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II i a i i Metro edition Jackson, Mississippi Monday November 1, 1999 500 i i ssippi's Newspap Heavy rains halt Classic; final round resumes today Officials will shorten tourney if it rains today, 1C officials to halt play Sunday at 10:10 a.m. Weather permitting, the final round resumes today at 8:30 a.m. and leaders Chris DiMarco and Brian Henninger tee off at 10:39. That's a day too late for Tom Taylor and Trice Webb of Brandon, who planned to be back at work this morning. "We haven't had rain in four months, and then this," Webb said as he stood by the clubhouse seeking shelter from the inch of rain that fell Admission free, but many fans will have to get off work to watch By Mika Knobler Clarion-Ledger Sports Editor MADISON You don't need a ticket to watch the conclusion of the Southern Farm Bureau Classic.

You just need to be able to get off work A flooded Annandale Golf Club course forced PGA Tour be spending an extra day away from their family business. Ted Burrall is caddying for Ronnie Black, a relative. Nobody seemed especially happy about the weather situ-ation, but a lot of people smiled anyway. One of them was golfer Jim Gallagher Jr. of Greenwood, who wears a cap touting Mississippi as "The South's Warmest Welcome." "Now," Gallagher Ve're The World's Wettest Tupelo at 7 a.m.

for the three-hour drive to the Classic and arrived without rain gear just in time for the rain delay. "The sun was shining brightly at home," Harris said. Players sat inside watching NFL games as they waited to see if and when their tournament would resume. The decision came at 1:30 p.m. No figures were available for how much the weather problems will cost the tournament.

Sponsorships secured long before tournament week provide the bulk of the operating expenses, but tournament officials know from experience that rainouts don't come cheap. "All of your revenues just drop out the bottom, and your expenses start going up," Morgan said. Other bottom lines will be affected, too. Ragan and Ted Burrall should be running Mr. Utles Greenhouse in Hernando today, but now they'll SCOREBOARD PRO FOOTBALL SCORES Bills13, Ravens 10 Falcons 27, Panthers 20 Redskins 48, Bears 22 Browns 21, Saints 16 Jaguars 41, Bengals 10 Giants 23, Eagles 17 Titans 24, Rams 21 Chiefs 34, Chargers 0 Patriots 27, Cardinals 3 Dolphins 16, Raiders 9 Colts 34, Cowboys 24 Vikings 23, Broncos 20 Lions 20, Buccaneers 3 Details, Section SPORTS Saints fall on on Annandale.

Admission to the course is free today, Classic executive director Robert Morgan said, and corporate hospitality tents will be closed. Sky boxes will be open to the general public. Max Harris could have used a sky box Sunday. He left Ml Politicians finishing campaign trail trek final play Cleveland gets its first win in spectacular fashion, beating New Orleans on Tim Fas Leaves Los Angeles 119 am EST I 453pm POT Sunday I "JR- destination -rt -v vmwFim 20kni I MASS lS I v. i i conn.

R.i. jtjr i jHfr'yrLy JJff "cr, Search area Couch's desperation, 56-yard TD pass to Kevin Johnson. 1C Bandits score 1st home win mm Ml By Emily Wagster and Joseph Ammerman Clarion-Ledger Staff Writers Most of their heavy campaigning already done, the candidates for Mississippi's top offices used Sunday as a day of rest almost. Jackson puts together a historic performance in a 2-0 victory over the Pensacola Ice Pilots. 1C West Point pair bound for Cairo when jet plunges into sea From Staff and Wire Report BOSTON An EgyptAir jetliner bound for Cairo with 217 people on board plunged 33,000 feet in two minutes, crashing into the ocean off Nantucket They went to church.

They spent time with their families. And, they made a few appearances and phone calls. Elections are Tuesday for everything from governor Candidates pursue votes till the end, 1B Clerks say voting problems won't reoccur, 1B 4 Jf mm Island early Sunday. Dozens of American tourists including a couple from West Point, Plane behind it on assembly line crashed NATIONWORLD College party turns deadly A shooting at a Halloween party leaves one person dead and five more injured. 2 A Aquarium goes up in flames Dozens of creatures die in a blaze at the Ocean City Aquarium in New Jersey.

3 A STATEMETRO Small town set to get clinic The University of Mississippi Medical Center's planned clinic in Pickens draws criticism. 1 SOUTHERN STYLE" Hew careers as collectibles and lieutenant governor to a host of county offices, including supervisors and constables. Voters will also decide on Initiative No. 9, which would limit state legislators to two consecutive four-year terms. In the tightly contested governor's race, Democratic See ELECTION, 4A ir were among the passengers.

By nightfall, searchers-had retrieved debris and one body, but held out little hope of finding survivors in the chilly Atlantic waters. Edmund Miller Sr. and his wife, Hannah, a West Point couple in their 70s, boarded the flight in New York, said their pastor, the Rev. Gary Richardson of First Baptist Church in West Point. They were on their way to a vacation in Egypt and Israel.

Hannah Miller's sister and brother-in-law, house-sitting for the couple, were notified early Sunday. "They are hanging in there but they are just devastated," Richardson said. Authorities said the Educator facing past student in school race Enrlc Marti The Associated Press which crashed in the Atlantic after taking off from New York. The plane was carrying 2 1 7 passengers and crew members. Suhair Hathout cries after learning her sister and brother-in-law who lived in Ohio were traveling on Sunday's EgyptAir Flight 990, Rendered obso-letebvnroaress.

-j many of yesterday's necessities are today's con ions and other small debris, none with any burn marks, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard M. Larrabee. Ships continued scouring the area after dark U.S. officials indicated a majority of the 199 passengers on Flight 990 were Americans.

Clarion-Ledger correspondent Tony Plohetski contributed to this report. of sabotage, President Clinton and other officials said there was no immediate indication of foul play. Searchers found two partially inflated life rafts, life jackets, passports, seat cush pilots made no distress call before the Boeing 767 crashed about a half hour after leaving New York. Though the FBI and other intelligence agencies began checking on the possibility By Cathy Haydan Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer After nearly a 50-year career in education, retired schools superintendent Ray Strebeck apparently hasn't had enough. Strebeck, 69, of Seminary is running for the Covington County School Board.

His friend Iron Horse Grill fire 2nd in 6 months versation pieces. 1D BUSINESS Music shop with attitude MusiQuarium has plans to be Barnes Noble of the music world. 1 2C FORECAST and former student Barbara Waters, 1 14 school 55, owner of superintendent races to be Southern Florist in decided, 4A A soggy All Saints Day is in the forecast, ushering in a cold spell later. High 65, low 52. Ms Weather details, 2A INDEX 0 clarionledger.com Web site provides election overview The Clarion-Ledger Still haven't made up your mind who you'll vote for Tuesday? Clarionledger.com can help.

On the newspaper's new Internet edition are columns from candidates and with all the candidates for statewide office. 1 The Web site also includes a campaign finance data base so you can find out who contributed and how much to the governor and lieutenant governor candidates. On Tuesday night, look to the Web site for live returns in the statewide and legislative races. Ann Landers 4D Movies 2D Business 12C Opinion 6-7A Calendar 2D People 2A Classified Scoreboard 2C Comics 50 Southern Style 1D Crosswords 60,36 Sports 1C Deaths 4B Spotted 3A Jack Sunn 4D StateMetro 1B Jumble 5D TVistings 6D Firefighters from Rescue Company 14, led by Capt. Todd Chandler, were the first to enter the burning restaurant's interior.

"The worst fear I had was the floor would collapse down on us," Chandler said shortly after eight foghorn warnings sounded as signals for the men to leave the building immediately. Within minutes, the roof caved in, and the southwest wall buckled under the heat. "The wall bowed out," Presson said. "We had to take off the top 20 feet on the south side of the building for safety reasons. It could have toppled onto Pearl Street." The Iron Horse Grill a former Armour Smokehouse and national historic site opened in 1986.

Crotwell bought it in 1995. On March 27, a kitchen fire broke out at lunchtime. Everyone was evacuated. The restaurant reopened in July with a party for regulars, including Lucy Hansford, a former teacher who works for Jackson Public Schools. "If Jackson had a Cheers it would be the Iron Horse," Hansford said.

"He spent over a million dollars restoring it. This is such a tragedy." By Thrsa Kily Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Iron Horse Grill, charred and ravaged early Sunday morning by the second fire in six months, will rise again, vowed Ken Crotwell, owner of the stylish downtown Jackson restaurant. "This is my life," said Crotwell as rain fell on his roofless building. "We're just devastated. But we'll be back." The Jackson Fire Department's fire investigations team was on the scene before dawn trying to find the cause of the blaze, said Chief Investigator Norman L.

Presson. "The firefighters did a good job stopping it where they did," he said. "The cause of the fire is still under investigation." Smoke was spotted at the Iron Horse before 1 a.m. by Ricco Vance, 24, an employee of Collins Funeral Home on North Farish Street. "I was driving down Gallatin, and I smelled a lot of smoke," Vance said.

"I saw smoke coming off the roof at the Iron Horse, and flames shooting out of the windows. I found a pay phone on Capitol and called it in." As fire trucks pulled up, flames roared past utility Collins, is seeking the same position in a nonpartisan election. Strebeck, who retired as Gulfport superintendent in 1994, taught Waters seventh-and eighth-grade English at Seminary High in the early 1960s. "I had been requested by several of my friends to throw my hat in the ring. I thought about it.

It occurred to me it was a good idea, since I wasn't doing anything," he said. Strebeck learned Waters was running after he submitted qualifying papers. The two may be running the cleanest campaign in the state. They say they aren't campaigning against each other, but for the position. "Dr.

Strebeck has been a friend of mine for 35 or 40 years. We're still good friends we're always going to be good friends but I want to beat the fire out of him. I want to serve the district," said Waters, who has been on the Covington County School Volume 163 1 No. 257 Copyright 1999 Theresa KtelyThe Clarkxi-Ledoer The Iron Horse Grill, a landmark restaurant in downtown Jackson, burned in a fire early Sunday morning. Fine-feathered friends A former bird hunter now looks after a pair of parakeets and 28 worked until almost 6 a.m.

to get the blaze under control. When Crotwell arrived, he knelt in the muddy parking lot, his large shoulders heaving as tears streamed down his face. No one could comfort him. poles on Pearl Street, black smoke billowed out of shattered second-floor windows and red-hot ash scattered faster than fidgety fireflies down Gallatin Street. More than 35 Jackson Fire Department firefighters from six stations 1, 6, 12, 14, 15, and their seven eggs.

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