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Today's weather Snow E3 The Forecast For 7 a.m. EST Ramf Saturday, December 4 Low Temperatures Showertfl Flurries! Friday, December 3, 1982 Chillicothe, Ohio Gazette 3 hi yi NatontJ Wee Srvc40 NO 001 01 Comiwce Occluded i Fronts: Cold Stationary Reagan's stance on narcotics expected to meet resistance which ends in Costa Rica and Honduras on Saturday. After spending the afternoon in Bogota, he planned to fly to Costa Rica tonight, for a brief meeting with the provisional president of El Salvador. In a written statement, Reagan said Central America faces "enormous challenges: economic recession, social injustice and the cynical efforts of outside powers to impose non-democratic systems of government on them. "But I am confident," Reagan added, "we have the will and the ability to overcome these challenges." Reagan wound up his first stop, in Brazil, with a speech Thursday in Sao Paulo and then spent the night in Brasilia.

He proposed that Brazilians and Americans train together for a future flight on the U.S. space shuttle. Brazilian President Joao Baptista Figueiredo, 64, quickly volunteered for the mission. In addition, Colombia has become relatively wealthy in recent years with $5 billion in foreign currency reserves, largely because it supplies 80 percent of the cocaine and 70 percent of the marijuana consumed in the United States. On the eve of Reagan's visit, demonstrators burned paper American flags and an effigy of Uncle Sam near Bogota's Bolivar Plaza, where Reagan was to lay a wreath today.

The group of about 400 persons shouted "Yankees out of Colombia," "Reagan out of and "Down with imperialism." IN ADDITION, a bomb exploded exploded Thursday outside a Mormon church in a government-built apartment area named after the late President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy, the only other American president to visit Colombia, dedicated the housing project in 1960. Colombia is the second stop on Reagan's five-day tour, Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil President Reagan, moving north on his four-nation tour of Latin America, is likely to run into political resistance as he takes his campaign for strict narcotics controls to drug-rich Colombia. Reagan left this Brazilian capital today for a half-day visit to Bogota, situated 8,630 feet high in an Andean valley, and talks with Colombia's new president, Belisario Betancur.

State Department officials said Reagan was prepared to discuss Colombia's huge exports of marijuana and cocaine to the United States. "There is likely to be some divergence of opinion," said one official, who requested anonymity. The reason is two-fold, said the official: Colombia believes the drug abuse problem must be settled in the United States, and the Reagan administration believes it is a problem of both the supplier and the purchaser. Tornadoes hit three states The National Weather Service predicts showers from the Mississippi Valley to the upper Great Lakes for Saturday. Rain is predicted for the Pacific Northwest with additional showers forecast for an area stretching from Utah to Montana.

Local Statistics Temperature Yesterday 1982 1981 High 74 43 low 54 34 Todayat8a.m 61 35 Precipitation Yesterday 01 .02 Total for month 16 .02 Total for year 36.42 31.24 Extended Sunday through Tuesday: Cooler through the period. Chance of showers Sunday. Fair Monday and a chance of showers or snow flurries Tuesday. Highs in the 60s Sunday, the 50s Monday and the upper 3Cs into the 40s Tuesday. Lows in the 50s Sunday, mid-30s to near 40 Monday and in the 30s Tuesday.

In the nation Showers and thunderstorms spread today from the Mississippi Valley to the upper Great Lakes, the lower Ohio Valley and the southern Appalachians. Tornadoes touched down late Thursday in parts of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri, and thunderstorms reached from south-central Texas across southeastern Missouri. It was raining today in the Pacific Northwest with snow reported in the higher elevations. Snow also fell over parts of eastern Montana and northern North Dakota. Dense fog formed over the Carolinas and much of the midAtlantic Coast region.

Rain also spread from the northern Pacific Coast through the northern Plateau. Southern California had sunny skies, with clouds over the rest of the nation. Temperatures before dawn ranged from 14 in Rawlins, to 77 in Baton Rouge, La. Temperatures elsewhere Associated Press A freak December wave of tornadoes tore through three states in the Mississippi Valley, killing six people, injuring more than 140 and leaving hundreds homeless today from wind damage or floods caused by thunderstorms. Heavy rain from the thunderstorms and twisters in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois also swelled rivers to flood stage, leaving water waist-high in some homes and Vk feet deep in streets.

One person died in a storm-related traffic accident in the Chicago area and up to three people were missing when a pickup truck was swept down a flooded creek in Normal, 111. The violent storms were touched off Thursday when a cold front moving east bumped into unseasonably warm air that was setting record temperatures across the Ohio Valley, forecasters said. The twisters were "very unusual for this time of year," said Hugh Crowther of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, .1 But tile West got break wheji skies cleared after a storm that killed 18 people as it marched from the Pacific to the Dakotas headed into Canada. And most of the nation enjoyed balmy days that set records for the date. The twisters killed three people in Arkansas and three in Illinois, and injured an estimated 86 people, authorities said.

In Missouri, tornadoes injured 63 more. One victim died when a trailer park in Alexander, was hit by tornado winds, damaging up to 17S mobile homes. "It's mostly nothing left but slabs," said state police Lt. John Bailey. When the storm hit the victim's home, "The tornado picked it up and carried it across the street," said Pat Hampel, 28, who watched.

"It looked like a lumber truck had been dumped on it." A NEARBY car "was laid open like somebody had put a grenade in it," Hampel said. Funnel clouds touched down in town after town in Arkansas, hitting especially hard in Alexander, western Little Rock and rural Rose Bud. About eight tornadoes, some touching down more than once, moved along two general paths, said orecaster George Wilken. Up to 30,000 Arkansas Power Light Co. customers lost electricity during the storm, but power was restored to all but 5,000 by late Thursday night.

Water from the Little Buffalo River rushed over a bridge in Jasper, and forced 150 people in Parthenon to flee their houses. Sen. David Pryor, sent President Reagan a telegram Thursday asking for federal assistance for the state, an aide said. The Williamsburg Nursing Home near Little Rock reported damage but no injuries as patients moved into the hallways and sang Christmas carols while tornado sirens wailed. Rain brought many rivers in north and central Arkansas to flood stage, and a half-dozen families were evacuated from Per-ryville, northwest of Little Rock.

"Officers had to wade in through waist-deep water," Perry County Sheriff Ray Byrd said. "Some of the ladies and children had to be carried out." In Illinois, one tornado that slammed into a trailer court near New Baden killed three people and injured an estimated 50 others. As many as 30 of the victims were hospitalized and about 100 people were left homeless, said Chuck Jones, a spokesman for the state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. New Baden, a town of 2,000, was left without electricity or telephone service. in fa Temperatures Indicate Srevious day's high and over- Jacksonville 82 62 cdy ightlawtoSa EST, Juneau cdy v-vMw UHrta-OUk KansasCity 61 41 ody Altai' 37 cdy TasVegas 53 37 clr Albuquerque" clr UttleKock 78 70 .03 cdy Amarillo 51 32 clr LosAngeles 65 54 clr Anchorage 07 -m cdy luisville 75 66 rn Asheville 66 59 .08 cdy Ijibbock 47 38 clr Atlanta 69 65 rn Memphis 61 70 .13 rn AtlanticCity 53 49 .02 cdy Miami 78 76 .02 cdy Austin 80 53 .65 cdy Milwaukee 63 57 1.95 cdy Baltimore 55 51 .02 cdy Mpls-SI Paul 63 32 cdy Billings 36 23 .10 clr Nashville 75 69 rn Birmingham 76 66 rn NewOrleans 82 75 rn Bismarck 41 26 .01 cdy NcwYork 57 51 clr Boise 41 35 .17 rn Norfolk 60 53 cdy Boston 63 44 cdy NorthPlatte 49 23 cdy Brownsvlle 84 62 cdy OklahomaCity 60 45 .01 cdy Buffalo 68 60 rn Omaha 59 33 cdy Burlington 52 43 .06 cdy Orlando 87 66 cdy Casper 30 12 .03 cdy Philadelphia 55 49 cdy Chrlestn.se 76 64 cdy Phoenix 56 42 clr Chrlestn.WV.

78 55 rn Pittsburgh 66 56 cdy Charlotte.N.C 66 63 .01 cdy Portland. Me. 57 42 cdy Cheyenne 33 20 clr Portland.Ore. 57 42 1.03 rn Chicago 71 58 4.14 cdy Providence 62 40 cdy Cincinnati 75 66 rn Raleigh 68 57 cdy Cleveland 70 63 rn RapidUty 36 20 cdy Columbia.S.C. 75 62 cdy Reno 33 25 cdy Columbus 72 62 .01 rn Richmond 61 53 cdy Daus-FtWrth 71 52 .30 cdy Saltlake 37 23 08 cdy Dayton 72 63 rn SanAntonio 80 51 .79 cdy Denver 45 26 cdy SanDiego 64 48 clr DesMolnes 63 39 cdy SanKrancisco 52 50 .02 cdy Detroit 67 57 02 cdy Seattle 56 43 .50 rn Duluth 52 32 .13 cdy Shreveport 76 70 1.01 cdy ElPaso 46 35 clr SioiuFaUa 57 26 cdy Fairbanks -Ot -29 .02 cdy Stljuia 74 62 2.62 rn Fargo 55 33 cdy St.Pete-Tampa 84 70 cdy Flagstaff 32 04 clr StSteMarie 55 52 .04 cdy UreatFalls 35 28 clr Spokane 37 36 .27 cdy Hartford 63 42 cdy Syracuse 62 51 .01 rn Helena .18 28 clr Topeka 61 37 .01 cdy Honolulu 81 72 clr Tucson 53 32 clr Houston 78 56 45 rn Tulsa 62 50 .17 cdy Indianapolis 74 59 .39 Washington 58 53 cdy Jackson.Misj.

8.1 71 06 rn Wichita 56 37 .11 cdy (AKLswrpnoto) The West Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, was left in shambles Thursday after a storm struck the West 34th Street area. Committee backs gasoline tax hike of about $30 a year, according to administration officials. The concept of increasing the gasoline tax to pay for highway repairs has wide support, but backers of the measure concede opposition is surfacing to other provisions of the package, which is expected to be considered by the full House early next 1 week. "Members that came back from their that would force the owners of bigger trucks to pay more highway user taxes in exchange for liberalized restrictions on truck sizes and weight. The entire package was approved on a voice vote.

The tax increase, which has the support of leaders of both parties in Congress, would raise an estimated $5.5 billion a year at an annual cost to the average motorist Associated Press WASHINGTON House tax writers are recommending approval of President Reagan's proposed nickel hike in the federal gasoline tax to finance a multibillion-dollar program of highway, bridge and mass transit repairs. With bipartisan support, the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee also voted Thursday night to endorse a plan recess just expected a 5-cent gas tax," said Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "What they got was a cost allocation" program. from the administration, which is recom- mending that the heaviest trucks using the highways pay increased user taxes.

Despite the breaks on truck weights and sizes, opposition to the increased use taxes is expected to continue. Rostenkowski said he expected the trucking lobby, which he Tough battle seen over MX missile Heart recipient writing notes called "very effective and strong," to fight the legislation. ROSTENKOWSKI said another thorny -issue will be the formula adopted for 1 distributing the highway construction money to the states. That question also is being addressed in separate legislation. Under the committee-approved plan, the 5-cent increase in the current gasoline tax of 4 cents a gallon would take effect April 1, 1983.

However, the panel approved an exemption under which buses would not pay fuel taxes while taxi owners would pay 5 cents a gallon. Meanwhile, the gasoline-alcohol mixture gasohol would be taxed at only 5 cents a gallon. Associated Press WASHINGTON With a House committee refusing by the narrowest of margins to kill the MX missile, supporters and critics are predicting a tough battle next week when the issue goes before the full House. "It's going to be tight, but I think I'll be successful on the floor," said MX opponent Rep. Joseph P.

Addabbo, D-N. after Thursday's Appropriations Committee vote. The panel tied 26-26 on Addabbo's motion to delete $988 million from the fiscal 1983 defense bill, so the cut was not made. The money would go to produce the first five of the 100 missiles. President Reagan, on a state visit to Brazil, said the decision was "a vote for a stronger, more secure America." But he ridded, "We're not jumping up and down and claiming a victory, because we know it's going to be a very tough battle on the floor." and he could move to a specially modified house in a couple of weeks, DeVries said.

Clark is from Federal Way, a Seattle suburb. "His vital signs are good and he is responding," said medical center spokeswoman Pam Fogle. At one point Thursday, Clark communicated to nurses that he had a sore throat, she said. HE ALSO wrote "HO" on a notepad and passed it to a nurse. "What he was asking for was water.

It took them a few minutes for them to realize that was what he wanted," she said. Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY A retired dentist who became the first recipient of a permanent artificial heart was doing "very nicely" today, able to write notes to nurses in his first day of life with the new organ, doctors said. Barney B. Clark, 61, was in critical but promising condition and resting comfortably early today, said Kate Wood-worth, a University of Utah Medical Center spokeswoman. The next several days will be critical as doctors monitor Clark for any complications, said Dr.

William C. DeVries, who headed the 15-member surgical team that implanted the device Thursday morning. "I don't think you should go away without an appreciation of the difficulty of the recovery," said Dr. Robert Jarvik, who invented the polyurethane heart, known as the Jarvik-7. Potential complications include pneumonia, infections, collapsed lungs and blood clots, but the possibility of rejection the bane of human heart transplants does not exist because there is no foreign tissue to set off the body's attack mechanism.

If Clark continues to improve, a respirator connected to a tube in his windpipe, preventing speech, will be withdrawn Senate Democrats work on 'emergency' job package Closeup ByCHRISCOLLINS Gannett Newsservice WASHINGTON Senate Democrats today are expected to review a one-year "emergency" jobs package being drafted by a small group of senators and their aides. If blessed by the Democratic Caucus, the plan could be released today just as the government announced November's national unemployment rate of 10.8 percent. According to Democratic Senate aides, the plan, still under revision Thursday evening, could include: A public works repair and rehabilitation program similar to a $6 billion package introduced this week by Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, His program, which would create 350,000 to 500,000 jobs fixing water supply and sewer systems as well as roads and bridges, had "very strong support" among the Democratic senators present fiscal "THE EMERGENCY is now; the money is for now," said another aide.

Democrats on both the House side, where they are in the majority, and in the Senate, where they are not, have been promising to submit and try to pass job-creating legislation in this three-week lame-duck session, now almost a third over. House Democrats also may release a plan today. Reagan has indicated he will veto any jobs bills passed by this Congress. His own gas-tax bill, which would create about 320,000 jobs, is being billed as a highway repair program, not a jobs bill. It cleared the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday night and is expected to reach the House floor next week.

for the long-term jobless, and training programs for displaced such as those in the automobile industry. Increased funding for four or five job-creating programs that already are authorized, such as a program that employs those over 55 years old. Aides still were working on specifics, and the caucus could reject any or all of their work. "Nothing is fixed in stone on this at all," emphasized one aide. The plan's costs could run from $7 billion to $10 billion, depending on what the caucus endorses, aides said.

Still being debated was how to pay for it. Unlike the Reagan administration's gas-tax bill, which would raise about $5.3 billion a year through fiscal year 1988 with most of the money going to repair and build roads, the Democratic plan would be in effect only for this when they caucused Thursday, Minority Leader Robert Byrd, said afterward. A "light" public jobs program focusing on projects that can be accomplished using hand tools painting, building fix-up and the like with funds tunneled through state and local governments. TWO TO five extra weeks of unemployment insurance.