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1 I trt'E COCJRIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MAY 4. 1989 TODAY'S WEATHER FORECAST BY WEATHERDATA INC. Wilkinson opts to take more time to review legislators' education plan FOR THE RECORD High yesterday, 67; low, 39. Year ago: high 75; low 49. Record high, 93 in 1959; record low, 35 in 1961.

Precipitation yesterday: none. Month: trace, 0.39 inches below normal. Year: 23.13 inches. 7.29 inches above normal. KENTUCKY FORECAST Cloudy today with a chance for thunderstorms.

Highs in the 60s. Showers and thunderstorms likely tonight, with lows in the 50s. Cloudy tomorrow, with a continued chance for showers east. Highs in the 60s. INDIANA FORECAST Increasing cloudiness today, with showers developing south and spreading north by late afternoon.

Highs in the upper 50s and 60s. Showers and thunderstorms likely tonight, with lows in the low to mid-50s. Cloudy tomorrow, with showers ending. Highs in the 60s. LOUISVILLE FORECAST said Wilkinson sounded encouraging about the plan and described it as "a decent attempt on the legislature's part to reach some sort of a point where we can begin combining programs and doing some sort of a compromise." Wilkinson's chief legislative liaison, Tom Dorman, also hinted that some negotiations are possible.

"We consistently get the signal from legislators that the word flexibility is used, that there's room to negotiate," Dorman said. The package presented last week amounts to specific programs costing $219 million in the state's 1990 budget, $316 million in 1991 and $348 million in 1992. In addition, there are provisions that would force local school districts to take some actions, such as raise a certain amount of money through local taxation. The package contains Wilkinson's primary education initiative, a restructuring plan that would cost $78 million by 1992. By MARK R.

CHELLGREN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. Gov. Wallace Wilkinson needs more time to study the education package compiled by Democratic legislators, an aide said yesterday. "The bottom line is it's something that needs not to be rushed," press secretary Doug Alexander said. "It's too important." Legislators say there is no need for Wilkinson to hurry his answer to the package they presented him last week.

At the time, Wilkinson said he would respond early this week. "The governor himself is the one who has attached the urgency to it," House Speaker Don Blandford, D-Philpot, said. "I have never really shared that urgency. The idea is to get it right" House Democratic Floor Leader Greg Stumbo of Prestonsburg said he has talked to the governor about the package in general terms. He Acceptance of the package would likely force Wilkinson to alter two long-held positions.

Wilkinson has repeatedly said restructuring as he defines it is needed before other education reforms are enacted. Also, his opposition to a tax increase is his most closely held political position, and enactment of the legislative package would require a tax Increase. A wild card is the Kentucky Supreme Court, which is pondering a lawsuit brought by 66 local school districts challenging the way Kentucky funds its schools, specifically addressing the disparity in funding of poor districts and comparatively wealthier districts. Lawmakers want to wait until that ruling before acting, but Wilkinson said he wants to act before the decision is released. The high court has two dates scheduled in June for the release of rulings.

If the case is not decided then, it would be September before the court issues its next rulings. OUiSViLLENX I SUN MON I 1 Ford raps McConnell for not consulting judicial panel on 6th Circuit nominee I OF PARTLY PARTLY 1 CLOUDY CLOUDY I 7' I 43 1 Cloudy today, with a chance for showers and thunderstorms. High, 64. South wind 10 to 18 mph. Showers and thunderstorms likely tonight, with a low of 53.

Cloudy tomorrow, with a chance for showers. High, 66. EXTENDED FORECAST Kentucky: Chance for showers Saturday. Fair Sunday and Monday. Highs in the 60s Saturday and Sunday warming to the mid-60s and 70s by Monday.

Lows in the upper 40s and 50s Saturday cooling into the 40s Sunday and Monday. Indiana: Chance for showers Saturday and Monday. Fair Sunday. Highs in the 50s to low 60s over the weekend warming to the mid-60s and 70s Monday. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s Saturday with 40s Sunday and Monday.

SOLARLUNAR NEW 1STQTR. FULL LAST QTR. May 5 May 12 May 20 SUNRISE SUNSET MOONHISE MOON SET .643 AM. ..837 P.M. ..5:47 A.M.

8:06 P.M. 60 rTL 807 SEATTLE SNOW COLD FRONT WARM FRONT STATIONARY FRONT -60 HIGH TEMPERATURES 5NUW THJPF PATI IPC 5 4RE rO FOR TODAY'S HIGH lv AND TONIGHTS LOW 5-DAY FORECAST FOR Forecast temperatures are tor 24 Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Diego San Francisco Sault Ste. Mane Seattle Shreveport Sioux Falls Spokane Syracuse Tampa-St. Pete Topeka Tucson Tulsa Washington, C.

Wichita 74- 46 Cloudy 63-34 Cloudy 75- 46 Clear 75-50 Cloudy 81-53 Clear 62-43 Ram 69-52 Cloudy 73-57 Cloudy 71-65 Clear 50-31 Cloudy 65-46 Clear 75-58 Cloudy 59- 32 Cloudy 60- 37 .08 Clear 52-42 .05 Clear 84-58 Clear 49-38 .36 Cloudy 95-63 Clear 61- 47 .17 Cloudy 69-51 Cloudy 5747 .03 Cloudy Pil BLOOM INGTONANXVOv Xe- eoA 64-55 0NCLOUDYXh MDCAHSSftLONDON THUR (I FRI II SAT mr MOSTLY MOSTLY CHANCE CLOUDY CLOUOY SHOWERS 47 40o FORECAST FOR 3 By JOHN VOSKUHL Staff Writer U. S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's decision not to consult a statewide selection commission before recommending a state Court of Appeals judge for a federal appellate post drew criticism yesterday from his Democratic colleague, U. S.

Sen. Wendell Ford. Ford said he regretted that McConnell, a Republican, had "chosen not to use the resources of our non-partisan commission." McConnell said later that he was surprised by Ford's statement and that he had acted within established precedent. The Kentucky Federal Judicial Selection Commission will meet Monday and probably issue a statement on the matter, said Chairman Robert J. Turley, a Lexington attorney.

McConnell announced Tuesday that he would recommend that state Court of Appeals Judge R. W. Dyche III, 38, of London be appointed to a vacancy on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Wi, o- 1 MIAMI P.M.

TODAY CINCINNATI 68-52, LOUISVILLE nrrnlng tows and afternoon highs. THE WORLD The following weather observations were compiled yesterday, based on the previous day weather. City Hi Lo Weather Amsterdam 61 37 Clear Athens 72 55 Cloudy Auckland 67 65 Rain Bangkok 100 81 Clear Barbados 87 69 Clear Beijing 82 63 Clear Beirut 73 64 Clear Belgrade 52 41 Cloudy Berlin 68 52 Cloudy Bermuda 78 71 Clear Bogota 61 48 Cloudy Brisbane 74 63 Rain Brussels 72 39 Clear Budapest 65 50 Cloudy Aires 68 48 Clear Cairo 90 61 Clear Calgary 46 37 Cloudy Caracas 86 68 Cloudy Copenhagen 67 46 Cloudy Dublin 67 50 Cloudy Frankfurt 66 43 Cloudy Geneva 66 39 Clear Harare 77 52 Cloudy Havana 83 76 Cloudy Helsinki 59 39 Clear Hong Kong 73 70 Ram Istanbul 72 55 Cloudy Jerusalem 79 59 Clear Johannesburg 64 41 Clear Kiev 70 52 Cloudy Lima 75 61 Clear Lisbon 77 61 Clear London 73 54 Clear Madrid 73 43 Clear Manila 97 75 Clear Mexico City 79 50 Clear Montreal 50 46 Rain Moscow 61 48 Cloudy Nairobi 73 59 Cloudy Nassau 86 73 Cloudy New Delhi 100 78 Clear Nicosia 88 62 Cloudy Oslo 64 46 Clear Paris 70 52 Cloudy Rio 91 66 Cloudy Rome 66 46 Clear San Juan 85 71 Cloudy Seoul 77 55 Clear Singapore 86 75 Rain Stockholm 68 61 Clear Sydney 67 59 Cloudy Taipei 77 70 Cloudy Tel Aviv 77 64 Clear Tokyo 72 54 Cloudy Toronto 48 39 Ram Vancouver 71 50 Cloudy Vienna 63 50 Cloudy Warsaw 66 50 Clear 7543 66-40 78-45 75-53 85-53 71-55 6945 72-62 70-52 62-39 71-50 80-63 68-44 68-43 67-43 86-66 70-44 97-60 75-62 75-55 73-48 the northern Rockies. Temperatures at 3 p.m. EDT ranged from 39 degrees at Yellowstone National Park, to 95 at Gila Bend, Ariz.

The nation's morning low was 28 at Alamosa, and Marquette, Mich. For today, showers and thunderstorms were forecast from northeastern Texas and the central Gulf Coast states to the Ohio Valley and the middle Mississippi Valley. A cold front was expected to spread scattered showers over the upper Mississippi Valley and the northern Plains. Rain was forecast over the northern 'Silver Fox' accused of conning scores of women pleads guilty to theft charge SELECTED CITIES WEATHER SUMMARY and precipitation for Today's the president, who appoints federal judges, subject to Senate confirmation. McConnell has acknowledged that Kentucky has a reasonable chance of retaining the seat vacated by Pierce Lively of Danville, who recently moved to senior status, because McConnell is the only Republican senator from the 6th Circuit's states.

McConnell said yesterday that he had acted in the same manner in 1985, when Danny Boggs of Bowling Green was nominated and later confirmed for a 6th Circuit seat Calling that a "directly applicable precedent" McConnell said no one had complained about it. But Ford said "the vacancy clearly falls under the commission's jurisdiction." Dyche, who has held one of the state court's 3rd District seats since June 1986, is from a prominent Republican family. Ford said yesterday that it is important to "to assure that any interested applicant has a non-partisan, objective forum in which he or she can be evaluated." 1979 arrest warrant based on a complaint from a Sarasota socialite who told police that Frankford, then known as Ferguson, met her at a church function, moved in and then stole her Mercedes-Benz. A man matching Ferguson's description later moved to Lakeland, married a prominent woman and took nearly everything she had. "This guy is slick," Palm Beach County sheriff's Detective Dave Hoyt said.

"He could charm the socks off a dead guy." The case responsible for putting Frankford on national television came from Palm Beach County. He met the widow at a church singles dance, wined and dined her and moved in with her for a month. When he disappeared, he took her jewelry and a gun that had belonged to her late husband. "He was unbelievably smooth," said one victim after Frankford disappeared. "It was wining, dining, dancing and trips.

He mixed with the family, and he was a very giving guy who always paid for things. You would never have known." Frankford was preparing to go back to jail after the hearing when a well-dressed woman approached him and gave him a hug. Police said it was Frankford's newest girlfriend. Manchester received a $2,247,190 loan at 2.5 percent interest to upgrade Its sewer system to serve the city and a new federal prison that will hold 1,200 prisoners and employ 250 people. Graves County received approval of a $3,717,000 loan at 3.5 percent interest to provide sewer and water service to a new Seaboard Farms poultry-processing plant.

Seaboard will employ 600 workers at the plant. The plant Is also expected to draw additional jobs to Kentucky at new poultry farms and other McCONNELL FORD Differ on proper procedure In announcing his recommendation, McConnell said he did not consult the commission because the federal seat would not necessarily be filled by a Kentuckian. (The 6th Circuit, a 15-member court based in Cincinnati, also handles cases from Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan.) But the charter of the commission, which evaluates candidates for federal judgeships in Kentucky and recommends them to the state's senators, provides for it to recommend appellate candidates in the event that a Kentuckian would be an appropriate nominee, Turley said. The senators relay those names to When Frankford was arrested, he gave back most of the $4,000 worth of jewelry that was missing, but the victim may never get the money she is owed. Court records show the man, a former condominium-maintenance worker whose criminal record dates to 1945, cannot afford to pay his court costs.

Frankford, who has spent the past three months in the Palm Beach County Jail, was sentenced to time served. He will be transferred to the Polk County Jail where he awaits trial on 12 charges of forgery and grand theft. Assistant State Attorney Catherine Hall said. Frankiord's undoing came when a former sister-in-law saw his case on television and immediately called the program's hot line from the small coal mining town of Stearns to say he was living nearby. A Kentucky state trooper watching the show also recognized Frankford as the man he had arrested on a drunken-driving charge the previous weekend.

Officers who went to Frankford's house to arrest him found he was masquerading as 56-year-old James Ferguson and that he was married to a 37-year-old woman. Authorities also found a February authority from the federally assisted fund. The money will be used to upgrade the sewage-treatment facilities for the entire city of Pikeville. The second Pikeville loan is for $537,755 at 3.5 percent Interest for water and sewer lines serving a proposed $42 million regional shopping mall on U.S. 23 along the Levisa Fork.

The loan to Jenkins was for $1,842,478 at 2.5 percent interest to expand the capacity of its sewage-treatment plant under requirements of a federal court order. Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. A 78-year-old man who police say spent the past 10 years sweet-talking women, taking their valuables and disappearing has pleaded guilty to stealing from a widow. Arthur Frankford, who was arrested nearly four months ago in Kentucky, also faces charges in two other Florida counties, and the FBI is looking into the possibility that be was Involved in bank robberies, said FBI spokesman Bob Neuman.

Police believe Frankford, whom they nicknamed "The Silver Fox," may have cheated scores of lonely women from Iowa to Florida before he was exposed on a television program in January and arrested near Stearns, Ky. married to a local woman and living under an assumed name. "He told the sheriff he married 40 women and never divorced any of them," Kentucky State Police Trooper Regal Bruner said. Frankford, who was escorted into a Palm Beach County courtroom in handcuffs Tuesday, pleaded guilty to grand theft and agreed to pay $500 to the 62-year-old Lake Park widow who allowed him into her home, her heart and her safe last August. hours ending at 8 a.m.

I City Hi-Lo Prec Albany. NY 58-48 .37 Albuquerque 84-52 Ancnorage 57-45 Atlanta 73-47 Atlantic City 70-43 .20 Baltimore 68-49 Bngs 65-44 .10 Birmmoham 71-48 Bismarox 65-34 Boston 65-49 .45 Brownsville 84-74 Buffalo 45-40 .37 Burlington, Vt. 55-46 .24 Casper 66-36 .20 Charleston. C. 79-60 .02 Charleston.

Va. 58-38 Charlotte, N.C. 74-42 Chicago 50-40 .06 Cincinnati 53.35 05 Cleveland 66-40 .74 Columbia, C. 76-48 Columbus. Ohio 56-36 .14 Oallia-Fl Worm 77-58 1.33 Dayton 52-37 .15 Denver 68-43 .01 Des Moines 59-38 Detroit 56-36 .10 El Paso 90-61 Fairbanks 51-35 .08 Fargo 69-38 Flaostaff 73-42 Great Falls 54-37 .48 Hartford 58-44 1 16 Honolulu 81-64 Houston 83-67 Indianapolis 55-36 Jackson.

Miss. 76-53 Jacksonville 85-52 Kansas City 52-38 .10 Las Vegas 95-68 Little Rock 66-51 .23 Los Angeles 80-60 louttviM $8-39 Mempms 69-54 .05 Miami Beach 88-76 Milwaukee 49-42 .15 Paul 60-41 Nashville 64-50 New Orleans 81-60 New York City 65-47 .09 Norfolk. Va 77-54 01 Oklahoma City 65-50 .02 Omaha 61-36 .01 Orlando 84-61 Philadelphia 69-46 Phoenix 96-70 Pittsburgh 68-41 .37 Portland Maine 49-44 ,89 Portland. Ore. 72-48 Providence 66-47 1.01 OHIO RIVER LEVELS The following are the forecasts for river stages at 7 a.m.

for the next three days and yesterday's 7 a.m. reading: Ytttor-Today's Twnoc. Mtrt FIm4 day's ton- rofi diVt ti4t S9 cm forecast fore LOCATION Ittttl Itwt) Itwt) (Ittt) cast Ashland. Ky 52 38 7 38 4 36 0 34 9 Greenup Dam (LQ) 54 36.2 37 5 30 9 24 2 Portsmouth. Ohio 50 34 1 35 0 30 2 23 3 MaysvtHe, Ky 50 38 8 39.0 38.4 36.2 51 35 3 35 0 34.3 28 2 Cincinnati 52 39 8 39 6 39 4 35 1 Markland Dam (LG) .51 34 7 34 2 34 0 32.2 Louitviiki (UG) 23 15 8 15 3 15 2 14 7 Louisvitk) (LG) 55 38 7 37.2 36 9 35.9 Cannerton Dam (LG) 42 31 9 31 7 31 2 30 5 Newburgh.

Ind. (LG) 38 34 9 36 1 35 7 35 3 Evansville, tnd 42 31.5 32.9 32 8 32 2 Umontown Dam (LG) 37 31.6 31.5 32 1 32 1 Shawneetown, III 33 31.5 31 6 32 1 32 2 Golconda, III 40 32 8 32.9 33.1 33.2 (LG) lower gauge, (UG) upper gauge HH.S 69- 40 85-50 54-40 72-58 61- 48 72- 48 62- 35 75-59 62-36 68-46 89-75 62-45 6M1 64-35 77- 61 74- 53 73- 55 67- 48 68- 42 62-49 75- 56 64-50 8342 64- 50 6547 71-50 66-46 93-60 60-38 65- 33 75-37 56-35 70- 40 81- 63 88-66 62- 42 80-65 82- 60 71- 53 98- 65 72- 60 7840 $4-47 74- 62 84- 72 60-45 6444 66- 57 85- 68 73- 53 70- 54 74- 53 71- 43 87-65 72- 50 99- 69 65-46 63- 39 78- 48 68-42 AIR POLLUTION INDEX Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Ram Clear Cloudy Ram Rain Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Ram Cloudy Cioudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Ram Clear Gear Cioudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Rain Clear Rain Rain Clear Ram Cloudy Ram Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Car Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Thunderstorms 1 Associated Press thunderstorms with locally heavy rain drenched parts of Texas and Louisiana yesterday, and rain was widely scattered over other sections of the nation. Showers and thunderstorms developed along a warm front over much of eastern Texas and west- em Louisiana in the afternoon. Near Houston, winds gusted to 60 mph at Hobby Airport, the National Weather Service said. Waco, Texas, got 1.01 indies of rain in the six hours before 2 p.m.

EDT. An upper-level weather disturb 60-t 1t0 a MODERATE tr 47 fc -O i Egs-O -J ill G00Di 11AM 2PM 5PM Pikeville, Jenkins, Manchester, Graves get approval for infrastructure loans The elevated pollutant in Jefferson County at 1 1 a m. was not available: at 2 p.m. was ozone; and at 5 m. was not available.

dance through Louisiana, Texas The Frankfort Bureau FRANKFORT, Ky. The Kentucky Infrastructure Authority yesterday approved loans for sewer and water projects in Pikeville. Jenkins, Manchester, and Graves County. The authority approved two loans to Pikeville, the larger a $2.75 million loan at 2.5 percent interest from the authority's new federally assisted revolving-loan fund for sewage-treatment projects. This loan and those to Jenkins and Manchester are the first by the ance moving southeastward into the central Plains produced showers over parts of eastern Wyoming, western South Dakota and Nebraska.

Low pressure and a trailing cold front spread showers over western Oregon and northwestern California. Elsewhere, a cold front over southern Canada spread clouds over much of the Northeast, parts of the upper Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes. Rain fell in northern Maine. Afternoon readings were only in the 40s over parts of the Northeast, the central high Plains and ourur-3J0urttal To subscribe, please call: Louisville area: 582-2211 In Kentucky: 1-800-292-6568 In Indiana: 1-800-626-6315.