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8A The CUrton-ledger Monday, My 27, N87 Weather mm mimm'M rn i i i .1 Extended forecast TUE. WED. TOOAY: Mostly sumy. West wnd TOMGHT: Fair, low 71 TUESDAY: Ugh ieynid-905. State forecast CtaHmwH ttlim4ArehrftuuAic ra avnorto4 imin inilliniit JLticcKCinni TllMftav Ckrfedale Tupelo I and Wednesday, and ovef the entire and lows will be 70 to 75.

High temperatures will remain in state Temperatures will remain high in Mississippi today, with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms over the southern half of the state. Highs will, be in the 90s, with lows of 70 to 75. Jackson's forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of late afternoon or evening thunderstorms. The wind will be out of the west at 5 to 10 mph. Hot weather will continue the next few days, though an upper-level high pressure system will move over north Mississippi, reducing the threat of storms over that part of the state.

The state's high Sunday was 99 at Meridian, and the overnight low was 67 at McComb. Jackson's high was 98; its low, 70. For travelers Alabama: Sunny and hot, with highs in mid- to upper 90s, lows in lower 70s. Arkansas: Sunny and hot, with highs reaching near 100 and lows in 60s and 70s. Louisiana: Widely scattered showers with highs in the 90s, lows in the 70s.

Tennessee: Scattered showers to the northeast; highs in the 90s, lows 65 to 75. BTHU. state Thursday. Highs will be 90 to 95, Jackson data Sunday's high, 98; high a year ago, 95. Record high, 101 in 1952.

Sunday's low, 70; low a year ago, 73. Record low, 58 in 1911. Precipitation by 5 p.m., none. Sunrise today at 6:12 a.m.; sunset at 8:02 p.m. Pollution index: NA.

Reservoir stages' A- V72 rr i 960 GreenvSe yColumbiB I "ll Memfiw I Jackson 70 Vicksburg 9870 1 f-70 I 1 Brookhaven! I i Natchez 9570 ,1 ,1 1 79570 7 Hattiesburg I I 9570 I RESERVOIR FP HT CHNG RossBarnett 297.2 NC Okatibbee 343.0 NC Arkabutla 238.3 219.9 UP 0.1 Sardis 281.4 258.2 NC Enid 268.0 247.3 NC Grenada 231.0 210.1 NC TODAY: Mostly sunny. West wind 5-10 mph. High 98. TONIGHT: Fair. Low near 70.

TUESDAY: High in upper 90s. TODAY: 20 chance of storms. West wind 5-10 mph. Kgh 98. TOMGHT: 20 chance of storms.

Low 70. TUESDAY: Humid. High 98. TODAY: 30 chance of storms. West wind 5-10 mph.

High 95. TONIGHT: 30 chance of storms. Low 70. TUESDAY: Humid. High 95.

TODAY: Partly cloudy. Wind southwest 5-10 mph. High 93. TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Low 75.

TUESDAY: Humid. High 93. Weatherstation Forecast: 936-2121 Traveler's forecast: 936-2174 NOAA Weather Radio: 162.550 or 162 MHz FP Flood Pool HT Height CHNG Change In 24 hours Tides Galveston high 7:49 a.m.; low 1:09 p.m. Vermilion Bay high 7:17 a.m.; low 12:36 p.m. Atchafalaya Bay (Eugene Isl.) high 7:24 a.m.; low 10:05 p.m.

Mississippi River (SW Pass) high 10:05 a.m.; low 9:08 p.m. Grand Isle (Barataria Pass) high 1 1:56 a.m.; low 1 1:04 p.m. Biloxi Bay high 12:07 p.m.; low 1 1:19 p.m. Mobile high 12:18 p.m.; low 1 1:24 p.m. Pensacola high 12:30 p.m.; low 1 1:51 p.m.

River stages PEARL FS CS CHNG Edinburg 20 2 1 DN0.1 Jackson 28 3.3 NC Monticello 19 5 8 DN0.1 Columbia 17 2.6 NC PASCAGOULA FS CS CHNG Hattiesburg 22 2.4 NC Waynesboro 35 3.6 DN0.2 BIG BLACK FS CS CHNG West 12 26 DN0.6 Bovina 28 NA FS CS CHNG Greenwood 35 10.3 UP 0.5 Yazoo City 29 6.2 NC TOMBIGBEE FS CS CHNG Amory 20 11.3 NC MISSISSIPPI FS CS CHNG Arkansas City 37 10.4 ON 0.8 Greenville 46 21.9 ON 0.9 Vicksburg 43 14.6 DN 1.0 Natchez 48 22.1 DN0.5 FS Flood Stag CS Current Stag CHNG Chang in 24 hour Yesterday's weather National forecast City Albuquerque 92 Asheville 92 Atlanta 94 Atlantic City 91 Baltimore 93 Birmingham 96 Boston 88 Buffalo 83 Burlington.Vt. 85 Chlston.S.C. 87 Chlstoo.W Va. 92 Chariotte.N.C. 97 Cheyenne 91 Chicago 90 Cincinnati 92 cdy cdy cdy Clr, cdy cdy cdy cdy 1 clr cdy clr clr; clr, cdy cdy cdy clr Storms, heat dominate weather The Associated Press Thunderstorms developed Sunday from Minnesota to the Ohio Valley to New England, and over southern Texas and Florida, and temperatures returned to the 90s across much of the Plains, Mississippi Valley and the Southeast A cold front dipping southward out of Canada into the hot air over the East touched off thunderstorms from Minnesota across Iowa into Illinois and Indiana, and storms also developed over New England, New York and Pennsylvania and pressed southward into West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

Other showers and thunderstorms developed across southern Texas, over Florida and along the southern Atlantic Coast. For today, showers and thunderstorms were forecast from south-central Texas to Florida and southern Georgia, with scattered showers and thunderstorms across Georgia and the Caroli-nas into the upper Ohio Valley and the middle Atlantic Coast region. Highs are forecast to be in the 90s today from the southern and mid-Atlantic Coast through the high Plains to the northern Rockies, eastern Oregon and interior California; near 100 in the central Plains; and above 100 in the desert Southwest. addumphed Cleveland HI Lo Pre Otlk Los Angeles 75 Louisville 95 Lubbock 89 Memphis 93 Miami Beach 88 Midland 91 Milwaukee 79 Mpls-StPaul i 82 Nashville 95 New Orleans 95 New York City 61 OklhomaCity 92 Omaha 97 Orlando 94 Philadelphia 93 Phoenix Ill Pittsburgh 85 Porlland.Me. 66 Providence 86 Raleigh 97 Reno 93 Richmond 99 Sacramento 90 St Louis 98 Salt Lake City 98 San Antonio 91 San Diego 74 San Francisco 66 St Ste Marie 77 Seattle 77 Shreveporl 98 Sioux Fails 97 Tampa 90 Topeka 93 Tucson 100 Tulsa 95 62 74 65 73 81 63 70 .35 68 1.32 71 74 .07 68 .17 70 76 75 75 .05 86 72 64 72 .16 73 49 76 S3 78 73 72 61 54 58 54 69 75 76 70 75 .15 76 65 64 cdy cdy 70 .06 cdy .71 .17 cdy 76 clr 88 clr 73 clr 66 .55 clr 69 .07 cdy 78 .02 clr 70 .02 74 cdy cdy .04 cdy 86 73 .03 clr cdy 16 cdy cdy .24 cdy 71 rn .13 clr 70 59 76 74 clr cdy 70 .60 cdy 70 57 73 76 70 cdy cdy clr cdy clr Los Angeles Tn ftW'' 8765 L-yc UJaSsSjU.

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Median wage increases across a wide range of industries in union con-1 tracts negotiated in the first half of 1987 were 2 percent in the first year of the contracts and 2.8 in the second and third years, according to a report by the Bureau of National Affairs. "It is inconceivable to me that wage settlement would continue to run at 2 percent or so when we will have infla Miami 9177 Benefits spend more on the benefit increases than anticipated. Even so, some private analysts suggest that the benefit increases could be even higher, possibly approaching 5 percent more than the expected rate of inflation for all of 1987. Most analysts expect inflation to be in the vicinity of 4 percent to 4.5 percent this year. "A lot of people who are optimistic on the budget deficit don't realize that the cost of indexed programs will rise significantly, while the income base is not rising significantly," said Lawrence Chimerine, president of Wharton Econometrics in Philadelphia.

"We're going to get a bigger increase in expenditures than receipts," Chimerine said. Even if inflation moderates at the end of the year, as many economists are predicting, that wouldn't make any difference in figuring Social Security benefit increases which are calculated in September, at the end of the fiscal year. Thus, a bulge in prices earlier this year due to rebounding oil costs has already guaranteed Social Security recipients at least a 4 percent benefit increase even if the Consumer Price Index rises at only a modest 0.3 percent a month from July to September, according to Labor Department analyst Patrick Jackman. From page Waller from 1972 to 1976, said he is concerned that Sturdivant's last-minute television advertising blitz will sway many undecided voters. "A last-minute media campaign could make some people change their minds," he said en route to a rally in Houlka.

"If I lose it, I hope to lose it on the merits and not on my pocketbook," he said. While Sturdivant holds the money edge, Waller is counting on strong support at the grass-roots level. "My supporters are the working people, the small business people, the farmers," he said. Media consultant Delos Walker told about 500 Bill Waller campaign workers and supporters at the Coliseum Ra-mada Inn Sunday to buy radio spots on local stations, blitz their neighborhoods with leaflets and make phone calls for Waller. "I'm telling you we can win this race," Walker said.

"We haven't been telling you up to now, but we can win this race. Your message is Bill Waller was a great governor for four years, and Mississippi deserves another great governor for four years," he said. A half million tabloids featuring pictures of Waller, his family and his campaign goals were distributed to county campaign workers at the rally. Waller will be traveling throughout the state this week, trying to convince undecided voters to choose him, spokesman Wayne Edwards said. Waller tailored his remarks at the recent Chickasaw County rally to rural northeast Mississippi voters, the backbone of his campaign.

He attacked the insurance companies that have stopped writing fire insurance policies for rural homeowners. "We've got to tell these insurance companies that if you want to write policies for downtown Mississippi, you're going to have to write policies in rural Mississippi or you're not gonna write at all," he said to the cheers of many in the crowd of 150. He also called for an acceleration of the $1.6 billion highway program approved by the Legislature earlier this year. The program will benefit highway- Iran-Contra they were fully understood, and I think that simply a different policy was adopted." Weinberger said he and Shultz knew of the arms sales, argued against it and eventually succeeded. "There's no question that everybody knew the sales were proceeding, and everybody knew that George Shultz and I totally opposed the sales," he said.

"What was important was to try to stop that policy and ultimately, finally, we did." Meanwhile, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations said Iran has tapes of meetings between U.S. and Iranian officials in Tehran that "show things slightly different from the picture presented to the public" during the congressional hearings into the diversion of the arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. Said Rajaie Khorassani said in an interview on the ABC program he believes "that all the truth is not yet revealed." But he refused to disclose what the tapes contained, saying, "I don't think that I am instructed to go to that length." Meanwhile, The Miami Herald reported in its Sunday editions that active-duty American soldiers fired rockets and machine guns at Nicaraguan troops twice in 1984. Helicopter pilots from an Army commando unit called Intelligence Support Activity flew anti-Sandinista forces inside Nicaragua in 1983 and 1984, the newspaper said. The Herald report, attributed to interviews with unidentified orgarizers and participants, indicated that the National Security Council, bypassing normal government channels, controlled the network of secret military units and private contractors, using Lt.

Col. Oliver North as its chief operative. On two occasions in 1984, the Intelli- gence Support Activity unit provided covering fire with rockets and machine guns to protect anti-Sandinista saboteurs retreating against entrenched Nicaraguan defenders, participants and planners said. Congressional leaders were briefed on some covert operations of the unit, but were not told of the Nicaraguan attacks, the newspaper said. i li poor northeast Mississippi, which is quickly becoming a national leader in furniture manufacturing.

"This is where the action is; this is where you need the roads," he said. But some of the rally participants said they were unsure about supporting Waller. "Some say he's all right, but some say he's already had a chance," said Alvin Collins, 75. Collins' remark pointed out a traditional obstacle former Mississippi governors have faced. Although several have tried to win a second term, Hugh White and Theodore Bilbo are the only governors this century who have managed to return for a second administration.

Waller thinks he can clear the traditional hurdle. "There's been a change in attitude toward ex-governors," he said. "I think there's a positive attitude now." Instead of an obstacle, Waller believes having a term under his belt will help him. "We've got a better record to run on Accomplishments he cites include opening the doors of state government to blacks, creating the food and fiber center at Mississippi State University that has helped the catfish industry, increasing teacher salaries and university funds and sponsoring a $600 million highway construction program later derailed by an economic recession. He also points to unpopular issues he championed in the mid-1970s that are now on the front burner of state politics.

In a 1976 progress report compiled by his office, Waller pointed out some of the state's future needs. Some of those issues, such as gubernatorial succession, have been settled. Others, such as a statewide highway administration, program budgeting for state government and referendums to give voters the right to initiate new laws, are popular current topics. He also said his sometime-stormy relationship with the Legislature during his administration shouldn't be a problem if he is elected. "It'll be a new group of legislators I'll deal with," he said, referring to the retirement, resignation or defeat of many of the legislative leaders he had battled.

TT-nOtV. The increase in June, according to figures released last week, was 0.4 percent following increases of 0.4 percent and 0.5 percent in April and May, respectively. The Consumer Price Index used for Social Security calculations, the "index for urban wage earners and clerical workers," is slightly different than the more widely reported "index for all urban consumers," which showed increases of 0.4 percent in April and June and 0.3 percent in With three months still left in fiscal 1987, July, August and September beneficiaries already are entitled to a 3.4 percent increase, even if there was absolutely no inflation in this last quarter, according to Phil Gambino, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration. Social Security benefits are adjusted upward each January based on changes in consumer prices from the third quarter of one year through the third quarter of the next. Social Security pays out more than $200 billion a year to almost 38 million retirees, disabled workers and their families.

Social Security benefit increases in the past five years were: 7.4 percent in June 1982, 3.5 percent in January 1984, 3.5 percent in January 1985, 3.1 percent in January 1986 and 1.3 percent in Jan- stalline. The chief of the support vessel Nadir, identified in the statement only as Commander Nargeollet, described the site as "extraordinary." The statement said more than 300 photographs taken by the Nautile crew and by cameras mounted on the robot Robin were of very high quality. The salvage operation, which began Saturday, is expected to take about a month. Aided by a robot named Robin, the Nautile has been probing a 2 2 -mile area around the wreck, littered with silver trays, wine bottles and other artifacts. The Nautile will not explore inside the wreck itself, Taurus officials have said, because it would be too First objects recovered from Titanic tion running at 4 to 5 percent this year," said Allen Sinai, chief economist for Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York.

IT oumecormng of a girl they'd never met "If I had the nerve, you bet I'd ask her out," said Hart. "They don't have girls like this back home." During interviews, Addis cradled a fuzzy white teddy bear that was a gift from Spring Heflin, Miss Delta State University. "She won because she's a true Southern beauty," Heflin said. State Rep. Sonny Merideth of Greenville said he thought Addis won because she "was the most talented." "It appears that Mississippi girls either have something special in their raising or special in their training because we have such a high incidence rate of winners from this state," Merideth said.

Hugging family and friends, Addis said, "I'm so glad to be back home." There appeared to be only one non-fan in the crowd. Eric Miller, 4-year-old grandson of state Sen. Hainon Miller, enjoyed the punch and pageantry, but wasn't too certain about ladies in crowns. "I just don't like girls," he said. "They bother me." David Hartman Jackson's CT1Y TV Meteorologist.

ill JlJ The Associated Press PARIS French explorers on Sunday brought back the first objects ever recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic dishes used by the 1,513 passengers who died when the luxury liner sank 75 years ago. The mini-submarine Nautile plunged 2.5 miles below the ocean's surface to retrieve the objects, according to a statement released by the French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea. Marine salvage experts have said any objects from the Titanic, however small, would be worth a fortune. Diving conditions were good at the wreckage site 350 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, the statement said. Crew members said visibility was cry Oct cvjt-tv.

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