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2A THE MtAZOSPORT FACTS Friday, Fafenwry 21,1997 PAGE Two NATIONAL The AccuWttaiher forecast for noon, Friday, Fab. 21. Swvfe ttftatt ZOTMC for 4ty. COLD WARU STATiONAtH 80s Inc. fnttaa HIGH SHSWESS E3 T-STCKUS FLUOItSS SUHfff fT.OJXXff CLOUDY SKY AND SEA MOSTLY CLOUDY with a 20 percent chance of morning showers.

Northwest winds at 15 mph with highs in the low 60s. HIGH AND LOW temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at 5 a.m. Thursday were 71 and 65. RAINFALL: No rainfall was recorded at Dow Plant for the 24-hour period ending at 5 a.m. Thursday.

UV INDEX Minima) 0,1,2 Low 3.4 Moderate 5,6 High 7,8,9 Very High 10 TEXAS WEATHER Associated Press Thunderstorms and steady rains continued to drum North Texas Thursday. Nearly one- quarter of the state was under a tornado watch, mainly in central and eastern areas. Flash flood warnings were posted in north-centra! Texas. The region will clear today, and turn mostly cloudy, windy and cooler. Highs range from 50 to near TO.

ihereisa slight chance of rain north-central and northeast, ending early the day. Saturday will bring TIDES: High tides are at 10:33 a.m. and 7:39 p.m. Low tide is at 1:07 p.m. SUNRISE is at 6:55 a.m.

and sunset is at 6:13 p.m. MARINE: Galveston Bay: Northwest winds at 15-20 knots and gusty. Bay waters choppy with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Port Arthur to Port O'Connor and out 50 miles: Northwest winds at 20 knots and gusty. Seas 6 feet.

WEATHER WATCH HIGH 63 LOW 58 some sunshine with highs in the 50s, with no rain expected until Monday. South Texas saw cloudy skies and flash flood watches Thursday. Temperatures were from the 50s into the 70s. Today will be clear in the Hill Country, turning partly cloudy and cooler. Temperatures will near 70.

On Saturday, the high will be near 60 and the low in the 40s. In West Texas, light to moderate rain feil from the eastern Panhandle through the central south plains. NATION TEMPERATURES Associated Press Temperatures indicate previous day's high and overnight low to 6:31 a.m. Hi 60 51 4O 34 72 69 71 72 75 54 64 57 80 50 52 42 58 53 Abiiene.Tex. Amarillo Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Baton Rouge Boise Boston Bridgeport Brownsville Buffalo 75 Chattanooga 68 Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Springs 48 Coiumbia.S.C.

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51 Syracuse 54 Tallahassee 80 Tampa-St Ptrsbg 86 Tucson 70 Tuisa 61 Waco 6S Washington.D.C. 72 19 46 33 54 .71 54 48 43 .14 55 .01 72 46 1.02 25 23 63 55 .16 53 66 40 40 56 .42 64 41 50 28 .07 34 41 46 44 .02 38 .15 32 .11 54 2.02 66 .40 54 46 72 47 41 .11 61 .01 32 .16 32 .02 26 .08 55 66 44 56 .48 64 .20 46 cdy cir cdy coy cir rn rn rn cdy rn rn cdy cdy cdy cdy rn cir cir rn cdy cir cir cir cdy cir cir rn rn cdy cdy rn rn cir cir cir rn cdy cdy rn rn cdy rn cdy cdy cdy cir rn rn cir Our 83rd Year, No. 349 (LISPS 304-270) How to reach us. The Brazosport Facts 265-7411 Angieton Line 849-7554 Houston Line 393-2006 Mailing address P.O. Box 549, Clute, Texas 77531 Fax 265-9052 E-mail address Classified To place a classified ad 265-7401 Circulation Open 6 am to 5 pm Monday-Friday, 6 am to 10 am weekends.

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JFtfrtorM nterttot ls weiifate tnf EMtorM sxpnmMm ha.pWKtwrt. Expert panel: Medical use of marijuana worth study BETHESDA, Md. (AP) Sparse but promising evidence indicates smoking marijuana may ease the suffering of some seriously ill patients, but more study is needed before the drug's medical value is understood, a panel of experts said Thursday. At a news conference interrupted repeatedly by pro-marijuana demonstrators, the experts assembled by the National Institutes of Health spoke of intriguing hints that marijuana smoking helps some patients with cancer, AIDS or glaucoma. But they cautioned there is little hard scientific evidence.

"For at least some indications (medical uses), it looks promising enough that there should be some new controlled studies," said Dr. William T. Beaver, a professor of pharma- cology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the panel's chairman. Although a final committee report is not complete, "the general mood was that for some indications, there is a rationale for looking further into the therapeutic effects of marijuana," Beaver said. Hie eight-member committee appeared at a news conference after two days of hearings during which members reviewed the scientific literature on medical use of smoked marijuana and heard from other experts.

Dr. Alan Leshner, head of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, organized the meeting after California and Arizona enacted state laws that allow medical uses of marijuana. Those state laws also prompted White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey to issue a warning that doctors who prescribe marijuana could lose their federal authority to prescribe medicine. One California doctor already has been warned by the Department of Justice that he is under investigation. Despite McCaffrey's tough stand, however, Leshner said the NIH would finance medical marijuana studies, if proposed research is approved by the agency's peer-review process.

Allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana is popular with Americans, favored by 62 percent to 33 percent in a CBS News poll released Thursday. But legalizing marijuana for personal use is opposed by 70 percent to 26 percent in the poll of 1,276 adults taken Jan. 30-Feb. 1. Thief at high-society benefit makes off with 'Cheers' script BOSTON (AP) It was the kind of high-society, black-tie benefit Frasier Crane might have attended, where some of the guests wore feathered masks and the only way Sain Malone could have gotten in was by tending bar.

But at least one rogue Cheers buff apparently crashed the charity auction and made off with an autographed script of the last episode. Now everybody wants to know his name. "We can only assume it was somebody who came from outside," said Janet Bailey, manager of the 182-year-old Handel Haydn Society, a classical orchestra and chorus. "The guests were donors and supporters of ours for many years, and it's hard to imagine that they would have stolen from us." The script of the "Last Call" episode of Cheers was one of 100 items to be auctioned off last weekend at the society's $250-a- plate Carnival of Venice gala to raise money for its programs in city schools. The script was donated by George Wendt, who played beer- guzzling Norm Peterson on the show, and was signed by the eight members of the cast.

Surgeons remove small tumor from Elizabeth Taylor brain LOS ANGELES (AP) Surgeons removed a 2-incK brain tumor from behind the left ear of Elizabeth. Taylor in. a four-hour operation on Thursday, and her doctor said -he expects a full recovery. "The tumor-appears to be benign," -said Dr. Martin Cooper: adding that the tumor was -totally removed and there were-no A Taylor, 65 next, -was moving her arms and Cooper said.

will be-in the intensive care," unit for about 24 hours and will remain at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for about a week. "The next 24 hours are important for her," said Cooper, a neurosurgeon. Cooper, the hospital's clinical chief of neurosurgery, led a team of doctors- ia removing the growth in the lining of tne left varietal lobe, an area over and behind the left ear. we "to outline the tumor scalp so outlnci- sions The freed but still dangerous convict: a puzzle for society WASHINGTON (AP) His hands stained with the blood of the woman he just killed, Lawrence Singleton is confronting America with a predicament: what to do about criminals who pay the price society imposes but still remain a danger. The Supreme Court is asking the question, too.

It was voiced in everyday terms by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist two months ago: "What is the state supposed to do? Just wait until he goes out and does it again?" In that case, "he" was Leroy Hendricks, an admitted pedophile, convicted five times of child molesting, his 10-year term now served. He has said there is no guarantee he won't commit new crimes against children. The state of Kansas wants to keep Hendricks confined on the grounds he has a mental abnormality, although he has been found not to be mentally ill. The high court will rule soon.

Rehnquist's question is raised anew by the case of Singleton, accused of a gory killing in Florida and personifying the problem of what to do with repeat violent offenders who have served their time. Singleton served eight years in California for raping a teen-age hitchhiker and chopping off her arms. Californians raised a ruckus to keep him out of their neighborhoods. He finally returned home to Florida in 1989. Neighbors in Tampa learned of his grisly past just weeks ago.

When arrested stabbing a prostitute to death, he said: "They framed me the first time, but this time I did it" Such incidents are all too common. In Georgia, a rapist sentenced to five life terms but released in 1983 after 14 years raped again in 1992. In Rochester, N.Y., Arthur Shawcross, who had killed two children 18 years earlier, was arrested in 1990 and convicted of strangling 11 women. According to Princeton University professor John Delulio, almost half of the country's 671,000 parolees and probationers are caught committing serious new offenses within three years. Lawyer David Kuzmeski has considered Rehnquist's question for years.

Kuzmeski has seen the criminal justice system from many sides: as a policeman, a prison guard, director of Massachusetts' police academy, now a criminal defense counsel and professor of criminal justice. "No simplistic answer," he says. If society wants to protect itself from the violent sexual criminals, the best it can do is lock them up until they are over 30 years of age. As people age, they tend to control their rage. Singleton proved an exception; he's 69.

"Let them get old," Kuzmeski said. "Essentially that's the answer. I am not aware of any treatment that has been particularly successful." Counseling can work, but chiefly with children, before their criminal lives start, Kuzmeski said. He notes a study that found that schoolyard bullies are more likely than other children to become violent criminals. In search of a sure answer, 22 states and the federal government enacted three-strikes-and-you're- out laws.

But a study by the Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy, made up of criminal justice officials who want more emphasis on crime prevention, questions the effectiveness. It found no deterrent effect and said such laws may induce violence causing a suspect to kill a policeman, for instance, to avoid incarceration on a third crime that could mean a life sentence. Another answer was "Megan's law," named after a 7-year-old New Jersey girl killed by a twice- convicted child molester. Such laws require sex offenders to identify themselves to law officers when they move into a neighborhood. In New Jersey, 3,500 have been registered.

The answer, says psychologist James Clark who runs the Mental Health Clinic for Socio-Legal Services in Monroe County, N.Y., is for society to spend more money than it's been willing. DEATH AND FUNERALS Rooks Funeral services for "Woody" Rooks, 83, of Oyster Creek are pending with Lakewood Funeral Chapel. He passed away Wednesdav, February 19, 1997. Frances Gassan Frances Gassen, 99, of Okarche, Oklahoma, passed away Friday, February 7, 1997, at Kingfisher Regional Hospital. A wake service was held at 7:00 p.m., Monday, February 10, 1997, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Okarche.

Mass of Christian Burial was at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 11, 1997, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Okarche with Rev. Ed Weisenburger officiating. Burial was at Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery under the direction of Sanders Funeral Service of Kingfisher, Oklahoma. LOTTERY RESULTS GASH 5 Winning numbers Pick 3 numbers Drawing Data She was bom November 12, 1897 in Okarche to Peter and Mary (Gasseling) Klein. They moved to Anthon where she later married Theodore Gassen.

They returned to Okarche where she lived the remainder of her life. She was a member of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church and Holy Trinity Altar Society. She was chosen "Mother of the Year" by the Holy Trinity Catholic Altar Society. Survivors include five daughters, Margaret Robinson and Josephine Gassen of Okarche, Theresa Lyle of Bay City, Cecelia Shumate of Moore, Oklahoma and Bernadette Brockman of Richardson; one son, Henry of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; two daughters-in-law, Eva Hancock of Bay City and Joan Gassen of Kingfisher; 36 grandchildren; 78 great-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Josephine Endres of Cypress, California. She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Bart of Bay City and Paul of Kingfisher; 2 grandchildren; and 3 great- grandchildren.

Cecil Fviuir CecU "Bud" Muir, 72, of La Marque passed away on February 19, 1997 at Clear Lake Regional Hospital in Webster. Mr. Muir was bom on January 12, 1925 in Harlem County, Nebraska. He was a retired operator for Chemical Company in Texas City, a member of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in La Marque, and World War veteran, serving in the U. S.

Army Air Corps as a medic. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus Council No. 5236 for 32 years. He had been a resident of La Marque since 1951. Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Alicia Muir of La Marque; sons, James Mnir of Pasadena, Thomas Muir of Texas City and Gilbert Muir and wife, Glenda of Richwood; daughter, Mary Ann Jacob of Texas City, 2 sisters, Leta Pickett of Fort Morgan, Colorado and Mildred Christiansen of Longmont, Colorado; 2 brothers, Roy Muir of Erie, Colorado and Ray Muir of Broomfield, Colorado; 12 grandchildren including Kimberly Taylor of Lake Jackson; and 5 great-grandchildren including Kristen Taylor and Chase Muir, both of Lake Jackson.

Visitation will be today at 5:00 p.m. with a vigil at 8:00 p.m. and a rosary to follow by the Knights of Columbus No. 5236 at the Chapel of James Crowder Funeral Home in La Marque. Services will be Saturday at 10:00 a.m.

at Queen of Peace Catholic Church in La Marque with Monsignor T. Joseph Culver officiating. Entombment will follow at Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery in Dickinson. Pallbearers will be Greg Muir, Grant Muir, Brian Muir, Shawn Muir, Larry Alexander and Barry Alexander.

Honorary pallbearers will be Sana Segari and Kevin "Muir" Beetz. William Morris Dodson Funeral services for William Morris Dodson, 78, of Angieton will be held at 2:00 p.m., today, February 21, 1997, at Southside Baptist Church in Franklin with Rev. C. E. Barnett officiating.

Burial will be in Mt Pleasant Cemetery in Franklin. Masonic graveside services will be held by Patrick Lodge Mr. Dodson passed away on February 19, 1997 in Madisonville. He was born November 30, 1918 in Franklin to Daniel ham and Bertie Vaness Dodson. A Brazoria County resident for 54 years, he was a member of Danbury Baptist Church.

He was a U.S. Army veteran, a marine mechanic and had worked for the Texas Highway He is survived by his wifd, Doris Dodson of Angletonj daughter, Linda Woodward of Houston; sons, Morris Gene Dodson of Houston and Robert Wayne Dodson and wife, Sandy of Madisonville; sisters, Ozelle Smith of Bryan and Ledtta BeH Sanders of Franklin; 6 grandchildren; and 4 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Phg Carter, Johnny Hatthorn, Vincent Heckler, Jim Smith, Art Valdez and Clark Wohleb. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Arthritis Founi dation, Texas Gulf Coast Chap; ter, 7447 Harwin Ste. 118; Houston.

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