European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. May 2, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 aliens Rush to beat amnesty deadline ins extends hours to Cope with final push by the associated press lines of undocumented aliens wit Hopes for better futures formed out Side legalization centers throughput the country and immigration official braced for an even bigger onslaught As next week s amnesty deadline a card. Monday tuesday it s going to be outrageous said Richard s. Rios. Director of the immigration and natural i action service Center in Houston. An estimated 3,000 people submitted applications at the Center saturday and another 3.500 were expected sunday he said. The crowd will grow As the dead line approaches Rios said. The 1986 immigration Reform and control act gives aliens who can prove continuous residency in the United states since Jan. I. 1982, until Midnight wednesday to apply for Legal status. From California to new York ins offices were staying open saturday and sunday and Many planned extended hours this  also were waiving inter views with applicants until after the deadline to Cope with the Rush. In the new York Borough of Queens immigration officials staged a party to entice applicants saturday. Balloons and american flags decorated a big room a Calypso Singer entertained the crowds and a disc jockey and a steel band were waiting in Thi wings. Officials also served  Trinidad native who said he has lived in new York for 18 years said he waited until the last minute to apply because he had trouble raising the $185 application fee. The fee for children is s50. And there is a family ceiling of $420. Ivc Etc la gon cric. Chief ins legalization officer for Brooklyn and Queens said she expected 1,000 peo ple at the office saturday and again sunday. Over 100.000 of the estimated 250,000 illegal immigrants in the new York City area arc expected to Applyby the deadline she added. The refusal by Congress last week to extend the application deadline to nov. 30 was spurring the flow of apply cants some officials said. They be had a year and they be just procrastinated said Jim Pomeroy. Ins District manager for new Jersey. The Paterson. N.j., office had More than 100 applicants by 10 . Sat urday. Pomeroy said. About 22,000 people statewide mostly from latin America have applied for citizenship he added. Moisica Castillo. 37. Of Peru stood at the Paterson office saturday with his Cousin Victor arc ado. Who is a citizen like Many latin americans we came Here looking for belter opportunities said Castillo who said he has lived for eight years with his Cousin in  men lined up outside an ins Center in Arlington. Texas. Saturday said they were eager to gain  s a Little safer and a Little Relief  said Pete r. Gonzales an ins Security officer who translated for the three mexican immigrants. They won t worry about people. Telling them we will Call immigration " the Small office in wcnalchcc.wash., 150 Miles cast of Seattle slopped accepting new applications Friday Afler being inundated with Agri cultural workers apparently confused about wednesday s deadline acting director Allan Callison  a special program agricultural workers have until nov. 30 to apply for citizenship if they can prove they worked for at least 90 Days from may1985 to May 1986. He said. Some farm employers apparently have started de manding work authorization cards he added. 10,000 demand jobs with better benefits higher minimum wage Atlanta a some 10.000 Union members and civil rights activists rallied saturday to demand jobs with better pay and better benefits. People Aren t poor because they Don t have jobs but because of the Low pay for the jobs they have Cyas commissioner of agriculture Jim Hightower told the crowd. The rally in the Atlanta civic Center parking lot marked the end of a four state pilgrimage for eco nomic Justice by the Southern Christian leadership conference. The journey began in Memphis tcnn., on april 4. 20 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Was assassinated in that City. The pilgrimage demonstrated the rebirth of the coalition of labor unions and civil rights workers seek ing full employment with decent  said the Rev. Joseph Lowry president of the Sulc which King founded. The current minimum wage $3.35 an hour just won t do  elsewhere saturday a crowd estimated at up to10,000 people staged a leisurely demonstration in san Francisco for More . Jobs arms control and changes in policies toward Central America and South Africa. Run around rodents Spaulding University students cheer on their favourites Al the school s annual running of the rodents in Louis Ville.  Victor slalom nipped seven other rats for the Winner s Garland and a bowl of Cereal. Fugitive s fascination with cars leads to capture Baltimore a the Fri on saturday arrested one of its most wanted East coast fugitives in a traps aged at an automotive show after agents Learned of his fascination wit High performance race cars officials said. Joseph v. Corless. Special agent in charge of the Agency s i Altimori office said the arrest of convicted Bank robber Ray Allen Minnick was based in part on a profile it developed showing his interest in race cars and a habit of frequenting Auto motive Flea markets. Agents posing As Gate attendants at the nor shy a annual Auto show spotted Minnick As he entered and positively identified him by observing a Tattoo on his left hand As it was being stamped Corless said. Minnick was surrounded by agents and taken into custody without Inci Dent Corless said. He was carrying two concealed handguns along with $15,000, he said. The Fri has been seeking Minnick 40, since february 1986, when he escaped from Howard county md., after his alleged involvement in an armed Holdup of a supermarket and a shootout with Howard county police the Fri said. He is suspected in at least eight robberies of Banks or savings and Loans in the Baltimore area and is wanted in connection with other robberies in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Fri first investigated Minnick in 1972 for the armed robbery of the first National Bank of Columbia my. He was charged by the Fri. Tried and convicted in Federal court in Balti More receiving a 20-year prison sen tence. He was paroled in 1981. Fla. Sinkhole swallows an acre in one big gulp Sebring Fla. A a sinkhole that became one of Florida s largest seems to have stabilized with one House at the Bottom slowly being covered by water and another Home teetering on the Edge a geologist said  Call this a double Freak sinkhole because it s so far South and it s so big said William Wilson a geologist with the Florida sinkhole research Institute at the University of Central Florida. At least one whole acre has been swallowed up in one big gulp he said. It appears to be stable Wilson said following the typical pattern of sinkholes which usually stabilize within a Day or two Afler taking anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours to collapse. The sinkhole which collapsed in a subdivision near Here Friday evening is More than 200 feet wide and 15 to 20 feet deep he said. The average sinkhole in South Ern Central Florida is about 20 feel across. Wilson said. This sinkhole is larger than 99 percent of All other sinkholes in Florida Wilson said. It s real gentle said scoring police la. Jerry Fen null. It s not a real abrupt Hole it s More like a  the sinkhole is becoming a Pond since the water table is about 5 or 6 feet below the ground level in that area. The House at the Edge of the sinkhole is completely ruined Wilson said. It looks like a Drunken Sailor he said. But it does t look like it s going to get sucked underground like the first  beyond those houses neighbourhood residents arc moving Back into their Homes. Fun null said. It s highly unlikely Highlands county is going to have a rash of  Wilson said. Sinkholes arc generally caused by changes in the level of water flowing through Limestone and Clay formations under the soil. A sudden lowering of the water table caused by irrigation or drought for instance can weaken Walls and roofs of the underground Limestone caverns leading to their breakdown. Too much water drainage into the ground also Cre ates pressure that can dissolve Claylie materials and Rock formations underground