Sunday News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 8

National News Sunday July 30 1989 5 i I I COMPLETE SHIPPING AND PACKING SERVICE! 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new in factory sealed cartons 4 MSaerKeat011 Batman plays Michael Douglas for class reunion MOON Pa (UPI)-Batman was the star of his high school reunion last Saturday Michael Keaton went back to suburban Pittsburgh for the 20th reunion of the class of at Montour High School at a hotel in Moon Pa Keaton danced posed for pictures and signed a few autographs we were all happy to see him Just as we were happy to see all the other a member of the reunion committee said of the July 22 affair was Michael Douglas real name) that evening He came in through the back entrance and mingled with the told me Sunday morning what a pleasant time he had" said Leona Douglas tl) I in I I f-M-T'OM Keaton's mother Douglas told his mother the women looked and the guys look like a group of people all taking care of themselves He said it was nice to be with them even though the time was Ueberroth considers changing stripes LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth is a lifelong Republican but he might be thinking of turning Democrat so he can run for governor of California in 1990 Ueberroth met privately for two hours last week with Willie Brown the speaker of the California Assembly and Brown was trying to gauge willingness to leave the Republican Party Rep Pete Wilson already has a big jump on the Republican gubernatorial nomination and some state Democratic leaders think the two leading Democrats in the race Attorney General John Van de Kamp and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein can beat Wilson But if Ueberroth does want to run as a Democrat have to go to court and over-' turn the state law that says -candidates must members of their party more than a year before the March 9 1990 filing deadline Root recovering at Ohio home PLYMOUTH Ohio Thomas Root the Wash-Ington DC communications lawyer who mystified the country with his bizarre July 13 flight over the Atlantic is resting up at his home in Plymouth Ohio father Thomas Root says he believes his story about not knowing how he passed out and ended up with a gunshot wound after his plane went down UBRTYVILU SEWING CENTER 326 Peterson Rd Libertyville II (312) 367-0820 HRS: Mon-Thurs 9-9 Tues Wed Fri Sat 9-5 Sun 12-5 Directionsi 1-94 to Exit 21 (Milwaukee Ave) to Peterson Rd West on Peterson to Brookside Shopping Center Wildfires forced 1000 people from their homes the Sierra Nevada foothills of California Saturday and in Idaho the National Guard was alerted to prepare to join the battle against dozens of timber blazes In all more than 34300 acres of brush grass and timber were scorched by a flurry of wildfires being battled by 7200 firefighters in three Western states In California about 1000 people including 150 nursing home patients were kept from their homes Saturday by a wildfire that consumed 3000 acres of grass and brush above Fresno on the edge of the Sierra National Forest Five structures were de- strayed Friday Efforts of 1500 firefighters to contain the blaze were hampered by temperatures expected to top 100 degrees and by rising wind 'that threatened to spread the flames said Lt Bob McDonald of the Fresno County Department The fire was started Friday by man or machinery he said night" we have down-canyon winds and in daylight up-canyon winds so a fire can start turning up on said Larry Blow' a California Department of Forestry spokesman A line of bare earth was cut around 40 percent of the fire by midday Saturday and more than a dozen aircraft dumped water and fire-retardant chemicals on the blaze People were evacuated from the New Auberry Meadow Lakes Alder Springs Bald Mountain and Jose Basin said California Department of Forestry spokesman Dave Akers nn inf Kenosha Medical Associates Ltd is pleased to announce Scott Feldy DO Internal Medicine Governors open conference Transportation economic issues are focal points Will join us in the practice of Internal Medicine' on August 1st 1989 at Kenosha Medical Center 6308 Eighth Ave Suite 401 Appointments for patients needing a primary care physician are now being arranged Please call 656-8243 after 9 AM Monday through Friday ways aviation mass transit and waterways At an opening news conference Baliles and Illinois Republican Gov James Thompson charged that the Bush administration and the Reagan administration before it have withheld billions of dollars from the states in highway and airport trust funds They said the amounts sent to the state were restricted to count the reserves in the federal budget and make the federal debt appear smaller view is that money represents tax dollars already paid by the people of this country and they ought to be spent for the purpose for which they were collected and not used to play games with the size of the budget deficit in Washington" -Baliles said rive Monday to address the governors The association sought to steer clear of partisanship during its meeting which concludes Tuesday and planned to focus on efforts to improve US performance in the international economy The bipartisan association released a report saying improvements in transportation are essential for the nation to become more competitive with foreign industry It warned that transportation facilities deteriorating at a faster rate than they are being repaired or The report called for more regional and federal planning increased use of tolls developer fees and other user fees and release of uncommitted balances in federal trust funds for high aboard LUXURY YACHT EXCURSIONS Tastefully DCNE! CHICAGO (AP) The governors opened their annual conference Saturday with a call for more investment in transportation and a complaint that the federal government is hoarding money that should be spent on highways and airports when it comes to transportation America is often stuck in said Democratic Gov Gerald Baliles chairman of the National Governors' Association President Bush planned to ar- Exxon tanker to reach port today SAN DIEGO (UPI) After weeks of idling in waters off the coast the battered and reviled Exxon Valdez began Saturday its slow journey into port where it will undergo extensive hull surgery and possibly a name change The tanker was inspected late Friday off San Clemente Island by California officials who gave the go-ahead for the tow operation to begin after no oily discharges were spotted Moving at 2 mph under the escort of 15 official boats the Valdez was expected to reach Point Loma at midnight said Curt Taucher of the state Department of Fish and Game Early today it will undergo further inspection and if no discharge is observed the tanker will travel the last half-mile into San Diego Harbor arriving about 9 am EDT to an agreement between Exxon and the state the vessel may enter state waters if there is no waste or oil Taucher said a discharge is observed photographs and samples will be taken Any dispute regarding the nature of the discharge will be settled if needed in San Diego Superior Superior Court Judge Herbert Hoffman said he would be avail- able throughout the weekend to settle any dispute should one arise Taucher said Environmentalists also were closely watching the progress Available for Private Charters Special Sunday Morning Rates CRUISE SCHEDULE RATES colorful new floors Meet your 'style and good taste Designer colon and patterns coordinated to your cabinets furnishings walls and fabrics been looking lor exactly the right floor This magnificent extension of the palette of floor patterns and colors was made to complement both your decor and your good taste See them today! 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