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Readings for Tuesday, August 22, 1978 MINNEAPOLIS READINGS: (Yesterday) Hu. midity at 7 p.m. 75 percent. Precipitation: 24 hours ending 7 p.m. Trace inches.

Total Jan. to date 20.56 inches. (Today) Sun rises 6:24 a.m., sets 8:07 p.m. Mean phase Full Moon. Rises 11:10 p.m., sets 12:24 a.m.

COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES (24-hour period ending at 7 p.m.): High 82 (7 p.m.). Low 65 (5 a.m. Year ago high 74, low 50. All-time high for August 23, 97 in 1948. All-time low for August 23, 42 in 1891.

HEATING UNITS as of Monday, August 21, 1978. Heating units are used in estimating fuel consumption. The daily figure reflects the degrees by which average temperatures went below 65, the point at which artificial heating is generally considered nec- Tuesday's temperatures: a.m. 2 3 temp. 72 71 68 p.m.

74 2 3 temp. 76 78 Forecasts: 5 6 8 10 11 Noon 66 65 68 69 69 70 70 72 73 5 6 7 8 10 11 Midn. 79 80 81 82 80 81 80 79 77 Thursday in the 80s to near 90. Lows tonight in the middle 60s to near 70. essary.

Cumulative figures report heating units since July 1. Daily heating units, Zero Same date last year, Zero. Normal for this date, 1. Season total, 12. Season total on same date last year, 27.

Normal season total for this date, 15. COOLING UNITS as of Monday, August 21, 1978. Cooling units are used in estimating fuel consumption. The daily figure reflects the degrees by which average temperatures went above 65, the point at which artificial cooling is generally considered necessary. Daily cooling units, 10.

Same date last year, Zero. Normai for this date, 5. Season total, 575. Season total on same date last vear, 638. Normal season total for this date, 513.

North Dakota: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms today through Thursday. Highs today and Thursday in the middle 70s to the lower 80s. Lows tonight in the 50s. South Dakota: Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms today through Thursday. Highs today and Thursday in the 80s to the 90s.

Lows tonight in the middle 50s to the upper 60s. Montana, East of the Divide: Cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms today through Thursday. Highs today 70 to 80. Lows tonight 45 to 55. Highs on Thursday 75 to 85.

Made yesterday afternoon by the National Weather Service for August 23 Fair Cloudy Partly cloudy International Numbers indicate Devils Falls range of high Lake temperatures Grand Forks 00 Rain 00 Snow Duluth Fargo Fog Brainerd El Showers OF 00 Drizzle 00 2 Freezing drizzle Aberdeen St. Cloud Twin Cities Eau Claire E) Thundershowers E3 003 05 Twin Cities and metropolitan area forecast Worthington Rochester "La Crosse Sioux Falls 00 80 Mason City City Twin Cities air pollution indexes Airborne amounts of sulfur dioxide (from coal and oil burning), carbon monoxide (from motor vehicles), particulates (dust) and oxidants (ozone) are recorded for the 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. yesterday and reported as low, moderate, high or unhealthy. Readings are taken in downtown Minneapolis, downtown St. Paul and at University and Hwy.

280, St. Paul. Highest levels are shown, along with stations reporting such levels. Sulfur dioxide Carbon monoxide Particulates Low High Moderate Low Downtown Downtown Downtown Downtown Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Today's regional weather forecasts Weather in Twin Cities: Cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms today through Thursday. Winds from the southeast at 15 to 25 miles per hour today.

Highs today and Thursday in the middle 80s. Lows tonight near 70. Probability of measurable precipitation 40 percent today and tonight. Minneseta: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms today through Thursday. Highs today and Thursday 70 to 90.

Lows tonight 55 to 70. Wiscensin: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms today through Thursday. Highs today and Thursday in the 80s. Lows tonight in the upper 50s to the middle 60s. Iowa: Cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms today through Thursday.

Highs today and Lo Albuquerque 62 Amarillo 65 Anchorage 46 Asheville 65 Atianta 72 Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boston Buffalo 55 Casper 62 Charleston, S.C. Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas- Ft. Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Great Fails Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach 76 Milwaukee 62 New Orleans 76 New York 65 Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Me. Portland, Ore. Raleigh St.

Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Juan, P.R St. Ste. Marie Seattle Tampa- St. Prb9. 76 Washington 65 other major U.S.

cities Today's Tomorrow's Yesterday Forecast Forecast HI Pepn. Sky Lo Hi Sky Lo Hi Tsirms 60 Tstrms 60 86 92 Picidy 66 90 Picidy 68 92 Sunny 48 Cloudy Sunny Sunny 63 Picidy 68 86 Picidy 68 Fair Fair 69 Sunny 60 88 Picidy 63 .12 Picidy Picidy Haze Haze 76 Sunny Picidy 80 Sunny Picidy Picidy 51 Picidy 50 Sunny 68 Sunny 70 Picidy 53 Ptcidy Sunny 65 Picidy Sunny 62 Picidy Sunny Picidy 95 25 Picidy 74 99 Picidy 74 98 89 Picidy 62 Picidy 59 86 95 Picidy 75 89 Cloudy 88 85 Sunny 60 86 Picidy 63 88 Picidy 70 94 Picidy Cloudy 46 Cloudy 56 Picidy 48 Picidy 80 Sunny 74 Sunny 88 Ptcidy Picidy 70 95 Haze Picidy 65 90 Ptcidy Picidy Sunny Sunny 95 Sunny Sunny 96 Sunny 58 Sunny 80 85 Haze 68 Haze 82 Picidy Picidy 93 Tstrms 78. Picidy 78 89 Picidy Ptcidy 80 Ptcidy 77 Picidy 93 Sunny Fair Picidy 73 Picidy 100 Sunny Sunny 94 Picidy Picidy Fair Fair 107 Picidy 102 Picidy 102 Sunny 56 Sunny 84 81 Sunny 50 Sunny Rain Shwrs 57 Sunny Sunny 90 Sunny Sunny Fair Fair 54 88 Sunny Sunny 74 95 Sunny 66 Sunny 67 76 Fair 53 64 Fair 54 67 78 90 Haze 78 90 28. Cloudy Picidy Shwrs 75 50 75 Cloudy Picidy Shwrs 55 55 72 69 86 Sunny 65 92 Picidy. 68 93 Temperatures are overnight lows and daytime highs.

Reported precipitation is for the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. yesterday (Minneapolis Time). indicates Information unavailable from National Weather Service. indicates trace. Today's National Weather Service forecast Supplied by the Associated Press 80 70 Cold I 90 90 Warm: 90 Occluded Stationary Figures show high temperatures expected today Rain Showers E3 Snow Flurries Air flow Updated reports Taped weather reports about the metropolitan area and Minnesota, revised every hour and broadcast 24 hours a day, can be received on the Weather Service radio station, KEC65, which operates at 162.55 Mhz on the upper FM band.

H- High temperature reading in the 12-hour period ending at 7 p.m. Tuesdav. Upper Midwest -Low temperature reading in the 18-hour period ending at 7 p.m. Tuesday. P-Precipitation in the 24- hour period ending at 7 p.m.

Tuesday. -Trace. MINNESOTA Twin Cities 65 Duluth 58 Internti. Falls 48 Bernidii Redwood Rochester Alexandria Falls 84 90 58 66 62 55 ,,998..1 St. Cloud 74 61 WISCONSIN Eau Claire La Crosse Madison 61 Wausau 79 64 NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck Dickinson Fargo Grand Forks 69 45 Jamestown 51 Minot 52 Williston 75 58 .02 SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen 85 Huron 61 Lemmon 55 Mobridge Pierre Rapid City 61 Sioux Falls 69 Watertown 56 Canada Calgary Edmonton Montreal Ottawa Regina Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg 37 World Observations made Tuesday, August 22, 1978 City Time Temp.

Aberdeen p.m Amsterdam p.m. Ankara 3 p.m. Antigua Athens 2 p.m. Auckland Beirut 2 p.m. Berlin 1 p.m.

Birmingham 1 p.m. Bonn 1 p.m. Brussels 1 p.m. Cairo Casablanca Noon 79 Copenhagen 1 p.m. Dublin 1 p.m.

Geneva 1 p.m. Hong Kong 8 p.m. Lisbon Noon London 1 p.m. Madrid 1 p.m. Malta 1 p.m.

Manila 8 p.m. Moscow 3 p.m. New Delhi 5 p.m. Nice I p.m. Oslo I p.m.

Paris 1 p.m. Peking 8 p.m. Rome 1 p.m. Saigon 8 p.m. Seoul 9 p.m.

Sofia 2 p.m. Stockholm 1 p.m. Sydney 10 p.m. Taipei 91 Teheran 3 p.m. 95 Tel Aviv Tokyo 9 p.m.

Tunis I p.m. Vienna 1 p.m. Warsaw 1 p.m. 72 Latin America City Time Temp. Asuncion 8 a.m.

Buenos Aires 8 a.m. 41 Lima 7 a.m. 61 Montevideo R. de Janeiro 9 a.m. 73 Highest temperatures recorded in the 24-hour period ending at noon Tuesday, August 22, 1978.

City Temp. Acapulco Barbados Bermuda 86 Bogota Culiacan Curacao Freeport Guadalaiara Guadeloupe Havana Kingston Montego Bay Mazatian Merida Mexico City Monterrey Nassau San Juan, P.R. St. Kitts St. Thomas, V.I, Tegucigaipa Trinidad Vera Cruz 85 Time for you IS ONLY PART OF YOUR NEW BEGINNING.

call 941-6350 TUDOR OAKS RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES ED NON DENOMINATIONAL NONPROFIT LOCAL RETIREMENT COMMUNITY 1196 EDEN PRAIRIE CENTER, EDEN PRAIRIE. MINNESOTA 55344 Liggett begins 'R Easy' radio assault with WLOL-FM Bob Liggett has landed his promised "assault on Minneapolis 4 Paul." Sunday, his new announcing staff transformed low-rated "beautiful music," WLOL-FM at 99.5 into "Rock-n Easy LOL, FM 100." On Sept. 13, venerable WLOL-AM at 1330 is to become WRRD, rounded off to "Big Red, Radio 13." By Neal Gendler Staff Writer "We've made a major commitment to this format," Liggett said of his FM sound, which he called "soft rock." He spent nearly $70,000 remodeling WLOL headquarters at 1370 Davern St. Paul, adding two FM studios with new equipment. He said he's hired nine people for FM, including two women announcers: Marsha Huey from WAYL and Karen Wong from KQRS.

Aimed at people 23 to 35, "Rock-n Easy LOL" combines "a kind of music and presentation not found in the Twin Cities at this time," Liggett said. He expects to gain listeners from across the spectrum beautiful-music to contemporary stations Bob Liggett but he insisted he's "not taking on anyone head-to-head." "We expect to be the station that almost anyone can listen to; that's the way we are in Lansing, where we use this format," he said. "Rock-n Easy LOL" is programed Singer Montserrat Caballe audience plenty to cheer By Bob Lundegaard fortlessly from loud to soft without a Staff Writer tremor. A small but loyal band of the opera faithful turned up at Orchestra Hall Tuesday night to hear Montserrat Caballe, the best dramatic soprano extant, kick off three programs of "Great Moments in Opera and Song." Only two-thirds of the hall's 2,500 seats were filled, but you couldn't tell it from the reception accorded Caballe for this evening devoted to Italian opera. When people start shouting "brava" before the singer has uttered a note, you know they came to cheer.

Fortunately, Caballe, dressed in a flowing black robe that made her look like Yvonne De Carlo playing Katisha in a road company production of "The Mikado," gave them plenty to cheer about. She chose her arias more for their dramatic expressivity than their showpiece effect -all the Verdi numbers were from his later operas, for instance so they had their quiet moments as well as some extremely powerful high notes. Caballe was equally effective at both, including one breathtaking passage from D'Arte" in which she slid ef- (Guindon) Richard Guindon is on vacation. His next cartoon will appear Aug. 30.

locally by Buddy Hollis, a Twin Cities native hired away from a Saginaw, station that drove Liggett's Flint station from No. 1 to No. 4 in a year. WLOL-FM is not using a tape service for music, some the crowded Twin Cities contemporary-music market. Liggett will manage WRRD and has hired program director Dave Donahue, who programed country stations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Cleveland.

Liggett is installing an audio processing system that he expects to double the station's perceived loudness. Red' seems to be a name people can relate to, like Big Red gum and Johnnie Walker Red," Liggett said. "We give away Johnnie Walker Red to agencies and will give away Big Red gum" and pens as promotions, he said. He uses the same theme for his country AM station in Saginaw. Liggett, 35, invested his disc-jockey savings, around $28,000, in a radio station in 1970.

Now a millionaire, he runs eight stations from corporate headquarters in his home near Lansing. gives about Montserrat Caballe caut." It's too bad that an area that packs Northrop for the Metropolitan road companies can't draw a larger crowd for one of the premier singers of her day. Presumably the season has something to do with it; to many people, opera and summer just don't go together. Plenty of tickets remain for the other two evenings in the series an all-Wagner program Thursday night and an evening of French opera on Saturday. Willie Mae Dixon, leader among Minneapolis blacks, dies at 40 By Peg Meier Staff Writer Willie Mae Dixon, 40, a leader of the Minneapolis black community, died Monday of cancer at Mt.

Sinai Hospital. "I don't know of any issue she wasn't involved in," said Spike Moss, director of The Way. "Black studies, opening the news media to blacks, fighting for minority inmates, civil and human rights cases in the courts, problems in rent and plumbing and welfare, opening the schools to black teachers, scholarships, prison and parole. She did it all." She was on the staff of the Legal Rights Center, a privately funded program that helped poor people with their legal problems. The last four months she was on leave to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, where she was a case manager for a program working with serious juvenile offenders.

For many years, she took in children and teen-agers who had no homes. More often than not, she had at least one child living with her. When she died, her home was at 1006 Logan Av. N. Dixon was born in Birmingham, Ala.

She was convicted of prostitution several times in the Twin Cities decades ago. But she became interested in the legal process and in helping people, especially blacks, receive justice. When The Way was founded in 1966, she had a good legal back- Minneapolis Tribune 5B Aug. 23, 1978 Disco fever gives pain to planners of contest Saturday night fever turned into a Tuesday night headache yesterday for the management of the Prom Center in St. Paul.

"The Biggest Disco Dance Contest Ever to Hit the Twin City Area," scheduled to take place at the center last night, was canceled yesterday morning after promoters did not pay the cost of renting the center for an evening, according to Dick Clay, a spokesman for the center. The contest, one of the richest in the cities' history, caused considerable interest among disco dancers. The winning couple was to have pocketed $1,000, the runner-up couple $500 and the third-place finishers $200, according to newspaper advertisements. Ticket-holders were told to return tickets to the place of purchase for a refund, Clay said. For die-hard dance lovers an alternative was available: A square dancing club was holding its regular Tuesday evening meeting in another part of the building, Clay said.

Highway Continued from page 2B year, a so-called "taxpayers' revolt" against the high cost of government, a nationwide trend away from road building and a period of energy shortages, he believes the expensive four-lane highway is highly unlikely. Another incredible moment was the forzando in the middle of the Willow Song from "Otello," for which there is no preparation. It's the musical equivalent of accelerating from zero to 60 without shifting gears. The audience showed its appreciation at the end of the aria, which is followed by an "Ave Maria," by giving her prolonged but respectful applause. To do more would have been to cheer for a prayer.

Each aria told a different story, and Caballe conveyed the nuances of each, whether it was Manon's anguish at finding herself alone in the desert or the effervescence of "0 Mio Babbino Caro," in which a young woman tells her father about her new love. Even an impromptu bit of throatclearing before her encore evoked a round of handclapping and a stentorian (if chauvinistic) "bravo." The encore, a sweetly appealing version of Mimi's first -act aria from "La Boheme," demands a Rodolpho to sing it to, so Caballe coyly chose conductor Leonard Slatkin as her associate, turning her head slightly in his direction. The orchestra under Slatkin was slightly shaky in some solo passages in its first number, the overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra," but performed admirably thereafter, culminating in a rousing rendition of the overture to Verdi's "Sicilian Vespers." In between it played interludes from two other operas "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Manon Les- there. "There are hundreds of people, mostly women, in the black community who are helping people," Hall said, "but she was the best." Judge Eugene Minenko of the Hennepin County District Court said of Dixon, "She was really a dear, dear person. She had very much of a feel for people.

If anybody made changes in this community, it was she." And Neil Riley, a Hennepin County municipal judge, said, "We judges had great respect for her street knowledge and her respect for people." She is survived by a son, Ralford of Willie Mae Dixon Indianapolis, and her mother, Hattie 1970 photo Evans of Birmingham. ground, if not formal education and Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday she ran the organization's legal arm. at Sabathani Baptist Church, 3805 3rd Av. S.

Visitation will begin at 6 "She did more training of the law- p.m. Friday at Werness Brothers yers than the lawyers did her," said Mortuary, 3700 Nicollet Av. S. Burial Doug Hall, director of the Legal will Rights Center. "One of her great strengths was helping lawyers understand a person's community and background.

Her goal was that every person be looked at as an individual. Consequently, she was one of the first contacts that people made when they were in trouble." Hall said she got calls in the middle of the night from people in jail, and she never failed to go to them. She got pleas for help from people at Stateville Prison in Joliet, and the Georgia state prison, and she'd do what she could, sometimes going Southwestern Minnesota is one of many state areas that in past has been promised a four-lane highway by the state Highway Department. But economic realities caught up with many of those promises. Highway construction money has become extremely scarce.

Unless a new funding source is found soon, the state will have no money to match federal highway construction grants. Hwy. 60 from St. James to Worthing. ton is, by some measures, the most heavily traveled two-lane road in the state.

Business interests in Windom and Worthington have lobbied for years for an expressway. The highway has four lanes from Mankato to Madelia, and a four-lane segment is being built from Madelia to St. James. Recently, farmers around Butterfield, many of whom would have to sell land to the state if a four-lane highway were built, have strongly opposed the four-lane expressway. Both points of view were represented on the study committee which, after a year-long study, voted 6-4 in June to recommend a four-lane expressway.

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