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Friday, March 8, 1996 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER City B7 Weather and N.Y. cardinal returns to honor "my bishop" The Phila. native is the homilist. An earnest tribute likely to be composed "to the moment" is expected. iviap snuws wemnei ayaicno onu picuiHuaiiuii ni muuii luuuy, and forecast highlow temperatures for selected cities.

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9 a.m. Celebration of solemn office of readings for the dead, conducted by the seminarians. Open to the public. Presider: Bishop-elect Robert P. Maginnis.

9:45 a.m. Cathedral closes. 11 a.m. Cathedral reopens. Noon.

Celebration of Funeral Mass. Celebrant: Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, archbishop of Philadelphia. Homilist: Cardinal John O'Connor, archbishop of New York. The funeral service will be broadcast on KYW-TV, Channel 3, starting at 1 1 a.m.

W- 1H ana forecasts a laao Accuweather inc. Today's highs and tonight's lows NY Scranton 178 I New York" Harrisburg 219 Allentown it '3 lu I Maffasnnan Or, 3015 Philadelphia jiJ 2816 I x-n At antic Citv NJ 3019 i. Baltimore 2916 3015. Wilmingti rriington Wo $5 3216 HMD Cape Henlopen 43115 Washington By KriBtin E. Ilolmes INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Last Saturday, Cardinal John O'Connor boarded a train in New York and returned unaccompanied to Philadelphia, the city of his birth, for the day to say good-bye to a friend.

Today, Cardinal O'Connor will return again to eulogize that friend, 85-year-old Cardinal John Krol, who died hours after their visit. "John Cardinal Krol was a great Churchman, of course," Cardinal O'Connor said in a column published yesterday. "Some feared him, some loved him, some were perplexed by him. He was my friend." Exactly what Cardinal O'Connor will say today about the man he called "my bishop" is not yet known, but it's likely that it will be composed fairly close to the time the prelate enters the pulpit at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.

"Ninety-five percent of the time he works without a text, from a set of notes which he is literally working on up to the moment," said Joseph Zwilling, Cardinal O'Connor's spokesman. Those who are familiar with the cardinal's homilies and writings warn not to expect a dramatic tour de force, but an earnest and thoughtful dissertation on a "prince" of the church. Stream of faithful carry on tribute to Cardinal Krol REGIONAL FORECAST Poconos: Windy and cold with clouds and flurries that can bring a small additional j. accumulation. High 16.

Partly cloudy, windy and very cold tonight and tomorrow. Low Jersey Shore: Blustery and cold with clouds, some sunshine and a couple of flurries. High 30, Clear to partly cloudy, windy and cold tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight 19. Delaware: Windy and cold with clouds and sunshine and a morning flurry.

High 28. Cjear to partly cloudy, blustery and quite cold tonight and tomorrow. Low 15. High 28. MARINE FORECAST Manasquan to Cape Henlopen: A small craft advisory is in effect today for northwest-erly winds at 15-35 knots.

Waves 4 to 6 feet. Visibility mostly unrestricted. Delaware Bay: A small craft advisory is in' effect today for northwesterly winds at 15-35 knots. Waves 2 to 4 feet. Visibility mostly unrestricted.

Cape Henlopen to Virginia Beach: A small craft advisory is in effect today for northwest-: erly winds at 15-35 knots. Waves 4 to 6 feet. Visibility unrestricted. REGIONAL CITIES Each column lists temperature ranges and weather; the weather code is at the bottom. 1 YESTERDAY Allentown 3026i 2510pcr' Atlantic City 3935r 3019pq Harrisburg 3218r 219pc Pittsburgh 2018sn 181 1sf Salisbury, Md.

4830r 3216pc Scranton 2018sn 178sf Wilmington 3621r 2916pc Obituaries General Willard Pearson By Bill Price INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Retired Army Lt. Gen. Willard Pearson, 80, former superintendent of Valley Forge Military Academy and College, died of pneumonia Wednesday at the Wayne Nursing Rehabilitation Center. Gen. Pearson was named superintendent of the academy in 1973, shortly after retiring from a 33-year Army career, and headed the facility in Wayne until retiring in 1985.

At the time he became superintendent, the academy was facing a financial crisis and severe enrollment decline, mainly because of public apathy toward the military because of the Vietnam War, said the academy president, retired Navy Rear Adm. Virgil L. Hill. Gen. Pearson immediately launched "Operation Bootstrap," a series of cost-cutting steps, includ-ing'Ta salary freeze, which in six yeafS eliminated a $1.4 million debt brought about a balanced budget, Hill said.

Also during his 12-year tenure at the academy, Gen. Pearson established the Center for Character Education to reinforce the moral standards of the cadet education program. It earned him the George Washington National Honor Medal frofc the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. Gen. Pearson also created the Bob Hope Five-Star Award for distinguished service to America in 1975.

Its recipients have included Hope, TV news commentator Walter Cron-kite and retired Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Born and raised in West Elizabeth, near Pittsburgh, Gen. Pearson graduated from high school and business college there and enlisted in the Army in 1940 on a commission from the Civil Military He served through three wars, retiring in June 1973.

During World War II, he commanded a Filipino battalion in the southwest Pacific. He was executive officer of an infantry regiment in the Korean War and served 28 months in Vietnam, first as commander of the First Brigade, 101st Airborne later as operations officer for Gen. William Westmoreland and the Military Ad-visdry Command. His last Army assignment was as commanding general of the Corps in Germany. Germany awarded him its Federal Grand Cross for Merit With a Star for improving German-American relations.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Reba Barton Pearson; children, Joan, Patricia and John, and a granddaughter. A graveside service with full military honors will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery. The family suggests contributions to the Lt. Gen.

Willard Pearson Scholarship Fund, Valley Forge Military Academy Foundation, 1001 Eagle Wayne, Pa. 19087-3695. In the Nation and the World Whitner 'Whit' Bisscll Movie actor, 86 Whitner "Whit" Bissell, 86, whose 200-plus movie roles included appearances in I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962), died Tuesday in LosJAngeles. Mr. Bissell's roles included the evil' scientist who turned Michael Laiidon into a half-man, half-beast in Werewolf.

His other films included The Came Mutiny (1954), Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), Invasion of the Body Snatch-ers (1956), Gunfight at the O.K. and Birdman of Alcatraz (192). On TV, he portrayed President Woodrow Wilson in Profiles in Courage. Drdlans Kraus Sports medicine founder, 90 li Hans Kraus, 90, a founder of medicine in the United States whrrwas one of President John F. KeuSedy's doctors, died Wednesday in few York.

A specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation, Dr. Kraus developed a widely adopted technique for treating lower back pain that he usol'to ease the back problems of Kennedy and many others. Dr. Kraus served on the President's Council on Physical Fitness, which he helped found after a 1954 study showing that U.S. schoolchildren were less physically fit than chfjijren in Austria and Italy.

Considered a founder of rock climbing as a sport in the United States, Dr. Kraus helped develop the popular rock-climbing areas on the East Coast. RAIN SHOWERS SNOW ice Maps THE FORECAST The storm that brought mostly rain yesterday from Philadelphia southward and eastward and a wintry mixture to the northern and western suburbs is moving away east of New England today. In Its wake, an arctic air mass more typical of January has arrived. Today will be very cold with a biting wind.

The temperature will fail to get above the 20s, and the wind-chill values will be near zero much of the time. A couple of leftover flurries will be in the air today; otherwise, there will be clouds and some sunshine. The frigid weather will continue tonight. Under a clear to partly cloudy sky, readings will fall into the teens. The wind will still blow, causing wind chills of ten below zero at times.

Tomorfow will be another very cold day with temperatures and wind chills similar to today's. There will be somewhat more sunshine tomorrow, but it will not bring any warming. The weather Will start to moderate on Sunday. With plentiful sunshine, less wind and afternoon temperatures finally above freezing again, it will not feel as harsh outside. A pronounced warming trend is likely next week with readings reaching 60 degrees late in the week.

FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY Clouds and sun, windy, morning flurry. High 28. TONIGHT Clear to partly cloudy, blustery. Low 16. SATURDAY Partly sunny, windy.

High 28. Low 16. SUNDAY Mostly sunny. High 36. Low 25.

MONDAY Sunny. High 46. Low 30. TUESDAY Sunny to partly cloudy. High 50.

Low 34. SUN AND MOON Full Last Q. New First Q. CD CD Mar 5 Mar 12 Maria rviarrt Sun rises 6:23 a.m sets 6:00 p.m. Moon rises 9:37 p.m sets 7:59 a.m.

YESTERDAY IN PHILADELPHIA A.M. Temp. Hum. 1 a.m P.M. Temp.

Hum. 1 p.m. 35100 2 a.m. 37100 2 p.m. 3 p.m.

4 p.m. 5 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m.

9 p.m. 10 p.m. 11 p.m, Midnight 35100 34100 35100 35100 3 a.m. 37100 4 a.m. 36100 5 a.m.

36100 3696 3698 35100 35100 35100 35100 3600 6 a.m. 7 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m.

11 a.m. Noon 35100 33100 2996 2996 2992 2992 2788 PHILADELPHIA ALMANAC Temperatures High yesterday 37 at 12:01 a.m. Record high for yesterday 74 in 1974 Low yesterday 29 at 6:56 p.m. Record low for yesterday 9 in 1960 Normal highlow 4831 Yesterday's barometer 6 a.m 29.84 rising Noon 29.78 falling 6 p.m 29.70 rising 11 p.m 29.73 falling Daylight sky conditions yesterday 100 clouds with 0 sunshine. Precipitation Yesterday Month through yesterday Year through yesterday Normal, year through yest.

Surplus, year through yest. Degree days for heating Yesterday Mqnth through yesterday Season through yesterday Last season through yesterday 0.64 inches 1.67 inches 8.18 inches 6.84 inches 1.34 inches 32 213 4044 3289 Today's ultraviolet Index Philadelphia 2, Atlantic City 2. The index is a measure of the sun's ultraviolet radiation.Overexposure can be harmful. Readings of 0-2 are considered minimal: 3-4, low; 5-6, moderate; 7-9, high; 10 and above, very high. AIR QUALITY The worst pollutant in the region yesterday was carbon monoxide, produced mainly by power plants and home heating The first column in the table shows yesterday's code and Pollution Standard Index, the second column shows yesterday's highest pollutant, and the third column shows today's forecast.

Bristol 13 OZ Burlington 27 CO Camden 18 CO Chester 24 PA Norristown 13 CO Philadelphia 33 CO Trenton 4 OZ Gloucester 8 OZ Code: good, 0-50: moderate, 51-100; unhealthful, 101-200; very unhealthful, 201-300; hazardous, 301-500; CO, carbon monoxide; NO, nitrogen dioxide; SP, suspended particles; OZ, ozone; SO, sulfur dioxide; PA, particulates. At a Pollution Standard Index rating of 100, the general population begins to experience irritation and other unhealthful effects. Source: the Delaware Valley Citizens Council for Clean Air, 215-567-4004. TIDES TODAY Philadelphia (Chestnut Street) High tide 3:30 a.m 3: Low tide 10:51 a.m 11: Delaware Breakwater High 10:23 a.m 10: Low tide 4:05 a.m 4: 50 p.m. 06 p.m.

44 p.m. :21 p.m. Cape May (Municipal Pier) High tide 9:29 a.m 9 Low tide 3:25 a.m 3 :56 p.m. 37 p.m. Atlantic City High tide 9:01 a.m 9: Low tide 3:05 a.m 3: Beach Haven (Little Egg Harbor) High tide 8:27 a.m Low tide 2:37 a.m :28 p.m.

:17 p.m. :54 p.m. :49 p.m. Barnegat Inlet High tide 9:07 a.m 9 Low tide 3:21 a.m 3 1:34 p.m. 33 p.m.

National Weather Service radio 162.475 VHF-FM. forecasts: 1 STATIONARY FRONT VM WAIN I I I I SHOWERS HHIGH I LOW PRESSURE Wm PRESSURE KROL from B1 "He was very important," she said in Spanish. "In a way he represented Jesus in our community." As Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua came to the altar to lead a short service of song and prayer shortly after 5 p.m., a solitary woman sat in the front pew, weeping. She was Laura Krol of Cleveland, a niece of Cardinal Krol's. At 9:45 this morning the cathedral will be closed to the public in preparation for Funeral Mass at noon.

Persons with tickets will be admitted starting at 11 a.m. The Mass is not open to the public. Concelebrating the Mass with Cardinal Bevilacqua will be six cardinals, 13 archbishops, 50 bishops and more than 700 priests and mon-signors. Representing Pope John Paul II will be Cardinal Franciszek Ma-charski, archbishop of Krakow, Poland. Secular dignitaries expected to attend include U.S.

Sens. Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum, former Gov. Robert Casey, Mayor Rcndell and several members of Congress. Gov. Ridge, who is unable to attend today, heard Mass in the cardinal's honor Wednesday at the cathedral.

It was not until Wednesday afternoon that the Archdiocese's Office for Worship worked out the complete sequence of prayers and music for today's funeral. That is because particulars of any Roman Catholic Church service including prayers and the color of vestments depend on liturgical season, according to the Rev. Greg Perlante, who helped plan today's service. "For example," he said, "we don't say 'Hallelujah' in any of the funeral! services for the cardinal be And to honor one prince, another is coming home. Cardinal O'Connor, 76, was born in a West Philadelphia rowhouse and spent much of his early life in the area before he joined the Navy as a chaplain and went on to become head of the largest archdiocese in the country.

"We couldn't have imagined this would happen in our family," said Mary Ward, Cardinal O'Connor's sister, who lives in Chadds Ford. "We knew he always wanted to be a priest, but he was just a regular kid doing what other kids do." As head of the New York Archdiocese, Cardinal O'Connor has been a reflection of Pope John Paul II. He is a Catholic traditionalist and conservative, in the mode of Cardinal Krol, yet he is progressive on some social issues. The cardinal was one of fi ve children born to Dorothy and Thomas O'Connor, of Carroll Street. "A lot of who he isis based on his parents," said Nat Hentoff, author of John Cardinal O'Connor: At the Center of a Changing American Catholic Church.

"They were very direct, honest, forthright people, who taught him what is now being called family values." He attended public and parochial schools in the city and was known as "Shadow," because he was shy cause we're in the Lenten season." Although the solemn Mass will honor the memory of Cardinal Krol, Father Perlante stressed that the central figure of the liturgy is not the archbishop. "In every Mass we celebrate the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus," said Father Perlante, who noted that Cardinal Krol had always emphasized this point to seminarians. "We will be thanking God for the gift of Cardinal Krol's life, certainly, but the hymns and prayers are always in praise of Jesus." Nevertheless, many of today's hymns and prayers were chosen in honor of the man who led the archdiocese from 1961 until his retirement in 1988. During Communion, for example, the Lord's Prayer will be sung in Latin. "That was one of the cardinal's hallmarks," said Father Perlante.

"He always sang it in Latin on solemn occasions, and the congregation would sing it with him." And the Communion hymn, "Gifts of Finest Wheat," was one "dear to the cardinal," he added. Toward the close, the choirs and congregation will also sing the Magnificat, or "Mary's Song," "because the cardinal had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mother," Father Perlante said. And at the close of the funeral, when all the cardinals encircle the coffin, the cathedral will fill to the strains of "Ecce Sacerdos Magnus," or "Behold the High Priest," the traditional greeting of the assembly to the bishop. Today it will be his farewell. The casket will then be borne down steps to the marble crypt beneath the cathedral's canopied al- One elderly man stopped at the cardinal's side and gently nodded, as if to acknowledge they would meet again soon.

A mother, carrying her bewildered daughter on her hip, guided the child's hand down to touch the cardinal's still fingers. Her husband followed, taking a snapshot. A homeless man, his nose dripping, shuffled by and reached his smudged, quivering hand out to touch the cardinal's lace cuff. Another woman paused for a full minute, looked pleadingly into Cardinal Krol's face, and then mouthed the words, "Watch over my boy." Kathy Parris, who is Greek Orthodox, was among those who came to pay her respects. A member of the faculty of Norwood Fontbonne Academy in Chestnut Hill, Parris was part of the school's contingent, which included a Jewish co-worker, two nuns and five students from the student council.

"I appreciated that the cardinal allowed non-Catholics into the schools," said Parris, who sent her own children to parochial school. Among the mourners who have plodded through miserable taken time out from work, traveled distances to bid farewell to the cardinal, were many like Parris who did not agree with all of his views. In all the magisterial formality and small in stature qualities foreign to the 6-foot tall, communication-savvy, workaholic cardinal he has become. In the mid-1930s, he graduated from West Catholic High School, where he was taught by the Christian Brothers. After studies at St.

Charles Borro-meo Seminary in Wynnewood, he was ordained a priest in the Philadelphia Archdiocese in 1945. In May 1983, he became bishop of Scranton and within a year was named the archbishop of New York, following the death of Cardinal Terence Cooke. Final Resting Place The following bishops and archbishops of Philadelphia are interred in the crypt where Cardinal John Krol will be laid to rest today. II Bishop Michael Francis Egan, 1810-1814. Bishop Henry Conwell, 1820-1830.

E3 Archbishop James Frederic Wood, 1860-1883. Archbishop Patrick John Ryan, 1884-1911. Archbishop Edmond Francis Prendergast, 1911-1918. Cardinal Dennis Dougherty, 1918-1951. Note: Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick (1830-1851) became archbishop of Baltimore and died there in 1863.

St. John Nepomucene Neumann (1852-1860) is interred at St. Peter's Church, Fifth and Glrard. Cardinal John O'Hara (1951-1960) is buried at Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind. tar.

The crypt is where all but three of the archdiocese's presiding bishops are entombed. After prayers at the crypt, the cardinals will return to the main altar and join in the great recessional. The hymns will include "Lord, You Died That All Might Live," known also as the 100th Psalm Tune, and the cardinal's favorite hymn of all, "How Great Thou Art." The Mass, which begins at noon, will be broadcast on local television. The archdiocese will not be providing loudspeakers outside the cathedral, and has asked instead that the public watch the service on television or listen to the service on the radio. and adulatory remembrance, it would be easy to forget that he was a man, a complicated man with wrinkles in his character, as well as his hands.

A man who could be as rigid as he was gentle. "He was someone who lived what he believed," said Sister Monica Osaben, director of Norwood Font-bonne Academy. And she respected him deeply for that, she said. Still, she wishes she could have become a priest. She has no doubt, she said, that the cardinal, who vehemently opposed the ordination of women, felt he was listening to God.

"We can only go by what we feel inside," she said. Inside, the sister said, she feels that in time, women will take their place a more involved and active place in the church. And most of her students who attended yesterday's Mass agreed. As the archbishop suggested, they did not feel much of a connection to Cardinal Krol. They knew little about him other than his reputation for "strict views." "Women would contribute so much more," said Ashley Branca, president of the student council.

"1 wouldn't want to change the tradition," said Brie Compton, an eighth grader. "But a woman pope would be fun." U.S. CITIES Albany, N.Y. Anchorage, Alsk. Atlanta Baltimore Boston Buffalo Charleston, S.C.

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Completely removed from their lives. Think again, said Archbishop Schulte, who served as superintendent of Catholic schools in Philadelphia under Cardinal Krol. Cardinal Krol "touched your lives directly," he said. It was Cardinal Krol who pushed for public transportation for nonpublic school students. It was Cardinal Krol who established 22 parish elementary schools.

He was a tireless advocate for parochial education. There were bells and prayers and hymns and blessings. The Mass ended with a half-hour of bustling, during which a priest bossily directed traffic up the aisles and out the doors and the cardinal was temporarily forgotten. Then the quiet mourning resumed. It was a steady procession, ticking along to some silent metronome.

They came in trench coats and slickers, soggy parkas and damp woolen jackets. Wet sneakers squeaked on the marble floors as they passed. Letter indications: sunny; pc, partly cloudy; tc, cloudy; sh, showers; thunderstorms; rain; sf, snow flurries; sn, snow; ice. jejjleaiijjiij 1 initliiinffn-i en nfltwii mriflij iT frfTnip irT1 1 wilt.