Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - June 30, 2003, Titusville, Pennsylvania INSIDE THIS ISSUE A student team from University of Pittsburgh at Titusville is a national finalist See Page 5 IN YOUR NEXT HERALD Learn about citizen soldiers from early Minutemen to the National Guard in the next MiniPage feature Birthplace of the oil industry TITUSVILLE PA Established June 141865 First Daily Newspaper in the Pennsylvania Oil Region 50 CENTS Monday June 30 2003 WEATHER MORNING NOON A NIGHT For complete weather forecast see Page 2 In the news jp Hepburn dies great Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96 Page 7 School closing Emotions are high as University it will not reopen Miller School Page 3 Porch collapses At least 12 people die when a porch collapses in Chicago Page 7 Sports Tourney begins the District One Little League Tournament is getting under way Page 8 Deaths Bue 88 Titusville Barbara Petri 63 Fairview Patricia Shaw 70 Tidioute Thomas Smith 86 Conneaut Lake For details see Page 2 Lottery Pennsylvania Lottery Sunday Daily Number 55 490 246 Big 4 4265 8704 Cash 5 0814333536 Saturday Daily Number 427 107 Big 4 8646 1181 1 Cash 5 0709144144 25 Power Play 04 Index Blood Comics 10 5 Education 11 Entertainment 6 Help 11 Used book sale 12 Vital Civil War memorabilia featured in museum Jimmy Gionti of Titusville is shown viewing Civil War memorabilia at the One Day Museum sponsored by the Titusville Historical Society Herald photos by Tom Boyle History to lite by Tom Boyle Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad passengers took a ride back into an important part of American history on Saturday as the Titusville Historical Society spon sored a one day museum at the Perry Chris Pontius e t S t r e Station Representatives of the 150 Pennsylvania Bucktails were in full regalia at the local train station bringing with them tables full of artifacts and plenty of stories about the War Between the States The unit is available for living history displays Civil War reenact ments and even weddings according to Bob Lewis of the detachment Ordnance Sergeant Chris Pontius of Meadville became involved with Civil War reen as a hobby about 11 years ago From there I got more and more involved with the history of both the 150th unit and the Civil War era Pontius said Resplendent in his uniform representing the ordnance corps Pontius explained that as a sergeant he would have been in charge See HISTORY Page 3 Confederate soldier Duane Siskey is shown with Union trooper Bob Lewis at the Perry Street Station riders were treated to stories about the War Between the States as part of their journey on Saturday PAKISTANIS URGED TO CONSIDER RECOGNIZING ISRAEL PAGE 7 Israel begins pullback Hamas Islamic Jihad and Fatah announce truce GAZA CITY Gaza Strip AP The militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups and Yasser Fatah move m e n t declared immediate s u s p e n sions of attacks against Israel on Sunday and Israel began pulling troops out of Gaza breakthroughs in attempts to end almost three years of fight ing The militant groups announced truces and ceasefire was for six months At sundown Sunday Israeli troops and tanks began pulling out of northern Gaza in keep ing with an agreement to hand responsibility for security in Gaza over to the Palestinians An Israeli pullout is a condi tion of the road map to peace and a Palestinian state by 2005 The Bush administration welcomed news of the cease fire but said it wants to see more progress Anything that reduces vio lence is a step in the right direction White House spokeswoman Ashley Snee said Under the road map parties have an obligation to dismantle terrorist ture There is still more work to be done The truce was first announced by the two militant groups The timing came as a surprise after Palestinian said it would be delayed at least until Monday because of political infighting in Fatah movement a partner in the deal Hamas and Islamic Jihad apparently did not want to wait for Fatah to resolve its internal agreements Abdel Aziz Rantisi a Hamas leader read the truce announcement in a phone call to The Associated Press The two movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad decided to suspend military operations against the Zionist enemy for three months start ing today Rantisi said Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed alHindi confirmed that the truce took effect Sunday This is a joint declaration between Islamic Jihad and Hamas and I think our broth ers in Fatah are going to declare their position soon al Hindi told the AP Hours later Fatah issued a statement it would halt See ISRAEL Page 2 Population milestone renews identity questions WASHINGTON AP Lafortune consid ers himself Latino but to the government he is not Hispanic He checked off black as his race on his census form but ask him directly and he will call himself While the Census Bureau recently minted Hispanics as the nations largest minority group Lafortune is an example of the confusion over what it means to be Hispanic or Latino and the comparison with blacks and whites Hispanic first appeared in 1980 as a choice on a census questionnaire The ethnic cate gory is different from any other label the government uses in looking at Americans Hispanics can be of any race There are white Hispanics black Hispanics and Asian Hispanics for example Yet it is unclear what the category means Many but not all Hispanics speak Spanish For some ancestry in a Spanishspeaking country was many generations back Its a little messy said Sonia Perez deputy vice presi dent for research for the National Council of La Raza a Hispanic advocacy group I dont think theres just one answer The Census Bureau reported this month that the Hispanic population grew nearly 10 per cent to 388 million between April 2000 and July 2002 The rate of growth was four times that of the overall US popula tion About twothirds of the Hispanics are Mexican 9 percent are Puerto Rican and 4 percent are Cuban Hispanics can come from nearly 20 other places as well includ ing Colombia El Salvador and Spain according to the Census Bureau Some similarities arise Hispanic or Latino Hispanics or Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States with the population of 388 million But confusion reigns over what defines a Hispanic or Latino because the government separates Hispanic ethnicity from race meaning Hispanic ethnicity can be of any race Questions from the Census 2000 Is Person 1 Latino What is Person vs race The categories are White Black African or Negro American Indian Alaska Native Asian Indian Japanese Native Hawaiian Chinese Korean or Chamorro Filipino Vietnamese Samoan Other Asian Other Pacific Islander Some other race SOURCES US Census Bureau Associated Press AP among cultures Hispanics tend to focus more on family and many of the countries they come from are predominantly Roman Catholic said Juan Bello executive director of the Dominican American National Roundtable But those views often grow more liberal in the United States especially among suc generations of Bello said Political differences exist as well within Hispanic groups tend to be more conservative and vote Republican while Puerto lean Democratic tend to lean Democratic although a large part of that population is younger than 18 or and therefore cannot vote Lafortune who immigrated See IDENTITY Page 2
