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Region Tuesday Index Regina Brett B3 Steve Love CI Business D7-D12 Movies C4 Classified Far Side B13 Comics B14, B15 Fran Murphey B2 Deaths B5-B7 National Briefs A3 Editorials A6 People CI It's Now C1-C4 Sports D1-D6 Ann Landers B14 TV Listings B13 Local News B1-B5 Weather A2 Lottery Bl World Briefs A4 Dear Readers: InawUabordimthatcouldserveasa model for cats funding and planning in the '90s, Hiram, college and community, has made the dream of benefactor Reign Hadsell come true and then some. See Steve Love's column in It's NOW, Page CI. The Editors urnmf Northeast Ohio Edition 3 High today: 78 Low tonight: 60 Chance of rain 50, with scattered thunderstorms today and Wednesday. Full report on Page A2. Ofyriglit lSBi, Beatxm Journal PiMslmig Ca park fun Area parks have big plans for the summer some with new facilities.

Page B3. rrhr JLJL-J I Bj I a ACONJ OURNAL Serving the community for 155 years Tuesday, May 24, 1994 25 Cents SI i if if nni'i iiliir ni i ir-'-iTiniii it Channel 8 to drop CBS for Fox autumn as Fox owner pays $500 million to station's games, lose Letterman. Channels 19, 43 to fight for CBS 40-year affiliation ends in parent. WJW to regain NFL By Mark Dawidziak Beacon Journal staff writer The Simpsons soon will have a new Cleveland address. By the end of the year, WJW (Channel 8) will drop its 40-year CBS affiliation in favor of communications czar Rupert Murdoch's fourth network, in the process of purchasing seven more stations that will become Fox affiliates.

In exchange for the affiliation switches, Fox will invest $500 million in New World. "It's a good deal for everyone concerned," said a source at Channel 8. "Fox gets more powerful stations. New World gets an incredible boost in funds. And this will mean money and jobs for Channel 8." Fox Broadcasting.

Fox, which carries such series as The Simpsons and Melrose Place, announced the deal Monday with New World Communications, the entertainment company that produces movies and owns seven television stations, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis buried A Flame Burns on mtJ "Jackie would have preferred to be just herself, but the world insisted that she be a legend." Sen. Edward M. Kennedy "God gave her very great gifts and imposed upon her great burdens. She bore them all with dignity and grace and uncommon common sense." President Clinton 1 hi In The Living Room County officials seek reforms for cable TV The picture should get clearer tonight on the local debate over cable TV. Summit, Medina and Wayne county community officials concerned about rising rates and changes in Warner Cable service will meet at 7:30 p.m.

at Moga-dore Village Hall, 135 S. Cleveland Ave. The officials will look at the proposal to hire an expert to help them seek federal reforms and answers about the complicated conflict. Iw Seniors Older mock congress endorsed by real one The House gave its endorsement Monday to the convening of a national "Silver-Haired Congress," a mock legislature where senior citizens gather to debate the issues that affect them. The resolution, adopted by voice vote, encourages an annual one- or two-week congress in Washington during which people 60 and older would pass "legislation" on such topics as consumer protection, health care, insurance and crime.

The idea of a mock congress started in Missouri in the 1970s, and today 24 states have such programs. InTelevtsion Daytime Emmys are just like a soap opera Why was Susan Lucci bypassed for a 15th Daytime Emmy nomination? Backstage bickering with AH My Children co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar, the 17-year-old nominated in the younger actress category? Bloc voting at AH My Children to greatly improve the chances of winning by cast member Julia Barr, best-actress nominee? Soap maven Lynda Hirsch says the omission was "more personal than a judgment on her ability. The winners will be announced Wednesday night, starting at 9, on ABC. Story on Page Dl. In America Poll shows support for immigrants drops Twenty-nine percent of those surveyed for a 60 Minutes poll released Sunday said they think immigrants contribute to the United States, and 53 percent said they cause problems.

Sixty-five percent of those, surveyed said hard times make it difficult to continue welcoming immigrants who arrive with few assets. That's up from 60 percent who felt that way in a poll taken last June, and up 20 percentage points from a 1986 poll, CBS said. Still, only 34 percent said they believe it is time to halt all immigration. Nineteen percent said America should always welcome newcomers, and 43 percent said only some immigrants should always be welcome. Associated Press Hostages freed Terry Kroger, who works at an Indianapolis Denny's restaurant where two men opened fire Monday morning, was one of the 25 hostages who was released by the gunmen.

Page A8. The Fox network, relegated to less powerful UHF signals (stations higher than Channel 13), has needed the reach and prestige provided by more powerful VHF stations (Channels 2-13), and Channel 8 gives it the added luster of a top-15 TV market. So, having fumbled away the rights to the National Football See TV, Page A8 URW's master contract skidding 3-year labor proposal defeated for second time by workers in Danville, Va. by lornet turnbull and Stuart Drown Beacon Journal business writers Workers at a Danville, Goodyear plant Monday defeated for the second time a proposed three-year labor agreement, dimming their international union's hopes of getting its master contract for the industry ratified. The local's contract rejection wasn't unexpected because last month its members turned down an earlier proposal which, like this one, included no wage increase.

The United Rubber Workers local in Danville voted 879-383 to reject the agreement. The plant has nearly 1,700 URW-repre-sented workers. "Gadsden (Ala.) now becomes the pivotal vote," said URW spokesman Curt Brown. "We're not overly confident at this point. i i.

i uauaueu uccti 11 uuwii pieuy uutuy before." The Gadsden plant is set to vote on the contract today and Wednesday. "If it goes unratified, we don't know at this point what we'll do," Brown said. URW Local 831 officials in Danville couldn't be reached for comment late Monday. At Goodyear, the pact would cover 11,789 workers at nine U.S. See URW, Page A8 Some say Bells hanging up on minorities Civil rights group says poor areas not in plans for Video dial tone' services BY DARLENE SUPERVTLLE Associated Press Washington: Blacks, Hispanics and the poor are being excluded from telephone companies' plans to create "video dial tone" networks, civil rights and consumer 1 I The groups said jwonaay ineir review of initial applications for the new service that are pending before the Federal Communications Commission uncovered a pattern of "electronic redlining" that was based on income and race.

Such practices violate a 1934 communications law. "These video dial tone networks could become the primary communications system for millions of Americans," said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Media Education. "They must be made available in an equitable and nondiscriminato- Channel 8. The agreement leaves the future unclear for WOIO (Channel 19), which will lose the Fox affiliation. The deal calls for five of New World's seven stations to become Fox affiliates.

That number will jump to 12 because New World is 0" of his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy follow the casket from St. Ignatius white students to stick with their own. The outcome self-segregation seems to fly in the face of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision prohibiting school segregation. Educators, sociologists and others have blamed the kind of separation David, experienced on socioeconomic and neighborhood differ- j'sj' "And now the journey is over. Too short, alas, too short." Maurice Tempels-man, Onassis' companion pi 1 "She was not that high that she couldn't see people suffer." Howard Riddick, civil rights activist and onlooker at Arlington cemetery John ir 1 Kennedy Jr.

(above) kneels at the coffin Below, he and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg Torch glows for two and a time now gone tt MR Associated Press Onassis, at Arlington cemetery. Loyola Roman Catholic church. 7 i if Associated Press ences. But in the suburbs, where the black middle-class population is growing and busing doesn't exist, that argument is weak. Copley High School, which has a 13 percent minority population the highest of all the suburban districts in Summit County See COLOR, Page Ao By Greg Mcdonald Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON: The eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery now burns for both a slain president and his wife.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was laid to rest beside her husband, President John F. Kennedy, on Monday, the flame glowing nearby. It was a moving ceremony reminiscent of 31 years ago, when she lighted the eternal flame in memory of her husband. Now the flame serves a reminder of a remarkable era touched by triumph and tragedy that now seems, with her passing, to have finally come to a close. "May the flame she lit so long ago burn ever brighter here and always brighter in our hearts," President Clinton said during the private graveside service beneath a cloudless blue sky.

"Whether she was soothing a nation grieving for a former See ONASSIS, Page A8 along color lines. To this day, he's not sure why. "When I was a kid, it didn't matter. Everything was about having fun," said David, 18, who is black and styles his hair in an afro reminiscent of the 1970s. "Now, about being accepted." of jThe Copley, High student says there's pressure for black and School colors' refers to skin, not spirit Copley High students say they started separating selves by race in middle school under pressure from Mends By Cindy E.

Rodriguez Beacon Journal stiff writer David Woodall thinks back to his childhood, to a time not long ago when he played basketball with black children and white children. Sometime during middle school, that changed: His. friends-drifted away from each -other.