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Utah Saturday Decefnber 27 2003 7 '"i ' r XvJiABLE COpy' Nation ® fleaufl 3L© DBaisslmg SDii mniQiidlsODdles crastied into the recreation center at a SAN BERNARDINO Calif- (AP) — Searchers slogging through waist-hig- h - muck found six people dead Friday and looked for at least 10 others — mostly children — missing 7 after mudslides engulfed two camps i in the San Bernardino Mountains in a terrifying torrent of soil boulders ' ' and tree trunks Four bodies were found at a Greek Orthodox youth camp in Waterman Canyon which was smashed Thurs- -' day Authorities did not immediately provide the ages or sex of the victims that were found Nine of 14 people who had been missing there were V children ages 6 months to 16 7 The mudslides were set off on " ' Christmas Day after as much as 3!V inches of rain jell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in Octoberand November With nothing to hold the soil in place trees and rocks went roaring ' down the hillsides along with the ap nhotn mud n ' Rescue workers search for victims Friday after devastating mudslides swept ' “I thought I was going to die” through the Waterman Canyon area of San Bernardino Calif ’Ofl Thursday muck found four people dead Friday and said Brian Delaney 1 9 who was 7 Searchers slogging through waist-hig- h 'looked for at least 12 others missing after mudslides engulfed two camps in the trapped up to his neck before res- cuers pulled him out of the mud that San Bernardino Mountains in a terrifying torrent of soil boulders and tree trunks authorities said Two other bodies were found near the Greek Orthodox retreat the Saint : ' Retailers prices in hopes' t- ' if-h- : - ' ' ur - car into’ house 3 dead : entrances-- ' You’vegot to riipve fast:' 0 ALTAMONTE SPRINGS! jia ( AP) A man drove his car 7 V That's why I’m wearing tennis 'shoes" said Christine- Best into his'imlaws house in a fiery Christmas Day crash killing 33 of the Columbus suburb of 7 his and children two himself z Delaware “They slaish prices minute’s before he was sup-on everything Christmasy I’m posed to turn them over o his headed straight for the wrap- estranged wife according to : 'media reports-v' 7 ping paper’’-- : 7 7 Best said she buys holiday Shahab Behzadpour his 3- son Sammi and '6-year-ol- d gifts the day after Christmas ' ' year-ol- d daughter Nikki died ' - and tucks them away for the : 7 in the crash inAltarppnlC following year' - “I only bought about $100 Springs! a northern Qrlando ' ' - wbrth of stuff belfore Christmas A fiery crash: Investigators look suburb this year because I had most his wife: 46and vehicle-afteBehzadpour it crashed over a r everything I deeded last year” 7 into a home Christmu Day in" Hope Cusfodio were undeigo - 7 Altamonte Springs Fla The-drAshley Richards 13 and ing a hitterdivorceCourt her mother Diana of Powell 7 ver and his two children ages ' 3 records show she had 'accused him of abuse and on Friday : Ohio both make it a tradition and 6 were killed: to hit filestores first thing in arestrainingordef for : 7 the morning of Dec 26th--- ' Kim to May away frtijiVhc thejf )r4andqSentinel reported Biit the wiiiplc had shared custody of the children and he was ! Before heiading to Target they ' : ! ! 0" ' stopped at WalrMart suppM:d to let them spend Christmas afternoon with his wife WKMG-TOrlando told of fill of their “Theyhad 'relativevandneighhors gift ' : - - ' : - - : 7 ' C' - - ' Custodio’s brother Alex Custodiu told WFTV-Tof Orlando rammed the that he believed his brother-in-laintentionally ::l- house and that Bchzadpour had threatened to harm himselfand V children in the past ' Alex Custodio said the family did not immediately know Who 7 - was in the car when thfccrash incurred 7' 7 7 V sales thisholiday season ' while mid-pricdepartmentstores have fared the worst Even discounters like Wal- Mart StoresTnc have stirug-- '' gled with muted sales gains ' ' consumers as lower-inco7’ still haven't benefited from the economic recovery Michael P Niemira chief ' 7 economist and director of 7 'research at the International- Council of Shopping Centers ' ! said November-Decemb7 '' for at sales growth stores open least brie year was running a- - 7 bit below 4 percent He eariier 7 ' v had forecast 45 percent- ' Still at 4 percent Niemira said it would be the biggest gain since 1999' wheri he tal- - 77' lied a 54 percent increase C Britt Beemer chairman ': of America’s Research 7 Group based in Charleston SC said - ' sales will only stores are close to that 7 elp meeting their goals “If they’re far behind- you can't have one week making up for the' rest of the season” 7-' v he said A year ago though that ' v poiod accounted for- 1 18 per-- ' cent of holiday sales- It Was 7' 106 percent jri'2001-Thi' year the nation's retailers are C : counting on the period to : ' make up fbr an even bigger 7 share betting on consumers retiiriiingio the malls to redeemtheirgi ft Cards and more merchandise buy vAPphoto Gift cards are expected to McClure makes her way through Kmart In Vincennes Ind as v account for about 8 percent of 7 7: she looks for bargains on Friday While many 7 total holiday sales this year ' return gifts on the26th others find low prices on wrappihg paper and according to' the National other holfeJayaccossories' V7:' - Retail Federation ' ' 7" 7 But Beemer said stores ' shouldn’t bet on consumers “J cbme hpre every year” Ashley said 7 she said ‘‘Once you-ge- t in “We shop for ourselves redeeming cards immediately!- ' :'ir: there' people scavenge like after Christmas because if you According to a recent Amer- - 7“ 7ica’s Research Group survey: buy thipgs ahead of time pep- - rats” Friefsoii planned to get alriiost 40 percent of about e and they might not like tl s same things Christmas deewations for next- ! 800 consumers polled said ’ next year”! she said they would redeem their cards year and a few more presents 7 in January while 384 percent including some for her Standing outside Macy’s V' boyfriend who gave her dia- - v Herald Square store in Man plan to rroeem the caras hattan minutes before the 7 morideairrings'''-'7- : immediately Clore to 22 per- ' cent said that they plan louse': tlxir cards some time next ' CS’-V''- s' 7 ye - ' ' 7 - ’' ‘'the H AMPTON Va fAP) - 7-- - v : -- At Jefferson Dam Mukltej School actYilwar of words isbeing wagedover a petitiondriveto Rf famifyhas -s-t- he ’iiiwri : er "7 - nd y and it’s not nccessar- ily along racial lines: ' “If ithad been up to Robert E-- Lee these kids wouldn't be going to school as 8® today said civil nghts leader ‘ Julian Bond now a history professor at 77 the University of Virginia ‘They can’t help but wonder about honoring a irian who wanted to keep them in servitude” 7' That argument isn’t accepted universal- -' ly among Southern black educators including the school superintendent inPetersburg Where about 80 percent of the 36000 residents are black Three schools y toe names of Confederates - “It’s not toe name on toe outside of the ' building that neptively affects toe atti- -' tudes of toe students inside” Supennten- -' dent Lloyd Hamfin said “If the attitudes outside bf toe building are acceptable v thentoe name is immaterial” 7 It is difficult to say how maiiy public schools in the 11 former Confederate 7 states are named for Civil War leaders from toe South Among toe more notable names toe National Crater for Education the South’s history of slavery and the war ' to end it States communities and institu-- 7 tions continue to debate what is a proper : display of that heritage 7 'Students in South Carolina havribeen :7 7 punished for wearing Confederate flag T-- : shirts to school The town of Clarksdale 7 Miss permanently lowered toe state flag — which has a Confederate emblem in one corner — to recognize “toe pain arid it has symbolized for many suffering 1 And the Richmond-are- a Boy its dropped Lee's name from its ' y council this year ' In toe most sweepingchange the 7'' v Oijean Parish School Board in Louisiana gave new names to schools once named for historical figures who : 7 owned slaves George Washington Ele- renamed School was for Dr mentary Charles Richard Drew a black surgeon : vho organized blood banks during World 7 V: 7WttIIv ' In Gadsden Ala: however officials have resisted efforts to rename a middle school named for Nathan Bedford For-- ! rest an early backer of toe Ku Kluk Klan And a school board in Kentucky adopted a new dress code that eliminates bans on ‘provocative symbols including the Con- -' V ::7Missingcat foundacrosscountiyS Opinion is mixed O’Cbiinor its: MIDDLETOWN (AP) Christmas miracle: Its cat thathaid been missing for two 7 - 7 7 months was found clear across the country 'Jefferslim a orange tabby somehow escaped from his as he was being loadeuon a Delta Air Lines flight at Seat- cat was flying wth his kin tlcTTacoma International Airpori-Thtoe while O'Connors were driving Coast East the McKinley A 77Delta crews and the family spent foumights scouring the airi : 7: poriLaler wbrkers checked animal hospitals and shelters dis-'tributed fliers and took but newspaper ads 7 J' a woman spotted Jefferson in a tree near Around tbc airport but toe cat Ycollar came off when she tried to grab him 7 About a month later Kelly O'Connor decided to fly back tov toe Seattle area to Jook (br the cat She posted brightly colored fliers offering a $200 rcwrird- "A lot of friends frankly thought we were wizy” Will ' ': : -- 7 V- 7 ' 70'Corinor said "i"-1 oif Air Cargo manager Delta a on Dec 5 a daughter Finally ’ told toe O'Connors that Jefferson had meauptn a house base- men! near the airport: A veterinarian conifirmed the cat's identity through an implanted microchip Delta flew him to Rhode Island had lost about'40 percent of his Jeffers body eight whbri hi arrived Will OConnOr said Thenormally adventurous feline is slowly regaining his desire to1 go Outdoors" perching hiinself bn the window sill 7 “He's starting to turn into his old self’ Will O’Connor uid : Renaming schools causes civil war of words w 7 bargains day-aft- er - ' ' - er - - with long poles - - as ' V toe-mu- - '7' : ' 'poking 7 - said rescuers faced “incredibly 7 mushy muddy slippery” conditions With some slipping into the mud up totheir hips “Even a foot or:2 fed of ' this will knock you down” he said r The Caretaker of the church camp: George Morizon was among the Balias said the Rev John missing ' jglto helps lead the retreat Also among the missing there woe a girl and her moth- - 7 er the girl’s aunt said The missingwoman’s husband Gilberto Juarez saved their daughterStephanie and they were among '77 those taken to a hospital on Christ- mas But' he could not reach his wife Rosa 40 and daughter Katrine "He said he helped the little girl 7 up and when he turned they were gone die water had risen too’ much and had swept the cabin away” said Mildred Juarez's sister-in-la- w became separated Najara “They wbcn tbe water rushed in” ed star on Sunday marking Jackson’s first public comments since 7 -- v V hh Nov 20 iiirest on suspicion Of child molestatio- n7 Ed Bradley interviewed Jackson for about 30 minutes Thurs- - - Ru7-AeenriatoH Pnc ' day ala hotel in bos Angeles CBS spokesman Kevin TSdesco ' -- V : v':' v :v- - VFriday Shoppers descended on Jackson 45 is charged with seven counts of performing lewd 7 and malls Friday in a under and admin14 child counts two of a lascivious acts upon bar- for search : r istering an intoxicating agent: He remains free on $3 niilHon bail ' Vi-as slashed retailers 8ans CBS also announced Friday ‘that it has rescheduled a Jackson 7 7’ thaf had heenabniptly postponed last nronthaSef'7:PK'n6toruPJls‘“ 7 riiusicspccial ' ncss in a season that wdl like- the molestation charges surfaced Tne special' “Michael Jack-- 7 entertain-Jan: 2 CBS iy o out ro oe only y air will 7 on son Number Ones" Vj Friday ' modestly better than a year v 'meht sptdtesmap Chris ErideTsaid- -' v: vWe 7 certainly Wouldn't have rescheduled the entertainment' 7 a8®- ' "' Retiulen are counting even e our on the situation elsewhere addressed hadn't special more heaVily on thewpek after iretwort” Endersaid: 7 7 7 : Christmas to meet their sales 7 television interview with British journalist Jackson's last gtwls as two consecutive 7 Martin Bashir was seen by 27 million people on ABC last Feh-storms in the Northeast- 'snow infuriated that that interview sti the Jackson camp ruaryBut ' items a: 3 ac of must-hav- e thev made JackVon's cx wife Debbie Rowe uvailahle to deny : sbme of the things said in the Bashir special 7 sluggish job market and fnv ' - Bradley jiad been pursuing an interview with Jackson even cary haagauis dampenedmie The CBS newsman traveled to segpn : 'before the nuilestaiion charges 7 ' By 6:30 am shoppers were 7 J ackstui’s Ne verland estate last February Torah interview-hualready lining up outside a ' Jackson got cold feet arid canceled if at the last minute V 7- r 7 Target store in Columbus ' 'y a-'thaNet: : OhioBythetimethe store 'slater about opened a half-ho' http:wwwcbshews:conV - x 100 people were at the lyian wrecks 7-- Shoppers flock td of recovering hnlirfV hllQlhP T& 5 Sophia Camp Twenty-eigpeople were believed to have beat spending ' Christmas Day with the camp’s care- Wall taker when the of mud smashed into two cabins Fourteen of the peo‘ ple were rescued on Christmas Day “These folks had no warning” ' -said County fire spokes woman Tracey Martinet “It juist happened" According to the survivors we’ve spoken to they didn’t even know it ' was coming until it was there” roads with and the On Friday bridges washed out sheriff’s 7 V ' deputies and firefighters had to hike over the rough terrain and climb over or around rocks and fallen trees to resume the search at the camp in Waterman Canyon about 60 miles east of Los Angeles: The mud was J2 ' to IS feet deep in places1 ' Searchers tried to find victims by ! dark-bfow- In brief Michael Jackson to speak in ’60 Minutes’ interview V ht : ' “It’s sort of like going throughan avalanche” sheriffs spokesman Chip Patterson said “It’s pretty tedious' but that’s how we’re doing it ” 7 County Fire Marshal Peter Briefly encampment in Devore Two bodies were found near the trailer camp San Bernardino County trailer-hom-e : - A civil war of aorta: Vrimita Dixon" 13 at Jefferson Davis Middle School in Hampton Va reflects at the end of the day in toe school parking lot on Dec tl Dixon thinks toe 'name of Mr school should be changed fo Abraham Lincoln because "he freed toe slaves" 7 j '' !: - Statistics lists 19 Robert E! Lees nine 7 ' Stonewall Jacksons and five Davises: JEB Stuart Turner Ashby George ' Edward Pickett each have at least one school betting their nameFor some these men who defended a system that allowed slavery should not be memorializol on public schools where thousands of black children are educated The symbols and the names of toe Confederacy remain powerful reminders of i : federate flag '7" |