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PAGE 11 i WEATHER- If Warming trend will be here Wednesday THE MUNCIE EVENING PRESS, MONDAY. JANUARY 9, 1989 Air ci! 'V- Elsewhere, moist Gulf of Mexico air in tandem with cold air produced a potpourri of sleet, freezing rain and snow today from the lower Mississippi Valley across the Tennessee Valley to the central Appalachians. In Michigan, snow combined with winds up to 60 mph Sunday to reduce visibility on the Mackinac Bridge and forced the Mackinac Bridge Authority to close the structure to traffic for an hour, authority spokesman Lorraine Games said. "We didn't get much accumulation, it was Just blowing," Carries said, adding it was only the third time in 11 years that the bridge was forced to shut down because of weather. Snowfall totals across Michigan's upper peninsula ranged up to 13 inches, but the lower peninsula had snowfall totaling 1 to 4 inches.

Wet snow fell in parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. It also settled over the central and southern Appalachians where 2 to 3 inches of snow accumulated. Up to 6 inches of snow was expected in southern West Virginia, with 8 inches over higher By The Associated Press Temperatures dropped into the single digits across northern Indiana today, but a slow warming trend was expected to bring above-freezing readings by Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. Morning lows ranged from 10 above at South Bend to 30 degrees at Evansville under mostly cloudy skies. There were also a few flurries in the extreme north.

Highs today will range from the low 20s in the north to the mid 30s in the south. Cold air will remain again tonight with lows from 10 above in the north to the low 20s in the south. There will be increasing clouds, but it wont be as cold Tuesday with highs mostly in the 30s. By Wednesday, readings were expected to rise into the upper 30s and low 40s. The forecast up to the weekend calls for a chance of light snow in the north and light rain in the south early Wednesday.

Partly cloudy Thursday and Friday. Lows 15 to 25 Wednesday, 20s to low 30s Thursday and upper teens and 20s Friday. Highs 35 to 45 Wednesday, upper 30s and 40s Thursday, and 30s to low 40s Friday. VINCENNES SURVIVORS Timothy Thomas and his trailer when a tornado tossed it 60 feet. The trailer, located 7 miles girlfriend, Lou Ann Murphy walk among the remnants of what was south of Vincennes, was destroyed.

Thomas suffered arm and a mobile home owned by Thomas. The couple were inside the hand lacerations. THREE PERSONS INJURED A VINCENNES Tornado 'bombs' fall on 3 states Temperatures iiLn this town of 600 assessed the damage Sunday. "It's a mess is all you can say," said Allendale resident Linda Grie-semer. "Houses are flattened, windows, blown out, roofs gone." A damage estimate was not yet available, Loeffler said.

Gov. James R. Thompson toured Allendale and flew over the other affected areas. He said he planned to declare Allendale a state disaster area. "It's a mess.

It's awfuL" Thompson said. The tornado "not only took out a third of the homes, it took out almost the entire downtown and all the public facilities." In Mill Shoals, two or three "One or two homes are really damaged extensively enough that the people won't be able to live in them." Five homes were destroyed and 25 were damaged by the tornado that hit Franklin, Ky. "It came and went so quickly that some people slept through it, didn't know it had happened," Harper said. William. Huff said be went to his front door to investigate the booming sounds of the tornado.

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Ball, American lawyer and government official. ALLENDALE, HI (AP) Residents of three states today struggled to recover from tornadoes that destroyed a third of the buildings in this southeastern Illinois town and injured more than four dozen people. "It looks like this place has been bombed," Mayor Jack Loeffler said Sunday from an emergency command post in a bank. Twisters hit the Illinois towns of Mill Shoals, Albion and Allendale on Saturday afternoon before moving into Indiana and touching down near Vincennes. Late Saturday, a tornado cut a two-mile path through the southern Kentucky community of Franklin.

Fifty people were injured in Illinois, and 22 remained hospitalized Sunday. The three people injured in Indiana were released from hospitals by Sunday, no injuries were reported in Kentucky. "After seeing everything that's happened, we were pretty lucky no folks were hurt," said Simpson County Judge-Executive Ken Harper in Kentucky. The National Guard was sent to the tornado-ravaged areas of Illinois and Kentucky to help with the cleanup and to prevent looting. Loeffler said the tornado cut through a 10-square-block area of Allendale, destroying 53 homes and nine businesses, as well as the post office, fire station, city hall and a school On Sunday, the National Guard and other emergency workers cleared trees and power lines that had been knocked down and other rubble from streets, but hadn't made much headway on houses, said Gen.

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On this date: In 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the Constitution. In 1861, Mississippi seceded from the Union. In 1942, the Joint Chiefs of Staff was created. In 1945, American soldiers led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur invaded Luzon in the Philippines during World War II.

In 1964, rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and three U.S. soldiers. In 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface. In 1972, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported biography of bim by Clifford Irving was a fake. In 1977, the Oakland Raiders defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 32-14, in Super Bowl XI, played in Pasadena, Calif.

In 1983, hundreds of residents of the Falkland Islands cheered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as she began a surprise tour of the South Atlantic colony, which Britain had wrested back from Argentina seven months earlier. Ten years ago: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court struck down a Pennsylvania law requiring a doctor performing an abortion to to preserve the life of a potentially viable fetus. Five years ago: A federal judge sentenced former Environmental Protection Agency official Rita M. Lavelle to six months in prison for her conviction on charges of lying "tbci RE 1 '9 mobile homes were overturned and a few homes and farm buildings were damaged. In Albion, five buildings were damaged but there were no injuries, said Mayor Earl Bailey.

In Indiana, a twister came within a mile of Vincennes Lincoln High School, where 2,500 people were watching a junior varsity basketball game when the storm knocked the school's power out "People are moving back into their homes and salvaging what they can," Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Reitmeyer said Sunday. "We were lucky last night It didn't rain anymore after the tornado, so not a lot of homes were water-soaked. but up to 300 of the AP Laserphotos. destroyed by warehouse left about 1,000 a tornado Saturday night. The contained pipeline coating.

The storm people without electricity. BUT NO ONE WAS HURT At Franklin, security guard Paul Ragan keeps a lonely vigil over the Kendall Company warehouse townspeople were left homeless TOWN LEVELED National Guardsmen patrol the Saturday night tornado all but leveled the town of the streets of the southern Illinois town of Allendale after 600 people Saturday night. No fatalities were reported,.