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TUne Mm MeMsfceir Tuesday September 21, 1999 Vol. 102, No. 277 500 Iola, KS 66749 Two Sections Taiwan reeling after killer quake Fuzhou RegisterBob Johnson localize efforts to help children. ODonovan is an SRS deputy in Topeka and Sperry is a district director. Sen.

Tim Emert, from left, Andrew ODonovan and O.D. Sperry spoke here Monday on behalf of Connect Kansas, a southeast Kansas pilot project of Social and Rehabilitation Services to died. The area has seen a burst of development in recent years, often with shoddy construction. Also today, Chinese President Jiang Zemin extended condolences and offered aid to the quake victims, even though the disaster occurred at a time of tense relations between China and Taiwan. China considers Taiwan a breakaway province.

The quake hurt the hearts of people on the mainland as the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are as closely linked as flesh and blood, Chinas state-run Xinhua News agency said in a paraphrase of Jiangs remarks. Chinas Red Cross said it would provide $100,000 in disaster aid and $60,000 in relief supplies. Most of the structures that collapsed in Taiwan were new high-rises. The foundations of some of the apartment blocks in the cities crumpled into piles of concrete boulders, sending the structures crashing into neighboring buildings. Soldiers raced out of buildings with bloodied victims moaning in pain on stretchers.

Nantou County Executive Peng Pai-hsien appealed for donations of bulldozers, cars, quilts and food, saying 100,000 people were left homeless in the county. He said morgues were full of bodies, and the county needed body bags and freezers in the summer heat. One distraught woman told local television her parents were trapped in a Taichung apartment building. I dont know what happened to my dad and mom, the sobbing sur- Death toll at 1,700 thus far TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) High-rise apartment buildings were knocked off foundations and roads buckled into waves of asphalt when a powerful earthquake struck Taiwan, killing more than 1,700 people and destroying hundreds of homes. With a preliminary magnitude of 7.6, the quake was the strongest to hit Taiwan in a decade and was about the same strength as the devastating tremor that killed more than 15,000 people in Turkey last month.

The quakes epicenter was centered 90 miles south of Taipei, the U.S. Geological Surveys National Earthquake Information Center said. It struck about 1:45 a.m. today (12:45 p.m. CDT Monday), while most of Taiwans 22 million people were sleeping.

Dazed Taiwanese many wearing only underwear or pajamas stumbled into dark, chaotic streets, shaken awake by the quake. By early Wednesday, officials said 1,712 people were dead, more than 4,000 were hurt and almost 3,000 were believed trapped in the rubble. Another 216 were missing, according to the Interior Ministrys disaster management center. Most of the deaths occurred near the epicenter outside the central city of Taichung, where more than 700 people died in Taichung County, and nearby Nantou county, where some 500 SEK pilot program focuses on children grams by creating community conversations about healthy development of kids and using the ideas that local groups come up with to deal with problems as they exist in each particular community. ODonovan said Connect Kansas would not create a new level of bureaucray but would develop a framework within which services could be delivered to children more efficiently and effectively.

Not all at the meeting (Continued page 7, column 1) and strategies. The project is patterned after one in Vermont that produced decreases in child abuse, teen pregnancy and crime. A significant advantage of child-care groups banding together might be in funding, he said, because the influence of several organizations in lobbying for grants, both governmental and those from private sources, would be greater. He said the primary goal was not to raise more money but to develop more effective pro Actor friend to present tribute to Eleanor Keaton Clinton stresses U.N. role of guarding people China Taipei; Hsinchu Formosa ffflwailK Xiamen strait Kaohsiung South China Sea 'f 100 Miles tor vivor said.

We live in different rooms. I havent seen them. In the small city of Puli in Nantou, roads buckled under the stress of the quake, forming large asphalt waves. An apartment building that lost its foundation was left leaning 45 degrees. In Taipei, the quake wrecked the 78-room Sungshan Hotel, collapsing the bottom stories and setting the badly damaged structure leaning on a neighboring commercial building.

About 100 people were rescued and 80 were trapped inside the concrete structure, which also housed a bank and several apartments, officials said. One 81-year-old survivor said he crawled like a mouse through the rubble of his ninth-floor apartment to his balcony, where rescuers pulled him to safety. You cant imagine how terrible it was, said survivor Chen Chih-yun, who only suffered bruises. Register file photo tional. It was revoked by a 4-3 vote on Monday.

Kim Ivy, youth group leader at an Augusta church, silently raised a sign above her head, telling school board members to get a spine. Im tired of legislative bodies telling me or anybody else that they cant pray to God anywhere, she said. When the law of men goes against the law of God its not the law anymore. The board asked its lawyer to (Continued page 7, column 3) By BOB JOHNSON Register City Editor Connect Kansas is a new approach to delivering welfare services to children, Andrew ODonovan said here Monday. ODonovan is a deputy in the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.

ODonovan said the pilot project is being tried out in southeast Kansas before being implemented statewide. It encourages the state and local agencies involved with childrens programs to band together to share information Inside Local news Society, miscellaneous, calendar and other news. Pages 3 and 5. Opinion The evolution decision has had some productive results. Page 4.

Humboldt Page Better Homes FCE is 75 years old. Page 6. Dear Abby An advocate for the mentally ill share some ideas for courtesy. Page 11 State The ethics commission is have a budget crisis. Page 2.

National Victims of an attack at a Fort Worth church are mourned. Page 12, World Peacekeepers are cheered by East Timorese. Page 5. Sports The Iola High cross country teams compete in Paola. Page 8.

Weather: mild Temperature High yesterday 59 Low last night 40 High a year ago 79 Low a year ago 64 Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a.m. 10 This month to date 2.88 Total year to date 29.60 Excess since Jan. 1 .11 Sunrise 7:26 a.m. Sunset 5:45 p.m. (Source: City of Iola) Today, mostly sunny and cool.

High 65 to 70. Light north wind. Tonight, low in the mid 40s. Wednesday, high in the mid 70s. Thursday, high in the lower 80s.

prosperity so that no part of humanity is left behind in the global economy. He said 1.3 billion people live on less than $1 a day. More than half the population of many countries have no access to safe water. A person in south Asia is 700 times less likely to use the Internet as someone in the United States. And 40 million people a year still die of hunger, almost as many as the total number killed in World War II.

Clinton said he would convene a White House conference of public health experts, pharmaceutical companies and foundation representatives to encourage production of vaccines for developing countries. Each year diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia leave millions of children without parents, millions of parents without children, the president said. Yet for all these diseases, vaccine research is advancing too slowly, in part because the potential customers in need are too poor. Clinton said that only 2 percent of global biomedical research is devoted to the (Continued page 7, column 4) fTtl si qTV BnromfrCE By BRUCE SYMES Register Wire Editor The emotion in his voice is unmistakable as James Karen talks about his friends last days. She went out just like Buster went out, Karen said of Eleanor Keaton, who died of cancer a little less than a year ago at age 80.

It was hard to get her to lie down. She watched her sports on TV. She drove herself around in her car with that damn oxygen tank strapped to her. She left very courageous-ly The motion picture, television and stage actors booming voice turns quiet, somewhat broken. Eleanor was the second Keaton to leave his life.

Buster Keaton, the silent film legend born in 1895 at Piqua, died 32 years before his widow. Karen, speaking from his Los Angeles home last week, recalled his decades-long friendship with the Keatons. Hell do so Saturday for all comers to the seventh annual Buster Keaton Celebration at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Karen and his wife, Alba (Continued page 7, column 1) Week from refrigerators and air-conditioners. Each household will be limited to one dump truck load.

Brush, limbs and lawn and garden waste will be picked up during Clean-Up Week. Such things are not picked up during regular trash collections the rest of the year. Residents may carry leaves, limbs and grass to the compost site throughout the year. The compost site is west on Lincoln Avenue and then north on Horville Road. The site is clearly marked.

Aluminum, other metal scrap and automobile batteries may be taken to Rays Metal Depot at LaHarpe. UNITED NATIONS (AP) President Clinton said today the United Nations must play a very large role in preventing mass slaughter and dislocation of innocent people in conflicts such as Kosovo, East Timor and elsewhere around the world. When we are faced with deliberate organized campaigns to murder whole people or expel them from the land, the care of the victims is important but not enough, the president said. We should work to end the violence, he said. He said the United Nations should use collective military force at times, diplomacy and sanctions on other occasions.

But, he warned, We cannot do everything everywhere. His voice was hoarse, breaking at times, apparently because of allergies. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger were in the audience for his address. What is the role of the U.N. in preventing mass slaughter and dislocation? the president asked.

Very large. Clinton urged world leaders to wage an unrelenting battle against poverty and for shared Call to sign Oct. 4 to 9 will be fall Clean-Up Week in Iola. During the week Sanitation Department employees will pick up trash as they normally do and Street and Alley Department employees will pick up large accumulations upon a formal request that a pick-up be made. Requesting a pick-up is the key.

To participate residents must call the city administrators office, 365-4900, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m Monday through Oct. 1 all of next week. No calls for trash pickup will be accepted this week or during Eleanor Keaton visited Piqua, the birthplace of her late husband, in 1994. up for Clean-Up District rethinks school prayer policy the actual Clean-Up Week, just the five days of next week.

Trash that people want hauled must be put in a container or bag and placed next to their regular trash container. Containers may not weigh more than 100 pounds. Containers that people want to keep must be tagged. Some restrictions apply. No hazardous materials such as lead paints, flamma-bles, pesticides, ammunition or explosives.

No tires, vehicles, batteries, waste oil or anti-freeze. No large construction-related debris. Also, freon must be removed AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) The Augusta school board has revoked a new policy that allowed students to lead classmates in silent prayer over the school intercom. The board reversed itself at a special meeting as about 100 students, parents and townspeople packed the high school library, some carrying neon-colored signs reading So sue me and We will pray in school.

The policy, taken advantage of twice last week by students, was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union as unconstitu.