Show I Pagt 6— Journal Logan Utah Thursday July 16 1998 TTm Herald Hot spell takes toll on Texans DALLAS (AP) — The Christmas lights along the porch were oddly appropriate is health work-er- s arrived at the home of Arlene Thomas with a precious gift in this summer’s deadly heat: a new air conditioner: “That’s the first new one I've ever had" said Mrs Thomas who was happy to abandon the ineffective box fan sitting in a house corner of her four-roo- A persistent air high-pressu-re mail over Texas tor the last month Is rssponstts for weeks of temperatures o over 100 leadfog to several o— me Numtow of iHpw ehovi wfirapt 1 since June 16 02" 04" EJ6" B8 I the House it also would requird placemen of a decal on the vefai-cles and outlaw false statement about a vehicle's history "The number of victims fa dm rebuilt salvage vehicle industry growing and it must be stopped Lott said when he introduced his bill which now has 47 co-spo- rt! son ! But the measure does not apply accuse Congress of supporting legislation that would actually to all vehicles Damaged cars would have to be fen than seven yean old to qualify fora “sal! AP photo vage label" Can older than that would need to be worth more Orwellian those one of “It's Dallas Fire Dept paramedics Dan Valias foreground and Bernardo kinds of bills" said than $7500 to get branded The doublespeak Croitoni background administer a breathing Vestment to Leona SBsr 13 Rosemary Shahan president of vehicles then would have to have who Buffered from shortness of breath In Oak Ckff Texas on Wednesday been declared totaled by an insurConsumers for Auto Reliability Sier had been outside in the sun waiting for a bu when she became and Safety in Sacramento Calif ance company or undergone us from friends repain worth more than 80 per“Heaven Gov George W Bush urged the like this" help official with the Caddo Parish cent of their value before being federal government Wednesday Council on Aging Iowa Attorney General Tom damaged In some cases around Shreveto speed up drought relief to Miller said the Critics say those restrictions legislation “is port the hardest hit area the dead Texas which has suffered about being sold as a would exempt most used can bill were cared for by spouses or oth$15 billion in agricultural losses but this bill is a wolf in sheep's The average car on the road is 85 Bush wants die US Department ers who didn't keep the air condiyean old according to the Conof Agriculture to declare 100 clothing’’ tioning on sumer Federation or America national is no there Currently In Texas efforts to check on counties disaster areas standard for reselling salvaged Oklahoma Gov Frank Keating cars States have an the elderly have included help array of regufrom county city and private has requested a federal disaster lations no rules to from ranging social service agencies All have declaration fin 29 counties as a strict ones such as Iowa’s Used dispatched workers as needed to result of die drought and damagcars there must be declared “salhelp senior citizens children and ing heat Bum bans are in place vaged” if they had repain costing Give UJ3 Savings Bonds in six counties and several com- more than 50 those without air conditioning of their percent Get them at your bank munities have imposed water value before Dallas County health departbeing damaged and be sure to ask for a state's ment volunteers set up a hot line rationing The cotton crop The differing rules allow to coordinate assistance to resi- — only about 20 percent of gift certificate sellers to move dents in need of aid Officials which is irrigated — hangs in the unscrupulous from state to state logged at least 4000 calls by late balance can in lenient states “It’s a torture test” said JC damaged Wednesday The attorneys general estimate A puttcaanacaorNi Farmers throughout the South Banks a cotton specialist “It the sales have cost consumen must have some nun in the next and other meanwhile are repenting wideunsuspecting buyer $4 week or so in order to turn tuition in inflated spread loss of com peanuts cotsticker prices Meet the mollusk wheat and tobacco around and make any sort of crop ton A bill sponsored by Senate stall” amounting to billions of dollars Majority Leader Trent Lott While wildfires have swept Soybeans grain sorghum and would require states to put across parts of Florida and New livestock also are hurting Banks a designation on the titles of vehMexico drought conditions have said Wheat farmers cannot even icles that have been salvaged 159 left all but four of their fields until some rain exempt most used cars from the proposed rules a potential boon to auto deafen and insurers er Dal- praise the Lord they it’ she said Wednesday brought standing in front of a blast of cool air Outside the Dallas area recorded its 23rd day this year — and 10th in a row — with a high temperature at or above 100 degrees It was 104 More of the same was expected today though storms may cool off Arkansas Nebraska Kansas and Colorado At least 25 people in Texas 20 in Louisiana six in Oklahoma and one each in California and Arizona have died from y causes since Many of those killed had heart heat-relat- flood They fece an unlikely group of opponents: consumer groups and 38 state attorneys general They heal-nms- m las County in hope of getting some relief Their response surprised her — it was Christmas in “Oh from unknowingly buying cars that have been salvaged after major accidents or natural disasters like protecting consumers The air conditioner arrived July WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is fashioning a bill aimed at Texas heat “I’ve got to sit up tonight and get the feel of the cool air" Cool air is an invaluable commodity these days in the sweltering South and West where a heat wave is blamed for more than SO deaths and for millions of dollars in damage to crops after Mrs Thomas called the aims to salvaged car sales ed mid-Ma- disease or another medical condition “This (heat) is just something wm Min vnvnr SMCaHFai nobody planned for especially the elderly and disabled” said Zach Thompson assistant direc- tor of the Dallas County health department “We want to prevent any more deaths" Several records fell in Arizona on Wednesday It was 122 degrees in Lake Havasu City and 118 in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument where an illegal immigrant from Mexico died Tuesday apparently from the heat Many of the Louisiana residents who have died of heat exhaustion were elderly men and women reluctant to use air cond- itioning because they worried about expensive utility bills “It can be an uphill battle just to get them to turn the air conditioner on” said Jim Taylor an nnpunBBw fiSCflwe Georgia’s counties as disaster areas plow fells to soften the Similar to the measure passed by soil sun-bak- ed Panel warns Congress: Missile threat is here and now WASHINGTON (AP) — A report to Congress that ballistic missiles from rogue nations could strike US cities with “little or no warning" has lawmakers pressing for a review of intelli- gence assessments that conclude there is no immediate danger “The missile threat is not IS years away — it is here and now” said the House National Security Committee chairman C who Rep Floyd Spence sponsored legislation asking for the report During a committee hearing on R-S- fhe findings today Spence pressed a Republican proposal dating back to President Reagan's “Star Wars” plan to quickly build a national missile defense system against attack “We’re refusing to defend ourselves” he complained Virginia Rep Norm Sisisky said he was among Democrats who backed the Clinton administration's more moderate program to explore ways to fend off ballistic missiles and decide by 2000 whether to deploy in 2003 a limited defensive umbrella to protect US cities But he said the report findings have shaken his confidence in the US intelligence community and fa America's defense plan “You have frightened me and the American public ought to be frightened too” Sisisky said ” Maybe enqugh of us didn't pay attention or we were looking at the wrong information” Although critics question whether it’s possible to shoot a ballistic missile out of the sky Defense Secretary William Cohen said the Pentagon is diligently working on plans for a limited national missile defense system “No (me should doubt our ability and determination to respond with decisive force to a missile attack” Cohen said Wednesday House Minority Leader Dick o has cautioned Gephardt against using the report findings as an excuse to speed up plans for a national missile defense system D-M- “We should not rush to ment” he said judg- An unclassified executive summary of the report written by a bipartisan panel of defense and security experts was released Wednesday a day after lawmakers received a classified version assessment by die CIA concluded that no country other than the five established nuclear powers would be able to threaten US cities with ballistic missiles for IS years been assessed” The CIA already under fire for not predicting the May nuclear testing by India stood by its assessment The agency said nations such as North Korea and White House press secretary Mike McCurry said today there was a disagreement between the Rumsfeld commission and the CIA “about how you factor in different variables when you make these assessments" “We're confident that we are not chasing vapor trails when it comes to investments fa missile defense” McCurry added “We've got a prudent investment that deals accurately with the threat that's well-design- ed Iran face tough technological hurdles in trying to boost the range and propellant power of short- - and medium-rang- e missiles typically limited to several ever said North Korea could develop missiles with a 6 200-mi- le range which could reach as far as Arizona or even Wisconsin Iran is seeking missile compo- by nents that could result fa weapons with similar range capable of hitting Pennsylvania or Minnesota fa a fetter to members of Congress CIA Director George Tenet Appearing in on Sunday July 19 IT called the threat from ballistic missiles “complex serious and on condition of growing” and agreed with the lysts speaking anonymity said the main worry commission on the “need to tal missiles or technologies to aspiring countries The commission report how MM Pag Is Jounufi Nwwpipw hundred miles Two senior intelligence ana- would be if nations such as Russia and China sell intercontinen- Btty PbnTi put olTh HanM In Etetfon focus relentlessly” on it The report said it takes five years for a country to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them Nnwnpnpnr In Education HffialdJqumal that runs more than 300 pages Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld chairman of the commission said his panel concluded that nations such as North Korea and Iran are devemissiles — loping long-ranthanks to partly technology from Russia and China — that have intercontinental weapons He said ge Iraq 4 DAYS JULY ONLY 16-- 19 Not al Axes open Sundays also has aspirations although they're stymied by UN oversight “We see 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