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THE TIMES 2A THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1992 SECOND fnON7 Arcadia recalls storm terror HAPPENINGS PLACES FACES Arcadia MindenL Boler NV' Shreveport Cardwell had planned to open the 1950s-style diner in about two weeks. Now it will be at least a month, he said. Police Jury President Bill Sims said it was not the tornado, but the hug of a 9-year-old boy that touched him most. 1 Winds strong enough to pick up the rear of Sims' truck toppled the First Baptist Church steeple onto his vehicle. It then bounced onto a car occupied by a Minden woman, a boy and an 11-year-old girl.

The terrified boy scrambled out of one of the car's shattered windows and into Sims' arms. "I told him I would be back in an hour. I had my family to check on, too," Sims said. When Sims returned, the boy ran and hugged Sims' legs and asked if he was all right. "I said, He said, 'I'm Sims said.

"That made my day. I was' lucky. We all were lucky." Continued from Page 1A have spent the past two nights at Nob Hill Motel in Arcadia. Her home on Sycamore Street was one of nine houses, including two mobile homes, destroyed. She and her three children were at a circus just south of Arcadia when the tornado began sucking in clouds like a river.

"I tried to beat it back to town," she said. "I pulled in behind some buildings and just prayed it would stop." Leichner never thought that her house might be damaged until she got there. That was just the end of it," she said, her voice quivering with the memory. Eight large pots of shrimp gumbo were cooling on the counter when Doc Bowman, owner of Cajun Food Products, saw a brick warehouse being hurled toward his business at the corner of U.S. Highway 80 DEATHS Sheet metal accident kills 3 on Navy ship NORFOLK, Va.

(AP) t. Three crew members of a Navy ship died Wednesday when sheet metal panels overturned on them in a passageway, the Navy said. The names of the victims t-two enlisted men and one enlisted woman were being withheld pending notification of relatives. The accident occurred about 2 p.m. aboard the USS Shenandoah, a destroyer tender docked at the Norfolk Naval Base.

Cmdr. Ryland Dodge, a spokesman for the Navy's Atlantic Fleet surface forces, offered no other details immediately but said the accident was under investigation. CORRECTIONS 8 CLARIFICATIONS The Answer Book gave the wrong address for the Southfield Station Post Office. It has relocated to 1925 E. 70th St.

The telephone number is 798-2092. Final win elusive as Fischer escapes with draw Fischer leads the $5 million rematch 9-5. The first player to take 10 games receives the winner's prize of $3.35 million. The loser gets the remainder. Draws do not count.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Despite playing with the advantage of white, Bobby Fischer on Wednesday failed to secure the final victory he needs to crown his return to competitive chess. I dynion pi eoiiB-iLcoc A flaSM, a Ml PEOPLE Mandrell to testify on brain injuries NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country singer Barbara Mandrell says it was eight years before she was her old self after a car wreck left her with a brain injury. "Until I was rehabilitated, until I was 1 a A Barbara Mandrell Mandrell and mommy to my children and wife to my husband 'she was dead," Mandrell said Tuesday. Mandrell, 43, was preparing to testify before a Tennessee legislative committee studying brain injuries and the problems faced by victims and their families.

The singer was injured in September 1984. Mandrell has said her seat belt saved her life. She said the accident left her a different person who stuttered and endured enormous mood swings. The response to her 1990 autobiography Get to the Heart: My Story encouraged the Country Music Association's two-time Entertainer of the Year to testify about her injury. "I feel so fortunate and so blessed to have healed that I think it's the absolutely only Christian thing to do.

If I'm needed, 111 go in and speak." Cyrus says Reeves took advantage of him NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Singer Billy Ray Cyrus says Grand Ole Opry performer Del Reeves took advantage of him by 8 i i him to a Cyrus contract that would have cost almost all his earnings. Cyrus comments came in a response filed in Davidson County Chancery Court to a lawsuit Reeves and his wife, Ellen Reeves, filed in September. The singer, who topped both the pop and country charts this year with his debut album Some Gave All, said in court documents that Reeves talked him into signing a record production agreement in 1988. The deal involved Cyrus paying 8 percent of "the suggested retail list price of all records sold" plus 15 percent of his gross earnings if Reeves got Cyrus a recording contract, Cyrus said.

HOME MOVIES TO VIDEO TAPE 4 Per Foot 8 16MM SADLER'S 742-3451 103 Bossier Crossroads Bossier (Ehe dimes 1 ---r1 LES BOUTIQUES DE NOEL Time: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Convention Center, 500 Fant Parkway. Admission: $2 in advance through participating merchants and guild members; $3 at the door. Sponsor Shreveport Opera Guild. "TO BE AN AMERICAN" Time: 7 p.m.

First Assembly of God, 5720 Buncombe Road. Features: A musical program honoring God and country, under the direction of Rita Stoner. Included In the entertainment will be drama, assisted by Mark Donohue and a media presentation by Carolyn Smith and Sean Chapman. Following the musical will be an art show In the gymnasium behind the church sanctuary. Tickets: $2.

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Thurs. and 424-4439. The longtime Opry performer charges that he was a key in Cyrus signing a contract with MercuryPolygram Records. Ellen Reeves is suing the singer to enforce an "investor agreement" in which Cyrus agreed to pay her 2.5 percent of gross earnings in his first year to repay $2,200 she spent for demonstration tapes. Reeves and his wife have an unlisted telephone number and could not be reached.

Their attorney was out of town and also could not be reached. Garcia has high hopes for film 'Jennifer 8 LOS ANGELES (AP) Andy Garcia has high regard for his new film, Jennifer 8, and makes no apologies for his current release, Hero, which never developed into a hit. Garcia, 36, stars in Jennifer 8 as a cop who quits mean L.A. for Northern California only to get caught up in a serial murder. "The script was incredibly precise and well-written and loaded, with contradictions and complexities and demons for the protagonist to overcome," Garcia said of Jennifer 8, which opens Friday.

Meanwhile, Hero, with Dus-tin Hoffman and Geena Davis, has not done well at the box office. "I think it's doing well enough," Garcia said in a recent interview. "Commercially, you're setting yourself up, getting greedy if you want to just take everything home for yourself. I have no disappointments about that; I would've been disappointed if we had made a bad film or one that was somehow destroyed in order to aspire to be commercial. It's doing well enough, for me." The Arts Hotline 227-AQ7S Check out local art happenings 154th Year, Vol.

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