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Houston police arrest man itySt 1 i after shots fired near school Thursday, August 20, 1 9 8 1 ca Austin American -Statesman Section AISD students john kclso Faces ofMexia broken with grief after indictments PageB7 AU need measles siiots Dull releases fill round file I I 4: i -i v- ry 1 if I By CAROLYN RINEHART American-Statesman Staff Long lines of students were waiting for shots this morning at two immunization clinics to get measles vaccinations being required this school yaer of all public school students. Following state law, the Austin Independent School District previously had required measles immunizations only for students age 14 and younger. The new requirement is a result of a July 31 State Board of Health ruling in response to a measles outbreak in south and west Texas, Ron Moel-lenberg, immunization program manager for the Texas Department of Health, said Wednesday. AISD administrators received official notification of the ruling late Wednesday, a spokesman said. The AISD central office was receiving "lots of calls" this morning about the new requirement, spokesman Leticia Contreras-Hinojosa said.

A few callers, she said, were upset that school officials had not told people earlier that the shots would be required. The State Board of Health, not the AISD, originated the requirement and did not notify school districts until this week, Contreras-Hinojosa explained. About one in every five high school students, or roughly 3,400 students, plus some in junior high, might be without the vaccine, said Donna Knapp, AISD administrator for health services. The number is an estimation based on computer printouts for one school. To be valid for school entry, the vaccination must have been given on or after the student's first birthday and after Jan.

1, 1968, the state board ruled. Students who have had measles do not need the vaccination, but their history of measles must be verified by a physician, the board said. Principals at each school will decide whether to admit students without measles vaccination or a doctor's statement and give them up to 30 days to be immunized, Contreras-Hinojosa said. Principals at three of the city's nine high schools, telephoned at their schools this morning, said they would grant the 30 days. "I feel like immunization is important," said Forrest Kline, principal at Crockett High.

"But some children would have an awfully hard time meeting this new requirement. To not allow them to come to school is the worst thing we could do. The incidence of measles in high school is almost nil." The change in the regulation came after a statewide measles outbreak this year, Moellenberg said. More than 800 cases have been reported this year, compared with 181 in 1980. Moellenberg said schools had not been notified earlier because it took time to secure the signatures of the commissioners of education and health and to print the regulations and transmittal letter.

Mailing of the notices to 1,600 Texas school offices began Friday and was completed Tuesday, he said. Free immunizations will be available 8 a.m.-noon Friday at Montopolis Public Health Center, 1200-B Montopolis Drive. Sialf Photo by floban Willed Singer-composer Paul Williams raises a toast to the crowd at Barton Creek Square. 90,000 see big opening of South Austin's mall Staff Photo Dy PMr Sa Conservation kits have devices to save water. Water devices sent to homes in experiment By PEGGY VLEREBOME American-Statesman Staff When Joe DiQulnzio takes work home from the office, he's likely to put it in the toilet tank.

As water-conservation specialist in the Water and Wastewater Department, DiQuinzio already has tried out the water-saving kit that Austin will start distributing free today. The kits contain a plastic bag that is to be filled with water and set in the toilet tank to displace and thus save water every time the toilet is flushed; dye tablets for checking whether the tank leaks; and two plastic flow-limiters to reduce by 50 percent the amount of water flowing through a shower head. The kit also contains directions. Toilet tank leaks "probably are the biggest waster of water in the home," DiQuinzio said. He estimated that if a tank leak is undetected, it can waste up to 73,000 gallons of water in four years and cost the customer about $55.

The devices are only temporary to introduce customers to their use and, DiQuinzio hopes, encourage people to install permanent water-saving devices. Depending on mineral content of water, the temporary devices last several months to a year, he said. The first of 5,000 kits the city bought will go to 111 homes southwest of the city, where low water pressure is a problem. City workers will distribute 175 of the kits today and Friday. The 111 residents volunteered for the pilot program by responding to a questionnaire sent to 719 houses west of the Oak Hill Next week, about 2,700 kits will be given away to utility customers who live in single-family houses or duplexes.

The kits can be picked up between 7:45 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the Water and Wastewater Department, 500 West First St. The city sold 1,100 of the kits to Water District 14 southwest of the city and 1,000 to Williamson County Municipal Utility District No. 1 (Anderson Mill to give free to their customers.

Austin residents who get the kits next week should take their most recent utility-bill stub with them so their account number can be written down, DiQuinzio said. The Water and Wastewater Department will keep track of water use during the next year or two to determine if the program should be broadened. If 2,700 Austin utility customers get kits next week and use them for a year, DiQuinzio figures that the limited pilot project could save 66 million gallons of water a year and $22 for each customer. The pilot project will Involve only about 2 percent of the utility's 1 10,000 customers. The 2,700 customers' savings would add up to $62,640 a year and also that much less income for the utility.

The department hasn't calculated yet how much consumption would have to be reduced to require a rate increase to offset the income loss. It's a proven fact that everybody thinks the job he does is the most important Job there is and that if he stopped doing that job, the world would fold. Maybe that explains all these press releases that are mailed to the paper every day. Each morning, some poor slob, usually an editor, has to read through all these things, to make sure there isn't some piece of important information buried within. That's why editors check into the House of Laughs, generally, by the age of 45, because they have to wade through all this stuff.

I guess somebody actually expects us to print all this junk. If you glued all the press releases we receive end to end, you could probably create a path long enough to reach from here to Mars. But if you strung all of the releases together that had something of portent to tell you, most of the time you couldn't make the string reach across the street. I can sympathize with the poor guys, my bosses, who have to absorb all this twaddle. Take this one that's in front of me, for instance.

This one comes from the Consulate General of the Republic of South Africa with this bulletin for us. It says here there's a problem with "squatters at Nyanga," and that the governments of both the Republics of Transkei and South Africa are hard at work, trying to find a solution. I'm here to report to you that it looks like there's terrible, terrible news for the unemployed squatters, if you can believe this press release. For the outcome of the discussions is thus: "1. Controlled squatting was (found) unacceptable and could not be allowed in the interest of the squatters themselves: "2.

No squatting would be allowed on the relevant site in Nyanga: "3. The case of each individual apprehended in Nyanga between July 16 and August 3, 1981 would be considered on merit. The status of those employed would be legalized, and the individual would be assisted in obtaining accomodation." You needed to know that. You also need to know about the dangers of green potatoes, it is stated here on this press release entitled "Home Economic Fillers." Somebody actually spent money on a stamp and sent this to us. And, even if you're a squatter in Nyanga, apparently you should stay clear of those green potatoes.

Be-. lieve me. This press release begins by asking the poignant question, "Green Then it continues on to headier facts. "COLLEGE STATION Green potatoes? DO NOT EAT They could poison you, warns Dr. Cass Ryan-Crowe, a food and nutrition specialist.

"Don't eat the green spots on potatoes, either, she cautions. Be sure to trim them away." This information sheet goes on to warn us that green-potato eating can cause stomach pains, and in some cases, paralysis or even death. So now, thankfully, if you have any green potatoes kicking around the house, you know what to do with them. Let's see? What other news is there in this pile? Well, for one, there's a photo of Sen. John Tower and two other guys holding a big can that says "Texas" on it.

There's no explanation on the back of the picture. Maybe it goes with this release from the Panhandler Popcorn Co. in Plainview. Maybe John Tower is holding a can of popcorn. That's big news.

I can see the headline now: "John Tower holds can of popcorn." Also, did you know it's pear season? I didn't know that until I went through these press releases. "It Is pear season again, and many homemakers are wondering what to do with all the extra pears they have on hand," this release says. Unfortunately there's no press release here that tells us what to do with all these extra press releases. Crowds were thin when the doors opened at 10 a.m., but throngs of vistors filled the mall during the afternoon and evening when fashion shows, music" and a performance by the Austin Symphony Orchestra conducted by composer Paul Williams were staged in the mall. Shwiff said 77 stores are open at the mall, and about 50 more will be open by Christmas.

The mall will eventually have 175 to 185 businesses. About 85 percent of the space is leased, he said. "I feel the mall is designed to serve the shopping needs of Austin and surrounding community," Shwiff said. The decor of the enclosed mall is a greenhouse motif, with tall ficus trees, lattice work and two-story gazebos under huge skylights. By BILL DOUTHAT American-Statesman Staff Barton Creek Square, South Austin's megamalt, opened Wednesday to an estimated 90,000 customers and sightseers who were treated to sales, raffles and free entertainment in the wide, breezy corridors.

"We are pleased with the response," said Harold Shwiff, manager of the mall and head of a staff of 75 managers, maintaint-ence workers and security men outfitted in blue blazers. Shwiff said 85,000 to 90,000 people passed through the mall on its first of ficial day of business. The 110-acre mall, one of the largest in Texas, is the first major shopping mall in South Austin and is two miles west of South Lamar Boulevard on Loop 360. Most of Austin's major shopping areas are in northern parts of the city. Barton pool reopens after 1-day closing Sediment in the springs and in the pool does not necessarily present a health hazard, Slade said.

The pool was closed several times In 1980 because of cloudy waters, Slade said. "There were a few incidents in 1980 where they had to close the pool and that was the year Barton Creek Square mall was being built," he said. Members of the Zilker Park Posse, who had planned to gather at the mall Wednesday morning to protest its opening, instead gathered outside the pool's gates and urged Austinites to boycott the new mall. "Every car that goes out to the shopping center is contributing to the pollution of Barton Springs," Connie Moore said. "The mall is not the only contributor to the pollution of Barton Springs.

But the owner of the mall has been negligent in not' completing the detention ponds designed to filter runoff before it enters Barton Creek." U.S. Geological Service for possible contamination will be available Friday. "The source of the sediment is probably runoff along Barton Creek," said Raymond Slade, a geological service hydrologist. "When it rains, sediment and runoff go into the faults that cross the creek. Usually it takes a few hours for whatever's in the creek to percolate through to the springs.

"There's been a lot of construction in that area, and this is going to happen as long as there continues to be construction in the area." The five-foot visibility rule was adopted in 1980 when a similar incident forced the temporary closing of the pool. "Our beaches and rock ledges are 4 to 414 feet below the water, and if we can't see them, neither can the swimmers," Quisenberry said. "It's not a safe situation, especially for people who haven't been here before." By LINDA ANTHONY American-Statesman Staff Barton Springs Pool, Austin's most popular swimming spot, re-opened this morning after murky waters spewing from the springs feeding the pool forced its closing Wednesday. Although the pool was only closed one day, officials said it could close again after the next heavy rain. The pool is closed to swimming anytime visibility drops below five feet.

To help speed the clearing of the pool, the water level was lowered several feet Wednesday to expose the springs. "When this happens, we've found it helps to lower the water in the pool. If we do that, the cloudiness goes away faster," pool manager David Quisenberry said. Pool attendants said the water level was expected to return to normal by 9 a.m. Results of water tests conducted by.

the Investigators question robbery motive in severed-hand slaying flatps said this mornlne. however, that By MIKE COX American-Statesman Staff Investigators backed off Wednesday from an earlier theory that a Houston-area man whose handless body was discovered Tuesday in Paleface Park died in the aftermath of a robbery. The body was identified shortly before noon Wednesday as that of Anthony Wayne Greene, 25, of Harris County. Greene had a criminal record, but investigators said they have learned little else of his background. Officials were continuing to try to notify his family of his death but have not been able to locate Travis, where it was tossed in some brush.

Gates said an autopsy report, which showed the victim died of a crushed skull and multiple stab wounds to the chest, indicated someone had tried to sever his hands with a sharp instrument, then broke them off at the wrists. One hand was recovered earlier In the lake. Cutler said this morning that sheriff's deputies think the numerous stab wounds and cuts were not inflicted until Greene had been dead for about 24 hours. Cutler said deputies think the killing followed an argument. any family members.

The identification was made on the basis of fingerprints from a hand found Sunday floating in Lake Travis. "We're not exactly sure as to the motive," Assistant District Attorney Tom Gates said. "At first we suspected robbery because an attempt had been made to dispose of (Greene's) Jewelry, but the jewelry may have been taken after the fact." Archie Nelson Green, 24, of Houston Is In Travis County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond after being indicted Tuesday afternoon for capital murder in the case. Green probably will be re-indicted on murder, rather than capital murder charges because authorities now think robbery was not involved in the killing. Gates said the victim and the suspect were "acquaintances" and that they had been in Austin "on a social visit." Gary Cutler, a Travis County deputy sheriff, said the slaying is thought to have occurred about 10 p.m.

Aug. 13 just outside a triplex on Hollow Creek Drive in Barton Hills. The body was removed to the Lower Colorado River Authority park on Lake Archie Nelson Green, murder suspect.