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Mi Ok. LHloro En liey AAAADzitls Pagel, Sec. 3 Friday VOL 62, NO. 360 adt Dexai Only Complete Worning jjeuipaper 25 Cents Tyler, Texas, November 6, 1992 (AP) The Associated Press 6 Sections Productivity, Retail Chain Sales Rising Natural Disasters AedStf AttacEss Paries Policy WASHINGTON (AP) National parks are being degraded because the Park Service spends mostof its mon-, ey accommodating visitors and very little protecting what they came to see, a government audit said Thurs- day. Fossil becb in Utah, the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas and the troubled bull trout population in Oregon have fallen victim to the agency's mismanagement of the natural resources, the Interior Department's office of inspector general said in an audit.

"Serious and irreversible degradation has occurred in some of our national parks and the natural value and the attraction of these parks have been diminished," assistant inspector general Harold Bloom said. Padre Island National Seashore has debris washed ashore on 65 miles of beach, caused by the dumping of PARKS Page 6, Sec. 1 down." New claims for unemployment benefits in the week ended Oct. 24 totaled 360,000, down from 376,000 the week before, the Labor Department said. It was the lowest level since the week ended Aug, 4, 1990, soon after the recession began.

Market Bounces Back -Page 7, Section 3 WASHINGTON (AP) The Interior Department" Office of Inspector General identified the following 13 National Park Service sites as those suffering the most significant degradation of natural resources. The site name is followed by the. threat to the natural resource as identified by the inspector general's audit: Arches National Park, Utah Cattle trespass and overgrazing, external development and exotic species. Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida Water quality ana flow, external development and exotic, species. Biscayne National Park, Florida Toxic contamination, external development and marine debris.

Canyonlands National Park, Utah Cattle trespass and overgrazing, soil erosion and exotic spe- ENDANGERED Page 6, Sec 1 WASHINGTON (AP) The number of first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell in late October to the lowest level in more'than two years and Americans' productivity improved in the third quarter, the government said Thursday in two upbeat economic reports. Separately, many major retail chains reported sales increases last month, raising hopes of store owners for the first good Christmas season since 1988. Economists were encouraged by the positive news but cautioned that economic growth, while showing signs of -improvement, will not take off anytime soon. The economy is beginning to grow more rapidly, but we still won't have the kind of recovery that has followed past recessions," said economist Bruce Steinberg of Merrill Lynch, in New York. "Under those conditions, it's going to take a while to get the unemployment rate A less volatile four-week moving average of claims, also was at a two-year low.

Economists said declining benefit claims are a definite sign of an improving labor market. However, they cautioned that the reduction might not translate immediately into a reduction in the unemployment rate, which ECONOMY Page 6, Sec. 1 Clinton Energy Policy Favors Natural Ea HJse Aerial Acrcbzt Uzs Czrcni Approach To Ecsncry Cigarette Lawsuit Pismissed FORT WORTH (AP) President-elect Clinton's backing for natural gas could pay dividends for Texas, the nations' leading producer of the environmentally attractive fuel. Dallas oilman Boone Pickens, a Republican and strong supporter of President Bush, said he thinks Clinton's overall energypolicy "looks good." Pickens is chief executive officer of MESA a large natural gas producer. He also is chairman of the Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition, a group that touts compressed natural gas as an alternative motor fuel.

"I think Clinton sees very clearly that you can replace foreign gasoline with domestic natural gas," Pickens said. Bush Administration Raises Tariffs -Page 5, Section 1 Clinton Begins Transition Process Page 10, Section 1 Independent oilman George Mitchell of Houston also is enthusiastic about Clinton energy policy. "I think Bill Clinton will really push for gas," said Mitchell, chairman of Mitchell Energy Development a large gas producer in North Texas. Even though Clinton's strong support for gas has been embraced by some in the Texas energy industry, major oil companies, the nuclear power industry and domestic auto manufacturers find some of Clinton's key energy positions unsavory. The major oil companies don't like Clinton's opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska, which the industry views as a leading prospect for an oil discovery on the scale of Alaska's huge Prudhoe Bay Field.

NATURAL GAS Page 6, Sec. 1 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) A landmark lawsuit against the cigarette industry was dismissed Thursday at the request of the son of a woman who claimed smoking caused her fatal lung cancer. Attorneys offered no explanation for the decision to drop the lawsuit. The woman's son be reached.

The U.S. Supreme Court in June sent the case back to federal court for retrial, saying a 1965 federal law requiring warning labels on cigarette packages didn't shield the companies from all lawsuits based on state personal injury laws. The 7-2 ruling also said smokers need to do more than prove that cigarette advertising and promotions tend to minimize the health hazards. U.S. District Judge Dickinson R.

Debevoise dismissed the case with the consent of the family of Rose Ci-pollone, said Alan Darnell, an attorney for the family. Darnell wouldn't elaborate, and Marc Z. Edell, another attorney for the family, wouldn't comment. One of Edell's colleagues in the case, Cynthia A. Walters, said the "Cipollones always felt that they got what they wanted out of the case.

The Cipollone's son, Thomas, "was always or the view that don't have to go back to court to get what I CIGARETTES Page 6, Sec. 1 4 DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT Wingwalker Teresa Stokes gets a topsy-turvy view of Miami Beach Thursday as she rides upside down on the top wing of a Grumman Ag Cat, piloted by Gene Soucy. The Texas couple is featured in the Miami Air Show, along with the Blue Angels, at OpaLocka Airport Saturday and Sunday. (AP Laserphoto) "In addition to adding new and expanded departments, shoppers will find that we have made shopping a lot more convenient, with greater selection, wider aisles and more check-ou lines." -GAyeipy Beeler II, Mart Store Manager Tyler Council's OK Could Speed Underpass Job Eminent domain proceedings on eight parcels of downtown property needea for the proposed North-Broadway underpass could be authorized by the Tyler City Council during a 9 a.m. meeting Friday in City Hall.

In another North Broadway project, the council will be asked to -approve final acceptance of a contract for removing and cleaning downtown brick pavers. The project identified how many bricks can be is 1 -V il New Tyler Mart Opens This Monday mart shoppers will be greeted by numerous expanded 'departments and features designed to ease the shopping experience Monday when the national discount chain's new square-foot store opens on ESE Loop 323 in Tyler, the Tyler store manager confirmed Thursday. Sunday will be last shopping day for Tyler-area customers at the mart storeat the intersection of South Beckham Avenue and Fifth Street, store manager G.A. "Jerry" Beeler II said, but the store will be open during regular business hours on the last day. Opened in 1962, the BeckhamFifth location is one of the oldest in mart's extensive national operations, Beeler said.

Doors will open at 9 a.m. Monday at the new store, across from Southpark Shopping Center, he said. Grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremonies, scheduled for 8 a.m. Thursday at the new location, will include a number of mart corporate executives from headquarters in Troy, Beeler said. At that ceremony, company and city officials will cut a symbolic ribbon made of $50 bills, which will be donated equally to United Way of Greater Tyler--and Clarkston Elementary Funds Mended Consolidating Small State Accounts To Save millions AUSTIN (AP) The stete'comptroller announced Thursday that 278 special government bank accounts including the Barber Examiners Fund and the Brush Control Fund are being consolidated for a one-time savings of $540 million.

The plan, authorized by the 1991 Legislature as a budget-tightening measure, will help unravel a costly hodgepodge of special accounts, Comptroller John Sharp said. "Over the decades, the state's accounting system has evolved into a web of hundreds of separate funds, creating costly bookkeeping nightmares," Sharp said. Despite repeated attempts to consolidate many of these funds, those efforts failed until the idea was presented to the Legislature again last year" in the comptroller's performance audit of state government, he said. The audit suggested merging many of the special-purpose funds into the state's main bank account, the General Revenue Fund, to help make state government more efficient. The consolidation doesn't eliminate programs, and lawmakers may continue to fund them as they choose, officials said.

i Lawmakers already had voted to spend the half billion dollars in savings in the current 1992-93 state budget. FUNDS Page 6, Sec. 1 sAivhmd fnr rp-nsp which cnuld determine the way future downtown brick street repair projects are handled. For the underpass project, the city attorney and engineer nave negoti- School to purchase a computerized printing device. Each organization will receive $50O, he said.

Meanwhile, Beeler said, mart shoppers will find an enormous difference between store layouts at the new location and the one the company is vacating at Beckham and Front. "In addition to adding new and expanded departments, shoppers will find that we have made shopping a lot more convenient, with greater selection, wider aisles and more checkout lines," Beeler said. The consumer electronics department, for example, will be greatly expanded, he said, with the company designating "five or six times MART Page 6, Sec. 1 $5 MILLION MAN Chess master Bobby Fischer Thursday defeated arch-rival Boris Spassky in their $5 million rematch. See story, Page 10, Section 1.

(AP Laserphoto) atea purcnases on tnree parcels ana 'are to arrange purchases on the remaining eight, but the staff is seeking the council's eminent domain authorization to avoid delaying the project. Construction is to begin in winter 1993. The estimated $2.5 million project is to be built by the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation, and tne city is required to provide adequate rights of way. The," city is to acquire all 11 parcels, appraised at $87,977, with 1983 bond money mi Forecast Tyler May Join Challenge Of SW Bell Rate Settlement "I think what he (charity official) did was wrong. Friday's Tyler-area forecast called for partly cloudy skies and continued cool temperatures with highs in the middle 50s and light northeasterly winds.

Friday night will be partly cloudy and again "father cold with overnight lows in. Melanie Kramer, Victim Of Multiple Personalities her personalities a "party girl" named Monique. Ms. Kramer testified Wednesday that Robichaux assaulted her, spark the lower 30s and light winds. Clouds will increase Saturday and highs reach the middle 50s.

What's Inside ing a regression her therapy. SI think what he did was i wrong, wrc Ms. Kramer testified. Personalities AH Objected Psychiatrist Believes i Woman Was Attacked HOUSTON (AP) A psychiatrist testified Thursday that a woman suffering from multiple personalities did not consent to sexual activity with a Catholic charity official she says molested her. Dr.

Colin Ross, an expert in multiple personality disorders, said he did not believe Melanie Kramer or her other personalities agreed to sex with Morris Robichaux in 1988. Ms. Kramer is suing Robichaux, former president of the StWincent DePaul Society at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Houston, in a civil case for assault and battery, negligence, invasion of privacy and breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing. She is seeking more than $1 million in damages from Robichaux. Robichaux arrived at Ms.

Kramer's home on July 21, 1988, ostensibly to deliver a $500 check from the Charity to help her meet her rent payment. She had been released from an 18-month stay in a mental hospital two days earlierr Robichaux claims the two mutual- ly consented to a sexual episode and later said he was seduced by one of It capped the price of basic tele- phone service for four years and allowed Bell to keep a larger share of its earnings. Bell also agreed to refund $87.5 million to customers; reduce the cost of touch-tone service and hookup charges; cut long-distance access charges; and invest $344 million in new digital switching equipment in 196 Texas cities. If Southwestern Bell's earnings exceed 12.06 percent of its Texas rate base, halt the additional earnings up to 14.5 percent also are re-fundea to ratepayers under the plan. Lawyer Robert Hearon, representing Southwestern Bell, said, that benefits consumers.

But Walter Washington of the Office of Public Utility Counsel, representing residential and small business customers, said, "There is simply not the statutory authority granted by the Legislature to the commission to do these things." More than 100 small and midsized cities also are challenging the agreement in court. In addition, the publh counsel's office separately has asked the PUC to take another look at the settle- saying customers have been overcharged. Prom Staff, Wire Reports AUSTIN A Southwestern Bell rate case settlement is being challenged by the state's advocate for utility customers and a group of Texas cities. They want the 3rd Court of Appeals to send the case back to the Public Utility Commission to set new rates, arguing that regulators overstepped their authority in agreeing to te pact in 1991. However, lawyers for Bell and the PUC said in Wednesday arguments before the court that the settlement's benefits were greater than any rate cuts consumers might otherwise have received.

Tyler City Attorney Gary Landers said Thursday he recently received information about the cities' intervention but has not yet drafted a recommendation to the City Council. Tyler would not have to pay to join the intervening cities, he said, and he likely will recommend that the council authorize Tyler's participation, he agreement among Bell, the PUC and large long-distance companies was reached after consumer groups accused Bell of overcharging customers by as much as $700 million. Page Sec Classified 1-6 4 Comics 8 3 Crossword Puzzle 9 3 Editorial 4 1 Markets 7 3 Movies, Dining 6 Obituaries 8 1 Religion 5 Sports 3 TV Programs 6 Weather 12 3 Women's News 2-3 2 inc uuucipaaa was ajjuuveu the early 1980s by the Texas Highway Commission. Broadway will be excavated at Oakwood Street below a Southern Pacific Transportation Co.irailroad easement to allow uninterrupted street traffic. The eight parcels to be acquired have four separate owners and range in appraised value from Three parcels are owned by R.D.

Tyner of Tyler and valued at $33,803. An undivided inheritance interest listed as Ahlschlager, Berg-feld, Forsyth, of Dallas, is tne deeded owner of three parcels valued at $24,835. One parcel is owned by Frank Allen of Tyler and valued at $22,970, and another parcel is owned by Southern Pacific and valued at $2,565. BRICK STREET PROJECT Final acceptance of the brick salvaging contract is listed on the council's consent agenda, where recurring or routine items usually are presented for a collective vote. But City Engineer Charlie Thomas provided additional information as an update on the project.

He said papers were COUNCIL Page 6, Sec 1 'J Ross said Thursday he believed the incident was a major factor in Ms. Kramer's return to Spring Shadows Glen Psychiatric Hospital. He said the incident evoked "feel-. ings of shame and dirtiness" in Ms. Kramer and that she became "hyper-vigilant at church," meaning she was extremely fearful of danger.

Robichaux and Ms. Kramer attended the same church. The mother of three told jurors she was helped by Robichaux in 1986 and called him again seeking the charity's help just before her release from the hospital. Dr. David Kruger, Ms.

Kramer's psychiatrist, on Wednesday testified on videotape that his patient recalled the incident with Robichaux Tndetiil, something she could not MULTIPLE Page 8, Sec 1 Bible Thought Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Rom. 11:19.