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14A DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. ROCHESTER, N.Y.. FRIDAY, APRIL 1. 1988 WEATHER ecopyrigw 1988. Democrat and chronicle For Thruway conditions call 1-800-992-8698 For National Weather Service forecast call 235-0240 Continuous NWS forecasts on KHA 53 (162.4 megahertz) ELSEWHERE IN THE NATION Sources of data: National Weather Service and Environment Canada TEMPERATURES, FORECASTS FOR 2 P.M.

TODAY Today's high temperatures Precipitation 8 How to us this pg: The regional map, below in color, shows general weather trends. Temperatures on the map are forecasts ot highs and lows; detailed forecasts for some cities are below at left. For a wider view, see the Northern American Forecast map, below right. SSh z9 AWN Showers 10s 'ffoo'i Snow 20s i in? Flurries 30s Winds blow counter- Winds blow clockwise 40s 50s 60s 70s around cells of clockwise hiqh pressure, around cells of I I Fri. Fri.

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Temp. Weather Temp Temp Forecast forecast I Albuquerque cloudy 53 31 44 33 Minneapolis ptcldy 46 31 47 33 Amarillo ram 46 32 49 34 Nashville Istrms 73 60 67 50 Anchorage ptcldy 39 27 38 31 New Orleans ptcldy 80 67 72 62 Atlanta ptcldy 76 57 78 24 Norfolk. Va. cloudy 64 47 68 50 Atlantic City cloudy 48 46 54 44 Oklahoma City tstrms 57 46 53 47 Austin cloudy 78 66 73 51 Omaha ram 49 35 59 33 Billings sunny 63 38 51 19 Orlando lair 83 62 81 62 Birmingham ptcldy 81 60 79 61 Phoenix lair 75 47 72 49 Boise lair 61 35 53 22 Portland. Me.

ptcldy 50 34 61 29 Charleston.SC cloudy 76 66 70 60 Portland.Ore. cloudy 64 44 64 39 Charlotle.NC. ptcldy 75 55 79 57 Providence ptcldy 55 37 61 35 Cheyenne cloudy 37 24 24 20 Raleigh ptcldy 75 55 80 55 Columbus. O. tain 62 45 62 39 Rapid City cloudy 56 35 45 20 Dallas tstrms 70 57 65 49 Reno sunny 63 28 56 24 Denver snshw 38 26 29 Richmond cloudy 66 45 .72 53 Des Moines cloudy 52 38 57 32 Sacramento sunny 75 46 76 50 Duluth ptcldy 45 25 35 21 St.

louis rain 58 50 57 42 El Paso ptcldy 64 36 62 30 St. Thomas.V I. ptcldy 85 74 72 Fairbanks ptcldy 34 15 28 17 Salt Lake City ptcldy 53 32 51 35 Fargo sunny 51 32 40 20 San Antonio cloudy 79 67 77.53 Helena sunny 63 35 48 17 San Diego sunny 74 54 75 52 Honolulu ptcldy 84 72 83 70 San Francisco sunny 74 52 77 58 Houston tstrms 78 67 71 56 San Jose sunny 75 48 57 Jackson. Miss tstrms 82 67 74 56 San Juan.P R. ptcldy 85 72 81 73 Jacksonville lair 80 69 78 53 Seattle cloudy 59 43 58 44 Kansas City rain 59 45 54 35 Spokane ptcldy 55 37 52 31 Knoxville cloudy 73 58 78 67 Tampa lair 83 63 84 65 Las Vegas sunny 70 45 68 47 Tucson lair 71 40 66 53 Little Rock tstrms 72 64 63 48 Tulsa tstrms 59 51 64 48 Los Angeles sunny 79 52 76 55 Wichita ram 53 38 52 37 Memphis tstrms 75 62 69 51 Wilkes-Barre cloudy 54 39 64 35 Miami Beach lair 80 70 78 72 Wilmington.

Del. shwrs 68 40 69 48 TODAY IN ROCHESTER Short-rang forecast: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers; high 50 to 55. Variable cloudiness tonight with a 40 percent chance of showers; low 35 to 40. Tomorrow: Variable clouds; high near 55. Extended: Chance of showers or thunderstorms Sunday.

Partly cloudy with scattered showers Monday. Sunny periods Tuesday. Highs 55 to 60, lows about 40. EASTERN FORECASTS Adirondack! and Thousand Islands: Mostly cloudy; highs In the lower 50s. Continued cloudy tonight; lows in the lower 30s.

Tomorrow: Mix of clouds and sun; highs around 50. Eastern New York: Cloudy with a chance of rain; highs in the lower 50s; continued cloudy tonight; lows in the upper 30s. Tomorrow: Considerable cloudiness with a chance of lingering morning showers; highs 50 to 55. New York City: Mostly cloudy; high in the mid-50s. Cloudy tonight with a 60 percent chance of rain or drizzle; low in the upper 40s.

Tomorrow: 50 percent chance of rain; high 55 to 60. Boston: Increasing clouds; high 48 to 52. Cloudy tonight; low near 40. Tomorrow: Cloudy and cool with some drizzle; high 44 to 48. Lake Erie shore Chance of rain, 60 percent; high about 50.

Cloudy with rain tonight; low near 40. Tomorrow: Rainy; highs in the upper 40s. Pittsburgh: Chance of rain, 60 percent; high in the mid 50s. Occasional rain tonight; low in the upper 40s. Tomorrow: Cloudy; high in the upper 50s.

Washington, D.C.: Cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain; high near 60. Chance of showers tonight, 60 percent; low 45 to 50. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy; high 65 to 70. Toronto: Partly cloudy; high about 50. Cloudy and windy with showers tonight; low about 35.

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YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES Slat Aral Indianapolis 49 41 Albany 59 32 Baltimore 67 51 Louisville 60 49 Binghamton 59 30 Boston 51 42 Milwaukee 44 26 Bulialo 54 29 Burlington 61 39 Philadelphia 70 45 Elmira 58 31 Charleston. WV 74 47 Pittsburgh 68 37 Islip 61 38 Chicago 54 31 Sault Ste.Marie 52 21 Massena 54 33 Cincinnati 51 44 Washington 69 53 New York 67 44 Cleveland 49 32 Canada Hochealer 49 26 Concord.NH 60 25 Montreal 52 31 Syracuse 57 29 Detroit 49 34 Ottawa 62 31 Watertown 51 21 Erie 46 30 Ouebec 47 36 HartlorrJ 66 34 Toronto 47 26 NORTHERN AMERICAN FORECASTS DEGREE DAYS 4.52 7.06 4.53 Rainfall to date 30-year average Rainfall last year WEATHER STATION SANTA MARIA, Calif. "It's just beautiful. It's really nice and clear," Phyllis Wilson said yesterday. Wilson, who is retired, is a Rochester native who has lived in California for more than 40 years.

Her name was submitted by her sister, Gerry Elling, of Rochester. Wadrwaday: 15. Season to date: 5792. Normal season to date: 5802. Degree days are a measure of how much energy is needed to heat buildings.

Each day's figure Is calculated by subtracting the day's average temperature from 65. If the average Is above 65, the day has zero degree days. ALMANAC LOCAL REPORT Rochester Airport Readings (Celsius in parentheses) Yesterday's high 49 9) Yesterday's low 26 -3) Yesterday's average 38 3) Today's normal high 49 9) Today's normal low 31 -1) Year ago today: High 39 4) Year ago today: Low 19 -7) Record high, 1986 85 (29) Record low, 1923 7 (-14) Sunshine 10 32 min. Snowtall (inches) none Snowfall to date 68.7 30-year average 85.4 Snowfall last year 64 6 Rainfall (inches) none WORLD TEMPERATURES Observations were made at focal limes yesterday using Fahrenheit and Celsius scales. 32 96 30.40 30 100 30.43 28 95 30.44 27 95 30.45 35 89 30.47 39 64 30.49 43 59 30.45 41 58 30.40 46 53 30.37 41 59 30.36 40 64 30.35 39 64 30.33 Midnight 2 a.m.

4 a.m. 6 a.m. 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m.

4 p.m. 6 p.m. 8 p.m. 10 p.m. Sun rises at 5:53, sets at 6:37 Moon rises at 6:11 p.m., sets at 5:46 a.m.

tomorrow. Nation's High: BJKltT McAllen, Texas: 89 Yellowstone Park, jj; SurdTon? ujwMluil vnnr1 Stationary front Cond. Tim Cond. Tim Ankara cloudy 3 pm 47 9 Mexico Ctty missng 6 am Athens dear 2 pm Moscow clear 3 pm 48 9 Beijing cloudy 8 pm 57 14 Nairobi clear 3 pm 81 27 Berlin cloudy 1 pm 52 11 New Delhi clear 6 pm 89 32 Buenos Aires clear 9 am 64 18 Paris ptcldy 1 pm 48 9 Cairo clear 2 pm 71 22 Rio clear 9 am 80 27 Kingston clear 7 am 75 24 Rome ptcldy 1pm 61 16 London ptcldy 1pm 50 10 Sydney cloudy 10 pm 71 22 Madrid clear 1pm 52 11 Tokyo cloudy 9 pm 44 7 Manila clear 8 pm 84 29 Warsaw cloudy 1 pm 56 13 New Moon First quarter Full Moon Last quarter Apr. 16 Apr.

23 Apr. 1 Apr. 9 Air quality Index: Yesterday 32, good. mw.mwf'imiv.iittwm hiiiWfVmhiTrt iWr -iiiiiiiit niwrtiniirinniiiiiwm nmiiiftn Channel 8 TV, three others put up for sale By Mary Lynne Vellinga Democrat and Chronicle The owners of Rochester's WROC-TV, Channel 8, put the station up for sale yesterday. Television Station Partners of Greenwich, hopes to sell the Rochester station as a package with three others: WEYI-TV, Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, WRDW-TV, Augusta, and WTOV-TV, which serves Wheeling, W.Va., and Steubenville, Ohio.

In the interim, the staff of 83 won't be cut and the budget won't change, said Tom Kenney, WROC general manager. The NBC affiliate ranks a narrow third in the A.C. Nielsen Co. viewer ratings behind WHEC-TV, Channel 10, and WOKR-TV, Channel 13, but ahead of WUHF-TV, Channel 31. Channel 8 ranks far behind the other networks in local former Ziff executives, financed the ven-, ture with backing from more than 200 limited partners.

WROC traces its roots back to WHAM-TV, which was Rochester's first television station when founded in 1949 by Stromberg-Carlson Co. Broadcast properties have remained in high demand despite the Oct. 19 stock market crash, said Kevin R. Gruneich, media analyst at First Boston Corp. Stations are selling for 10 to 15 times annual operating earnings now, he said.

Five years ago, the multiple was in the single digits. Based on the prices paid in recent TV station sales, the four channels could fetch anywhere from $200 million to $300 million, said Mary Ann Winter, media analyst at Brown Bros. Harriman Co. in New York City. "I don't think they'll stay on the market long." news.

Nevertheless, media analysts contacted yesterday predicted it won't be difficult to find a buyer. Of the four stations being sold, Rochester is the largest in terms of annual revenues, said Ralph E. Becker, general partner and chief operating officer of Television Station Partners. He would not provide revenues or earnings figures. "We don't have a price we're asking for," Becker said.

"The market will set the price." The owners are accepting only cash bids, Kenney said. "We see it being sold to someone who is already in the broadcast business." The group paid $56.2 million for the four stations in a 1983 leveraged buy-out from Ziff-Davis Broadcasting which had owned WROC since 1979, Becker said. Becker and I. Martin Pompadur, and school environment based on interviews with about 1,000 education reporters, parent groups, civic groups, librarians and others. Rochester's score of 41 was higher than many urban districts.

Harrison's commentary mentions the labor contract signed in the district last year that gives teachers greater participation in education decisions and the highest teaching salaries in the nation. It also praises the city district's restructuring program. Brighton won consistently high scores in almost every area, with special mention of its programs for gifted students. "We have a whole range of strong activities for students who are gifted in a particular area," said John R. Shafer, Brighton's acting superintendent.

One in three seniors wins a state Regents scholarship, he said, and 85 percent to 90 percent go on to higher education after graduating. Harrison's book described Brighton as providing "excellent" college preparatory courses but "fair to good" courses for students who are not college-bound. Shafer said Brighton's score reflects community support for the district. Compared with other local school districts, he said, "We probably have the highest per-pupil cost, and it's something I'm not proud of." This school year Brighton spent $8,249 per pupil, more than any other district in Monroe County. East Rochester was second at $7,190.

Superintendents of three local districts interviewed yesterday had no record of receiving or returning Harrison's survey. "We don't exist to help somebody make a profit," said Richard E. Mace superintendent in Penfield. He gets several surveys a day. Myles M.

Bigenwald, acting superintendent of Fairport schools, also expressed reluctance at anwering surveys from "profit-making operations." Florence Seldin, acting superintendent in Pittsford, said she suspects Harrison's survey did not include schools educators usually praise, such as Amherst, Wil-liamsville and Scarsdale in New York, and Newton in Massachusetts. ers. The label on the package says "All-American Renewable Sweater Kit." Gilliam got the idea after Drury wrote last year and said his wife had taken up knitting. Drury said last night that the lamb has put him between the horns of a dilemma. "But I refuse to get angry," he said.

"Above everything else, he wants me to be furious with him. If there's any way to turn this into something of value, that's the only way to get even." Lynn Drury said she hopes to find a home for the lamb someplace in the country "with somebody who'll give me some of the wool, and maybe I can knit Bill and Cindy a suitable present." But the first return volley in the two men's ongoing rivalry is on its way via Federal Express to South Carolina today. The Gilliams will receive their frozen lamb chops tomorrow. "I hope they will be suitably horrified," Drury said. and Drury left Wagner College on Staten Island.

He said he paid "$800 or $900" when he ordered the lamb last Christmas from the 1987 Neiman-Marcus catalog. The company waited for warm weather to ship the animal, he Gilliam said Drury earned the odd gift because of numerous unusual presents Drury has left on his doorsteps since they met in 1969. "The only thing I can say-is that you cannot print what he gave me last Christmas," Gilliam said. Drury said he has to seek out the unusual for Gilliam, "because what can you give somebody who's got four airplanes, a Manhattan penthouse and a resort home?" "But it's going to be tough to top this one," he said. The lamb, which Gilliam named Le-Roy, arrived as part of a kit, along with spinning and weaving materials, shears, and patterns for mittens, hats and sweat- April Fools' Day joke is 'ewe-nique' FROM PAGE 1A After searching the Yellow Pages for sheep food Wednesday night, the Drurys fed and bedded the lamb on the lawn beside their perplexed golden retriever, Fitzgerald, and spent a restless night trying to discount the sheep.

"It bleated all night," said Drury, a soft-spoken man who works as a technical representative for a dental supply firm. "Texas humor," he grunted, arriving home last night and finding the wooly beast still on his lawn. "Gilliam's income has gone up a little more than mine since we started playing pranks in college." Gilliam has worked his way from a job as a research biologist to ownership of his own investment banking firm since he Brighton tops school ranks in U.S. guide Many districts fail to answer survey Democrat and Chronicle and The Associated Press Brighton ranks highest among approximately 500 school districts rated in a first-of-its-kind national guide to public schools. But educators are quick to warn that coming out on top in the book Public Schools USA isn't necessarily a true indicator of quality.

Many districts with national reputations didn't answer the survey that author Charles Harrison conducted for the book. Apparently only five in Monroe County took part in it. Harrison, a former education writer for the Bergen Record and the Newark Star-Ledger in New Jersey and executive director of the Education Writers Association from 1976 to 1986, gave the districts scores but didn't put them in order. "It doesn't rank any school. It provides information as a consumer guide service," Harrison said.

The book will cost $18 when it reaches bookstores in a few weeks. "My whole thinking is that parents have been able for years to buy a guide to help them decide where to send their kids to college. School is so much more important, but there have been no guides to schixjls," Harrison said. Unlike some relocation guidebooks that charge districts a fee to be listed, Harrison's survey cost participants nothing. Some districts could not participate because they fell outside the 50-mile circle Harrison drew around the nation's large cities.

Others, such as East Rochester, were not approached because they have fewer than 2,500 students. Large urban systems fared the worst and affluent suburbs from the Northeast fared the best in the book. Oakland, received a score of 13 out of a possible 100. Brighton got a 98. Other Monroe County school districts that answered Harrison's survey and the scores they received were: Churchville-Chili, 73; Rush-Henrietta, 71; Greece, 63; and Rochester, 41.

Harrison profiled each district using 22 statistics gathered in questionnaires districts filled out during the 1985-86 school year. He chose 10 of the 22 statistics to devise his "effective schools index." School districts earned from zero to 10 points on each of 10 criteria: average daily attendance, spending per pupil, dropout rate, average combined SAT or ACT scores, percentage of eligible students taking the SAT or ACT, number of advanced-placement courses, teacher-student ratios in elementary and secondary grades, counselor-student ratio and number of students per music specialist. The book also attempted to evaluate quality of school leadership, instruction N.Y. population falling to 3rd place Ruling upsets plan of Kodak, Fuqua FROM PAGE 1A A STATISTICAL 'BIOGRAPHY' OF U.S. 10A The bureau also forecast a decline in New York's white population as a percent of total population between 1990 and 2000.

Whites will go from 80.2 percent of the population in 1990 to 78.2 percent 10 years later, the bureau said. A study released in February predicted that New York could lose as many as three of its 34 congressional seats after the 1990 census, while California, whose 45-member delegation is already the largest, could gain six. Texas could pick up four seats, bringing its delegation to 31, equal for the first time to New York's diminished delegation. That report, by Election Data Services an independent political consulting firm, was based on bureau estimates. HTTOTTEilY Yesterday's Daily Number was 018.

The Win Four number was 7169. The Keno numbers were 6, 9, 11, 13, 21, 22, 24, 26, 36, 40, 43, 46, 47, 50, 53, 55, 62, That would be an estimated 25 percent of photographs taken by amateur photographers in the United States, and an estimated two-thirds of the business done by large wholesale processing laboratories for retailers. Phototron processes amateur photographers' film at nine processing laboratories in the South and West. If the Supreme Court refuses to hear Alioto's petition, the merger will automatically be allowed to go through. Kodak's Allen said the companies are eager to complete the merger, which originally was scheduled for Feb.

1. The photo-finishing business is seasonal, increasing in the spring and summer, he said, and the companies would prefer to merge during the slow season. He couldn't say what the consequences would be of delaying the merger until the case is tried in the summer of 1989. "I'm not sure any business can wait in limbo that long," he said. "It certainly isn't healthy." The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The Associated Press WASHINGTON After two decades shadowing California, New York is on the verge of sliding to No. 3 in population by 1995, as Texas surpasses the Empire State for the first time, the Census Bureau said yesterday in its first state projections in five years. The data show that the Northeast already has become the nation's least-populated region, falling behind the West for the first time. The bureau also forecast the aging of the Northeast's population, with the maturing of the Baby Boom generation. Overall, the Northeast will have the largest proportion of residents age 65 and over and the lowest share under age 18.

New York's population is expected to increase 1.2 percent both in this decade and the next, the bureau predicted. It put the 1988 population of the Empire State at 17,755,000 and predicted that would increase to 17,773,000 by 1990. By 1995, New York's population will reach 17,886,000, but it will be leapfrogged by the Lone Star State, which will have swollen to 19,012,000. Phototron has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, saying that the planned Kodak-Fuqua joint venture violates the antitrust laws.

A trial in that case is scheduled to start in June 1989. White isn't being asked to decide who's right in that case. He is being asked to give Alioto time to ask the full U.S. Supreme Court to delay the merger until the trial takes place. The merger would combine Fuqua's Colorcraft Corp.

subsidiary with five Kodak photo-finishing divisions. Qualex would employ 10,000 people and operate 94 processing laboratories, including the former Carhart Photo laboratories in Buffalo and Syracuse. Fuqua estimates the joint venture will process more than 4 billion prints and take in $650 million in revenue this year. 04, iV, 4. I.