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E5 OCT 181998 A2 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1998 http: www.stlnet.cofn ST LOUS P0ST-DEFATCH 900 North Tucker Blvd. St. Louis, Mo 63101-1099 Today's Index Arts C3-4 Books C5 Movie times C7 Business El News Bl Classified Gl Obituaries D10 Editorials B2 Reviews C10 Everyday CI Travel. 314-340-8000 or 800-365-0820 Switchboard hours: M-F 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m. News Phone Fax Metro Desk 340-8222 340-3050 Business 340-8200 340-3060 McCartney knew wife was near death but didn't tell her Patrick Emory (left) will succeed Don Marsh at Channel 30 beginning Oct. 26. Channel S's Rick Edlund is signing off Dec. 8.

Local TV moves: Edlund will exit, Emory returns CHANNEL SURFING: Look for Channel S's Rick Edlund to sign off Dec. 8. Edlund had been offered a 'shorter term (one-year) contract than his current three-year pact, which he and his agent have rejected. Patrick Emory will succeed Don Marsh as news anchor on KDNL-TV, Channel 30, beginning Oct 26. Emory will co-host with Leslie Lytes the and 10 p.m., Monday-Friday newscasts.

His credits include stints on Channel 4, Channel 5, CNN and most recently on Tampa, WTOG-TV, which has eliminated its news broad- arrr casts" JCrry Over at Channel 2, studio A has oeen gurtea to maice way ror a Denver new, $150,000 set that should be view in Saturday's Daily Mail. For Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney's death was a double agony his mother died of breast cancer when he was 14. "The best thing for getting it all out of your system is tears," said the singer, explaining how he handled his grief. "Even though I am from a generation that used to hold them in and in Liverpool when my mum died we did a lot of holding the tears in I am no longer remotely like that," he said. Linda McCartney, the photographer who married the pop icon and launched her own career as an animal rights activist and vegetarian entrepreneur, died at the family- ranch in Arizona af-tef a three-year fight against cancer.

Paul McCartney is now putting the finishing touches to an album of songs by Linda, who once faced the He thought Linda wouldn't want to know, he says Reuters News Service LONDON Paul McCartney has revealed that he knew his wife, Linda, had just days to live but he decided not to tell her that breast cancer had finally overwhelmed her. McCartney, who spent just one night apart from his wife in almost 30 years of marriage before her death in April, said: "I knew a week or so before she died. I was the only one who knew. "One of the doctors said she ought to be told, but I didn't want to tell her because I didn't think she'd want to know," the former Beatle confessed in an inter on line by Oct. 25.

"It will be able to handle HDTV, said news director Rick Erbach. Do-gooder Roberta Cohen, wife of Channel 4's Allen Cohen, is on the mend from knee surgery, as a result of ah accident at the Rams' opener. Hometowner and vet WNBC- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Paul McCartney is shown with his son James Wednesday at a show of fashions designed by his daughter Stella. Speaking about his wife's death, McCartney said, "The best thing for getting it all out of your system is tears. enmity of fans for marrying still very raw.

He confessed their idol in the heyday' of to the Daily Mail: "It is the the world's most famous pop little things that really get group. you. I think I'll phone her Paul McCartney's grief is and then say, 'Oh, Christ' Compiled By Ron Norton Of the Post-Dispatch Editorials 340-8380 340-3139 Everyday 340-8269 340-3080 Get Out 862-2102 721-1305 Sports 340-8170 340-3070 Illinois news 340-3058 St. Charles 946-3903 946-8071 USTwortd news 340-8298 340-3050 News tips 231-7678 Advertising Classified 621-6666 340-8664 Retail 340-8500 340-3140 Get Out 340-8587 340-3141 Death notices 340-8600 Publisher 340-8432 Job hotline. Circulation For home delivery, missing papers, deilvery questions, am-6 pm, Sat.

7 pm; Sun. 7 am-noon; Christmas and New Yeans Day, 7 a.m.-l p.m. Mail subscription rate is $214 for Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas and $293 for other states or APO or FPO addresses. The Post-Dispatch is owned by the Pulitzer Publishing Co. and is published daily.

(USPS- 476-580) Postmaster send address changes to above address. Second-class postage paid at St. Louis. Weekend, Sunday-only subscriptions receive bonus delivery of Nov. 25, 1998 editions.

Lotteries MULTISTATE GAMES Friday's Big Money Game Winning numbers 06-07-14-18-33 Big Money Ball 08 Friday's Big Money winners: 5 Big Money ball winners 0 ($5 million jackpoV Saturday's Powerball game Winning numbers NA Powerball NA Saturday's Powerball jackpot was esti-' mated at $25 million. Tuesday's Big Money jackpot is estimated at $7 million. MISSOURI Daily Pick-3 game Saturday's winning number 952 Show Me 5 game Saturday's numbers 10-15-17-24-27 Saturday's Lotto game Winning numbers 01-04-16-17-38-44 Wednesday's Lotto jackpot was not available for this edition. ILLINOIS Saturday's Pick-3 game Midday drawing 526 Evening drawing NA Saturday's Pick-4 game Midday drawing ...9127 Evening drawing NA Friday's Little Lotto game Winning numbers 03-13-18-19-21 Friday's Little Lotto winners: Players matching five numbers 4 ($200, OOO jackpot, $29, 559. 50 for each winner Second Prize winners: Four numbers matched 472 (Each will get $178.) Third Prizewinners: Three numbers matched 11,882 (Each will get $5.) mm I fkik TV communications topper (in Gotham), Terry Doll, will leave the network's flagship in December to hang out her shingle as a media relations and special events maven.

WHEELS: Have you caught this sign at Bellerive Plaza on Olive "Skateboarding, bicycling and unauthorized pedestrian traffic prohibited; authorized vehicles onlyviolators considered trespassing will be Unlike Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, County Exec Buzz Westfall is confident of his grip on Clayton so confident that he and wife Laurie are fiddling in Florida for four days, with election day just two weeks away. The Buzzer says polling data foretells a big win over his unknown GOP foe Joe Passanise. But, in case you might get the idea that Westfall is overconfident, his car was in the exec's reserved parking place in the Government Center lot Friday. A decision by St. Louis Mayor Clarence Harmon to split the duties of his top staffer into two deputy mayoral positions and elevate a senior alderman to his Cabinet has triggered a crisis in etiquette at City Hall.

Spaces in the circle driveway off Tucker Boulevard are scarce. Only the mayor, his top staffers and other city-wide elected officials sport credentials for one of the coveted spots. However, the promotions mean at least one car will have to be accommodated. That could mean the eviction of someone else's auto. Therefore, it was no surprise to see a city employee out in the circle early Friday with a measuring tape and a very worried look on his face.

MAP CASE: Developer Pete Rothschild and his attorney Tom Carnahan have a plan for the city's Loft District They have approached city officials with a proposal to blight most of the buildings along Washington Avenue from Tucker Boulevard to 20th Street including buildings now being developed by others and create a single redevelopment plan for the entire area. Why those particular boundaries? "Because that's how far our map was," explained the would-be loft barons to an incredulous alderman. FLOWER POWER: With Missouri's Brownfields Program dollars a critical financing element to several local development projects, including the old Arena and the convention headquarters hotel, the Stolar Partnership's Dale Hemteling and Merc's Kathy Bader should draw a crowd to their presentation next Wednesday at the RCGA's Regional Environment Conference at the Hyatt Regency at Union Station. FACES IN PLACES: At Beffa jewelry maven Dorian Magwhz reeled over a message on the outdoor sign at Resurrection Lutheran Church on Sappington Road during the Mark McGwire marathon: "Busch Stadium sold out; seating available at your church." Nearby, pals of Betty ZemKzsch Whalen celebrated her return to her roots for a brief reunion before she returned to Sarasota, Fla Jamie Wood, champ hairbender at Clayton's Dominic Michael Salon and spouse of real estate baron Bob Wood, was feted by pals at Trattoria Marcella last week in celebration of a Top 20 percent finish in her first marathon last Sunday in ChiTpwn WINSLET AND FIANCE: 'When you know, you know' her list of leading men. Variety says she's set to work with Harrison Ford for the first time in the supernatural thriller "What Lies Beneath." Pfeiffer, who has worked with Robert Redford, Mel Gibson, Jack Nicholson, George Clooney, Al Pacino and Jeff Bridges in the past, starts shooting "The Story of Us" with Bruce Willis in December.

Seen the light Soap opera star Jordan Clarke must spend at least 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine. Clarke, 49, who plays the troubled Billy Lewis on "Guiding Light," said he had a drug problem. Clarke and his wife were pulled over in Boca Raton, in March for driving without their lights on. Police found cocaine in the car. He will report to jail in March.

On this date: On Oct. 18, 1982, former first lady Bess Truman died at her home in Independence, at age 97. Happy birthday: Rocker Tim Cross 32 Actress Erin Moran 37 Musician Wynton Marsalis 37 Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme 38 Author Terry McMillan 47 Football's Mike Ditka 59 Actor Peter Boyle 65 Actor George C. Scott 71 Rocker Chuck Berry 72 Wedding bells Actress Kate Winslet survived "Titanic," and now she's going to launch a marriage. The 23-year-old British actress announced Friday that she will marry little-known assistant film director Jim Threapleton, 24.

"When you know (you are in love), you know: That's what I've been told all my life, and now I know," Winslet told the London Daily Mirror. Winslet met Threapleton a year ago on the film set of "Hideous Kinky," which is due for release next year. Whine, whine, whine Even Patti Davis is fed up with her whiny image and complaints about Dad, Ronald Reagan. With self-mocking wit Thursday in front of a community college audience in Schenectady, N.Y., she did an impression of the old Patti. "Hi, I'm Patti," she whined.

"My mother's very controlling and my father just bombed Libya. Don't expect very much of me. I have issues." Davis, 45, who wrote several books about her family, conceded that she made more money when she was complaining about her parents. A few good men Michelle Pfeiffer is about to make a major addition to I McMILLAN: 47 candles Saturday's Lotto game Winning numbers NA DITKA: Turning 59 i The Illinois Lotto jackpot is estimated at $1.5 million. FORD: Teaming up with Pfeiffer Who's invited? Educators who subscribe to the NIE program or anyone JJ interested in learning how to use the newspaper in the classroom.

OX What is it? A hands-on, informative and entertaining workshop conducted by Debby Carroll, NIE expert and author. I If 1 I v' INTRODUCING When? Oct 28, at 4:00 p.m. Where? St Louis Post-Dispatch, 2nd floor conference cen ter, 900 North Tucker Blvd. JL A BRAND NEW Why? So you can be the first to see the "Reclaim Our Resources" curriculum guide and learn new ways to enrich your curriculum using the Post-Dispatch. We'll also have PROGRAM, NIE free giveaways and a complimentary dinner! -r RECYCLES WEEK, HELD NOV.

16-20! To R.S.VP. or to receive additional information, call (314) 340-8877 or (800) 365-0820, ext 8877, by Monday, October 26. OK 1 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH I 1.

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