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i LocalState St. Cloud (Minn.) Times Aug. 1 3, 1990 2D Metro Report Wright County Commodity distribution times announced for Wright County Warehouse fire embers ignite arena's roof The next USDA Commodity Distribution by Wright County Community Action will be Aug. 29. The products to be distributed are 3 pounds of butter per household, peanut butter and vegetarian beans (two per household), flour cornmeal, pork and honey (one per household).

Times and places for distribution are: Annandale VFW, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Buffalo Fire Station, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Clearwater American Legion, 9 to 11 a.m.; Cokato City Hall, 1 to 5 p.m.; Delano American Legion, 2 to 5 p.m.; Howard Lake Public Library, 1 to 5 p.m.; Maple Lake VFW, 1 to 5 p.m.; Monticello Senior Citizens Center, 8 a.m. to noon; Montrose City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Rockford City Hall, 1 to 4 p.m.; St.

Michael City Hall, 1 to 4 p.m.; South Haven City Hall, 9 a.m. to noon; and Waverly Knights of Columbus Hall, 8 a.m. to noon. Regional Report V. A T-y '-'A my i A mm: 4 I 'ill4 ihM Muzzleloader deer hunting has expanded season this year The special muzzleloader deer hunting season in has been expanded this year to open additional areas Fire crews used an aerial platform to douse the blaze from the south side of the 60-year-old brick arena, which houses Gophers basketball and volleyball games.

It took about 45 minutes to extinguish the flames, said Fire Chief Tom Dickinson. 1 think it was an unusual set of circumstances," he said. "The embers apparently lodged on the tin and started the wood underneath on fire." Dickinson said the damage to Williams was limited to a central portion about 2 feet square that can be fixed by patching. However, he said, it could have quickly spread quickly had it not been detected right away. "Fires in these kinds of buildings are difficult to fight because of the high ceilings," the chief said.

"It's a big building," Larson, who has owned the warehouse for almost 30 years, said he had been using the first floor to store restaurant equipment. The other floors had been vacant, he said. The structure, built in 1900, had been the city's first steam-powered flour mill, Larson said, and had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Larson said a handful of transients regularly slept outside the warehouse, and one told him that "everything was OK" about 7 a.m. "I can't believe it went that fast," he said.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Fire consumed a historic, seven-story warehouse and touched off a near-catastrophic blaze at the University of Minnesota's Williams Arena. The spectacular four-alarm blaze at what originally had been the New Century flour mill could be seen for miles Sunday. Smoke billowed skyward as the brick structure collapsed piece by piece. The building was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived about 9 a.m., said Noel Lutsey, acting deputy chief. "Because it's not really occupied, the fire could get going pretty good before someone noticed it," Lutsey said.

No injuries were reported, Lutsey said, except a firefighter's cut finger that required stitches. Ashes rained on nearby tennis courts and parking lots. Authorities were investigating. An estimate of the damage was not known Sunday, but the building's owner, Ed Larson, said he had an option on the structure for $250,000. About 55 firefighters brought the blaze under control about 10:30 a.m.

But a half-hour later, a heat-propelled updraft blew embers onto the roof of Williams Arena, about 200 yards south of the warehouse, authorities said. tor bunting, according to the Department of Natural Re sources. Dave Schad, forest wildlife program leader for the DNR, said the changes were made in response to concerns ex pressed by muzzleloader hunters. The changes will crease muzzleloader hunting opportunities and reduce the travel distance to hunting areas from some parts of the state. The season will run from Nov.

24 through Dec. 9. An unlimited number of permits are available for each of the two time periods, Nov. 24 to 30 and Dec. 1 to 9, but hunters AP photo Minneapolis firefighters poured water on what remains of a seven-story warehouse fire Sunday.

Mercy killer says he wouldn't do it again may apply for only one of the two time periods. People with special diets can take food along to public events People with diabetes or other health problems that require special diets now can bring their own food to theaters, sports stadiums and other public facilities. Under a new state law, people with special diets can obtain an exemption card, authorizing them to bring food or beverages into public places. Facilities still can limit the amount of food or drink brought in, allowing only the amount that reasonably can be consumed by one person. People with diabetes can get the cards by writing: Special Diet Exemption Card, American Diabetes Association Minnesota Affiliate, 715 Florida Ave.

Suite. 307, Minneapolis, 55426. People with other conditions can get the cards by writing: Special Diet Exemption Card, Division of Health Promotion and Education, Minnesota Department of Health, 717 Delaware St. SE, Box 9441, Minneapolis, 55440. Cardholders are responsible for having them validated by a physician.

St. Cloud: Berling appointed to Minnesota library conference Gov. Rudy Perpich has appointed John G. Berling, St. Cloud, as a delegate to the Governor's Conference on Li-brarv and Information Services Sept.

16 and 17. dream about. It revolved around a Florida nurse named Constance Curry, who had read about him in a supermarket tabloid and written to say she sympathized. She came to visit him, and he gave her a white rose he had grown in the prison garden. She took it home and wrote back that she had pressed it between the pages of her large-print Bible.

Soon they were talking about getting married. But that changed last Easter, when Carlson got a letter telling him not to write or call any more. mind and hurting. But he said, "I'm not glad I did it, and I wouldn't do it again. I don't think Fm really to blame, though, because I went a little crazy in the head.

"I'm sure the Lord has forgiven me." In March 1988, Carlson took a pistol to the nursing home near his home and shot Agnes, his wife of 47 years. He prayed over her body and told sheriffs deputies he couldn't stand to see her suffer from Alzheimer's disease any more. Carlson has been on a work-release program since April and lives in Damascus GOLDEN VALLEY (AP) When Oscar Carlson began serving a 28-month sentence in Stillwater Prison for shooting his ailing wife as she lay in a nursing home bed, he defended his decision. "I did the right thing," the Evansville farmer said then. "It was right for her, and now I have to pay for it." Today his position has shifted.

Carlson, 80, who now lives in suburban Minneapolis on a work-release program and is due to be released next month, says he still thinks Agnes is better off than when she was in the nursing home, out of her Way halfway house. The octogenarian with shaking hands and a slow, deliberate walk spends his days growing vegetables in the back garden and waiting. Tacked up beside his bunk bed is a calendar on which he is marking off the time until his "out day," Sept. 30. TU be free to go then, but where?" he asked.

"I don't know what to do. At least in prison, they take care of you. Maybe they would let me stay if I told them I had no place to go." Carlson had found his prison days easier to get through because he had a future to The 160 delegates will discuss the concerns of Minneso- tans as expressed at sessions held throughout the state and examine opportunities lor improving library ana uiiorma-tion services. From Page 1 Pastor- The delegates will develop recommendations for the agenda of the July 1991 White House Conference on Library and Information Services in Washington, D.C. Twelve Minnesota representatives to the White House Conference will be elected.

Fires ST. CLOUD FIRE DEPARTMENT 7:19 a.m. today. Herberger's, 601 Mall Germain. False church may be nudged by social changes into learning a new respect for the talents of women.

Nowhere in the article did he advocate the ordination of women. The 2.3-million member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, unlike the larger Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has never ordained women into the ministry. Shortly after the article was published, Griffin, Anthony and Thompson accused Bruch of "consistently teaching false doctrine." That complaint was rejected because the three Minnesota clergymen failed to follow prescribed channels for consideration of such matters. In March 1990, Griffin, Anthony and Thompson accused Bruch for the second time of being a teacher of false doctrine and based their conclusions on the 1988 article, even though it had been twice approved by the synod's doctrinal review commission. alarm.

9:54 p.m. Sunday. Veterans Administration Medical -f rr Center, 4801 Eighth St. N. False alarm.

12:04 p.m. Sunday. Eighth Street and Seventh Avenue North. Car fire. Damage: 53,000.

6:48 p.m. Saturday. Budgetel Inn, 70-37th Ave. S. Alarm malfunction.

7:29 a.m. Saturday. Dumpster fire, 631 Lincoln Ave. NE. Extinguished.

Beware of big-win promises AP photo Bud Tordoff professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, examines a healthy pere grine falcon chick near Finland, Minn. Deaths of peregrine chicks sadden state's recovery team sophisticated analysis has no greater chance of winning than a number selected entirely at random. For Lotto Minnesota, which has a minimum prize of $2 million, the odds of matching six winning numbers (out of 54 possible) are 12.9 million to 1. "Many people have the feeling that the odds are somehow under their control," said Charles Clotfelter, co-author of "Selling Hope," a book about state lotteries, and a professor of public policy and economics at Duke University in Durham, N.C. "Anybody who does things like throwing salt over your shoulder has the same feeling." A stickier issue for states such as Minnesota, he said, is the extent to which they "get into the business of encouraging superstition rather than the odds of winning." For example, a sheet of "playing tips" published by the Minnesota State Lottery includes suggestions for numbers that players could use for the Daily 3 and Lotto Minnesota.

It also displays a box showing the 15 most frequently drawn winning numbers in the Lotto America game. Yet none of those suggestions or numbers has better odds of winning than any other. "It's a classic case of psychological conditioning," said Schaefer, who has spent eight months investigating gambling in Minnesota taverns. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Experts warn against systems that purport to increase chances of winning the new lottery games starting this week in Minnesota. "Players should use extreme caution when they're investing in a system," said Deb Wright, publisher of Midwest Gaming magazine, which will make its debut next month or in early October.

"If there were systems that were foolproof, there wouldn't be lotteries." There's a number system which advertises a money-back guarantee to produce a profit within the first 18 days of play, a computer-generated "prediction tool" that provides numbers for every day of the year by linking your birthday with your biorhythms. Another company sells a plan using dreams and horoscopes, among other things, to direct you to winning numbers. Lotteries have created a cottage industry of individuals and small companies that publish books, newsletters and tip sheets, search for patterns in thousands of previous winning numbers and devise schemes designed to give your lucky numbers an air of sophistication. Various publications probably will find their way to retail outlets that sell tickets for Lotto Minnesota and Daily 3, which will begin this week. "They're trying to handicap a game of strict chance, which is extremely hard to do," said James M.

Schaefer, associate director of the Center for Addiction Studies at the University of Minneso-ta-Duluth. The center received a state contract to research gambling behavior in the state. "Every gambling magazine I've ever seen has several pages dedicated to this kind of stuff." For about $10 a year, Len Duszynski of Hammond, will take your birth date, figure out your biorhythms and plug the results into an algorithm that will produce numbers for three-, four-, and six- number games. "Some people win with it, some people don't, Duszynski said. "It's all chance, let's face it" Robert Serotic, author of "The Only Way to Win at LOTTO" and several related books, preaches the benefits of "wheeling," a mathematical formula that combines a player's favorite numbers on several Lotto tickets.

It costs more to play, but it improves your chances of winning something if the winning numbers are among those you selected. "I'm an expert in wheeling systems," Serotic said. "I'm not an expert in picking numbers." Skeptics say there's nothing wrong with methods that look for an edge. But they stress that a number selected by a gully in the cliff and met Harris there. Harris picked up two of the falcons.

Kohlstedt cradled the other. Harris had already assessed te birds' condition. "One is fine. The other two may have problems," he said. As quickly as possible, the wide-eyed chicks were hauled up the cliff in the cardboard box to join the first bird.

Up on top, in the steady rain, Tordoff assisted one of his graduate students, Sharon Moen of St. Paul, in banding and taking a blood sample from the first chick. Then Tordoff, who helps coordinate the entire peregrine falcon recovery effort in the Upper Midwest, turned his attention to the birds that had fallen. Tordoff has been at this falcon business since 1982, when the first captive-raised chicks were released in Minnesota. Those chicks represented the fledgling efforts of the Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project to restore in the wild a raptor that had been decimated by the effects of pesticides in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the past eight years, Tordoff had known captive-raised chicks to be picked off by great gray owls. He'd that contained the three chicks, only one of which was peeping in defiance to the human intrusion. He looked at the other two. "Take them out," Tordoff said quietly. "They're dead." Together, he and Moen worked up the other remaining live bird, first banding it, then drawing blood from the underside of one wing.

The blood work was necessary if Tordoff and his falcon team are to understand the genetic diversity of this reintroduced falcon population. The chicks were the offspring of two adult peregrine falcons, which cried with indignation from a white pine snag. Both appeared to have been released as captive-raised chicks. Wild-produced chicks are still a rare commodity. Last year, only two pairs of peregrines raised young in northern Minnesota, and throughout the Mid- west, only nine pair nested successfully, rearing 22 young.

Tordoff and Moen completed their banding operation, and the two chicks were taken down the cliff and placed in the remains of the nesting box. Through last year, 370 chicks had been put afield as part of the restoration FINLAND, Minn. (AP) Peter Harris was in a tough spot. He was suspended 15 feet from a spire of anortho-site, dangling on a red climbing rope 30 feet above the next patch of Earth. Harris, project coordinator at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, held a pound of fluff a 3-week-old peregrine falcon chick in one hand.

He was trying to put the bird in a cardboard box that would be hauled up the cliff to Bud Tordoff, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota. Tordoff, 67, then would band the wild chick. Mist was becoming rain. The falcon chick, with its oversized beak and ta-loned feet, was providing formidable opposition for Harris. Three more flightless and bewildered chicks remained in a cliffside wooden structure next to Harris, awaiting their appointment with the box.

All of this was part of an effort by Tordoff and his cohorts to bolster Minnesota's peregrine recovery effort. The next thing anyone knew, three puffballs of white were plummeting down the cliff face into the treetops. Part of the bottom of the wooden nest box had broken free. The three waiting falcons had dropped like downy soft- From Page 1 Lottery- drawing will be televised on the same channels at 9:59 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The winning numbers will be published in each day's edition of the St. Cloud Times. Players may bet amounts from 50 cents to $5, selecting three numbers from 0 to 9. They can bet the numbers will be drawn in exact order selected, in any order by "boxing" them, or wager both ways, a "straight-box" combination. Prizes on a $1 wager range from $40 for winning a combination straight-box bet to $500 for picking the numbers in exact order drawn.

ly about $40. A minimum $1 bet gets a player two sets of six numbers. Andersen figures Lotto Minnesota will be as popular here as it has been in other states but the future of a second computerized game, the Daily 3, is less certain as no new lottery state west of the Mississippi has tried it. It may take a while for Minnesotans to catch on to the daily game. Daily 3 is a daily evening drawing involving the selection of three numbers by players.

It is based on the old illegal numbers games originating in East Coast cities and Chicago. Drawings for the Daily 3 will be televised on WCCO-TV and KCCO-TV each night at 6:29 p.m. and the Lotto known them to oe hit by cars on inter- project, and although the loss of the two balls, disappearing through the canopy state highways. Lately, he's heard of chicks cast a depressing spell on this 1 1 VI am lumi, ilniif.fi Aff i)H fntimni M.Ji V. 4U-.

them driven off by adult falcons it hurt levels if there are no winners. Winners must take the first prize in 20-year installments. A $2 million prize would net a player $100,000 for 20 years. The first check would be ready in about two weeks. Winners must correctly pick six numbers drawn from a field of 54.

The odds are an astounding 13 million-to-1. The chances of being struck by lightning are greater, Andersen admits. There are also prizes for correctly picking five of six numbers, averaging $1,000, and picking four of six, general being of the birches below already gray day, won the program in the long run. Tordoff said. "We're so close to this whole thing that to lose any bird seems sad and to lose one you're trying to help is devas-tating," Tordoff said.

that came up through the restoration project. But he hadn't seem something like this before. He peered into the cardboard box "We've got a problem," Harris called to those atop the cliff. Harris rappelled down 30 feet to the ground below. John Kohlstedt, a naturalist at Wolf Ridge, clambered down a.