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A12 Austin American-Statesman Monday, May 7, 1990 Tims and temperature: 973-3555 National Weather Service forecast: 476-7736 Good fnoFniriS! Today is May 7, 1990. It is the 127th day of the year, and there are 238 days left. Map shows yesterday's high and low temperatures, and precipitation. 'n Dalhart 77 38 West Texas forecast Isolated showers Big Bend eastward to the Concho Valley through Tuesday. Highs, mostly 80s, to mid-70s mountains.

Lows, mainly 60s, with some upper 40s mountains and lower 60s Big Bend. I Amarilto I Lake levels Full Now Buchanan 1020.0 1018 3 Inks 888 0 889.7 LBJ 825.0 824.2 bl Falls 738 0 736 8 Travis 681.0 680.0 Austin 492.8 492.5 Town Lake 429.0 428.3 (Measured in feet above sea level) 75 39 I Wichita FallssT" Ly 770490 Dallas 1 Lubbock -r j0 cto I liorth Texas forecast Partly cloudy and warm today, with increasing cloudiness tonight. A slight chance of thunderstorms south tonight. Highs, 81 to 84. Lows, 59 to 61.

Highs Tuesday, 81 to 89. What on Earth can we do? A daily environmental tip: Don't buy paper towels for chores. Use rags whenever possible. Air quality Pollution index Air quality for 24 hours ending 2 p.m. Friday.

Rating scale is 0-50, Good (G); 51-100 Moderate (M); and 101-190 Unhealthful (U). For the record Sunday (as of 6:30 p.m.): High: 82 at 3 p.m. Low: 59 at 6 a.m. Noon humidity: 28 percent. Rain: none reported; total since Jan.

1, 12.25 inches; excess 2.33 inches. Last year on this date: High: 85; Low 67. Extremes since Jan. 1: High: 93, on April 29. Low: 33, on Jan.

26. Records on today's date: High: 97, set in 1984. Low: 48, set in 1931. Regional outlook Arkansas Mostly sunny and warmer today, with increasing cloudiness tonight. Cloudy on Tuesday with a chance of thundershowers in the western two-thirds of the state.

Louisiana Partly cloudy in the west and sunny in the east today. Mostly cloudy tonight. New Mexico Partly cloudy today with isolated afternoon thundershowers along the southern border. Sunny in other areas today. Tonight, partly cloudy in the south and fair in the north.

Oklahoma Windy and warm today, then windy and mild tonight with increasing low clouds in the southeast late tonight. Partly cloudy and continued warm Tuesday. 78- 44" I Abilene I 76a 47 Longview I 78 52 A El Fsao i 78 46 Midland Waco 77 42 San Angelo 79 59 77 Atin 1 4 82 59 Presidio Dal Rio I 83 60 79 54 Houston i 78 60 Nhv San Antonio Jj 82 55 Corpus Chriati Willie D. Wright's weather forecast Increasing clouds. A 30 percent chance of rain.

Southeast wind to 15 mph. High, 70s. Low, low 60s. Looking ahead Tuesday: Cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain.

High, 80. Wednesday through Friday: Cloudy to partly cloudy. A chance of thunderstorms. Highs, 80s. Low, 60.

Sun, moon data Sunrise today: 6:43 Sunset today: 8:12 Sunrise Tuesday: 6:42 Moon: Will rise today at 6:38 p.m. and will set at 5:09 a.m. Full: May 9 Last quartan May 17 New: May 24 First quarter: May 31 Laredo 80 62 Air quality 38 Id Pollen and mold count Information from Allergy Associates of ADC, for 24 hours ending 2 p.m. Friday Particles per cubic meter of air. Levels are Light, Medium.

Heavy, and Very Heavy. VH Molds 918 Ba Pecan 21 Other trees 13 B8 South Texas forecast Mostly cloudy through Tuesday. Scattered showers west and south today, and all sections through Tuesday. Highs, upper 70s to near 80. Lows, near 60 north to upper 60s south.

Travelers' weather Dallas-Fort Worth: Partly cloudy. South winds to 20 mph. High, lower 80s. Low, near 60. Houston: Increasing clouds.

Southeast wind to 10 mph. High, near 80. Low, low 60s. San Antonio: Increasing clouds. A 30 percent chance of showers.

Southeast wind to 15 mph. High, upper 70s. Low, low 60s. Brownsvr 73 57 0.59" Forecast for noon, Monday, May 7 national roundup Rain was scattered over the East on Sunday, and windy, cooler weather covered much of the West. At midday, showers were scattered from central Tennessee across north-central Kentucky, Ohio, southwestern and north-central Pennsylvania and northern New England.

Showers and thunderstorms were scattered central and northern New York state, as as the Florida Peninsula. Wind brought cooler temperatures to much the West, a day after high wind caused damage and contributed to six deaths along coast of Washington and British Columbia. Lower temperatures and gusty wind extended from much of the Pacific states inland across Idaho, northern Nevada, Utah Arizona, moving later in the day into Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. However, temperatures remained unseasonably warm over coastal southern California. flation State City Hi Lo Pe.

Fct Hi Lo City Hi Lo Pc. Fct Mi Lo city Hi Lo Pc. Albany 69 45 cloudy 63 39 Miami 83 69 cloudy 84 69 Abilene 76 47 Albuquerque 88 47 clear 87 46 Milwaukee 80 55 cloudy 86 51 Amarillo 75 39 Anchorage 52 43 cloudy 52 39 Mps-St. Paul 78 66 cloudy 85 47 Beaumont 80 58 Atlanta 83 55 dear 80 50 Nashville 82 54 .01 clear 78 44 Brownsville 73 57 .59 Baltimore 79 49 clear 71 45 New Orleans 83 63 cloudy 80 57 Childress 85 48 Bismarck 59 39 cloudy 70 45 New York 72 53 .03 cloudy 65 46 College Stat'n 81 58 Boise 57 33 cloudy 55 38 Okla City 83 58 cloudy 85 54 Corpus Christi 77 58 .01 Boston 62 47 cloudy 63 45 Omaha 80 56 cloudy 88 50 Dalhart 77 38 Buffalo 64 46 .04 cloudy 62 41 Orlando 86 60 clear 82 62 Daitas 77 57 Chicago 82 52 .04 cloudy 79 45 Philadelphia 77 51 dear 70 47 79 54 Cincinnati 80 51 .26 doudy 76 41 Phoenix 96 69 clear 98 70 paso 78 46 Cleveland 76 49 clear 71 39 Pittsburgh 76 46 .03 dear 68 39 Forl yvortn 76 54 Denver 61 44 cloudy 87 54 61 37 .02 doudy 60 37 Galveston 76 66 Des Moines 83 56 cloudy 84 46 Portlnd.Ore. 65 39 cloudy 60 40 Houston 78 60 Detroit 80 48 cloudy 71 41 Rapid City 62 39 cloudy 70 49 Laredo 80 62 Fairbanks 57 36 cloudy 60 34 Richmond 82 51 clear 74 45 Longview 78 52 Helena 48 32 snow 50 38 St.

Louis 84 59 .02 doudy 82 52 Lubbock 78 44 Honolulu 87 73 clear 85 72 Salt Lk Cty 57 39 doudy 69 55 Marfa 71 39 Indianapolis 80 52 .23 clear 77 44 San Diego 68 60 doudy 73 62 McAllen 76 58 .17 Jacksonville 84 52 dear 81 54 San Frncsco 74 51 clear 68 50 Midland 77 42 Juneau 55 38 rain 63 32 Seattle 58 43 .38 doudy 54 40 Presidio 83 60 Kansas City 80 62 cloudy 85 54 Sioux Falls 74 52 doudy 87 53 San Angelo 77 44 Las Vegas 87 63 clear 94 65 Spokane 56 31 doudy 53 29 $an Antonio 82 55 Little Rock 81 58 cloudy 85 51 Tucson 92 61 clear 95 56 Texarkana na na Los Angeles 73 61 doudy 81 66 Tulsa 83 60 cloudy 84 53 Victoria 79 59 Louisville 84 53 .12 clear 78 47 Washington 80 52 dear 71 50 yyaco 79 52 Memphis 84 62 cloudy 78 51 Wichita 81 59 doudy 84 49 Wichita Falls 77 49 World B'Aires 3pm 70 Madrid 11am 72 Rome 1pm 73 City Time Tmp Geneva 1pm 73 Mexico Cty 4pm na Stockholm noon 80 Acapulco 4pm 91 Hong Kong 8pm 81 Moscow 3pm 70 Sydney 10pm 80 Bermuda 2pm 75 Jerusalem 1pm 68 Paris 1pm 81 Tokyo 9pm 70 Berlin 1pm na London noon 81 Rio 1pm 86 Toronto 2pm 54 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s Bands show high fronts COLO WARM STATIONARY HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Recycle this newspaper City of Austin recycling information hotline: 479-6753 everywhere. Or to see someone get his head bashed in by a baseball bat. That's commonplace. Every day something's gonna happen.

That's the world in prison." Dutton's next big goal is to make a film about his own life and those of his three co-defendants, all dead before the age of 25. His vision for the film is a hard-edged "reverse-Anertcan Graffiti" BY THE BOOK: Best-selling author Erica Jong says readers still carry a grudge against her for writing Fear of Flying. "I believe the idea of a strong woman upsets people," says Jong, who wrote five books of poetry and five novels between Flying and her latest, Any Woman's Blues. "Sexuality upsets people, and women writing honestly about what they feel upsets people. I think that I'm extremely lucky that I haven't had to go into hiding, like Salman Rushdie.

I'm lucky they're not stoning me in the marketplace," Jong said. One reader-critic, however, did send Jong a photo of her 1981 book Witches going up in flames. Compiled by Russell Roe All-knowing Oracle finds the dirt in city's political housecleaning 70s 80s 90s 100s temperatures. Mike Kelley waterway be renamed Lake Lady Bird, and the council's going to vote on it this week. Could you bear to part with the name Town Lake? (Signed) Wondering Dear Wondering: Oracle has forever thought that the name Town Lake had all the liquid lyricism of an old squash dropped from a tall building.

He thinks Lake Lady Bird euphonious, appropriate, and perhaps the last bulwark against San Antonio's moving the entire Colorado River down there for a theme park. Dear Oracle Kelley: And of San Antonio, I sing, Oracle. Get this, O-Guy. In the Alamo City, gang members now have business cards! The gang "Damage Inc." was passing them out at the city's recent Fiesta celebration. Members of the gang, who range in age from 14 to 16, are suspected in a number of assaults, auto thefts and shootings.

Business cards. Do you believe it? (Signed) Aghast Dear Aghast: Bankers use 'em, don't they? Dear Oracle Kelley: Wow dow, Oracle. Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox has issued a legal opinion saying that appointments to boards and commissions, unless they are quickly confirmed by the Senate, may not even be valid. One state official said that if the opinion stands, it could shut down state government. Scary, huh? (Signed) Quaking Dear Quaking: Just shut the whole thing down, huh? Well, Oracle has never been opposed to a little creative experimentation.

Dear Oracle Kelley: Something of a role-reversal, here, Oracle. Enraged students shut down classes at Mills College in California last week, over the president's decision to admit men. Comment? (Signed) Chuckling Dear Chuckling: Oracle is compelled to say oops, out of space. Darn. H) 1 over well of the and Newsmakers For college, it's a family affair Sarah Lawrence College is trying to keep its May 25 graduation low-key and for good reason.

Among the graduates will be actress Joanne Woodward, 60, who has been pursuing a degree at the Bronxville, N.Y., school for many years. Plus, the commencement speaker will be Woodward's husband, Paul Newman. Just to round things out, their daughter, Clea Olivia Newman, will graduate. BEYOND THE BAR: Woody Harrelson, the ditzy bartender on Cheers, is considering a day job as a singer. "I'm going to try to do an album in a few months," the young actor told TV Guide, moments after he belted out an original composition at an Earth Day rally in Washington, Best bets On the town English alternative rock band Loop, touring behind its new RCA Records album Gilded Eternity, is at Cannibal Club with opening acts Industrial Tepee and Andrew.

Jesse Taylor hooks up with Junior Medlow at the Continental Club, the Marcia Ball Trio is at La Zona Rosa, and the Acoustic Volcanics are at Hole in the Wall. Lou Ann Barton is at Antone's with Sue Foley, and Two Hoots a Holler are at the Black Cat Lounge with the Randy Lee Miller Band. The University of Texas Brazilian and Andean Ensembles are at Texas Tavern. Z-102's Nighttime Primetime show is broadcast live at midnight from Steamboat with host Van Wilks and guests Three Balls of Fire and Third Language. Lillian Standfield subs for vacationing open mike host Betty Elders at Chicago House, and Yon Darbro is host of Cactus Cafe's weekly open stage.

Donn the Smooth Tones play '50s music at Donn's Depot, and People's Choice plays country and pop hits at Club XS. On the tube A couple of locally-produced cable programs that have been nominated D.C. (sample lyrics: "When I can't swim in the oceanI guess I have to wonder POST-PRISON PERFORMING: Charles S. Dutton, who's garnering Harrelson overwhelming acclaim on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize winner, The Piano Lesson, as well as in the film found stardom after spending nearly 10 years in prison for manslaughter. The 39-year-old actor, in and out of reform schools from age 13, ended up at the Maryland Correctional Institution after stabbing a man to death in a fight.

"You have to harden yourself to deal with all the stuff you see," he said of his prison experience. "It's commonplace to be sitting at breakfast talking to someone and all of a sudden somebody walks in and cuts his throat. And blood flies from his neck into your face, into your tray of food, John Henry Faulk is the focus of a tribute on cable Channel 40 at 8 p.m. for ACE awards (the cable industry's equivalent of the Emmys) air back-to-back on Austin Cable Vision Channel 40 tonight. At 7 is Jerry Jeff Walker At Gruene Hall, a videotaping of the December 1988 performance from which Walker's live album of last year was taken.

At 8 is A Texas Tribute to John Henry Faulk, which was taped last summer at the Paramount Theater and features one of the last public appearances by the legendary Texan, who died last month. The lace is on Stop by the Bass Lecture Hall of the Dear Oracle Kelley: Shocker, Oracle! Two City Council incumbents knocked off. I know that this will all become clear in retrospect, but what's your analysis? Were voters upset about the issues of the airport, the city's lowered bond ratings, municipal spending, the old controversies over the trash burner, the Sumiken Building and the convention center? You know all, Oracle. The populi has now voxed, but what did they say? (Signed) Awaiting Dear Awaiting: Oracle believes that the people have said, most firmly, that no matter where the new airport gets built, we darn sure want that $40,000 ant farm there! Dear Oracle Kelley: Oh, fairly astonishing, O-One. Dr.

Louis Sullivan, the actual United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, has sort of rather kind of said that possibly there may be too many tiny little guns out there in the land. "I am very concerned," he said, "about the high number of deaths from handguns in our society in general and certainly in the black community. I want to do everything in my power as secretary to discourage the use and availability of handguns." Mercy Maude, Oracle, is this a Cabinet secretary in the Bush Administration I hear talking? (Signed) Breathless Dear Breathless: After all these years, it turns out that Joe McCarthy was right. There are communists in the American government. Dear Oracle Kelley: Speaking of matters Republican, Oracle, it begins to appear that Mr.

Reagan's Housing and Urban Development secretary was not simply the innocent, asleep-at-the-switch. An imprisoned, former government official is now saying that Samuel Pierce led a network that contrajjled distribution of billions of taxpayers' dollars to political friends. What great fun. (Signed) Tired Dear Tired: This reminds Oracle of a Paul Newman film festival. We went in expecting to see HUD and got The Hustler instead.

Dear Oracle Kelley: Hey, Oracle, what do you think of the idea of naming Town Lake for Lady Bird Johnson? The mayor proposed last week that the downtown Sid Richardson Building, 2313 Red River at 7:30 tonight and discover everything you always wanted to know about lace but were afraid to ask. Santina Levey, formerly Keeper of the Department of Textiles at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, delivers a lecture titled "Art and Industry: Lace-Making in the Nineteenth Century." The talk is being held in conjunction with the new exhibit "Lace: Labor of Survival to Labor of Love," on display at the Texas Memorial Museum, 2400 Trinity St. Tickets to the lecture are admission to the museum is free. Best of the rest The Laff Stop's "Funniest Person in Austin" contest for up-and-coming comedians continues with the third round of preliminary competition for the May 21 finals. Showtime is 8:30 p.m.; admission is $2.

The Austin Songwriters Group conducts its monthly meeting and offers a workshop on lyric writing at 7 p.m. at Chicago House. Admission is free and open to the public. Sanchez Elementary School, 73 San Marcos presents an unveiling ceremony for "The American Story," a mural painted by local artist Raul Valdez with the help of Sanchez students, at 3:30 p.m. in the school's library.

Peter Blackstock.