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12-A THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22,1988 Galveston County Merrill Lynch awards Brokers at the Galveston branch of Merrill Lynch earned the company's Circle of Excellence award, presented annually to top performing employees! The seven brokers ranked in the Top 40 of the Merrill Lynch region. Winners were (from left) Stephen Fougerousse, Scott James, Linda Rosen, Joe Cline, Joe Higgins, Gary Davisand LeeThompson. Ministerial association sets Thanksgiving service IBy DAVID SULLENS 'The Daily News The Galveston Ministerial Association's annual Thanksgiving Service will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Temple B'nai Israel 3006 Ave. O.

According to Larry Smith, pastor of Galveston's Central United Methodist Church, the traditional service, to which the public is invited, will open with an invocation by the Rev. Charles Williams, pastor of Moody Memorial United Methodist Church in Galveston. That invocation will be followed by a welcome to Temple B'nai Israel by Dr. Robert Rose, a wel- come to the service delivered by the Rev. Bill Pryor of First Presbyterian on behalf of the ministerial association, and 'greetings by Galveston Mayor Jan Coggeshall on behalf of the city.

Sister Pauline Troncale, CCVI of St. Mary's Hospital and the Rev. Stan' Collins of Grace Episcopal Church will direct the 'sharing of the peace." Special music will be by Collins' daughter, Barbara Collins of the Ball High School music department. The Rev. Darnell Walker of the Wesley Tabernacle Methodist Church and the Rev.

Trudy Smithers of the William Foundation will read the Scripture, Deuteronomy The Rev. Robert Dowdy of the Church of the Living God will deliver the offertory prayer. The special service's sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Andrew Berry, pastor of Galveston's Avenue Missionary Baptist Church. An offering will be taken during the service, according to Rev.

Smith, and will benefit two local charities: The Seamen's Center and The Children's Center. The closing prayer will be delivered by Rabbi Martin Levy of Temple B'nai Israel. For more information on the Thanksgiving service, anyone interested may telephone Smith at 762-2138 or Temple B'nai Israel at 765-5796. LC school announces honor roll LEAGUE CITY Bay Area Christian School in League City announces honor roll for first six weeks of 1988-89 school year. Second Grade: Kristin Barker, Katherine Bell, Daniel Brown, Chris Chasteen, Lindsey Clark' Bessie Clifford, Ashly Roger Cullins, Carrie Devescovi Evie Dixon, April Gantt, Rachel Gurnsey, Bryant Jones, Christopher Mitchell, Drew Navarette, Matthew Navarette Courtney O'Driscoll, Anna Pear- son, Abby Peter, Regan Schneider, Kristy Senyard, Kristy Ruth Siggins, Sammy Williams.

Third Grade: Brittany Arms, Ryan Brown, Larry Durham, Meagan Gotcher, Kristi Griffin, David Lee, Vtnce Marchi, Conor Mitchell, Shelley Martin, Amie Mulvahill, Sondra Payne, Sean Pool, Amanda Schneider, Brandy Senyard. Fourth Grade: Michael Benoit Michael Campbell, Jennifer Jeremy Nolen, James Slice, Danielle Witt, Carrie Wright. Fifth Grade: Bonnie Burcham, Jennifer Davis, Ginny Dixon, Jeffery Ellis, Laurie Leahy, Trenton Polk, Matthew Saunders. Sixth Grade: Alison Aitken, Natasha Butler, Danny Cullins, Amy Dixon, Wesley Frankovich, Hans Heupers, Melissa McKinley. Seventh Grade: Sarah Marks, Barbara Steinsholt, Angela Devescovi, Shelby Dudley.

Eighth Grade: Jay Hammersley, Angela Merz, Lori Frankovich. Ninth Grade: Andrea Cullins, James Hart, Sandra Paige, Melody Riddle, Don Williams, Hope Wolfinger, Ronnie Carlisle. Tenth Grade: Loren Ausmus, Joseph Andrews, Sharon Brady, Julie Collier, Joseph Marks, Craig Parker, Steven Termini, Chip Stephenson, Christy Blatch. Eleventh Grade: Melanie Coindreau, Cindy Frankovich, Penny Holmes, Devon Loper. Twelfth Grade: Chris Barker Cathy Cullins, Kathy Duke, James Toups, Curtis Henderson.

State comptroller to close 10 charity bingo games AUSTIN (AP) State Comptroller Bob Bullock on Monday said he's closing 10 Houston and Beaumont charity bingo games for violations of state laws. The violations at all games included evidence of commercial lessors running games, charities underreporting gross receipts, groups falsifying reports of the state's 2 percent bingo gross receipts tax, bookkeeping violations and illegal games at unauthorized times, Bullock said. "Games not played by the laws regulating charity bingo will be closed," Bullock said in a prepared news release. "We're simply not going to stand for these violations." Bullock said the licenses of four of the Houston games will be revoked and the licenses of the other six games will be suspended. Audits have been conducted during the past two weeks of more than 12 charity bingo games he said.

He said the comptroller's office svill penalize violators under the state's bingo law and refer criminal complaints to local prosecutors or the Texas Attorney General's office. On Friday, Bullock issued an emergency clarification of bingo rules prompted by investigations into a number of charges that some bingo games and funds in Houston were being handled improperly. The comptroller will revoke the of St. Pius Ukranian Catholic Church, Sheldon American Legion Auxiliary No. 552, and American Legion Craig Post 499 which all play at All Star Bingo East in Houston.

He will also revoke the license of the Congregation Beth Am, playing at All Star Bingo South west in Houston. Bullock will suspend the licenses of the League of United Latin American Citizens Council District 8, and Nation-Wide Missing Persons Bureau, both of which play at All Star Bingo East in Houston. Also licenses will be suspended at the Armenian Cultural Foundation, and Armenian Relief Society of Eastern U.S.A., playing at All Star Bingo Southwest. Bullock said he would also suspend the licenses of Assumption Catholic School and the Vietnamese Resurrection Church, both playing at All-Star Beaumont. Bullock said he sent letters AP Lasorpholo Bob Bullock detailing violations to My Wish Inc.

and Life Force both playing at All Star-Beaumont. Both groups surrendered their bingo licenses prior to the audits, he said. Top Soviet space researcher says shuttles in 'deep trouble' NEW YORK (AP) The recently resigned head of the Soviet spare research agency says both the Soviet and U.S. space shuttle programs are costly mistakes that will yield few scientific benefits until the next century. Roald Z.

Sagdeev, a key science and arms control adviser to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, said the inaugural launch of the Soviet shuttle like the 1981 night of the first U.S. shuttle was an "outstanding technological achievement." He said, however, that the shut- tie "is technology of the 21st century, why should we pay 20th century money for it." Sagdeev, like many American scientists, fears the costly shuttles are drawing funds away from basic science, and that manned flight is unnecessary for most research. "It went up. It came down.

But it had absolutely no scientific value," was Sagdeev's blunt assessment of the 3 A-hour, unmanned orbital night last Tuesday of the Soviet shuttle that ended the U.S. monopoly on reusable spacecraft. "My personal view is that American experience with the shuttle indicates that from the point of view of cost efficiency, the shuttle is in deep trouble," said Sagdeev, a physicist who has followed closely the U.S. decision-making process on the shut- "It went up. It came down.

But it had absolutely no scientific value." Roald Z. Sagdeev tie. "It is much simpler and cheaper to fly a payload with any kind of expendable vehicle." In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press recently, Sagdeev, 55, also confirmed that he has resigned after 15 years as chief of the Soviet Space Research Institute. He said he voluntarily left the top post at the agency which handles space exploration and astronomy and planetary missions because he felt no one person should dominate an in- stitutefor such a long time. He said he would concentrate on his own research and the think tank he heads which helps advise Gorbachev on arms control.

The institute's 1,500 researchers chose by popular vote its new director, Albert Galeev, 48, also a phycisist who was a student of Sagdeev at Novosibirsk University. "He is not just fresh blood, but an administrator as well as as a scientist and he knows rules of the game between creative scientists and bureaucrats," Sagdeev said in the interview, conducted partly in English and in Russian with the help of an American translator. Sagdeev, who specialized in space and plasma physics research, said Soviet science has contributed too little to the world's stock of scientific knowledge, mainly because of its bureaucratic structure. In a speech last month in Moscow during elections at the Academy of Sciences, which includes about 400 top scientists in all fields, he said the Soviet space program could lose its edge because it rewards bureaucracy rather than scientific merit. In nominating human-rights campaigner Andrei D.

Sakharov to the academy's board of director, Sagdeev also said the election offered a chance for the academy to make up for failing to elevate some leading space and nuclear researchers to top positions in past decades. Sagdeev declined to discuss technical details of the Soviet shuttle Buran, Russian for snowstorm or blizzard, or the goals of the program, saying he had not been directly involved in its development. He said he was not impressed with the sophisticated computer flight program that llowed the shuttle to maneuver and land bv remote control and which the Soviets say will give cosmonauts more time for scientific research. Keith hovers in Gulf of Mexico MIAMI (AP) Tropical storm Keith, just short of becoming the year's sixth hurricane, soaked the Yucatan Peninsula on Monday and moved into the Gulf of Mexico on a course expected to veer toward Florida, forecasters said. "It's a strong tropical storm on the borderline of a hurricane" said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center.

Keith's top sustained winds were hovering at about 65 mph. Sheets said; 74 mph is the threshold for a storm to be upgraded to a hurricane. At 5 p.m. EST, the storm was centered near latitude 23.1 north and longitude 87.3 west, about 100 miles north of Mexcio's Yucatan Peninsula and 415 miles southwest Stall photo by Joel Kirkpairick Saying thanks In appreciation for their work during the threat of Hurricane Gilbert County Emergency Management Coordinator William Tomkins left and Michael L. Pass, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service Office in Alvin, receive resolutions of appreciation from the Galveston County Commissioners Court.

County Judge Ray Holbrook center, presented the framed copies of the resolutions The weather service was praised for its ability and dedication in time of emergency and Tomkins was praised for his readiness and ability to conduct the hurricane emergency operations. German court rules butter sculpture is rancid, not art DUESSELDORF, West Germany (AP) A five- pound sculpture made out of butter that has gone rancid is not art, a court ruled Monday. The court rejected a claim for $29,000 filed by Johannes Stuettgen, who alleged that the work titled "Corner of Fat" by his teacher, Joseph Beuys, was ruined when it was dropped by a cleaning crew at the state Academy of Art in Duesseldorf. The crew was cleaning up Beuys' studio after he died in 1986. Stuettgen said Beuys had given him the sculpture when they worked on it together in 1982.

of Fort Myers, Fla. Forecasters said Keith was moving north- northwest at 10 mph and was expected to continue generally north Monday night. "It's moving toward the north out in the south-central Gulf said Sheets. "We expect it to turn towards the northeast in about two days" and hit the U.S. mainland.

ME releases Oct. report GALVESTON The Galveston County medical examiner's office Monday released its October report, showing the office investigated 55 deaths in the 10th month of the year. The report said the office investigated four October homicides countywide (as compared to three last October), three accidents and 27 medical case as well as several other cases. The totals bring the offices yearly caseload up to 631 so far in 1988, the report indicated. This year the medical examiner's office has handled 115 autopsies including 21 homicides and 25 suicides, the report showed.

"The highest probability is the middle of Florida's west coast" late in the week, he said. But Sheets emphasized that Keith is unlikely to become a storm on the order of Gilbert or Joan, which devastated wide areas of the Caribbean and Central America in September and October. LORDY, LORDY LOOK WHO'S FORTY! Sherry Jean Moeller Nov. 22,1948 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! From: Margie, Christine, Dianne, Mary Mary Susie, Ricky, John, Lana Edna Dr. Patricia M.

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