Rain, Rain Go Away Irish Extra e tc . Increasing cloudiness today Notre Dame vs. Michigan State Bars with a high in the upper 70s. A 60 percent chance of Michigan State Campus Arts Scene showers tonight. Low in the .middle 60s._________________ VOL. XXII, NO. 19 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1988 the independent newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Interior of Sacred Heart to be renovated By MICHAEL WELLS gilding of the golden dome, as N ew s Staff well as the refurbishing of the stained glass windows in Sa­ A small crew of designers cred Heart. According to and craftsmen began work this Gruenke, the interior restora­ past Monday on a sample of the tion of the church is a separate interior restoration work they job from the stained glass, and hope to do for Sacred Heart would possibly involve replac­ Church in the near future. ing the pews, carpeting and al­ Scaffolding reaches from tar, in addition to the refinish­ floor to ceiling between two of ing of the walls. the columns on the right hand side of the church, as the group Don Dedrick, director of the tries to “seek what was the Notre Dame physical plant, decor of the church” in decades said that the Conrad Schmitt past, says decorating foreman firm was presenting their ideas Ronald Gruenke. for the job because of their ex­ According to Gruenke and perience in the two previous head interior decorator Sue restorations of the church, and Konet, both with Conrad because “there aren’t a lot of Schmitt Studios, their com­ people doing this kind of pany has not yet been con­ thing.” tracted for the extensive Although work in the church renovation job, but is only at began on Monday, research on this point submitting a sample. the previous design of the build­ “We’re basically putting back ing’s interior was begun two stencils where there were sten­ months before, said Konet. cils, gold where there was “Prior to this Monday, the gold,...a sample of the studio has been doing research murals,” said Konet. “We’re from old photographs, the Sacred Heart Gets A Face Lift Courtesy ol Conrad Schmitt submitting a color scheme Notre Dame archives here, and from old photographs.” studying the techniques of Two craftsmen from Conrad Schmitt Studios work on been contracted for the extensive interior renovation Conrad Schmitt Studios is the Gregor i.” refurbishing the stained glass windows in Sacred and restoration planned for Sacred Heart in the near same firm which is handling Heart. The Conrad Schmitt firm has also been repon- future. the nearly completed re­ see HEART, page 7 sible for re-gilding the golden dome and has not yet Hurricane Gilbert hits Mexico, approaches U.S. $8 Billion Texas gulf coast, Mexico damage in prepare for hurricane Jamaica Associated Press people laid in supplies. Homeowners covered windows Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas and doors with plywood and Thousands of coastal residents shatter-proofing hurricane KINGSTON, Jamaica- Prime from Mexico to Louisiana fled tape. Offshore oil workers left Minister Edward Seaga esti­ to higher ground yesterday as their rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. mated Hurricane Gilbert’s fierce Hurricane Gilbert sent Bob Sheets, director of the damage in Jamaica at $8 bil­ the first of its storms against National Hurricane Center in lion, and relief supplies began Texas after thrashing the Miami, said the 450-mile wide arriving yesterday for some of Yucatan Peninsula. storm would likely make this Caribbean island nation’s “This is a killer storm,” said landfall this afternoon along half million homeless. Gordon Guthrie, director of the the northern coast of Mexico or Sports stadiums, churches, Florida Division of Emergency southern Texas. government buildings and of Management. “I feel sorry In Brownsville, Texas’ sout­ movie theaters were used to for anybody wherever this hernmost city, winds began to house an estimated 150,000 hits.” pick up around noon under people, the government said. The death toll from the overcast skies. Seaga, who flew across the storm’s onslaught through the Lorena Curry, who has lived island to inspect damage Wed­ Hurricane Gilbert passed the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula at 10 a.m. Caribbean islands and the in Brownsville since 1935, said nesday, said entire towns were Wednesday. The hurricane moved over Jamaica and Grand Cayman Yucatan was at least 36, and she plans to ride out the storm. wiped out and that the govern­ earlier in the week, causing great destruction in its path. Residents along damage estimates reached $8 “I’ve been through them ment’s priority was to rebuild the Texas coast are now bracing for possible hurricane force winds. billion. before. I’m going to stick housing. By early evening, the first around at my home.” The government’s Jamaica was still out over much of the The Jamaica Information thunderstorms and showers in At 5 p.m. CDT, the storm cen­ Broadcasting Corp. reported at country, including Kingston. Service said Seaga was accom­ the outermost spiral bands of ter was about 340 miles sout­ least 19 dead and officials Yesterday only 10 percent of panied on his tour of the island the storm had reached sout­ heast of Brownsville, moving feared the death toll would Jamaica’s telephones were by U.S. ambassador Michael heast Texas, forecasters said. west northwest at about 15 mph mount as communication was back in service, said Marge Sotirhos and William Joslyn, Texas Gov. Bill Clements and dumping about 10 inches of reestablished with the interior. Boberschmidt, a spokeswoman director of the U.S. Agency for issued an emergency rain, according to the National Five people were reported for American Telephone and International Development. proclamation allowing local Weather Service. killed in the Dominican Telegraph. authorities to suspend laws “to The weather service issued a Republic and 10 in Haiti, where AT&T secured a single tele­ They flew aboard a U.S. Air preserve the health, safety and hurricane warning for the military government phone line in Jamaica Wednes­ Force C-130 aircraft, stopping welfare of the public,” includ­ Mexico’s northern coast and declared a state of emergency day night and began relaying in Montego Bay on the north ing such things as the direction the southern half of the 370-mile yesterday on its hard hit south­ one-page messages from coast, to deliver plastic tar­ of travel on highways. Texas coast from Brownsville ern peninsula. stranded Americans to worried paulins donated by the United Grocery stores ran low on Four days after the hur­ friends and relatives back see JAMAICA, page 7 bottled water, batteries, see GILBERT, page 7 ricane’s passing, electricity home. canned tuna and bread as page 2 The Observer Friday, September 16, 1988 INSIDE COLUMN IN BRIEF No criminal charges will be filed against the owner Some things makesense, of a 400-pound black bear that mauled a father and his two sons, the Hamilton County prosecutor said. Prosecutor Steven Nation said Thursday a review of police records but then again ... shows no evidence of criminal negligence, but he said the bear’s owner, Ron Miller, had agreed to build a more secure cage for his pet. William Wiley, 35, and his 11- and Sometimes, things seem to make a lot of sense. Chris 4-year-old sons were injured Saturday night when they Then again, sometimes, everything seems to went to feed M iller’s anim als while Miller was out of town. make absolutely no sense. Murphy The bear squeezed under a chain link fence and bounded Some of the newsworthy events of the week toward them. -Associated Press. prove the aforementioned theory’s utility. For example, isn’t it great that U.S.A. Today Editor-in-chief A federal office of rural mental health should be now has a television show? It’s shown on WSJV, established to address an increase in suicide, family vio­ the ABC affiliate in Elkhart, at 6:30 p.m. My lence, depression and emotional problems in rural question to the producer Steve Friedman is America, according to a study released Thursday by the which came first, the chicken or the egg. National Mental Health Association. The study, entitled U.S.A. Today, the newspaper, certainly has “Rural Mental Health: the Time for Action Is Now,” also found its place among the country’s more useful recommends a $50 million annual increase in funding for newspapers. The weather- page, the sports a federal alcohol, drug abuse and mental health services wrap-ups, and the state-by-state round-up are block grant program and a broader crisis counseling net­ superb ideas for a national newspaper. But the work for farmers. “We’re fighting a myth that rural brevity and lack of insight in the articles remind America is a healthier place to live. If that was ever true, one observer of a television show in print. The it’s not true today,” said Dr. Peter G. Beeson, director of newspaper concentrates on a “television news planning for the Nebraska Department of Public Institu­ style” that usually publishes human interest tions -Associated Press. events as their top story. c m Just in case you missed the first week of U.S.A. Today, the televison show, here’s a wrap OF INTEREST of some of the more “U.S.A. Today-ish” stories. First, the sports department enlightened the Eucharistic Ministry Workshops will be held in viewers as to why the Russians claim they in­ Sacred Heart Church on Sunday, Sept. 18th at 2:30 p.m., vented the sport of baseball.