European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 24, 1991 s. California water us the stars and stripes Page 13 j again Sacramento Calif. Up the state has told californians largest local water Agency to expect a Cut of almost 90 percent in the amount of water it will receive from Northern California in this fifth year of drought. The latest result from the. Historic dry spell will mean the 16 million residents of Urban Southern California will receive slightly less than half the water they received last year from the metropolitan water District of Southern California spokesman Robert Gomperz said Friday. Gomperz said the state department of water resources which operates the state water project notified the mid on thursday that it could expect Only 188 000 acre feet of water this year a Little More than 10 percent of what the District requested. Normally More than half of the my do a water comes from the state project the rest comes from the Colorado River on the Arizona Border. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a mid has imposed a 31 percent Cut in water deliveries to its clients effective March 1. The Sharp reduction in supplies from the state project will mean a 50-percent Cut Back by april 1 to the 27 cities counties and other local distributors including the City of los Ange Les and san Diego county served by the mid. Last year mid was granted 1.36 million acre feet of water from Northern californians Sacramento River that was collected in the Sacramento san Joaquin River Delta and shipped South via the 450-mile California Aqueduct. The districts remaining 1.24 million acre feet came from the Colorado River. V a an acre foot 326,000 Gallons is the amount of water needed to cover an acre of land to the depth of one foot. Southern californians consumed about 4 million acre feet of water last year. About 2.6 million acre feet of it apr 65 percent a was imported by mid. The remaining 1.4 million acre feet used by Southern California urbanite a about 35 percent of of Weir Supply a came from two other sources. One was water wed by the City of los Angeles in Mono and Inyo counties which was available Only to los Angeles residents. That source As Well has been shrivelled by drought and concerns of damage to the environment. The rest came from local Wells and streams in the Southern California coastal Region. Some of those Wells have been tainted by pollution seeping into the water table. V a v. So far this year mid is assured Only 1 million acre feet from the Colorado River. Combined with the 188,000 acre feet from Northern California the total of .1.188 million acre feet amounts to 46 percent of the 2.6 million acre feet mid distributed last year. The mid has applied for another 200.000 acre feet from the Colorado River but less water is available from the River this year. A los Angeles residents face a mandatory 10-percent conservation target beginning March 1. It 1 the mid also is looking for ways to get water from Farmers and water districts  in Northern California providing that water Rich it farms and districts Are willing to Idle their Fields for a Price and part with their irrigation  miss Usa says it s a dream come True Wichita Kan. Up Kelli Mccarty of Kansas was named miss Usa Friday night and was crowned by last years Winner Carol Gist who last week filed a $32 million lawsuit against the company that produces the pageant. A this is unbelievable i never expected to get in the top 11. And this is just a dream come True. It really is a said Mccarty 21, a resident of Liberal Kan., who is studying communications at Wichita state University. She won prizes Worth some $230,000 and will compete in the miss universe pageant. She said she plans to Complete her degree after her yearlong reign and then pursue a career in modelling and acting. New jerseys Hawotte Ray was named first runner up and californians Diane Schock was named second runner up. The pageant telecast live worldwide on lbs opened with the audience standing and singing the National Anthem. The program was dedicated to the armed forces serving throughout the world. About 2,000 people were in the audience at the Century ii convention Center and an estimated 350 million watched the telecast. Mccarty who said she wants to become a Pilot was to go to Mcconnell fab in Wichita on saturday to visit the Headquarters of the Kansas air National guard which plans to Christen an f-16 fighting Falcon Jet fighter in her Honor. In an interview segment of the show master of ceremonies Dick Clark asked Why she wanted to become a Pilot. She said she was spoiled by relatives who were pilots. A whenever i want to go somewhere i want to be Able to take the plane a she said., a a. A a. A when contestants were asked How they would respond to the phrase a a it a a Many a world a Mccarty replied that the 90�?Ts woman is doing More to assert herself a and make it More of Avo Many a world As Well As a Many a  Gist was introduced in the last five minutes of the pageant and As she walked and waved to the crowd a. Tape was played in which she described her year As miss Usa. A a. A Gist 21, ignited controversy last week by filing the suit in . District court in Detroit against Madison Square Garden productions accusing the promoters of violating her civil rights and failing to deliver some of the More than $200,000 in prizes she won. She also contended she was forced to work seven Day weeks without overtime or Holiday pay. Gist a complaints Are not unique. Four of the past five winners have had complaints during their reign. First runner up Charlotte Ray joins in the applause of miss Usa Kelli  Kentucky sen. Cooper Dies at 89 by the Washington Post Washington a John Sherman Cooper one of the most respected Republican political leaders of his a time and a Man who served both his state Kentucky and his country As a Diplomat and senator died of cardiac arrest thursday at his Home in Washington. He was 89. His life an editorial writer once observed was marked by an a integrity and decency that won the Trust and admiration of every president since world War ii. President Truman made him a Delegate to Cooper the United nations. He was a roving ambassador for Secretary of state Dean Acheson an ambassador to India under president Eisenhower and a Friend and confidante of president Kennedy. President Johnson appointed him to the Warren commission for the investigation of Kennedy s assassination. President Ford appointed him ambassador to what was Tycen East Germany. Kentucky preponderant by a democratic state sent him to the/. Senate five times. He established himself Thero As a credible and influential Leader of the Liberal minority in his party. A Kentucky journalist wrote of him that he a talks like a Democrat votes like an Independent and runs on the Republican  in truth he was As nonpartisan As it is possible to be in the american political system. He looked after local interests a the tobacco Farmers for example a but his principal preoccupation was foreign affairs. He took progressive positions on civil rights was one of the first to repudiate the tactics of sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy  in the 1950s, and by 1960 had compiled such a record that he was selected by Washington journalists As the outstanding Republican in the Senate. During the late 1960s and until his retirement from the Senate in 1972, he spent much of his time speaking against the deepening american involvement in Vietnam and in devising legislation to curb the War making Powers of the president and to secure the withdrawal of american forces from Indochina his father was a wealthy land owner and entrepreneur. He graduated from Yale University and attended Harvard University Law school. At Yale he was a varsity athlete and a member of the aristocratic Skull and Bones society. I Cooper was Active in Kentucky served for several years As a county judge. Cooper was admitted to the Kentucky Barin 1928, and served in the stale House of representatives from 1928 to 1930. He was a judge in Pulaski county for the next eight years. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1941. The following year with the United states engaged in world War ii he enlisted in the army As a private at the age of 41. He won a commission and went to Europe with the 3rd army of Gen. George s. Patton or. After the War he was a military government officer and was instrumental in revising the judicial system of Bavaria. His decorations included the Bronze Star. In Europe Cooper met and married an army nurse and he brought her Home to Somerset by. The marriage did no to last and they were divorced in 1949. In 1955, he married Lorraine Rowan Shevlin a prominent Georgetown hostess. Political opponents in Kentucky tried to make an Issue of the marriage to a woman with  but she took part in All of Coopers campaigns dressed in Fine frocks and carried a parasol and proved to be a political asset. She died in 1985. Cooper first won election to the Senate in november 1946 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albert b. A Happy Quot Chandler who resigned to become commissioner of baseball. Cooper was Defeated for election for a full term in 1948. In november 1952, he again won election to the Senate this time to fill the two years remaining in the term of sen. Virgil m. Chapman who had died in office. In 1954, he was again Defeated for re election. After India Cooper returned to Kentucky and in 1956 he was elected to the Senate to fill the Lour years remaining in the term of sen. Alben w. Barkley Truman a vice president who died in office. Cooper was re elected in 1960 and 1966. Survivors include a brother Richard of Somerset by