MONDAY,AUG.20,2001
NATION
Bush pushes for religious group funding
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 17A
Senate will consider initiative when it returns from summer recess
The Associated Press
WACO, Texas President Bush said Saturday he was trying to make government more compassionate by letting religious charities compete more easily for taxpayer money.
"A compassionate government should find ways to support their good works," Bush said in his weekly radio address Saturday. "Unfortunately, government often treats charities and community groups as rivals instead of partners."
Bush has been seeking to persuade Congress to pass legislation opening government's doors
wider to churches, synagogues and other "faith-based organizations."
The initiative has raised concerns that it would violate the constitutional separation between church and state.
Bush echoed the findings of a report last week that contended federal officials routinely discriminate against religious groups when handing out grant money by taking those fears too far.
The report, based on data from five Cabinet agencies, "documents a government bias against faith and community-based organizations, a bias that exists even when constitutional concerns about church and state have been addressed." Bush said.
"Government administrators restrict religious groups from even applying for funding simply because they are religious," he said.
civil rights of such religious groups, he said.
Such government restrictions infringe on the
Bush noted that the House has already passed the necessary legislation. He urged the Senate to do likewise when it returns after Labor Day from its summer recess.
The measure has attracted little Democratic support. No legislation has been introduced in the Senate, where democrats are in control.
Bush said the program can help broaden government programs intended to encourage home ownership among low-income people, and provide an array of social services, including shelters for battered women and children, pregnancy centers, drug addiction treatment programs, and care for the homeless.
"If you agree, let your senator know if you see him or her during the congressional recess," the president said.
Wildfires consume 93,000 Washington acres
The Associated Press
LEAVENWORTH, Wash. — Gusty winds fanned fears of wildfire Saturday in this Cascade mountain tourist town, where flames have already gobbled more than 5,000 acres and could threaten nearly 2,000 homes and businesses.
It was just one of seven major fires in drought-stricken Washington state, where more than 93,000 acres had been burned across the state's arid east side in the past week.
Fire engines from around the state converged on the community.
to protect it from the so-called Icicle complex of more than 20 fires
"This is the No.1 priority fire in the region because of all the houses," said fire information officer Greg Thayer with the Wenatchee National Forest.
Across the West, 26,000 firefighters were at work Saturday battling 30 major fires that had blackened 504,044 acres, said the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. No serious injuries have been reported. Last month, four eastern Washington firefighters were killed in a different round of blazes.
Oregon had 12 major wildfires, two of them new, on 232,000 acres. Homes were threatened in Monument, Ukiah and Dale.
"We're winning the war," said 79-year-old Monument resident Gus Peterson, who had used his red pickup, fitted with a 240-gallon water tank and a coiled hose, to help a small army of firefighters battle the blaze flanking the town.
Fire crews had scraped and burned a perimeter outside of Monument to keep the 26,000-acre fire away from homes. Fire officials had expected trouble Friday from winds. But the winds turned out to be weaker than expected.
In northern Nevada, weary firefighters faced a new fire that had burned 13,000 acres by Saturday morning.
Fifty homes had been evacuated in Leavenworth since the middle of the week, about 30 of them Friday night, when the wind-driven fires raced across an additional 1,000 to 1,500 acres. Residents of 200 homes were warned that they might have to leave.
West Nile virus kills woman in Florida
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The death of an elderly woman from the West Nile virus prompted officials Saturday to warn residents and open a phone bank to deal with concerned callers.
Blanch H. Hill, 71, died from the mosquito-spread virus Aug. 11 at Grady Memorial Hospital, officials said. Six other people in metro Atlanta hospitals with similar symptoms are being tested, but no other human cases in Georgia have been confirmed.
Officials on Saturday were larviciding around senior citizens' homes downtown and in a park where dead birds infected with the virus have been found. Larviciding is a mosquito control method in which chemicals or natural substances are put in standing water to kill juvenile insects.
The virus, which can cause deadly swelling of the brain, has killed nine people in New York and New Jersey since 1999. It has appeared in the South this year in two Florida residents, and in dead birds in Florida, Georgia and Virginia. Mosquitoes can transmit the virus
from birds to humans and other animals.
Atlanta health officials urged residents to remove any standing pools of water where mosquitos could breed and to use bug repellent.
Public spraying to kill mosquitoes was under way this week on New York's Staten Island. A 73-year-old woman on Staten Island was being treated for the virus. Infected birds have been found in several Northeast states.
For most people, the virus causes only a flu-like illness, and many who are exposed don't get sick at all. People with weakened immune systems are considered most at risk.
In Ontario, Canada, authorities reported Friday that a dead crow found in Windsor, near Detroit, tested positive for the virus. It was the first known case in Canada since the disease was discovered in North America in 1999, said Dr. Allen Heimann of the Windsor/Essex Health Unit.
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