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8A THURSDAY, August 28, 2003 WEATHER The Herald-Palladium Benton Harbor-Si Joseph, Mich. Afternoon Tonight Friday Saturday 1ST? Sunday Monday Ai! IT 5 Sr p'c Ter.lnc is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs, i r. ault t'aria 5751 Sunny to partly cloudy Mostly cloudy; showers and warm. and thunderstorms.

Morning t-storms; clouds and sun. 78 752 Cool with douds and Partly sunny and cool. sunshine. "Mostly sunny. 86 68 70 50 72 750 74 7 52 (7 71 El 100 Benton Harbor yesterday Temperature B6 nl86 A5 i T'svr C.

Exclusive AccuWeather composite of the effects of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine, precipitation, and elevation on the human body. Hoon jmXSEBZSBXSStSSM 80 60 40 83 824 825 826 827I828 829 sa sn cza Temperttures past days Temperatures next 5 days ..60 Low Normal low Precipitation Month to date 1.09" MomtiAndh to data im-H riWf Year to date 18.54" ttattfl year fc date Pollen Mold Grains Per Allergen Cubic Meter Rating Grass Mold 3900 Absent Moderate IHtaOtoarZ, Source: EPA Cotoma, Michigan Air Quality a Main Offender Good The Nctw the number. the greater the need for people with respiratory 51-100 101-150 Unheallhy Sensitive 151 Unhealthy General problems to reduce out side activity. Scale is fnxn 0 10 20O. Source: EPA in Coloma, Michigan I i- t.Jo.

7076 708 a Tomorrow Saturday Sunday Hi LOW Hi LoW Hi LoW City Battle Creek 76 52pc 70S6pc 71 51 pc Cheboygan 68 42 pc J5 46 pc 67 47 Gndnnati 84 661 77 64 77 60pc 6 62c 16 60 pc '0 50 pc 72 49 pc Srand Rapids pc 68 52 pc 7f 51 pc mam 84'66pc7 Tiint 76 50(7 fuft' WWB'fflS'B! 1 99 tSS TV 1 Legend: e-sunny, pc-partty cloudy, c-ckiudy, th-showers, r-rain, t-thunderstorms, mm If Af i BjHg. -Wt't W78 1 1 NATIONAL SUMMARY: A cold front will slowly move eastward and cross the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast bringing showers and thunderstorms ahead of it tomorrow. For the northern Plains, high pressure will move southward and bring some drying to the area. The southern Rockies will have more scattered thunderstorms with the monsoonal flow in place. 4 p.m.

today 88 PA today 8 am tomorrow 68 0-2, Mmmat Low; 5-6. Moderate; 7-9. High; 10, Very High Higher index numbers indicate greater eye and skin exposure to Ultraviolet 4 p.m. today .....5 Sunrise tomorrow Moon set today First Full .7:08 a.m. -7S4tvai 9:23 p.m.

Last New Sept 3 Sept 10 Sept 18 Sept 25 the following precautions: Avoid tick habitats. These include moist, shaded environments, especially areas with leaf litter and low-lying vegetation in wooded, brushy or overgrown grassy areas. Those areas should be avoided if possible, especially in spring and summer. Dress to repel. Wear lights colored clothing so that the ticks can be spotted more easily and removed before they attach to skin.

Wearing long-sleeved shirts, and tucking pants into socks or boot tops may also help prevent tick attachment. Ticks are usually close to the ground, so wearing high rubber boots might help, too. Use an insect repellent that contains DEET. Dog protection. There is a Lyme disease vaccine available through veterinarians.

Insect repellents such as baths, dips and fleatick collars might help. Brush dogs thoroughly after each outing. 4 Remove attached ticks. Check daily, especially after traveling in brushy or grassy areas, and promptly remove any ticks that are found. Do not use petro leum jelly, a hot match, nail pol ish or other products to remove attached ticks.

Instead, with a steady motion pull the tick's body away from the Skin with fine-tipped tweezers. If the tick's mouth parts remain embedded, do not worry the bacteria live in the tick's mid-gut or salivary glands, not its mouth. Cleanse the area with an antiseptic. Seek diagnosis promptly if you suspect infection. If symptoms of Lyme disease appear, promptly seek medical attention.

Early diagnosis and proper antibiotic treatment can prevent the costs and complications of infection and late-stage illness. Reduce tick habitats. Remove leaf litter, brush and woodpiles around houses and at the edges of yards, clear trees and brush to admit more sunlight, and reduce the suitable habitat for ticks, rodents and deer. For more information, visit the Web site www.michigan.govmda and click on "Consumer Information," then "Human Health" and finally "Tick Bome Illness." Information also is available at the U.S. Centers-fotDisease Control and Prevention site at www.cdcgovncidoddvbidTyme.

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Ohio Partly cloudy tonight. Clouds and sun tomorrow with a couple of thunderstorms possible. Intervals of clouds and sun Saturday with the chance of a thunderstorm in the south. Tomorrow Saturday Sunday Hi LoW Hi LoW Hi LoW City Helena 70 44pc 77 43 8346s Houston 94 78pc 92 74 1 90 70c Las Vegas 104 75s 100 76 99 76s LosAngelee 81 65pc 79 64s 8264pc Milwaukee 74 53 pc 65 55 69 55pc Nashville 88 72 pc 82 70 1 83 65 pc New York 85 74 85 69pc 7967c cutting was held, the St. Joseph River bridge on the freeway's northbound lanes in Sodus Township, is close to property Andres and her husband sold to MDOT for the project.

That was a few years ago, she said. 'But MDOT first approached the couple for permission to survey on their land for a highway when they were newlyweds in I960, she said. "So we've been waiting for a long time," Andres said. The state began planning in the 1960s for, a freeway to replace two-lane U.S. 3 1 the main north-south route in Berrien County linking Niles, Berrien Springs and the Twin Cities.

Work on me freeway began at the state line in the 1970s. The first section, 3.3 miles from the state line to U.S. 12, was fin-ished in 1979. Local disputes over routing, funding shortages, recession, lawsuits and environmental issues stalled or slowed the work. The next section completed, 3.6 miles from U.S.

12 to Walton Road, opened in 1987. Constructi on of the next section went more quickly, in part because grade-level crossing were built and later upgraded to full interchanges. The 9.1 -mile leg of the freeway, to old U.S. 3 1 north of Berrien Springs, opened in 1992. Before Wednesday it was the last section to open.

of authority would be the best way to bring stability to Iraq and enable the country to move forward. The proposal outlined by Armitage would not entail the deployment of U.N. forces to Iraq but would simply provide the U.N. endorsement for the deployment of a multinational The most recent example of this type of action occurred this past spring with the U.N. approval of a French-led multinational force to eastern Congo in a bid to bring an end to widespread violence in that region.

Kkiaan JU From Holland to Indiana border Mostly cloudy tonight with showers and thunderstorms. Winds southwest at 10-20 knots. Waves 2-4 feet Morning thunderstorms igmorTow, men crouos ana some sunsnne. Winds northwest at 10-20 knots. Waves 2-4 feet.

The water temperature is 70 degrees. Mostly cloudy tonight with showers and thunderstorms. Morning thunderstorms tomorrow, then clouds and some sun. Breezy and cool Saturday; intervals of clouds and sun. Upper Peninsula Partly to mostly cloudy tonight with showers and thunderstorms.

Becoming partly sunny, windy and cool tomorrow. Cool Saturday with intervals of clouds and sunshine. Lower Peninsula Mostly cloudy tonight with showers and thunderstorms developing. Variable cloudiness tomorrow. Morning showers in the north.

Showers and thunderstorms south. Twriorrow Saturday Sunday Hi LoW Hi LoW Hi LoW City Anchorage 61 48 pc 60 48 pc 60 48 83 73 83 68 pc 86 68c IT2iK3W89jr8SB Birmingham 87 72 pc 86 71 1 88 69pc Boston 80 68 pc 80 64 pc 78 62c Busasssif Charleston, SC 90 73 pc 90 73pc 88 72pc wfioowtiw Charlotte 90 72 pc 90 70 pc 88 68 pc 3ChtyStS7B 46W58 Dallas 94 76pc 85 68 83 66c 521 S0453 FREEWAY From page 1A The section of road was built over five years at a cost of $97 million, most of it federal money channeled through the state. A 2- to 3-mile stretch of the freeway remains to be completed, a tie to Interstate 94 in Benton Township. Upton said he will work to see the project finished. "We're going to get it done," he said.

"It would be tragic not to complete the last 2 12 miles." Although the state has committed to finishing the road, funding for the U.S. 3 1 freeway is not likely to be available in the coming year, Upton said. Congress is expected to extend the current transportation bill one year, which means no additional money for U.S. 31. Upton credited former state Sen.

Harry Gast of St. Joseph for his persistence in working to get the freeway built. Gast, who retired last year, was on hand for the ribbon cutting. Many MDOT employees who worked on the project for years were also present, along with citizens who have waited for the road to open. "I can't wait to use the road," said Carol Andres, who lives in Sodus Township.

The place where the ribbon- IRAQ From page 1A yielding to American insistence on retaining command over international forces in Iraq. On Monday, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte highlighted the distance to be traveled before a consensus could be reached when he said, "We are nowhere neat a resolution on Iraq." French officials have said a genuinely international approach to Iraq with a sharing Atlantic urty iWKSS( 7a'S2- City Tomorrow Saturday Hi LoW Hi LoW Hi LoW Kalamazoo 78 52pc 72 55pc 70 51 pc Kankakee 78 52 70 52pc 72 54pc Midland 73 49pc 70 50pc 67 49pc Munae 82 58t 74-59 pc 72 52 pc ault Ste. Mane 61 45 pc 66 50 pc 65 49 en-snow, nee Tomorrow Saturday Sunday Hi LoW Hi LoW Hi LoW City 78H'ttL'77 Berlin 73 54t. 63 45 67 54pc 5ateuttCTw'J8 75 tm75C 88 75fiS Hong Kong 87 77 pc 86 77 pc ,85 76pc Mexico City 79 57pc 76 55 73 50c Moscow 62 46 pc 69 57 71 48 pc nnKsrriBrvtJEsi 38 Rio de Janeiro 66 55 67 57 7156c wtz ts 6S Sydney 70 48s 68 42c 59 34s 7B0K75 B5f.r7S Toronto 85 55 72 52pc 70 52 pc Young of the Urban League, Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, and King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The organizational genius was the "controversial Bayard Rustin, a conscientious obj ector during World War II, a socialist and a homosexual. Rustin found buses and portable toilets and recruited 4,000 volunteer marshals. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mahalia Jackson, Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary would entertain the crowd. Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Sammy Davis Charlton Heston, Lena Home, Paul Newman and Sidney Pokier were among the stars' who marched. King was the last speaker.

Halfway through the speech King drifted from the text. Behind him, Mahalia Jackson whispered, "Tell them about the dream." King had given a version of his Have a Dream" speech recently in Detroit. He began the sequence: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed." He ended with, "From every mountainside, let freedom ring. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up mat day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at'' last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at Dr. Benjamin Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP, wks-me first time in me history of Jms world that mil-Uohjf pf.

whipeople heard an intelligent, articulate black person make a speech." The speech solidified King's position as leader of the civil rights movement, showed he could speak to "multiple constituencies," and was probably responsible for his winning the Nobel Prize in 1 964, Morria The march made the civil rights bill legitimate but it took Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's leadership to get it passed in said. The Voting Rights Act followed in 1965. n-snow numes, 1 Tomorrow Saturday Sunday Hi LoW Hi LoW Hi LoW City Omaha 80 56 pc 74 51 pc 75 54 Dew 74 pfi 8874 Philadelphia 88 74c 88 70pc84 68c Phoenix 'r350 KU 82pt102 82 Pittsburgh 84 64pc 76 62 76 58c fsmlWZJtWK-n 62pfi. 55 Portland, OR 85 57 85 58 86 56s Salt Lake City 81 57 1 79 58pc 8561s fiafi 7pd 5 8663 SanDiego 77 68pc 77 68pc 76 66pc MfnsmSTZ SSpfe'TSptea 58.pfl Seattle 78 56 7856s 82 56s MARCH From page 1A message: They were not alone. "Seeing that there were so many people that felt that same way I just knew we were free then, that people finally understood," said Joan Nelson, just 16 when she rode the NAACP bus from Memphis, TennM to Washington.

She had already been jailed, at age 14, for walking into a whites-only library. Nine of her 13 brothers and sisters also were jailed for 'sit-ins. The 1963 march made a statement that the civil rights agenda was shared by a large number of people and groups, said Aldon Morris, a sociology professor at Northwestern University and chronicler of the protest move-mcnt. It was the first great march and the last with that complete sense of solidarity, said Rep. John Lewis, the only one of the "big six" organizers of the march still alive.

Lewis, like Turner, was just 23 in 1963, but he was the new chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which had led the sit-ins and freedom bus rides. He was arrested 40 times and beaten more than once during the Civil Rights Movement. That sprmg, Birmingham's public safety commissioner, Bull Conner, had turned fire hoses and dogs on protesters, including children, prompting President John F. Kennedy to introduce a civil rights bill. But in June, within days of the slaying of Medgar Evers, the NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Kennedy assembled civil rights leaders to warn the bill could fail if blacks took to the streets.

"The Negroes are already in the streets," responded A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Randolph had called off a march on Washington War II when President Franklin Roosevelt agreed to ban discrimination in defense industries, but Randolph was determined to go forward now. The other leaders of the march were James Farmer of the Congress on Racial Equality, Whitney LYME From pagelA can be exposed to deer ticks, also known as black-legged ticks. Wednesday's press release from state officials said the deer ticks were found in 16 of 73 wooded sites in Southwest Michigan that were tested, including several state parks and game areas, and more than 200 ticks were tested for the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

Approximately 40 to 50 percent of the ticks at six of the sites in the three counties were infected. Warning in May Wednesday's Lyme disease warning was not the first this year for Southwest Michigan residents. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources in late spring screened several areas for deer ticks and found infested ticks at sites from Grand Mere to Muskegon. That led the Berrien County Health Department to warn people and issue a list of preventive measures in May. "This is no surprise to us," said Dr.

Frederick Johansen, Berrien County medical director, reacting to Wednesday's warning from the state. "There have been no humans in Michigan affected this whole year. Northwest Indiana had a bunch of positive sites last year, so we knew we were going to get it, and we did. "But at this moment there has hot been a Lyme case in Michigan this year." Johansen said there is no reason to presume that because researchers found lots of ticks at one site and none at another that there as so-called "pockets" of infected ticks in the region. Results of one screenful at one point on one particular day merely mean that is where the ticks were or weren't on that day.

"If you find it in 16 sites, that means it's all over the place," he said. Health tips To reduce the risk of contracting Lyme disease, Michigan Department of Community Health Director Janet Olszewski ad Michigan Department of Agricul- ture Director Dan Wyant advised.