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Meeting called forconcerned parentsof schoolchildrenBy CURTIS WINSTON Staff WriterA group of concerned parentswill be getting together tonight todiscuss the teacher’s strike that has postponed the start of schoolin Harrisburg.The meeting will be held at 6 tonight at the big baseball diamond at Harrisburg Park.If the meeting is like a gathering held during the teachers’ strike in 1990, it will feature people calling for both the teachers’ union and the Board of Education to end the strike and get back to the business of educating thechildren.No end is in sight to the strike, which is in its sixth day today. A bargaining session was held Monday, with both sides coming away from the table in a stalemate over contract language, salaries and insurance.Both the Harrisburg EducationAssociation and the Board of Education have called on each other to initiate further negotiations.The last offer from the board was a three-year contract offeringraises of $400, $550 and $600each year. The board also proposed a $40 increase in insurance benefits.Contract language dealing with hiring for vacant positions also was proposed by the board,with the union giving up its allrights to extra-duty positions and exclusive rights to teaching positions.HE A wants the 21-year-old vacancy hiring clause kept intact It restricts the board to hiring only internal applicants for vacant teaching and extra-duty positions.HEA’s last offer on salaries was a three-year contract of a $1,850 raise this year followed by 6.75 percent increases the following two years. HEA also wants the board to pay 100 percent of its insurance.No more bargaining sessions have been scheduled as Unit 3’s 2,300 students continue an extended summer vacation.By GUY COATES Associated Press WriterFRANKLIN, La. — Hurricane Andrew threw its deadly fury into the heart of Louisiana, striking only a glancing blow at New Orleans before heading deep into Cajun country today. It weakened as it moved inland but still pounded towns and fields with hurricane-force wind.The storm, already labeled the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history with damage put at more than $15 billion, added plenty to the bill it ran up earlier this week in Florida and the Bahamas.“We’re really in bad shape,’’ Mayor Emmett Hardaway of Berwick said this morning after Andrew moved through. “I’d venture to say this is the worst damage Berwick has ever seen in a hurricane.’’“It’s a lot worse than I though it would be.’’Evacuees from the south-central Louisiana town, population 4,000, are being told not to return home because “we’ve had such damage here, there’s nothing to come back to right now,’’ Hardaway said.There were no immediate reports of deaths in Louisiana, but the toll in Florida, which Andrew raked Monday, rose to 15 today. There were also three deaths confirmed in the Bahamas.As Andrew moved inland, it flooded roads, uprooted trees, tore off huge limbs and started power lines popping throughout the region. A tornado spun off by the storm ripped through a New Orleans suburb, and 30 people were reported injured.Several hundred homes were inundated in coastal Terrebonne Parish, said sheriff s Lt Morris Duplantis. Residents had been evacuated as Andrew approached.Tr» thp north n tiiahnaf was sinking in the Mis-WEDNESDAY,Durable goods—Sports, Page 6sissippi River at St. Francisville, north of Baton Rouge, and a ferry was dispatched to rescue six crew members who were in the water, police said.The water in the river is so rough that * ‘they say it looks like the Gulf of Mexico in the Mississippi River,’ ’ said state police spokesman Capt. Ronnie Jones.Tens of thousands of people rode out the stormin shelters and boarded-up homes. But shelters were not all unscathed.“This house is falling apart around me,” said Ken Perry, manager of an airport in Patterson, 60 miles west of New Orleans. “I’m standing in water right now in the house, and we’re 10 feet above sea level.”A high school in Patterson where 120 people took refuge lost its roof to the wind, said Sheriff Huey Bourgeois of St Mary Parish. He said no one was hurtThe hurricane’s leading edge came ashore about 11 p.m. CDT and scraped along Louisiana’s coast, a marshy area dotted with cypress trees, Spanish moss and fields of sugar cane. The storm center came ashore four hours later, 55 miles south-southeast of Lafayette.In Franklin, a town of 22,000 some 40 miles southeast of Lafayette, Bourgeois said the losses to cane farmers would be severe.As the storm passed near Baton Rouge, power was knocked out at the state Capitol and offices were running on emergency generators. A flash flood closed a section of Interstate 110.At 10 a.m. CDT, the center was about 25 miles west of Baton Rouge, and the storm was moving northward about 8 mph. Its top sustained winds had dropped to 75 mph. When it came ashore, it had winds of 140 mph and gusts of 160 mph werereported, the weather service said.4 ‘Loss of energy from the warm gulf waters is going to kill this thing. It will die a slow and painful death,” said Roger Edwards, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center.Forecasters warned of inland flash floods, but the threat of storm surges on the coast subsided. Up to 10 inches of rain were possible.“The rain was whipping really bad. We could see it, but you couldn’t see outside because the rain was hitting the window in sheets,” said Junius Crochet, assistant police chief in Morgan City.A tornado cut a swath seven miles long through LaPlace, a town of nearly 20,000 people 20 miles west of New Orleans. Nine homes and some offices were destroyed, said Arnold Labat, St. John the Baptist Parish president“There’s nothing left but splinters,” Lucille Perilloux, 46, said of her home. “All I heard was a loud, loud noise. I turned to go into the house and it picked me up and threw me. It rolled me across the ground, almost to the street’ ’Thirty injured people were taken to River Parishes Medical Center, which was without power, said hospital spokeswoman Rose McDuffie. She said three of them, all seriously hurt, were being taken to New Orleans-area hospitals.Parts of Grand Isle, a 7-mile-long barrier island 110 miles south of New Orleans, were under water, and power was out. The 1,452 residents had left in the first wave of evacuations Monday.In all, at least 200,000 people in the southeast part of the state were without electricity this morning, with that number expected to increase as reports from south-central Louisiana came in.Bridges across the Mississippi River were closed south of Natchez, Miss., about 200 miles north of New Orleans, because of high wind.See ANDREW. Pace 4
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Harrisburg Daily Register
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Wed, Aug 26, 1992
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