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Sundays. If your paper is missing, please call our Subscriber Services Department at 235-6464 before 11 A.M. for same-day delivery. Founded in 1872 by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett, The SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE (USPS 501 980) is published every morning in the Tribune Building, 225 W.

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A monthly payment using the EZ Pay payment program is $13.50. For more information or subscription options, please call 574 235-6464 or 800 220-7378. Subscriptions include the Thanksgiving Day newspaper. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the South Bend Tribune, South Bend, IN 46626 southbendtribune.com Switchboard: (574) 235-6161 Operating executives: Vice President and General Manager Steven Funk; Vice Administration, Ed Henry; Vice Finance, Mark Hocker; Vice Charlene Smith; Vice Kevin Shaw; Advertising, Carol Smith; Facilities, Bill Morey South Bend Tribune 4 DaysAHEAD A LOOK AT COMING CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK EDITION 50R A2 South Bend Tribune MIROP Saturday, October 3, 2009 57526404 Notre Dame column. Sports TUESDAY Search of Norman Rockwell's at the Midwest Museum of American Art.

Intermission A with Jen Yates, creator of the blog (and now the book) Cake Wrecks. Food MONDAY SUNDAY Learn how to save someone from choking. ourHealth WEDNESDAY CorrectionsINDEX SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT The Tribune wants to ensure the accuracy of all stories and other information on its pages. If you believe an error has been published, let us know immediately so that the error can be corrected. Contact the Tribune switchboard operator at (574) 235-6161 so that your call can be directed to a supervisor, or call Managing Editor Tim Harmon at (574) 235-6323 or the Corrections Line at (574) 235-6171.

The Tribune can be reached by letter at 225 W. Colfax South Bend, IN 46626; fax at (574) 236-1765 and e-mail at AP BOWMER Residents of Leone in American Samoa clear debris Friday following this earthquake and tsunamis. Families have to forgo burial gathering spots overrun. By AUDREY MCAVOY and ROD MCGUIRK Associated Press Writers Samoa The village of Leone is a picturesque enclave that has been a mainstay of the Samoas for place where residents gather under beach meeting houses for rituals that are sacred to the local culture. of the village is a bleak landscape of rubble.

An overturned van is sticking into the roof of one of the beach houses.Four elderly villagers were killed while gathered on the shore to weave Samoan mats and crafts.A 6-year-old boy and two sisters were swept away on their way to school.The post office is is the grocery store. The carnage in hard-hit Leone offers a glimpse into how this deadly earthquake and tsunamis in Samoa and American Samoa destroyed centuries of culture on two islands that are steeped in tradition. Samoans have been forced to forgo burial rituals because their villages are gone.Other families have had to speed up the burial process because their loved weredis- covered in such decomposed states.The beach gathering as overrun by the tsunamis. need these guesthouses to be put back.This is our meeting Rep.Vaiausia Yandall said. The death toll from disaster rose to 170, including 129 in in American Samoa and nine in the relief effort entered its fourth day Friday.Medical teams gave tetanus shots and antibiotics to survivors with infected wounds and survivors wore face masks to reduce the growing stench of rot.

Some frightened residents who fled to the hills after the disaster vowed never to return to their destroyed seaside villages. More headed to the hills after an aftershock shook the region. a scary a lot of them said they are not coming to the coastal Cross health coordinator Goretti Wulf said near the flattened village of Lalomanu on the devastated south coast of main lesson they learned has made them stay Workers at makeshift emergency supply base began carting and clothes to 3,000 people in the hills. Wulf said drinking water was the most pressing problem.It is the end of dry rain is the water pipes that supply the villages were destroyed. Villagers gathered under a traditional meetinghouse to hear a Samoan government minister discuss a plan for a mass funeral and burial next week.Samoans traditionally bury their loved ones near their that could be impractical because many of their villages have been wiped out.

The reaction to the proposal was some relatives wanting to take the bodies and have their own others wanted a mass funeral delayed for a week to allow relatives to return to the islands from overseas. Families who were able to carry out proper burials did so under duress. One family in Lalomanu buried nine family members from four different generations this ages 2 to 97. Seven relatives were placed in a dug grave.One body had been retrieved from the ocean only hours earlier.A young Edmund the cheeks of her dead son and 6 and the edge of the grave as her bandaged arm was supported by a relative. The family dead were buried without coffins, their bodies covered with a woven a service that blended traditional Samoan culture with a Christian church ceremony.

Officials say almost 3,000 are still missing. By IRWAN FIRDAUS and ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press Writers Ratna Kurniasari Virgo lay surrounded by death for 40 hours trapped with a broken leg between the collapsed walls of her college and the bodies of her dead friends. Her rescue Friday was a rare tale of survival two days after a massive Indonesian earthquake killed at least 715 people and left nearly 3,000 missing under the rubble of tens of thousands of buildings. The wail of ambulances and the stench of decomposing bodies met volunteers from dozens of relief agencies Friday as they poured into the worst-hit area around the regional capital of Padang. Block after block of toppled buildings and schools had yet to be searched and dozens of unclaimed corpses were laid out in the scorching sun at Dr.M.

Djamil General Hospital, was damaged in the quake. 7.6 magnitude temblor devastated a stretch of more than 60 miles along the western coast of Sumatra island, prompting a massive international aid operation in a country where earthquakes have taken a huge human toll in recent years. The United Nations estimates that the death toll from this quake could rise to than 20,000 houses and buildings were destroyed and 2,400 people hospitalized across seven Priyadi Kar- spokesman for the national disaster agency. Fuel was being rationed amid a power and food were in short supply and villagers dug out the dead with their bare and aid agencies said. Contrasting that grim picture of grief and English major sophomore, was found alive under the rubble of her college in Foreign Language School of Prayoga.

dead friends were beneath and above her.For- was able to withstand the stench for 40 Dubel doctor who treated has a severely injured we will try to avoid Another survivor was a teacher at the same school, Suci Ravika Wulan Sari, who was extracted from the debris almost exactly 48 hours after the college crumbled in the 5:16 p.m. dozens of students. was conscious.Only her legs and fingers are swollen because she was the God! It is a Elsewhere in the the site of the former Am- bacang Hotel where as many as 200 were feared workers detected signs of life under a hill of tangled slabs and broken bricks of the five-story Gagah spokesman of the rescue team. heard some voices of people under the rubble, but as you can see the damage is making it very difficult to extricate Prakosa a backhoe cleared the debris noisily. As the scale of the destruction became clearer, Vice President Jusuf Kalla told reporters in the capital, the recovery operation would cost at least $400 million because the of this disaster has Military and commercial planes shuttled in tons of emergency rural areas remained cut off from help due to landslides that reportedly crushed several villages and killed nearly 300 people.

Swiss teams sent in dogs to help locate anyone who may still be by nightfall had not found anyone alive. A former Kansas radio executive who admitted that he embezzled to support an addiction to scratch-off lottery tickets won a $96,000 lottery prize. Prosecutors say the prize money will go toward paying restitution to Paul W.Lyle’s former Media Investments. Lyle pleaded guilty Thurs- day to felony theft for embezzling an estimated $88,000 from American Media. It was during his preliminary hearing Sept.21 that Lyle was notified he had won a prize in a second- chance lottery drawing.The prize includes a and tickets to a NASCAR race at the Kansas Speedway.

Self-proclaimed anarchist Jeff Luers was released Friday after years in prison for setting trucks ablaze in an environmental protest but he was back in custody within hours. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jennifer Black said a mistake was made in calculating the amount to time off Luers could get for good behavior. Luers was convicted in June 2001 and sentenced to 23 years in prison after he admitted setting a fire at a Eugene car dealership that destroyed a pickup truck and damaged two other trucks.He did not admit to putting an incendiary device on an oil delivery truck in was convicted in that The case drew widespread attention and groups around the country raised money to help him, while the city of Human Rights Commission wrote a letter urging his sentence be reduced. sentence was cut to 10 him eligible for release this year with time off for good behavior. That release came Friday morning but he was picked up again when he checked in with his parole officer in said.

Survivors of Indonesian quake found Man who embezzled wins lottery Centuries of Samoan culture lost in tsunami Inmate mistakenly released early LOTTERIES Drawings held Friday, October 2 Indiana MIDDAY DAILY 3: 854 MIDDAY DAILY 4: 5516 EVENING DAILY 3: 415 EVENING DAILY 4: 4565 MIDDAY LUCKY 5: 17 19 23 24 28 EVENING LUCKY 5: 20 26 28 29 30 MIX AND MATCH: 07 09 30 32 46 QUICK DRAW: 01 06 07 08 11 14 15 18 22 26 28 36 39 43 45 62 63 70 76 77 Hoosier Lotto Jackpot: $6.5 million Powerball Jackpot: $193 million Michigan MIDDAY DAILY 3: 440 MIDDAY DAILY 4: 3667 EVENING DAILY 3: 146 EVENING DAILY 4: 5418 FANTASY 5: 03 21 30 36 38 KENO: 01 07 08 13 15 16 18 20 27 33 39 43 45 52 53 55 56 57 61 71 74 78 MEGA MILLIONS: 15 24 51 53 55 11 Mega Millions Jackpot: $105 million Classic Lotto 47 Jackpot: $1 million.

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