Katrina Kills 55, Death Toll Rising They Choose to Pump Gas Before Hurricane Floods the Gulf Coast, and the Attics As the Floodwaters Rose Around Them
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WHAT’S THE WORD OF THE DAY? | PAGE 9 TUESDAY Mostly sunny August 30, 2005 Volume 112, Number 8 High: 72 | Low: 43 More weather Page 2 �THE STUDENT�������� VOICE OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1896 www.dailyevergreen.com Gas Thefts due to rise in prices Drive-offs at gas stations are common and more are expected with the recent flux of people in Pullman. Rachelle Flynn Contributing writer Local gas stations expect the theft of gasoline to increase with the return of students. “It goes through its spurts,” said Darcy Wilson, manager of Stinker Station No. 38 in Moscow. “With gas prices being as high as they are, you really have to pay attention.” Wilson said in the past week they have had two drive-offs, one with diesel and one with gas fuel. She worries about diesel, at almost $3 a gallon, being stolen more than anything. “One got caught and came back and paid,” she said. “They’ll say, ‘Oh, I thought I put my card in.’ The funny thing is, there’s no JOHN BAZEMORE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS card reader in the diesel.” Garron Lenaz recovers an American flag from the rubble in front of his home in Gulfport, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina To catch the drive-offs, struck the Gulf Coast Monday. gas stations will track a thief’s license plate number by writing it down or with cameras. They keep track of the cars more if Katrina kills 55, death toll rising they choose to pump gas before Hurricane floods the Gulf Coast, and the attics as the floodwaters rose around them. See DRIVE-OFFS | Page 7 body count begins to climb. And authorities said the death toll is certain Hurricane relief effort to rise as authorities reach victims in flood- Jan Kinsella, 67, has been on more than 70 Allen G. Breed ravaged neighborhoods. relief missions for the American Red Cross. The Associated Press “The state today has suffered a grievous The Spokane resident was scheduled to leave blow,” Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said. for Baton Rouge, La., at 6:30 a.m. today to provide Film club NEW ORLEANS — Announcing itself In Mississippi’s Harrison County, communications support following the devasta- with shrieking, 145-mph winds, Hurricane emergency operations center spokesman tion of Hurricane Katrina. Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Jim Pollard said an estimated 50 people “It’s going to be a hardship tour,” she said. Monday, submerging entire neighborhoods were killed by Katrina, with the bulk of the “There will probably not be any running water or premieres up to their roofs, swamping Mississippi’s deaths at an apartment complex in Biloxi. anything you can drink.” beachfront casinos and blowing out win- Three other people were killed by falling Kinsella is a member of the Response dows in hospitals and high-rises. At least 55 trees in Mississippi and two died in a traffic Technology Team for the Inland Northwest on campus people were killed, authorities said. accident in Alabama, authorities said. Chapter of the American Red Cross. For New Orleans – a dangerously vul- “Some of them, it was their last night She said the job requires her to help establish Wednesday is the kick off cell phone, satelite phone, computer and power nerable city because it sits mostly below sea on Earth,” Terry Ebbert, chief of homeland support for a relief headquarters on site in Baton meeting of a long awaited level in a bowl-shaped depression – it was security for New Orleans, said of people Rouge. organization dedicated to not the apocalyptic storm forecasters had who ignored orders to evacuate the city of She said similar hurricane relief work took producing films. feared. 480,000 over the weekend. “That’s a hard Kinsella to Florida for almost three and a half But it was plenty bad, in New Orleans way to learn a lesson.” months last summer. and elsewhere along the coast, where scores “We pray that the loss of life is very lim- Relief personnel from across the nation and Emily Luty people had to be rescued from rooftops and Contributing writer See HURRICANE | Page 7 See RED CROSS | Page 7 Wazzu Films is a new organi- zation on campus focusing their lens on student filmmakers. Nick Bergthold, a junior mar- keting major, and Ryan Foulkes, a senior communication major, ProFormance, a new place to recuperate are the president and vice presi- young and the old. Co-own- and raised in.” ics at the high school, they dent of the organization. Injured community members will have another option for ers Bashaw, Laura Nakata In addition to general both became interested in Not only the two heads of the Vannucci and Troy Vannucci physical therapy practice, the physical therapy. Bashaw organization, they are the stu- physical therapy starting Sept. 1. will take patients, athletes co-owners will offer injury earned a bachelor’s degree in dents who envisioned the orga- and non-athletes alike, from prevention courses for little physical therapy at Eastern nization dedicated to film mak- Nick Eaton Pullman High School, WSU, or no charge to the public, Washington University before ers and their needs after they Contributing writer attended a North by Northwest the elderly and everyone in such as knee injury prevention earning four more athletic cer- seminar, Foulkes said. between. classes and pre- and post- tifications elsewhere. Pullman natives are break- “We want to get really operation programs for people Nakata Vannucci earned “There’s a lot of people here ing into the world of indepen- who don’t know where to go,” involved with the commu- undergoing joint replacement her bachelor’s degree in biolo- dent physical therapy practice. nity in a number of different surgery. gy with a pre-physical training Bergthold said. ProFormance Physical The organization is holding ways,” said Bashaw, who Bashaw and Nakata option at WSU. She said WSU their first meeting at 7 p.m. on Therapy, founded by Pullman specializes in sports and rec- Vannucci were born and provided her with a grea- native Bob Bashaw, will reation athletics. “We care for raised in Pullman. Having See CLUB | Page 7 open its doors Sept. 1 to the the community we were born been involved with athlet- See PROFORMANCE | Page 7 News Tip? 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