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EBOLA

Most say IS is important threat

Cases fanning fears

Less than half approve of Obama’s reactions

NYC doc diagnosed with virus; Mali gets first case

By CONNIE CASS ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The Ebola virus’s arrival in New York City and yet another West African nation — Mali — renewed questions Friday about whether stricter travel restrictions would help lock down the deadly disease. The governors of New

York and New Jersey went ahead and issued their own quarantine order.

There was good news, too, as one of the two American nurses who caught Ebola from a patient headed home from the hos-

pital, stopping by the White House to get a celebratory hug from President Barack Obama. European nations pledged more money to fight the virus in Africa.

A look at Ebola developments worldwide:

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By DEB RIECHMANN AND EMILY SWANSON ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Sixty-five percent of Americans now say the threat from the Islamic State group is very or even extremely important, and nearly half think the U.S. military response in Iraq and Syria has not gone far enough, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.

Most want to see America’s partners step up their contribution to the fight, Less than half, 43 percent, approve of the way President Barack Obama is handling the danger posed by the extremist militants.

Greg Franke, 24, of Columbia, South Carolina, was among the 55 percent of those who disapproved.

Franke, a 24-year-old assistant editor at a research library, said he thought Obama was too hesitant in responding to the militants, who have employed brutal tactics to swiftly seize territory.

“I understand the need to be hesitant, but this was a group that was marching across parts of the Middle East, which is already unstable,” Franke said. “I think it warranted a swift and more decisive response.”

“I also think that his declaration that U.S. troops would not be involved was premature,” he said. “I don’t want U.S. troops involved. But I don’t think we need to close doors.”

A majority, 66 percent, favor the airstrikes the United States has been launching against the militants, yet 65 percent of those surveyed say Obama has not clearly explained America’s goal in fighting the Islamic State group. The president met with his national security team on Friday to discuss the Islamic State and talk via video teleconference with U.S. officials at the American Embassy in Baghdad and consulates in Irbil and Basra.

Here’s a look at the poll:

ZAPATA COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY

SHOWING FAMILY TIES

Courtesy photo

Maria del Carmen Ramirez and Maria del Refugio Ramirez show images and documents, part of their family tree, during the Family Tree exhibition at the Zapata County Museum of History.

Info available on families who have lived here for generations

By MALENA CHARUR THE ZAPATA TIMES

F

Is enough being done?

Forty-six percent said the U.S. military response has not gone far enough — up from 40 percent in September. Fifty-six percent said the military response from coun-

Courtesy photo

In the image at left is Dolores Ramirez, daughter of Benito Ramirez. Dolores married Cosme Gonzalez, and the couple lived in a house built by Benito Ramirez.

amily histories of Zapata residents are now on display in an exhibit called Family Tree, presented for the second consecutive year at the Zapata County Museum of History.

In the two-day exhibit which ends today, members of the Genealogy Society of Nuevo Santander are presenting glimpses of the past through portraits, coats of arms, photographs of architecture and rural life and clothing, among other items.

Exhibit time is 10

a.m. to 4 p.m., and is free.

“The society’s mission is to help members recognize their families’ past because many people do not know how to start (organizing information),” explained Hildegardo E.Flores, mu-

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TEXAS HISTORY

Old French ship is being reassembled

By MICHAEL GRACZYK ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN — A frigate carrying French colonists to the New World that sank in a storm off the Texas coast more than 300 years ago is being reassembled into a display that archeologists hope will let people walk over the hull and feel like they are on the ship’s deck.

The 1686 wreck of the 54-foot oak frigate La Belle — in an expedition led by famed Mississippi River explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle — is blamed for dooming France’s further exploration of what would become Texas and the American Southwest.

But La Salle’s short-lived Fort St. Louis near the shipwreck site in Matagorda Bay, about 100

Photo by Eric Gay | AP

Peter Fix, chief conservator for Texas A&M University’s Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation, works to reassemble the 54-foot oak French frigate La Belle at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, on Wednesday. miles southwest of present-day Houston, also convinced Spain

to boost its presence in the region to ward off a feared French

territorial expansion.

“In a very real way, it’s re-

sponsible for our Hispanic heritage we have today,” said Jim Bruseth, curator of the La Belle project at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. “They had nobody here, and it started the process of settling Texas.

“History oftentimes turns on seemingly small events,” Bruseth said. “We have that actual ship, the remains of it here, that’s the icon of that event.”

Beginning today, visitors to the Austin museum will be able to watch Bruseth and other archaeologists put the wrecked ship back together and talk with them as they work. The reassembly is expected to be complete by spring.

“It’s going to be a lot of fun.

It’s like a dinosaur, big and dy-

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Zin brief CALENDAR

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2014

AROUND TEXAS

TODAY IN HISTORY

SATURDAY, OCT. 25

ASSOCIATED PRESS

30th Annual Update in Medicine Conference to be held at the UTHSC Laredo Regional Campus, 1937 E. Bustamante from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Geared for medical professionals, social service providers, medical/nursing students and others interested in learning the latest medical information on cancer, diabetes, mental health and other topics. For continuing education and other information call Area Health Education Center at 712-0037.

Lights in the Park Luminaria Memorial for breast cancer awareness.

8 p.m. North Central Park, International Boulevard.

UISD Annual Parent Festival. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. United High School, 2811 United Ave. Event is free and open to all UISD parents. Contact UISD Federal and State Programs Department or email: negutierrez@uisd.net or visit www.uisd.net for more information.

Program addressing children and adolescent mental illness. From 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Room 236 of the Student Center Auditorium at Texas A&M International University. For reservations call Laura Kim at (956)7943130.

Listen to live classical music performances by the Laredo Community College’s Performing Arts Department at the Laredo Public Library’s Multi-Purpose Room, located at 1120 East Calton Road. From 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Contact John Hong at john@laredolibrary.org or visit the website www.laredolibrary.org.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 25, the 298th day of 2014. There are 67 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 25, 1954, a meeting of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet was broadcast live on radio and television; during the session, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, just returned from Europe, reported on agreements signed in Paris on the future of West Germany. (To date, it’s the only presidential Cabinet meeting to be carried on radio and TV.) On this date: In 1760, Britain’s King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II. In 1929, former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall was convicted in Washington, D.C., of accepting a $100,000 bribe from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny. (Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000; he ended up serving nine months.)

In 1945, Taiwan became independent of Japanese colonial rule.

In 1964, The Rolling Stones made the first of six appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

In 1989, novelist and critic Mary McCarthy died in New York at age 77.

In 1994, Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina, claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of murder).

In 1999, golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota; Stewart was 42.

Ten years ago: At least 85 Muslim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death in southern Thailand after the police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot.

Five years ago: A pair of suicide car bombings devastated the heart of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, killing 155 people, including 24 children.

One year ago: Indignant at reports of U.S. electronic espionage overseas, the leaders of France and Germany said they would insist the Obama administration agree by year’s end to limits that could put an end to alleged American eavesdropping on foreign leaders, businesses and innocent civilians.

Today’s Birthdays: Former American League president Dr. Bobby Brown is 90.

Singer-actress Barbara Cook is 87. Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Knight is 74. Pop singer Helen Reddy is 73. Author Anne Tyler is 73. Political strategist James Carville is 70.

Actor Mark L. Taylor is 64.

Movie director Julian Schnabel is 63. Rock musician Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers; Chickenfoot) is 53. Actress Tracy Nelson is 51. Actor Michael Boatman is 50. Actor Kevin Michael Richardson is 50.

Violinist Midori is 43. Actor Michael Weston is 41. Actor Ben Gould is 34. Actor Josh Henderson is 33. Rhythm-andblues singer Young Rome is 33.

Pop singer Katy Perry is 30.

Singer Ciara is 29.

Thought for Today: “In the time of your life, live — so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.” — From “The Time of Your Life” by William Saroyan (1908-1981).

MONDAY, OCT. 27 Monthly meeting of Laredo Parkinson’s Disease Support Group. At 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, Tower B, First Floor Community Center. Patients, caregivers and family members invited. Free info pamphlets available in Spanish and English. Call Richard Renner (English) at 645-8649 or Juan Gonzalez (Spanish) at 2370666.

TUESDAY, OCT. 28 Breast Cancer Coalition 2015 meeting. 11:30 a.m. UT Health Science Center Laredo Campus, 1937 Bustamante St. Contact Elizabeth Benavides at 319-0384.

Planetarium movies. From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. TAMIU Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium. Contact Claudia Herrera at claudia.herrera@tamiu.edu or visit www.tamiu.edu/planetarium. 6 p.m. Wonders of the Universe. 7 p.m.

Lamps of Atlantis.

Come celebrate National Physical Therapy Month with a PT Awareness Parade. From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Ruthe B. Cowl Rehabilitation Center 1220 N. Malinche Avenue. Contact Ariana Mora at arianamora@stx.rr.com or visit the website www.ruthebcowl.com.

For more information call 722-2431.

Registration is now in progress for the 35th Guajolote 10K Race. Register at Hamilton Trophies (1320 Garden), Hamilton Jewelry (607 Flores), or on-line at www.raceit.com, Guajolote 10K Race. For information, call (956) 724-9990 or (956) 722-9463.

THURSDAY, OCT. 30 LULAC Council #12 will present its 20th Annual Tejano Achiever Awards Banquet at 7 p.m. at the Laredo Country Club. Recognition of outstanding citizens of the community and enables LULAC Council #12 to raise funds for scholarships. Contact Ed Bueno at 763-2214 for ticket information.

Planetarium movies. From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. TAMIU Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium. Contact Claudia Herrera at claudia.herrera@tamiu.edu or visit www.tamiu.edu/planetarium. 6 p.m. Wonders of the Universe. 7 p.m.

Lamps of Atlantis.

FRIDAY, OCT. 31 Feria de la Hispanidad from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Laredo Energy Arena. Contact Melissa Santillana at m.santillana@hispanicinternational.com or www.FeriadelaHispanidad.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 1 7th Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival. 3 p.m. to midnight in the 400 and 500 blocks of Starr and 500 to 700 blocks of Mesquite streets in downtown Corpus Christi. Wear a costume. Contact Michelle Smythe at info@kspacecontemporary.org.

Autism Ties support meeting. 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. My Sunny Gardens Day Rehab, 1320 Laredo St. Contact us at: 255-0713 or autismties@ gmail.com.

Photo by Billy Hefton/Enid News & Eagle | AP

A pair of Monarch butterflies sit on flowers at Dillingham Garden in Enid, Okla., Sept. 26 during their annual migration from the northern United States to Mexico.

Monarchs in jeopardy

By BILL HANNA FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

FORT WORTH, Texas — For years, the worry about monarch butterflies has focused on the loss of habitat in their winter home in Mexico.

But as the butterflies make their way south through Texas this month, there’s even more concern about where they spend their summers.

The loss of habitat in the Upper Midwest’s Corn Belt has many worried about the monarch’s ability to keep making the 2,000-mile trek to Mexico each year. Every year, the monarchs overwinter in Mexico, then fly to the southern United States, where they mate and produce a new generation of butterflies before dying off.

Even with favorable weather conditions this year, the monarch population, which

ebbs and flows, isn’t looking good, said Chip Taylor, director of Monarch Watch and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas.

“It’s an uptick, but it’s not a massive uptick,” Taylor told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “What I’ve been predicting is a doubling of the population, but that’s still a small population and one of the smallest on record.”

Last year, an all-time low of 0.67 hectares, or about 33 million monarchs, were documented in the mountains west of Mexico City. The average population of monarchs in the last 20 years is about 6.39 hectares.

“What we really have to deal with is the habitat issue,” Taylor said. “We’re losing over a million acres a year. If that trend doesn’t stop, the population will continue to decline.”

Infant boy abandoned at Houston post office

El Paso ISD to keep state managers until election

Man had 1,000 secret recordings of women

HOUSTON — Houston authorities are searching for the parents of an infant who was abandoned in a post office lobby.

The 1-month-old boy was found on Wednesday. He was wearing a white onesie and the name Jesse was written on his diaper. There were no signs of abuse or neglect. He was left in a car seat with bottles of water and formula.

EL PASO — The Texas education commissioner says the stateappointed board of managers will continue to oversee the El Paso Independent School District until three new school trustees are elected next spring.

The board of managers was appointed in May 2013 following a testing scandal that landed the former El Paso superintendent in prison for fraud for manipulating scores on state-mandated tests.

IRVING, Texas — North Texas police say their investigation of a man who secretly placed cameras in various public restrooms has uncovered nearly 1,000 videos of women. Irving police spokesman James McLellan said Friday the videos were taken from the computers, flash drives and other devices owned by 65year-old Andrew Boden.

Pre-K student, 4, takes gun to school SULLIVAN CITY — Nobody has been hurt after a 4-year-old pre-kindergarten student took a loaded gun in his backpack to a South Texas elementary school.

Officials with the La Joya Independent School District say a teacher confiscated the weapon and locked the gun in a safe until police arrived. The boy mentioned the gun to other students, who then told a teacher.

Prosecutors: Ex-treasurer stole $3M from company HOUSTON — Federal prosecutors say the former treasurer of a Houston-based health care system embezzled nearly $3 million that was used for private jet travel, gambling in Las Vegas and to pay off credit card bills. Joseph S. Antonucci, 41, of Houston pleaded guilty to charges that include 15 counts of wire fraud.

Air Force jet lands in Houston, smoke in cockpit HOUSTON — A U.S. Air Force refueling jet returning to California following maintenance has made a safe emergency landing in Houston after smoke was reported in the cockpit. The fourperson crew evacuated the KC-10 at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Nobody was hurt in the incident. The jet had been returning to California following maintenance in Louisiana. — Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION Boy eats pot, passes out in dentist chair FRESNO, Calif. — Police in Central California say a 12-yearold boy sold marijuana brownies to a seventh-grade classmate, who passed out in a dentist’s chair after eating them.

Police told the Fresno Bee that the 12-year-old said he got the drugs from his brother. He told authorities that on Wednesday, he sold two of the brownies to his classmate at Sequoia Middle School in Fresno for $5 each to make some extra cash.

The buyer was in the dentist’s chair when he lost consciousness. A trip to the hospital revealed he was under the influence of marijuana.

Lava from Hawaii volcano picks up speed HONOLULU — A growing stream of lava threatening homes on Hawaii’s Big Island is

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A geologist marks the coordinates of the Kilauea lava flow front with a GPS unit Wednesday. A 13-mile finger of lava from Kilauea Volcano has started to again move quickly, and could hit a secondary road sometime Friday. expanding and speeding up as it heads toward a small rural town.

Officials say the lava advanced nearly 460 yards from Thursday morning to Friday.

The narrow, leading edge of the lava flow is now just 250 yards from a side road, which

has been closed. No evacuations have been ordered. Hawaii County Civil Defense is planning to go door-to-door today to find out how many people might need shelter if the eruption continues at its current pace. — Compiled from AP reports

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2014

Church to hold annual fall festival Friday SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

First Baptist Church will hold its 4th Annual Fall Fest on Friday.

Visitors can purchase a $5 bracelet at the door, which will grant entry to

unlimited rides and games such as a mechanical bull, train rides, a dunking booth, an obstacle course, face painting, a hay ride and cake walk. A free candy bag also comes with each bracelet.

Drilling mud is good for lawn: study

By D. RAY TUTTLE THE JOURNAL RECORD

BIXBY, Okla. — Soil pulled from horizontal directional drilling at urban construction sites can help your lawn, if used in the right amounts, according to research at Oklahoma State University.

In a first-of-its-kind study, Oklahoma State University is examining the use of this construction byproduct as a land application.

So far Josh Daniels is encouraged by the results. Daniels, a research assistant and graduate student seeking a master’s degree, started his work in the fall of 2013. He expects to start writing his results next spring, The Journal Record reported.

The research was recently shared during a field day at the Oklahoma State University Vegetable Research Station in a rural area of Bixby. Representatives from about 20 construction contractors were there to learn details about the effects of spreading the urban horizontal directional drilling mud over their property.

The event was sponsored by the Oklahoma State University Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, or DASNR. Contractors routinely drill under roads or buildings to install utilities, fiber-optic cable, sewer lines or water lines. The soil that is brought to the surface must be disposed of properly, said Chad Penn, associate professor of soil and environmental chemistry.

The biggest concern for contractors is how to dispose of the mud, Penn said.

Electrical contractor Brad Ritter said he already spreads the mud on his property to control erosion.

Ritter called the research valuable.

“If it proves that you can use this, it will allow contractors to cut their costs,” Ritter told the group. “I see the biggest challenge is convincing people it is not harmful.”

Last year, Daniels began collecting samples of mud resulting from the horizontal directional drilling, or HDD. The samples came from across the United States.

There will be a concession stand with hot dogs, sausage wraps, cotton candy, funnel cakes and more.

The festival will take place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Pct. 4 Park on 17th and Glenn Street.

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Free medical, dental services in November SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

The Diocese of Laredo Catholic Social Services and Medical Missionaries of Divine Mercy are giving free medical and dental services for adults and

children Nov. 10 to 12 at Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hall.

The services will be available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 10 and 11 and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 12. It is first come,

first serve.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church holds a Mass, confession and spiritual talks every evening at 7 p.m.

For more information call Catholic Services at 956-722-2443.

GETTING HIS POLITICAL KICKS

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Actor and martial artist Chuck Norris laughs with wife Gena O’Kelley before being introduced during a campaign stop for Texas Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott at the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden, on Friday, in Tyler.

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Late Post editor was a real leader

By LLEWELLYN KING HEARST NEWSPAPERS

Ben Bradlee, who has died at the age of 93, did not so much edit The Washington Post as lead it.

Other editors of the times would rewrite headlines, cajole reporters and senior editors, and try to put their imprint on everything they could in the newspaper.

That was not Bradlee’s way. His way was to hire the best and leave it to them.

Bradlee often left the building before the first edition “came up,” but it was still his Washington Post: a big, successful, hugely influential newspaper with the imprimatur of one man.

Bradlee looked, as some wag said, like an international jewel thief; someone you would expect to see in one of those movies set in the south of France that showed off the beauty of the Mediterranean and beauties in bikinis while the hero planned a great heist.

I worked for Bradlee for four years and we all, to some degree, venerated our leader. He had real charisma; we not only wanted to please him, but also we wanted to be liked by him.

Bradlee was accessible without losing authority; he was all over the newsroom, calling people by their first names and sometimes by their nicknames, without surrendering any of the power of his office. He was an editor who worked more like a movie director rather than the traditionally detached editors I had known in New York and London.

The irritation at the paper — and there always is some — was not so much that Bradlee was a different kind of editor, but that he had a habit, in his endless search for talent, of hiring new people and forgetting, or not knowing, the amazing talent already on the payroll.

The Post was a magnet for gifted journalists, but once hired, there were only so many plum jobs for them to do. People who expected great things of their time at the paper were frustrated when relegated to a suburban bureau, or obliged to write obituaries for obscure people.

Yet we knew we were putting out a very good paper and, in some ways, the best paper in the United States. This lead to a faux rivalry with The New York Times.

Unlike today, very few copies of The Times were sold in Washington, and even fewer Washington

Posts were sold in New York.

Much has been made of Bradlee’s fortitude, along with that of the publisher, Katherine Graham, in standing strong throughout the Watergate investigation that led to President Nixon’s registration. But there was another monumental achievement in the swashbuckling Bradlee years: the creation of the Style section of the newspaper.

When Style first appeared, sweeping away the old women’s pages, it went off like a bomb in Washington. It was vibrant, rude and brought a kind of writing, most notably by Nicholas von Hoffman, which had never been seen in a major newspaper: pungent, acerbic, and choking on invective. Soon it was imitated in every paper in America.

The man who created Style was David Laventhol, who came down from New York to fashion something new in journalism.

Laventhol was a newspaper mechanic without equal, but Bradlee was the genius who hired him.

When I worked at The Post, I interacted a lot with Bradlee; partly because we enjoyed it, and partly because it was the nature of the work. I knew a lot about newspaper production in the days of hot type and he affected not to. That gave Bradlee the opportunity to exercise one of his most winning traits: disarming candor. “I don’t know what’s going on here,” he said one frantic election night in the composing room.

But when it came to big decisions, Bradlee knew his own mind to the exclusion of the rest of the staff. The nerve center of a newspaper is the editorial conference — usually, there are two every day. The first conference is to plan the paper; the second is a reality check on what is new, and how the day is shaping up.

At these conferences, Bradlee would listen from behind his desk.

But when he disagreed with the nine assistant managing editors, and others who needed to be there, he would put his feet on the desk, utter an expletive and cut through fuzzy conversation like a scimitar into soft tissue. As we might say nowadays, he had street smarts. They were invaluable to his editorship and to his charm.

(Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His e-mail is lking@kingpublishing.com.)

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No Buddha statue for park AUSTIN — The city of Austin’s investigation of Buddha is over. He loses.

He’s being evicted from a city park.

“We’ve got some not good news,” Charles Vaclavik of the Parks and Recreation Department told me.

Looks like the founding fathers might share some blame in this.

“Buddha has to go because of constitutional consequences. If we allow one person to put a religious statue or a statue of any type, then it opens the door for everyone to be able to put a statue,” Vaclavik said before referring me to the city legal department, which funneled my inquiry to city spokesman Kyle Carvell.

Carvell dutifully told me that the legal department “routinely provides legal advice to its clients, which includes city employees and departments.” So that’s good to know. He did note the city bars people from leaving personal property in parks. Buddha, in this case, is personal property.

Back in August, I told you about the Buddha brouhaha surrounding the 18-inch-high, garden-supply-store-bought statue that had become something of a

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beloved landmark in Big Stacy Park in South Austin’s Travis Heights neighborhood. And I told you about how the statue — privately placed without required city permission — had hit officialdoms’ radar.

And I told you how the city’s lawyers were looking into whether Buddha should face eviction.

Buddha was placed in the park in honor of Harold Dean Henderson, an Austinite who died in November 2004. The 62-year-old Henderson was, according to his obit, involved in “art consulting, book sales and writing, but his career did not define him.” Instead, we were told, his “life quest was for truth, communion with others and love of family and friends.”

In lieu of flowers, the family and friends asked for donations to establish a garden in Henderson’s memory in an Austin park.

Frances Ferguson, his exwife, and Bonnie Henderson, his sister, spearheaded

the effort, which includes botany, a bench and Buddha. Harold Henderson was not Buddhist, Ferguson said, but Buddha represented how he lived.

Ferguson told me this week that she and Bonnie Henderson are at peace with the decision, communicated in a letter to Ferguson from Sara Hensley, the city’s parks and rec director. Despite what Vaclavik told me and what Ferguson was led to believe, the letter makes no mention of the religious nature of the statue.

I’ve asked for the city’s internal correspondence on this. I’ll report back if I get it.

The Sept. 26 letter says this Buddha is “abandoned property” left in a public place for more than 48 continuous hours. That, and pardon my mixed religious reference, is not kosher under city rules.

“Accordingly, if you do not remove the statue in the next 30 days, it will be removed by Parks and Recreation Department staff,” Hensley wrote. “Recognizing that you are interested in a memorial for your late husband, we are open to discussing an official memorial bench in the park.”

Ferguson is OK with the decision.

“Yes,” she said. “We’ve been notified by the Parks Department that the city cannot approve the Buddha, which is certainly understandable given the importance of the separation of church and state. We had thought of him as a symbol of peace, serenity and love but understand that, for many, he is a symbol of religion.”

Ferguson said Buddha will be moved to either her home or Bonnie Henderson’s.

“We’re glad that so many folks have enjoyed him there for all these years and hope they’ll continue to enjoy Harold Henderson’s memorial bench and plantings as a peaceful spot in the park,” she added.

Wow, who knew there are Austinites who don’t instinctively react to adverse governmental decisions by hiring a lawyer and heading to the courthouse?

I’m glad they understand. I think Harold Henderson also would. And I guess we’ll find out if Buddha is upset.

Ken Herman is a columnist for the Austin AmericanStatesman. E-mail: kherman@statesman.com.

EDITORIAL

TV viewers have new choices THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER

If you’ve ever grumbled about paying for all those cable or satellite channels when you only watch a handful, last week brought potentially big news.

Television networks HBO and CBS separately announced they plan to offer an online version of their products that would be available to consumers even if they didn’t subscribe to cable or satellite.

CBS and other major

networks already offer such a product, of course. It’s the over-the-air signal that’s free to anyone who can capture it with a TV antenna.

Until now, if you wanted to watch non-OTA networks, you had to purchase them along with dozens to hundreds of other channels as part of that cable or satellite subscription.

TV providers and networks liked it this way because the subscription bundle approach made them gobs of money.

So why are at least two networks changing their mind?

What happened was technology and the free market. Specifically, Netflix.

The video rental company capitalized on the availability of faster Internet download speeds to sell access to thousands of movies and television shows shortly after they appeared in theaters and on networks.

Most importantly, Netflix made gobs of money doing it. That’s apparently either

given networks the courage to dabble in the online model, or fear that they might be left behind as viewing habits continue to change.

HBO has yet to offer a subscription price for its network, and there’s no word yet if other networks will follow. But choice seems to be on the way for consumers, who’ve convinced at least a couple networks to try giving them what they want, without a lot of what they don’t.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2014

Obama greets cured nurse at White House

By LISA HAGEN HEARST NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON — It was a hug with a message.

In an Oval Office “photo op” Friday, President Barack Obama embraced Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who had been infected with Ebola. Pham had just been released from the National Institutes of Health after being cleared of the virus.

Accompanied by family members, Pham, one of the nurses who treated Ebola victim Thomas Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, also met with federal health officials Friday.

The photo, clearly aimed to subdue fears about the transmission of Ebola, came on the same day the House Oversight and Government Reform committee aggressively grilled public health officials and other federal agency leaders on Capitol Hill about the government response to the U.S. outbreak.

Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., criticized the missteps in the treatment of Duncan, challenging that Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provided false information that a health care worker’s neck could be exposed when treating an Ebola patient.

Both Pham and Amber Vinson, another Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola and has been cured, were not wearing the CDC- recommended protective gear to limit exposure when caring for Duncan.

“We’re relying on protocols from someone who’s proven not to be correct,” Issa said at the hearing.

Deborah Burger, a registered nurse and co-presi-

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Patient Nina Pham, center, with her mother Diana Pham, right, and sister Cathy Pham, left, smile as members of the NIH staff outside applaud during a news conference in Bethesda, Md., on Friday. dent of the National Nurses United, testified at the hearing, urging members of Congress to pass legislation or for Obama to use executive orders to mandate federal uniform standards for all health care workers treating patients with Ebola.

She stressed that CDC guidelines for the 5,000 U.S. hospitals are “merely” recommendations that hospitals can choose if they want to follow.

According to a National Nurses United survey of more than 3,000 nurses from about 1,000 U.S. hospitals, about 68 percent of nurses haven’t received any policies about how to treat Ebola patients from their hospitals.

“No matter how good the guidelines and intentions are, Congress needs to step up and do what’s right to have frontline caregivers have mandatory optimal standards for protective gear and training,” Burger said at the hearing.

Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, and other committee members also questioned Obama’s recent decision to appoint Ron Klain, a former Democratic chief of staff and

lawyer, as the so-called Ebola czar. He suggested the president’s choice was a “political” move, and that it would have been better to select a person with a medical or public health background.

Issa noted that Klain and an official from the World Health Organization were invited to testify at the hearing, but declined.

“I think (Klain) needs to be here,” Farenthold said at the hearing, adding that Congress is “the one that signed the checks to fight Ebola,” recently granting the Pentagon’s emergency request to send $750 million of war funds to fight the outbreak in West Africa.

Adding to the skepticism and fear of committee members, John Roth, U.S. inspector general for the Homeland Security Department, testified about his August audit of the department. He reported that in 2006, DHS spent $9.5 million on pandemic protective equipment without citing its needs and nearly $7 million on antiviral drugs without specifying the types and amounts needed to be purchased.

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NY, NJ say they will require Ebola quarantines for some

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AND MIKE STOBBE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Alarmed by the case of an Ebola-infected New York doctor, the governors of New Jersey and New York on Friday ordered a mandatory, 21day quarantine for all medical workers and other arriving travelers who have had contact with victims of the deadly disease in West Africa.

The move came after a New York City physician who returned to the U.S. a week ago from treating Ebola patients in Guinea fell ill with the virus. Many New Yorkers were dismayed to learn that after he came home, Dr. Craig Spencer rode the subway, took a cab, went bowling, visited a coffee shop and ate at a restaurant in the city of 8 million.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the case led them to conclude that the two states need precautions more rigorous than those of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends monitoring of exposed people for 21 days but doesn’t require quarantine, in which they are kept away from others.

“It’s too serious a situation to leave it to the honor system of compliance,” Cuomo said.

Those who are forcibly quarantined will be confined either to their homes or, if they live in other states, to some other place, most likely a medical facility, the governors said.

Those quarantined at home will receive calls from health officials. Twenty-one days is the incubation period for the Ebola virus.

Dr. Howard Zucker, acting New York state health commissioner, said any medical personnel who have treated Ebola patients in the three Ebola-ravaged West African countries — Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia — will be automatically quarantined.

Cuomo said anyone arriving from the three countries will be questioned at the airport about their contact with Ebola patients.

The two governors gave no estimate of how many

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A student wearing a Marysville Pilchuck football jersey is comforted at a church Friday, following a school shooting in Marysville, Wash.

Gunman dies in school attack

By DOUG ESSER ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Mott Hall High School student Brian Binion, right, and fellow students read fliers about Ebola risk, near the apartment building of Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer, in New York, on Friday. travelers would be subject to quarantine, but Cuomo said “we’re not talking about a tremendous volume of people coming in from these areas,” and added that there are no plans to hire more screeners at airports.

The two states are home to Kennedy Airport and Newark Liberty in New Jersey, both major international portals.

Spencer’s illness led lawmakers on Capitol Hill, scientists and ordinary New Yorkers to wonder why he was out after his return from West Africa — and why stronger steps weren’t being taken to quarantine medical workers.

Health officials said that he followed U.S. and international guidelines in checking his temperature every day and watching for symptoms, and that he put no one at risk. But others said he should have been quarantined — either voluntarily or by the government — during the incubation period.

An automatic three-week quarantine makes sense for anyone “with a clear exposure” to Ebola, said Dr. Richard Wenzel, a Virginia Commonwealth University scientist who formerly led the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

Aid organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, the group Spencer was working for, have argued that mandatory quar-

antines are unnecessary because people with Ebola aren’t contagious until symptoms begin, and even then it requires close contact with body fluids.

Also, aid organizations have warned that many health care volunteers wouldn’t go to Ebola hot zones if they knew they would be confined to their homes for three weeks after they got back.

Spencer, a 33-year-old emergency room doctor, returned from Guinea on Oct. 17 and sought treatment Thursday after suffering diarrhea and a 100.3-degree fever. He was listed in stable condition at an isolation unit at Bellevue Hospital Center, and a decontamination company was sent to his Harlem home. His fiancee, who was not showing symptoms, was being watched in a quarantine ward at Bellevue.

On the streets of New York, Michael Anderson was critical of the U.S. government and Spencer.

“He’s stupid, a complete idiot” for moving about in public, the longtime Manhattan resident said at Grand Central Station. “It’s his responsibility when you come back from Africa” not to put people at risk.

Cuomo, too, was critical of Spencer, saying he did “great work” as a volunteer, but adding: “He’s a doctor and even he didn’t follow the voluntary quarantine.

Let’s be honest.”

Nearly 4,900 people have died in the Ebola outbreak, most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

In other developments: One of the two Dallas nurses who caught Ebola from a patient was declared virus-free and released from a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Nina Pham, 26, said she felt “fortunate and blessed to be standing here today.” She later met with President Barack Obama at the White House. The other nurse, Amber Vinson, is in an Atlanta hospital, where she was said to “making good progress.”

Millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready for use in 2015, and five more experimental vaccines will start being tested in March, the World Health Organization said.

In Mali, which reported its first case this week, authorities warned that many people are in danger because the toddler who brought the disease to the country was bleeding from her nose as she traveled on a bus from Guinea.

The World Health Organization is not recommending the quarantine of returning aid workers without symptoms, according to spokeswoman Sona Bari.

“Health care workers are generally self-monitoring and are aware of the need to report any symptoms, as this patient did,” she wrote in an email.

MARYSVILLE, Wash. — A student opened fire Friday in a high school cafeteria north of Seattle, killing at least one person and shooting several others in the head before killing himself, officials said.

Students in the cafeteria said the gunman stared at the students as he shot them. They described a chaotic scene at Marysville Pilchuck High School, as panicked students ran for safety.

Student Alan Perez told KING-TV he was eating his lunch near the gunman when he heard the shots.

“He had a little gun in his hand. I saw the flash from the muzzle,” Perez said.

Another student, Austin Taylor, told the station the shooter “was just staring down every one of his victims as he shot them.”

Cedar Parker, a 17-yearold senior, told The Associated Press he was driving away from campus for lunch when he saw students running and trying to jump a fence. Parker let several into his car. He heard other students yelling for their friends: “Where are you?”

Parker said choosing not to eat in the cafeteria saved his life.

The shooter was a student at the school 30 miles north of Seattle, but Marysville Police Commander Robb Lamoureux said he could not provide more information on the gunman or his motive.

Lamoureux said the shooter died of a self-inflicted wound.

Brian Patrick said his daughter, a freshman, was

in the cafeteria 10 feet from the gunman when the shooting occurred. She ran from the cafeteria and immediately called her mother.

Patrick said his daughter told him, ’The guy walked into the cafeteria, pulled out a gun and started shooting. No arguing, no yelling.”

His other daughter, a senior at the school, called him ‘hysterical’ from her classroom, Patrick said.

“I thought, ‘God let my kids be safe,” he said.

Four students were taken to Providence Everett medical center, said hospital spokeswoman Heidi Amrine. Three were in “very critical” condition. It was not immediately clear if the person who died was one of those students.

Harborview Medical Center in Seattle said it received a 14-year-old male student, who was listed in serious condition.

After the attack, a crowd of parents waited in a parking lot outside a nearby church where they were being reunited with their children. Buses pulled up periodically to drop off students evacuated from the school, with some running to hug their mothers or fathers.

Some parents were sent back to their cars to get their identifications before they could leave with their children.

Ayn Dietrich, an FBI spokeswoman in Seattle, said the agency had personnel on their way to the scene to help authorities with the investigation.

Another shooting occurred June 5 at Seattle Pacific University, where a gunman killed one student and wounded two others.

Remains belong to missing Virginia student

By LARRY O’DELL AND HEIDI BROWN ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Remains found nearly a week ago in a rural area of Virginia are those of a university student who disappeared last month, authorities said Friday, ending a search by thousands that took weeks and left the campus and community on edge.

University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham, 18, disappeared Sept. 13 after a night out with friends. The remains were found Oct. 18 about 12 miles from the Charlottesville campus, in a heavily wooded area of Albemarle County that is home to rolling hills and horse farms.

The state Medical Examiner’s office confirmed that the remains were Graham’s, the Albermarle County Police Department said in a statement.

The man Graham was last seen with, 32-year-old Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., has been charged with abduction with intent to defile Graham. His attorney, Jim Camblos, said in a voicemail greeting that he is not answering questions about the case.

The remains were discovered roughly 6 miles from where the body of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was found after she vanished in 2009.

Police have said forensic evidence connects Matthew to Harrington’s killing, which in turn is linked by DNA to a 2005 sexual assault in northern Virginia. Matthew has been charged in the 2005 case.

“When we started this journey together we all hoped for a happier ending. Sadly that was not to be,” Graham’s parents, John and Sue Graham, said in a statement provided by the police department. “We are devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter. ...

Although we have lost our pre-

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Police block the road in connection with the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham in Albermarle County, Va., on Oct. 18. Remains found are those of Hannah Graham, who disappeared last month. cious Hannah, the light she radiated can never be extinguished.”

Graham’s parents also thanked those involved with the investigation and search efforts — singling out Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo for his “tenacity and determination — as well as those who have sent messages of support. They said they don’t intend to make further statements or comment on the ongoing criminal investigation.

Longo, who became the public face of the investigation through emotional pleas for the public’s help finding Graham, did not immediately respond to a telephone call seeking comment.

Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney Denise Lunsford said in a statement that the focus of the investigation now is to determine “what charges will be brought and the appropriate time to make those charges.”

Graham’s disappearance prompted many University of Virginia students to begin walking in pairs or groups at night. Also, the university expanded a ride service for its students.

“For Hannah’s young life to end so tragically, and for her destiny of promise to be left unfulfilled, is an affront to the sanctity of life and to the natural order of human events,” university President Teresa A. Sullivan said in a statement Friday evening. “This is a sorrowful day in the life of the university, and our entire community is grieving with the Graham family.”

Carli Sapir, a fourth-year environmental engineering student, lived only a half-block away from Hannah’s residence at U.Va. “This conclusion wasn’t the conclusion we were hoping for,” she said. “Of course we all had a hope that even after all this time

that they would find her living.

It’s pretty devastating.”

Sapir, from Long Valley, New Jersey, said her apartment is only a 30-second walk from Hannah’s on 14th and 15th streets in Charlottesville.

“Even though I didn’t know her personally, it’s crazy that something so bad could happen to one of our fellow students,” she said.

Graham met friends at a restaurant for dinner Sept. 12 before stopping by two off-campus parties. She left the second party alone and eventually texted a friend saying she was lost, authorities said.

In surveillance video, she can be seen walking unsteadily and even running at times, past a pub and a service station and then onto a seven-block strip of bars, restaurants and shops.

Matthew was an operating room technician at the universi-

ty’s hospital. He was also a former college football lineman and sometimes cab driver.

Friends have said they were shocked the “gentle giant” — he’s 6-foot-2 and weighs 270 pounds — could be suspected of such violence.

Matthew was co-captain of his high school football team and enrolled in psychology at evangelist Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, where he played on the defensive line for the Flames.

His college career took a sharp wrong turn in his junior year, when a fellow student accused Matthew of raping her. Matthew withdrew from Liberty on Oct. 17, 2002 — hours after a reported sexual assault behind the university’s sports arena. Prosecutors said the case was dropped when the woman declined to press charges.

Matthew returned to school in January 2003, enrolling at Christopher Newport University in southeast Virginia. He joined their football team that August, but on Sept. 7, 2003, a fellow student accused him of sexual assault on the Newport News campus. Five days after the attack, Matthew dropped off the team roster; a month later, he was gone.

University spokesman Bruce Bronstein said the matter was thoroughly investigated and the victim decided not to press charges.

The victim in the 2005 rape in the Washington, D.C., suburbs is cooperating with authorities, Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh has said. According to police, a 26-year-old woman was walking home from the grocery store about 10 p.m. on a Saturday night when she was grabbed from behind, dragged into a wooded area behind some townhomes, and sexually assaulted. The man fled the area when he was startled by a passerby.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2014

S&P 500 rallies

By OLIVER RENICK AND JEREMY HERRON BLOOMBERG NEWS

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose, capping the best weekly rally since January 2013 amid betterthan-estimated corporate results. The dollar weakened after a doctor in New York tested positive for Ebola and oil sank.

The S&P 500 gained 0.7 percent at 4 p.m. in New York, extending its gain this week to 4.1 percent.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8 percent, capping its best week this year. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index lost 0.3 percent to pare a weekly gain. Brazil’s Ibovespa Index rose 2.4 percent before an election on Oct. 26. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index slid 0.2 percent. U.S. crude sank 1 percent. Russia’s ruble fell to a record against the dollar before S&P affirmed its rating on the country’s sovereign debt.

Almost $1.8 trillion was added to the value of global shares since Oct. 16 on speculation central banks will maintain stimulus measures. In New York, a doctor tested positive for Ebola after returning from aid work in West Africa.

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. were little changed in September after the prior month was revised down, showing an uneven recovery. “Earnings have been very good for the most part,” Mark Spellman, a portfolio manager who helps oversee $4.3 billion at Alpine Funds in Purchase, New York, said by phone. “I think a large part of this market rise since the decline has been on the idea the Fed will be here to protect you.”

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NBCUniversal settles with interns ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Nearly 9,000 unpaid interns stand to benefit from a $6.4 million settlement with NBCUniversal over back wages.

Unpaid interns who worked on “Saturday Night Live” and other shows brought a class action suit last July in Manhattan federal court claiming NBCUniversal violated the law by classifying them as non-employee interns and paid them nothing or less than minimum wage, when they were actually doing employee work. NBCUniversal said in court documents that even though it’s settling the suit, it denies the allegations and doesn’t admit any wrongdoing.

The average amount that class-action members of the suit will receive is $505 before taxes, although the main plaintiffs will receive more. The number of class members is capped at 8,975.

The interns had been seeking recovery of unpaid wages, attor-

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The NBCUniversal logo hangs on a building in Los Angeles. NBCUniversal will pay $6.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by its unpaid interns. neys’ fees, interest and liquidated damages.

The settlement still has to be approved by a judge.

Unpaid internships have long been a way that students and

young graduates got a foot in the door in many industries. Companies get some help, interns potentially get experience and contacts — if they can afford to work for free. But in the last few

years, unpaid internships have come under legal fire. Last June, a federal judge in New York ruled that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated minimum wage and overtime laws by not paying interns who worked on production of the 2010 movie “Black Swan.” Other lawsuits were filed against record companies, magazine publishers, modeling agencies and TV talk show hosts.

Some companies, including Conde Nast, subsequently did away with their intern programs.

In addition to back wages, lead plaintiff Monet Eliastem will receive up to $10,000, and other named plaintiffs will receive between $2,000 and $5,000, for their efforts in bringing the class-action, according to court documents. Eliastem agreed not to apply for jobs at NBCUniversal for five years, as a stipulation of the deal.

NBCUniversal is owned by Philadelphia-based cable provider Comcast Corp.

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U.S. producer Roy Conli, left, and directors, Don Hall, second from left, and Chris Williams, right, of the film "Big Hero 6," attend a press conference to promote their animation film in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Disney pens love letter to Japan in new film

By YURI KAGEYAMA ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO — Disney executives call their next film “a love letter to Japanese culture.” No wonder: This nation can’t get enough of animation, especially Disney’s.

Walt Disney Animation Studios is practically bending backward to woo Japanese moviegoers after the stupendous success of “Frozen.” The fifth-highest-grossing movie of all time made more than $250 million of its total in Japan alone, nearly a third of its overseas numbers.

“Frozen” is third of all time in Japan, behind “Titanic” and Japanese animation classic “Spirited Away,” delivering success that even Disney executives acknowledge was surprising.

Following “Frozen” into theaters in the country that is the birthplace of manga and Hello Kitty is “Big Hero 6,” which stars a Japanese whiz kid as its hero, aptly named Hiro.

Disney shows its love for Japan by setting the story in a picturesque town that’s

a cross between Tokyo and San Francisco, San Fransokyo, complete with cable cars and futuristic trains.

“Big Hero 6” opened the Tokyo Film Festival on Thursday night — the first Disney animation film to have its global premiere in Japan. It opens at theaters around the world in November and December.

Its directors, Don Hall of “Winnie the Pooh” and Chris Williams of “Bolt,” did a lot of research and tapped Japanese sources to help make San Fransokyo authentic, down to signposts, manhole covers and faces of passersby.

Williams said the world they created was inspired

by Hayao Miyazaki, the animation legend who won an Oscar for “Spirited Away.”

Hall said the mouth-less face of Baymax, the inflatable marshmallow-like robot, was inspired by a bell he saw at a Japanese temple.

“I saw a smile,” Hall told reporters recently while in town for the Tokyo Film Festival. “I thought it would be the perfect face for Baymax.”

The rubbery Baymax, designed to be a health care robot by Hiro’s older brother Tadashi, becomes a companion for Hiro, and an embodiment not only of Tadashi’s charming and loving persona but also of his message of peace, even after Tadashi dies in an explosion.

Despite Tadashi’s intentions to devote Baymax to healing and cuddling, Hiro adds some of his own more conventional robotic-design touches, such as a powerful fist, metallic ware and skysoaring rockets, as Hiro embarks on his mission of solving the mystery of Tadashi’s death.

“Big Hero 6” features fantastic music by Henry Jackman but not a potential smash single like “Let It Go.” It also lacks fairy-tale princesses, which were a big part of the “Frozen” merchandising frenzy.

The new film is about brotherly love and a little boy’s perennial fantasy, a loyal robot friend. “We hope that Japan loves it,” Roy Conli, “Frozen” producer, said.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2014

SÁBADO 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2014

Ribereña en Breve JORNADA MÉDICA Servicios Sociales de la Diócesis de Laredo, a través de los Misioneros Médicos de la Divina Misericordia, realizarán una misión médica destinada a los residentes de Zapata, el 10 y 11 de noviembre, de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m., asimismo el 12 de noviembre, de 8 a.m. a 2 p.m. en el Salón de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, ubicado en 1609 de Glenn.

Los servicios que se ofrecerán (médicos y dentales) a los niños y adultos asistentes, son gratuitos.

De igual manera se ofrecerán servicios espirituales a las 7 p.m. con una celebración eucarística de sanación, pláticas espirituales, unción de los enfermos y confesiones en la Iglesia.

Para más información puede llamar al (956) 7222443.

DESARROLLO PORTUARIO El Director General de la Administración Portuaria Integral de Tamaulipas, S. A. de C.V. Vicente Saint Martin Ochoa, presentó las ventajas de invertir en Puerto de Matamoros, México, a empresarios de Brownsville, Houston y San Antonio, quienes escucharon los proyectos de infraestructura portuaria, su obra y la magnitud del impacto que llevaría a la población, y que se planea comienzan a desarrollarse a principios de 2015.

Se tiene contemplado que PEMEX apoye el sistema logístico del proyecto así como las actividades de exploración y explotación de petróleo, para detonar la actividad comercial y contribuir a la integración de cadenas productivas, señala un comunicado de prensa.

Entre las principales inquietudes manifestadas por los empresarios, fue la cercanía del puerto de Matamoros, con el Puerto de Brownsville y su similitud en las funciones, a lo que Ochoa, aclaró que la vocación del Puerto de Brownsville, será muy diferente a la que tendrá el Puerto de Matamoros. Se tiene planeado acordar el trabajo en colaboración de los puertos, añade el comunicado.

SEGURIDAD LABORAL La Secretaría del Trabajo y Asuntos Jurídicos de la Ciudad de Mante presentó una Jornadas de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, con la finalidad de asegurar el bienestar y la competitividad de los trabajadores, anunciaron autoridades del Estado.

Durante las jornadas se contó con la presencia de empleados, propietarios, representantes de sindicatos y organismos empresariales, así como estudiantes de nivel medio superior, relacionados con el tema de la seguridad en el trabajo, señala un comunicado de prensa.

“El bienestar de los trabajadores tamaulipecos es una de las prioridades”, dijo Rolando Guevara González, titular de STAJ. “Con la cultura de la prevención queremos reducir los accidentes y las enfermedades de trabajo, porque sabemos que esto incrementa la productividad de las empresas”.

Pablo Alberto González León, presidente de Ciudad Mante, aseguró que la región cuenta con calidad de mano de obra y egresados con perfil para cubrir los requerimientos de las empresas y el nuevo mercado laboral, indica el comunicado.

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WASHINGTON — El principal líder del Cartel del Golfo en México fue arrestado mientras se encontraba de compras en el Sur de Texas, dijeron oficiales el martes.

Juan Francisco Saenz-Tamez, 23, de Camargo, Tamaulipas, México, fue acusado por un gran jurado de EU en septiembre de 2013, por cargos de tráfico de drogas que se extiende de Texas a Washington D.C., y por la Costa Este.

Saenz-Tamez, a quien oficiales dicen que emergió de las filas para liderar el violento cártel, fue capturado el 9 de octubre por agentes federales mientras estaba de compras en Edinburg.

Se encuentra acusado de conspiración en el envío de miles de li-

bras de cocaína y marihuana alrededor de la frontera de EU y México, y por lavado de dinero.

Oficiales de EU llaman al arresto una señal de cooperación entre agencias del orden de los dos países.

John M. Bales, fiscal de EU en Beaumont, llamó al arresto “una muestra profunda de que la justicia está prevaleciendo en México”.

Michele M. Leonhart, administrador de Drug Enforcement Administration, dijo que Saenz-Tamez “supervisó mucha de la violencia y del derramamiento de sangre que invadió México”.

“Se movía de manera constante en las filas del cártel, trabajando en un puesto de observación, encargado del registro, jefe de plaza y, finalmente, siendo su líder”.

Saenz-Tamez realizó su aparición

inicial en la corte el martes. Se encuentra detenido en Beaumont. Los fiscales dijeron que esperan decomisar más de 100 millones en acciones que adquirió durante su supuesta empresa de drogas.

En caso de ser condenado por todos los cargos, enfrentaría una pena máxima de cadena perpetua.

Jorge Chabat, un experto en seguridad en el Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica en la Ciudad de México, dijo que el Cártel del golfo se ha debilitado en los años recientes.

“En términos de organizaciones criminales en México, es un cártel que se encuentra en declive”, dijo Chabat, quien dijo nunca haber escuchado sobre Saenz-Tamez. “La verdad es que esta organización no es tan relevante como solía ser”.

El Cártel del Golfo, que se en-

cuentra implicado en el transporte de marihuana y cocaína a Estados Unidos a través de la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros, se ha visto encasillado en una batalla brutal por el control del noreste de México con el Cártel de Los Zetas, que comenzó como una extensión paramilitar del Cártel del Golfo que más tarde se separó.

Al mismo tiempo, se vieron varios de los principales líderes arrestados en años recientes, entre los que se incluyen Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez en 2012 y Mario Armando Ramírez en 2013.

Saenz-Tamez se encuentra entre los varios sospechosos de ser líderes de cárteles que han sido arrestados en años recientes. El gobierno mexicano arrestó este mes al sospechoso de ser líder del Cártel de Juárez, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes.

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Omar Uribe y María Luisa Uribe, son descendientes de una de las familias originarias de San Ygnacio, en el Condado de Zapata. Ellos participan en el evento de Árboles genealógicos en Zapata, el viernes. Evento continúa hoy.

Exhibición muestra fotos y documentos POR MALENA CHARUR TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

La historia familiar de los habitantes de Zapata puede ser admirada en la exhibición denominada Árbol Familiar que por segundo año consecutivo se presenta en el Museo de Historia del Condado de esta ciudad.

Desde el viernes y durante el día de hoy los miembros de la Sociedad de Genealógica del Nuevo Santander se encuentran presentado el pasado histórico familiar a través de retratos, escudos, fotografías de la arquitectura y la vida rural, joyería, artefactos e indumentaria entre otros artículos.

“La sociedad tiene la misión de ayudar a los miembros a reconocer su pasado familiar pues muchas personas no saben cómo empezar (a organizar la información)”, explicó Hildegardo E. Flores, director del museo. En el museo tenemos una compilación de información sobre las fami-

lias, además de todos los datos que están disponibles en Internet o en sitios como Ancestry.com”.

El evento muestra familias cuyo pasado se remonta a los fundadores de la región durante la época de la colonia y que incluye poblados aledaños como San Ygnacio, Lopeño, Laredo, el Valle y Guerrero, entre otros.

“Se tiene la ventaja que se cuenta con evidencia documentada ya que la iglesia católica en un bautizo, por ejemplo, registraba no sólo el nombre de los padres y los familiares, sino también a qué se dedicaban, si se trataba de españoles o indios o a qué casta pertenecían. Todo quedaba explicado ahí”, manifestó.

Apellidos como Ramírez, Uribe, Flores, Cuéllar, Gutiérrez y Martínez, entre tantos otros, figuran en la exhibición.

Agregó que en el evento anterior 22 familias participaron y esperan que este año el número aumente.

Con la exhibición se pretende dar una mayor visibilidad al museo.

“Somos una comunidad pequeña y con este evento tratamos de invitar a otras comunidades para que vengan y conozcan un poco de la historia de la región pues desde el Río Nueces hasta el Río Pánuco, que divide a Tamaulipas de Veracruz, se conformaba la provincia del Nuevo Santander”, señaló Flores.

El Museo de Historia del Condado de Zapata está ubicado en 805 al norte de la Carretera 83.

La exhibición estará disponible hoy en el Salón del museo desde las 10 a.m. hasta las 4 p.m.

El evento es gratuito.

Si desea participar hoy con la exhibición de su árbol genealógico o requiere mayor información sobre la exposición puede llamar al (956) 765-8983.

(Localice a Malena Charur en el 728-2583 o en mcharur@lmtonline.com)

Tres agresiones contra autoridades mexicanas dieron lugar a la muerte de 19 presuntos criminales y al decomiso de armas y municiones, en los municipios de Matamoros y Río Bravo, México, dijeron autoridades de Tamaulipas el miércoles.

El primero de los incidentes fue reportado en el ejido Lucio Blanco, del municipio de Matamoros, a la 1:30 p.m. del martes. Ése día, personal de la Policía Federal se vio implicada en una balacera contra hombres armados, donde tres de ellos murieron. Se identificó a dos víctimas como Arsenio Serna Sánchez, de 40 años de edad, y Sergio Antonio García Mejía, de 20 años, de acuerdo con documentos encontrados entre sus pertenencias, señala un comunicado de prensa.

Se decomisaron tres armas largas, 16 cartuchos abastecidos, dos porta-cargadores tipo pechera, cuatro chalecos balísticos y una camioneta con reporte de robo, de acuerdo con el reporte.

A la 1:45 p.m., del martes, tuvo lugar el segundo altercado en el poblado de Nuevo Progreso, en el municipio de Río Bravo. Elementos de la Secretaría de Marina fueron agredidos por varios civiles armados, donde nueve murieron. Al igual que en el primer incidente dos occisos fueron identificados como Asunción Lozano Martínez, de 25 a 30 años de edad y José Rosalío Arce, de 35 a 40 años, señala el reporte.

En el lugar del incidente se aseguraron nueve armas largas, cartuchos útiles y dos vehículos, uno con blindaje artesanal.

Siete presuntos criminales murieron en un altercado registrado a las 2 p.m. del martes, entre Matamoros y Río Bravo, después de que elementos del Ejército Mexicano reportaran haber sido atacados. Se decomisaron siete armas largas, dos fusiles Barret de alto calibre y siete vehículos.

Armamento, cartuchos, cargadores, vehículos y otros objetos quedaron a disposición del Ministerio Público.

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Archivos dan vistazo a elecciones en 1946 POR RAÚL SINENCIO CHÁVEZ ESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El 7 de julio de 1946 hay comicios que renuevan la presidencia de la República y el Congreso de la Unión. Miguel Alemán Valdez, candidato a la primera magistratura por el Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), gana con 77.90 por ciento de los sufragios. En segundo lugar aparece Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza, del Partido Democrático Mexicano (PDM), al que conceden 19.33. Con Agustín Castro, registrado por el Partido Nacional Constitucionalista (PNC), y Enrique Calderón, que auspicia el Partido Nacional Reivindicador Popular Revolucionario, las fuerzas opositoras acumulan 22.08 de las preferencias. Constituye verdadero récord entonces.

Sin embargo, el abstencionismo

rebasa la mitad del universo ciudadano. Peor todavía, el PDM, el PNC y otros contendientes demandan enseguida que la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) investigue lo que consideran “violaciones del voto”. En lo medular, el primero de ellos objeta la abierta injerencia “de gobernadores, presidentes municipales, funcionarios federales, legislaturas enteras y hasta de […] jefes militares en favor del candidato” Alemán Valdez, “y el reconocimiento […] del fraude por el Poder Ejecutivo”.

El PNC denuncia además “que el juez de Distrito en Querétaro sorprendió a varios miembros del” PRI “la víspera de las elecciones haciendo paquetes electorales a beneficio de […] dicho partido”, “y que en el Estado de Guerrero no se instalaron casillas […] en donde la mayoría era notoria para los candidatos del Par-

tido Nacional Constitucionalista”.

La única posibilidad de que interviniera el Poder Judicial de la Federación estaba definida por el artículo 97 de la Carta Magna. Según esto, de estimarlo necesario o a solicitud el presidente, de algún órgano del congreso general o de cualquier gobernador, la SCJN podía nombrar a uno o varios de sus ministros o a un juez de Distrito o a magistrados de Circuito o componer una comisión, sólo para investigar lo concerniente a las violaciones del voto público.

El artículo 60 constitucional determinaba asimismo que diputados y senadores calificaran en definitiva sus respectivas elecciones. El artículo 74 del máximo código ordenaba que la cámara baja hiciera lo propio con los comicios presidenciales.

Ante ello, prominentes especialistas sostuvieron que más allá de meras indagatorias, debían crearse me-

canismos capaces de corregir las irregularidades perjudiciales a la democracia representativa.

Admitidas las denuncias, encarga la SCJN al ministro Franco Carreño el dictamen correspondiente. Éste considera que “una pesquisa general sobre violaciones reales o supuestas del voto público […] tendría un carácter […] policial”. “Aun precisados los hechos — añade —, existe imposibilidad material para investigarlos con […] oportunidad y remitir el expediente al colegio electoral [del Congreso de la Unión], para los efectos legales”.

Así se ordena la “investigación por lo que se refiere a los hechos violatorios del voto público y de carácter penal denunciados por los representantes del” PDM “en el Estado de Morelos, comisionándose al juez de Distrito respectivo para practicarla”.

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MUSEUM seum director. “In the museum we have information compiled on families, and all is available on the Internet or on sites like ancestry.com.”

The event shows families whose past dates back to the founding of the region during the colonial era, and includes San Ygnacio, Lopeño, Laredo, Valle and Guerrero, among other neighboring towns.

“There is an advantage of documented evidence because the Catholic Church in a baptism, for example, recorded not only the name of the parents

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and family, but also what they did, whether they were Spanish or Indian or what caste they belonged to. Everything was explained there,” Flores said.

Surnames like Ramirez, Uribe, Flores, Cuellar, Gutierrez and Martinez, among many others, are listed in the exhibit.

Twenty-two families participated in the previous event, Flores said, and hopes the number increases this year.

He expects the exhibition will give greater visibility to the museum.

“We are a small commu-

nity, and with this event we’ll try to invite other communities to come and learn a little history of the region because from the Nueces River to the Panuco River, that divides Tamaulipas at Veracruz, was the area Nuevo Santander covered,” Flores said.

The museum is located at 805 North Highway 83.

For more information about the exhibit call 7658983.

(Contact Malena Charur at 728-2583, or mcharur@lmtonline.com. Translated by Mark Webber of the Times staff.)

SHIP Continued from Page 1A namic and magnetic,” said Peter Fix, one of the assembly team members and chief conservator for Texas A&M University’s Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation.

“Once we get the framing up it’s going to look like a big beached whale, a bone carcass. And that’s dynamic and hopefully it will pique curiosity.”

The keel and other large structural pieces of La Belle — resembling old railroad ties — were discovered in 1995 by Texas Historical Commission archaeologists. Researchers built a dam around the site, pumped it dry, then retrieved the nearly intact hull that had been preserved in up to 6 feet of mud.

In 2012, the 600 waterlogged pieces were taken to Texas A&M, where the timber was stored at 60 degrees below zero in the world’s largest archaeolog-

ical freeze-dryer to remove more than three centuries of moisture.

Once the assembly is finished, the hull will be encased in a glass cabinlike structure so people can have the sensation of being on the ship’s deck, peering into the hull and its cargo holds “and understand that they’re not looking at just a bunch of dirty old boards,” Fix said.

La Salle was the first European to travel the Mississippi River south to the Gulf, claiming all the land along the river and its tributaries for France in 1682. Three years later, he sailed from France with more than 300 colonists aboard four ships including La Belle to establish a settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi — a destination he missed by 400 miles.

By then, one ship had been lost to pirates. An-

other ran aground and sank. A third eventually headed back to France, leaving La Belle as his only lifeline. That was severed with its sinking.

Then the colony at Fort St. Louis was ravaged by disease, rattlesnakes, water shortages and Indians.

Its inhabitants died or were killed while La Salle led a handful of men inland, where he wound up killed by some of them.

The museum exhibition also includes cannons and rifles, ammunition, cooking utensils, tools, building materials, trinkets like beads, bells and mirrors and even some of the 1,603 Jesuit rings recovered.

“We couldn’t be any luckier in that sense,” Bruseth said. “Rather than the ship being empty when it wrecked, everything he had left that you need for a colony was in the Belle.”

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ADELFA R. MARTINEZ Adelfa R. Martinez, 81, passed away on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 in Laredo, Texas.

Ms. Martinez is preceded in death by her husband, Miguel T. Martinez; brothers, Regulo Rodriguez, Rogelio Rodriguez, Sotero Rodriguez and sister, Manuela R. Martinez.

Ms. Martinez is survived by her sons, Miguel A. (Alejandra) Martinez, Saul (Alicia) Martinez; daughters, Alma (Oscar) Garcia, Thelma Martinez, Rosa Martinez, Elva Martinez; grandchildren, Miguel A. Jr. (Imelda) Martinez, Myrna (Felix) Hinojosa, Marco (Jackie) Martinez, Max Martinez, Maria Martinez, Saul Jr. (Diana) Martinez. Joel Martinez, Omar Martinez, Elsa Valadez, Jose M. (Maria Gomez) Valadez, Mario (Judith) Valadez, Shelly Mastin, Wm. Michael Mastin; eleven great-grandchildren; brothers, Juan Antonio (Juana Estela) Rodriguez, Alejandro (Natalia) Rodriguez; sisters, Eliza (Vicente) Zesati, Emma (Rogelio) Rodriguez, Elvira (Adolio) Bustamante; brother-in-law, Domingo Martinez; sisters-in-law, Araceli Rodriguez, Maria H. Rodriguez, Maria M. Rodriguez; and by numerous other family members and friends.

Special Thanks to her

longtime provider, Maria Zeno and also to Nurses on Wheels and Staff.

Visitation hours were held on Friday, October 17, 2014, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a rosary at 7 p.m. at Rose Garden Funeral Home.

The funeral procession departed on Saturday, October 18, 2014, at 8:30 a.m. for a 9 a.m. funeral Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.

Committal services followed at Zapata County Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Rose Garden Funeral Home Daniel A. Gonzalez, Funeral Director, 2102 N. US HWY 83 Zapata, Texas.

Vicente Gonzalez, Jr. 23, passed away on Monday, October 13, 2014 in San Antonio, Texas.

Vicente is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Jesus Gonzalez.

Vicente is survived by his mother, Esther Gavilanes; father, Vicente Gonzalez; sisters, Cynthia (Jose Manuel, Jr.) Gonzalez; Stephanie (Jose Antonio) Torres; brother, David Z. Gonzalez; maternal grandparents, Daniel and Felicitas Gavilanes; paternal grandmother, Enriqueta Gonzalez and by numerous nephews, nieces, uncles, aunts other family members and many friends.

Visitation hours were held on Thursday, October 16, 2014, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a rosary at 7 p.m. at Rose Garden Funeral Home.

The funeral procession departed on Friday, October 17, 2014, at 8:30 a.m. for a 9 a.m. funeral Mass at Our

ber 23, 2014, at 9 a.m. with a chapel service at 11 a.m. at Rose Garden Funeral Home.

Committal services followed at Zapata County Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Rose Garden Funeral Home Daniel A. Gonzalez, Funeral Director, 2102 N. US HWY 83 Zapata, Texas.

Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.

Committal services followed at Zapata County Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Rose Garden Funeral Home Daniel A. Gonzalez, Funeral Director, 2102 N. US HWY 83 Zapata, Texas.

JOSE REFUGIO JASSO Jose Refugio Jasso, 73, passed away on Thursday, October 2, 2014 at Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

Mr. Jasso is preceded in death by his parents, Jose M. and Paula Jasso; stepparents, Guadalupe and Luz Garza; brothers, Lazaro (Yolanda) Jasso, Jose Maria (Paula) Jasso, Amado Jasso; sisters, Paula (Humberto) Botello and Oralia Jasso.

Mr. Jasso is survived by his wife, Felicitas H. Arambula; sisters, Ramona (Manuel) Botello, Brigida (Jose Angel) Paredes and by numerous nephews, nieces, other family members and friends.

Visitation hours were held on Friday, October 3, 2014, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Rose Garden Funeral Home.

The funeral procession departed on Friday, October 3, 2014, at 10 a.m. for a 10:30 a.m. funeral Mass at Our Lady of Refuge Mis-

sion in San Ygnacio, Texas.

Committal services followed at Panteon Del Pueblo.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Rose Garden Funeral Home Daniel A. Gonzalez, Funeral Director, 2102 N. US HWY 83 Zapata, Texas.

EBOLA Continued from Page 1A Nervous New Yorkers

JUAN GUZMAN, SR. Juan Guzman, Sr. 65, passed away on Monday, October 20, 2014 in Hebbronville, Texas.

Mr. Guzman is preceded in death by his son, Juan Angel Guzman, Jr.; grandson, Hector E. Garcia; parents, Vicente Reymundo and Antonia Guzman; brother, Francisco (Sylvia) Guzman and a sister, Lucia Guzman.

Mr. Guzman is survived by his wife, Esperanza D. Guzman; sons, Juan Angel Guzman, Jr. (Cindy Contreras), Johnny Joe (Guadalupe) Guzman; daughters, Angela Guzman, Rebecca (Rodolfo) Valadez, Terry Luera (Michael L. Ginevra), Rachel L. Mejia, Lisa L. (Isidro Jr.) Gutierrez; twenty grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; brothers, David (Beatriz) Guzman, Jose (Claudia) Guzman; sisters, Olivia (Juan) Tejada, Graciela (Enrique) Peña, Julieta (Andres) Sanchez; and by numerous other family members and friends.

Visitation hours were held on Thursday, Octo-

VICENTE GONZALEZ JR.

Many New Yorkers were rattled by the news that a doctor unknowingly infected with the virus had ridden the subway, visited parks and gone bowling after returning from treating Ebola patients in Guinea.

Health officials said Dr. Craig Spencer followed U.S. and international protocols by checking his temperature daily and seeking treatment Thursday when he suffered diarrhea and a 100.3-degree fever.

He was listed in stable condition Friday at a special isolation unit at Bellevue Hospital Center, and a decontamination company was sent to his Harlem home. His fiancee, who was not showing symptoms, was in quarantine.

Ebola isn’t contagious until the infected person becomes ill, and city officials tried to reassure New Yorkers. But some people were breaking out the hand sanitizer and imagining scenarios where Ebola might spread through the city’s subway and other crowded spaces.

“There is no cause for alarm,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “New Yorkers who have not been exposed to an infected person’s bodily fluids are simply not at risk.”

Quarantine question The New York case prompted the governors of New York and New Jersey to issue a 21-day quarantine for any travelers, including doctors, who had contact with Ebola pa-

tients in West Africa.

Earlier in the day, at a congressional hearing, some U.S. lawmakers urged a travel ban or a quarantine. It can take up to 21 days after someone is infected to become sick.

They cited errors in the handling of the Dallas Ebola case and said the New York situation exposed more problems with the government’s response to the disease.

“I can tell you it’s not working. All you need to do is look at Craig Spencer,” said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. Rep. Stephen Lynch, DMass., said health authorities weren’t taking the threat seriously enough.

“This can’t just be about ideology and happy talk,” Lynch said.

Dr. Nicole Lurie, assistant HHS secretary for preparedness and response, told lawmakers a travel ban would be counterproductive and make it harder to stop the disease in West Africa, where the hardest-hit nations are desperate for more resources and medical help.

“There is an epidemic of fear, but not of Ebola, in the United States,” Lurie said.

Doctors Without Borders, which has been at the forefront of the battle against Ebola, stuck by its guidelines for health workers returning from the hot zone. They are closely monitored for disease and don’t need to be quarantined if they aren’t showing symptoms, the group said in a statement.

Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian relief organization based in North Carolina, said that its return-

ing aid workers spend three weeks isolated in a “safe house,” where they are monitored for fever and asked to stay away from crowds and not visit with family.

Now in Mali, too A 2-year-old girl who traveled by bus from Guinea with her grandmother died of Ebola after arriving in Mali. It was the first case in that West African nation, and World Health Organization officials say that because the child was sick and bleeding from her nose, she may have infected many people.

Health officials are monitoring 43 people, including 10 health care workers, who might have been exposed and the WHO is sending experts to help.

The disease is out of control in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Cases also have reached Nigeria and Senegal since the outbreak began in March, but those West African countries were able to stop its spread.

More than 4,800 people have died in the outbreak.

Nurses on the mend The two nurses who caught Ebola from a hospital patient in Dallas are now free of the disease.

The first to fall ill, Nina Pham, left a government hospital near Washington with a big smile, telling reporters she was eager to reunite with her dog, Bentley, who had been put in quarantine.

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Charles Spaniel so far has tested negative for the disease.

“I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today,” Pham told reporters outside the hospital.

Pham, 26, was invited to the White House afterward, where Obama hugged her and praised the bravery of health care workers who put themselves at risk to help Ebola patients.

Pham and co-worker Amber Vinson were infected while caring for a Liberian man at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Thomas Eric Duncan, who became sick after traveling to the U.S., died in the hospital Oct. 8.

Vinson “is making good progress” and tests no longer find any Ebola virus in her blood, Emory University Hospital said in a statement Friday. She remains hospitalized.

Europe steps up The 28 nations of the European Union are pledging more than 1 billion euros — or about $1.26 billon — to the Ebola cause.

“Helping West Africa to cope with the crisis is the most effective way to prevent a serious outbreak of the disease elsewhere,” EU leaders said Friday in a statement at the end of their two-day fundraising summit.

Britain’s contribution of $329 million was the largest in the group.

Separately, China pledged $81 million to the worldwide Ebola effort.

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POLL Continued from Page 1A tries that have joined the U.S. in the fight against Islamic State militants has not gone far enough. The U.S. and partner countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have been bombing Islamic State targets since August.

“It shouldn’t just be us. It shouldn’t just be ‘Oh, the United States is policing.’ It should be everyone is there policing and everybody believes this is wrong and everyone — worldwide — is trying to stop this,” said Kathy Robinson, 24, a Sterling, Virginia, woman who works at an information technology company.

At the same time, she thinks the United States eventually will put troops on the ground in the region “just to make sure nothing starts back up — to keep the peace.”

Only 32 percent think Obama has done a good job in clearly stating U.S. policy against the IS group. More than six in 10 of them think it’s either not likely or only moderately likely that the U.S. and its partners will achieve their goal in fighting IS.

Are Americans following developments in Iraq, Syria?

While 47 percent of those surveyed said there’s a very or extremely high risk of another terror attack inside the United States, just a third said they have been keenly following the news about the U.S. military action against IS. An additional 38 percent said they were following the action somewhat closely, and 31 percent said they were keeping up not too closely or not closely at all.

Do people support the airstrikes?

While Americans support the airstrike, when it comes to supporting the idea of deploying U.S. ground troops, respondents were more guarded.

Thirty-seven percent said they opposed putting American forces on the ground, 33 percent favored the idea and 28 percent said they were neither for nor against it.

Obama has said repeatedly that he has no plans to send ground troops to Iraq or Syria. However, 28 percent thought it was very or extremely likely that he would, and an additional 45 percent thought it was moderately likely.

Just 24 percent said it was not likely.

Michael Rainwater, 64, of Samman-

ish, Washington, doesn’t particularly want to see U.S. troops sent in, but thinks they might be deployed at some point.

“I think all of these things tend to escalate,” he said. “You can’t keep pouring fuel on the fire and expect the fire to get smaller. So every time we bomb or send in armed drones, you are creating more terrorists.”

He does not think, though, that the Islamic State is in a position to mount a 9/11-style attack against the U.S. Said Rainwater, a retired software company owner: “It is more of a criminal entity because basically what they are doing is kidnapping people for ransom, taking over oil refineries for the income.”

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted Oct. 16-20 using KnowledgePanel, GfK’s probability-based panel designed to be representative of the U.S. population. It involved online interviews with 1,608 adults, and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points for all respondents. Respondents were selected randomly using phone or mail survey methods, and later interviewed. People selected for KnowledgePanel who didn’t otherwise have access to the Internet were given free access.

Perry’s first hearing set for Nov. 6 ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN — A judge has rescheduled for Nov. 6 in Austin Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s first court appearance to face abuse-of-power charges.

The Republican originally was to appear at a Friday pretrial hearing, but Perry attorney Tony Buzbee said the hearing was postponed until Nov. 7.

In an order signed Friday, though, state District Judge Bert Richardson set the hearing for the previous morning.

A Travis County grand jury indicted Perry in August on charges that he abused his official powers and coerced a public servant. The charges arose from his public threat and eventual decision to veto state funding for public corruption prosecutors.

That came after the Democratic district attorney overseeing the unit wouldn’t resign after a drunken-driving conviction.

Perry’s attorneys have challenged the case on constitutional and technical grounds.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2014

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Sack-starved unit Cowboys defense surviving without sacks

By SCHUYLER DIXON ASSOCIATED PRESS

IRVING — Tyrone Crawford flailed his arms in frustration after chasing Eli Manning only to see the Giants quarterback throw a harmless interception last week.

The Dallas defensive tackle has to

come up with a new way after every game to describe life without a sack, and the Cowboys have so few as a team. They’re averaging less than one per game if you take away a tackle on a fake punt that counted as one.

And yet, improvement in the league’s worst defense from a year ago is as big a reason as any for a 6-1 start,

raising the question of whether the Cowboys can keep it up without getting the quarterback down more.

“They’re going to have to start coming,” said defensive end Jeremy Mincey, who also doesn’t have a sack but is tied with Crawford for the team lead

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Houston quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is hoping to perform better as the season progresses under center for the Texans.

A NEW JOB AT TEXAS

Texans’ Fitzpatrick eyes more success Houston quarterback believes he can ‘do better’

By KRISTIE RIEKEN ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — Ryan Fitzpatrick isn’t playing the way he wants to and knows he has to improve to help the Houston Texans get back on track after three straight losses.

“I know I can do better,” he said. “Some of it mentally, some of it physically, but my thing is just continuing to get better every week, continuing to understand the offense better, continuing to run it at a faster pace and mentally speeding everything up.”

Though there have been plenty of problems for the Texans, Fitzpatrick has received the lion’s share of the criticism for the team’s recent struggles. It doesn’t bother the 31-year-old journeyman. He’s heard it all before.

“It’s definitely the way that it goes,” he said Thursday. “As a quarterback and especially as a guy that really started at the bottom and has kind of worked my way in in every situation I’ve been in, I’ve faced and heard a lot of that.”

He insists that he never lets outside opinions alter his view of himself or affect his play.

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Former Longhorns quarterback Vince Young now has a new position at the University of Texas, taking over as a development officer for alumni relations in the university’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

Former QB Vince Young has a new role in Austin

By RYAN AUTULLO ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN — Arguably the greatest football player to ever play at Texas is not much of a golfer.

So Vince Young requested that his new employer pro-

vide him lessons, believing that bigger donations and better relationships with deep pockets may be struck on the course.

The Austin AmericanStatesman reports Young, who ran and passed the Longhorns to the 2005 national

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championship, is almost two months into his job as development officer for alumni relations in the university’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

Boiled down to one word, Young is a salesman.

For $100,000 a year, he’s

TCU faces model for new offense in Texas Tech

By SCHUYLER DIXON ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT WORTH — No. 10 TCU’s new high-powered offense will see one of its models when Texas Tech visits Saturday.

Red Raiders coach Kliff Kingsbury says

the offenses are “very similar,” with one big difference: Horned Frogs quarterback Trevone Boykin.

“If you look at what he’s done, his numbers, you’ve got to put him up there in the

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Texas Tech will be tested against the No. 10 team in the country as TCU hopes to continue to pad its resume for a playoff spot at season’s end.

tasked with attracting disadvantaged students to Texas and encouraging alumni to finance their dreams. Should the latter objective bring Young to a local fairway, he’s preparing to make his sales

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Texas travels to take on No. 11 Kansas State after squeaking past Iowa State last week 48-45.

Longhorns prepare for matchup in Manhattan

By DAVE SKRETTA ASSOCIATED PRESS

MANHATTAN, Kan. — There was already plenty of competition for carries at Texas, where veteran running backs Johnathan Gray and Malcolm Brown have

formed a potent one-two combination.

Now, the Longhorns are boasting a threeheaded attack.

With the emergence of quarterback Tyrone Swoopes as a dangerous run-pass

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COWBOYS Continued from Page 1B in quarterback pressures with 17. “We’re emphasizing everything and working it every day.

I know we’ll click.”

Crawford is tired of having to face defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli in the first meeting each week without a sack in the previous game. And it’s getting to the point where he and his teammates have to make sure they don’t obsess over sacks to the detriment of other duties.

“That’s what I’ve been thinking maybe,” said Crawford, who has alternated between end and tackle since he was drafted two years ago. “Just having a sack on your mind, going into the game wanting one so bad, that pretty much controls you.”

It stands to reason that Dallas is close to the bottom of the league in sacks after releasing franchise leader DeMarcus Ware in a salary cap move and letting 2013 leader Jason Hatcher sign as a free agent with Washington (2-5), the next opponent on Monday night at home.

The Cowboys gave up their third-round pick in this year’s draft to move close to the top of the second round and get DeMarcus Lawrence, but the rookie broke his right foot in training camp. He’s now in his second week of practice and hoping to make his debut next

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The Cowboys have won six straight games despite a defensive line which has struggled to pick up sacks in 2014. week against Arizona.

The team’s active leader is Anthony Spencer with 32 1/2, and he’s still waiting for his first as well while trying to regain his form following knee surgery that sidelined him all

but one game last year.

“We’re working at it, believe me, and we’re coming up short,” Marinelli said. “But moving guys around, trying to get maybe the proper matchups.

They’ll come. We’ve just got to

TEXANS Continued from Page 1B “You’ve got to have confidence,” he said. “You’ve got to believe and you’ve got to go out there and play.”

The quarterback is in his first season in Houston after spending last season with the Titans, who the Texans face on Sunday. He was penciled in to be the backup there, but was thrust into the starting role midway through the season after an injury to Jake Locker.

Fitzpatrick went 3-4 as a starter once Locker’s season was done and was focused on doing more after winning the starting job in Houston this offseason. Things started out well for Fitzpatrick and the Texans, but mistakes by the quarterback and most everyone on the team has Houston in desperate need of a win.

One thing Fitzpatrick believes will help make that happen is getting the ball more to star receiver Andre Johnson, who has had five catches in two of Houston’s recent losses and had seven receptions in the other one.

“My job is to get the ball to our playmakers,” Fitzpatrick said. “I didn’t get it to Andre nearly enough early.”

Johnson certainly wouldn’t mind getting the ball more, but it irks him that most everyone outside of the team is blaming Fitzpatrick for the Houston’s

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troubles.

“When you don’t win, I think everybody needs to look at themselves and see what they can do better,” Johnson said.

“We all need to pick our play up as a team, fix the mistakes that we’re making and do what we need to do to win. I think you just can’t dwell on one person.”

Fitzpatrick’s 1,530 yards passing rank 17th in the NFL and he’s tied for third-most interceptions in the league with seven.

When asked what he wants to see from Fitzpatrick this week, quarterbacks coach George Godsey said he wants him to lead the team to touchdowns instead of field goals.

“Be efficient on offense,” Godsey said. “On normal downs, making the right decisions, going through his progressions in the passing game. On third down, finding a way to move the chains.”

The Texans struggled in previous weeks to start fast but changed that against Pittsburgh when they jumped out to a 13-0 lead. It was mostly downhill from there as Houston trailed 24-13 at the half and lost 30-23.

“We had some plays out there that we missed on that we just need to execute better,” Fitzpatrick said. “We just have to continue work on being efficient and effective the whole game long.”

pitch a tap-in birdie.

“It’s always good to close deals on the golf course,” Young said.

No one at Texas is disputing that this position was created exclusively for Young, who returned to school and earned a degree in youth and community studies in May 2013. This began cooking two or three years ago, when Young bumped into Texas President Bill Powers at a social gathering and the two discussed bringing Young on board in an unspecified role.

At the time, Young, the 2006 offensive rookie of the year with the Tennessee Titans, was hoping to resuscitate a once promising NFL career that had careened off track.

This offseason, after being cut by the Cleveland Browns and not cracking an opening-day roster for the third year in a row, Young informed Powers he was ready to come back.

University officials say they were not required to open Young’s position to the public because Young’s name recognition and history with UT made him “uniquely qualified.”

A product of a single-parent home, Young can identify with the hardships of the students he’s recruiting. Because his hire occurred after the finalization of this year’s university budget, the money for Young’s salary is being taken from a special fund Powers dips into to assist programs of his choosing. Next year, DDCE will

TEXAS Continued from Page 1B threat, Texas has a more diversified offense under Charlie Strong. And that’s giving Kansas State coach Bill Snyder plenty of reason to worry heading into Saturday’s showdown in Manhattan.

“The guy that has really come front and center has been the quarterback,” Snyder said while previewing No. 11 Kansas State’s game against the Longhorns this week. “You can just see the progress that he has made. He is a talented, talented young guy.”

That talent was evident in the Longhorns’ 48-45 victory last week over Iowa State, when Swoopes threw for 321 yards and a touchdown while running for 95 yards and another score.

Swoopes was the leading rusher for the Longhorns (3-4, 2-2 Big 12) in the game.

“I told him he outshined us a little bit, so we need to pick it up,” said Brown, with a laugh. “I’m definitely happy for him, but we need to catch up.”

Meanwhile, Kansas State (5-1, 3-0) features its own run-pass quarterback.

Jake Waters threw for 225 yards and two touchdowns without a pick in last week’s win at Oklahoma, and also ran for 51 yards.

The senior has thrown for at least 200 yards in every game this season, and twice he’s gone over 100 yards on the ground.

“Waters is a hell of a quarterback,” the Longhorns’ Jeff Swaim said. “He can run well and he can also throw the ball. I think that’s one thing he doesn’t really get recognition for is he’s a really good passer.

They’re real effective and they do their jobs.”

Kansas State is the only school in the Big 12 that has a winning record against Texas, an 8-6 mark that’s been bolstered by five wins in the last six meetings.

That fact hasn’t escaped Strong, who is in his first season with the Longhorns.

“We haven’t done well at all,” he said. “This is a road game, and it’s one of those games that is all about our focus and our emotion, but it’s all about our defense, too. We’ve got to play great defense. If we’re going to go out there and get that game, we’ve got to play great defense, and it’s about playing great defense on the road.”

Here are a few things to keep in mind as the Wildcats take on the Longhorns: PRESSURING JAKE Texas already has 24 sacks this season, its best rate since 2008. But the Longhorns’ front seven will be facing one of the Big 12’s best offensive lines.

SPEAKING OF D The Longhorns may have put up 48 points against Iowa State, but they also gave up 45. Cyclones quarterback

keep fighting.”

Dallas has kept winning by limiting big plays and getting key stops, including gameclinching turnovers the past two weeks against Super Bowl champion Seattle and Man-

ning’s Giants.

The Cowboys have affected quarterbacks even without the sacks, though. They did get the Seawhawks’ Russell Wilson down twice, but the more notable thing about the defense in that upset was cautious pressure to make sure Wilson didn’t get outside. He was held to 12 yards rushing a week after getting a career-high 122, and Seattle had its worst offensive day this season.

“We do a lot of good things, but we’re just leaving some good rushes out there,” said defensive tackle Henry Melton, who came in this year as a free agent with Mincey and Terrell McClain and leads the team with 1 1/2 sacks.

Coach Jason Garrett wasn’t so much worried about sacks as he was pressure against Manning, who wasn’t bothered much beyond the play where Crawford came agonizingly close.

“You have to get more pressure with your down guys,” Garrett said. “Maybe it’s oneon-one rushes. Maybe it’s rush games. Maybe it’s bringing people. You can talk all you want about not having any sacks, but you also have to affect the guy.”

Crawford is tired of talking about not having any sacks.

Sam Richardson hurt them for 345 yards and two TDs through the air, and Aaron Wimberly ran for 110 yards and another score. “We didn’t play the way we were supposed to, plain and simple,” Texas cornerback Quandre Diggs said. “We’ll get it fixed.”

LOCKETT HISTORY Kansas State wide receiver Tyler Lockett needs one receiving touchdown to tie Quincy Morgan for secondmost in school history. Lockett would be three behind his father, Kevin Lockett, who still owns the record with 26 touchdown grabs.

PACING BIG 12 The Wildcats are the only team unbeaten in Big 12 play. Their only loss came against then-No. 5 Auburn, a 20-14 defeat in which they missed three field goals. If they have any hope of qualifying for the inaugural college football playoff, they need to handle business the rest of the season. That begins with Saturday’s game against Texas.

“It’s about not letting our record, or what the media is talking about, or thoughts of winning the Big 12, or the playoffs at the end of the year, get to our head,” Kansas State cornerback Morgan Burns said. “Texas is still a good football team, they will be hungry. We have a target on our back right now. We’ve got to stay focused.”

include Young’s salary in its budget.

“Very common thing to do,” said Powers, who created DDCE in 2006.

The demands of Young, 31, are not unlike those of the working class. He’s expected to log normal business hours, be it mingling with students at DDCE’s five outreach centers in Central Texas, or making phone calls from his office on the fourth floor of the Flawn Academic Center. He has a direct supervisor and is among a development team of eight. Young gets full benefits and is allowed certain perks, like the golf lessons.

“We’re always looking for opportunities to raise resources, to fund our programs at the highest level,” said Dr. Gregory Vincent, vice president of DDCE. “We could think of no one better than Vince Young.”

Last Friday morning, 50 or so high school seniors from the Dallas area came to Texas for a campus tour hosted by DDCE. Young, their surprise guest speaker, arrived almost 25 minutes late, forcing organizers to improvise and open the room for questions.

A university spokeswoman said Young is on time more often than he’s not.

Young was a hit with the students, who were eight or nine years when he ran roughshod over USC to win the national title.

Over a period of 15 minutes,

Young, who was raised in Houston, spoke of overcoming poverty and the absence of his father to become the first person in his family to graduate from college.

He was self-deprecating — “I ain’t nobody” — and needled his awestruck audience to “wake up” and ask questions. He advised them to surround themselves with academically-driven peers.

“He did a pretty good job,” said Austin Gula, of Duncanville High.

“When he was talking, I was wowed that he cared about academics and not just sports.”

As Young exited the Student Activity Center, two Texas students approached him, wanting a picture. Young, the six-figure ambassador of the university, blew them off.

Young, a husband and father of three, keeps busy. His Vince Young Foundation aims at nurturing troubled youth. Young and former Longhorns basketball player Maurice Evans recently launched an initiative to guide professional athletes who’ve fallen into legal or financial trouble. (In January, Young filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.)

Young also is a studio analyst with the Longhorn Network.

But he aspires for more. Someday, Young says he’d like to join the UT’s System Board of Regents.

“Hopefully when I’m about 45, 50 years old, I’ll be on that board,” he said.

TECH-TCU Continued from Page 1B Heisman talk with the top three guys,” Kingsbury said. “He’s been phenomenal. He’s been as dominant a player as there is in the country when it comes to running the football and throwing it and really protecting it.”

Boykin is thriving in his first season under TCU cooffensive coordinator Sonny Cumbie, who shares Kingsbury’s roots as a quarterback at Texas Tech and spent the last of four seasons as an assistant in Lubbock on Kingsbury’s staff in 2013.

Cumbie joined the Horned Frogs along with former Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Doug Meacham when defensiveminded coach Gary Patterson decided he needed to do something to try to keep up with the fast-paced spread offenses in the Big 12.

Now both sides get to compare notes on the same field.

“I think it will be interesting,” Texas Tech running back DeAndre Washington said. “We pretty much know what they’re going to do on offense.

They know what we’re going to do on offense. I think it will definitely be fun going against coach Cumbie.”

Kingsbury says Boykin’s ability to run is what makes the two offenses dif-

ferent, but the junior just threw for a career-high 410 yards in a bounce-back win over Oklahoma State after the Horned Frogs (5-1, 2-1 Big 12) blew a 21point lead in the final 11 minutes and lost on a lastplay field goal at Baylor.

TCU, long known for producing top-ranked defenses, is fifth nationally in scoring offense and seventh in total offense, and the most improved offense in the country in both categories.

“People say, ’You look calm,”’ Patterson said.

“Well, when you’re going into a ballgame and you know that you can score points, as a head coach and also a defensive guy, that’s all you’re asking for.”

Things to consider as Texas Tech (3-4, 1-3) tries to improve to 3-0 against TCU since the former Southwest Conference foes were reunited in the Big 12 when the Frogs joined in 2012: GRANT’S STATUS Texas Tech leading receiver Jakeem Grant is expected to play after getting stitches from a cut on his chin sustained at an offcampus party where shots were fired last weekend.

Grant, who has 50 catches for 629 yards and five touchdowns, is also battling ankle and shoulder injuries. “I think they’re

both things we can manage,” Kingsbury said.

DON’T FORGET THE DEFENSE With all the attention on TCU’s offense and the defense giving up the big lead in the 61-58 loss to Baylor, the Horned Frogs still have the Big 12’s best unit in sacks per game (3.8), tackles for loss per game (8.3), interceptions (11), takeaways (17) and fewest first downs (110).

WASHINGTON’S ROLL Tech’s Washington has set career highs in rushing in consecutive weeks. He had 138 in a loss to West Virginia two weeks ago and 164 in last week’s 34-21 win over Kansas. That was the most yards rushing for pass-happy Texas Tech since Taurean Henderson had 169 against Kansas in 2004.

BOYKIN AGAINST TECH Boykin threw for 332 yards, a career high at the time, and four touchdowns in a 56-53 loss in triple overtime in Texas Tech’s last visit to Fort Worth two years ago. Last year he became the first TCU quarterback since 1987 to rush for 100 yards (101) in Tech’s 20-10 win.

WEBB OVER CUMBIE Tech quarterback Davis Webb should overtake Cumbie on the school’s career passing yardage chart.

He’s 159 yards shy of Cumbie’s total of 5,116, which is ninth in school history.

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HANG ON TO THIS HINT Dear Heloise: I have a small closet and never seem to have enough space.

Rather than keep empty HANGERS in my closet, I keep them in a laundry basket near the washer and dryer. They don’t take up much-needed space and are right there when I pull clothes out of the dryer. – Lydia in Illinois Hangers can clog up a closet! Don’t put an empty hanger back on the rod only to have it take up space.

I move mine to the end of the rod so they are all in one place. Also, there is a big hook (think coat or boat) attached to the wall, where I hang extra hangers that need to go to the laundry room. No searching for hangers, ever! – Heloise WEDDING BOUQUET Dear Heloise: I dried the flowers from the wedding bouquets of our children.

Then I put one or two flowers in clear plastic Christmas ornaments that come apart, which you can buy at craft stores. On the out-

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For the parents and grandparents, I used their corsages and boutonnieres.

They made lovely surprise gifts for the next Christmas! – A Reader in Canada PREPARE PETS Here are a few hints from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and me to be prepared so your pet friends will be safe: * Have a visible sticker or sign that shows the number and types of animals present. This alerts emergency personnel that animals may be inside. * Store an emergency kit, leashes and/or carriers so they can be grabbed quickly if you live in an area that is prone to sudden evacuation situations. * Locate (beforehand) places your animals can stay if necessary.

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