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DAILY WORLD MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1993 mm mm Perez lives her roles UK i 1 Will 4 Trusty escapes RAYNE-A jail trusty walked out, stole a squad car and led a 100- to 130-mph chase that ended when he plowed into a tractor-trailer, flipped, and was hit by a car, authorities said. Jerry Lee, 29, of Youngsville, had served 10 months of an 18-month sentence for possessing a firearm when he walked out about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. Lee and the other car's driver suffered minor injuries; the trucker was unhurt. LOS ANGELES (AP) When Rosie Perez plays a depressing role beware: She might be difficult to work with.

While filming "Fearless," in which she portrays a woman who survives the plane crash that kills her young son, she said she wasn't in the best of spirits. "It was depressing and I probably alienated everybody who tried to be nice to me," she said of her character in an interview in Saturday's Los Angeles Daily News. "I felt differently while I was playing Carta because it's such a heavy, heavy role," she said. Perez, who also appeared in the movie rn AP Photo Laverne McWilliams of New Orleans is one of the first to enter the Star Casino, Louisiana's first gambling riverboat Sunday night. Pickets greet first casino opening "White Men Can't Jump," said the subject matter left an impression on her, but off-screen she's not one to dwell on such issues.

"I can't say that I walked away from this movie with no change in my life," she said. "But I don't sit there and ponder the meaning of life. I just try to get by day by day." Animator is fashion misfit NASHVILLE, 1 (AP) Tim Burton says he was a fashion misfit when he started his career in movies as an animator at Walt Disney Co. The director of "Batman" and producer of the new movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" said he shunned the jacket and tie requirement and wore his hair longer than the Disney standard. "I think the Disney people pretty much looked on us animators as being a different breed and didn't bother us so long as we wore any clothes at all," Burton said in Sunday's The Tennessean.

Burton favors all-black outfits and his long hair is usually teased to stand straight out, like one of his movie characters, Edward Scissorhands. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" is a stop-action animation feature. It is being put out by Touchstone Pictures, which is owned by Disney. Comedian ends service Cloning raises ethical debate WASHINGTON Researchers who cloned short-lived human embryos say more ethical debate is needed before scientists try "the real thing" duplicating healthy embryos that could grow into identical babies. Scientists at George Washington University over the past few months have cloned microscopic embryos, becoming the first to report such work on human cells, two researchers said Sunday.

Gas prices up LOS ANGELES Drivers paid an average of a halfpenny more per gallon of gasoline in the past two weeks, according to a survey of 10,000 gas stations. The nationwide average of gasoline for all grades, including taxes, rose from 117.52 cents a gallon in the Oct. 8 survey to 118.11 cents on Friday, said Trilby Lundberg, who compiles the twice-monthly survey. Analysts said gas prices would continue to rise as refineries in some areas begin using costlier clean air oxygenated fuels mandated for big cities by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Shuttle crew has a week left SPACE CENTER, Houston Columbia's astronaut-researchers returned full attention to how their bodies were adjusting to space today after two days concentrating on rat experiments.

The seven-member crew, four of whom have given dozens of blood samples to study the human body in weightlessness, spent much of the weekend conducting similar experiments on some of the 48 male rodents aboard. Paramount bid raised Rather than let a rival walk away with its long-sought prize, Viacom the friendly suitor in the bidding war over Paramount Communications Sunday decided to match the competition. At meetings Sunday, Viacom and Paramount reached a revised merger agreement in which Viacom would pay $10 billion to buy the giant entertainment company, approving a package nearly identical to a hostile bid by QVC Network the television home-shopping service. i series of emergency drills before any passengers were let on board. Also, crews were painting railings, vacuuming floors and cleaning windows just moments before the party.

Probably not the grand opening Roussel had planned, but he won the distinction of bringing the first of 15 riverboats to Louisiana. The Star, reminiscent of an 19th century paddlewheeler, is trimmed in pink and gold. A star motif dominates the interior of the boat. They are found on the ceilings, pillars, chandeliers and carpet. The boat, operated by Showboat has a capacity of 1,250.

There are 760 slot machines, 39 gaming tables and video poker. Each level has a cocktail bar. There is also a $100 slot machine that has a $1 million payoff. The question of whether guests could gamble at dock was answered after a four-hour meeting of the state Riverboat Gaming Commission on Saturday. State law allows full-time dockside gambling only on the Red River in Caddo and Bossier parishes.

Elsewhere, riverboats are allowed to gamble dockside only 45 minutes before and after 90-minute cruises. To get around that limited provi' sion, the commission voted 3-2 on Saturday to allow dockside gambling on the Star for the gala opening only. Because the extravaganza included an enormous fireworks display, a one-mile area around the Lake Pontchartrain dock would to be closed to marine traffic including the riverboat itself, said Capt. Ted Thompson, commanding officer of the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office. Waterways near fireworks displays are routinely shut down because of safety concerns, he said.

There would have to be a significant justification for the Coast Guard to allow a vessel to move in the area, he told the board Saturday. LOCAL FORECAST Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 mph. Tuesday: Partly cloudy.

Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds near 10 mph. v-T i 4 til mm I llir 1 mi ir ii ii liA 1 i Marty Ingels "Today was one of those beautiful moments that make it worthwhile to go through a conflict," Ingels said. "When you see all those aged, forgotten people just effuse over Shirley it's a wonderful thing." Ingels, 58, was ordered to complete 120 hours of community service after pleading no contest in Ventura Municipal Court last February to charges he made annoying calls to Miss Allyson, an actress. The dispute involved a fee the comedian claimed Miss Allyson owed him for helping her arrange an endorsement contract for adult diapers.

Miss Allyson denied owing Ingels any money. Perez LOS ANGELES (AP)-He wasn't in prison, but Marty Ingels dressed the part for his final performance at a rest home that ended his community service for making annoying telephone calls to June Allyson. Wearing black-and-white striped prison duds, the comedian brought his wife, Shirley Jones, with him for Sunday's hour-long show at the Jewish Home for the Aged in suburban Reseda. Jones delighted the audience with songs from Broadway musicals. Holly Piirainen ft i i Chief guilty AMITE Tickfaw's police chief says he thinks he should have been cleared on both counts against him, but is happy to be cleared of the more serious one.

And Jimmy Sparacello certainly plans to remain police chief. "I have no intention of stepping down as police chief or from my other job as a Tangipahoa Parish (school) bus driver," Sparacello said. "In fact, I can't wait for the election next year because I feel that I had the support of 96 percent of the people in Tickfaw during the trial." Jackpot grows BATON ROUGE -No tickets matched all six numbers in last week's $2 million Louisiana Lotto drawing, Louisiana Lottery Corporation officials said Sunday. The next drawing will be worth an estimated $3 million, lottery officials said. The winning numbers drawn Saturday were 3, 4, 18, 23, 25, and 32.

Officials said 57 tickets matched five of the numbers and were worth $1,500 each. Another 2,775 tickets matched four numbers to win $50 each. Crain unfazed by rumor A former president of the Board of Trustees of State Colleges and Universities is downplaying rumors that he'll be selected as Louisiana's commissioner of higher education. "If I've got an inside track, then I don't know about it," said J. Larry Crain.

"I've been told that the governor made a statement that I would be acceptable to him." Five finalists are competing to replace Sammie Cosper, who took the job in 1990 and plans to leave at the end of the year. From The Associated Press. Summer returns A last gasp of summer pushed temperatures well above normal in the San Francisco Bay area and other parts of the Pacific Northwest. High temperatures today were expected to approach 90 degrees in and around San Francisco, and 80 degrees along the Oregon Coast. To balance the warm air blasting the Northwest, a cold front was expected to drop into the Northeast today.

Scattered flurries were a possibility in the northern mountains, where highs were expected to reach only the 40s. Sunny skies and highs in the 60s were expected across southern New England. i Clouds covered the Southeast this morning. Showers, possibly with some thunderstorms, were expected in the Carolinas. Highs were to be in the 70s across much of the nation's midsection.

The Upper Midwest and the southern Rockies expected highs in the 60s. Highs in the 50s were predicted for the northern Plains states and the northern Rockies, where conditions were cloudy early this morning. The nation's high temperature Sunday was 95 degrees at Gila Bend, Ariz. RIVER STAGES By KAREN GRAVOIS Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS The governor did not welcome riverboat gambling to Louisiana in person as expected, but as many as 500 labor pickets did. The governor has sent his best wishes," said Bob Harvey, president of the Orleans Levee Board.

"He's supporting the (union) message." Gov. Edwin Edwards was to have christened the Star Casino Louisiana's first gambling riverboat in a flitzy black-tie affair Sunday night, ut Edwards, a longtime supporter of organized labor, did not cross the pickets. Louis Robein, an attorney for the Southeastern Louisiana Building Trades Council, said workers are upset at Star owner Louie Roussel III for not allowing the union to represent casino workers. "They've asked Louie to give them a chance to represent the people who work the boat, and he's basically told them to get lost," he said. "They don't want to control it.

They don't want to run it. They just want their fair share." The triple-deck, 265-foot vessel was built by Bender Shipyards in Braithwaite. Non-union and union workers built the terminal at Lake Pontchartrain near Lakefront Airport. None of Star's employees belong to a union. Demonstrators shouted at the mile-long row of cars arriving for the $500,000 gala.

More than 3,500 people were invited. Besides Gov. Edwards, state legislators and other elected officials from Orleans Parish received invitations. They also were sent telegrams by the Trades Council urging them not to attend Star's opening. New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy arrived shortly after 6:30 p.m.

The party was supposed to have started at 6:00 p.m., however, a multitude of delays kept the Star from its original agenda. The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a SKREVEPORT 0PELGUSAS 71 r7661V AKE CHARLES i HUEMDED FORECAST Wednesday, a chance of showers southeast early. Otherwise becoming fair and turning cooler north and west. Highs from the mid 60s north to mid 70s southeast.

Thursday and Forecast for noon FRONTS: COLO WAfM STATIONARY 70B2 0PEL0USAS BATON Poet started early CLEVELAND (AP) Rita Dove, the U.S. poet laureate, says as a young person she was a poet and just didn't know it. "I didn't know that you could become a writer," Ms. Dove told fifth-through seventh-graders at a Cleveland Public Library branch Friday. Ms.

Dove, 41, became the first black and youngest poet laureate of the Library of Congress on Oct. 8. She said she entered college as a pre-law major and hid her poems in a notebook. As poet laureate, the Akron native is responsible for preserving poetry in the United States. She said that's important because "books remind you of how people felt at a certain time, in a certain country." Ryder joins search PETALUMA, Calif.

(AP) Winona Ryder returned to her home town to join the search for a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her bedroom during a slumber party. "(Ryder) just returned from distributing fliers in the Pacific Northwest and is out looking right now," said Bill Rhodes, director of operations at the storefront headquarters of volunteers searching for Polly Klaas. Before joining the search Sunday, Ryder, who grew up in Petaluma, offered a $200,000 reward for the return of the girl. The child was taken Oct. 1 by a kidnapper described as a bearded man armed with a knife.

ROUGE Missing girl's body found STURBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) The search From the Associated Press and New York Times. USPS 146-940 The Dally World Is published Sunday mornings and weekday afternoons, except Saturday by Daily World Newspaper Co. 1-49 South, P.O. Box 1179, Opelousas, LA 70571.

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Corrections will generally appear on our local page in the left column. But when an error is made in a prominent place in the newspaper, we will give the correction a similar position of prominence. We want to get it right the first time, but when we don't please call us for a prompt correction. for a 10-year-old girl missing for 26 months became a search for her killer Sunday. Residents were shaken after police discovered what they believe are the skeletal remains of Holly Piirainen.

Holly was last seen Aug. 5, walking down a secluded road to see a litter of puppies. She was accompanied by her 5-year-old brother. But the boy went home first. When another brother was sent to look for her, all he found was one of her sneakers.

The girl's summertime disappearance bewildered residents of this quaint, colonial 58 7867 NEW ORLEANS i Friday, fair north and partly cloudy south. Lows from the 40s north to 50s south. Highs in the 60s except lower 70s southeast coast. Tuesday, Oct. 26 iraAocv-WttlhKlno.

E3 E3 SNOW ICt SUNNY FT. CLOUDY CLOUOY 30s town of 8,700, located 55 miles west of Boston. The discovery of the remains Saturday turned the confusion to anger and fear. "It's sad to say it. But it would have been better if they'd found her a thousand miles away.

This way, it looks like the creep who did it is still around," said Conrad Bernard. Bernard and his family were visiting his mother-in-law, who lives on the road Holly disappeared from. Along that road Sunday, pink ribbons were still tied to trees, utility poles and homes, tokens of hope denied. A billboard bearing Holly's picture remained visible to Massachusetts Turnpike travelers heading east. "Before, I would let the kids go down the road to the mailbox, get the newspaper.

They even played with the same puppies, for God's sake," Bernard said. David Martin, 46, a pharmacist, said he was worried that Holly's abductor or killer was still at large. "That's the scary thing not knowing if he's still in the area or long gone or someone just here for the summer. The not knowing is the worst part," he said. The search for the missing girl consumed Sturbridge and central Massachusetts and spread nationally after the case was aired on the television program "America's Most Wanted." Rood stiff Mtoar SUgi Today Cturw ATCHAFAUYA BwbreLd 46 Smmspl 47 17 5 0 7 Bin Melvie 41 133 04 Rm KrottSpg 37 118 03 RM SlURose 28 83 0.1 Riw By Sorrel Ik 6.2 0.2 Fall Ooranton 66 04 Fa Morgan City 4 38 01 Faw rataoe nUmatad HL E3 El EI EZ3 MOM 10W SHOWERS HAIM MrONWt FLIMWEf.