European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page e a the stars and stripes wednesday May 13,1992 John Musto general manager of the Talamore Golf count takes a shot As Llamas Billy and Dollie stand by. North Carolina Golf course finds Llamas fit to a or tee a i fires raze Forest Home Vermont residents to get Universal health care from wire reports Bennington it. A Howard Dean the Only governor who is a doctor signed a Law that sets in motion a plan to give Vermont Universal health care by 1995. The Law creates a new state Agency the health care authority that will have the Power to bargain for health insurance for All of Vermont a 560,000 residents using what the governor on monday called a enormous leverage to gain better coverage at better rates. By next year the Agency is to draw up proposals on How to pay for Universal health care. And it will provide detailed studies to the legislature on whether Vermont should continue using private insurance companies or switch to a system like Canadas in which the state essentially insures itself. Under the Law the legislature must decide on the final shape of the new system in late 1994.census move draws fire new York a a coalition of 30 states and cities accused the White House in Federal court in Manhattan of using political pressure to Block an adjustment to the 1990 census that would have added at least 5 million people Many of them Black and hispanic to the official population. Coalition lawyer Robert s. Rifkind said White House officials a had their thumbs on the the coalition led by new York City and state is seeking a statistical adjustment of the census contending that political reasons were behind the Commerce departments rejection of a census Bureau recommendation to add the 5 million. By Tom Foreman or. The associated press Southern Pines . This is one Rule the folks at Pinehurst have never had to Cope with. On the Talamore Golf course in the midst of this golfing Mecca players Are advised to adhere to eight rules of which Rule no. 4 says a Golf carts yield right of Way to the course is barely six months old but managers decided Talamore would get an Edge on competitors in the san Hills area of North Carolina. The Llamas a Dollie and Billy one Black and the other White a Arentt just decoration either. They re equipped with saddles that allow golfers to walk the course while the animals carry the clubs. A handler leads the Llama and serves As the human Caddy. A with 32 Golf courses in this area we wanted to get a Little identity that the others have a said Talamore club pro John Mcdougald. Quot yet at the same time we did no to want people to get the feeling that we needed them to advertise the Golf course because it was a weak Golf course officials originally did not announce that the Llamas were part of the plan because they said they did no to want it to appear Gimmicky. Mcdougald was a bit cynical even before he arrived Quot i just laughed and giggled like most people a he said. Then they said the Llamas Are Here and we have to go pick them up. I said you be got to be a it was no joke. One employee brought his wife to Talamore to convince her that he would be working with a pair of 300-Pound woolly animals and that he Wasny to making fun of his co workers. For $100 per bag four golfers can rent the two Llamas bought from a breeder in Vermont. The handlers can take the animals anywhere except into the tee Box and onto the Green. Hit your shot and Start walking and the Llamas follow behind with the handlers. When nature Calls for Billy and Dollie they Are particular not to answer in the Middle of the Fairway. Dollie and Billy Are docile enough to eat feed out of anyone s hands. If they see weeds around the course that s a snack. The bags they carry done to bother them unless the club Heads Are fuzzy. Then Mcdougald said there Are problems. A to them its a big fuzzy thing. They done to know if the other Llama is sticking his head up under him or not a he said. A but the big fuzzy head covers get their Dollie and Billy have apparently mellowed with the attention and have developed a habit that caters to the superstitious. Quot they have a Little Grunt. Before Good shots they tend to moan a Mcdougald said. A but if its going to be a bad shot they done to say a judge delays Texas execution Houston up1 a a Texas judge has granted a prosecutors request to delay the execution of a mexican Man who was convicted of killing a policeman 10 years ago but whose plight has won the sympathy of mexican officials. Inmate Ricardo Aldape Guerra 30, had been scheduled to die by injection shortly after Midnight monday for killing officer James Harris 29. But state District judge Woody Densen agreed to a request from Harris county prosecutor Kan Sckerl to modify the execution Date to sept. 24 to give her time to respond to a motion filed by defense attorney Sandra Babcock. The Case has fuelled interest in Mexico where government officials had asked gov. Ann Richards to intervene. In death Row cases Richards Waits for Appeal efforts to be exhausted in the courts before she decides whether to gel involved a spokesman for her office said sunday. Mexico president Carlos Salinas de Gortari sent a letter to Richards seeking clemency for Guerra. Mexico a National human rights commission and House of deputies also joined the demand to keep Guerra from being executed. Last Friday Babcock filed a motion for a new trial saying Guerra was wrongly convicted of the slaying. Babcock is Legal director for the Houston office of the Austin based Texas resource Center. Guerra was convicted in the death of Harris who was shot three times in the head july 13, 1982, As he approached Guerra and Roberto Carrasco Flores when their car stalled at an intersection. Harris was looking for the car because a pedestrian said it had tried to run Over him. Guerra says that he is a victim of mistaken identity and that Carrasco Flores who was killed that same Day in a shootout with police was the gunman. At the time of the slaying Guerra was an illegal alien living in Houston and looking for work. He left his Hometown of Monterrey Mexico about two months before Harris slaying. Guerra meanwhile has become a mexican Folk hero of sorts. A series of songs were written about him and broadcast on Spanish speaking stations in Texas and Mexico shortly after he was sent to prison. Tower Minn. A fires consumed thousands of acres of Forest and skipped Over highways As they threatened this Northern Minnesota town. Heavy rain monday eased the danger. Wind gusting to 48 Mph sunday fanned the fires which authorities said destroyed at least six Homes and forced the evacuation of a Casino and resorts on the Shore of Lake Vermillion. Some evacuated residents were allowed to return monday to Homes near Tower a town of 640, said Jean Bergerson of the department of natural resources. The fires were not under control but less wind and More rain helped slow them Down she said. The fires consumed More than 7,000 acres sunday said Mary Laplant a spokeswoman for the Minnesota emergency fire dedicated to Bull Tucson Ariz. A a new administration building named for a school superintendent is prompting snickers and giggles. Sunnyside school District officials unveiled a plaque saturday naming the District Headquarters the Fred t. Bull administration building. A the Bull building May be the Rodney Dan Gerfield of All administrative buildings. It will get no respect a quipped Lewis t. Sorensen a former Sunnyside superintendent. Bull who has served the District for 39 years As a teacher and superintendent said be was touched by the tribute. A this Means my name will continue to be affiliated with the District in some Way a said Bull who plans to retire at the end of the school year after 12 years As superintendent. Sorensen said the name is appropriate for the building. A never has an administrative building been so aptly named. Its so very descriptive of what goes on inside those Walls a he Plant reactivated lower Alloway Creek township . A the Salem ii nuclear Power Plant shut Down by a $75 million fire is producing electricity for the first time in six months a Utility official said monday. Technicians restarted the plants 1,150-megawatt reactor Early sunday said Bill Stewart a spokesman for Public service electric amp Gas co., which runs Salem ii. The Plant was operating at 47 percent capacity monday and is expected to reach full Power by the end of the week Stewart said
