The Clarksdale Press Register from Clarksdale, Mississippi • 5

THE CLARKSDALE PRESS REGISTER THURSDAY, July 16, 1992 5 Weather The Accu-Weather forecast for noon, Thursday, July 16. 60S lMMpafaNghlfl9MurtlonHfortw4a City 53; St. Louis 73 cloudy; Minneapolis-St Paul 61; San Antonio 79 partly cloudy. West: Albuquerque 64 fair; Anchorage 58 cloudy; Boise 59; Casper 54 fair; Fairbanks 60 cloudy; Great Falls 50 fair; Honolulu 77 fair; Las Vegas 83; Los Angeles 68 partly cloudy; Medford 66; Pendleton 63; Phoenix 87 partly cloudy; Portland, 67; Reno 67 fair; Salt Lake City 62; San Diego 68 foggy; San Francisco 60 cloudy; Seattle 62; Spokane 56. River stages Flood Stage 24-hour Stage Today Change OHIO Cairo 40 22.0 0.0 MISSISSIPPI Memphis 34 6.7 0.9 Rise Helena 44 12.0 1.0 Rise Ark City 37 10.8 0.5 Rise Greenville 48 22.8 0.3 Rise Vicksbg 43 14.7 0.2 Fall Natchez 48 21.5 0.2 Fall River Ldg 48 26.2 0.1 Fall Btn Rouge 35 13.4 0.0 Today's weather From the National Weather Service, Jackson, Miss.

Partly sunny with thunderstorms likely, mainly during the afternoon. High in the upper 80s. Southwest wind 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. The outlook Tonight: Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms.

Low in the lower 70s. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Friday: Partly sunny with a 60 percent chance of mainly afternoon thunderstorms. High in the upper 80s. South wind 10 mph.

FRONTS: COLD WAfW STATIONARY 0 HIGH IOW SHOWERS Mm T-JTOSWS KUKHtS Pete Johnson head up state WE HIGHLY 722 W. Second 4 Bedrooms, 3 baths almost 2400 sq. living room, den, large eat-in kitchen! Manhattan. There were no reports of injury or damage. Forecasters today called for heavy thunderstorms from East Texas to the Florida Panhandle and from the Tennessee and lower Ohio valleys to the Appalachians.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms were forecast in the Great Lakes region, central Mississippi Valley, and southern and central Rockies. Fair skies were forecast in much of the West Forecasters called for temperatures today in the 70s in New England, the Northwest coast and the northern Plains; the 80s in the mid-Atlantic states and central Plains; the 90s in the South and the Northwest interior. Temperatures above 100 degrees were in store for the desert Southwest and part of Northern California and southern Oregon. The high temperature for the nation Wednesday was 112 degrees at Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Other reports at 4 a.m.

EDT (Atmospheric conditions unavailable for some cities): East: Albany, N.Y., 55; Atlanta 71 foggy; Boston 61 cloudy; Buffalo 58 fair; Charleston, S.C., 78 fair; Chattanooga 70 partly cloudy; Cincinnati 62 foggy; Cleveland 66 cloudy; Detroit 64 foggy; Hat-teras 78; Jacksonville 73 fair; Key West 83 fair; Knoxville 70 partly cloudy; Macon 73 cloudy; Miami 82 fair; New York 65 cloudy; Philadelphia 71 partly cloudy; Pittsburgh 67 foggy; Portland, Maine, 58 fair; Richmond 73 foggy; Tampa 75 fair; Washington, D.C., 75 partly cloudy. Central: Birmingham 70 partly cloudy; Bismarck 63 windy; Chicago 63 cloudy; Denver 55 fair; Des Moines 67 foggy; Fort Worth 81 windy; Indianapolis 63 foggy; Kansas City 68 cloudy; Little Rock 70 foggy; Louisville 70 fair; Memphis 75 cloudy; Nashville 72 partly cloudy; New Orleans 73 cloudy; North Platte 61 cloudy; Oklahoma City 78 partly cloudy; Omaha 62 foggy; Rapid TJf i'' JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Former state Auditor Pete Johnson has been appointed director of the Farmers Home Administration in Mississippi, the state's two senators announced Wednesday. Sens. Thad Cochran and Trent Lott, both said the White House notified them Wednesday that Johnson had been officially appointed head of the USDA agency that employs about 530 people statewide.

The FHA administers loans of over $2 billion for about 65,000 borrowers. The agency annually loans about $250 million in Mississippi to farmers, and for rural housing, water and sewer systems, and economic and industrial development projects. Nearly 60,000 homes are being financed by Farmers Home and nearly a half million Mississippians secure water service from systems financed by the agency. Johnson, 44, is replacing Jim Huff of Laurel, who was sworn in recently as the administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington. Prior to serving as state auditor from 1988 to 1992, Johnson was employed by a Clarksdale bank and had extensive experience in that capacity involving farm loans in the Mississippi Delta.

"We are confident Pete Johnson will do an outstanding job as state director of Farmers Home," Cochran said. Storms rack the country LOTS OF NEW CARPET VINYL FLOORING, FRESH PAINT INSIDE, BEAUTIFUL BACKYARD. CALL 627-731 1 FOR APPOINTMENT! COUNTRY LIVING ONLY 3 MILES FROM TOWN! This home on Reservation Road, has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths and over 34 of an acre of land! mini I ii mi i ii mi miirwaM CALL 627 Yesterday The last 24 hours in Clarksdale saw some relief from the blistering heat wave, with the passage of a typical summer thundershower. For the first time in a while, the daytime high failed to reach 90, with a reading of 87 recorded. The overnight low was a pleasant 69, and the storm dropped 2.4-inches of rain officially in the city.

By The Associated Press Synopsis: Moist tropical air and a series of upper-level disturbances will result in scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms today through Friday. Rainfall through Friday will average 1-2 to 1 inch. Local amounts near 2 inches. Drying potential moderate today and Friday with evaporation rates .20 of an inch per day. Minimum humidity 55 to 60 percent each day.

Light dew this morning and Friday morning will dry off around 8:30 am. Sunshine will average 6 to 9 hours both today and Friday. Across nation By The Associated Press A violent storm front that moved through the Northeast brought cooler weather to the region early today. More showers fell this morning in Indiana, where nine; straight days of rain have left rivers near flood stage. Severe thunderstorms Wednesday night brought heavy rain, hail, high winds and lightning to the Northeast and Midwest, damaging crops in Iowa.

Tens of thousands of residents of Long Island, east of New York City, were left without electricity after storms downed power lines and damaged transformers, the Long Island Lighting Co. said. A tornado touched down Wednesday night in the Queens borough of New York City, just 12 miles east of where the Democratic National Convention was meeting in By The Associated Press Fierce storms packing lightning, high winds and hail pounded the Northeast and Midwest, downing power lines and flooding local streets. The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down Wednesday night in the Queens borough of New York City, about 12 miles east of where the Democratic National Convention was meeting in Manhattan. The were no reports of injuries of damage.

Crews today were working to restore electricity to tens of thousands of customers on Long Island, eat of New York City, where power lines were downed and transformers damaged, Long Island Lighting Co. officials said. There are a lot of reports of heavy winds, hail, basically real heavy rain, some flooding," said Mike Wyllie, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "In parts of western New Jersey, they had an inch to 2 inches of rain in a 20-minute period." There were severe LUXURIOUS LIVING AT A REDUCED PRICE! 1 58 W. Second has 3 bedrooms (including an extremely large master) and 3 baths.

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"I'm wetter than a frog in a pond," said Union County Sheriff John Coulter. Hail almost 2 inches in diameter damaged crops and gardens in Taylor County in southeast Iowa. In Indiana, cleanup operations were underway after more than a week of rain left rivers at flood stage. Rain has fallen in Indiana all but three days in July, the weather service said. The Indiana National Guard piled sandbags around the swollen St.

Mary's River in Decatur in northeast Indiana on Wednesday. f200 ittlm of purchiM '200 PRICE CUT EXCEPTIONAL AND EXQUISITE Greater First Apostolic Temple 474 Florida St The Greater First Apostolic Temple Family will be honoring our Pastor, Dist. Eld. Thomas J. Melton and wife for his 36 years of leadership starting Thursday thru Sunday and climaxing on Sunday night.

Our speakers will come from around the Mississippi area, Arkansas and Tennessee. Our nightly services will begin at 7:00 p.m. Our Sunday morning service starting at 11:00 a.m., and the Sunday evening service will climax starting at 6:00 p.m. We will have different choirs that will be performing throughout the week. Dist.

Eld. Melton has been a long standing pastor in Clarksdale since 1956. Our church family would like to take this time to invite all their friends to join us this week for some good spiritual preaching and lifting up the name of Jesus. The public is invited to come and praise the Lord with us. ASSUMABLEVALOAN Two bedrooms in this house on Moon Lake.

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