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end. i "Given the amount of candidate appearances we're getting and the amount of attention and no indication this is going to let up, I think there is the potential for this to stay very, very tight," said Eric W. co-director of the University of Cincinnati Ohio Poll. A Gore campaign official said the results show their strategy is working. "Since the convention we've been moving forward and they've shown the gap closing and the momentum is with us and we're going to win Ohio," said Kara Gearhardt, spokeswoman for the Gore campaign in Ohio.

"We've been saying that, after the convention, people really begin focusing on the issues, and when they do, they like where the Gore Lieberman agenda is going to take the country." A Bush campaign worker said the poll results are not surprising. "We expected these numbers to tighten but we're glad that Governor Bush's message and real plans for real people is resonating with independent and swing voters," Please see POLL13A CEERIS AND DAMAGED VEHICLES BILL garlowdavton daily news PAUL HUTSON and Nathaniel Steiner stand on their wrecked cars in the Wal-Mart lot. RELATED STORIES Little warning: National 1 Weather Service didn't Issue a tornado warning. IB Tornado history: Xenia's 1 974 tornado also hit without warning. IB Ohio tornados: A list of the state's killer twisters since 1950.8A Eyewitness accounts.

8A fr. Severe winds flatten buildings, overturn cars Br J. Frazier Smith and Mahgo Rutledge Kisseix Ihtytim Daily XENIA At least one person was killed and more than 100 injured Wednesday evening after a late-summer storm that several witnesses called a tornado hit churches, leveled a grocery store, smacked a Wal-Mart store and roughed up homes from Xenia in Creene County to Carlisle in northern Warren County. Gov. Bob Taft declared a state of emergency for the city of Xenia at 10:30 p.m.

The storm, which hit with little warning, spawned confusion throughout the night. "I've got one fatality, I've got one trapped, I've got the fairgrounds torn all to pieces," Xenia Twp. Assistant Fire Chief Richard Baker said. Only residents were allowed into the city after the storm hit around 7:15 p.m. "We are still in the process of doing a house-by-house assessment of the homes in the path of the storm," said Joy Warner, Xenia community development director and acting spokeswoman for the city's emergency operation center set up in the basement of Xenia City Hall.

The city was not expecting power to be restored until some time today, Warner said, but water and other supplies were being provided to several shelters that were set up at Cox Elementary School, Heartland Mall, Shawnee Elementary, Central Middle School and the Xenia Armory. Xenia schools were canceled for today. Xenia Twp. fire personnel were unable to rescue a person trapped in a red car at the Greene County Fairgrounds that was hit by a fallen tree. Witnesses said the engine was stuck at full throttle.

The Wal-Mart, in the Westpark Square Shopping Center at West Main Street and Progress Drive, had its windows shattered. Some of the hundreds of cars in the parking lot were overturned. "It was definitely a funnel cloud, no doubt about that," said Gwen Moore, an employee at the plaza's Payless Shoe Source store. Moore said she and six customers were in the store about 7:30 p.m. when the cloud touched down.

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Story, 1 1A. INDEX Volume 123, Number 360 Iron hand makes medal winners Parties duel for Ohio Gore, Bush in virtual dead heat but plan more visits By Jim Bebbington Dnyinn Daily News DAYTON The presidential contest in Ohio is tightening and both camps predict their candidates will be in Ohio fighting over the state until Election Day. The University of Cincinnati's Ohio Poll, released Wednesday, showed Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican, leading Vice President Al Gore, the Democrat, by 4 percentage points, 47 to 43, among likely voters.

That is nearly within the poll's margin of error, 3.9 percent. The results show the race tightening. Bush had led Gore by 6 percent in early July. Gore's support among Ohio voters has inched up since spring while Bush's 47 percent support is the same as Ohio Poll results from April and July. With 47 days until the election both candidates face the prospect of duking it out in the state until the Joe Clark's family-team due for good showing at Games 999 DOWN UNDER 2000 SYDNEY, Australia He made his name, baseball bat in hand, taking other people's kids to task.

You remember Iron Joe Clark. That was him, a trademark Louisville Slugger over his shoulder, glaring out from the cover of Time magazine back in 1989. That was him, played in a critically acclaimed performance by Morgan Freeman, featured in the popular movie Lean on Me. ASSOCIATED PRESS JOE CLARK'S PROTEGES (left to right) Jearl, Mazel and Joetta Clark-Diggs. Ann Landers 8C Game Plan BB Bridge 9C Horoscope 8C Business IE Life IC Classified IF Lottery 2A Comics 8C Movies 6C Crossword 9C Scoreboard 9D Daily Plan-It 2B Sports 10 Deaths BB Stocks 3E Editorial 14A Television IOC RELATED STORIES Tom Archdeacon: Swimmer Eric Moussambani captures crowd in Sydney.

6D Results, roundups. 7D Clark was the confrontational, no-nonsense principal who took on the drug dealers and gangs to clean up Eastside High School in Pater-son, N.J., in the 1980s. On one day alone, he recently admitted with pride, he suspended 300 students, in Sr to.