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NORTHWEST HERALD Section A Saturday, August31, 1985 Page 3 Today Local briefs Death toll in African riot rises to 20 CL yearbooks handed out today CRYSTAL LAKE -- The 1964-85 yeSfeooks for Crystal Lake Central High School have arrived and will be handed out in the school cafeteria today from 9 a.m. to noon. Books for 1985 graduates can be picked up by their parents or by a student authorized by a note from the parent. Farmers' market opens in square WOODSTOCK -- A Farmer's Market will open on the Square in Woodstock at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The market boasts the sweetest sweet corn, the reddest tomatoes and the liveliest bourbon beans in the county. Sponsored by the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce, the market promises the freshest produce in the midwest straight from the richest soil in the nation. The market opens at 8 a.m. and continues to 2 p.m. It will continue every Wednesday through the growing season. College presents 'Los de Aba jo' ELGIN -- The Elgin Experimental Theatre Group at Elgin Com­ munity College will present the community's first Spanish language drama, "Los de Abajo," in Auditorium D on the college's main campus Aug. 31 and Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. and Sept. 1 and 8 at 6 p.m. The play, by the Mexican author Mariano Azuela, tells the story of the rrevolutionary environment in Mexico and the struggle of the country to form a democracy. Miguel Lopez-Lemus of Elgin, an ECC student, will direct the cast of 19, assisted by Eiko Murayama and Terence Domschke, ECC speech and drama'instructor. 'for ticket information, call ECC's Student Life office at 697-1000, ext. 373. Free glaucoma testing available CARY -- On Thursday, Sept. 19, the Cary Lions Club.will be visited by the Lions of Illinois "Mobile Glaucoma Screening Unit" to provide free glaucoma and visual acuity screenings for adults. This free screening will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at 441W. Main St., Cary. Glaucoma is an eye disease with no symptoms in its early stages. It is called the"sneak thief of sight" and is one of the major causes of blindness. But blindness from glaucoma can be stopped with early detection and treatment. Visual acuity refers to how well a person can see and how far. This screening is offered by the Cary Lions Club in cooperation with the Lions of Illinois Foundation, the charitable arm of the state's 33,000 Lions Club members. This vegetable is difficult to beat ALGONQUIN -- Stephanie Gerardi of 735 Spruce Tree Lane pulled a vegetable out of her garden Thursday that will be hard to beat. Amid all the normal-sized beets, Gerardi discovered a reall beast of a beet - one that measures 61/2 by 8 inches and weighs a whopping five pounds. She had never seen nor heard of one that size. If she had found it earlier, Gerardi said she would have let her daughter, who belongs to a local 4-H club, enter it in the Kane County Fair. But the fair was held last month. "I was going to cut it up," she said, "but I Just didn't have the heart to do it." Gerardi has shown the voluminous veggie around the neighbor­ hood. However, she doesn't want to let the big beet go to waste. "I'll probably pickle it." Capone vault mystery could be solved on TV CHICAGO (UPI) - The secret of what might have been gangster A1 Capone's vault could be made pub­ lic later this year. The vault was discovered last winter in the basement of the old Lexington Hotel while the hotel was being renovated. Patricia Porter, executive direc­ tor of the Sunbow Foundation, which owns the property, said Mon­ day the foundation has been offered $50,000 by a California firm to cre­ ate a television special on the vault. Sunbow is a non-profit group that underwrites the training of women in the construction trades. It has been trying to use the vault mystery to help its fund-raising effort to fi­ nance renovation of the 10-story ho­ tel into a museum, housing and of­ fice center for women. Capone ran his mob operations from 1928 to 1931 in the hotel. When the vault was discovered last winter during renovation, the Internal Revenue Service served By Brendan Boyle United Press International JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Police and rock-throwing young rioters clashed for a third straight day Friday in segregated townships near Cape Town, and Bishop Des­ mond Tutu warned it is "difficult to believe that peaceful change is still a possibility" in South Africa. The toll in three days of bloody clashes near Cape Town was placed by police at 20 black and mixed- raced people killed. It was the worst cycle of violence in South Africa since President Pieter Botha declared a state of emergency July 21 to clamp down on protests against the white-minor- ity government's apartheid police of racial discrimination. In Pretoria, Tutu met Foreign Ministers Hans van den Broek of Holland, Jacques Poos of Luxem­ bourg and Giulio Andreotti of Italy for an hour. The three officials flew to South Africa in hopes of meeting jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, but the govern­ ment refused to let them. "The only reason that I decided to come was because of my belief in peaceful change," Tutu said after the meeting. "But it is very hard because, when people are being shot every day, it is difficult to believe that peaceful change is still a possibili­ ty," he said. The European ministers, on a four-day fact-finding mission for the European Community, were sched­ uled to meet with Botha, Foreign Minister Roelof "Pik" Botha and black trade union leaders and mod­ erate Zulu leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Poos said at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport the ministers planned to make known their "strong preoccupations about the apartheid system, to the abolition of which we wish to contribute." "It is our firm conviction that violence must be excluded and that a just, peaceful and permanent so­ lution can only be reached through a genuine dialogue with the authen­ tic representatives of the non-white population and urgent confidence- building measures," he said. In Cape Town, black and mixed- race youths stoned, torched and looted cars and trucks for the third day in a row. Unofficial reports put the death toll as high as 25. It was the first time that "col- oreds," people of mixed racial de­ scent who speak the same Afri­ kaans language as the ruling white minority, have joined a yearlong black uprising against apartheid that has claimed at least 665 lives. The latest round of rioting was triggered by a massive police and army operation Wednesday to stop an outlawed march on Pollsmoor prison, where Mandela is serving the 22nd year of a life sentence for a conviction on treason and sabotagw charges. Police and soldiers kept the col­ ored Cape Town suburbs of Manen- berg, Mitchell's Plain and Lans- downe sealed to journalists Friday as youths torched and looted dejjv- ery trucks. 3 Officers fired tear gas from pa­ trolling armored trucks and youths burned tire barricades in the streets and torched government offices in Mitchell's Plain, a so-called "model township" for coloreds evicted from city center homes now zoned for whites. UPI photo Zenani Mandela Dlamini, daughter of jailed South African black leader Nelson Mandela, raises a clenched fist Friday after accept­ ing a check for $6,750 from 14 U.S. senators. Looting on is Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, who presented the check. Senators give $6,750 to Mandelas By Patricia Koza United Press International WASHINGTON - The daughter of South African black activists Nel­ son and Winnie Mandela received a check Friday from 14 senators for $6,750 to help pay for the recon­ struction of her mother's fire- bombed home and medical clinic. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D- Ohio, presented the check to Zenani Mandela Dlamini at a crowded Cap­ itol Hill news conference, saying that "Americans of all political views have a deep sense of hurt and empathy" with the people of South Africa. Metzenbaum said he and others "thought that we in the Senate (would) take some action which would be of a personal nature" to show concern. An earlier attempt to deliver a slightly lesser amount through the State Department was rejected by Winnie Mandela be­ cause of the U.S. government's con­ tinued policy of constructive engagement. Dlamini read a prepared state­ ment thanking the senators and urg­ ing additional support for her moth- er's medical clinic, which was d e s t r o y e d i n t h e r e c e n t firebombing. "I appeal to all mothers in Ameri­ can to help the children of South Africa," she said. "Thank you and God bless America for your love and concern." She ended her statement by rais­ ing her right fist into the air and saying "the struggle goes on." Discovery crewmen ready for spacewalk Sunbow with claims for $806,000 in back taxes, interest and penalties it said the gangster owed when he died in 1947. The claims were filed on the off chance Capone left behind something of value when he was sent to prison in 1932 on tax charges. "Why not let Capone posthumous­ ly build the building for us?" Porter said. • -v She would not name the television company, but said she expects to receive a signed contract later this year. In addition to the $50,000, the foun­ dation would get 1 percent of the royalties from any subsequent tele­ casts of the special, Porter said. The company, which hopes to broadcast the vault opening by De­ cember, also offered Sunbow $5,000 for permission to X-ray the vault, she said. Porter said the results of the X-ray would be kept secret until the special is aired. ByAlRossiter Jr. UPI science editor CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Like tireless hunters pursuing their quar­ ry, Discovery's astronauts gained steadily on the disabled Syncom 3 Friday and readied their spacesuits for Saturday's daring spacewalk to "hot-wire" the marooned satellite. Two rocket firings kept the shut­ tle in a slightly lower round-the- world pursuit course designed to overtake the dormant Navy com­ munications station and bring Dis­ covery alongside about 8 a.m. EDT. James van Hoften, a PhD engi­ neer called "Ox", and William Fish­ er, who was an emergency room doctor before joining NASA, plan to spend more than six hours working outside the shuttle manually haul­ ing Syncom out of orbit and bypass­ ing its failed starting system. The three new satellites the astro­ nauts launched earlier in the mis­ sion were reported in good shape Friday, either in stationary orbits or heading toward them. "Now that you've emptied the hangar, it's time to bring another one into the shop," flight controllers told the crew in a teleprinter message. Because a problem with the ship's robot arm was expected to slow the salvage operation Saturday, a sec­ ond spacewalk probably will be nec­ essary to finish the job and send Syncom spinning back into orbit. The shuttle's cabin pressure was lowered to 10.2 pounds per square inch and Fisher and van Hoften spent 45 minutes breathing pure ox­ ygen to help flush nitrogen irbip their bloodstreams, a routine proce­ dure to prevent the "bends" when working in their low-pressure spacesuits. Before the long spacesuit check­ out and charging work got under­ lay, Fisher, van Hoften, Joe Engle, Richard Covey and John Lounge got a good look at hurricane Elena south of the Florida panhandle. "It's pretty spectacular," said Engle as Discovery swept over the storm at 8:30 a.m. Friday. "It doesn't have the classic eye yet but it looks like it's rying to develop one." Discovery is the nation's third shuttle. The fourth, Atlantis, was hauled to the oceanside launch pad before dawn Friday for the first time to begin preparations for a test firing Sept. 12 and launch Oct. 3 on a secret military mission. Van Hoften and Fisher started the spacesuit checkout operation Fri­ day morning and when they had the first of three of the bulky white units assembled, helmet and all, they gathered with Engle, Covey and Lounge in front of the floating suit for a group picture. Today's space schedule: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - Here are the highlights of the schedule for Saturday's spacewalk by two shuttle Discovery astronauts to repair the disabled Syncom 3 communications satellite. Because of problems with the ship's robot arm, the repair effort is expected to require an additional spacewalk Sunday to wrap up unfinished work. The timetable for Saturday (all times EDT and subject to change): 7:06 a.m. -- Astronauts James "Ox" van Hoften and William Fisher depressurize Discovery's airlock and open the hatch to the ship's payload bay. Syncom is located about 35 feet above Discovery's cargo hold. 7:38 a.m. -- Van Hoften clamps his boots to a foot restraint so astronaut Mike Lounge, working in the shuttle's crew cabin, can pick the spacewalk- er up with the ship's 50-foot-long mechanical arm. 8:23 a.m. -- Van Hoften, anchored to the robot arm, manually stabilizes the 15,190-pound satellite and attaches a grappling fixture that will allow the arm to latch onto the spacecraft later. After installing safety devices around the satellite's starting lever, van Hoften releases the satellite and gets off the arm. 9:08 a.m. -- Lounge uses the arm to grab Syncom, which is then positioned over a work station in the payload bay. 9:53 a.m. -- Fisher installs "shorting plugs" to block any unexpected electrical currents in the fully fueled satellite. 10:18 a.m. -- Fisher, working within inches of Syncom's solid rocket motor nozzle, installs steel pins to lock two "safe and arm" devices in the "safe" position. These devices rotate during normal operation to fire the rocket motor. 10:58 a.m. -- Fisher, using a power screwdriver, removes a test access panel on Syncom's side. This will allow him to install an electrical assembly that will bypass the satellite's faulty automatic timer. 12:08 p.m. -- Fisher installs the "spun bypass unit" that will bypass the timer. 12:33 p.m. -- Fisher removes another test panel on the top of the satellite so a temporary battery pack can be installed to deploy Syncom's command antenna. 1:13 p.m. -- Fisher and van Hoften clean up the cargo bay and enter Discovery's airlock about 2:23 p.m. Elena strengthens as holiday approaches UtUe Laura Snyder, 4, helps her dad take care of her new baby brother, Robert, 8 months, as the family makes themselves at home at center UPI photo court of the Pensacola High School gym Friday. The Snyders and a lot of others are awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Elena. By David Tortorano United Press international PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Hurricane Elena mush­ roomed into a potential killer in the Gulf of Mexico , Friday and poised its 100-mph winds and 12-foot tides for a Labor Day weekend assault on the beach resorts of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Gov. Bob Graham, saying he feared "the needless loss of thousands of lives," ordered a door-to-door evacuation of seven Florida counties seen as the most likely target of Elena, a 300-mile-wide mass of fury marching slowly north toward an expected Saturday landfall. More than 100,000 people from the Panhandle's white beaches to Louisiana's ba>ous fled the burgeon­ ing wrath of Elena Thursday, and officials said Gra­ ham's order prompted another 318,000 residents and holiday vacationers to jam highways inland. The National Hurricane Center declared the storm a "major hurricane on the order of Frederic," which hit the central Gulf Coast in 1979 and killed 13 people along a $2.3-billion swath of destruction. Forecasters warned Elena's winds could build to 130 mph with storm surges of up to 12 feet before striking land sometime Saturday and said the storm could cause $1 billion damage. By midday Friday, the hurricane was 140 miles south of Pensacola and moving north at 5 mph. Graham dispatched 1,600 National Guard troops to help in the massive movement to higher ground. "Immediate evacuation is necessary to avoid t£e needless loss of thousands of lives," Graham said. "If the hurricane strikes the Florida coast, coastal resi­ dents face almost certain death, or they can evacuate immediately and protect their lives." . » Hurricane warnings flew from Grande Isle, La., to Apalachicola, Fla., and forecasters warned the storm could spawn tornadoes and flash floods along the central Gulf Coast. "It's not improbable the winds could get to 120 or 130 mph before the center crosses the coast. It could be pretty bad," hurricane forecaster Jim Lynch said. "It would certainly not be out of the question to think of this as a billion-dollar-class hurricane," fore­ caster Mark Zimmer said. Much of Pensacola, a city of 57,000 people, and the condominium coves of the Florida Panhandle were deserted Friday. Schools closed and airlines canceled flights in Pensacola and Mobile, Ala. "All I want to do is have my life now," said Richard Worsnop as he left his home in Ville Venice, Fla. "I've lived on the water 18 years and this is the worst storm to come along. I just hate to think about my house not being here when I get back." "I battened down the house," said Marty Rasmus- sen. "I knew the day was going to come when a big storm was coming." Some Pensacola merchants waited until early Fri­ day to board up plate glass windows, particularly in the Seville historic district lined with 18th and 19th century homes converted to shops. "This house is listed with the National Register of Historic Places," said dress shop owner Debra Wheeler. "It's priceless. It's part of our heritage." /