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Ittalion s TATE . Page 9A » Monday, August 30, 1999 arnings lead to rise storm evacuations CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — More Isidents in hurricane-prone areas lleciding to evacuate when the ige storms threaten because of in- eased news coverage and cities iat take the lead in urging resi- mts to flee, some experts say. ■hen Hurricane Bret headed to- ■ Kingsville last week, more an 60 percent of residents left town Big a mandatory evacuation. Joyce Pharr was one of them, ien though she has stayed put hen previous hurricanes hit the eai She said that she has become ore afraid of the storms as she is gotten older. “You see what storms like An ew did,” Pharr said of Hurri- ne Andrew, which devastated eavily populated south Florida ■1992. “These houses in ngsville aren’t any better built, have seen all the damage orms have done other places, I want to leave more. “1 think people today are more aware of what is going on other places because of better commu nications.” “The technology we have has made a big difference. Pictures on TV will influence a lot of people.” — Loyd Neal Kingsville mayor Residents had only to turn to their televisions or the Internet to watch Bret, with winds up to 140 mph, head toward landfall in rural Kenedy County, about 70 miles south of Corpus Christi. “The technology we have has made a big difference,” Mayor Loyd Neal said. “Pictures on TV will influence a lot of peopled’ Meteorologist Phil Sokolov said 80 percent of the people who live on the coast from Maine to Texas have never been through a full-fledged hurricane — a factor that makes it even more important for people to pay attention to local TV, radio and Internet updates. “I think local forecasters are the key to get the people to stay inside or get out of town,” he told the Cor pus Christi Caller-Times. Residents in rural areas can be less likely to leave, said Robert R. Butterworth, a clinical psychologist and director of International Tfau- ma Associates Inc. in Los Angeles. “If your livelihood is where you live, it is different from those in more urban environments where you go away from home to a job,” he said. “But that is no reason for farmers to stay. It is better to save your own life than that of your cattle. ” orpus battles tray problem ORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Each day, dozens of jay dogs and cats are loaded onto metal carts and |eeled into the gas chamber of the Corpus Christi lal control shelter. orpus Christi kills more animals — 75.6 for ry 1,000 residents — than any other metropol- ji area in the country, said Merritt Clifton, editor pnimal People Inc., the newsletter for the Wash- [on-based animal rights group, n the past four years. Corpus Christi Animal itrol has euthanized an average of 93 percent of e dogs and cats brought to the facility, earning city a national reputation for its inability to deal hthe stray animal population. “Wehave a very low adoption rate,” Kenny Lease, istant animal control director, told the Corpus stiCaller-Times. “Usually this is death row.” Uthough Corpus Christi officials said they doubt scientific validity of Clifton’s research, they grant t the city’s kill-rate is abysmal. They say that only ication and increasing the number of animals o are spayed or neutered will help. Public awareness has helped the city of Fort )rth, spokesperson Kristie Aylett said. The Animal Care and Control Center has seen in increase in adoptions since it started featuring dog and cat each week in its city newsletter and egan placing photos of the adoptable animals on s[Web site. jAbout 79 percent of its animals are euthanized ( :h year. In Corpus Christi last year, 96 percent of animals more than 14,000 dogs and cats — were eutha- lized. Nearly 400 were adopted, while nearly ,000 were reclaimed by their owners and 126 were ransferred to the Humane Society. Colleagues pushing for Leland stamp WASHINGTON (AP) On the heels of the 10th an niversary of Texas Congressman Mickey Leland’s death, his former Capitol Hill colleagues are pushing for a stamp to be named in his honor. Among the 99 lawmakers co-sponsoring a Leland stamp bill are Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, who now represents the late Leland’s Houston district, and Repub lican leaders Henry Hyde, R-I1L, and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. “There was great enthusiasm for this (bill),” Lee said in Friday’s edi tions of USA Today. “Mickey Leland saw the naked, the poor, the downtrodden and he did his best to alleviate their suffering,” co-sponsor Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said. Leland, a Democrat, chaired the House Select Committee on Hunger. He died Aug. 7, 1989, when the plane he was flying in slammed into a remote mountain ravine in Ethiopia as he was heading to ward a refugee camp to focus attention on famine- stricken Sudan. When he was reported missing, several lawmakers flew to Ethiopia to join the search. Fifteen others died in the crash. Earlier this month. President Clinton marked the anniversary of Leland’s death by praising his work in crafting a 1985 humanitarian bill. The measure provided $800 million in food, aid and relief supplies for Africa. lommission backs Lotto makeover DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Lot- Commission, seeking to lure k players and boost sales, has n preliminary approval to re- e the Lotto Texas game by ing four more numbered balls jhe 50 now used in the drawing. If the make-over gets final ap- roval later this year, it would be the first change for the online numbers game since its inception. The new game would raise the average jackpot to $16 million from $9.5 million and increase the num ber and amounts of lower-tier prizes, lottery staffers said. The odds of winning the top prize will go to about 25.8 mil lion to 1 from the current 15.8 million to 1. The idea of adding four more balls is designed to reduce the chances of winning and allow the jackpot to build over the weeks. The bigger jackpots, lottery offi cials said, should renew player ex citement and increase ticket sales. 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