Austin American-Statesman from Austin, Texas • 14

Tim and temperature: 973-3555 National Weather Service Forecast: 476-7736 Today is October 11, 1991. It is the 284th day of the year, and there are 81 days left. Good morning: Map shows yesterday's high and low temperatures, and precipitation. 'J West Mostly clear Texas forecast and mild through Saturday. Highs today and 40s to 50s.

Dalhart I 87 45 I Lake levels urday, mostly in the 80s. Lows, Travelers' weather Dallas: Sunny and mild. High, upper 80s. Low, lower 60s. Light south wind.

Houston: Sunny and warm. High, upper 80s. Low, mid-50s. North wind near 10 mph. San Antonio: Sunny and hot.

High, near 90. Low, upper 50s. North wind 5 to 10 mph. Full Now I I 1017.86 I 887.40 ri I 0 824 91 I 736.99 87 50 -V 671.93 -w 492.29 I 428.70 Wichita Fall 1 Buchanan Inks LBJ M'bl Falls Travis Austin Town Lake (Measured In feet above sea level) 1020.0 888.0 825 738.0 681.0 492.8 429.0 90 54 I Lubbock Dal" I 89 1 9062 I North Texas forecast Fair to partly cloudy through Saturday. High today, mid-80s to lower 90s.

Lows, mid-503 to lower 60s. High Saturday, mid- to upper 80s. ADiiene i 879 57 Longview 88052 Midland m. BWaco 850.51.o. San Angelo 91 50 8571 Auatin 1 89 59 I Presidio Del Rio I 91 59 s.

83 60 Houston WfT Regional outlook Arkansas: Mostly sunny and warm today and Saturday. Highs today upper 70s northeast to near 90 southwest. Highs Saturday mid-70s to mid-80s. Louisiana: Fair nights and sunny days through Saturday. Lows through tonight In the 50s.

Highs today and Saturday in the 80s. New Mexico: Mostly sunny today, a little cooler northeast. Fair to partly cloudy Saturday, a little warmer northeast. Highs today and Saturday 60s and 70s mountains with mid-70s and 80s lower elevations. Oklahoma: Fair with warm afternoons and mild nights through Saturday.

Highs today and Saturday in the 80s. 83 58 JLlr Jf :1 San Antonio 88 55 For the record Willie D. Wright's weather forecast Sunny, breezy and mild. High, upper 80s. Low, upper 50s.

North wind 5 to 10 mph. Looking ahead Saturday: Mostly clear. High, near 90. Low, upper 50s. Sunday through Tuesday: Fair to partly cloudy.

Highs in the 80s. Lows, 50s to near 60. Sun, moon data Sunrise today: 7:30 a.m. Sunset today: 7:05 p.m. Sunrise Saturday: 7:31 a.m.

Moon: Will rise today at 10:15 a.m. and will set at 8:27 p.m. 2) First quartan Oct. 15 Full: Oct. 23 Last quartan Oct.

30 New: Nov. 6 Corpus Christ! 83 54 South Texas forecast Sunny and warm through Saturday. Highs today and Saturday, 80s east to 90s west and south. Lows, 50s north to 60s south, 40s Hill Country. Laredo 88 60 Thursday (as of 6:30 p.m.): High: 89 at 4:30 p.m.

Low: 59 at 8 a.m. Noon humidity: 41 percent. Rain: none reported; total since Jan. 1, 35.26 inches; excess 10.20 inches. Last year on this date: High: 74; Low: 45.

Extremes since Jan. 1: High: 102, on July 31. Low: 31, on Jan. 1. Records on today's date: High: 96, set in 1926.

Low: 44, set in 1952. Brownsville 83 65 Forecast for noon, Friday, Oct. 1 1 -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s SOs Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. I nj. fr Nation I State City Hi Pc Fcst Hi Lo City HI Lo Pc.

Fcst HI Lo City Hi Lo Pc Albany 70 52 rain 60 49 Miami 64 75 0.08 clear 88 74 Abilene 87 57 Albuquerque 85 54 clear 85 48 Milwaukee 59 45 cloudy 61 44 Amanita 87 50 Anchorage 37 32 fair 41 24 Mps-St. Paul 58 35 cloudy 64 44 Beaumont 85 51 Atlanta 76 57 clear 76 54 Nashville 71 47 0.12 clear 73 46 Brownsville 83 65 Baltimore 75 46 cloudy 68 52 New Orleans 81 52 fair 81 56 Childress 87 55 Bismarck 81 33 fair 75 42 New York 73 55 rain 69 55 College Stat'n 86 54 Boise 81 49 clear 82 45 OklaCity 85 57 dear 83 55 Corpus Christi 83 54 Boston 69 52 rain 68 55 Omaha 77 43 fair 79 45 Dalhart 87 45 Buffalo 58 51 0.69 shwrs 57 42 Orlando 66 70 clear 85 66 Dallas 90 62 Chicago 65 42 cloudy 66 43 Philadelphia 76 52 cloudy 69 54 Del Rio 83 60 Cincinnati 62 54 0.35 cloudy 64 42 Phoenix 105 75 sunny 102 76 El Paso 88 52 Cleveland 61 48 0.23 rain 58 42 Pittsburgh 60 53 0.01 cloudy 58 42 Fort Worth 91 53 Denver 62 42 clear 80 45 63 51 rain 59 50 Galveston 81 65 Des Moines 68 42 cloudy 74 47 Portlnd.Ore. 85 45 cloudy 81 49 Houston 83 58 Detroit 64 SO 0.05 rain 58 38 Rapid City 85 44 sunny 83 47 Laredo 88 60 Fairbanks 33 22 clear 32 12 Richmond 77 52 cloudy 70 53 Longview 86 51 Helena 82 37 fair 84 37 St. Louis 73 55 fair 77 53 Lubbock 89 52 Honolulu 87 71 sunny 87 72 Salt Lk Cty 76 45 cloudy 78 45 Marta 78 39 Indianapolis 69 54 0.17 cloudy 69 41 San Diego 92 64 cloudy 85 65 McAllen 88 67 Jacksonville 84 67 cloudy 83 58 SanFrncsco 96 63 dear 78 57 Midland 85 61 Juneau 56 51 rain 53 48 Seattle 76 47 cloudy 73 50 Presidio 91 59 Kansas City 74 45 dear 78 51 Sioux Falls 77 33 dear 74 42 San Angelo 85 61 Las Vegas 97 67 cloudy 94 65 Spokane 77 40 cloudy 76 42 San Antonio 88 55 Little Rock 81 62 clear 86 52 Tucson 98 71 clear 96 70 Texarkana 88 50 Los Angeles 95 65 cloudy 100 78 Tulsa 80 57 fair 88 59 Victoria 87 54 Louisville 69 53 0.34 clear 68 44 Washington 75 53 cloudy 70 55 Waco 91 60 Memphis 80 58 fair 78 54 Wichita 81 49 dear 87 54 Wichita Falls 90 54 World Bermuda 78 73 London 64 55 Rio 79 66 I BAires 73 46 Madrid 63 52 Rome 75 50 C'T HI Lo Dhahran 99 ,66 Mexico Cty 67 50 Stockhdm 60 42 Acaputeo 90 73 Geneva 64 43 Moscow 57 34 Sydney 70 59 Beirut 81 72 Hong Kong 82 75 New Delhi 95 66 Tokyo 66 59 Berlin 66 46 Jerusalem 77 55 Paris 64 54 Toronto 71 55 National roundup Heavy rain produced some flooding Thursday in Florida, but most of the region got a from two days of downpours. A heat pushed temperatures past 100 in Southern California.

much as 2 inches of rain fell in Melbourne, midway up Florida's east coast, and streets filled with as much as 3 feet of the National Weather Service said. While southern Florida residents were inconvenienced by up to 14 inches of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, the deluge gave and animals relief from a three-year drought. The Everglades system was back to soggy natural state. midday, showers and occasional thunderstorms were scattered over southern Florida, the Georgia coast, northern Alabama, southeast Tennessee, northwest Pennsylvania western New York. Southern California was in the grip of a wave.

Temperatures around San Diego reached the low 90s In the morning, and at midday the mercury had soared to 112 at Gillespie Field east of the city. Sat- iSS. mil 4 A What on Earth can we do? A daily environmental tip: Maintain your lawn without using chemicals or pesticides. Air quality Pollution index Air quality for 24 hours ending 2 p.m. Thursday.

Rating scale is 0-50, Good (G); 51-100 Moderate (M); and 101-190 Un-healthful (U). Air quality 57 1 Pollen and mold count Information from Allergy Associates of ADC for 24 hours ending 2 p.m. Thursday. Particles per cubic meter of air. Levels are Light, Medium, Heavy and Very Heavy.

VH Ragweed 586 I Molds 802 I Other weeds 19 1 Recycle this newspaper. City of Austin recycling information hot line: 479-6753 Susan Sarandon, 45, expects her second child by Tim Robbins, 32, in May. Jack Henry is 2. Daughter, Eva, 6, was with director Franco Amurri. Movie star Greta Scacchi (Presumed Innocent) expects her first child by movie star Vincent D'Onofrio (Dying Young) next spring.

The duo have no plans to wed. LIZ SMITH SAYS: People are talking about: Arthur Hiller's Married To It, which stars Cybill Shepherd, Ron Silver and Stockard Channing, and how there is trouble getting a release because the financially strapped Orion studio doesn't have the funds to premier and publicize it properly Macauley Culkin's first screen kiss coming up in My GirL It required at least 15 takes to get it right. (Macauley is either very shy or very sly!) Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson being the two stars Americans fantasize most about, according to Do You Do It With the Lights On? authors Mel Portez and Barry Sinrod Andrew Lloyd Webber's incredible theatrical first he has six shows running simultaneously in London's West End. TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Choreographer Jerome Robbins is 73. Singer-musician Daryl Hall is 43.

Compiled by Lori Brown COLD WARM STATIONARY Pressure HL HIGH LOW SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES 77? I I Handy hint: Ignore household problems, start your vacation 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s JA. H. -12 -L SNOW ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Mike Kelley relatively advanced age without ever once wielding a tacky cloth and am not considered a pariah by many people I know. Well, if this what America wants, I feel as equipped as the next person to provide it.

A friend of mine rakes her carpet. She uses a bamboo rake, which is similar to a leaf rake, to rake her shag carpet. "It really fluffs it up," she says. I think there is a tremendous risk here of suffering a lifetime of ridicule if someone drops in unexpectedly while she is raking her carpet. If you have a regular carpet, you might do what I do: Get a 1-foot-length of 2-by-4 board and glue a brick to the middle of the top side.

Attach the two ends of a length of twine to either end of the board and drag it around the room. It makes the same track as a vacuum cleaner, leaving the appearance of a vacuumed carpet, and burns no electricity at all. My friend also fills nail holes with toothpaste prior to painting. If you want to try this, I suggest getting the most cavity-fighting toothpaste on the market and covering the entire wall, thereby preventing nail holes in the first place. Fur and feathers from indoor pets are a problem for some people.

To cut down on this, keep your puppies, kittens and canaries in the refrigerator. They will eat less and "keep" longer. To fill in empty corners in rooms and shelves, a single, small handful of spiders will do the trick. I have actually been asked, on one occasion, "Who does your interior webbing?" If the stores are out of spiders, I'll be glad to give you some. And to protect your television screen from the BBs you chunk at it whenever the well-known yipping jackal Pat Buchanan is on, I have found that a drape of clear plastic wrap serves nicely.

How you get the BBs out of the carpet, I am not sure, but I think you might want to reach for your jar of tacky cloth. break wave As some water, plants its At and heat Pee-wee could have video alibi From Staff and Wire Reports Paul Reubens' lawyers think they might have come up with an out for their client, better known as Pee-wee Herman. It's a time-coded security videotape showing the actor in an adult theater lobby at the precise time police testified that he was masturbating inside the Saratoga, auditorium July 26. It was shown Monday at a pre-trial meeting. "The time element we don't know how accurate that is," said a sheriffs spokesman.

"It's something the court's going to have to determine." Reubens' lawyers say they don't want to go public with the tape to protect the privacy of other patrons also on it. BOOK BEAT: Michael Jackson will publish a book of poems and essays in July, just in time for a tour to plug his forthcoming album, Dangerous, The volume, Dancing the Dream, will contain essays on homelessness, the environment and the difference a lone Space is the place The 13th annual ArmadilloCon science fiction convention blasts off on its three-day mission at the Wyndham Southpark Hotel with authors, artists and fans taking part in panel discussions, gaming, author readings, movies and various and sundry other spacy diversions. On the town The Black Women in Jazz series showcases Pamela Hart, Connie Kirk, Hope Morgan and Willie Nicholson, backed by James Polk and Sandy Allen, among others, at 7 at Symphony Square; admission is $12. Audio Dynamite II, with The Farm and Downtown Science also on the bill, performs at the Opera House at admission is $17.50 Zimbabwe's world beat band The Bhundu Boys play an early show at Liberty Lunch at admission is $9. touring acts include attitude thrashers the Pain Teens, a Houston The editor of Family Handyman says that magazine's most popular feature is its Handy Hints column.

So the current issue carries 12 whole pages of handy hints for "real-life solutions to everyday problems." Helpful household hints have always been an intriguing phenomenon to me. I am basically of the opinion that most real-life situations around the home can be successfully ignored. They don't go away, but after a while you get used to them, don't notice them, and so no longer have a problem. And I am never quite certain that a lot of these real-life situations enjoy anything approaching universality. Some guy will, for example, want to know how to get bacon grease off his roof.

I try to arrange my life so that this situation never presents itself at my house and if it does, 111 go on vacation. But apparently, some people do not have this rational and healthy approach. Here is one of Family Handyman's handy hints: "To remove a furniture dent in the carpet, put an ice cube in the depression. The fibers will swell to normal as the ice melts." I don't know about you, but I like to walk around my house in my bare feet. I do.

I like to feel the carpet, soft and warm, directly on the soles of my trotters. I would not want to be landing on a lot of icy little wet spots and think, "This is wretched and miserable, but it's all worth it because even as I am leaping in the air and going the fibers in my furniture dents are swelling." I have personally discovered, in this particular regard, that if you never move the furniture, you don't have to worry about furniture dents. A quick, easy and absolutely free method. Here's another one: "Start nails or brads without mashing your fingers by slipping the nail between the teeth of a pocket comb." Well, that is pretty ingenious, unless you happen to be applying the nail to the under side of a surface, in which case you're going to have nails plummeting into your nostrils. Not a pretty thought.

And: "Make your own tacky cloths by dropping a small amount of poly-urethane from a stirring stick onto a cheesecloth. Knead the cloth to distribute the tackiness, then store in a jar." Sound advice indeed. What the devil is a tacky cloth? I have reached a George will Susan Sarandon soul can make in the world. WEEKEND WEDDINGS: Steven Spielberg will marry Kate Capshaw, who is due to deliver his second child in February, this weekend on Long Island, in East Hampton, N.Y. Political commentator George Will, 50, will marry Mari Maseng, 37, Saturday at his Chevy Chase, home.

She was once Sen. Bob Dole's press secretary, then White House communications director, and now she runs her own firm specializing in Republican communications. EXPECTING THE STORK: Andrew Lloyd Webber, in the Big Apple this week marking the ninth anniversary of his musical, Cats, announced that his wife, Madeleine Gurdon, 28, is expecting their first little bundle in June. Webber, 43, has two kids from his first marriage. band whose Born in Blood album has become an overseas sensation, at the Sanitarium, anti-folk performer Roger Manning at the Cactus Cafe and Walking Wounded, playing with Two Hoots a Holler, at the Black Cat Lounge.

disbanding Reivers perform what could be their last show at the Cannibal Club, Glass Eye plays a midnight show at Liberty Lunch, Uncle Walt's Band performs two shows at the Lamar Waterloo Ice House, Big Fish is at the Texas Tavern, The Chromatics perform at the Austin Outhouse, Chris Wall is at the Broken Spoke, Jimmy Carl Black the Grandmothers are at the Elephant, Bill Carter the Blame and Will Sexton play Antone's, Loose Diamonds are at Hole in the Wall, Irie Jane performs at Chances and Sterling is at Dance Across Texas. Kayo entertains at the Filling Station, The Brew is at Jazz on Sixth Street, Tex Thomas the Danglin' Wranglers perform at Scholz Garten, the Austin Lounge Lizards are at La Zona Rosa, House in Orbit and Beat Temple play Mercado Caribe, Ro-Tel the Hot Tomatoes are at Top of the Marc, Retarted Elf plays the Back Room, Thierry LeCoz the French Ticklers are at the 311 Club, Red Willow is at On the Other Hand, Chaparral and Beat-O-Sonics play the Continental Club and Mr. Grieves headlines at 6th Street Records. Best of the rest Mezzo-soprano Barbara Conrad, a 1985 repecient of the University of Texas Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Austin Choral Union will be featured with the Austin Symphony at 8 at Bass Concert Hall; tickets are music, camel rides and a vast array of Greek and Lebanese food are the major attractions at St. Elias Orthodox Church's 50th annual Mediterranean Festival.

The event runs from 6 to midnight; admission is $3. on Sacnd Ground, an exhibit of rare Navajo rugs, opens at Las Manitas Avenue Cafe with a reception, featuring a video and lecture, at 6. Michael Point.