
The temperature was an almost
crisp 59 degrees when Bill Hansche
left for work early Sunday at the
Maple Grove County Club in West
Salem, Wis., a sharp change from
afternoon temperatures that
peaked at 100 on Friday.
“Today, it’s just perfect,” Han
sche said. “I wish you could box
these up and bring one out every
day you need one.”
In Louisville, Ky., the afternoon
temperature was down to 78 —
from a high of 104 on Friday and 99
on Saturday.
While the cooler air pressed
slowly toward the east and south,
heat advisories and warnings also
remained in effect for areas scat
tered from Oklahoma and
Arkansas to Georgia and the Car-
olinas, the National Weather Ser
vice said.
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chicks at the Wildlife Center last week.
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HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Up to six convicted
killers could be put to death over the next 14
days in the busiest spurt of executions in Texas
in more than two years.
Texas already accounts for more than one-
third of all the executions in the United States
since capital punishment resumed in the late
1970s and is closing in on 200 lethal injections
since convicted murderer Charlie Brooks ush
ered in the new death penalty era in the state
in 1982.
The Texas Count now stands at 180, includ
ing 16 this year. Another six already are on the
execution schedule for September and October
and it is possible this year could challenge the
record 37 prisoners put to death in 1997.
The convicted killers set to die this month
are all longtime death row inmates whose con
finements range from more than 11 years to
more than 18 years.
They include:
• Ricky Blackmon, set to die Wednesday for
the robbery-slaying of a Shelby County man
who was stabbed and slashed with a home
made medieval-style sword in 1987.
• Charles Boyd, to be executed Thursday
for strangling and drowning a Dallas woman
at her apartment in 1987.
• Kenneth Dunn, 39, facing death Aug. 10
for the 1980 shooting death of a Houston-area
bank teller.
• James Earhart, 56, scheduled for injection
Aug. 11 for the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old
Bryan girl abducted from her home in 1987.
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me, that would be a life
sentence. They're giving me
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for it"
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tion date,” he said in a recent intenm 1 [ 3 jj cat j onSj
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giving me a way out. I’m thankingGo completed" hi:
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Carl Rinkle, 26, at Rinkle’s Shelbyp Catkins pu
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• Larry Robison, 41, set to die Aug. 17 for
the fatal stabbing and shooting of a 33-year-
old man, one of five people Robison has ac
knowledged killing in Tarrant County in
1982.
• Joe Trevino, 37, scheduled for punish-
home in far East Texas the night ofM 0 k season> fj]
1987, and taking about $600 hi ^[stealing top-r<
small pistol. derthewhistl
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LUBBOCK (AP) — The parents of a Texas
teen-ager killed in a bus crash during a church
trip in New Mexico have filed a wrongful-death
lawsuit in state district court against a Lubbock
church, its youth minister and the driver of the
vehicle that hit the bus.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Albuquerque, N.M.,
by the parents of 13-year-old Heather Bauman,
alleges the bus had faulty brakes that con
tributed to the deaths of their daughter and five
other Lubbock teen-agers.
“Defective brakes — those aren’t spiritual
things," Sam Faddoul, who is representing the
Baumans, told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
“Those are mechanical things that involve hu
man regard for safety. We have no questions for
the church about what spiritual goals they were
trying to achieve that weekend.
“Our concern is for all children at all times.
We understand that it is controversial to sue a
church and there will be criticism.”
The Green Lawn youth group was on its way
back to Lubbock on May 2 from a weekend re
treat near Cloudcroft, N.M., when the crash hap
pened. The bus was sideswiped by a pickup
truck and travel trailer in tow.
The lawsuit does not seek specific damages,
but it does say that the Baumans seek “a rea
sonable monetary award.” The purpose of the
lawsuit, Faddoul said, is to get answers to what
happened the day of the crash.
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search and development. He said research needs to bf
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budgets. There’s no clear returns.”
Kammen said that constant, regular funding is i
taining long-term benefits.
“The important thing is that research takes time,”
you invest money well, you will get something back for
Not only will developing cheaper and more efficient
producing and utilizing energy potentially save consi ;:
money, Kammen said, but it would also help ensure
vironmental stability in the future.
Many scientists believe that finding alternative i
sources is integral to controlling gas emissions and curl®
al warming.
“There’s been a number of recent reports in scientific
that suggest global warming is a recent phenomenon,’’®’
said. “It’s difficult to tell unambiguously, but we are
initial stages of climate change.”
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with a dip in energy research funding ultimately fallsonii'
ers and corporations, Kammen said, average consumers' 1
the power to initiate change.
“(Consumers should) make it known to the utilities
are concerned about their energy use and their globalenv®
(and) would like to have more alternatives available,"
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