The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, August 6, 1980-Page 5
Hurricane
Alien spawns
'devastating'
high
From UPIand AP
KINGSTON, Jamaica -l
Allen, the third strongest st
recorded, flung the fury of it
winds at Haiti and Jamaica
and forecasters said it wou
devastation" to any land in its
At least two persons were
killed in Haiti, which shares
of Hispaniola with the D
Republic. The killer storm
eight lives Monday in a d
blow at the tiny island of St. Li
A RADIO distress call sai
sons perished when a boat c
the wind-tossed harbor of Por
ce, the Haitian capital. Haiti'
radio and the U.S. Embassyi
Prince said the city of Les
Haiti's southwest coast, suffe
damage and it was feared ti
some deaths there. The eye of
passed about 70 miles soul
Cayes.
Jamaica is expected to re
full force of the hurricane ea
and Prime Minister Michae
went on national radio and
winds
last night, urging residents in low-lying
Hurricane areas to "move out now." He added, "I
torm ever ask for God's blessing for this night."
s 170 mph Manley's government announced the
yesterday closing of the international airports at
ld "bring Kingston and Montego Bay as of 7 p.m.
path. and ended all bus service in Kingston as
reported of 8 p.m. The government airline, Air
the island Jamaica, suspended all flights yester-
ominican day afternoon.
claimed KINGSTON RADIO stations asked
evastating that churches remain open to receive
uicia.
dtwo per- refugees.
apsized in Ralph Brown, minister for local
rt au Prin- government, said the first effects of
s national Allen should be felt at about 3 a.m.
in Port au today.
Cayes, on Jamaicans lined up in groups of 50
red major and 60 to buy kerosene and gas in
here were Kingston and the government appealed
the storm to truck owners to report to the Tran-
th of Les sportation Ministry to help in possible
evacuations.
ceive the ALTHOUGH ALLEN was more than
rly today, 800 miles from the United States
l Manley mainland, it sent storm-wise residents
television of Florida and the Gulf coast scurrying
to hardware and grocery stores to buy
emergency food and hurricaie sup-
plies.
At 6 p.m. EDT, the U.S. National
SWeather Service in Miami said the
"one-in-s-century type storm" had
maximum winds of 170 mph and was
about 245 miles east-southeast of
T S Kingston. It said the hurricsne was-
moving west-northwest at 20 mph and
was expected to maintain that course
during the night. Allen's eye was
located near latitude 17.0 north and
hold-goods longitude 73.6 west.
ut $800 for Strong winds and heavy rains would
dbook." spread over eastern Cuba last night, the
e asked to service said. Havana Radio reported
30 garden Cuba's five eastern provinces, in-
they can't, cluding Guantanamo, where the U.S.
only $8.50. Navy has a large base, were placed on
alert.
HURRICANE ALLEN DESTROYED fishing boats in the harbor at
Bridgetown, Barbados, late yesterday. The storm damaged 25 homes on the
island in addition to destroying 20 boats and damaging 75 others, officials
said.
Project Grow cultivates
talent of local gardene
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Ann Arbor Holistic- Health
Organization, Girl Scouts, 4-H Clubs,
food co-ops, and school children," he
said.
"I don't know of many other
situations where you can find a Univer-
sity professor working alongside a
janitor and both benefitting from the
other's knowledge," he added.
CHILDREN AGES 5-8 at Rudolf
Steiner school maintained their own in-
dividual plots for six weeks beginning
last spring.
"Our main goal was to get the
children out-of-doors in the
springtime," coordinator Ruth Nilsson
said. "But everything took about ;twice
as rong as it would normally take. One
little boy took 45 minutes to plant a row
of beans," she added.
Prpject Grow land is located at 11
sites on school board, church, city and
government-owned property.
"OUR ONLY permanent property is
located at the three and one-half acre
County Farm," Nichols explained.
"But we're not guaranteed that the rest
of the land will be available year after
year."
Nichols said he hopes the city Plan-
ning Department's Parks and Open
Space Plan would provide an oppor-
tunity for establishing more permanent
garden sites on public land.
"THE CITY just doesn't contribute to
our cause as much as it could," Nichols
complained. "Today we pay insurance,
mowing; plowing, and water costs. Out
at our airport site we pay $80 just to get
the water turned on. I'd like to see the
city waive just such costs."
According to Nichols, Project Grow
started in 191. "We started with one
garden for families from two neigh-
borhoods and the idea spread like wild-
fire," he said. Now Grow is governed by
a 15-member volunteer board of direc-
tors, a paid director, and two part-time.
student assistants.
Project Grow operates on a budget of
$24,000, $6,000 of which is subsidized by
the city, Nichols explained. The County
Cooperative Extension Service con-
tributes $2,000 a year and the remaining
budget expenses must be met by the
members themselves.
"We hold fund raising events every
year 'he added. "Last year we esrned
roughly $1,000 at our house]
barn sale and we made aboi
the sale of our gardening han
Nichols said members ar
pay $17 a year to rent a 25 x
plot although people who feel
afford it are required to pay o
'I' band may not
travel to away games
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"Eric Becher's and my expertise are
not in a money-making business."
George Cavender, marching band
conductor until 1978 and current direc-
tor of development and school relations
for the music school, said during his
tenure, budget problems often existed.
"I think it's a perennial problem that
has been around for a long time."
Cavender added that when the band
needed money "we went out and earned
it."
Both Cavender and Reynolds pointed
to Band-O-Rama (a concert featuring
the University's major bands) and per-
formances at high schools as ways to
make money that have been employed
by the band.
"A lot of people think the band
shouldn't do that," (hold fund-raisers)
Cavender said, "but that's personal
philosophy."
"I know they (money problems) are
not indigenous to our band alone," he
explained. "The problem is becoming
more and more intense. I can seea time
in the future when bands do not travel."