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IMd wmf Computer coolts New PC software plans meals, organizes kitchen. FoodIB fThe road forks Tor Republicans. Exchange5A Team will remain in San Francisco. SportslC November 1 1 1992 Alabama's largest home-owned newspaper 50 cents No drinking in public, Anniston says Where you can't drink in Anniston: "Any public road, alley, street, sidewalk or upon area between a road or street and any public sidewalk." needed to pass the ordinance, the council approved it on a 4-1 vote. Ford was the lone dissenter.

"I just voted my conviction," Ford said. "We have too many laws. We can't enforce the ones we got. The police are going to have a lot to do." Police Chief Wayne Chandler, who supported the ordinance, conceded that it won't be easy to enforce. He said his department would focus on "people creat- See Drinking6A concerns, City Attorney George Monk reworked several sections of the ordinance.

The new law bans drinking in "any public road, alley, street, sidewalk or upon area between a road or street and any public sidewalk." The ban no longer applies to common areas in apartment complexes, unless apartment management says otherwise, and residents can drink within 30 feet of their apartments. Violators can be fined $500 and serve up to six months in jail. Although Dethrage had said earlier in the day that he doubted he had the support By George J. Tanber Star Statl Writer Don't pop that top in public. It's now against the law.

Anniston Mayor David Dethrage chalked up a victory Tuesday night as the City Council unexpectedly passed his public-drinking ordinance. "I feel good," Dethrage said outside City Hall following the meeting. "It's a victory for this council. It demonstrates that we are prepared and that the council is taking action." to Veterans honored 1 nf I 3 1.. I'J 'ni --vv, -Hfmmm Still smokln' There's still plenty of smoking going on in movies these days, and both the good guys and bad guys are far more likely than their audiences to light up, a survey released today said.

The researchers expected to find that smoking and other signs of tobacco had all but disappeared from the big screen over the past 30 years, as smoking declined in the general populace. Instead they found that there's been little change during that period. News1 6A Retiree windfall? The Alabama Supreme Court is deciding whether nearly 19,000 retirees will get a $20 million tax refund that could force cutbacks in the state school budget. Region9A New board chairman The new chairman of the Calhoun County school board says he wants parents more interested in their children's schools. I don't quite know how to say this, but 1 almost insist, require, that parents be more involved," Dr.

Norman Dasinger commented after the school board's annual organizational meeting Tuesday night. Region9A i wiiiiiHnr-ii'r ing Spike Spike Lee has departed from controversy surrounding his films only to stir up trouble in a wider arena the fight against AIDS. Editorial4A at 3Kr Cloudy Showers and thunderstorms on Thursday. Low tonight in the mid-50s. High Thursday in the mid-60s.

Chance of rain is 80 percent tonight and 80 percent Thursday. Forecast1 OA 3ft War of words Second-ranked Alabama's much-anticipated battle Saturday with Mississippi State has already stirred up lots of tal and some of it's pretty heated. Sports1 Eternal triangle Brenda, Kelly and Dylan struggle to adjust to their changed relationships and Steve fears Andrea will discover he broke into the computer system on "Beverly Hills, 90210" (FOX, 7 p.m.). Listings1 2A 3ft Mrs. Fannie Boone, Hobson City Charles Burk, Talladega Michael English, Oxford Mrs.

Pearle Kelley Eros, Mountain Brook Mrs. Virginia Little Huff, Anniston Mrs. Mary Jewel G. Moncus, Anniston Paul R. Morris, Birmingham Mrs.

Marlene Murray, Jacksonville Thomas Carl Poole Anniston Rebecca Robertson, Talladega Mrs. Annette Lincoln Mrs. Hazel Cox Taylor, Jacksonville Lewis Jasper Waldman, Leesburg Mrs. Mattie Beulah Watkins, Cedar Bluff Obituaries1 3A 3ft Members of the Vietnam Veterans of America Traylor Sgt 1st Class Lawrence Vanek, Maj. Chad Fletcher, Col.

(Ret.) Chapter 502 honor fallen comrades Tuesday at Fort McClellan Jack Revels L- Col. (Ret) Don Hull (with vest), Maj. (Ret) by displaying rifle, vest, helmet and dog tags. From left, are Fouad Aide and Maj. Linda Davis.

For Bush, there's not much left to do Dethrage introduced the ordinance last month and received a lukewarm response from councilmen Jerre Ford, Chester Weeks and James Montgomery. To address Weeks' and Montgomery's agenda Tuesday was a job-hunting seminar set up to help the Bush people unearth job tips, interview and write resumes. Asked what Vice President Dan Quayle was up to Tuesday, spokesman Dave Beckwith replied: "Not a lot." EVEN THE NEWS of the day the firing of the State Department official involved in searching for the passport papers of Clinton, his mother and Ross Perot was announced at the State Department, not the White House. Bush planned to leave today for a five-day Florida fishing vacation where he will begin the process, Fitzwater said, of "sorting out his life." In the short term, Fitzwater and other senior aides said that although a president even a lame duck has immense California Ipl i Eddie MotnTrw Anrtston Star powers, Bush will be doing the minimum. "Mainly, he just wants to wind up the administration with dignity," Fitzwater said.

He will produce a bare-bones budget that is widely viewed as meaningless. He will sign a couple of minor bills left over from the last Congress. He will produce the yearly routine reports on the economy and the environment. But, he will not deliver a State of the Union address to Congress and is undecided whether he instead might send up a written statement or give a speech or do nothing at all, his spokesman said. AFTER CLINTON is swfern in, Bush plans to move to Houston and intends to See Bush6A Test result loss plagues sewer work in Oxford By Darren McDermott Star Staff Writer OXFORD The Oxford Water Works and Sewer Board has lost $36,000 worth of sewer line testing done in 1986 and has no hope of finding it.

"I believe the attitude right now is that if the errors were made back in 1986, the people who made them have already been terminated, and we're just looking forward," said General Manager Jesse Pearce. Conflicting aceountsr -and the board's past and present political intrigues have clouded attempts to locate the test results, which showed where rainwater was leaking into the city's sewage lines, and the person responsible for losing them. What is known, however, is that the needed repairs identified by the tests were never done, and rainy weather continues to push Oxford's sewage volume to near its treatment plant's capacity. "What you're saying is we spent $40,000 and didn't do any work?" board member Bob Lee asked Pearce at a board meeting last month. "That's a real breakdown in command." Meanwhile, it's unclear whether the board will repeat some portions of the tests and who will pay for them.

The 1986 tests in which smoke and in some cases miniature television cameras were sent through the sewer pipes pinpointed the exact locations of leaks. The main concern was rainwater leaking into sewer lines, not sewage leaking out, officials said. INFILTRATING rainwater routinely almost quadruples the city's normal sewage volume of 1.6 million gallons per day (gpd) to as much as 6 million gpd. The Oxford plant can treat up to 2 million gpd, but is permitted to accept as much as 8 gpd in wet weather, storing the excess to treat later. Since Oxford set up its own sewer system in 1990, it no longer pays Anniston to treat the rainwater mixing See Water6A Artificial methods help as grandma, 53, has twins By Lynn Elber Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif.

A 53-year-old grandmother who turned back her biological clock by way of artificial hormones and test-tube fertilization has given birth to twin girls. The babies, born 12 weeks premature Tuesday to Mary Shearing, were listed in guarded condition at Martin Luther Hospital. Both were under 3 pounds. Mrs. Shearing, who has three children and two grandchildren from a previous marriage, was going through menopause when she was implanted May 15 with embryos created from wm 32-year-old husband, Don, and donated eggs.

Hospital spokesman Dennis Gaschen said the oldest postmenopausal woman in "the United States to have rteliwrml a test-tube baby previously was 52. The Guinness Book of Records lists the See Qrandma7A woman is mom, again By Ellen Warren Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire WASHINGTON Business at the White House has virtually come to a halt despite the fact that there's still more than two months to go before Bill Clinton is sworn in. "The Bush administration ended on Nov. 4 (the day after the election)," White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in an interview. It was the most definitive statement yet that Bush views himself solely as a caretaker.

"There is a letdown being in a giant war and waking up the next day not having to go out and do that again," noted Bush's son, Jeb, a Florida businessman. The biggest thing on the White House Ikarus reborn; 45 expected to be rehired By Frederick Burger Star Business Editor American Ikarus the Anniston transit-bus manufacturer being revived after a three-month shutdown, expects to hire 45 workers next week. The company's rebirth was formally heralded Tuesday when a new owner, the American-British investment group First Hungary Fund acquired Ikarus for about $6 million. The action had been expected since mid-September. Ikarus President William H.

"Bill" Coryell III said Tuesday the revamped company expects to rehire abot it I aid-off employees quickly, and it hopes to bring more back as it acquires new bus orders. BEFORE BECOMING entangled in the bankruptcy of its old parent company, the plant had employed as many as 90 people. It IwJ uLoui ZZ vvoikvia wliii it viOsCd Aug. Coryell said that the company hopes to See lkarus7A 1 1 i Calendar 15A Editorial 4A Classifieds 6C Food 1B Comics 14A PT'" 15A Dear Abby 14A Region 9A Docket 10A Sports 1B BOB VvjI. tit, ro.

316 (USPS 026-440) 32 pages In tour sections By Mall, 32 pages In four sections Consolidated Publishing Co. AMOcUMd Pnn Mary Shearing, 53, with husband Don, 32, earlier this year.