Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

Local artists? review exhibl A15 -Wenhef tide chart B6 4 CapyrigMO ISM Corpus CtvWf MHnw More than 201280 daily readers Fifty Dents December 16 1999 New Year may find Ml of fineup Contract quarrel could mean no ABC for subscribers owner Mike McKinnon Sr said able is refusing him even a second channel position on its lineup (Kill is carried on channel 5) has three channels We already have the broadcast rights to a second channel (low-power channel 47) and spent a quarter of a million bucks on the equipment to program Please saa CABIEA10 By Elaine Liner CiQerHioes Y2K could mean no on Corpus Christi's largest Cable system The ABC affiliate is the only local television station that has not signed a new retransmission agreement with Cable Services Without the agreement the cable company would be forced to drop Kill from its lineup have a signed agreement in hand then by law I have to drop Cable serves 82000 subscribers in Corpus Christi Alice Beeville and several other South Texas communities Around 60 percent of the television households in Corpus Christi subscribe to cable Local stations renegotiate their contracts with the cable company every three years It was six years ago that the owners of Kill KRIS (NBC) and KZTV (CBS) refused to allow TCI Cablevision (now to rebroadcast their programming without payment The as of midnight Dec 31 "The chances are very real right now that Kill will drop off the said Charles Hembree regional vice president for Cable Services-Corpus Christi are ongoing and like to resolve things diplomatically But at 11:59 pm Dec 31 if I three stations stayed off cable for six weeks until a new agreement was worked out The station group comprised of KRIS KDF (Fox) and KAJA (Telemundo) all owned by Evening Post Publishing currently occupies three spots (channels 7 13 and 23) on able Kill Btae Safety seats will be required on planes r- How seats will attach who should provide them still unresolved issues High winds fanned 300-acre grassfire in aircraft as are Garvey said at a National Transportation Safety Board meeting on child restraints But Garvey said she be sure how long it would take to develop the rule because the FAA still had too many details to resolve such as how the safety seats would attach to airplane seats whether airlines or parents would be responsible for providing the safety devices and how well the US rule would match foreign standards announcement was praised by safety officials who have complained for years about the refusal to require the safety seats making a difference because not just the administrator a said NTSB Chairman Jim HalL Garvey CKU KJH1M By Box Adair SL Petersburg Times ARLINGTON Va The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that the government will soon require young children to be buckled in safety seats during airline flights The announcement by FAA Administrator Jane Garvey marked a dramatic change for the agency which for years has allowed parents to hold children in their laps Garvey said she hoped to have a new rule in place within a year that will require the same safety seats on airplanes that are used in cars are committed to two things mandating the use of child restraint systems in aircraft and assuring that children are accorded the same level of safety Trustees: TEA audit will help CCISD move on I But some say policy change enough to heal the rift By Guy Lawrence CiUerUmes By Dan Parker Caller-limes A fire charred about 300 acres of Mustang Isis id grassland early Wednesday morning scaring residents and making one homeowner question whether Corpus Christi will provide adequate services such as fire protection if the area is annexed Port Aransas firefighters arrived on the scene before Corpus Christi firefighters strengthening some island residents' convictions that the city of Port Aransas should annex a 45-mile stretch of land east of State Highway 361 from Mustang Island State Park to the Port Aransas city limits Eliesha Ban1 a 32-year-old homemaker who lives near Admiral's Row said the fire demonstrated that Port Aransas not Corpus Christi should annex the area where she lives She pointed out that the Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department arrived before Corpus Christi firefighters really concerned about this because Corpus Christi wants to annex us and they say they're going to service us but a lot of people could have lost their homes last Barr said "If it hadn't been for the Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department it would have been But Port Aransas Volunteer Fire Department Chief Tom Smith said his department arrived first not because Corpus Christi firefighters were slower but because the area lies in the jurisdiction of Plaase saa FMEM DEATH SEHTEMCE: Death row inmate Jermarr arios Arnold will die for the 1983 murder of a Corpus Christi woman the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Page B1 JOB REVIEW: City Manager David Garcia is for the most part living up to the City expectations hge B1 WHnnQtKnoK Gregory Deleon age 7 Page B6 John KonnodyiCtfbMlmoi A flraflghtar takas a drink Junkyard Are off State Highway 44 No Injuries MMnsaday as ha takas a break bum battling a ware reported in the Man Good Morning Children choose toys clothes on shopping trip Changes to the school i travel and spending policy consid-j ered at a meeting today could begin to resolve the controversy 1 that split the seven-member CCISD board some trustees said Board members Pinky Brauer and Bill Hamrick said adopting the changes recommended by the Texas Education Agency about travel and spending on meals Would let the Corpus Christi Independent School District spend more time on other issues lots of things are going to have to Brauer said whole system of report-j ing has to be i The trustees will meet at 5 pm I today to respond to a TEA audit that showed numerous failures to control spending for travel by Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra and some administrators and school board members The audit was released Friday and the i board reviewed the eight-page document during a meeting Monday The district has until Sunday to COMftll Mother struggles just to feed kids Christmas gifts out of the question By Cynthia Hodnett CiUer-Dmes SINTON When 7-year-old Enrique and his 6-year-old sister Juanita wake up on Christmas morning they will have brand-new winter clothes shoes and underwear to open those have Teletubbies on them and these have Juanita said while pointing to two pair of tennis shoes that her brother held in his hands She decided on the Teletubby tennies am going to need some socks too" she said Enrique and Juanita were among about 50 children from the Mathis Independent School District HOP PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE It could be the only thing the five children see under their tree said their mother Gloria who earns $20 a day as a housekeeper at a local motel Gloria said she separated from her husband last year because he won't work and now he doesn't APPEMA14 By Gnr Laurence CsDer-TIms ARANSAS PASS The only item underneath the small tree is a greeting card with a picture of a baby dressed like a Christmas tree that one of the children received last year from a teacher How you can make a donatknA14 lr Cwawi CSrMI OnNM 4.