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THE DES MOINES REGISTER Aug. 9, 1985 WEATHER WEATHER RECAP: High precipitation low for temperatures period and ending at 7 p.m. Thursday. Patches of clouds appeared Decorahl over much of the eastern half of Spencer City 88 59 Mason lowa Thursday afternoon, 88 65 91 62 P-Tra, though by late afternoon many of them had dissipated. Temperatures were in the 80s to near 90 across the state at 5 p.m.

Waterloo Thursday. Sioux City Fort Dodge 88 57 88 67 84 62 Dubuque 86 54 Marshalltown Mapleton Ames 87 52 Cedar Rapids 90 66 88 52 85 56 Clinton P-Tra. 87 53 Audubon lowa City 86 62 Des Moines 86 60 Davenport 88 61 85 54 Council Bluffs 86 69 Winterset 87 64 Ottumwa Red Oak 85 59 88 62 Lamoni 87 61 Burlington 85 62 Winds were from the east or south at 10 to 20 mph, though speeds increased to 15 to 25 mph in the west. Gusts reached 30 to 35 mph. 'Shocking' child porn lectures halted by Soda By FRANK SANTIAGO Register Staff Writer Sam Soda, the private investigator and anti-smut campaigner from Des Moines, no longer is giving SCARED lectures, but he says his fight against child pornography continues.

"SCARED fulfilled its mission," Soda says. "If you look at what happened, people have become educated. Before, child pornography and abuse was hidden. People are now aware." About a year ago, Soda organized Stolen Children Are Reported Every Day shortly after newspaper carrier Eugene Martin, 13, apparently had been abducted from his south Des Moines route. In October, Soda turned over to authorities a videotape of an interview he had conducted with a Des Moines Register adult carrier who admitted having had intimate relations with teen-age boys.

The carrier later was prosecuted. getting to a point where I was putting on two lectures a and we put on as many as four or five in a given week all over the state. It got so well-known and accepted." Soda said there were 70 lectures in three months, and the talks became too time-consuming and expensive. Des Moines Mayor Pete Crivaro, who attended a Soda lecture, said Thursday that Soda told a "shocking story." Soda included in the programs slides showing nude children and sexual devices portrayed in magazines. Said Crivaro: "It stirred up a lot of people.

Personally, I've never been exposed to child pornography, and what I saw convinced me to support programs to correct the problems." Ron Wheeler, first assistant Polk County attorney, said he had "advised on a friendly basis" that the slides might violate the state's antismut laws. "It reads that a person commits a Class felony when a person knowingly promotes any material visually depicting a live performance of a child engaging in a prohibited sexual OBITUARIES BEVERLY FRAZER The Register's Iowa News Service OSKALOOSA, IA. Graveside services for Beverly F. Frazer, 36, of Englewood, formerly of Council Bluffs, who died Aug. 2 in the crash of Delta Flight 191 near Irving, Texas, will be at 4:30 p.m.

today at Forest Cemetery in Oskaloosa. Miss Frazer, a vice president of Club, graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs in 1967 and from Colorado State University in Fort Collins in 1971. Survivors include a brother, Robert of Fort Collins; and two sisters, Betty Harmsen of Omaha, and Barbara Colligan of Mahotac, N.Y. act or a simulation of prohibited sexual act." Exceptions, Wheeler said, include police officers and officers of the court, doctors, lawyers and psychologists "in performance of their official "It was left up to Sam. He has provided information to this office that has been helpful," Wheeler said.

Soda said the slides were explicit. "Call it shock treatment or whatever you want, but it was time that somebody showed them. We still gather a great deal of information," Soda said, and it is passed to authorities. "The problem is a 100-year-old problem. As long as you have people who molest kids, you're going to have children abducted." Turkish Cypriots deliver response NICOSIA, CYPRUS (AP) Turkish Cypriots delivered their Thursday to the U.N.

secretary-general's latest peace plan for this divided island. The contents were not revealed. A U.N.-sponsored summit in New York broke down in January after President Spyros Kyprianou of Cyprus rejected an earlier proposal by Secretary who is Javier Perez de seeking a way to reunite the ethnic Greek and Turkish communities. Turkey invaded Cyprus in July 1974, after a coup against the late President Makarios led by Greek officers, with the stated purpose of protecting the ethnic Turks who make up about 20 percent of the eastern Mediterranean island's population. They have occupied the northern 40 percent of Cyprus since then.

Turkish Cypriots proclaimed an independent state in the area last year that the U.N. Security Council declared to be illegal. Mailboxes attacked in Mitchell County The Register's Iowa News Service OSAGE, IA. Mitchell County Sheriff Curtis Younker said Thursday between 15 and 29 rural mail boxes have been damaged or destroyed in the area this summer. "It seems like there's an open season on them," Younker said.

"Most have been blown apart by high pow, ered firecrackers; a few have been pushed or pulled over. Someone must have a vendetta against mail boxes. Those cherry bombs blow them right apart, front and back. "I suspect some young people are behind this, but I don't have any leads right now. Technically, it's a federal crime to damage or destroy the boxes." COUPON 2 Parks for the price of 1 in '85! New Worldsofe Fun Haunted Theatre Worlds of Fun Oceans of Fun Present this coupon, now through September 1, 1985, at Kansas City's Worlds of Fun or Oceans of Fun and for just $14.50, you'll receive one single-day to Passport Oceans of Fun and one single-day Passport to Worlds of Fun.

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2-Park Passports at $14.50 plus tax (For office use only.) DMR COUPON FORECASTS IOWA Partly cloudy today, chance of thunderstorms, highs in mid-80s to around 90. Cloudy tonight, scattered showers, lows in 60s. Partly cloudy Saturday, chance of showers, highs in upper 70s to midSPENCER, SIOUX CITY, STORM LAKE ZONES Cloudy today, chance thunderstorms, highs in mid-80s, north winds 210 to 20 mph. Partly cloudy tonight, chance of showers, lows around 60. Partly cloudy Saturday, highs in upper 70s.

MASON CITY, DECORAH, FORT DODGE, WATERLOO, CARROLL ZONES Partly cloudy today, chance of thunderstorms, highs around 90, south winds 15 to 25 mph. Cloudy tonight, chance of thunderstorms, lows 60 to 65. Mostly cloudy Saturday, chance of showers, highs around 80. DES MOINES, SHENANDOAH, LAMONI ZONES Partly cloudy today, chance of thunderstorms, highs around 90, southeast to south winds 15 to 25 mph. Cloudy today, chance of thunderstorms, lows 65 to 70.

Mostly cloudy Saturday, chance of showers, highs in low 80s. DUBUQUE, CEDAR RAPIDS ZONES Mostly sunny today, highs around 90, southeast to south winds 15 to 25 mph. Cloudy tonight, chance of thunderstorms, lows in mid-60s. Mostly cloudy Saturday, chance of showers, highs in low 80s. OTTUMWA, BURLINGTON ZONES Mostly sunny today, highs around 90, southeast to south winds 15 to 25 mph.

Cloudy tonight, chance of thunderstorms, lows in mid-60s. Mostly cloudy Saturday, chance of showers, highs in low 80s. COUNCIL BLUFFS ZONE Partly sunny today, chance of thunderstorms, highs in upper 80s to low 90s, south winds 10 to 15 mph. Partly cloudy tonight, chance of thunderstorms, lows in upper 60s. Partly cloudy Saturday, highs 80 to 85.

QUAD CITIES ZONE Partly sunny today, highs near 90, south winds around 10 mph. Partly cloudy tonight, lows in upper 60s. Partly sunny Saturday, chance of thunderstorms, highs 85 to 90. IOWA EXTENDED FORECAST Sunday through Tuesday: Fair Sunday, a chance of thundershowers Monday or Tuesday, highs in mid-80s to low 90s, lows in 60s. ILLINOIS Partly sunny today, highs around 90.

Partly cloudy tonight, in upper 60s to low 70s. Partly sunny Saturday, highs in mid-80s to low 90s. MINNESOTA Clear today, chance of showers, highs in upper 70s to around 90. Partly cloudy tonight, chance of showers, lows in upper 40s to 60s. Mostly sunny Saturday, highs mainly in 70s.

WATER LEVELS normal 836); flow rate 260 cfs. ASTRONOMY DES MOINES RIVER: Stage 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Southeast Fourteenth Street, 8.8 (bank full 23). MISSISSIPPI RIVER: Stage 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Dubuque, 7.7 (bank full 17); at Davenport, 4.9 (bank full, 15).

MISSOURI RIVER: Stage 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Sioux City, 17.9 (bank full 36); at Council Bluffs, 17.7 (bank full 29). CORALVILLE RESERVOIR: Stage 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 680.56 feet above sea level (normal 670 to 683); flow rate 260 cfs. LAKE RED ROCK: Stage 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, 728.30 feet above sea level (seasonal normal 728); flow rate 650 cfs. RATHBUN RESERVOIR: Stage 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 904.71 feet above sea level (normal 904); flow rate 610 cfs. SAYLORVILLE RESERVOIR: Stage 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 836.64 feet above sea level (seasonal Schedule of moon and planets provided by Dr.

Lawrence Staunton of Drake University Department of Physics and Astronomy. Moon Third quarter Aug. new moon Aug. 16. The moon rises at 12:09 a.m.

The moon sets at 3:07 p.m. Planets Mercury: Too close to sun to see. Venus: Rises at 3:30 a.m.; high east at dawn, bright. Mars: Very low east at dawn, difficult. Jupiter: Due south at 1:15 a.m.; sets at dawn.

Saturn: High southwest at sunset; setst at 12:30 a.m. FARM FORECAST. From Iowa State University, The threat of substantial yield reductions for corn and soybeans will increase unless significant rainfall is received before Aug. 18, according to the Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. The service reports that some farms already are sustaining drought damage.

Soil moisture remains very limited in much of Iowa, with water stress increasing in the northern two-thirds of the state. Soil moisture is favorable in the south and highly variable in the north. D.M. WEATHER DATA THURSDAY AUGUST 8, 1985 BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Des Moines Airport Station Temperature accumulation Highest at 4:30 p.m. 88 Lowest at 6:30 a.m.

...61 Mean ....75 Normal 76 Deficiency for the day Deficiency for the month Excess since first of year 223 A YEAR AGO AUG. 8 High temperature in Des Moines 92 Low temperature in Des Moines 70 RECORD TEMPERATURES FOR AUG. 9 Record Des Moines high 106 in 1934 Record Des Moines low 46 in 1888 Precipitation Up to 7 p.m. Thursday 0.00 Total since first of month Tra. Normal since first of month 1.00 Total since first of year .13.52 Normal since Jan.

19.90 Deficiency since Jan. 1 6.38 Year ago Aug. 8 0.00 DEATHS Iowa AKRON Glenn Hughes, 69; Arnold Lamoureux, 57; Luella Koplin, 81. AMES Frances E. Peterson, 83.

ARNOLDS PARK Grace Reason, 68. BONAPARTE Meta St. 87; Mariorie Vickers, 82. BOONE Clinton Claubaugh, 70; Anna M. Landhoirn, 94; Rachel McBirnie, 88.

BURLINGTON Nina M. Schultz, 89; Huida F. Durst, 79; Hattie Brower, 87; Mary Rosipaila, 81; Della B. Weaver, 71; Myrtle A. Houston, 86; Susie Person, 84; Melvin C.

Brandenburg, 72; Ruby Franklin, 71. CHARLOTTE Robert Huber, 61. DAVENPORT Harry J. LaMar, 37; Mariorie Pohl, 65; William G. Black; Lawrence M.

Brus, 71; Grace Caffrey, 83; Lillian Rees, 67; Lorri S. J. Jones, 25; Celia Fogel, 55; Bette J. Lierly, 28; H. Gehrmann, 93; Donald A.

Calhoun, 54; Edward Hoffmann, 82; Thomas J. Boyle, 69; Brunhilda M. Ralfs, 82; Josephine K. Dice, 86; Florenfius J. Schioemer, 89; Ruth M.

Deitman, 55. DELMAR Oma Winkel, 83. DES MOINES Madeline Gottstein, 80; Stella Keeney, 91; Harold Plotts, 87; Earl Rostberg, 82. FAIRFIELD Ralph Johnson, 75; Edna Thada, 65; Emma Hoimes, 89; Linnie Parker, 87. GARNAVILLO Orville Tuecke, 71.

HAWARDEN Hilda Vander Lugt, 70, IOWA CITY Helen Allen, 77; Grace I. Seidell, 85; Robert J. Kofron, 71; Carl W. Hastings, 83; Regina Hennessey, 94. KALONA Agnes M.

Swindell, 73. KEOKUK Mary Prunty, 84; Beulah Varner, 85; Johnathan Heller, 27; Ladena Walter, 44; Justin McAllister, infant. LAKE CITY Franklin B. Garrett, 65. LAKE PARK Lois Hemphill, 24; Ann Hass, 91.

LOHRVILLE Clark Cogley, 76. MARCUS James Collins, 59; Joseph Glackin, 48; William Pitts, 81. MIDDLETOWN Bernhardt Schroder, 82. MORNING SUN Martha E. Wilson, 83.

NEW LONDON Lois L. Blow, 59; Michael Allen, infant. NORTH LIBERTY Jerrad Poggenpohl, infant. REMSEN Joyce Schumacher, 43; John Ruba, 82. STRATFORD Clara L.

Deite, 87. SOLON Mary H. Miller, 67. TERRIL Rodney Rouse, 26. VOLGA Loretta Duff, 79.

WALCOTT Birdie E. Wegener, 94. WASHINGTON Alice E. Intress, 91. WELLMAN John H.

Blum, 95; Nina L. Meer, 81. Ursula Strbel, 87 The Forecast for 8 p.m. EDT, Aug. 9 80 80 80 High 90 100 Temperatures 100 Showers Rain Flurries Snow TEMPERATURES U.S.

Dallas Concord, NH 97 80 High temperatures for Dayton ...80 Wednesday. Low temperatures Denver 93 from midnight to 7 a.m. Thurs- Detroit day. Precipitation for 24-hour Duluth 83 period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday.

El Paso .................101 Evansville ..............89 Fairbanks .76 Albany .....81 66 0.36 Fargo Albuquerque 96 70 0.00 Flagstaff 83 Amarillo. 98 69 0.03 Grand Rapids 80 Anchorage 65 50 0.23 Great Falls Asheville 78 66 0.06 Greensboro, NC 84 Atlanta 85 71 0.34 Hartford 80 Atlantic City 79 72 0.26 Helena ...................86 Austin. .101 76 0.00 Baltimore 76 0.00 Houston 95 Billings 93 59 0.00 Indianapolis .........84 Birmingham ..........87 71 0.00 Jackson, MS ........84 Bismarck ...89 64 0.00 Jacksonville. 88 Boise 91 51 0.00 Juneau 74 Boston 81 70 0.02 Kansas City ........87 Brownsville 95 77 0.00 Las Vegas .........107 Buffalo. 78 68 0.15 Little Rock .90 Burlington, VT ......80 67 0.04 Los Angeles .........84 Casper 58 0.00 Louisville ..............83 Charleston, SC ......89 74 0.02 Memphis ..............89 Charleston, WV 75 68 0.27 Miami Beach 89 Charlotte, NC 85 71 0.03 Milwaukee .............83 Cheyenne 85 53 0.00 Minneapolis ...........89 Chicago 84 55 0.00 Nashville Cincinnati 68 0.00 New Orleans Cleveland 78 62 0.01 New York Columbia, SC 89 72 0.06 Norfolk 86 Columbus, OH ......77 69 0.10 Outside U.S.

Temperatures and weather observations are for the local times listed (7 a.m. Thursday in Iowa). Aberdeen, noon. 58 Amsterdam, 1 p.m. 65 Athens, 2 p.m.

91 Auckland, mdnt 55 Beirut, 2 p.m... cldy 86 Berlin, 1 p.m. 69 Bogota, 7 a.m. 50 Bonn, 1 p.m. 66 Brussels, 1 p.m.

68 Cairo, 2 p.m. 87 Caracas, 8 a.m. Casablanca, noon 76 Copenhagen, 1 p.m. cldy 63 Dakar, noon 83 Dublin, noon zl 56 Geneva, 1 p.m. 67 Helsinki, 2 p.m.

72 HoChiMinh p.m. 82 Hong Kong, 8 p.m. cidy 85 90 90, 90 100' Jerusalem, 3 p.m. Lima, 7 a.m. Lisbon, noon London, noon Madrid, 1 p.m.

Malta, 1 p.m. Manila, 8 p.m. Moscow, 3 p.m. Nairobi, 3 p.m. New p.m.

Nice, 1 p.m. Oslo, 1 p.m. Paris, 1 p.m............pt Peking, 8 p.m. Rio, 9 a.m. Riyadh, 3 p.m.

Rome, 1 p.m. Seoul, 9. p.m. Stockholm, 1 p.m. Sydney, 10 p.m.

Taipei, 8 p.m. Tokyo, 9 p.m. Tunis, 1 p.m.. Vienna, 1 p.m. Warsaw, 1 p.m.

Warm Cold- FRONTS: Occluded. Stationary 4 Woman sues to clear name By ANNE CAROTHERS-KAY Register Staff Writer Bennie Faye Harris filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Polk County clerk of court because every time her sister gets into trouble with the law, Harris gets arrested. After three years of being mistaken for Laquetta Hollie, her older sister, Harris, 24, is hoping the lawsuit will solve her problem of mistaken identity. "I don't think they really look that much alike," said Harris' lawyer, Robert Wright who filed a petition seeking fair and reasonable compensation for Harris from Polk County and Clerk of Court Clark Rasmussen. Wright said the problem began three years ago when Hollie, of 1303 E.

Eighteenth was arrested on a charge of drunken driving. Hollie, 27, lied to police and identified herself as Bennie Faye Johnson, which was Harris' maiden name at the time. Although Wright said Hollie told police her real name when she was booked into the Polk County Jail, the name Bennie Faye Johnson stuck with her as an alias. Shortly after her sister's arrest, Harris lost her driver's license. When she applied for a replacement license, Iowa Department of Transportation officials refused to issue one, citing the drunken-driving arrest, the lawsuit alleges.

When Harris tried to resolve the confusion by going to the Polk County attorney's office, she was detained on a warrant for her sister's arrest and had to appear before a Polk County magistrate before she was allowed to leave, the petition states. Harris finally resolved the mix-up on the drunken-driving charge by bringing her sister to court. Wright said Harris is suing the clerk of court because after the judge dismissed the charge, the clerk did not remove Harris' name from the warrant system. As a result, when Laquetta Hollie was sought recently as a material witness in a murder case, Harris was arrested, said Wright. Sandy Cater, second deputy clerk, said the clerk's office isn't responsible for the foul-up because "we're just going by the information that was given to us on the preliminary complaint." He kills wife, shoots himself in hospital WORCESTER, MASS.

(AP) A 79-year-old man walked into a hospital intensive care unit Thursday, fatally shot his ailing wife in the head and then turned the gun on himself, officials said. Leona Montigny, 76, of North Oxford died immediately. She had been in Worcester Memorial Hospital for several months, suffering from serious but curable stomach and blood disorders and was recovering from surgery this week. Her husband, Montigny, suffered a bullet wound to the head and remained in critical condition several hours after the incident. Three accused of rape sue Woodbury County, sheriff The Register's lowa News Service SIOUX CITY, IA.

Three Sergeant Bluff men acquitted of rape charges earlier this year have sued Woodbury County and its sheriff's department for unspecified damages. Ronald "Doc" Nelson and Doug and Shawn Emge claim false arrest and state that each "suffered serious, substantial injury and damages as well as loss of income and humiliation" as a result of their arrest and two trials. The three were acquitted during a February trial after a Salix juvenile changed her testimony and said she was a willing participant in sexual acts with the men. Urban honored for making policy by national group Thomas Urban, a Des Moines businessman who led a legislative task force that studied Iowa schools last year, has been named Outstanding Policy Maker of the Year by the National Association of State Boards of Education. Urban, chairman and chief executive officer of Pioneer Hi-Bred International will receive the award at the group's national convention in October.

Urban is the first winner of the 67 0.05 73 0.00 64 0.14 61 0.00 61 0.13 53 0.00 70 0.01 69 0.30 55 0.00 64 0.00 53 0.00 58 0.03 51 0.29 70 0.16 67 0.35 56 0.01 77 0.00 71 0.11 61 0.11 68 0.23 72 0.37 63 0.00 80 0.00 72 0.00 65 0.00 67 0.00 75 0.00 74 0.42 64 0.07 70 0.00 70 0.41 69 0.69 70 0.52 72 0.00 North Platte 89 62 0.74 Oklahoma City 94 73 0.00 Omaha ..................87 64 0.00 Orlando 93 73 0.09 Philadelphia 86 69 0.91 Phoenix .............106 83 0.00 Pittsburgh ...........84 64 0.00 Portland, ME 76 65 0.00 Portland, OR .........69 58 0.20 Providence ...........78 70 0.28 Raleigh .87 71 0.02 Rapid City 94 58 0.24 Reno ...91 51 0.00 Richmond ..............89 73 0.01 Sacramento 92 58 0.00 St. Louis 90 67 0.00 St. Petersburg .....92 77 0.01 Salt Lake City ......98 76 0.00 San Antonio .........98 76 0.00 San Diego 75 69 0.00 San Francisco 68 56 0.00 Sault St. Marie 76 50 0.00 Seattle. 55 0.07 Shreveport 99 72 0.00 Sioux Falls 89 69 0.03 Spokane ..............75 50 0.00 Syracuse ...............0 71 0.05 Topeka 87 64 0.00 Tucson 97 77 0.00 Tulsa 93 71 0.00 Washington ..........88 71 0.27 Wichita 90 70 0.00 Wilkes-Barre ........81 66 0.51 Wilmington, DE ...89 70 0.31 75 CANADA 56 Highs and lows through 7 a.m.

77 Thursday. 65 Calgary ....78 49 81 Edmonton .............75 47 78 Montreal .......................81 67 79 Ottawa 64 78 Regina cldy 74 Toronto 59 80 Vancouver .............68 55 74 Winnipeg .74 54 cldy 60 cldy 68 81 PAN AMERICA 69 Highs and lows through 7 a.m. 107 Thursday. 79 Acapulco 90 72 82 Bermuda 73 82 Havana ..........................91 cldy 81 83 85 54 San Nassau Mexico Kingston. Juan City ........................9 ...91 79 PARA 62 Vera Cruz ...91 64 Suspected child abuse victim dies in Algona after year in coma By TOM O'DONNELL Of The Register's North Central Iowa Bureau 2-year-old Algona girl, who had been in a coma for more than a year as A a result of head injuries that police believe resulted from child abuse, has died at the Kossuth County Hospital.

An autopsy has been conducted on the body of the girl, who Algona died early Monday. Algona Police Chief Eric Swalwell Thursday would not comment on the autopsy except to say that he DES MOINES hoped the results would help pin down when the injuries occurred so that criminal charges can be filed. Miles 200 Swalwell would not identify the victim, but David Schultz, administrator of the Kossuth County Hospital, said the only child to die at the hospital early Monday was Natosha Durkin, 2, daughter of Theresa Durkin, 34, formerly of Algona but who now lives in Des Moines. Durkin had been in a coma since she entered the hospital, said Schultz. began investigating the possibility of child abuse after the girl suffered Police a seizure while being cared for by a baby sitter in July 1984.

Medical officials told police the child had brain injuries. Swalwell contends the injuries resulted from child abuse. "That was confirmed initially," he said. "The injuries the child received are traumatic." Kossuth County Attorney James Murphy said no charges have been filed because "a lot of different people had contact with her" and police have been unable to pinpoint a suspect. Murphy said the case was turned over to the Iowa attorney general's office, which concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge also anyone.

A grand jury failed to issue an indictment in the case, Murphy said. Swalwell said police have determined that the child had been in the custody of different people at different times, and he is hoping the time frame to tie the injuries to one person. a autopsy will provide He said the child was in the continuous care of a baby sitter for the two weeks before the seizure occurred while the mother was some of the injuries may have occurred before detasseling that corn, but he said it is possible two-week period. Shot in head; hurt only slightly By WILLIAM RYBERG Of The Register's Davenport Bureau ROCK ISLAND, ILL. A Rock Island man running down a city street was struck in the center of his forehead with a small-caliber bullet early Thursday but was only slightly hurt.

"People tell me, 'You're lucky to be And I say, 'Yes, I said Wendell Carter, 22. A bump and a large adhesive bandage are the only visible reminders of Carter's brush with death. The bandage conceals the small hole left by the bullet; only three stitches were required to close the wound, Carter said. The incident began about 1 a.m. Thursday when some friends had gathered outside Hickman's Recreation Center in an inner-city neighborhood and heard shots being fired.

"I heard something go pop, pop," said Carter, who, with other members of the group, scattered after hearing the shots. "I just tried to get out of the way," he recalled. As he dashed around the corner of a building, heading for his house two blocks away, a bullet slammed into his forehead. Moments later, as police responded to reports of gunshots in the area, Carter was stopped for questioning because he was seen running dawn the street. The officer shined a flashlight into his face and was shocked to see a bullet protruding from Carter's forehead.

"You know you've got a bullet" in the forehead, Carter remembered the officer asking him. The officer told Carter to sit in the back seat of the squad car and to refrain from touching the bullet while an ambulance was called to take him to Franciscan Medical Center in Rock Island. Doctors removed the bullet and sent Carter home. Police are holding the slug as evidence. Sgt.

Gene Anderson said the bullet entered the skin on Carter's forehead but did not penetrate his skull, apparently because the bullet had ricocheted off a brick building and smashed through a metal downspout. Carter said he thought he had been struck by a rock or a piece of brick. Carter said he didn't see who fired the shot, and he told police he doesn't believe they were directed at him. He said he wasn't aware of any fight preceding the shots. No other injuries were reported, and no arrests had been made by Thursday evening.

The incident remains under investigation..