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2A Daily Times. St. Cloud. MmnV June 1 6, 1 986 MONDAY Weather roundup St. Cloud mmy Tonight Clearcool Low in the mid-40s.

i Tuesday I 4s Sunny -r- Pleasant. High mid-70s. Hourly temperatures Sunday 9 10 11 1 2 3 65 69 70 76 78 75 75 79 5 6 7 85 85 82 4 84 Temperatures Sunday Same date 1985 Record for data High: 85 High: 72 High: 95 In 1933 Low: 53 Low: 55 Low: 39 Hi 1968 Mean: 69 Normal: 65 Precipitation Sunday .06 Month to date: 1.13 Year to date: 11.66 Monday 3 4 5 6 7 65 64 60 56 56 8 9 10 11 1 81 75 74 71 73 70 Moon phases More information Local weather: 251-1400 St. Cloud area road conditions: 255-4265 000 Degree days (Season July 1-June 30) Sunday 0 June 15, 1985: 1 Season to date: 9164 Fuel consumption: 102 Last season: 8465 Normal season: 8939 Sunset: 9:08 Sunrise Tuesday 5:27 I Other state roads: 296-3076 Weather Service radio frequency: 162.475 June 22 June 29 July 7 July 14 MinnesotaMidwest Forecast roundup: Minnesota: Tonight mostly clear and cool. Lows from the upper 30s to middle 40s north to the lower 50s south.

Tuesday mostly sunny and warmer. Highs in the lower 70s northeast to the lower 80s southwest. Wednesday through Friday: Minnesota: Partly cloudy Wednesday. Chance of showers and thunderstorms mostly in the north Thursday and Friday. Above normal temperatures with highs from the upper 70s in the northeast to the middle to upper 80s in the southwest.

Lows from the upper 40s to upper 50s Wednesday and from the middle 50s to middle 60s Thursday and Friday. North Dakota: Chance of thunderstorms Thursday and Friday. Lows in the mid-50s to lower 60s. Highs in the 80s. South Dakota: Chance of thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday.

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8863- 7658- HiLowPrecip. r- AP photo Singer Kenny Rogers poses with his son Christopher, 4, and wife Marianne for the August cover of McCall's magazine recently. Rogers took the photo with the help of a self-timer. He credits Marianne with his passion for photography. People Compiled from Times wire services LOS ANGELES Actor Paul Newman and his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, have donated $100,000 to keep UCLA's school for learning disabilities open for another year, but officials say it probably will close anyway.

Chancellor Charles Young announced last February the 65-year-old Fernald School would close June 30 because it was not an effective research center or training ground for UCLA students. "The issue is not money," UCLA spokesman Harlan Lebow said Friday. "What is most important to us is the research and training of UCLA students. As far as the chancellor is concerned, the issue is settled." CROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. Chrysler Corp.

Chairman Lee Iacocca has bought a house once owned by Henry Ford II, the former chairman of Ford Motor Co. who fired Iacocca eight years ago, according to a published report. Iacocca and his new bride, the former Peggy Johnson, bought the seven-bedroom Georgian-style home in this suburb east of Detroit for more than the Detroit Free Press reported Sunday. HONOLULU Frank Sinatra is scheduled to make a 1 V2-hour singing appearance July 26 before a crowd of telephone long-distance gift certificate buyers. The concert is being organized by American Telephone Telegraph.

Buyers of $25, $50 and $75 gift certificates will be seated in Honolulu's Aloha Stadium, which seats 40,000, for the show. "Mr. Sinatra has had a relationship with since 1984," said Eliot Weisman, a spokesman for Sinatra. Weisman said Sinatra has wanted to make an appearance in Hawaii for the past three years. TOKYO Pianist Vladimir Horowitz arrived Sunday to play three concerts announced just six days earlier.

Horowitz, 81, played in Tokyo three years ago. The upcoming performances follow an eight-week tour of the Soviet Union and Europe, which included Horowitz's first appearance in his native Russia since he left in 1925. The concerts on June 21, June 28 and July 6 will be held at Tokyo's Hitomi Memorial Hall. SNOWMASS VILAGE, Colo. Cable TV tycoon Ted Turner plans to make a television movie promoting disarmament and will ask Robert Bedford to star in it.

"I plan to make a movie showing us getting out of the arms race," Turner told a conference of 1,000 here Saturday. "You can't get rid of all the arms overnight, but you can get rid of nuclear arms overnight." Turner, owner of Cable News Network and WTBS-TV in Atlanta, made his remarks at the Windstar Institute's "Choices for the Future" symposium whose host was singer John Denver. The maverick broadcaster also said he plans to produce a series of television shows "telling people what's right" about the Soviet Union. I The son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Tomorrow's forecast Associated Press Showers and thunderstorms ranged from the Great Lakes region to the central Appalachians today and were scattered across South Carolina, the Georgia Coast and southern Florida. Temperatures dipped into the 40s early today in North Dakota and northern Minnesota while early-morning readings were in the 70s from the middle Atlantic Coast region across the Southeast, the middle and lower Mississippi Valley, the Gulf Coast region, southern Plains and much of the Southwest.

Today's forecast: showersthunderstorms over northern half of Atantic Coast states, north Appalachians to Great Lakes; severe thunderstorms possible northern and central Indiana, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York; scattered showers and thunderstorms across the Gulf Coast region; thunderstorms likely in Florida; and scattered showers across western Washington and northwest Oregon. Highs: 60s to 70s in northern Maine, Great Lakes region, upper Mississippi Valley and Pacific Northwest; 70s to 80s along Pacific Coast; near 90 central and southern Atlantic states across nation's midsection and Gulf Coast into the central Rockies; and near 1 15 in the desert Southwest. Today Tomorrow may be a man looking for a home. Mark Thatcher recently moved from a Dallas apartment after the owners said they couldn't protect him from terrorists threats. Now he may have to leave his new high-rise complex.

A resident, alarmed that Thatcher could be a terrorist target, circulated a memo to neighbors Thursday, urging them to pressure management to force him out, the Dallas Morning News reported. State Department officials said they are providing 24-hour protection for Thatcher. Officials said the building's board of directors said it was "not aware of Mr. Thatcher's status" and would investigate. BD SYDNEY, Australia Eleven-year-old Eamon Burke says he plans to avoid bringing up the Chernobyl nuclear accident when he meets with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has invited him to visit the Soviet Union.

The freckle-faced, red-haired youngster left his home in a Sydney suburb Sunday for the Soviet Union after saying, "It is dumb how much red tape there is around dismantling nuclear weapons." He planned to present the Soviet leader with a peace scroll signed by more than 1,000 Australian schoolchildren. "But I won't be talking to him about Chernobyl because I think he might be a little upset about that at the moment," he said. Showers Flurries Occluded National Weather Service, NOAA, Dept. of Commerce 76 52 cdy 70 54 92 70 cdy 86 69 cdy 73 62 cdy 75 63 clr 72 55 clr 68 55 cdy 66 53 rn 60 54 rn Portland.Ore. StLouis SanDiego SanFrancisco Seattle HI Lo Otlk Hi Lo Otlk Atlanta 92 68 clr 95 69 clr Chicago 83 66 rn 72 52 dr Cleveland 85 67 cdy 70 60 cdy Dalls-FtWrth 92 72 cdy 93 73 cdy Denver 91 53 cdy 93 59 clr Honolulu 87 73 cdy 87 73 cdy LasVegas 105 74 clr 106 75 clr LosAngeles 84 60 cdy 86 61 clr MiamiBeach 87 79 89 79 cdy NewYorkCity 88 70 cdy 78 64 clr Orlando 90 72 92 73 rn Phoenix 112 83 clr 112 83 clr Pittsburgh 83 65 73 60 cdy Tampa-StPtrsbg 90 72 rn 90 74 rn Washington.D.C 90 73 cdy 88 73 cdy On ftUne nation settles with one union WASHINGTON (AP) By a 3-to-l margin, non-striking manufacturing workers at American Telephone Telegraph Co.

voted Sunday to accept a new contract with an 8 percent wage hike over three years. The contract, however, eliminates annual cost-of-living adjustments that had been a fixture of phone workers' labor agreements with the telecommunications giant since 1972. MrK- 'vCvJ t7'M v-; i 's, -v -4t r. AP photo of of Bn the world Bekaa Valley, camps tense BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Sniper fire crackled at Beirut's refugee camps today, straining Syria's effort to impose a cease-fire to end four weeks of fighting between Shiite Moslem militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas that has killed 127 people. Police said tension also was high in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where Syrian and Lebanese soldiers separated a pro-Syrian leftist militia and Iranian-backed Shiite fundamentalists who were fighting for control of the town of Mashgara.

1 Failure by the two sides to carry out an exchange hostages imperiled the truce that ended four days of fighting in the Bekaa Valley, police said. Twenty-three people were killed and 129 others were wounded in the fighting, the police said. Pravda: Chernobyl managers fired MOSCOW (AP) Managers of the Chernobyl power plant failed to enforce discipline and control in the face the nuclear accident there, and have been fired, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said. In its Sunday editions, the Communist Party newspaper did not specify how many officials had been dismissed, but it criticized five top managers, the head of the plant's Communist youth organization, and the plant's trade union leader. Pravda also said some workers from the plant were still "on the run" after the April 26 explosion and fire.

Diplomats say Libya seeks ransom TRIPOLI, Libya AP) Western diplomats say the government is demanding a ransom or concessions from the United States in secret negotiations over the return of a body Libya says is that of a U.S. airman killed in the air strike on Libya. The diplomats said Sunday that the secret negotiations have been goingon for about the past 10 days in Tripoli and elsewhere. They have been conducted through mediation by Belgium, which represents U.S. interests in Libya.

The official Libyan news agency AN A reported Sunday that wreckage from a U.S. F-lll fighter-bomber had washed ashore. The wreckage indicates that the jet was (an) F-lll whose number is 12T-40-801 serial R.G. F701 AMA mulls booze labeling CHICAGO AP) The American Medical Association, despite owning alcohol-related stock estimated at more than $2 million, is to consider a move this week to require health warning labels on alcoholic beverage containers. Groups concerned about alcohol-related deaths, illness and injuries are critical of the AMA for retaining investments in companies that profit from sales of alcohol.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday that the AMA Members Retirement Plan holds more than $2 million worth of stocks related to alcohol in its $72 million portfolio. "I'm sure we do own some stocks that involve companies that own or distribute alcoholic beverages," AMA general counsel Kirk Johnson said Sunday as 386 AMA delegates convened for the group's annual policymaking meeting. listen to the radio while his colleague rested on a chair behind his sandbagged position. Patrons like nickel coffee WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) The nickel cup of coffee is alive and well in the nine Circle restaurants, where bosa James Jones says it's "nice to do something like it used A "bottomless" cup of coffee cost 5 cents when his first Circle restaurant opened in this north-central Texas town four years ago, and it has stayed that way, soaring coffee bean prices and four-cup-a-sitting sippers A Shiite Moslem militiaman took time off from the war with Palestinian guerrillas outside West Beirut's refugee camp of Chattilla Sunday to made on the third of September 1985," it said. It did not say when the wreckage was found.

An Air Force F-lll with a crew of two was lost during the April 15 attack. The crewmen, listed as killed in action by the U.S. Defense Department, were Capt. Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, of Utuado, Puerto Rico, and Capt.

Paul L. Lorence, 31, the weapons officer, of San Francisco. Diplomatic sources say the body may be that of Lorence. In m3ifinsot 3 Witnesses said the tornado apparently passed about a mile north of the Mankato Municipal Airport, but airport employee Randy McCormick said the winds did no damage to aircraft or buildings. A second tornado was spotted, but reportedly did not touch down, about 9:30 p.m.

about 13 miles northwest of Albert Lea near Hartland. sent Minnesota at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City in September. Phyliky succeeds last year's Miss Minnesota, Elizabeth Hunter of Austin. Miss White Bear Lake, Kristine Fouks, was first runner-up. Miss Karlstad, Cheri Reese, was second runner-up; Miss Winona, Allison Erickson, third runner-up; and Miss Austin, Mary VanProosdy, fourth runner-up.

Saturday morning in the parking lot of Crucible Specialty Metals, 2911 Como Ave. SE. Erickson's boyfriend identified her body Saturday morning after hearing news reports than police had found an unidentified body. He told police he and Erickson went to the Poodle bar, 3001 E. Lake Friday night.

She was seen leaving shortly before 1 a.m. with one or two men, police said. She was wearing black high-heeled shoes, a white buttoned blouse with ruffles on the shoulders and jeans with dark vertical stripes. Erickson was 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighed 113 pounds. Tornadoes touch down in state Associated Press A tornado touched down about three miles north of Man-kato Sunday, but the Blue Earth County Sheriffs dispatcher said it was believed that there were no injuries.

The twister touched down about 8:30 p.m., causing damage in a rural area of Nicollet County about 60 miles southwest of the Twin Cities, the National Weather Service Laotian man becomes officer MINNEAPOLIS AP) A Laotian man who says he will be the first Hmong immigrant to the United States to become a fully sworn police officer takes his oath to Minneapolis Police Department today. "I feel good inside myself," Shoua Cha said Sunday. "I tell all my friends the dream really came true." Cha, 27, who fled Communist rule in Laos 10 years ago to come to the United States with his family, is one of a minority of Hmong immigrants in Minnesota who read and write English at a college level, or who even speak English fluently. He told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that learning the language was the biggest obstacle in completing his police training. Strangling sets police on hunt MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Police would like to question one or two men who were seen leaving a south Minneapolis tavern Friday night with a 20-year-old woman who later was found strangled to death.

The men were apparently the last to see Faye Ann Erickson, 3640 16th Ave. alive. Her body was found Lindau discusses coaster crash BLOOMINGTON (AP) The roller coaster accident that killed three people at a Canadian "mega-mall" owned by developers planning a scaled-down version of the mall here could change plans to include a similar roller coaster, Mayor James Lindau said Sunday. Miss Rochester wins state crown AUSTIN (AP) Lisa Phyliky, 20, of Rochester was crowned Miss Minnesota Saturday night in Austin following a year of controversy over the pageant. She won a $3,000 scholarship and the chance to repre- National Guard searches for boy CARLTON AP) The search for a 5-year-old boy who was reported missing last week in Jay Cooke State Park was strengthened Sunday with about 100 National Guard members called out by Gov.

Rudy Perpich, a Guard spokeswoman said Sunday. Casey Shingobe disappeared Thursday evening while picnicking with his family. Perpich responded to a request by Carlton County Sheriff Terry Tuomey in calling out members of the Minnesota Army and Air National Guard to active duty Sunday, Capt. Lucy Render, public affairs director for the Guard in Minnesota, said. f..

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