Daily World from Opelousas, Louisiana • Page 3

DAILY WORLD SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1994 3A Victims settle in tents ill Oystermen embrace new regulations By EILEEN LOH Associated Press Writer i i AP Photo Fred Rassy, left, pushes a tool box from a destroyed garage as Pete Vaughn uses a shovel to pick through the rubble on Friday from Monday's earthquake in Santa Monica, Calif. NEW ORLEANS New federal seafood regulations may help restore consumer confidence in Louisiana oysters, some state oyster proces- i sons say. After a recall last November of i oysters from the Grand Pass and Cabbage Reef areas near the Louisi-, ana-Mississippi border, widespread consumer panic hit the Louisiana oyster industry hard. But, processors say, Louisiana oysters are safe. Under a new Food and Drug Administration plan, known as the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point system (HACCP), seafood processors are responsible for making sure the seafood they buy comes from clean waters and is properly harvested, cleaned, processed and chilled before it is sent to restaurants and stores.

Nick Vinterella, president of Car-; lo's Oysters in Amite, said state and federal regulations on seafood pro-1 cessors were already vigorous and strictly enforced. However, he said, "I have no problems with (new regu-, lations). We should do everything possible to ensure the consumers have a good safe product." Last November, the FDA alerted consumers to an outbreak of stom- ach ailments in people who had eat-', en raw oysters from the two beds. They were closed Nov. 16 just before the big Thanksgiving and Christmas sales.

Vinterella voluntarily recalled a shipment of "Big-R" brand oysters I in the Illinois-Missouri area. However, he said, the FDA alert caused needless hysteria about the quality of Louisiana oysters in general, resulting in hundreds of phone calls from worried consumers and thousands of dollars in lost revenue. Several buyers returned oysters not from the affected beds, he said. Wilson Voisin, president of Wilson's Oysters Inc. and of the Terrebonne Oyster Administration, said the FDA generalized the problem, warning against all Louisiana oysters when only two beds were affected.

Neither Voison nor Vinterella had seen the new federal regulations. The regulations go into effect one year after a 90-day public comment period. By SETH MYDANS New York Times News Service LOS ANGELES Hundreds of green canvas tents went up Saturday in parks around the city as thousands of earthquake refugees began a new routine, cooking breakfast on campfires, combing their hair in their car mirrors and driving off on errands. Late into the night Friday, Henry G. Cisneros, the secretary of housing, moved among the tents and through disaster-relief centers, looking over the shoulders of his employees and escorting applicants through the process as if trying by force of will to speed a sluggish bureaucracy.

With scenes of homeless people camped under cardboard and plastic and long lines of angry applicants stranded outside disaster-relief centers, the Clinton administration is eager to ease public frustration after the earthquake on Monday. The administration moved quickly to streamline the application process for housing grants, to open more disaster-assistance centers and to double the number of telephone operators handling requests for assistance over a special line. He announced the decision to open six tent cities suddenly on Friday, with rain forecast for Sunday, despite an internal debate over whether they would become a longterm problem for the city. "The strategy of tents is to be temporary," Cisneros emphasized. "The danger is that it will be impossible to take them down, and city officials legitimately were concerned that we were putting up some facilities that would be there tor a very long time." To prevent this, he said, large tents were being used to minimize any feeling of home, and people were being told they had about three weeks to find housing.

Many of the refugees said they continued to sleep in the open out of fear, even though their homes had been found to be structurally sound. Some people camped out within sight of their apartments, returning in the morning to make breakfast and bathe. Martin Leyva, 25, a shipping clerk who is one of the Hispanic immigrants who make up the overwhelming majority of the refugees, said he was avoiding any building with a roof. "I don't feel safe in any place," he said. "I'm really scared.

I don't want to put my family in any shelter or any building." Cisneros said tents erected by the National Guard could accommodate up to 6,000 people and that other tents would be obtained from other, sources if needed. The Red Cross Fine Dining In A Unique Atmosphere s-uioun. n- In Historic Washington 833 W. Park Ave. B80 RIBS GOT pin? mm Rico or Com Bread Dressing, Green Beans, or Okra, Yams, Roll Shyne pleads SHREVEPORT City councilman Joe Shyne pleaded guilty Friday to taking a $1,500 bribe in 1992 for helping a lounge own-' er win a zoning dispute.

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He faces a possible 20-year prison sentence and a maximum $250,000 fine. Chief sentenced AMITE A state judge sen- tenced Tickfaw Police Chief Jimmy Sparacello to 90 days in jail, then suspended the sen tence, authorities said. Sparacello was found guilty of illegal use of a movable involving insurance payments for the repair of a police car. He was acquitted on a felony theft count. 1 District Judge Robert Morrison placed Sparacello on two years probation Friday for the misdemeanor conviction and ordered him to perform 10 days i of community service, a spokeswoman for the Tangipahoa District Attorney's office said.

He also was ordered to repay $561 to the town. Newsman dies 1 PORT ALLEN The news director at KATC-TV in La-1 fayette died in an early morn-1 ing accident Saturday when his car crossed the center line, ran off the road and crashed head-on into a tree, state police said. Steve Richier, 36, of New Orleans, apparently fell asleep while headed east on Interstate 10, just west of La. 15, Trooper Steven Dewey said. Richier, a longtime assignment editor at WVUE-TV in New Orleans, had been employed by KATC for about five weeks, officials said.

School half days may be limited BATON ROUGE -The state pepartmeM of Educate W7r.i dratted a proposal mat would limit the number of half-days for public school students to eight per year. From The Associated Press. r-MTG UHKIICS tvaryaay dui tiuray Bar-B-Que Every Wednesday Sunday QflDiL-anDDea At JiMson waian 94Q-OOCO Hwy. 182 South NOW SERVING BOILED CRAWFISH 942-1086 I ABfiC Smfcr or VteeUrim Sunnier" "i ft TBI Ik. fttoMl UN Ml torn a fan NmI said 4,000 people were living in its shelters and another 6,000 were camped outside them.

The National Guard estimated that 14,000 people were sleeping in parks. With fears rising over sanitation and illness in the camps, and with the sound of coughing coming increasingly from the tents, the county health department sent teams of doctors and nurses to tour the tent cities. Hospital emergency rooms, which handled thousands of earthquake injuries over recent days, reported an increasing number of exposure-related illnesses. As soldiers swung circus-sized wooden mallets to put up the heavy canvas tents most of them able to house 30 people the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and other private organizations, as well as some neighbors, served food and hot coffee. Generators provided lighting, but no heat, inside the tents as temperatures dipped into the 40s.

Some city parks took on the look of refugee camps as adults sat outside their shelters while children played ball, religious organizations handed out food and clothing, clowns per-formed and armed soldiers stood guard to maintain wi order. The air was filled with the smell of wood smoke, and seagulls picked through the garbage. "These are not tent cities," said Maj. Dan Nation, a spokesman for the National Guard in a refrain heard at refugee camps around the world. "These are temporary, emphasize temporary, shelters." who flew here immediately after the earthquake, said he hoped that a speeded-up disaster-assistance program would help people move quickly into new housing.

By late Friday night, the first 500 or so of what he said could be 10,000 certificates for temporary housing had been issued, without the normal wait for verification of damage by housing inspectors. He said more disaster-assistance centers were being opened, with workers receiving crash courses in the complicated procedures. "The first part of our effort is to get people from parks into shelters," he said. "The second is fielding 'reassurance teams' housing counselors, crisis counselors, clergy to work with people to advance the housing ROACH SPRAY 240 K3USE PARTY Ul (R) 115 4 7:15 U30 EEETKCtfEftS II (P6) 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 OS.CCy3THE (P6.13) 1 4:00 TM Ij 1 9:30 (P6) 1:00 4:00 7:15 1 930 Savalas dies LOS ANGELES Telly Sa- valas, the gruff, bald-headed actor who became a television favorite as the lollipop-loving New York detective in the 1970s series "Kojak," died Saturday of prostate cancer. He was 70.

Savalas, surrounded by his family, died in his sleep one day after his birthday at his suite in the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Universal City, said Mike Mamakos, his spokesman and longtime friend. Savalas left Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena al- most three weeks ago to live out his last days at the hotel, where he had kept a suite since the 1970s, Mamakos said. "Who loves ya, baby?" which Kojak muttered to fellow cops and assorted hoodlums, grew into the detective's signature and a national catch-phrase. The series grew out of an acclaimed TV movie, "The Mar-. cus-Nelson Murders," based on the real-life brutal murders of two young career women in New York City.

"Kojak" broke into the top 10 rated shows in its first season, 1973-74, and Savalas won an Emmy as best actor in a dramatic series that season. The series lasted until 1978, setting the standard for gritty, realistic police shows such as "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue." GOP vows to fight WASHINGTON Setting an acrimonious tone as the election year opens, Republican leaders put President Clinton on notice Saturday that they were ready to fight him on virtually every major issue on his agenda, from crime to health care to welfare. Sen. Bob Dole, the Republican leader, went a step further at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee here, suggesting that Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater real estate deal when he was governor of Arkansas might be used to the Republicans' benefit during the fall congressional campaigns. i "If the Democrats want to have a hearing, they're going to suffer the consequences," Dole said.

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