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New Brauntete, Texas Thursday, February 16, Weather Water Watch Comal River 282 cfs (same) Canyon Lake inflow 160 cfs (down 3) Canyon Lake outflow 170 cfs (same) Canyon Lake level 908,58 (same) Edwards Aquifer. 624.74 (down .01) Forecasts SOUTH TEXAS: Cloudy with occasional rain or drizzle through Friday. Cooler temperatures. Lows tonight and highs Friday in the 40s and 50s except in the 60s extreme south. NORTH TEXAS: Rainy and cold most sections tonight and Friday.

Lows 36 northwest to 49 southeast. Highs Friday 38 northwest to 58 southeast. WEST TEXAS: Widespread rain through Friday except lesser rain chances in the Panhandle with rain possibly mixed with freezing rain in the Panhandle late tonight. Decreasing rain chances far west by afternoon Friday. Lows tonight 30 Panhandle to 40 far west and mid 40s Big Bend valleys.

Highs Friday 37 Panhandle to 58 far west and upper 60s Big Bend valleys. Texas Widespread rain was expected to continue across Texas through Friday with thunderstorms possible over North Texas and the Concho Valley and freezing rain expected in the Panhandle tonight. Forecasts called for mostly cloudy skies statewide through Friday. Lows tonight will be in the 30s in the Panhandle and in the 40s across the rest of West Texas, in the 30s and 40s across North Texaas and in the 40s and 50s across most of South Texas except in extreme southern portions where readings will be in the 60s. Highs Friday will be mostly in the 40s in West Texas, ranging from the upper 30s in the Panhandle to the upper 50s in extreme western portions and the upper 60s in the Big Bend area, in the 40s and 50s across North Texas and in the 40s and 50s across South Texas.

A cold front stretched along the coastal plains into extreme South Texas today, located from just north of Beaumont westward to Corpus Christi and to just south of Laredo. Moist air from the Gulf of Mexico was overrunning the cold front producing widespread precipitation across most of the state. Dense fog was reported in the Panhandle, the Permian coastal bend and the Lower Ric Grande Valley. Visibility was reduced to one-fourth of a mile al; Amarillo. Early morning temperatures were in the teens and 20s over the Panhandle in the 40s and 50s ovei most of the rest of the state except in extreme South Texas where readings are in the 60s and 70s.

Extremes ranged from 17 at Dai- hart to '72 at McAllen. Other early morning temperatures around the state included 22 at Amarillo, 35 at Wichita Falls, 40 al Fort Worth, 43 at Waco, 46 at Austin, 47 at San Antonio, 57 at Houston and Corpus Christi, 69 at Brownsville, 38 at San Angelo, 31 at Lubbock, 35 at Midland and 47 at El Paso. Downtown Continued from Page 1 dons," said Benson explaining that many members of the association are also making donations. The downtown coordinator will lead the revitalization effort with a $50,752 budget. The budget includes Continued from Page 1 26, 2850 W.

San Antonio were indicted on charges of possession of controlled substance methamphetamines. Robert Ortiz Andrew Ortiz, Alfred Ortiz, and Willie Scrutchin, all of 373 Comal were indicted on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Alfred Ortiz's and Willie Scrutchin's charges were enhanced because they have served time at Texas Department of Corrections. Mario Caballero, 19, Route 6, Box 444, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Stammtisch $21,132 for a director, $12,480 for a clerk; $2,020 for travel and training; $3,156 for equipment; $480 for office supplies; $1,200 for telephone and $200 for dues and subscriptions.

A revitalization program could be in operation 60 to 90 days after the funds are raised. James Atwell, Bulverde, aggravated assault on a peace officer. Jose Robles, 34, Magnolia aggravated assault with a deadly David Martinez 47, 1817 W. Mill aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Pedro Garcia, 34, 218 N.

Market Harold Zigler, San Antonio, two counts possession of controlled substance methamphetamines and cocaine. Kenneth Wright, 2075 China Berry, theft more than $750. Dana Jones, North Richland Hill, forgery by passing. Continued from Page 1 chemical-free event, call Sandy Schrocder at 438-7124 or Hattie Anthony at The Catholic churches of New Braunfels are conducting an area- wide visitation project and outreach as part of their Lenten programs. Members of all three parishes Holy Family, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, and Saints Peter and Paul are participating in the project with the goal of reaching, by phone or personal visit, all 13,000 households in the area.

Three Welcome Home dates have been scheduled at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Landa Street for persons to come and ask questions and talk with the staff of the three parishes. The dates are Feb. 22 and March 1 from 7 to 8:30 and March 1 from 9:30 to 11 a.m.... Births McKenna Memorial Hospital John and Angela Strause; 2415 Pit- trnann, St. Hedwjg; 7-pound 7-ounce girl; Feb.

8. Donna and Ed Kramer, Route 1, Box 26, Marion; 6-pound 9-ounce boy; Feb. 8. Daniel and Melissa Bellavigna; 620 Frostwood; 9-pound 13-ounce girl; Feb. 9, Roland and Patricia Rangel; Route 1, Box 401AW; 10-pound 2-ounce boy; Feb.

10. Obituaries John and Dawn Galloway; 61 Woods End; 9-pound 3-ounce boy; Feb. 11. JoeandElvaSalazar; 160 Mem- weather; 8-pound 8-ounce boy; Feb. 14.

Raymond and Maria Dominquez; 325 N. Hidalgo; 7-pound, 14-ounce boy; Feb. 14. Paul and Cathy Fox; 197 Prairie View; 7-pound 14-ounce girl; Feb. 14.

David Koepp and Angela QUvo; 3910 U.S. 81 7-pound, 5-ounce girl; Feb. 14. Walter VanAuken Graveside services will be Friday at 2 p-m. at Cranes Mitt Cemetery for 51, of Rt, $, Canyon Lake.

W. VanAuken died Feb. 15,1989, to OK, 1937, fc Veroon W. 3P4 Anderson) Van- Us mmM ME Lawmaker proposes cutting sales tax JL 'ML Amendment would force drop if income tax approved by state AUSTIN (AP) A key lawmaker says he is confident his proposed constitutional amendments that would force the state to give up some taxes if lawmakers ever approve personal or corporate income pass. The proposed amendments would lower the sales tax to two percent if an income tax is enacted, and repeal the franchise tax if a business profits tax is enacted.

Rep. Stan Schlueter, author of both amendments, told the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday that they would build a more progressive tax structure, "If you want taxes based on income, both of these constitutional amend- ments achieve that," Schlueter sail Schlueter, D-Killeen, has failed in recent years to place before voters proposed constitutional amendments to ban personal and corporate income taxes. Schlueter says now he doesn't want income taxes without a lowering or repeal of so-called regressive taxes, which are not based on the ability to pay. He said other states have passed income taxes without a corresponding decrease in sales taxes. The result, he said, is a "money grab" rather than any kind of tax relief.

The committee left the proposals pending, but Schlueter was confident of approval, think chances ate teal good, because it makes so much sense," he said. Linda earn, director of Texas Impact, a coalition of religious groups that lobby for human service funding, opposed the proposals. She said the amendments would tie legislator's hands when searching for funds. "The state needs to have as many options available as possible," Team said. In other business, a race has developed among legislators to repeal the unpopular $25 fee for a state sales tax permit, The Ways and Means panel left pending four bills that would repeal the fee, so that other lawmakers could file similar proposals.

Rep, Jeff WentwofUi, R-San Antonio, has authored one of the bills. He said most businesses resent having to pay $25 for a permit to pay taxes. Martin Cherry, of the state ptroller's office, said the fee, which generates about $13 million per year, has become the most controversial part of the $5.7 billion tax bill approved by the Legislature in 1987. He said the comptroller's office received more than 40,000 telephone calls from irate people in the first months after it was passed. "There is in fact the perception of paying for the privilege of paying es," he said.

DNA- the Morse code of life 1 There 'are about 100 trillion cells In the human body. Each cell consists ol an outside membrane, cytoplasm and the nucleus. Testing City. 2 Every nucleus contains 46 23 contributed by the mother and 23 by the famer-whteh consist of protein andDNA (deoxynbonucleic 3 Appearing in pairs, the chromosomes contain as many as 100,000 genes hidden among at least 3 billion nudeotide base pairs, the letters in the DMA code that governs the cell's 'biological processes. Continued from Page 1 DNA deoxynbonucleic acid is genetic material found in living cells which establishes everyone as separate and distinct.

By taking a drop of semen, blood, or tissue from a murder or rape victim an identity profile can be compared to the DNA makeup of a suspect's blood specimen to determine a link. "Properly used, DNA analysis will help us identify violent criminals earlier in the investigative process," said William Sessions, FBI director. "It can be used to link crimes committed by the same person, and it may prove useful in identifying missing children. Equally important, it can clear innocent persons who might otherwise be crime suspects." Reimer said he attended a seminar which stressed the DNA method "is as good as fingerprinting." "Most of the time we would use it in a homicide or rape case where you have a narrow list of suspects," he said. "If the appropriate case comes ng," Reimer said he would use the (testing.

"This is not a miracle thing where 'it's going to be able to solve every type of murder," Reimer said. "But in 5 Each 'rung' of the DNA ladder consists of nucteotide base pair, a coupling of 4 chemical always combines with thymine and cytosine always links to guanine (G). Resembling a tightly twisted rope ladder a i double DNA can be chemically washed from the I chromosome and unraveled to form a long strand. Streets 6 Specific series of nudeotide base pairs comprise a gene, which may help to a person has blue or brown eyes. However, genes always work in.

pairs. those cases where you've got one or more strong suspects and you just don't have quite enough to tie it down (the test) takes it out of the circumstantial evidence sphere and puts it in to the hard evidence sphere." If there was a struggle between the victim and murderer there may be skin scrapings from the murderer under the victim's fingernails, he said, adding the skin can be tested to compare to suspects. "Then you go out there and see if the (suspect) has any alibis and if they don't have any alibis then you can go out there by court order and take a sample to have their blood type matched against the skin samples," he said. If a killer doesn't leave hair strands at the scene, bleed on the victim or leave skin under the fingernails of the victim "you've got nothing to compare, so it would never be used in a case like this," Reimer said, "It can't be used unless there is a suspect." Before using the test, good police techniques should be used to tie down the assailant, he said. "But if there was still this question mark left then you would go to this (test) to seal off that question mark.

"If you've got a chance to pin the person down 100 percent why not take it? Why would you allow'a pist to get off just because you didn't want to spend $850 to go out and do a test like this," Reimer said. The test can also be used in civil areas such as paternity suits, he said. "Blood can only prove who is not the father. DNA can prove who is the father positively." Continued from Page 1 instead of just one." The city has two basic types of street crews construction and rehabilitation. "Mr.

Cardenas has been with us many years," Grohman said. "It's simply an expansion of his role as we've reduced our supervisory.per- sonnel in that area by one. We lost one employee," he said refering to former streets supervisor Joe Robleto who was recently released by the city. Dobrowolski started handling public works duties, in addition to engineering, when Fred Ryden resigned as Public Works Director on Aug. 17, 1987.

"It's been kind of a catch-as-you- can type situation," Grohman said, explaining several positions were vacated and not filled. "I think the changes have already make some good impact because Mr. Tamayo hais a good handle on the sanitation effort. We have received many compliments on the improvement of our service during my 10 months here. "I'm very happy to say that for the 10 months I've been here we've basically picked up everybody's garbage.

Come rain or shine we were able to produce." Grohman said Tamayo is fine tuning the sanitation department and the city will be looking for ways to contain costs, especially in the motor pool. The motor pool is responsible for maintaining the city's large vehicle and equipment fleet. "We think through proper manag- ment and proper scheduling we can contain some of those (costs) numbers," Grohman said. BUILTA Continued from Page 1 "We anticipate only being able to pick up about 60 to 70 percent of the material we put down," said Dobrowolski. "We did try to control that (dust) factor during the cleanup operation by using a water truck prior to the street sweeper passing," Dobrowolski said.

Although the process creates mud, it prevents dust from entering homes. "During the cleanup operation we had the citizens work with us very well," he said. "There were no accidents. Everybody worked with us very well during this operation and we appreciate all the cooperation we got from our citizens." Before the storm hit, the service center repaired an older sweeper the city had put out of service. Dobro- Autos.

Continued from Page 1 A "hit" is a confirmation a vehicle is stolen. The deputies then confirm the hit with the agency involved, Hoberz said, People will steal vehicles sometimes for the parts, said Comal County sheriffs office Sgt. Dennis Koepp. "I guess they have a need or demand for those parts," Koepp said. "They use them for whatever their needs are.

"Some of them we've been finding abandoned," he said. "They've been scattered out all over the place," Deputies recovered a 1988 CMC from Potters Creek Boat Storage Feb. 10, Hoherz said. The vehicle was stolen in Travis County. A 1987 BMW was discovered burned on Stoney Ridge Road Sunday.

"They found it totally burned," Koepp said. "It had been reported stolen out of San Antonio. It appeared to be stripped," The BMW was stolen from Chase Auto Leasing in San Antonio, New Braunfels police recovered a stolen motorcycle Monday at a bar in the 5100 block of Interstate 35 South, wolski said the city purchased a new sweeper two years ago to replace the machine because it did not run. The city used both sweepers for the cleanup. He said the old sweeper will be reserved for back up and the newer equipments will be used on a regular basis, "We are developing a sweeper schedule, which we haven't had in the past," said New Braunfels City Manager Paul Grohman.

"That way we can make sure everyone gets their street swept as often as possible." Dobrowolski said a schedule of street sweeping routes will be available on request in early March. He said with the schedule, the operation will be more regimented. "We've been focusing on the major thoroughfares and catching residential streets on an as-needed and complaint basis," Dobrowolski said. "Now we'll be sweeping all streets on a route schedule." "The one thing we want people to remember is that we are a very small operation and we have well over 170 miles of street to clean, so (the sweeper) it's not going to come every day or every week, but at least we can assure that everyone will get some fair share of the service," Grohman said. With the new program, all streets in New Braunfels should be cleaned at least once a year, with the major thoroughfares being cleaned more often.

The program will not include any private roads or parking lots. -DAVID BUILTA Pesticides found in wells AUSTIN (AP) -r- Six pesticides, pesticides, including arsenic, were found in 44 of 116 Texas wells surveyed by the Texas Department of Agriculture, offir cialssaid. Nitrates, a common pollutant of sMJow rural wells, were foujuj in 94 of those Oie TEA said Ms, Rieff sajd the raw test tion didn't provide enough details to know each ease pf cojltarrtingtion resumed from normal agricultural practices, we or of pesticides. Water was taken from the wejls in 1988, and laboratory work was com- and was a member of AM Lodge 3fl5 in WicftUs, Kjn, Survivors include his wife, Bobbie VanAuken of Canyon Lake; mother, Hazel VaoAukea of Wellington, daughter and son-in-law, Vickis and of NQjdJprj, Texaj; VmMm Qteyia, and two grandsons, There will terw vision. Memorials nav he made to Countv MHMK.

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