Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday November 21 2003 Nation In brief Hepatitis outbreak sickens more than 500 kills three Q Dawsuiiiti agaDDDS& Pm SHl RlWI i AIM WIkmi nvid I'mvi'rsity of Pittsburgh Intiihall tan John Spruit skipped I he Pill game mi Del II Joseph Sprall knew his younger brother was siek Neither ol' them realized how siek 1 -- Jack on No Sprall was dead at Karel) a month later age 4i of li ver failure the third and latest fatality in the biggest known outbreak of hepatitis A in I' S history More than 541) people have fallen ill overihe past lew1 weeks after going to a now closed ('hi (jii’s Mexican restaurant and investigators sa scullions mav have been the source of the virus The three deaths have shocked western Pennsylvanians because health authorities have been saying that hepatitis A is usually not fatal and normally runs its course in a few weeks alter causing such ' symptoms as fever jaundice nausea and " X abdominal pain ?' gpira - Jim ' Graham North Carolina's "Sodfather" w ho as state agriculture commissioner for 5b years pitched tobacco poultry and pickles died Thursday He was S2 Graham w ho retired in January '200 died of complications froui pneumonia at May view Home said his daughter Alice s UCyp & Convalescent Linderhill Before his retirement (iraham was the ulli-- I mate pitchman for North Carolina's agriculture £ a I productsr He was a giant of a man known for his everpresent Stetson hat cigar and size 15 EEEE cowboy boots Always colorful (iraham once kissed a mule's 'rear end inpayment of a lost political bet- ’ 2-- AP photo' I Power to extinguish University of Arizona physics professor Johnny Hsieh propels himself across the floor with a fire extinguisher: at UA Physics Phun Nile' held on the University of Arizona campus on Tuesday The event was geared toward showing parents and kids the fun and fascination behind physics S syphilis rate up for the second x practices faulted year andt'APisafe-se— for U Theiiation's syphilis rate has climbed of an increase in cases' anionggaiy and bisexual iiieru the government said Thursday ' ' ATLANTA ear in a Between 2lK) and 2002 the xy pliilis rate rose 9 percent from 22 Vases per l(KUXK) people to 24 cases the C'enters for ' Disease Control and Prevention said The rate had dropped ' every' year between 1990 and 2(KH) before reversing course:-:'— the actual increase in cases was small 75V) more people'-foa total of 6862 new eases — bin the rise among gay and bisexual then has caused concern that the public health sate- guards and safersex practices adopted over the last two decade's ' :' during the A IDS' epidemic continue to crumble: I Alaska Dali sheeji shot and killed in state park — Well-know- 9-1- row mostly because I fund flooded with 1 WASHINGTON (AP)- -r What was once a trickle' of viCr applications to the Sept: tint compensation fund has ' become a rush of 40 or 50 per ' ' " day Us victims! families and' surv ivors hurry to beat a Decenihcr deadline And! the fund which has been buffeted by criticism at times for itscompiicated fomiuld for ' pulling a cash value on a jife is paying out niore on average to ' the families of those w ho died officials said Thursday ' The fund has riowrecfcived ''1 !' 18 14 death claims said adhiinisCamille Biros a fund trator Also' 1592 injury claims : ' havC been filed' : "We've experienced a peak in the last four to six weeks' 1 1 - r V n :v A magnilicent full-cu- rl Dali ANCHORACiE Alaska AP) sheep that hits thrilled photographers aiidwildlife watchers for years was killed by Someone who apparently pulled to the side ' X of the Seward Highway arid shot the ram with a 'C-V?? "X f Tjfle state wildlife officials said "It kind of makes me sick" said Alaska bureau of Wildlife ' " ' 'Enforcement trooper Mare ClowarcL Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists had at first ihought the i 0-- to rurnmight have slipped and fall- 'v'-'-'Binissaid cliffs the highway!! but the think- above entails death from the 0 During the summer: the fund ing quickly changed vyhen Chuguch State Park chief ranger V : would often see as few as three ' Mike Godwin found a bullet hole through both buttocks ' applicaiibris per day Already ' 'V 'Mcan'l think of anything hiore()ITcmsive'‘Cl()ward said1 week 183 applications '(his X "This is a slap in the lace to every citizen jnArtchorage': hav(i been filed Biros said high-power- ' - ? v-- : 1 worship-Qgoltdlschooir- Given the recent flurry Of activity fund administrators are confident theywillreach their target of 90 percent of those eli— gihle applying to the fund In seeking compensation from the government-applicantagree to give up the right to suie airlines of security companies for their " ' The amount of money being awarded is jutting1 upward as well Theaverage death pay merit which had hovered around the "LOW'' WE PUT THE claims last-minu- te ' the year ! There is alsocdiK'em among at$L72million Birassaid "The largest payment to date ! sivriie legislators that an extent : has been $7:8 millionTor a many sion prolonging (he often emo-- : who suffered massive bums' tionally difficult process would The minimum payment for an not he in the best interests oF the families injury suffered as a result of the ierreir attacks is $500 Another bill has been offered The deadline for filing is to extend (he benefits to victims Dec 22 Despite efTorts-bSen ' of otfer attacks' on Y Anvericans sucbasthe bomb-- : Hillary Rodham Clinton and other lawmakers to '! ing of the US'S! Cole or extend the deadline Congress V (attacks on US embassies in 'f Africa in 1998 but those efforts appears unlikely to change it before leaving Washington for have gamed Kale momentum! ' ! y ’ da D-N- ’ : the'' Hating and cooling Manufacturers have in IM ' ' the ease' - ' loss- ' $ 1 :5 million mark now stands ' suffered throtigh slow sales in recent years and are set on doing whatever it takes to move their systems FrankliiilCounty CachejCounty Siirvivorsylaimedthat'sev- -' eral weapons companies pro- - ' iluced distributed andsold ? more firearms than legal pur- chasers could buy In addition they claimed the industry 7 know ingly participated and facilitated an underground ille' gal gun market:! ' "I believe this is the first federal coiirt of appeals deci-- ( sum to sustain a claim like this one" said Peter Nordberg an attorney for live plaintiffs Christopher Renulli the attorney for Clock and the RSR companies said the (lock that the gunman Buford Furrow used to kill letter carrier Joseph Iletb was originally ' sold to the police department in Cosinopolis Washiby the RSR companies! Renulli said fie wasconsid- panel ering asking an of the appeals court to rehear ' ' I r y statutes'' niati-ufuctur- 1 the second victims against Georgia-base- d (iliK'k Inc China North Indus- tries Corp RSR Management Corp and RSR Wholesale Guns Seattle Inc The case was filed under California tiegli- genec and w rongful death ic Ag commissioner and ‘Sodfather’ 'RALEIGHNC iiiradliiflsttiry SAN FRANCISCO AP) — A federal appeals court Thursday reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against llic gun industry in a decision expected debate oyer legisla- 'to tion immunizing gun makers front being sued for crimes ' committed with their products' 'Thirty-thre- e stales 'already ' have laws'exempiing gun ' V and distributors from such suits- The House jn v April passed a bill to extend the prohibition on such suits nationwide and President Bush has said he would signit Senate Democrats have threatened to fi I ihustcr the proposal The 1 ruling by the San Francisco-base- d 9th I'S Circuit Court of Appeals reinstates a lawsuit filed ugainst gun manufacturers and distributors whose weaponswere used by a white supremacist w ho shot a FilipimvAmerican postal ' worker to death and wounded live people — including three ' at a Jew ish day children care center in a 1999 Law ' Angeles-arc- a rampage A Los Angeles federal judge in 2(X) 1 had thrown out the ease filed by fainilies ol' the !'"'" 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