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Lr Tin il If you've been shopping the stores for the best buy on a Dell Computer you'd better make up your mind soon. The company no longer will sell its computers to retail stores, in order to focus on the more lucrative mail-order business. F1 Mourners trickle in to a burned-out shell of the historic South Austin bar Beverly's, which for 15 years was a favorite hangout for an eclectic clientele that included bankers and bikers and lawyers and laborers. B3 What would make someone spend a week's vacation, $45 and 22 hours traveling to live in a tent, rise each day before sunup and shoulder a shovel four miles up a mountain to work on park trails for eight unpaid hours? Outdoor enthusiasts call it the "wilderness gene." E1 -U Paul Clover, the dean of AIDS prevention education in Residents already pondering long-term effects of state's worst flooding in history By Peter Applebome New York Times News Service ATLANTA Long after the muddy waters go down in Albany, after the stench of human waste and 300,000 dead chickens disappears from Montezuma, after workers start repairing 1,700 roads, 600 bridges and 100 dams damaged by last week's flooding, the Southeast's answer to last year's Midwestern flooding will continue to haunt this battered state. The waters still were rising Monday in the southwest corner of Georgia, and officials in Bainbridge worked to move townspeople out of danger as they awaited the Flint River's record crest later this week.

But from Atlanta south, the area battered by the rains brought by Tropical Storm Alberto, residents and officials were beginning to ponder the long-term effects of the worst flooding in Georgia history. The death toll already is heavy: 28 killed since the rain began a week ago, as compared with 48 deaths attributed to the summerlong flood in the Midwest last year. And, as residents of the Midwest learned, the damage in terms of economics, environment and emotions also is certain to be severe. Worries include industries likely to be crippled for months, freight rail lines shut down by washed-out bridges that could take months to repair and up to 1,300 hazardous chemical sites that are in the flooded area and have the potential to cause significant envi-' See Georgia, Back page Anchor Oliveira leaving to co-own new TV station By David Matustik American-Statesman Staff A new Austin television station co-owned by broadcaster Ron Oliveira is scheduled to debut in September on UHF Channel 54. Oliveira, news anchor for KVUE, Channel 24 Cable 3, told co-workers Monday he will be leaving the station after the 10 p.m.

broadcast on Sept. 9 to help manage the new venture. He said KNVA, Channel 54, will be on the air sometime in September, though programming has not been determined. Oliveira said the station likely will bid for CBS affiliation if the planned ownership change of KTBC, Channel 7 Cable 2, is approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The soonest the FCC is expected to act on the ownership change is spring 1995.

New World Communications Group the proposed purchaser of KTBC, plans to switch the station from CBS to the Fox Network after FCC approval. Channel 54 "has been 10 years in the making and finally we're going to be on the air," Oliveira said, See Oliveira, A10 Staff photos by Ralph Barrera A book is all that remains of Evan Voyles' vintage boot collec- rie Schooner Trading Post. Four other buildings also burned, tion after a fire late Sunday destroyed his Buda business, Prai- Brent Howell, above, helps remove the ruined boots. Blaze devastates Buda businesses ft Austin, dies of of the disease at age 42. Clover, who had been living for 11 years with the virus fi That's more than 20 years of my life right there in the charcoal.

James Exum, co-owner of Poor Richard the heart of downtown. Five firefighters were treated at the scene for either minor burns or smoke inhalation, authorities said. Also burned in the fire, which authorities say was reported about 10:15 p.m. Sunday, were BW Boutique, a nonprofit crafts store run by the Buda Women's Club; Poor Richard an antique store; two industrial glass-blowing shops that shared the same building; and a storage facility for the Hays school district. Other buildings on the block separated from the row of connected stores were unharmed.

Buda Mayor W.G. White bemoaned the loss but said the town would recover. "I think what it's going to do is slow down the antique and tourist trade for See Buda, A7 By Tim Lott American-Statesman Staff BUDA Evan Voyles stood among the charred leather boots and broken glass Monday and used his forearm to wipe the soot from his face. Friends and volunteers helped load his livelihood what was left of it into wheelbarrows and hauled it to a flatbed trailer parked across Buda's Main Street. Voyles' pride, a collection of some 500 pairs of "real cowboy boots" made from the 1930s through the 1960s, was destroyed in a fire that scorched a strip along Main Street late Sunday and early Monday.

The contents of Voyles' store, the Prairie Schooner Trading Post, were reduced to blackened, soaked rubble. "I lost the core of my collection," he said. "But there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. There isn't time to be devastated." Prairie Schooner and four other buildings all connected were burned when a fire scorched through that causes AIDS, was a founder of AIDS Services of Austin. B1 fl President Clinton tells Ger: mans that "trade, as much as troops," will define the ties that bind nations in the 21st century and that the German-American military alliance must be replaced with a partnership focusing more on economics and the unification of Europe.

A2 Although the state says the Austin Rehabilitation Center misspent more than $1 million that must be repaid, the center receives a $617,279 state grant. B1 Compiled by Cathy Chapaty Differing appraisals point to flaws in system Haitian regime orders observers out in 48 hours Tax issues Section 1-14 News State Rep. Susan Combs Is drafting legislation to encourage overlapping appraisal districts to use the same value on the same property. A6 Wonder how your home's appraisal compares with your neighborhood's appraisals? Call for a free fax. A6 Section 1-6 City State Section 1-8 Sports Section 1-13 Classified Section 1-4 Project Earth By Debbie Hiott and Jeff South American-Statesman Staff The Williamson County Ap-, praisal District says Mark and Julie Goodin's home is worth $252,565.

But the Travis Central Appraisal District says it is worth much more: $474,902. "How can they be so different?" said Juiie Goodin, who lives on Turkey Creek Drive in the Lean-der school district in northwest Travis County. "It's the same piece of property." The $222,337 gap is an extreme example of the disparities that occur when property is appraised by both Travis and Williamson counties. The implications are important: Some tax bills might be unfairly high; some might be undeservedly low. More than 10,000 homes in Travis County lie in the Round Rock and Leander school districts, Section 5,6 Entertainment Section 1-8 Business By Stanley Meisler Los Angeles Times Service WASHINGTON Haiti's army-installed government ordered the expulsion of all international human rights observers Monday, declaring them undesirable aliens and accusing them of disrupting state security.

The 104 U.N. and Organization of American States workers were given 48 hours to leave. Law enforcement officials were notified to enforce the order, the government said. U.N. officials said the monitors will be evacuated today to the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Eleven of the monitors are Americans. The Security Council meets today to issue a statement condemning Haiti's action. Although subjected to threats and harassment, the observers in Haiti have managed in the last few months to send out reports about the deterioration of human rights under the military authorities who are blocking the return of deposed President Jean-Ber- See Haitian, A9 1 which are based in Williamson County. These houses are appraised by the Travis Central Appraisal District for Travis County and city property taxes but by the Williamson County Appraisal District for school taxes. In addition, about 200 homes are in the part of Austin that stretches See Different, A6 E2 B5 E2 B2 A12.13 E2 A2 State B4 i AP Ann Landers Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Horoscope Inside Line TV Log i A Haitian woman sells gasoline Monday in an area of Port-au-Prince nicknamed 'Kuwait City' because of the amount of black market fuel sold there at high prices.

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