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GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1995 WEDDINGS Prendergast Lowrey Miss Alice Sylvia Prendergast and Mr. Lane Lowrey were united in marriage on Saturday, June 17,1995, at two o'clock in the afternoon at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Galveston, Tx. The bride's parents and maternal grandparents were also wed at St. Patrick's.

Father Page Polk officiated the nuptial mass. A reception followed at the Sam Houston Ballroom in The Tremont House. Alice is the daughter of LTC (USA RET) and Mrs. Charles F. Prendergast of Friendswood, Tx.

She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Arbegust of Texas City, and Mr. and Mrs.

F.M. Prendergast of Galveston. Lane is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maxie U.

Lowrey of Dayton, and the grandson of Ms. Ruby Thompson of DeSoto, Tx. Jennifer Lockard, of Catonsville, who introduced the couple, served as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Lori Herron of Sugar Land, Veronica Loomis of Tucson, Christy Lovretta, of Duluth, and Amanda Hempel, cousin of the bride, of Friendswood. Junior bridesmaids were Kari Prendergast, cousin of the bride, of League City, and Hayley Jones, niece of the groom, of Atlanta, Ga.

The flower girl was Juanita McCullough, niece of the groom, of Houston, Tx. Serving the groom as best man was Michael Kieke of Dayton. Groomsmen were Mark Ritchie of Houston, Randy Morris of College Station, Darrel Williams of Dayton, and John McCullough, brother of the groom, of Houston. Ushers were Kevin Aucoin of College Station, and Steven Hempel, cousin of the bride, of Friendswood. Fred E.

Hempel and Robert L. Prendergast, uncles of the bride, and Donald J. Hempel, cousin of the bride, read scriptures. The bride graduated from Munich American High School, Munich, Germany. She also graduated cum laude from Texas University in 1993 with a B.S.

in Interdisciplinary Studies. She was a member of Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society for Educators and the Golden Key National Honor Society. She currently teaches seventh grade math at League City Intermediate in Clear Creek I.S.D. The groom is a 1988 graduate of Dayton High School and a 1992 graduate of Texas University with a B.A. in English.

He currently teaches English at Dickinson High School. The couple will reside in the Clear Lake area following a honeymoon in New Orleans. WE'RE RECYCLING. ARE YOU? Land beyond Beneath great cities lie busy underworlds The Associated Press Demons may live down there. If so, they have a lot to contend with gas lines, water mains, phone and electric cables, sewers, subways, steam pipes, abandoned tunnels, treasure vaults, burial chambers, rivers even seas.

Regarded by people all over the globe as a dwelling place of spirits, often evil ones, the nether regions have been a rich source of myths and legends through the ages. But the realities of what lies underfoot are sometimes even more surprising. The busiest underworlds, by far, lie beneath the concrete crusts of great cities. The areas below are interlaced with cats, cradles of cables and conduits that deliver utilities and communications. "We put everything we can underground," Susan Moyer of Potomac Electric Power Co.

in Washington, D.C., tells National Geographic. The utility lights up the 68-square-mile city with 6,700 miles of operating circuits. More than 100 miles of steam lines, the nation's largest steam- heating system, occasionally remind New Yorkers of their presence in spectacular ways. A 1989 explosion killed three people, injured 24 and forced evacuation of 500 from their homes. Breaks are frequent in the city's more than 5,700 miles of water mains.

Like those in many other large cities, New York's underground is such a tangle that before foundations for new buildings can be put down, consulting engineers must sort out and move existing cables and pipes. New construction is always turning up abandoned and often forgotten relics. Workers installing a phone line beneath a venerable hotel on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1940s, discovered a cavernous buried vault. The AUTOMOTIVE REPAIRS 4313 BROADWAY New 763-3255 Dodging Debt? CallCCCS for free advice on financial matters 762-CCCS 1-800-873-CCCS Take your heart to court Or on a bike ride. Or out for a jog.

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Nonsense, say the authorities. But watch out for the rats, abundant residents of sewers everywhere. Probably since people started using seashells for currency, they've been burying treasure underground. This may account for the inflammatory effects that many subterranean discoveries have had on people's imaginations. During construction work near the U.S.

Capitol in the 1930s, workers ran into a tunnel described as long, muddy and mysterious. Somebody suggested that it was part of a 17th- century network of tunnels leading to a treasure buried by the infamous pirate Captain Kidd. Like the tunnel, that suggestion went nowhere. Some underground vaults contain genuine treasures, like the billions of dollars in gold stored 24 meters below the Federal Reserve Bank in New "Xbrk City. The world's largest gold hoard belongs to some 40 countries that find the location more convenient for trading, and possibly safer, than an above-ground vault.

The city of Nottingham, England, sits atop a honeycomb of hundreds of caves and tunnels that have been carved out of the pebbly limestone originally deposited by a huge river 245 million years ago. The human excavations, some dating back a thousand years, have been used for a variety of purposes food storerooms, breweries, tanneries, wells, cesspits and, during conflicts dating from medieval times through World War shelters. Much of what lies belowground has to do with water submerged streams, rivers, even larger bodies of water. A series of large heated pools in caves around the foothills of former Soviet Union's Caucasus Mountains, some as warm as 158 degrees Fahrenheit, are outlets of a large, invisible freshwater sea. But death is what most people associate with the underworld.

Tourists entering Paris' catacombs, a labyrinth of abandoned rock quarries containing skeletal remains of some 6 million people, are warned. "Stop, here is death's empire. A little respect." Most find this advice superfluous they wander through dimly lit, seemingly endless corridors and galleries lined with bones and skulls. During the Cold War, people became intrigued by the possibilities of actually living underground. Famines, businesses, even governments, contemplated packing up and moving below in the event of a nuclear attack.

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