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-J0 mmmm Stricken teacher 4a giver' By LARRY KAPLOW Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Herbert P. Engelman kept giving. He gave dropouts and disabled A students educations. And Sunday he was hit by lightning striding to unload an army helicopter for victims of Hurricane Andrew. As Engelman lay near death Mondav.

-x 1 Engelman colleagues, students and relatives remembered how the man with so many trades Navy medic, HAM radio operator, educator specialized in second chances. Dean Butler, Engelman's brother-in-law, said Monday night doctors had called the Lake Worth teacher clinically dead because of low brain-wave activity. But he was being held on life-support systems to provide organ donations, Butler said. "He reminded me that Engelman was nothing but the word Please see WHY6A -it w---1 -i r-r. LANNIS WffE9ia89BIWfeOHB5Sr Marines on Monday erect the first tent city on Homestead's Tom Harris Field.

The homeless were being encouraged not to move in until Wednesday because electricity, showers, toilets and kitchens were not ready. I IJd IHLJr 1 JL I 1 I I By GARY KANE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Hurricane Andrew's homeless trickled Monday night into three tent cities sprouting on South Florida's hurricane-scarred landscape the first new shelter offered to storm survivors in more than a week. Rows of the long-awaited tents went up in Homestead and Florida City, two communities struck hardest by Andrew. Although the tent cities still are being built, officials reluctantly opened them to the "We're not encouraging people to come, but we would not turn anyone away," said Barbara Got-hard, a spokeswoman for Homestead. Meanwhile, the military presence in the area grew further with the arrival of four Navy ships cal rying tons of food and thousands of sailors skilled with chain saws, welding tools and salvage equipment.

Thousands of military and civilian relief workers wrestled once again with the logistical nightmare of delivering aid, while traffic gridlock, an overworked telephone system and ordinary confusion continued to haunt the effort. And for the first time, authorities observed another shortage: volunteers. "We need people to unload trucks," said Kate Hale, Dade County director of emergency operations. The number of volunteers dropped sharply at the close of the weekend as many people returned to their regular jobs, Hale said. The relief effort suffered a shortage of people to unload trucks carrying food, water and building materials.

However, volunteers from outside Dade County still are being asked not to drive into the county, as traffic congestion was worse Monday than any day since the storm hit. Out-of-county residents are encouraged to volunteer in their communities or call 305-375-5001 to make arrangements to come to Dade to help. Authorities had predicted tent cities housing 20,000 would be up over the weekend. About 450 Marines began pitching tents late Sunday night at a baseball field in Homestead. Authorities had planned to discourage the homeless from moving into the tents until Wednesday.

Although the 108 tents were almost all up by early Sunday evening, electricity, showers, toilets and kitchens were not ready. But when the homeless start Please see REFUGEES8A Bush back, vows long-term relief -r U- -r J- i SUPPLIES Court: Release primary results By BRIAN E. CROWLEY Palm Beach Post Staff Writer For some candidates, tonight's primary election results may be like knowing the score in the top of ninth and then having the rest of the game postponed for a week. Floridians go to the polls today except in Dade County, where voting will take place a week late because of the destruction and chaos caused by Hurricane Andrew. In a one-page order, the state Supreme Court approved a plan Monday to delay the Dade vote until Sept.

8, meaning 10 percent of the state's 6 million voters will not cast ballots today. But Dade County voters will learn tonight what others decided in races that affect them. A Dade circuit judge had ruled Saturday that results in the state's other 66 counties should remain sealed until the Dade County vote. But the Supreme Court said counties should release their results when voting is complete tonight. About 30 percent of all eligible voters are expected to vote today in congressional, legislative and county races in addition to the U.S.

Senate primaries, said state Elections Supervisor Dot Joyce. Please see DADE4A By JULIA MALONE Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Shoving other issues aside, President Bush focused Monday on commanding federal hurricane relief and announced he will make a second visit to storm-devastated South Florida and Louisiana today. Amid concerns that public anger over relief delays could damage his election campaign in the crucial state of Florida, the president canceled nearly all his political travel for the week. "This has got to be a long-term commitment," Bush said at a photo session with business and insurance leaders after the White House announced new disaster aid for Florida. On today's hastily arranged trip, Bush and his wife, Barbara, along with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, will meet with military and civilian officials and volunteers.

By Monday evening, the White House had not released precise sites or other details of the visits. Bush will inspect the storm's unprecedented damage for the second time since Hurricane Andrew slammed ashore. Last week, he flew to Dade County within hours Please see BUSH4A THE RED CROSS needs: is Baby food, formula, diapers and wet wipes. ts Insect repellent, sunscreens. is Bottled water and non-perishable foods.

is Toilet paper, batteries, flashlights and radios. Roofing plastics and tarpaulins, plywood. VOLUNTEERS LOCALLY about 300 to 500 volunteers still are needed for four-hour shifts at the South Florida Fairgrounds. The primary duty for volunteers this week is to answer phones. Skilled forklift and heavy-loading labor also are needed.

Call 1-800-FL HELP1 to sign up. IN DADE, officials are asking people not to drive into the county, because traffic congestion was worse Monday than any day since Hurricane Andrew hit. C.J. WALKERStaff Photographer Air Force Staff Sgt. Hans Malone showers at a hydrant near his damaged Perrine home Monday.

He had worked at the Homestead base. Dagwood to Dithers: Tm quitting' Inside Idaho fugitive gives up after 10 days of siege CHANGES Election will remake Florida's congressional delegation. STORY, 10A DISTRACTION The Iraq no-fly zone is helping U.N. inspec-tors. STORY, 3A NFL CUTS The Miami Dolphins cut some prominent veterans but may bring some back.

SPORTS, 1C ANN LANDERS 2D LETTERS BUSINESS 7B CLASSIFIEDS 8C COMICS 8D DEAR ABBY 2D EDITORIALS 14A DAVE GEORGE 1C HATHAWAY 14A HOROSCOPE 7D 13A 2A 4B 2A 88 2C After 60 years behind the desk, Bumstead is going to work for Blondie's catering. The Associated Press NEW YORK A year after Blondie Bumstead rocked comic strip pages by announcing she was getting a job, her chow-hound husband, Dagwood, is bagging his desk job (of nearly 60 years) to work for her catering business. Eat your heart out, Dithers! Dagwood, Blondie and their faithful readers will get to digest the idea slowly. It began to unfold this week in the nationally syndicated strip. On Monday, J.C.

Dithers, as always, was chewing Dagwood out. But this time, Dagwood got steamed and told his boss to stop bugging him. Dithers threatened to replace him with a computer. "We'll see Dagwood increasingly embattled at work. Through the course of the week, he's so troubled he can't sleep," said Amanda Hass, a spokeswoman for King Features Syndicate, which distributes the LOTTERY OBITUARIES PEOPLE STOCKS TV SPORTS RON WIGGINS and everything, and signed up as Blondie's customers.

Still, it may not be a career move made in heaven. "I don't know if he should be trusted around all that food," Hass fretted, raising questions about whether the new arrangement will succeed. Blondie, whose maiden name is Boop-A-Doop, started her comic career solo in 1930. Dagwood became one of her suitors, and they were married in 1933 to create the husband-and-wife theme. Though Dagwood often pestered Dithers for more money, he only had one pay raise, on the strip's 50th anniversary.

"Nobody knows what he does for a living, let alone what he makes," Hass said. Last Labor Day, Blondie, a lifelong housewife, made headlines by announcing she was getting a job. While Dagwood choked on her newfound independence, Blondie secured a loan and opened the catering business with her best friend. Blondie may consider the new story-line sweet justice. Dagwood's family his dad was a railroad tycoon disinherited him when he married her because they thought she was a gol-digger.

they left the cabin. "He cried his wife's name, he cried his son's name, and then we just marched down the road like we said we were going to do," Weaver has been linked to the white supremacist group Aryan Nations, which has headquarters about 70 miles south of the cabin, and had moved to this remote Idaho area with his family nine years ago to live a secluded life. Boyle said that no shots were fired during the arrest but that Weaver was wounded by gunfire Aug. 22 and would be taken to a hospital. Gritz, who is campaigning as a minor-party presidential candidate, had been Weaver's commander in the Green Berets, and they are both believed to be members of the Christian Identity church, which advocates separation of the races.

Weaver had been wanted for 18 months on federal firearms charges and will face charges for assault on a U.S. marshal related to the shoot-out in which deputy U.S. marshal William Degan was killed. ID Randy Weaver gave up to his former Green Beret commander. Reuters NAPLES, Idaho A heavily armed fugitive and his three daughters, who had been surrounded by 200 law officers for 10 days in their remote northern Idaho cabin, surrendered to U.S.

authorities Monday without further violence. "They surrendered to the authorities on the scene," said U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Steve Boyle. Randy Weaver, 44, had held off 200 federal, state and local officers since Aug. 21, when his 13-year-old son, Samuel, and a federal marshal were killed in a shoot-out near his home.

Weaver's wife Vicki, 43, was killed by gunfire a day later. James "Bo" Gritz, a former U.S. Army Green Beret who had hunted for prisoners of war in Southeast Asia in the 1980s, negotiated Weaver's surrender and accompanied him and the children as i MOVIES, TV LISTINGS ACCENT 1992 The Palm Beach Post Vol. 84 No. 144" 4 Sections KING FEATURES Dagwood is turning in his old boss, J.C.

Dithers, for a new one his wife, Blondie. In a week or two, Blondie will conclude that she needs to hire a jack-of-all-trades for her business someone "who really knows food." Hass wouldn't reveal more, saying she didn't want to "spoil the fun" for readers of the strip, which appears in 2,000 newspapers in 54 countries and 35 languages. Dagwood has experience besides his love of food. He's made deliveries for Blondie on weekends. And one Sunday, six guests saw one of his famous "Dagwood" sandwiches, pilec high with anything FOR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE 8204663 1 800654 1231 WE RECYCLE For information, call 1 800 432 7595 7 ext.

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