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The Brazosport Facts from Clute, Texas • Page 2

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THS BIUZOSPORT FACTS Thunday, 14,1995 NATIONAL Weather for noon, Thursday, Sept. 14. Mfwntt high hx Irw SKY AND SEA MOSTLY CLOUDY today with a 40 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms and a high in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 10 mph. TIDES: Remaining low tide is at p.m.

Remaining nigh tide is at 10:33 p.m. SUNRISE is 7:05 a.m. Sunset is at HIGHS AND LOWS: High and low temperatures for the 24-hour period ending 5 a.m. Wednesday were 91 and 75 degrees. RAINFALL: No rainfall was recorded at Dow Chemical's Plant for the 24-hour period ending 5 a.m.

Wednesday. I UV INDEX Minimal 0,1,2 LOW 3,4 Moderate 5,6 High 7,8,9 Very High (lira 10 .4:0 p.m. MARINE: Galveston Bay: Southeast winds at 10-15 kiwis today, bay waters slightrv ctvsx-y with widely scattered showers. Port Arthur to Port O'Ccvxrw arc out 50 miles: Southeast 15 knots today, seas 2 feet widely scattered show ere. WEATHER WATCH HIGH 93 LOW 7.7 TEXAS WEATHER 1 Associated Press In the Hill Country and South Central Texas, today will be cloudy with scattered showers and thun-.

derstorms. Highs wilt range from the lower and mid-80s in the Hill Country to near 90 south central. Tonight will be cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Friday, cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms.

Highs from the lower and mid-80s in the Hill Country to near 90 south central. In the extended forecast, Saturday and Sunday will fae partly cloudy with a slight chance of afternoon or evening showers and thunderstorms. Lows will range from the upper 60s in the Hill Country to lower 70s south central. Highs from the upper 80s Hill Country to lower 90s south central, upper 90s west. Monday should be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.

NATION TEMPERATURES 1 The Associated Press Temperatures indicate previous day's high and overnight low to 8:29 a.m. EOT HI Lo Pro Otlk Abilene, Tex. 93 63 1 09 Albany.N.Y. 76 61 rn Albuquerque 87 62 cdv Amarlllo 89 55 Anchorage 57 53 .12 rn Atlanta 81 67 cdy Atlantic City 76 66 cdy "Austin 91 74 Baltimore 81 68 rn Baton Rouge 92 71. cdy 79 62 rn Brownsville 93 76 -01 rn Buffalo 80 67 .06 rn 80 75 cdv Charleston.W.Va.

75 65 14 rn Charlotte.N.C. 81 63 cdy Chattanooga 82 69 cdy Chicago 77 63 cdy Cincinnati 82 69 .96 cdy Cleveland 79 70 .01 cdy Colorado Springs 75 48 clr 85 69 cdy Corpus Chrlstl 95 78 cdy Dallas-Ft Worth 82 68 .65 rn Daytona Beach 86 73 .04 cdv Denver 79 52 cir OesMoines 78 59 13 tr foit 81 69 .02 cdy f'Paso 91 67 coV Fargo 87. 57 clr GfeenBay 76 61 cdy Greensboro.N.C. 80 61 cdv Haf ttbrd Spgfld 79 60 .02 Helena 83 46 cdy Honolulu 90 75 cdy 96 72 cdy Huntsville. 88 71 rn -Indianapolis 79 63 cdy Jackson.Miss.

94 70 cdv Jacksonville 86 73 Juneau 55 50 .07 rn Kansas City 83 58 cdy Knoxville 88 64 cc ry Lake Charles 93 72 cdy Las Vegas 99 72 clr Little Rock 75 63 .12 cdy Los Angeles 93 71 clr Louisville 86 71 cdv Lubbock 89 61 rrti COy Memphis 89 72 cdv Miami Beach 85 81 .03 cdy Midland-Odessa 90 64 cdy Milwaukee 73 64 cdv Mpls-StPaut 77 57 clr Mobile 92 74 cdy Montgomery 91 71 cdy Nashville 86 71 2.09 rn New Orleans 86 70 .15 cdv New YorkCity 79 69 cdy Newark 77 69 cdy Oklahoma City 82 64 01 cdv Omaha 81 56 cir Orlando 90 75 cdv Philadelphia 81 69 cdv Phoenix 105 76 Pittsburgh 69 66 rn Portland.Ore. 85 56 clr Providence 75 58 rn Raleigh-Durham 82 63 cdy Reno 90 45 clr Richmond 81 63 clr Sacramento 93 56 lr St Louis 79 68 cdy St. Thomas 91 84 clr Salem.Ore. 84 53 01 clr Salt LakeCity 84 52 clr SanAngelo 94 66 .03 cdy San Antonio 96 76 cdv San Diego 80 64 clr San Francisco 67 56 cdy San Jose 77 cdy SanJuan.P.R. 91 79 .14 Santa Fe 83 cdy Savannah 85 74 cdv Seattle 74 54 cir Shreveport 94 66 .08 rn Spokane 83 51 clr Syracuse 80 66 .03 rn Tallahassee 89 74 cdy Tampa-St Ptrsbg 89 75 26 rn Tucson 99 70 Tulsa 85 69 cdy Waco 92 69 .01 rn Washington.D.C.

80 68 rn Brazosport The Facts Our 82nd Year, No. 188 (USPS 304-270) How to reach us- The Brazosport Facts Angleton Line Houston Line Mailing address 77531 265-9052 Classified To place a classified ad 265-7401 Circulation Start or stop delivery, or service problems 265-2QQQ 6 am 5 pm Monday-Friday, 6 am-10 am weekends Editorial Department News, Brazos Living, Sports. 265-7411 Advertising Retail advertising department 265-7411 Management PAGE Two Editor Publisher Emeritus, 1957-1985 Manager Reta Advertising Manar Circulation Director Martin Pressroom Foreman Pat Qu.senberry Production Foreman tmtff tlO.Kt heanllimiUI U3. Zhirinovsky: Women he beat enjoyed it MOSCOW (AP) Vladimir Zhirinovsky shrugged otT criticism Wednesday over hts latest brawl on the floor of Russia's parliament, and said the women he fought with probably enjoyed it. "Such women dream of being raped, hut no one wants them," the headtine-seekinu ultranationalist said of fellow lawmaker Tishkovskaya.

whom" he grabbed by the hair and throat in Saturday's scuffle, Tishkovskava said she planned to sue the 49-year-old Zhirinovsky for 100 million rubles She and other lawmakers demanded he be tossed out of the Duma and that criminal proceedings he started against him. "I expect nothing from Zhirinovsky but slander and dirt," the 46-year-old engineer told Hie Associated Press. President Boris Yeltsin expressed "distress" Wednesday over the scuffle, which erupted during a debate on NATO airstrikes on Bosnian Serb targets. It started when nationalist lawmaker Nikolai Lysenko obeyed Zhirinovsky's order to rip a crucifix from the neck of liberal lawmaker Gleb Yukunin, a defrocked Russian Orthodox priest. Tishkovskaya rushed to Yakunin's defense, and Zhirinovsky plunged into the fray.

When Tishkovskaya punched Zhirinovsky in the stomach, he grabbed her by the throat, then punched her head, grabbed her hair and knocked off her glasses. Prosecutors offer more DNA in rush to end case LOS ANGELES (AP) OJ. Simpson pa'wairors rushing to finish rebuttal before more juror problems erupt presented last- minute pNA evincive damaging (o Simpson and dropped plans Wednesday to recount his Biwnco The lavest DNA results bol- stored the prosecution's scientific case showing blood consistent with Simpson and both murder victims inside his Bronco. The defense, meanwhile, disclosed a new tactical plan to attack the FBI much as it has attacked the Los Angeles Police Department and Detective Mark Fuhrman. Identifying their mystery witness as an FBI agent, defense attorneys said they wanted to use him to show that the FBI routinely encourages agents to tailor testimony in favor of the prosecution.

Pagkwood in question relatiil to illegal activities! WASHINGTON (AP) Justice Department should ihvej gate the campaign finance practk revealed in Bob Packwood's diari to determine whether any laws broken, a public interest group sa Wednesday. The practices by Packwood others "may constitute knowing anijj willful violations of the federal a paign laws," Common President Ann McBride wrote t( Attorney General Janet Reno. The diaries indicate and Sen. Phil Gramm, R-l Texas, discussed in 1992 sending! $100,000 in contributions from National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Gramm then chaired, to the Oregon Republican Party, she said. The contributions "were apparently intended to benefit Senator Packwood's re-election DEATHS AND FUNERALS Mildred Nelson Anderson Mildred-Nelson Anderson, 88, passed away Tuesday, Sept.

12, 1995 in Lake Jackson, Texas. She was barn March 21, 1907 in Chicago, 111. of Norwegian immigrant parents, Abram Edvard Nelson and Inga Christina Olson Nelson. One of the world's truly selfless and generous people, she first devoted herself to helping raise her four younger siblings, then nurturing her own family and later, the residents of the original Oak Lane Apartments in Houston, where she was resident manager for 17 years. She was married to the late Melver L.

Anderson Sr. and was a member of Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston. Besides Chicago and Houston, she resided in Troy Ohio; Libertyville, 111., Indianapolis; and Fort Worth and Dallas. Mildred is survived by a son, Mel Anderson Jr. and wife Stephennie of Houston; a daughter, Judy and husband, Charles S.

Eastland of Columbia Lakes; seven grandchildren: Dr. Mel Anderson III of Travis Air Force Base, California; Wesley W. Anderson, Hollywood, Eric C. Anderson, Washington, D.C.; Julie K. Anderson, Houston; Brian L.

Eastland, Columbia Lakes; C. Michael Eastiand, Houston; and Pvt. Mark L. Eastland, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; two great grandchildren: Chase Elizabeth Eastland, Columbia Lakes and William Cullen Eastland, Columbia Lakes; and two sisters, Alma Gramlich of Sun City, Arizona and Violet Oostema of Hometown, 111. Her funeral service will be conducted at Baker Funeral Home, 634 S.

Columbia West Columbia, Texas on Friday, Sept. 15, 1995, at 10 a.m. with Rev. Chris Tate, Pastor of First United Methodist Church in Angleton officiating. A brief graveside service will be held at Memorial Oaks Cemetery, 13001 Katy Houston (I-10) at 2 p.m.

on (he same day, with Pastor Robert Moore of Clirist the King Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating. Friends may call from 1 p.m. until 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, 1995, at Baker Funeral Home.

Family will receive friends Thursday from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Mildred's six grandsons. Contributions in lieu of flowers: Organ Fund, Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Houston, TX 77005 or the Alzheimers Foundation.

Family members wish to thank Mildred's friends for their affection through the years-and the nurses, staff and volunteers of Plantation Health Care Center, Lake Jackson for their caring attention. God Bless you all. Arrangements by Baker Funeral Home in West Columbia. William F. Cromwell, Sr.

William F. Cromwell, 86, formerly of Lake Jackson, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1995, at Austin Diagnostic Center in Austin. Survivors include his sons, William F. Cromwell, Jr.

and his wife, Lois of Lake Jackson, and Nestor L. Cromwell and his wife, Ellen of Austin; one daughter, Cindy Carroll and her husband, Percy of Markham, Texas; grandchildren, Clirissa Sandlin, Kevin Cromwell, Lucinda Carroll, and Trenton Carroll. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 15, 1995, at Riley Funeral Home in Nederland, Texas.

Interment will follow at Oak Bluff Cemetery in Port Neches, Texas. Willard Dwain Williams Services for Willard Dwain Williams, 38, of Houston, formerly of Freeport, will be held Saturday, September 16, 1995, at New Jerusalem Baptist Church at 11:00 a.m. Freeport with ihe Rev. Tim Higgins, HI officiating. Burial will be in Peaceful Rest Cemetery in Brazoria.

He passed away Saturday September 9, 1995, at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston. He had served in the US Navy. He is survived by'his mother, Ella Williams, Freeport; 1 son, Donyll Williams, Freeport; 5 brothers, Timothy Earl Williams wife, Kathy, Missouri City, Steven Lewis Williams, Willie Williams, Jr. wife, Dorothy, all of Freeport, Reginald Adrain Williams wife, Iris of Lake Jackson and Bruce Oscar Williams wife, Alice, Angleton; 4 sisters, Ella Dean Williams, Houston, Juanita Dolly, Alice Valrcy, Freeport; Esther Robcrson husband Harold, Clutc; grandmother, Naomi Murphy, Bay City; and a host of relatives and friends. Active pallbearers will be: Carey White, Dale Williams, Dexter Royston; Clifford Fletcher, Ronnie Barnes, Charles Dolly and James Allen.

Honorary pallbearers will be: Eddie Lewis, Thomas Emerson, Sean Williams, Harold Roberson, Steven Williams, Gregory Roberson and Tommy Brown. Visitation be from H)0 to 9:00 P.M. and a wake from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M., Friday, September 15, 1995, at the Dixon Funeral Home Chapel in Brazoria. Arrangements by Dixon Funeral Home of Brazoria. Robert Ray Stough Graveside services for Robert Ray Stough, 43, will be held at 2:00 P.M.

Thursday at Angleton Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Thursday at Palms Funeral Home. He is survived by his mother, Lillic Mae Stough of Angleton; step-brother, Frank Victor Farrow of Diboll; sisters, Pat Stough of Angleton and Marie Ford of Sour Lake. Arrangements by Palms Funeral Home. Geneva Coleman Leonard Services for Geneva Coleman Leonard, 67, of Walnut Grove, Mississippi, were held at 2 p.m., Tuesday, September 12, 1995, at the Wilcox Funeral Home in Carthage, Mississippi.

Burial was in Fusion Cemetery in Waltnut Grove, Mississippi. She passed away, Sunday, September 10, 1995, at her residence. She was bom November 15, 1927 in Mississippi and was a clerk for Perry Bro's. Variety Store in Texas. Over $200.000 In Prizes 6er Pick 3 Drawings Exclusively On FOX 26.

PICKS -THt ORILY GRME- LOTTERY RESULTS TEXHS LOTTERY Winning numbers Drawing date 13, 1995 Estimated jackpot Survivors include: her daughter, Lynn McGurTie of Walnut Grove, Mississippi; son Cooper McGufile of Portland, Oregon; and sister, Jean Withers of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. Pallbearers were Billy Croft Bennie Wilhers, Dale Sidney Poole, Henry Bryan and Cooper McGuffie. Arrangements were by Wilcox Funeral Home in Carthage, Mississippi. Eleanor W. Magee Eleanor Werckle Magee was born December 3, 1915 in Galveston, Texas.

She died on Monday, September 11, 1995 in San Marcos at the age of 79. She leaves her beloved husband, Conrad C. "Bud" Magee; a large and loving family, including two daughters, Georgia Crosley of Lake Jackson and Patricia Curtis of New Orleans; one son, Martin G. Hubbard of Corona del Mar, California; and their spouses, Leo Crosley, Raymond Curtis and Margie Hubbard. Also, step-daughters, Diane Cliett of San Marcos and Carol Frawley of San Antonio.

Other family members include, her brother, George Werckle of San Antonio and his wife, Ellen. Her sister- in-law, Mitzy Harris of Houston. She was enjoyed by eighteen grandchildren, twenty-one great-grand-children and one great-great-grandcluld; and many nieces and nephews. Services will be held at Funeral Chapel on Thursday, September 14, 1995, at 2:00, with Father Sam Bonano officiating. Pallbearers will be: her grandsons, Randy, Chuck, John and Thomas Crosley, Marlin Hubbard, III, Daniel Moore II, Mark Gannaway, Jeff Heinrichs and Mark Keary.

Her love of life and the pleasure she brought to her many friends and family will always be remembered by those who were fortunate enough to know and love her. Arrangements by Thomason Funeral Home in San Marcos 512-396-2300. Elaine Khan Services for Elain Khan, 68, ol Angleton, are pending with Dixon Funeral Home in Brazoria. She passed away Wednesday, Seplember 13, 1995, a Anglclon-Danbury Hospital in Angleton. Since 1943 Lake Jackson Florist I JAMES GENEVA LANNEN.o "THE BEST THERE IS" DOWNTOWN 297-3 Pick 3 numbers COMPUTER AUTOMATION OF BRAZOSPORT Personal Computer Courses for Individuals as well as Classes are Reduced by September Special 486-66 Computer System Only 110 Heather Lane, Lake Jackson 297-2204.

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