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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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