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i HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME DAY SECTION DO Bronze day Long jumper Marion Jones right and cyclist Lance Armstrong settle for bronze medals OLYMPICS SECTIONS 0 Arlington Martin Lamar Bowie on 29 Cedar Hill 30 Duncanville 47 6 Mansfield 24 Grand Prairie 14 61 De Soto 21 Grand Prairie 24 21 Sam Houston 3 Irving 21 LJLI wwwstar-telegrancom SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30 2000 x----- An edilion of the Fort Worth Star-Tologram 25 CENTS A 'It's just wild' Eddie says of show victory Arlington asks residents to reduce their water use WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU If 'Ctb )' 1 ''-''1 0 '7 14 i l'' '1- 1e 41 I rk '9 1 VI 0 i 1 tt a i 1 A 14 i A--P '46t i 1 9 his national television debut Those tears of pride and joy rained down her cheeks again Friday night as McGee a University of Texas at Arlington junior claimed the $500000 prize on the reality-based television program (More on IDDIE on Page I 8A) The Tarrant Regional Water District is asking Arlington residents and businesses to voluntarily conserve water 18A BY TOBIAS XAVIER LOPEZ Star-Telegram Stall Writer Eddie McGee's wheelchair basketball teammates fell from their chairs into a massive dogpile atop his No 33 Movin' Mays jersey immediately after it was announced Friday night that McGee was the grand prize winner of the Big Brother television program When the show began July 5 Elsa Corral sat in a pub crying as her friend Eddie McGee made By TANYA EISERER AND KIMBERLY DURNAN Star-Telegram Stall Writers ARLINGTON The lingering drought in North Central texas has prompted officials to request voluntary water conservation in Arlington effective immediately The request for conservation is voluntary and has no enforcement or penalties said Charles Anderson Arlington Water Utilities director "We are not going to force anyone to do it but we would like people to help us" he said The Tarrant Regional Water District requests that residents and businesses limit outdoor watering to once every five days and asks that no one water between the hours of 10 am and 7 pm The water district also requests limiting watering of golf course fairways to (More on WATER on Page 1 8A) Eddie McGee and supporters celebrate his victory Friday night outside the Big Brother studio in Los Angeles The Assm late(' rtesNKIN( IRK DJANSIIAN Highlights VIOLENCE ENGULFS HOLY SITES RANGERS FIRING Rangers manager Johnny Oates fires pitching coach Dick Bosnian saying the team has a number of problems related to pitching SPORTS 10 dS rwash killer gets a 1 eath sentence HOMETOWN STAR Some area students get a hands-on lesson about the business world during a youth retreat at Tarrant County College South Campus COMING SUNDAY wwwstar-telegramcom hometowniarlington Harris' attorneys plan to appeal jury decision -r Opr )i 4 4 4" II 'fsA 11' 0 P'''''A600 1 14 4t 1 4' i 1- I 1 it i f- 01 i 0e0 A10 1 o''' 0- 4411'S 4111t 11Ii-r 4 1 N44 1 rtIt etc 1 4 -N kr 9 -1 '4V'' il if' 0104 '1 '1 44 Of 6t y4 svir 0 lilt Awo -0 i 11' dIllir i- '4' Ifr r' 1: 1 iv 4 4 --1 'iTt il '''1 1 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prosecutor called a "mass murderer" to death by lethal injection Friday in the March killings at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving Robert Wayne Harris 28 stood stoically as state District Judge Karen Greene announced the sentence after the jury of seven men and five women deliberated about two hours Harris could have received life in prison After Greene read the jury's decision Harris who never looked back into the courtroom throughout his capital murder trial grabbed a white legal pad and was escorted by bailiffs back to jail A collective gasp rippled through the gallery as the jury handed down the sentence Two of Rhoda Wheeler's children Charity McFadden and Jeremy Spears raised clenched fists in triumph as the sentence was read Wheeler 45 was one of the five people killed March 20 at the carwash (More on SENTENCE on Page I7A) FIRESTONE INQUIRY Regulators announce that hey are investigating another Model of BridgestoneFire stone tires one commonly found on Ford and General Motors light trucks larger sport-utility vehicles and vans BUSINESS 1C The Associated PITARAKIS TODAY'S WEATHER AM POLLUTION WATCH High: 88 Low: 63 ts 1 4 4 44? A A 4 rour Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured as stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli police invaded Jemsalem's holiest shrines Friday on the eve of the Jewish new year At top women and children flee violence at the Western Wall Plaza in Jemsalem's Old City At right Palestinians hurl rocks in Rama Hall The State Department says a visit by Israeli opposition leader Arid Sharon to a holy site provoked the violence )s INTERNATIONAL BA Bid to oust pilots' union chiefs fails Fair and warmer Winds south at 10 to 15 mph FULL REPORT 20A RetitersOSAMA Sii WADI TODAY'S TOP STORIES 2A CLASSIFIEDS 9 1 COMICS 6-7F CROSSWORDS 6F 21 EDITORIALS 10B ENCORE 19A HOROSCOPE 2F MARKET LISTINGS 6-11C MOVIES 10-11F OBITUARIES 7-99 TELEVISION 12F Bush Gore clash on oil drilling in refuges I CAMPAIGN 2030 Presidential debate displaces baseball at Channel 5 21A BY DAN REED Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH The two top officers of the pilots' union at American Airlines survived an attempt to remove them Friday when board members rejected holding a recall election Also Friday the board of the Allied Pilots Association the independent union that represents American's 10500 pilots agreed to form a committee to look into joining the much larger Air Line Pilots Association Seven of the board's 17 members voted for a recall election of union President Rich LaVoy with nine voting against The board split evenly eight to eight over Vice President Brian Mayhew One board member (More on PILOTS on Page 18A) News Tip Fax Line: (817) 261-1193 95th year Issue 158 158 pages Copyright 0 Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2000 To subscribe dial (817) DELIVER for responsible oil and gas exploration exploration that will be environmcntally sound" Bush said Contending that drilling would leave "only footprints" he said that Gore was guilty of making a "false choice" in choosing protection of the 19 million-acre wilderness refuge over developing a new source of domestic energy Bush said he would open 15 million acres or (More on Olt on Page 21 A) BY DAVID GOLDSTEIN AM) KATHLEEN GRAY Knight idder News Service SAGINAW Midi George Bush and Al Gore used oil drilling in the Alaska wilderness as a symbol of their opposing viewpoints On energy policy Friday with Bush supporting limited drilling and Gore calling it an invasion of "precious natural treasures" Bush the governor of oil-rich Texas and a former oil company executive told a Michigan audience that he supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to help free the country from its dependence on foreign oil "We should open a small fraction I II II i I 00005 2 llIll 7 38I27 )'''' 1toon--rFirr MVORA 911111Wiralft111 1 i4' t' f11 1 t- 4 es.