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D2 Sunday, Aug 11, 1996 News Record Entertainment Lifestyle Birthdays today MJke Douglas Earner TV talk show host Carl Rowan Newspaper Reverend AnnaMassey Actress 71 71 63 59 JohnConlae Country stfigef Eric Carmen Singer Charge Sexton Rockguitanst 50 47 REPO WANT ADS HEAVEN ON LINE: Has your church gone on line' How has the computer age impacted your congregation or work in the church? Please caB Rex Rutkoski, 2264664 or 1-800222-8763. PATRON SAINTS: Do you have a patron saint for a special occa- or to.belp you cope, with, a chal- lenge, or a saint's medal that holds particular meaning for you' Please caD Rex Rutkoski, 2264664 or 1-800222-8763 TOOL-TIME TIMS: Are you the victim of a home improvement project gone bad? Tell us your tales of bent nails, crooked wallpaper and mismatched paint Call Wiffiam Loeffler at 772-7360 or 1-800-874-9994. SHOPPING REPORT: We're looking for North Hills bargain hunters. Run across a unique new shop' A deal that's too good to keep to yourself? Call William Loeffler at 772-7360, and let others in on the secret WeH award 820 for the shopping up of the week. Now playing Times and listings are subject to change, so please call your theater before attending.

AH movies rated by Gannett Service Excellent Movie tide, rating Far Poor Theater and show times THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (G) 88 mm Martin stars Super Saveri2S 3.25 525am. THE BIRDCAGE (R ofofanrty sexual imu 120 mm Robm WBfems stars Super Savor 7-25 9 35 THE CABLE GUY (PG-13 profanity sexual mjendc) 91 mjn Jim Carrey stars. Super Saver 710 910pm. CHAIN REACTION (PG-13 vwtence profanity) 105 mm. A film about a machinist set up to take a murder rap after the death of a scientist who has invented a way to get cheap energy from water Keanu Reeves Carmike Cinemas: 1 0 5 3 2 0 5 2 5 7 3 5 9 5 5 pm ShowcaseNorfli: 11 30am 2 1 0 4 4 5 7 2 5 930pm Waterworks Cinemas: 12 35 2 50 5 05 7.25 9-40 pm COURAGE UNDER FIRE (R strong combat violence crofanfty) 116mm A forceful and atfecling new military drama about a Medal of Honor inquiry Showcase North: 1115am 1 5 0 4 5 0 7 2 0 945pm Waterworks Cinemas: 12.20 240 505 730 950pm ESCAPE FROM LA.

fl profanity strong violence) 111 mm Director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell reteam for a tired rehash of their 1961 cult hit "Escape from New This time Snake (Russell) must sneak into the Los Angeles oenal colony to retrieve the-President daughter Carmike Cinemas: 110 4 7 915 pm Dependable Drive-In: dusk shown with 'Mission Impossible" Showcase North: 11 20 a.m noon 1 40 2 20, 420 5 720 750 940 1015pm Waterworks Cinemas: 12 35 2 50 5 7 15 935om FLED (R graphic violence orofanrfy nutty) Super Saver: 1 20 5 20 7 30 THE FRIGHTENERS (R profanity graphic violence) 106 mm Michael Fox stars Super Saver 3 20 9 45 HARRIET THE SPY (PG frightening srtua- Sons) 85 mm Rosie 0 Donneil co-stars Beltevue Cinemas: 1 5 Super Saver 12 45 250 5 INDEPENDENCE DAY (PG-13) 135 mm A high tech remake of 'War of the Worlds" featuring explosive special effects and a screenplay that plays out like a corrnc cock Will Smith stars Catmike Cinemas: 1 4 7 10pm Galaxy Dnve-ln: 9pm shewn with Twister" Showcase North: 11 am 1 4 0 4 2 5 7 1 0 955pm Waterworks Cinemas: 1 4 7 9 45 JACK (PG-13 mild profanity sexual references) 117 mm Francis Ford Coppola funny sweet saga of a 10-year-old boy with accelerated aging Room Williams stars Carmike Cinemas: 135 430 705 935pm Showcase Norm. 11 am 1 3 0 4 3 0 7 2 0 9 4 5 Waterworks Cinemas: 1 4 7 9 35 KAZAAM (PG violence language) 93 rrur Shaquille 0 Neal stars as a gerae Waterworks Cinemas: 1 3 5 KINGPIN (PG-13 profanity violence, partial nudity sexual content) 100mm A comedy about a bowling has-been who tries to take an Amish farmer (who a bowling natural) to the champtonship Carmike Cinemas: 1 4 0 4 2 0 7 2 0 9 4 5 Showcase North: 11 25 a 210 4 45 7 40 1005pm Waterworks Cinemas: 12 30 2 45 5 7 20 9 4 0 MATILDA (PG bloodless comic violence) 93 mm A precocious little girl (Mara Wilson) overcomes the indifference of her dull par ems and tfe cruelty of a mean school pnncioal to finafty find happiness Rhea Perl- mar and Danny DeVito co-star Carmike Cinemas: 1 3 0 3 3 0 5 3 0 7 3 0 9 3 0 pm Showcase North: 11 10 a.m 1 5 0 4 2 0 7 1 5 9-20 pm Waterworks Cinemas: 12 50 3 510 7 20 930pm MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (PG-13 violence orofamty) 110mm An adventure ttiat rats a CIA agert against a mote Dependable Drive-In: shown with 'Escape from LA Super Saver 1 3 5 710 915 pm MULTIPLICITY (PG-13 orofaruty sexual innuendo) 10 nm A ever turny comedy about cloning Michael Keaton stars Showcase North: 11 30 a 4 1 0 7 3 0 THE NUTTY PROFESSOR PG-13 profer- ry crude jones) 95 Tin Ar obese ge'-e'ics oro'essor discovers a 'omula to T- irto a study hard body Edde Mur DTV stars Beltevue 515 7 1 0 Dependable Drive-In: dusk shown with 'Phervmenon' Super Saver. 1 15 3 15 5 '5 7 15 9 15 -n Waterworks Cinemas: 710 9 30 PHENOMENON PG "7 mm A Sbperfoai 'abte about a -icciest nar struck wir uncommon Johr Travota Kyra Sedgwick and Robert Du-vau Carmike Cinemas 1 45 415 710 9 40 Dependable Drive-In: shown with "The Nutty P'ofesscr' Showcase North: 20 a 1 5 5 4 3 5 7 1 5 950pn Waterworks Cmemas: 5 730 950pm THE ROCK iR orcianty ce Sear Comery stars Beflevue Cinemas: 2 45 9 Super Saver 30 30 7 9 25 PHAT BEACH 3 orcfanfy vxyence acX.lt 1 MOT reviewed Codio stars Showcase North-10 STRIPTEASE 'R o' nudity ofanity r-ikj viotencei '05 mr Super Saver. 1 3 1 0 5 2 0 7 3 0 9 4 0 A TIME TO KILL cro'anA -aosm vx ie ce 28 mn A DcwefU novie about the 5ial of a black man Rs two "aced is oautfiter Carmike '0 4 7 950pm Showcase North:" a rr 140 4.25 7 10 955on Waterworks Cinemas: 1 4 7 945p-n Area theaters Beflevue Cinemas: 509 Uncolr Ave 766-7744 Carmflre Cmemas, Cranberry. Cranoerry MaR Route 19 772 1 Dependable Drive-to: Moon-Oitor Road Coraooors 264-70 1 Galaxy Drive-to.

Route 66 Sorth Vandergnft 566-554' Showcase Onemas North: 9700 McKrcgrf Road McCandtess 935-5885 Super Saver Cinemas: NcrthwayVtail 8000 McKrogrs Road Waterworks Cmemas: Waterworks Maff Freepoc Road Chapel How to reach the Ufestyte department Write us at 137 Commonwealth Drive Warrenctale Pa 15086 Fax us at 772-3915 Salty Webb UsaCfark Alice T. Carter WHItam Loeffler RexRutkosJd Bern tee Woodcon Nicole Poffor Lifestyle edrtor responsible for content 772-7364 Assistant Ufestyfe ecfftor Reporter covers theater dmmg books 772-7312 Reporter, covers food, ait, general 226-4665 -ggnerar 772-7360' -Reporter, Covers music, 225-4664 Lifestyle cterk, compiles Go' listings 226-4683 Aboard, 772--7304 Caboose: Couple trained to live life on railways From D1 turkey, deer, hawks, a fox family and a bear we havent seen him, just his tracks," Mary says, swaying in the doorway to the rhythm of the locomotive. "In the fall, the scenery is to die for The Mis just come alive with color," she adds, noting that wasn't her first reaction to this remote area of western Pennsylvania "The first time I came here I said. on earth are we, and where is I thought, 'My God, do they have electricity and long-distance dialing'' Now, it's like working in a resort area with the campgrounds and the river And the people are wonderml," she says. Just that day.

neighbors gave her a loaf of zucchini bread and a quart jar of pickles. The Bowyers used to call East Palestine. Ohio, home. Charlie once sold parts for a Ford dealership, then operated a hydroelectric power plant in Beaver County. At least, he did until Dale Berkley of New Castle bought the railroad in July 1995 and asked Charlie to oversee it For Charlie, it was a dream come true, and for a while the couple commuted between East Palestine and Schenley.

"We were driving 300 miles just to shuttle gondolas," he says. "And we would try to go home on the weekends." It became a hassle So the couple who owned a caboose decided to make life easier and live in their home away from home The 1958 Norfolk and Western caboose had languished in a field for five years until Charlie and Mary repaired and rebuBt it in New Castle Charlie shuttled the caboose to Schenley and moved in March 1 Mary followed in June. The 22-window Deadhead caboose, which measures 40 feet by 10 feet, once-slept six railroad men- It has three narrow single beds and two cupola seats which can sleep four grandchildren. The kitchen area houses an electric hot plate, microwave, small refrigerator, dining area and wood- burning stove Water is hauled in five-gallon jugs. Dishes are washed in a dishpan.

Mary often cooks dinner on a griD "in the refurbished flatcar which can seat 2'passengers. Occasionally, they dine out Bathing facilities are, ummm, primitive. A friend gave them a sun shower which is suspended in a tiny compartment originally designed to hold a chemical toilet. Inside the compartment is wedged a yellow Mickey Mouse-bedecked sand box which serves as a bathtub. Toilet facilities are outdoors a portable John against which rests a trellis festooned with roses made from plastic WILLIAM LARKJN.

staff photographer Mary and Chafe Bowyer peer out from their caboose home Schentey, GSpin. Giant Eagle grocery bags and faux greenery. "I didn't want a portable toilet to be the first thing people see when they come here," Mary says, laughing. Hanging baskets filled with pink New Guinea impatiens swing from the caboose "porch." Charlie and Mary are remodeling the interior in their spare time no easy feat since the couple does all the maintenance on the railroad track and bed. It doesn't sound too hard until you realize one mile of track has 3,000 ties, 6,000 tie plates (two per tie) and 24,000 spikes (four spikes per tie) Every 39 feet along the track, there is a joint bar and each joint bar has four bolts.

Daunting doesn't begin to tell the story. But the couple have friends and acquaintances who occasionally volunteer their help. The Bowyers would like to expand the industrial freight business, and go one step more. They plan to offer excursions, beginning this-fall, $o-everyone can experience the thrill of a train ride "I think 'Shining Town Station' and Thomas the Tank have given kids a renewed interest in railroads," Mary says. "And there is so much history here the distillery, the canal Indians and the railroad itself." Meanwhile, they are living their dream.

Well, maybe not entirely. "This is Charlie's dream we're living," Mary says "I wanted to be on a cruise ship to Aruba." North Hiiis Overproduction forces reduction in RAM prices Bulletin Board Ctab Teacup Squares Dance Club Square dance dub for" singles will offer beginner classes at 7 30 each Tuesday beginning Sept 10 in West View Details 366-8622 or 372-1450 Senior citizens A.A.R.P. Mount Royal 2510 -1 Aug 28, Glenshaw Presbyterian Church, Glenn Avenue Shaler Police Department representatives will show a slide presentation, "Scam Artists" Details 963-8915 Support groups Alzheimer's Association Support Group 1 to 2 30 Thursday, Leader Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, Ross Details 261-5040 North Hills La Leche League 7 third Monday, Room 85, St Paul's United Methodist Church, 1965 Ferguson Road, Hampton Details 366-7843 Special events North Pittsburgh Bridal Show Cocktail hour and registration, 6 to 7 30 bndal fashion show, 7 30 Tuesday Holiday Inn, McKnight Road, Ross Reservations 776-3109 or 935-7773 Perry Alumni Group Picnic luncheon 11 30 a Tuesday Wildwood Country Club Hampton AJI alumni welcome Details 364-3102 or 364-1480 Does your club or organization have news to share with the community 7 Send it to North Hills Bulletin Board, 137 Commonwealth Dnve, Warrendaie, Pa 15086. Fax number is 772-3915. I doesn't seem Hke that long ago that I bought my first computer, an Apple He with 512k of RAM and no hard drive.

Everything was stored on floppy disks in those days. modern technology has changed aD that Today, 512k of RAM isn't enough to get most computer programs up and running, let alone functioa And most software requires a hard drive to operate. Microsoft's Windows 95, with all the goodies loaded, uses up about 90 megabytes of hard drive space, almost twice the size of the hard drive on my third computer, at the time a state-of- the-art 386SX-20 model New software programs are requiring even more changes. As a result, the old computers the Apple lie, the 286 IBM compatible models and even the 386s literally have become junk or toys for young children to tinker with. I was talking with a top executive of a nationwide computer discount chain who indicated that 16 megabytes of RAM will be the bottom line soon on most computers sold through his stores.

And he said he expects many customers to boost that to 32 megabytes or more. Wow. It wasn't that long ago that RAM, formally known as random access memory, was selling for $200 to $300 a megabyte. It was only four months ago, that it cost you to buy a megabyte of RAM. Now, lets see.

32 times $50 equals $1,600 just for RAM. In the past, that kind of expenditure generally was limited to businesses that dealt with huge, RAM-consuming computer graphics But now we all can afford ft, thanks to RAM manufacturers that miscalculated the need for RAM chips. NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS I BAI6AM MATMBS BUT SHOWS UNTH. 6 PM HOPASSB CONTINUOUS SHOWS OAH.T SHOWCASE CINEMAS NORTH mCKHIOHT Mtt, MCCANDUM 981.1170-f 33 uatao MO SOOTS ram ims EMT PG13 a reu Kt3 SUPER SAVER CINEMAS 8 All SHOWS ALLTIMFS PHENOMBiON(PG) 710.9-lfl IjX 1000 JACK (PG-13) 135 430 7D5 935 HflTLDAIPG) 130330530731930 ESCAPE FROM LA (R) 1 10 KHGPW (PG-13) 1 40 420 720 MS (HI 110 7DO 950 wui, MAO 34 OUR OWN: FUDGE MUCH MORE' Com is KING' f-79 Wexford Exrt-1 tmte East Wexford Run Road (offRte. 910) 635-2542 HOURS: Mon.

Frf. 9-8 Sat. Sun. 9-6 Software Joel Smith Manufacturers around the world must Tiave used an old Pentium- based computer with a flawed processing chip to calculate how many new computers they would have to supply with RAM. They ended up making enough RAM this year for 50 percent growth in new sales.

While no one disputes the computer industry is having a great year, the growth is closer to 20 to 25 percent, leaving huge stockpiles of RAM sitting unsold on factory floors As a result, manufacturers have dropped RAM prices dramatically in the past few months to get rid of the inventory. Just recently, 1 added 16 megabytes of RAM to my 486-66 computer. It cost me about $120 $7.50 a megabyte And, if I had a newer type motherboard in that.computer, I could have used different RAM chips that cost as little as $6.60 a megabyte. In just a few months, a little more than $200 will get you 32 megabytes of RAM, a savings of almost $1,400. It's impossible to say how long RAM prices wfll remain this low But it's clear the prices we're seeing today are at near-production costs.

When supply dwindles, you can expect RAM prices to shoot upward. Joel Smith reports on hi-tech and computers You can hear his computer tips by calling (313) 2522200 and entering the code 0914 when asked His Internet e-mail address SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES St Teresa is sponsoring a picnic for single parents, their children teens, Saturday, August 14 at WalJ Park on Rochester Sloop Roads, from 3-008 00 pm The cost is $2 per person (children 5 under are $1) plus a side dish to share Hot dogs hamburgers will be provided Registration is required Come enjoy downs free painting throughout the evening This event is open to aH single parent families in the North Hdls area. St Teresa's Outreach Minister, Joan PiJat, will have the opportunity to meet you discuss your needs with you in order to discern how St Teresa's Parish may best serve you To register for the picnic or for more information please call Joan Filat at 367-9001 X517. it mn Hi Catch Tfte Pall Fantasy Beginning Nightly August 15 Through August so Don't let the summer fly by without another visit to Kennywood. The annual Fan Fantasy gives you the chance with marching bands, floats and lots of funny characters each magical night.

No General Admission sold after 7:00 PM to anyone under 21 years old unless accompanied by a parent. Proof of age ID required. Vj 111 I I I America's Finest ttional Amusement Park Exit 9 Season Ends Labor Day.