The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 1

APR on Investment Vltir our lobby or call 763-6561 for E3 First RepublicSank F.D.I.C. (Muabm lailtr Great Views and Menus in Spoonbill SAN 1988, Galveston Newspapers, Inc. SUNDAY MORNING. APRILS, 1988 TEXAS' OLDEST NEWSPAPER MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY.25 SUNDAY.75 VOL. 145, NO.

359 AWARD WINNER Mintd Rabbi Htnry Cohtft HiiitianltftTlm. Page5-A TROOPS RUSH IN Aquino Meurlty IncrMMd Meapttlatowghi. Page 3-A SHOWDOWN OklahonM and Kanw adwnca NCAA champkHwhlp. Page1-C INSIDE Bulletin 8D BuslfWM 1-2D Claaslf led M1C Crowword 7D DearAbby. Entertainment, Life 1-4B Opinion 6A Police 4A 1-3C TV Weather 2A PASSING PARADE Happy Easter! Daylight-saving time begins today! Birthday Wishes to John Lofaro, Kenneth Ferguaon, Lena Bennett, Molly Salvo, Ja-Ron Bell, Theoprillus Forrtenot, ft.

Merrittt, Trlna Allan and Tina Alton, Phyllla Dannar and Leah Lartlgue. PASSING, 11-A WEATHER AREA FORECAST Sunny and today with a high in the mid Fair tonight with a tow in mid Partly cloudy on Monday, with a high in the upper OALVfiSTONBAY Southwest wind 10-15 knots today, near 15 knots tonight. Bay waters aftgntty choppy. BtACH WATER More Wtather, 2-A CLASSIFIEDS GETTHE JOBDONE 1H4, HONDA SHADOW Dlack, (root tire, shift drive, liquid cooled, ovtrdrlte, looks runs exctl. WO- 0000, pltist "I sold It 1st day through GalveitonNewsCKsiitieds." JirmsGill-GtlvMton 744-3611 U.S.

rejects se of force on Noriega SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) The Reagan administration so far has rejected military force to oust'Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, a White House spokesman said Saturday. Marlin Fitzwater scoffed at reports of a clamoring within the State Department for tougher measures to push Noriega out, saying the Panamanian problem has presented a "fertile ground for rich Several news reports have said that Secretary of State George P. Shultz urged in high-level White House meetings that the United States attempt to kidnap Noriega, who is under indictment in this country on drug-trafficking charges.

The Washington reported in Sunday's editions that the administration also considered establishing headquarters in the former Canal Zone for Panamanian President Eric Arturo Delvalle who has been in hiding since Noriega ousted him in February and surrounding the area with U.S. military forces so Delvalle could campaign more effectively for Noriega's removal. MILITARY, 11-A Highest one-day toll marks Arab protests JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli troops shot and killed six Arab protesters Saturday on the eve of U.S; Secretary of State George P. Shultz's visit to the Middle East. It was the highest one-day death toll in four months of unrest in the occupied territories.

The coming at the beginning of the Jewish Passover holiday, was expected to take its toll on Christian Easter celebrations as we.ll. Church officials said they expect a severe drop in pilgrims attending the traditional Easter Sunday Mass in Jerusalem because of the unrest. Thousands of Christians usually attend the Mass at the 12th- century Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where tradition says Jesus Christ was resurrected. In Bethlehem, arm'y helicopters buzzed a funeral procession for a slain Palestinian and flew over the site where Christians believe Jesus was born. Since Dee.

8, 133 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed in the violence the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle Eastwar. The most violent clash Saturday took place in the seaside Gaza Strip, where the army said a gang of Palestinian protesters hurled knives and metal rods at troops See VIOLENCE, 11-A Staff photo by Jim Cruz Brimming with bunnies, Easter float heads up Strand in Saturday's parade Parade excites kids The bunny reigns supreme By ATM THOMAS The Daily News GALVESTON Next to Santa Glaus, no one can be as popular with children as the Easter Bunny. I was a first-hand witness Saturday to the popularity he enjoys at the second annual; Easter My husband; 16-mdnthHold sorf and I dressed up as the Easter Bunny family and par- ttMptfted in the afternoon- parade through downtown Galveston. We were all our bunny ears, fluffy tails and but was the most believable bunny because be had a large, white bunny head which rested on his shoulders. When the children along the parade route saw him, they got so excited.

They began waving and shouting at him: "Hi, Easter Bunny. Hi, Easter They were thrilled when he waved back. And the parade seemed to bring out a little bit of the kid in the adults, too. It was fun to see all those smiling faces. There was plenty to see and enjoy.

The little girl dressed up like a Spanish lady with her tiny dog in a baby carriage drew plenty of comment. And the old-time firefighters their pump wagon drew rounds of applause every time they stopped and sprayed water down the street. Organized by Sylvianne Kitchen, a local See PARADE, 11-A Holiday preparations come in many forms i 1-1 1 i. r.fnl1 nt fHfk A PH T1 By The Associated Press Greek bakers in Detroit worked overtime making Easter bread, a small Illinois town carried on a Russian woman's decorating tradition, and pastors all over fretted Saturday that the start of daylight-saving time would make parishioners tardy for services. In eastern Texas, where tornadoes ripped through East Mountain, Mound City, Gladewater and Union Grove Friday night, hundreds of people banded together and spent their Did you set clock ahead? GALVESTON Easter services seem a little sparsely attended this morning? Preacher and choir conspicuously absent? Don't go blaming the country's moral climate; you probably overslept.

Daylight-saving time began at 2 a.m. today, and most of the nation set its clocks ahead one hour. Did you? If not, you were an hour late to wherever you had planned to be today. You walked into an empty church; you arrived for dinner at Grandma's just in time for dessert; and your favorite Sunday interview-show host was just bidding you goodbye when you tuned him in. TJest just to set your clocks ahead now, and be glad you caught your error before Monday morning rolled around.

After all, by now, very few bosses are considering "time change" a legitimate excuse for coming in late to work. Postal rates go up today WASHINGTON (AP) Mailing a letter costs more starting Sunday, as new postage rates go into effect. will cost 25 cents to mail first-class letters, up 3 cents. The second ounce of first-class mail also rises 3 cents, to 20 cents. But postal cards are up only a penny, to 15 cents.

The rate increases cover most classes of mail, with larger hikes for advertising and periodicals than for letters, Easter weekend cleaning up debris. Pastor Dick Lindsey of East Mountain Baptist Church said Sunday's service will focus on the storm that damaged or destroyed 46 homes. "Even though we've gone through difficulties and a loss of property there still is hope, and that's what the resurrection is all about a new life," Lindsey said Saturday. Many pastors shared a less serious worry on Easter Eve whether congregants would remember to set their clocks an hour ahead before going to bed. "I know there's been concern," said Pastor William deHeyman of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Philadelphia.

It was a stuck drawbridge, not an unset clock, tha.t delayed the Easter Bunny from his appointed rounds Saturday morning'in Grand Haven, Mich. The local Jaycees held up their egg hunt until the guest of honor could arrive. For Sunday's Easter egg hunt in Terre Haute, organizers were plotting how to foil overzealous parents who cheat to help their children win prizes. More than 1,000 children were expected to participate in the event at Deming Park in one of Indiana's biggest annual Easter egg hunts. In the past adults have painted winning numbers on eggs, or found the highly coveted gold and silver eggs and passed them off to their kids, said Georgeo Schoff- stall of the American Legion, which sponsors the event.

Sixty monitors will be on hand to keep parents from collecting any of the nearly 2,000 hidden eggs. "We could use 150," Schoffstall said. For more than 50 years, passers-by in Bement, 111., marveled at the thousands of colored eggs, plastic rabbits and ducks, and statues of geese and goslings that adorned Zenaida See PREPARATIONS, 11-A Dye process described Ukrainian Easter custom kept alive ByARLENEBATTISTA The Daily News GALVESTON Barbara Kirkpatrick remembers when, as a fascinated 9-year-old, she watched as her mother followed a recipe handed down from a previous generation. Nellie Smith mixed onion skins, bark, walnuts and other items to color a dye she had concocted. Using a rudimentary tool, she drew on an egg with wax, then dipped it in the dye.

She drew some more, dipped the egg in another color, and repeated the steps again and again. Finally, the wax was melted off and Nellie Smith's daughter marveled at the colorful drawings that covered what had become a Ukrainian Easter egg. The child tried her hand at the craft, but several years would pass before she would decide to continue the tradition. "This is a fairly common thing up where we lived," said Mrs. Kirkpatrick, a native of Toronto.

"There are a lot of Ukrainians who had immigrated to Canada and they brought the craft with them. "Easter is very important holiday for the Greek Orthodox, or the Ukrainian Russian Orthodox church," continued. "More so than Christmas, really, so the focus of all their crafts, their cook ing and that sort of thing is on Easter." Mrs. Kirkpatrick does not make her own dye and the rudimentary tool has given way to an electrically heated pen. Everything else, including the symbolic designs and colors, remain as they've been forhundredsofyears.

She begins by placing beeswax in the electric utensil, a kistka. She draws lines to section off the egg, and might draw a flower or design. The wax instantly dries, and the egg is dipped in a light dye, such as yellow. A hen and other designs may be drawn on the yellow. The egg is again dipped, this time in a darker color, perhaps green.

Any part un- See TRADITION, 11-A Staff photo by Jim Cruz Bowl of docorntod Stafl photo by Jim Crw Barbara paints on.