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fJATiOfJALrJOnLD The Lincoln Star Page 23 JoEdng helps' relieve floodl inniiseoy mr. It onmmittAA nnnmvMl 42 fffl billion in must an in tho Rpnntfl up the bill Thursday, after which It committee approved $2.93 billion in must go to the Senate. By Christopher Sullivan face of disaster help keep back tears. "What else can you do but laugh?" said Mark Shaughnessy, manning a pump at a flooded church in Ste. Genevieve.

"It's going to be a long time cleaning up." 4 "Having a sense of humor is like a lifeboat," said Joyce Saltman, who teaches at Southern Connecticut State University and lectures widely to cancer victims, laid-off workers and others about the therapeutic value of laughter. Medical research has shown that laughing triggers production of the body's "natural painkillers," but she said humor's emotional lift may be more crucial than the biochemical one. "Even if you're treading' water," she said, "making a joke takes you out of that situation and puts you in control It lets you step back from the situation and get a new perspective." Examples of folks who lost home and hearth but kept their sense of humor are everywhere along the unsmiling river. Instead of worrying over a family dog that paddled around in a flood-caused crude-oil spill in Niota, III, Mary Rea said, "We nicknamed him Slick." Washed-out farmer Bob Johnson of Eddyville, Iowa, joked, "We're going to start selling corn by the gallon." In rain-weary Fairmont, Minn, folks slopped around in a "Mud Olympics," staged by radio station "We gave people a chance to come and get wet and muddy and say, 'We can't do anything about our fields. Let's said announcer Al Travis, who came up with the Idea as a way to relieve pressure.

The Des Moines Register ran an "I'm a Floody Mess" contest, trying to keep the city's spirits up after the water system failed. Subscribers completing joke sentences smell so bad "My disaster aid for Midwestern flood victims on Tuesday, less than a week after President Clinton asked for the emergency spending. The House Appropriations Committee approved $500 million more than Clinton originally requested. The administration late Monday had asked for the additional funding. The largest share of additional spending will go for direct aid to flood victims and to cover crop losses.

The full House is scheduled to take Because of the growing disaster; the spending levels in the bill could rise even further before President! Clinton is asked to sign it "We may have additional amounts requested," said Rep. William H. Natcher, D-Ky, chairman of the ap-1 propria tions committee, urging its members to act quickly. The largest single items in the bill are $1.15 billion for direct crop losses, and $813 million for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. or The Associated Press STE.

GENEVIEVE, Mo. "Good news!" the tired National Guardsman exulted. "We've been waiting for that WATER to disappear. And look! Was this guy kidding? The neighborhood street he gestured across was swamped with brown water. A closer look revealed a smirk on his face and an up-to-its-chin street sign: "IMPASSABLE IN HIGH," it read indeed, the "WATER" had disappeared, underwater.

OK, it's not Letterman, but it's something to laugh at All across the Midwest flood zone from Missouri (now the "Row-Me to Des Moines, Iowa (Zip Code 50II2O) folks say their endless jokes in the TT f1 Wednesday, July 21, 1993 clothes are so dirty would win prizes or as a headline put it: "Attention unwashed Iowans: Convert your body odor into cash!" Hundreds of replies came in. "I smell so bad," wrote reader Pat Jarvinen, "that my Sure deodorant is undecided." Weather White House lawyer dead from gunshot WASHINGTON (AP) Vince Foster, President Clinton's deputy legal counsel, was found dead Tuesday night in a roadside park from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, White House officials said. U.S. Park Police said Foster's body was found at Fort Marcy, a small Forecast Lincoln Almanac The Accu'-Weather forecast for noon, Wednesday, July 21 Unea separate Mgh temperature zonal for th day. 60s i Sunrise: 6:13 a.m.

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Foster's death stunned the president's staff members, who said they were unaware of anything that might have caused Foster to take his own life. Clinton issued a statement expressing "deep sadness" and saying Foster had "served ably and with distinction as deputy White House counsel, and was my friend for over forty years." Foster was the No. 2 White House lawyer, serving under Bernard Nuss-baum, a Manhattan lawyer who is one of Clinton's closest advisers. Foster kept a low profile, which is common for White House attorneys. He was a player in the White National Forecast OFFER EXPIRES AUGUST 24, 1 993 Thunderstorms will soak the flood-ravaged Midwest again today, ending the shortlived respite from the rain.

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