The Daily Progress from Charlottesville, Virginia • 8

A8 RBMfflE HUNT THE DAILY PROGRESS Charlottesville Va Saturday May 13 2000 National outlook Monda Sunda Saturday and RONTS: Stationary Cold Pressure Hlh Low Sunny PT Cloudy Cloudy 100s 110s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 10s Os Os 10s 30s 40s Snow Washington 90 Richmond 94 Roanoke 90 Bristol 83 S7 May 10 May 10 May 26 Sunny Pt Cloudy Cloudy Showers 52 59 60 60 57 62 88 47 53 60 71 75 78 81 50 52 33 67 51 59 na 42 45 breezy thunder Cond clear cloudy cloudy clear clear clear cloudy cloudy clear clear cloudy clear cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy clear cloudy clear na clear cloudy Cond cloudy clear cloydy cloudy cloudy clear cloudy cloudy cloudy rain cloudy cloudy cloudy clear cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy clear clear clear cloudy cloudy cloudy Hi Lo 69 51 80 51 83 47 54 36 75 79 74 80 75 70 42 79 54 62 29 78 50 73 56 84 75 58 61 71 84 69 82 na 65 68 54 61 36 44 52 51 47 63 57 51 76 43 69 48 77 57 67 39 73 44 68 51 89 70 77 42 97 58 78 49 77 74 74 Hi Lo 75 80 67 Astronomy Sunset today 8:16 pm Sunrise today 6:05 am Moon rises 3:45 pm 3:53 am Moon sets Temoerature or the period ending pm yesterday Recorded at The High Low Record high Record low Regional weather rom the national Neither Senice Dally Prosreu wither ititlom City Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento St Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio' San Diego San rancisco San Juan Santa Seattle Shreveport Sioux alls Spokane Syracuse Tampa Topeka Tucson Tulsa Wichita Wilkes Barre Wilmington DE orecast Partly sunny Chance of afternoon storms High in upper 80s Southwest winds 15 mph Clear and breezy tonight Low in upper 50s Tuesday lurries Showers Storms Rain At Charlottesville 88 Area temperatures Highs for period ending 6 pm yesterday Recorded by Progress Weather Watchers Afton 87 Buckingham Crozet Lake Monticello Louisa NA Orange NA Scottsville NA Stanardsville Extended outlook Sunny and breezy Sunday High in mid to upper 70s low in lower 50s Partly sunny Mon day High in upper 60s low in mid to upper 40s bunny i ues day High in upper 60s low in mid to upper 40s High Laredo Texas Precipitation or the period ending pm yesteroay Recorded at The Daily Progress 000 in Yesterday 005 in Month to date 488 in Average for month 1397 in Year to date Average year to date 1545 in Low McDermitt Nev onast for lodiy City Albany NY Albuquerque HUIdllllU Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Burlington VT Casper Charleston SC Charleston WV Charlotte Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati 1 IW i I 'aT'V I 6s 7 WH 1 IM: I UL I WMHWui 'UUUJWW B8 MV TK 41 I xTEXV ra 2 Me 4 (j! via LagiMBBa BBI rt tahiHMBUBBl I1 7 IxJ rCx 4 dK ZfMI a a i i ix ww wwa I I I JA I Zx Jlt" iiIT1iT van i 1 I A I va i ui' nusuatr i Ik ir'I? rma I nKW 4: I Wia I A WSA I I I I I warm RSI I II I atoaMKabA 1 4 rx I I I i Buirn I I BWB I I I I i i i JiarA' I I 9 I i IP BTi TilMI1 I i r' 'riv' C' I 1 KS i bb a iw I ir 4 r4 rJ 1 BW WW VW I GAdBi nditi rsiutnia riuuica onuw ivc mei 4 ft: Daily Progress 92T 75 93 (1911) (1913) LWWI I kuJ fZZJ ELd liJLA City Hi Lo Cond City Hi Lo Cond Cleveland 61 48 cloudy Jacksonville 88 67 cloudy Columbia SC 84 64 clear Juneau 50 42 rain Columbus 64 46 cloudy Kansas City 75 43 clear Concord NH 77 45 clear Las Vegas 93 59 cloudy Dallas 83 56 cloudy Little Rock 80 49 clear Dayton 66 45 cloudy Los Angeles 78 60 clear Denver 78 42 cloudy Louisville na na na Des Moines 69 40 cloudy Lubbock 85 50 cloudy Detroit 60 43 cloudy Memphis 77 51 clear Duluth 64 32 cloudy Miami Beach 89 75 cloudy El Paso 52 cloudy Midland 83 55 cloudy Evansville na na na Milwaukee 64 39 clear airbanks 50 25 clear Minneapolis 61 37 cloudy argo 60 32 clear Nashville 74 48 cloudy lagstaff 74 30 clear New Orleans 80 65 rain Grand Rapids 62 43 clear New York 75 60 clear Great alls 68 34 cloudy Oklahoma City 76 50 clear Greensboro 78 60 clear Omaha 73 42 clear Hartford 75 52 cloudy Orlando 92 69 cloudy Helena 70 34 cloudy Philadelphia 74 60 cloudy Honolulu 85 70 clear phoenix 97 68 clear Houston 80 62 cloudy Pittsburgh 64 50 clear Indianapolis 69 40 cloudy Portland ME 68 47 clear Jackson 79 54 cloudy Portland OR 74 48 cloudy Moratorium is placed on setting fires Associated Press WvXSHINGTON When officials set a brush fire at Bandolier National Monument last week the plan was to have a small fire prevent a big one But the wrong weather patterns can turn such prescribed fires into just the kind of monster infernos meant to prevent As the New Mexico wildfire set by the National Park Service continued blazing uncontrolled riday Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Sec retary Dan Glickman imposed a 30 day moratorium on prescribed fires in the West federal controlled burn policy is out of said Rep Joe Skeen NM who favors logging to thin out overgrown forests National Park Service is acting like children playing with said Rep Helen Chenoweth Hage Idaho chairwoman of the House Resources forests panel She said her group would hold a hearing into the decision to conduct the burn Prescribed fire experts say blazes can be an impor tant tool to prevent catastrophic forest fires by clearing away the dead logs and underbrush that fuel the big fires That fuel has built up in federal forests because Associated Press I S' X1 i 1 S' CO Jeffrey Leonard of the High Rolls Volunteer ire Department douses hot spots in Weed NM for more than a century natural fires were snuffed out can conduct a thousand prescribed burns and the public will never know about it We lose one and we get all the press and said John ort director of the National Interagency Pre scribed ire Training Center in Tallahassee la Blaze Continued from A1 power line blew up to 20000 acres riday rivaling the Los Alamos fire The blaze forced the evacuation of more than 125 people in the tiny towns of Sacramento and Weed At least 20 homes and other struc tures burned in Weed a rural ranching hamlet where a highway sign reads: to Weed Population The break in the weather in northern New Mexico gave fire fighters hope of holding the line against the Los Alamos fire It was still growing riday but at a slow er pace and firefighters expected winds to remain calm through today Crews used bulldozers and hand tools to cut brush and dig trenches in still standing neighborhoods fearful the flames still might take an unexpected turn Overnight other crews took advantage of lower temperatures and higher humidity to burn trees grass and brush about five miles from town hoping to deprive the fire of fuel can say with a high degree of confidence that we will not have more structures burned in Los Alamos or White said Doug MacDonald the Los Alamos fire chief The blaze was deliberately set May 4 to destroy brush at Bande lier National Monument but it raged out of control and swept through about 33000 acres by ri day Roy Weaver the Bandelier superintendent who gave the go ahead for the burn despite an omi nous weather forecast was placed on leave with pay Thursday pend ing an investigation Officials expect to receive a report on the cause of the fire next Thursday Los Alamos was framed by destruction with houses reduced to charred rubble and twisted metal In one driveway the fiberglass shell of a sports car had fused with the concrete In another yard a melted Big Wheel sat next to the seared remnants of a playset Residents and firefighters spoke with the imagery of war using words like to describe the struggle with the fire which at one time surged so ferociously that firefighters dropped their hoses and equipment and ran for safety came roaring down like a freight train off the said Ed Pullian a battalion chief who had slept just seven hours over three nights have a chance We kept retreating retreating retreating and kept get ting Guns 1 Continued from A1 lost any deals yet but Sat urday is our biggest suppose some gun buyers are angry over the delay but our cus tomers have been very under Harris said When the system is working 7S percent of gun purchases are approved within 30 seconds the Justice Department says And 95 percent of buyers get an approval or a disapproval within two hours of their application for purchase In its first 13 months of opera tion the NICS system completed more than 10 million background checks Only 5 percent required more than two hours to complete the background check had four prospective sales riday but we deliver the guns because we get said Tommy Thacker manager of Loudoun Guns in Lees burg Va just tell them call them when the system is In Virginia gun dealers like Thacker are linked by computer with the Virginia state police but the state police are linked to the BI computer to check federal crim inal history records the state give Thacker said TV Continued from A1 have the authority to have the same name as far as the state of Virginia is concerned is another Gene Bechtel of Bechtel Cole a Washington law firm that has represented Lindsay Communica tions since 1986 said he know the name was taken and said the firm would check with the State Corporation Commission raise that with my col leagues and if got a confus ing name fix Bechtel said riday Another possible roadblock is the Shenandoah Educational Tele vision Corp which operates WVPT TV in Harrisonburg Shenandoah has been using Chan nel 19 as a translator station retransmitting its main signal to Charlottesville Shenandoah fought Lindsay and Achernar for the channel and lost but has until May 30 to ask the CC to reconsider An official from Shenandoah said riday that the company had not decided if it would appeal if they do appeal they have a leg to stand Polivy asserted because CC regulations dictate that full power stations have priority over translators The Charlottesville area has two other commercial television stations NBC affiliate WVIR TV Channel 29 and PAX TV affiliate WADA Channel 55 There also is one noncommercial station in the area WHTJ TV41 When Achernar and Lindsay first filed requests with the CC in 1986 they wanted to construct Channel 64 There were several other competing companies in the beginning but each dropped out over the years At one point in the late 1980s the CC denied the applications of both entities to form Channel 64 on the grounds that operation from their sites would cause to the activities of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank WVa The two companies appealed the decision to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit which reversed the decision After further research and nego tiations Achernar and Lindsay persuaded the observatory to sup port Channel 64 inally in 1998 Achernar and Lindsay decided to merge to form the channel but in 1999 Congress passed a law directing the commission to delete 64 as a frequency over a period of time Later that year the two compa nies requested to form Channel 19 instead and they put their propos al before the CC one of those long stories that only government agencies in Washington seem to Bechtel said Polivy would only say she can see light at the end of the tun nel is not a train coming at Trash Continued from A1 tected commerce between states The state is appealing Gilmore has joined the gover nors of several trash importing states in asking US Rep Thomas Bliley Jr Richmond to shep herd federal legislation giving states greater authority to limit garbage shipments Bliley chairs the House Commerce Committee which handles bills involving the interstate transport of commodi ties including trash Last week Gilmore wrote Bliley a letter you to work with us on federal legislation which would confirm the ability to protect their lands and people and to provide for reasonable restric tions on the importation of out of ctatp wastp Bliley who is not seeking re elec tion this year to his Central Vir ginia seat has consistently said he bless any legislation unless it has consensus from both importing and exporting states consensus that has not yet been reached' Bliley shares the sentiments expressed in Governor spokesman Peter Schmidt said Thursday quick ly as consensus emerges around the issue in the Congress we will move a bill quickly through the Commerce Supporters of trash importation limits hope the letter from Gilmore a fellow Republican and Bliley ally will spur action 1 Hemings Continued from A1 Earlier this year a panel of scholars commissioned by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial oun dation which owns and operates Monticello concluded that the third president probably fathered at least one of Sally seven children At last emotionally family reunion the descen dants of wife Martha avoided a decision on whether to include Hemings descendents in the Monticello Association The association owns and maintains the family graveyard at Monticello and its members have a right to be buried there Last JHugiist the ifyille Neighborhood Association recom mended that the City Council name a newly built 02 mile road off West Main Street after Sally Hemings ifeville residents said they made the suggestion after his torical evidence showed that Hem ings just yards from the so called Ninth lOth Street Connec tor Daugherty said she favors changing the names of both the Ninth lOth Street Connector and 10th Street Giving the two roads about a one mile stretch of pave ment in all a single name would reduce confusion for city motorists she said She said she and Coun cilor Blake Caravati visited every house on the segment that would1 be affected was very little disagree she said Daughertfbur fellow councilors have said they are strongly in favor of naming a street after the Hemings family The mayor said she decided to expand the recognition to include the entire Hemings family rather than only Sally after reviewing research by Monticello historian Cinder Stanton report stated that the Hemings family was remarkable enslaved family who formed a link between Monticello and Char lottesville and made a significant impact on the character and devel opment of its main Records show that at Monticel lo John Hemings was a woodwork er who was responsible for much of the interior of Poplar orest house Joseph ossett son of Mary Hemings was in charge of caterers and cooks A while Sally Hemings was trained in needlework Many Hemings family members moved to Charlottesville after gaining their freedom and worked as painters glaziers and ironwork ers Some were musicians: Jesse Scott who married Betty daughter composed dance tunes and played at University of Vir ginia balls Eston Hemings was called a of the Laws against freedmen pres sured almost all of the Hemings family to migrate to southern Ohio Stanton said Daugherty called acknowledg ing the Hemings family story an important first step got a lot of catching up to do along with other parts of the country in recog nizing African Americans and other groups that have made con she said not been very progressive with that so The mayor said the city also should place a plaque near the street detailing the Hemings histo ry Several residents of the predom inately black ifeville neighbor hood said riday that they wel comed changing the names to honor the Hemings family feel that about time for them to have done something for people who were CB Lewis said people have done a lot that we get any credit Nat Palmer agreed think that some type of justice and recog nition is he said con tributions he said be brought to The attention that has been showered on the designers and architects of the University of Vir ginia and Monticello should be shared with the people who put sweat the blood the to build them But some ifeville residents said they would prefer not to see the Hemings name on green city street signs Hemings never did anything for Char said Beverly Barnes Charles Johnson whose family has lived in the same house in ifeville since 1898 said would be better to name the street after someone people such as a recent black educator or the Rev Martin Luther King rather than distant historical figures hope they discuss it before they make a MMMi sz.