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Austin American-Statesman Saturday, November 10, 1990 Good IllOrn I I19S Today is November 10, 1990. It is the 314th day of thelyear, and there are 51 days left. Tim and temperature: 973-3555 National Weather Service forecast: 476-7736 A20 Map shows yesterday's high and low temperatures, and precipitation. West Texas forecast Mostly clear through Sunday. Lows, mid-30s to lower 40s.

Highs today and Sunday, lower to mid-70s. Dalhart I 58 29 I Lake levels Full Now I 1017.64 I 888.12 Amarillo I 825.09 .70 on V. 737.07 675.62 I S. 2 Wlchit? 1 K.4iau3 Daa, I LUDDOCK 4fi fl I 60 34 2.97 6Z ib I North Texas forecast Fair and mild through Sunday. Highs today and Sunday, upper 60s to lower 70s.

Lows, in the 40s. Buchanan Inks LBJ M'bl Falls Travis Austin Town Lake (Measured in feet above sea level) For the record I020.0 e.o 825.0 738.0 681.0 So AB EI Paso 60 33 fe I Abilene I 62 39 0.01 Longview 60 44 2.97 Midland Waco 64 34 V. San Angelo 62 47 0.05 63 40 1 Austin 66 49 0.02 Presidio Del Rio I 67 34 fiS" 42 Houston "3 Vl 61 51 TV Travelers' weather Dallas: Sunny and mild. High, lower 70s. Light southeast wind.

Low, mid-40s. Houston: Clear and warmer. High, near 70. Northeast wind near 10 mph. Low, lower 40s.

San Antonio: Fair and warmer. High, near 70. Variable wind. Low, near 40. Regional outlook Arkansas Morning fog today; otherwise, sunny and mild.

Clear and cold tonight. Sunny and warmer Sunday. Highs today 60 to 70. Lows tonight near 40 northwest and in the 40s elsewhere. Highs on Sunday upper 60s northeast to mid-70s south.

Louisiana Fair today through Sunday. Lows in the 40s tonight. Highs in the 60s today and the 70s Sunday. New Mexico Warming trend through Sunday. Sunny days and mostly clear nights today through Sunday.

Highs today 50s mountains with 60s to low 70s elsewhere. Lows tonight teens and 20s mountains with 20s to low 40s elsewhere. Oklahoma Fair and warmer today through Sunday. Highs today and Sunday mostly 70s. Lows tonight in the 40s.

3 Willie B. Wright's weather forecast Sunny and warmer. High, near 70. Low, lower 40s. Northeast wind near 10 mph.

Looking ahead Sunday: Sunny and mild. High, near 70. Low, lower 40s. Monday through Wednesday: Fair and mild. Highs, near 70s.

Lows, 30s to 40s. Sun, moon data Sunrise today: 6:52 Sunset today: 5:37 Sunrise Sunday: 6:53 Moon: Will rise today at 12:42 a.m. and will set at 1:47 p.m. New: November 17 First quarter November 25 Full: December 2 Last quarter: December 9 corpus Christ! 0.02 Mr A Laredo pJ 69 43 South Texas forecast Sunny and warmer through Sunday. Highs today and Sunday, in the 70s.

Lows, 40s to 50s, 60s coast. Friday (as of 6:30 p.m.): High: 66 at 3 p.m. Low: 49 at 5 a.m. Noon humidity: 53 percent. Rain: 0.01 reported; total since Jan.

1, 27.28 inches; deficit 0.95 inches. Last year on this date: High: 82; Low 47. Extremes since Jan. 1: High: 106, on August 27. Low: 33, on Jan.

26. Records on today's date: High: 91, set in 1947. Low: 32, set in 1926. Brownsville 70 49 Forecast for noon, Saturday, Nov. 10 National roundup Winds whipped through the Pacific Northwest on Friday, and thunderstorms rumbled through the Southeast.

High wind warnings were posted for the eastern slopes and the upper Yellowstone Valley of Montana, southeast Wyoming and eastern Washington state. Winds reached 46 mph Friday morning at Othello, 70 mph at Rawlins, and mph between Cheyenne and Laramie, Winds damaged trees and caused power outages near Spokane, Wash. Advisories were posted for the northern mountain passes of Colorado because of winds, snowpacked roads and poor visibility in the blowing and drifting snow. A flood warning was posted for parts of northwest Washington state, where more than inches of rain fell across the area overnight. Several more inches of rain were expected.

Nation State City Hi Lo Pc Fet HI Lo City Hi Lo Pc. Fcst Hi City Hi Lo Pc Albany 44 35 cloudy 39 31 Miami 80 75 ptcldy 78 62 Abilene 62 39 0.01 Albuquerque 67 32 sunny 67 35 Milwaukee 42 30 0.18 cloudy 42 33 Amarillo 57 30 Anchorage 10-06 clear 10-07 Mps-SI. Paul 45 28 cloudy 45 29 Beaumont 56 50 3.05 Atlanta na na 0.97 clear 68 38 Nashville 56 43 2.38 dear 64 37 Brownsville 70 49 Baltimore 60 46 cloudy 54 37 New Orleans 67 51 1.84 clear 71 48 Childress 62 35 0.06 Bismarck 54 29 ptcldy 42 30 New York 54 46 cloudy 49 34 College Stat'n 62 48 0.33 Boise 70 38 sunny 67 44 Okla City 71 39 0.08 dear 75 45 Corpus Christ! 66 47 0.02 Boston 49 42 clear 48 39 Omaha 58 30 clear 62 36 Dalhart 58 29 Buffalo 41 38 snow 39 31 Orlando 73 66 0.25 clear 74 53 Dallas 62 46 Chicago 50 28 0.01 cloudy 52 34 Philadelphia 56 45 cloudy 50 36 Del Rio 68 42 Cincinnati 50 35 0.64 cloudy 51 35 Phoenix 85 54 sunny 88 60 El Paso 60 33 Cleveland 45 35 0.15 cloudy 44 32 Pittsburgh 44 41 0.01 snow 38 31 Fort Worth 64 46 0.28 Denver 68 34 sunny 73 36 Portlnd.Me. 45 31 clear 43 35 Galveston 59 52 Des Moines 60 34 0.08 cloudy 58 40 Portlnd.Ore. 66 51 doudy 65 50 Houston 61 51 1.92 Detroit 44 33 0.04 cloudy 45 30 Rapid City 62 36 ptcldy 64 39 Laredo 69 43 Fairbanks -11 -25 clear -12-28 Richmond 61 47 cloudy 59 38 Longview 60 44 2.97 Helena 66 36 cloudy 68 32 St.

Louis 61 34 0.01 clear 62 39 Lubbock 60 34 Honolulu 88 72 sunny 88 72 Salt Lk Cty 61 33 sunny 63 34 Maria 57 32 Indianapolis 51 32 0.11 cloudy 52 38 San Diego 78 54 fair 76 55 McAllen 72 50 0.07 Jacksonville 72 63 0.52 dear 71 45 SanFmcsco 74 50 cloudy 69 49 Midland 64 34 Juneau 21 14 cloudy 21 12 Seattle 60 51 1.88 rain 59 51 Presidio 67 34 Kansas CHy 63 33 0.31 dear 63 38 Sioux Falls 54 32 ptcldy 54 35 San Angelo 63 40 Las Vegas 78 47 clear 79 47 Spokane 59 48 cloudy 57 44 San Antonio 65 46 Little Rock 65 36 0.80 clear 70 44 Tucson 82 47 sunny 85 52 Texarkana 59 43 na Los Angeles 88 57 fair 85 56 Tulsa 71 39 0.07 fair 75 46 Victoria 66 49 0.01 Louisville 54 37 0.60 cloudy 56 35 Washington 60 47 doudy 57 41 Waco 62 47 0.05 Memphis 59 41 0.87 dear 67 42 Wichita 65 33 0.02 clear 70 39 Wichita Falls 65 41 0.03 WOrld B'Aires 9am 70 Madrid 11am 63 Rome 1pm 59 City Tmp Geneva 1pm 41 MexicoCty 4pm 77 Stockholm noon 46 Acapulco 4pm 90 Hong Kong 8pm 77 Moscow 3pm na Sydney 1pm na v. Berlin 1pm 46 Jerusalem 1pm 68 Paris 1pm 50 9pm 61 Bermuda 2pm 77 London noon 50 Rio 1pm 92 Toronto 2pm 39 a -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s Bands show high COLD WARM STATIONARY ns HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES 4 What on Earth can we do? A daily environmental tip: Use cloth diapers or "biodegradable" disposables when 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).

6 Air quality 32! 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 765 I Recycle this newspaper City of Austin recycling information hot line: 479-6753 growing popularity.

The fax and the personal computer, for example, help explain why Elvis fan clubs have proliferated to 300 clubs worldwide and why there are 5,500 organized Buddy Holly devotees 31 years after his death. But then there are the fan clubs that push the edges of the envelope those that defy explanation the bizarre, the occult, the conceivably dangerous. Among them: Engelbert's Angels in Humperdinck Heaven: One of Engelbert Humperdinck's nine clubs. Jon-Erik Hexum Fan Club: Followers of the young actor who shot himself on the set of the TV series Cover Up in 1984. Norma Zimmer Fan Club: Eternal toasters of the memory of Lawrence Welk's champagne lady.

Gumby Fan Club: 12,000 members and growing. Manilovers Anonymous: Closet fans of Barry Manilow, who hum Mandy in the shower. Compiled by Russell Roe Q. How can you tell if bugs are endangered? Kill them wmmmmmmmimm 60s 70s 80s 90s temperatures. 2 dfl SNOW ICE SUNNY PT.

CLOUDY CLOUDY John Kelso little hummers are currently dead. Right after these bugs were plucked from the grovnd, they were dunked in alcohol and "preserved," says C. Lee Sherrod, of Horizon Environmental Services. Isn't it a little ironic to go looking for an endangered species, in an effort to save it, then find it and murder it? "What's even more ironic is that you have to kill them to identify them," says Sherrod. "Most of them are only identifiable under a microscope." This is a true Catch-22, all right.

"If they're running around, you can't look at 'em," explained a bug expert friend of mine. Anyway, the six endangered bugs found last month are now resting in state at a UT's Texas Memorial Museum. I sure hope the scientists didn't pick up the last ones remaining. Then again, what if several are left, but they're gay? Now we get to the part of the column where I come up with all of these bright ideas to make everything better. We could give the endangered bugs to the school children as pets.

I had a pet roach one time. I called him Splat. Has anybody ever considered developing a bug downer that would make these bugs sit still under a microscope? Of course, the risk is that the bugs might get hooked. I can hear the tiny soprano bug voices now. "Hey, man.

Study me, man. Come on, man." How about a stud farm for endangered bugs? We could decorate a shoe box like a cheap motel, and by next year there'd be enough bugs inside to warrant a call to the exterminator. Hmmm. An exterminator. That's not a bad idea, either.

Call the Orkin man and spray all 100 acres of Lake-Line property and get these bugs out of here. What the heck? What if they discover after they build the mall that these endangered species bugs like corn dogs? The health department would go berserk. 78 Wyo. gusty 4 liewsmakers Turner buys rock for Fonda Cable TV mogul Ted Turner has bought a large opal and diamond ring for actress Jane Fonda, and they apparently will be getting engaged, a Fonda spokeswoman said. The ring, which Turner bought Tuesday at Tiffany's in Los Angeles, will be presented to Fonda on her Dec.

21 birthday, said the publicist for the Academy Award-winning actress. The ring is described as having an opal between a pair of diamonds. The celebrity couple has no immediate plans to set a wedding date. If the engagement does culminate in marriage, it would be the third for both. Fonda, 52, and Turner, 51, traveled recently to the Soviet Union for the premiere of Gone With the Wind, the jewel of Turner's MGM archives.

Best bets Good sports The Texas Longhorns will try to extend their five-game winning streak tonight before a sold-out crowd at Memorial Stadium, but it won't be easy, as they face the undefeated and third-ranked Houston Cougars. Game time is 6:30 p.m. Those who don't have a ticket can follow live TV coverage on ESPN or by radio on KLBJ-AM (590). The Longhorn Invitational women's swimming and diving meet concludes today at the Texas Swimming Center with preliminary competition at 10 a.m. and finals at 4 p.m.

Admission is free. The Austin Sockadillos play host to the San Antonio Generals in a 7:30 p.m. Sunbelt Independent Soccer League matchup at Tatu's Indoor Soccer Place. Vets' bets A downtown parade dominates the city's celebration of Veterans Day today. The parade, which will include 59 units ranging from veterans organizations to high school marching bands, begins at 9:45 a.m.

at City Coliseum. The procession heads east to South First Street, north over the ELECTION DANCE: Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton kept a campaign promise by dancing through the streets of the onetime frontier town of Fort Smith. He sweetened the deal with some Bill Clinton impromptu jamming on the saxophone. The Democrat, re-elected to a fifth term Tuesday, had pledged to dance through the streets of Fort Smith if he won in Republican-dominated Sebastian County.

The governor and his wife, Hillary, stepped out Thursday to the strains of Satin Doll. Police stopped downtown traffic for about 45 minutes. Clinton, who has played his saxophone on NBC's The Tonight Show, later joined the band in a rendition of Summertime. FABULOUS FANS: In an examination of fan clubs, The New York Times develops numerous theories for their Ranking Roger sings with Special Beat at the Austin Opera House tonight. river to West First Street, east to Congress Avenue and north again to the Capitol.

A program at the Capitol, including flyovers from Bergstrom Air Force Base jets, is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. The traditional holiday is Sunday, with some government offices observing it on Monday. On the town Ska supergroup Special Beat, an amalgam of performers from early-'80s ska pioneers English Beat, the Specials, General Public and the Loafers, plays a 9 p.m. show at the Austin Opera House with opening act the Toasters. Liberty Lunch features a triple bill of touring rock bands with Soul Asylum, Drivin' Cryin and You want to hear something really stupid? Guess what the scientists do with those rare bugs that are delaying the construction of the proposed LakeLine Mall, out by RR 620 and U.S.

183? Would you believe that as soon as they find these endangered bugs, they kill them? They have to. Otherwise they can't tell if they're the endangered ones. That's right. To identify them as other than common kitchen stock, they have to add to the problem by snuffing the bugs, so they can put them under a microscope and look. And I'd always figured they took them home and gave them names, like Sparky and Al, and put them in a ter-rarium.

Boy, was I wrong. This sure paints a screwy picture, though, doesn't it? On the one hand, you've got federal regulations holding up the construction of a 1.1-million-square-foot shopping mall a mall that is supposed to create 4,500 jobs and Lord knows how many chocolate chip cookies in an effort to save some endangered bugs. On the other hand, you've got scientists finding the bugs, then dusting them so they can identify them as endangered. Zap. Boom.

Out of there. They dip them in ethyl alcohol, then cart them over to the University of Texas for study. Is it any wonder these species are endangered? I found out about this awful bug business the other day when I called Horizon Environmental Services the Austin company in charge of an October search for endangered bugs on the property of the proposed mall. The reason for the search is that rare bugs were found out there last January, delaying construction of the mall. And the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service had suggested that the mall developer, the Melvin Simon Co. out of Indianapolis, search the property to see if there were any more rare bugs hanging around the grounds. There were. During the October hunt, which involved three biologists, two geologists and at least 80 man-hours, six more endangered bugs were found five tooth cave ground beetles, and a single Bee Creek Cave harvestman. Well, these dudes are even more endangered now, because all six of these the Gear Daddies.

California countryfolk duo Laurie Lewis Tom Rozum bring their award-winning act to Cactus Cafe with special guest Butch Hancock. New Orleans soul singer Irma Thomas concludes a two-night stand at Antone's, while Sam Taylor A Band Called Sam wind up two nights of shows at the new 311 Club with the Jeff AndersonJon Smith Band. Accordion legend Flaco Jimenez su Conjunto play La Zona Rosa, and George Strait sideman Benny McArthur plays a record release show for his first solo album, Lost in the Shuffle, at the Broken Spoke. Other good gigs include Two Nice Girls at Texas Tavern with Javelin Boot, David Ball Champ Hood at Mike Charlie's, and the Texana Dames at the Hole in the Wall. Best of the rest Tickets for the March 14 Erwin Center appearance of New Kids on the Block go on sale today at all UTTM outlets Mexic-Arte Museum celebrates its seventh anniversary with an "Arte Party Auction" from 7-10 p.m.

Live music will be provided by the UT Chamber Singers and Stick People; the live auction begins at 8 p.m. Peter Blackstock.