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The Sallna Journal Wednesday, September Page 26 Y5 Old Fanner's Almanac blends old with new DUBLIN, N.M. As sure as death and twees, another edition of the Old Partner's hit the streets Tuesday, crammed with traditional weather forecasts and "new, ufljful and entertaining matter," such as Surefire cures for baldness and the best days for fishing. $The perennial compendium of recipes, astronomical data, folklore and zodiac secrets has published 196 editions since its founding in making it the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. JFhe main feature, as usual, is weather forecasts, which will have believing New Eng- idMers burrowing in for a snowy winter and their relatives in central Florida bracing for an exceptionally wet summer. Using a combination of a secret weather- forecasting formula devised by the almanac's founder and the most modern scientific calcu- "I like to a combination of silly things, serious things, thought-provoking things and Informative Judson Hate lation based on solar activity, the almanac predicts a cold winter for much of the East, and a warm and wet one west of the Rockies.

The 12th and present editor, Judson Hale, said this issue may be the best yet, with some minor changes but a hefty dose of tradition. "I've tried to over the years to improve the Old Farmer's Almanac very subtly without people getting upset about it," said Hale, a gangly 54-year-old New Englander with a wide toothy smile. The best-laid plans do not always work out, and Hale said he received a letter from one reader who said he wished whoever changed the shape of the moon in the almanac had died before he did it. The almanac still maintains the flavor of traditional America, sporting the hole in the upper left corner for hanging in the pantry or outhouse. But as it has in the past few years, this year's volume also reflects a slight change with the times.

The cover has a four-color version of the traditional engraving showing the four seasons on a pale yellow background, along with enhanced representations of Benjamin Franklin and almanac founder Robert B. Thomas. Hale said he likes it better than the old two-color version. It also has a new, color section predicting social trends for the coming year. For instance, girdles will make a major comeback and string-bikini will get even skimpier next year.

The almanac's price is also keeping pace, up a quarter to $2.50 from last year, and substantially more than the 8 cents it cost when traveling salesmen selling healing elixirs distributed it by horse-drawn cart. "I like to have a combination of silly things, serious things, thought-provoking things and informative he said. Publisher Judson Hale reviews a copy of this year's Old Farmer's Almanac. Yale president blasts label as 'gay school' NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Yale University President Benno C.

Schmidt Jr. has labeled as "journalistic drivel" a newspaper article that depicts Yale as a "gay school," awi a school officer said Tuesday that homosexuals make up only "a minute fraction" of its population. Schmidt harshly criticized both The Wall Street Journal and the freelance author of the article in a recent letter written to about 40 alumni and then distributed to about 2,000 fund- raisers. University Secretary Sheila Wel- liflgton said Schmidt wrote his letter in" response to letters from alumni who were upset by the Journal piece. But she said she did not believe the publicity would cause a drop in donations.

The Journal's Aug. 4 article was a firet-person essay in the Leisure Arts page by Julie V. lovine, a 1977 Yale graduate who lives part time in Njew Haven. In the article, lovine quotes one Yale student who said she received a notice calling one in four Yale students a gay. Jhe article goes on to conclude that "suddenly, Yale has a reputation as a school." Schmidt and Wellington challenged the assertion that 25 percent Yale student were gay.

S'The attribution has no basis in fact," Wellington said. Kris Franklin, a junior and the co- coordinator of a group called Yales- bians, agreed with Schmidt, saying she didn't think Yale had more gays than anyplace else. "Possibly people here are more open about coming out," she said, referring to the liberal nature of student life. Another student, Anna Louisa Tittmann, a junior from Concord, echoed Franklin's point: "I think Yale is a place where people stand up for their rights and are more obvious about it, but I don't think Yale is a gay In 1986, the student Yale Gay and Lesbian Cooperative estimated that about 10 percent of Yale's students, faculty and staff were homosexual. lovine said Schmidt was "taking some low blows" in criticizing her.

"I think the reaction has been really extreme," she said. She said she had talked to 25 people and extensively read the Yale student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, as research for the article. "I'm not saying that Yale is overrun by gays, which, by the way, what's wrong with she said. Raymond Sokolov, the editor of the Journal's Leisure and Art page, said he stood by the article, and he was sorry that Schmidt was upset by it. For fiscal 1986-87, Yale raised $120 million.

At least $31.1 million came from alumni. City pays $950,000 for $12 million pavilion KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The UiS. Pavilion, a wedge-shaped white elephant left over from the 1982 World's Fair, was auctioned to the city Tuesday for $950,000 less than a tenth of the $12.4 million it cost the federal government to build. The auction, at an open-air amphitheater at the downtown fair site, ends the General Services Administration's responsibility for the awkward-looking building that was built to" demonstrate solar efficiency during the energy-theme fair.

The six- story, steel and glass structure, with solar panels on one side and a huge movie screen inside, turned out to be energy inefficient and now leaks. Mayor Kyle Testerman shouted out the city's offer against just one competitor, Knoxville businessman Rufus H. Smith who opened the bidding at $750,000 and went no higher. "It's a strange property. I was delighted to see two," auctioneer Hfiward DeVane said after the public sale that took only minutes.

"The building in my opinion is a liability and has no good, sound economic value," Testerman said after he handed a $100,000 check as a down payment. "It's just a nice piece of land." The pavilion may be razed and its acres fitted into the fair site's overall development, he said. The City Council, under the impression that the government would give it the building at one point, would go no higher than $800,000 in the past, Testerman said. But the City Council unanimously gave its approval for the mayor to participate in Tuesday's auction at a last-minute morning meeting. Rep.

John Duncan, had tried to persuade the federal government to give the pavilion to the city for free. Testerman's first bid on behalf of the city was $800,000, but DeVane told him that was less than the government's appraised value. Testerman then went to still not enough, DeVane told him. The mayor upped the bid to $900,000 and again was told it was too little. Testerman paused, then shouted out $950,000 and DeVane accepted the offer with a clap of his hands.

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