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tun ine cunon-ieogeriackson uaiiy rxews Miunuy, May 14, rmu Weather 0 Hernando I TODAY: 20 chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High 85. TONIGHT: 20 chance of evening thunderstorms. Low 63. SUNDAY 30 chance of rain.

Extended forecast SUN. pON. I The extended forecast calls for partly doudy skies Sunday with highs in the 80s. Scattered showers are likely Monday with fair skies Tuesday as highs reach the 80s. Lows will be in the 50s and 60s.

State forecast TODAY: 20 chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High 85. TONIGHT: 20 chance of evening thunderstorms. Low 57. SUNDAY: 30 chance of rain.

For travelers Alabama: Scattered showers; highs in the 80s, lows in the 50s. Arkansas: Partly cloudy; highs in the 80s and 90s, lows in the 50s to mid-60s. Louisiana: Fair, highs in the 80s, lows in the 50s and 60s. Tennessee: Scattered showers; highs in the 80s, lows in the 50s and 60s. Thunderstorms to he scattered Warm weather is anticipated with scattered thunderstorms possible today.

Jacksonians can expect partly cloudy skies with isolated thunderstorms as highs reach the upper 80s. Tonight lows will be in the upper 50s. Others sections will have widely scattered shower activity with high in the 80s and lows in the 50s and 60s. More rain is likely by Sunday night. Highs reached the 80s statewide Friday.

Greenwood reported the state's high of 88 degrees and McComb had the state's low of 52 degrees. Jackson reported a high of 87 degrees and a low of 55 degrees. Weatherstation Forecast: 936-2121 Traveler's forecast: 936-2174 NOAA Weather Radio: 162.550 or 162.400-162.475 MHz River stages Jackson data Reservoir stages TODAY: Isolated afternoon thunderstorms. High 88. TONIGHT: Fair.

Low 58. SUNDAY: Isolated afternoon thunderstorms. High 88. RESERVOIR FP HT CHNG Ross Barnelt 295.9 NC Okalibbee 343.7 NC Arkabutla 238.3 215.2 NC Sardis 281.4 252.0 NC Enid 268.0 241.2 NC Grenada 231.0 206.3 UP 0.1 Clarksdale Tupelo I 8563 1 8557 I I Creenviile TColumbts I ylyiln Meridia' I Vkksburg 8858 8858 1 A 8563 I AS Brookhaven I yajL, ,0 1 1 8858 -h Hattiesburg I 8858 I Vl Biloxi I 8563 fih Friday's high, 87; high a year ago, 85 Record high, 93 in 1916. Friday's low, 55; low a year ago, Record low, 42 in 1960.

Precipitation by 5 p.m., trace. Sunrise today at 6:04 a.m.; sunset at! 7:51 p.m. Pollution index: 51 (good). FP Flood Pool HT Height CHNG Change in 24 hours TODAY: Isolated afternoon thunderstorms. High 88.

TONIGHT: Fair. Low 58. SUNDAY: Isolated afternoon thunderstorms. High 88. Tides Galveston high 4:13 a.m.; low 9:57 a.m.

Vermilion Bay high 3:41 a.m.; low 9:24 a.m. Atchalalaya Bay (Eugene Island) high 3:48 a.m.; low 7:54 a.m. Mississippi River (Southwest Pass) high 6:34 a.m.; low 5:32 p.m. Grand Isle (Barataria Pass) high 8:06 p.m.; low 7:39 p.m. Biloxi Bay high 8:36 a.m.; low 7:43 p.m.

Mobile high 8:47 a.m.; low 7:58 p.m. Pensacola high 8:59 a.m.; low 8:25 p.m. TODAY: 20 chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High 85. TONIGHT: 20 chance of evening thunderstorms.

Low 63. SUNDAY: 20 chance of rain. Greenwood 35 9.8 DN0.2 Yazoo City 29 6 3 NA TOMBIGBEE FS CS CHNG Amory 20 11.4 NC MISSISSIPPI FS CS CHNG Arkansas City 37 9 6 UP 01 Greenville 48 21 4 NC Vicksburg 43 13.2 DN0.4 Natchez 48 18.9 DN0.5 FS Flood Stage CS Current Stag CHNG Change in 24 hours PEARL FS CS CHNG Edinburg 20 2 6 DN 0.2 Jackson 28 36 NC Monticello 19 56 ON 0.1 Columbia 17 2.2 NA PASCAGOULA FS CS CHNG Hattiesburg 22 2 4 ON 0 1 Waynesboro 35 4.2 UP 0.1 BIG BLACK FS CS CHNG West 12 2.5 DN0.1 Bovina 28 7.3 NC YAZOO- SUNFLOWER FS CS CHNG Yesterday's weather National forecast -I XMmneaoois few York OO 00 00 7052 Washington fanFnnrfcm Denver. Scattered thunderstorms hit East The Associated Press Scattered rain and thunderstorms hit the East from the Florida Keys to New York State on Friday, while a cold front brought strong gusts to the West. Rain also fell over the Pacific Northwest.

Sunny skies prevailed I over much of the rest of the nation. Thunderstorms developed across the Florida Keys and over western Pennsylvania in the morning and extended into Ohio and New York State. Showers also stretched from the South Carolina coast across Georgia and northern Florida. A cold front from central Montana to southern Nevada whipped strong winds over several states and sent temperatures falling sharply in its wake. Livingston, recorded gusts to 64 mph, and blowing dust reduced visibility to three miles.

Winds gusted to 55 mph in Mil-j ford, Utah. Wind advisories were posted for parts of the southern California desert and for southeast Idaho. Today's forecast calls for rain and thundershowers over the northern Plains and from eastern South Carolina into Florida, and scattered showers for northern Maine and northern Washington State. Va XanaOv'r TMSt 72sn b747 'XSjW7'Y r- TALJm City HI Lo Pre Ollk Louisville 85 61 clr Albany.N 81 49 06 clr Lubbock 86 60 cdy Albuquerque 88 56 clr Memphis 85 61 cdy Atlanta 74 61 .03 cdy Miami Beach ..79 76 cdy Atlantic City 66 55 cdy Midland 86 56 cdy Baltimore 83 50 cdy Milwaukee 56 48 ra Birmingham 79 60 cdy Mpls StPaul 62 39 cdy Boston 75 49 clr Nashville 86 56 cdf Buttalo 72 49 .25 cdy New Orleans 85 53 cl Burlington.Vt. 81 63 .34 clr New York Cily 78 55 cl Chlston.S.C.

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He seemed to be a nice guy. I said, 'He's so nice, I might get him to paint my He was as friendly as he could be." Lucy Crawford said it was difficult to understand her brother's death. "I've been hurting all day from this," she said. "He was a good swimmer. We can't figure it out.

He was an excellent swimmer. They've been swimming ever since they were little boys," she said of Crawford, his brothers and their father, Aubrey Crawford Sr. of Jackson. Lucy Crawford said her father was just as perplexed. "Dad said, 'I just don't know.

It just hurts so Newman said he began to believe President Reagan was linked to Satan when the Reagans were given a house in Bel Air, nicknamed "The Demon House" because its former address was 666 St. Cloud Road. The ad- Nevman's path rough, but he weathered storm By JOHN MAINES Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer LUCEDALE Joseph Newman's path through life has at times been as rough as the little dirt road that winds toward his home in George County, where he lives with wife Ellen and Gyr-omas, the couple's 5-year-old son. Other times he has been in his glory, when his energy machine was featured in Life and Discover magazines and when he took a seat to the immediate right of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. After a difficult childhood that included divorced parents and the loss of his beloved brother Buddy, who drowned in Mobile Bay at age 7, Newman left home in 1951 at age 15 to work on water drilling rigs.

It was rough work in those days, he said, when the weights required to drive the well deeper into the ground had to be lifted by hand. A four-year stint in the Air Force ended for Newman in 1958. While in the service, he completed high school and took college courses, allowing him to enroll in the University of Alabama as a sophomore. But he quit in his junior year in 1960 and headed to Miami, where he squeaked by as a lifeguard. Eventually, he returned north to Mobile and found work in a health club where the idea for plastic-coated barbells was born.

The inventor later sold the patent rights to the barbells and went on to work on a collection of other products that never reached widespread marketing a rain deflector for car windshields, an inflatable seesaw for water play, different types of pumps and an orange picker. Northern auction house in September and demand at least $90,000, a fraction of its total worth, he said, comparing it with the pricelessness of the Wright Brothers' first airplane. Roger Hastings, a physicist who's manager of the Superconductive Electronics Technology Center for Unisys in St. Paul, was attracted to Newman's device in 1981 and remains a believer. "I had a lot of respect for his abilities," Hastings said.

"It was amazing because he was doing this all in his back yard." In 1984, Newman sued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which refused to give him a patent on the machine. He lost the suit after tests by the National Bureau of Standards concluded his machine consumed energy like any other motor. But Hastings said the car, powered by 68 250-volt batteries, ran for some 44 hours about twice as long as it should have, based on known laws. Newman once mailed letters to thousands of believers, but he has reduced his mailing list to about 30 mostly newspaper editors.

The letters often detail earthquakes and accidents including last week's skyscraper fire in Los Angeles and explosions at a Nevada rocket fuel plant and a Louisiana oil refinery that Newman says show the end is near. "Now just since May this has started," said Newman. "There's been a whole series of events taking place and right again, I see it as a warning from God." Newman said he began getting holy messages eight months ago, saying "Run for president, run for president" and that he could be elected. He also believes the number 14 is "God's handmark" the number of God, first seen by Newman in a vision several years ago. Since then, he said, the number 14 has recurred in tragedies 14 people were killed in last week's major accidents, for example.

"I don't think the people around me think I'm crazy," Newman said. "I think they think, 'He's a little But there are people who don't know me (they) have asked the question, 'Has Joe Newman I haven't." pie, when the television show Entertainment Tonight aired clips from the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. The dancing, Newman said, was indeed dirty. "Dry intercourse is what it was. When I was a boy, people would have been outraged, and would have gone down there and torn down the television.

Shot someone," Newman said. Along with his vehement disapproval of such looseness, Newman forecasts disasters. Today, for instance, Newman says southern Californians should be wary. "I predict a major earthquake will occur, possibly eight or nine" on the Richter scale, Newman said Thursday. Thousands could be killed unless they drive inland, he said.

"They should consider it a little vacation," he said. "If I'm wrong they can laugh at Joe Newman. If I'm right, lives will be saved." Newman's forecasts of life-threatening catastrophes occurring because, he said, God is sending warnings much the way a dog growls before it bites are only a few of a series of interpretations he has made. He said he has drawn them primarily from reading the Bible and the works of Nostradamus, the 16th-century French astrologer and physician credited with a string of predictions including the rise of Adolph Hitler and the second coming of Christ. "Nostradamus predicted my existence 400 years ago," he said.

Newman believes he is the man who might ultimately battle Satan, and that Satan's puppet is President Reagan. Among his scientific facts: Each of the president's names Ronald Wilson Reagan has six letters, which combined read "666," the Biblical number assigned the beast of hell. Meanwhile, the little red sports car that in 1986 and 1987 drew hundreds of Newman followers to demonstrations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, sits on blocks in Newman's laboratory near his home among tall pines in George County. The car, powered by Newman's miracle motor, was the last in a series of inventions by Newman that began with the tremendously successful plastic-coated barbell weights he developed in the early 1960s. Newman plans to send the car to a Jubilee 0 Refreshment booth Restrooms mm Site perimeter Stage and performance areas 1 1 BELL 5 Arts Arena Stage A If 3 (Indoors) I I I I Visual Arts Crafts Exhibits 1 fflmwiii 88 Enter here I i Tr JV-1 get a break on ticket prices.

Adults pay $5, kids 6 to 12 get in for $3, anyone younger is admitted free. "Bring the family; we have something for kids of every age," Packer said. "Bring along an attitude to celebrate and have a good time." Clothing should be as casual and comfortable as the law allows in public. Shoes also are a crucial consideration, what with all the walking and standing to be done. Packer suggests they be well-worn and used, for maximum comfort.

Last year, rain broke an 18-day dry spell and poured on crowds both afternoons of the Jam, delaying some acts, canceling others and generally soaking the populace. But this year, an umbrella won't be quite the crucial accessory it was in 1987. The optimistic Packer suggests other preparations. "Bring some nose coat or No. 15 sun-tan lotion." Today's schedule PLAZA I STAGE Noon These Days of Jackson, jazz and 12:30 p.m.

Opening ceremonies 1 :30 p.m. Seduction of Jackson. 2:30 p.m. The Williams Brothers ot Smithdale, gospel 4 p.m. Singer Dorothy Moore of Jackson.

5:30 p.m. Instrumentalist Clarence "Gate-mouth" Brown of Texas, blues and Texas Swing 7 p.m. Singer humorist John Prineot Nashville, folk rock 8:30 p.m. Singerguitarist Albert Collins and the Icebreakers of Texas, blues PLAZA II STAGE 1 p.m. Art Society of Jackson, college rock 2 p.m.

Relaxations of Greenville, blues 3:30 p.m. James Evans Band of Jackson, blues 5 p.m. Love Shack of Jackson, rock 'n' roll 6:30 p.m. The Persuaders of Jackson, blues rock BLUES STAGE Noon True Lovin' Five of the Delta, acapello jubilee singers 1:30 p.m. Junior Kimbrough, R.L.

Burnside Band of the Delta, jam session 3:30 p.m. Guitarist Walter "Wolfman" Washington of New Orleans 5 p.m. Anson Funderburgh the Rockets of Dallas, with singer harpist Sam Myers of Jackson 6:30 p.m. Mouth harpist Greg "Fingers" Taylor of Jackson, with singer Tinsley Ellis The Heart-, fixers of Atlanta JAZZ TENT 12:30 p.m. Pianist Pinky Garland and singer.

Margaret Rundles, both of Jackson 2 p.m. Semmes-Blurton Big Band of Jackson 3:30 p.m. Mobitra, with drummer Al Fielder of Jackson 5 p.m. Curlew, with saxman George Cartwright, of New York 6:30 p.m. Red Tyler Band, with singer Ger-maine Bazzle of New Orleans 9 p.m.

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