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mm Fcderico Fcilini, River Phoeniit Extra effort What it's like to step into the lights with 'Milk Money stars Tempo, D1 Schott is bade 70 things Marge should do to make the Reds better and the fans happier John Erardi: Sports, B1 Both died Sunday; nrtnr wnv 7 Section frr Harald Ortenburger and Richard Benjamin nn CINCINNATI EN IKEK FINAL35C i t.rii.iiii,ii 0) Hi Tricks, treats, chattering teeth should be a memory by Tuesday, Election Day, when temperatures will reach the mid-50s. Pytlak said milder temperatures will be coupled with a chance of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. "This early snowfall is no indication of what the rest of the winter is going to be like," he said. Cold can't stop trick-or-treaters, A11 loween, and rarely have trick-or-treaters been forced to make rounds in such low temperatures. The temperature as most trick-or-treaters took to the streets Sunday was about 32.

It was not a record low, though; the temperature dipped to 24 in 1923. "This will be remembered by kids for the next 80 years, but of course no one will believe them," Pytlak. Much of the snowfall melted on warm ground and roads, and it ever in October in Greater Cincinnati. The snowfall amounted to 6.2 inches Saturday and Sunday. National Weather Service meteorologist Erik Pytlak said the unusually early snow also made October the third snowiest since 1990.

The area averages two-tenths of an inch of snow in October. The previous record for October snowfall was 5.8 inches, in 1989. Pytlak said the area never has had snow on the ground for Hal Snowy Halloween 'also among coldest BY MEGHAN HENTERLY The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati's first white Halloween on record Sunday sent "would-be Tarzans looking for Eskimo costumes. While there was only three-tenths of an inch more snow Sunday, it added to the record set Saturday for the most snowfall The Cincinnati EnquirerPatrick Reddy Inner tube rides rivaled door-to-door candy solicitation Sunday. Jobeth Ferone, 10, of Anderson Township, cruises down a hill.

Blue Ash crash kills pilot LTD i 1 -4 i vJi'i -J (aMltfO uur ir -r T-i i i 1 1 I i i svm." rt Jmtcmm-i CLINTON'S HEALTH PLAN Inside, A2 11 I The Cincinnati EnquirerMichael E. Keating The White House's senior health care adviser on Sunday repudiated statements that 40 of insured Americans would pay more under health reform. fraMagazinersaid60 of all Americans would pay the same or less initially. He said only 15, mostly young single people, would pay more. f.

iff' "ff TOP: Blue Ash fire and safety officials examine the crash site inside the Lighting Systems Inc. warehouse. Sunday. Poll shows public concern Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Public sup-. port for President Clinton's health care plan is slipping as people become more aware of its details, and begin to calculate what it means to them.

A USA 7orfayCNNGallup poll taken Thursday-Saturday found Americans split on the plan, 45-45, down from the 59 support the president got five weeks ago when he unveiled the sweeping reform proposal. Support dropped most among senior citizens 65 and over, early backers of the plan. One in four said it should be passed as is, one in four said it should be rejected totally and nearly half said it should be passed only if Congress makes major changes. A majority 54 said the plan, with its employer mandates, regional insurance-purchasing organizations and cost limitations, is too complicated to work. "The final plan won't look anything like the one the president carried up to Capitol Hill last week," predicted Republican pollster Neil Newhouse.

Biggest public concerns, according to the poll: Higher costs. More government bureaucracy. Declining quality. Less choice. "I love my doctor and trust him.

He knows all my kids, and I don't want to leave him (for) someone that somebody else tells you you have to go to," said Debra Tonih-ka, 34, a Hansen, Idaho, health aide and mother of three. On the plus side for Clinton, fell! LEFT: An aerial view of the building's roof shows the hole made by the single-engine airplane. Florida man flying alone BY BETH MENGE Cincinnati Enquirer BLUE ASH A single-engine aircraft preparing to land at the Blue Ash Airport dove through the roof of an industrial warehouse Sunday morning and buist into flames, killing its pilot. Simon Selber, 49, of Jacksonville, was alone in his single-engine Mooney aircraft when it crashed through the roof of Lighting Systems Inc. (LSI) just before 11 a.m.

He was pronounced dead at 1:58 p.m. at University Hospital. Bruce Henry, Blue Ash safety director, said "just before the crash, the pilot talked to officials at the Blue Ash Airport and did not indicate he was having problems." Michael Allen, Blue Ash police chief, said Selber's plane was circling the airport and preparing to The Cincinnati EnquirerPatrick Reddy 66 favored his proposal to partially pay for the plan by increasing the tax on cigarettes by a pack. And 56 said they would be willing to pay more taxes to help cover those without insurance. Also, 57 of those polled said the nation as a whole would be better off under the Clinton plan.

In the poll, 42 said they trust Congress more than they do Clinton to improve the nation's health care system, while 38 trust Clinton more. And 60 said Clinton's plan will not be able to solve the nation's health care problems, up from 50 shortly after he unveiled it Sept. 22 in a speech to Congress. The nationwide poll of 1,017 adults had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. jf Blue Ash I airport MalsbaryRd.

daughter, who attends a private school in Cincinnati, family members in Jacksonville said. No one was inside the LSI building, which is used for storage of lighting-fixture parts. Officials of the company, which employed 250 workers in 1992, could not be reached. Federal officials are investigating the crash. land when it spiraled into the center of the LSI building at 10170 Alliance Road.

The wreckage burned for 40 minutes. The building sustained structural damage and was determined unusable without repair. Selber, a Jacksonville attorney, left that city early Sunday and was planning to visit his WEATHER Focus moves from integration to education Chilly morning i Assessing the Bronson agreement After negotiators for the Cincinnati school board and the NAACP last week settled on a plan to improve black students' achievement, The Enquirer asked national and local experts to comment on the plan or suggest their own approaches in specific areas. This story examines some of their responses. High 44" Low 28" Mostly cloudy and cold this morning, becoming partly sunny later in the day.

Clearing tonight. Mostly sunny Tuesday; high 56. Oetails, back page this section Suspicious fire kills woman; five rescued The Cincinnati Enquirer One woman died, and five people were rescued from a fire in a three-story apart-; ment building in Camp Washington on Sunday. Cincinnati's criminal investigations unit has been asked to investigate the death, which police said could have been a homicide or a suicide. The unidentified woman burned to death under a stairwell on the second floor of the three-story building at 2801 Colerain Ave.

Story, A10 INDEX expanding preschool, lowering failure rates and tracking disciplinary referrals. Preschool: The agreement recommends expanding preschool for 4-year-olds and establishing programs for 3-year-olds. Now, 35 of the district's 61 elementary schools have Head Start or other preschool programs. Western Hills High School offers a preschool program for children of, Western Hills students. "The merits of preschool are well-researched," said Evelyn Moore, executive director of the National Black Child Development Institute in Washington, D.C.

"Most urban African-American children are disproportionately poor and from single-parent families. They need enrichment at an BY KRISTA RAMSEY The Cincinnati Enquirer The long battle over school desegregation in Cincinnati, as in most U.S. cities, has moved from an argument over numbers to a debate about quality of education. Cincinnati Public Schools' nine-year desegregation agreement was replaced last week with an out-of-court settlement. National experts say the experience here is similar to a pattern in desegregation cases across the country.

Concern over racial balance has taken a back seat to pointed questions over how much black students are learning. "All over the country blacks are saying they should have paid more attention to quality of education and less to numbers," said Gordon Foster, director of the Southeastern Desegregation Center in Mi- Four sections, 1 53rd year, No. 205 Copyright 1993, The Cincinnati Enquirer toby D2 Nation A2. 4-5 C1 Obituaries A13 Business D4 Puzzles Comics D5 ami, a federally funded center that assists schools with desegregation efforts. "Younger blacks say they want a better education for children.

They don't care about the numbers, don't care if the school is all black. "The old guard remembers having segregated schools that were only supposed to be separate but equal but they weren't equal." In the 19 years since Cincinnati's Bronson desegregation lawsuit was filed, educational re searchers have come closer to defining what constitutes high-quality education for all students. The keys, they say, are challenging academic programs and teachers, high expectations for achievement and a learning environment that values cultural diversity and eliminates bias. While Cincinnati schools' 1984 agreement focused on racial balance, the agreement reached Wednesday calls for specific changes in ie classroom, including Editorials A14 Sports B1 C6 D1 HealthScience A3 Stocks Lotteries A16 Tempo Metro A10 TV D6 D5 World Movies A2.8 (Please see EDUCATION, Classified D7-16 Page A6) Printed on recycled newsprint using soy oil ink i.