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8A From Page One The Columbus, Tiliuram Tuesday, AuK. 5, IWJ The Weather Around Columbus Strait, Carter leading CMA music nominees Last year 8764 Highlow Night and day Sunset tonight: 8:44 Sunrise tomorrow: 6:28 TonightTomorrow 6080 LowHigh Cloudy A ML Tonight, mostly cloudy. Low around 60. Wind light southeast. Wednesday, mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms.

High around 80. Wind southwest 5 to 15 mph. Tonight, cloudy west with thundestorms likely. Locally heavy rain possible. A chance of thunderstorms central.

Mostly cloudy east. Lows in the upper 50s and lower 60s. Wednesday, mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the 70s west and the upper 70s and lower 80s east. Wednesday, Aug.

6 AccuWealhor forecast for daytime Scottsbluff 80 North Platte 81 z3n Grand COLO. Showers T-slorms Rain Flurries Snow Via Associated Press GmphicsNel "SB 11H tf-lH Nominated for best female vocalist with Carter are Loveless, LeAnn Rimes, Pam Tillis and Trisha Yearwood. The male vocalist category has the same nominees as 1996: Strait, Gill, Jackson, Collin Raye and White. Tim McGraw's "It's Your Love," performed with wife Faith Hill, received three nominations: best single, video and vocal event. Pam Tillis' hit "All the Good Ones Are Gone" is also well-represented, with nominations for best single, song and video.

UP FOR best vocal group are Alabama, Diamond Rio, the Mavericks, Ricochet and Sawyer Brown. Christian music performer Bob Carlisle and coauthor Randy Thomas are nominated for song of the year, a songwriter award, for "Butterfly Kisses." Carlisle's recording of the song was such a big hit on the adult contemporary charts that it inspired three other country versions, including a version with a country arrangement backing Carlisle's original vocal. Kathy Mattea picked up nominations for best video and vocal event (a duet with George Jones on "You've Got a Friend in It's her first nominations since 1991. The nominees were selected by about 7,000 country music industry workers who are members of the CMA. They will pick winners in another round of balloting.

Tonight, showers and thunderstorms east with areas of heavy rainfall. Partly cloudy west with scattered evening thunderstorms. Lows in 50s, with upper 30s and 40s mountains. Wednesday, mostly cloudy east with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy west with scattered afternoon thunderstorms.

Highs in 70s, with 50s and 60s in mountains. can malfunction, Chrysler warns conditions and high temperatures 1 IOWA Columbus 84 Omaha 82 I Island 81a Lincoln 85 KAN. Ice Sunny PI Cloudy Cloudy 1997 Accu Weather, Inc. Lobbyists Continued from Page 1A Former Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha reported earning $500 as a lobbyist.

Former Gov. Bob Crosby, husband of state Sen. La Von Crosby, also reported earning $8,368.65 as a lobbyist. Paying for lobbyists in support of state aid to public education paid a similar dividend. Among lobbyists focusing on the school-finance issue was Bill Mueller, the husband of Lt.

Gov. Kim Robak. Mueller was the fourth highest-paid at $257,843. Mueller represented the Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association, which paid $22,032.92 and the Class VI Association which paid $15,034.85. NELSON SIGNED a bill, LB806, creating a new school aid formula that takes into account population density, poverty and the number of students needing instruction in speaking English.

Schools will receive $573 million in state aid thanks to a companion measure, LB806A, which adds $110 million to current state aid. Longtime lobbyist and former Clerk of the Legislature Walter Radcliffe was the top paid lobbyist, earning $308,495. Paul Our Price Nike any- 1-900-776-8811 5 unit par mlnuta Monday's high and Tuesday's low 113, high Palm Springs and Blylha, Calif. 38 tow Hayward.Wia. Monday's high and Tuesday's low 97, high Broken Bow 55 tow Columbu and Norfolk Previous day's high temperature.

Overnight low as of 6 or 7 am today Precipitation last 24 hours. Hi Lo Pre Alliance 91 65 .00 Broken Bow 97 63 .00 Chadron 92 66 .00 COLUMBUS 90 55 .00 Falls City 89 60 .00 Grand Island 90 60 .40 Hastings 91 62 05 Imperial 91 66 .03 Kearney 90 63 .04 Lincoln 92 6t .00 McCook 94 66 .00 Norfolk 91 55 .00 North Platte 92 64 .00 Omaha 89 59 .00 Ord 95 59 .00 ScotlsbJulf 87 64 .00 Sidney 89 64 .00 Valentine 87 61 .00 Valley 88 58 .00 O'Hara earned $293,634 and Larry Ruth, Mueller's partner, earned $260,143. Bruce Cutshall was fifth highest-paid at $206,854. Correction Clarification An editor's note in Monday's Welcome Home issue incorrectly identified the business one columnist works for. Larry O'Neill is a vice president at First Nebraska Bank.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Old favorite George Strait and sexy "Strawberry Wine" singer Deana Carter were the top nominees today for the 31st Annual Country Music Association Awards. Carter and Strait had five nominations apiece announced at a news conference at the Grand Ole Opry House by singers Clint Black, Bryan White and Patty Loveless. The winners will be announced Sept. 24; the program will be broadcast on CBS.

Carter's debut album, "Did I Shave My Legs for is up for best album. Her breakthrough hit, "Strawberry Wine," about a girl losing her virginity, was nominated for both best single and video. CARTER, 31, also was nominated for best female vocalist and the Horizon Award for career progress during the past year. Strait, 45, is nominated for best entertainer, along with Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and Brooks Dunn. He also is up for male vocalist, best album for "Carrying Your Love with Me," and has two nominations for best single: "Carried Away" and "One Night at a Time." Strait's 42 nominations since 1981 make are second only to Merle Haggard's 43.

Strait was named best entertainer in 1989 and 1990. Child seat WASHINGTON (AP) Chrysler Corp. officials are advising minivan owners to keep built-in child seats clean after receiving more than 160 complaints of children trapped when restraint belts malfunctioned. Frightened parents said they were forced to cut children out of the seats when the shoulder belts, designed to slacken when the buckle is detached, retracted instead, according to reports filed at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In some cases, the restraints became so tight kids were choked, the reports said.

Chrysler officials believe food and other sticky materials were caught at the bottom of the seats, preventing proper release of the Water Continued from Page 1A Augustine said she agrees with Wilmink that sulfate could cause diarrhea or other stomach distress, but overall there's "no acute health risk." Bob Bender, Humphrey's water superintendent, said, "If there was something bad in our water, the state would tell us, Budget Continued from Page 1A House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, an ardent opponent of the package, did not attend. The legislation calls for balancing the federal budget by 2002 and trimming taxes by $152 billion over five years, the largest tax cut since 1981. It provides health care funding for uninsured children, tax credits for college tuition and assistance to blighted inner cities. The tax cuts, Clinton said, amount to a $1,000 rise in take-home pay for the average American family with two children. "For most Americans, what goes on here in Washington seems abstract, remote, unrelated to their daily concerns," Clinton said.

This budget is an investment in their Part time Continued from Page 1A Yet even while packaged as a benefit, part-time work has drawbacks: the slowing career options that the so-called Mommy track represents, lower pay and fewer benefits. Only 16 percent of part-time employees receive health coverage from their employers, compared with 61 percent of full-timers, according to the Washington-based Employee Benefits Research Institute. "It's better than not having any work," said Vic Bloomberg, a graduate student who supports himself working part time in Massachusetts as an apartment building concierge and as a taxi driver. "I need the flexibility. But I'm really up against it.

I don't get any benefits." Perhaps no other company in America employs as many part-timers as UPS making the strike a possible test case for their treatment around the country. month-old daughter. "Rachel was frantically screaming and every time she would move or I would try to get her out, (the straps) would get tighter and tighter," said Albers, 31, of Charlotte, N.C. When Albers freed one of her daughter's shoulders, the large buckle pulled up from her daughter's chest to around her neck, she said. "She quit screaming and started gasping," Albers recalled.

In addition to teaching correct cleaning methods, the 12-minute Chrysler video also shows two hooks on either side of the child seat that can be used in an emergency to remove the restraints if they do not release after the buckle is unlatched. are slightly higher than the national average of 47.6 occurrences of colon cancer per 100,000 people, Augustine said. Dr. Ronald Ernst of Columbus told the Telegram earlier this year that nitrates and other chemicals in the water are among the theories he has heard for the high occurrences of colon cancer cases. Nike 158005 141 Air Execute Mid Nike 158004 141 Multi Court Mizuno FV77LWH Cyborg Low Mizuno FV76MVH Cyborg High Asics Gel Alta Nike 116031 101 Air Pro Streak Nike 116033 002 Open Field Mid Nike 121043 011 Air Streak Shark Nike 121042 011 Team Boss Shark Nike 121046 011 Youth Streak Shark fcr" t1- nv 4 fc-w Adidas 070241 Equipment D-Fenz Mid Thursday and Friday, a chance of thunderstorms southwest.

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But when food and other debris get in the way or make the latch sticky, it cannot move freely and the release mechanism fails, the company said. In late July, Chrysler sent about 150,000 videos to customers who own vans with the child seats and to dealers telling them how to clean and properly use the seats. "We were aware of concerns," said Chrysler spokeswoman Michele Tinson. "We felt we needed to communicate how to use the seats and any maintenance tips that would help them with the situations that were occurring." Vicky Albers used scissors to cut the shoulder straps on her child seat in March when she feared it was choking her 10- available, there were 89 occurrences of colon cancer in Platte County. That comes out to a rate of 47.9 occurrences per 100,000 people.

The statewide rate is 48.1 per 100,000 people," Augustine said. "This would indicate that there's not a problem with colon cancer in the county." Platte County, and Nebraska, settle 40 state lawsuits. Under the tax bill signed Tuesday, the current 24-cent-a-pack federal tax on cigarettes will increase by 10 cents in 2000 and by an additional nickel in 2002. That raises $5.2 billion over five years and $16.7 billion over 10 years. "The American taxpayer deserves better than this special interest giveaway that sidesteps public accountability through back-room deals and under-the-table favors," Gephardt said.

Other than Gephardt's objection, lawmakers put a friendly face on what actually had been a tough fight between Clinton and the Republican-led Congress over what shape a budget and tax package should take. desires and wages of UPS workers. Part-timers make an average of $11 an hour vs. $20 an hour for full-timers. The shift to part-timers "isn't to do with the needs of the business.

It has to do with corporate greed," said Rand Wilson, a Teamsters spokesman. "That's what this struggle is all about." A Teamster-funded survey of 134 workers who recently left UPS found that 75 percent felt "less than satisfied" with their chance to obtain full-time jobs at the company. The study was carried out by Kate Bronfenbren-ner, director of labor education research at Cornell University. For now, Swindle isn't ready to quit UPS. But the Memphis, employee is fed up with working nearly as many hours as a full-timer, while receiving about half the pay.

"There's plenty of work there," he said. "That's what we're making our stand for." straps. The government's highway safety agency is investigating 166 complaints that children were trapped in the factory-installed seats in Chrysler Town and County, Dodge Caravan and Grand Caravan, and Plymouth Voyager minivans for model years 1995-97. The seat design has been changed for the 1998 model year. The child seat's shoulder straps are connected to a large T-shaped buckle that snaps onto a latch between the child's legs.

The latch is also a lever designed to pull out from the seat, triggering a mechanism that tightens the shoulder straps when the buckle is in place. When the child is unbuckled, the latch should move in, releas and the state hasn't notified us of anything." Despite concerns by Humphrey officials, statistics indicate Platte County has a lower rate of colon cancer than the Nebraska average, Augustine said. "From 1988 through 1992, which is the latest information future and America's. "We can say with pride and certainty that those who saw the sun setting on America were wrong," Clinton said. "The sun is rising on America again." Details of the measures approved today now must be written into 13 appropriations bills that Congress must pass for Clinton to sign.

In a letter, Gephardt, urged Clinton to use his line item veto authority to strike a provision of the law that allows tobacco companies to deduct the proposed cigarette tax increase from the proposed tobacco settlement. Lender a proposal now in Congress, the tobacco industry would pay $368 billion over 25 years to While 12 percent of transportation workers on average are part time, more than 60 percent of UPS workers work part time, the Teamsters union said. Since 1993, 80 percent of the 46,000 new jobs created by the company have been part time. Nationwide, retail, service and agriculture sectors employ the most part-timers, with 35 percent, 23 percent and 20 percent of workers employed in such jobs respectively. UPS gives medical and other benefits to part-timers, said spokesman Mark Dickens.

"We're not ashamed of our part-time jobs." The shift to part-timers was necessary to help meet the needs of UPS' booming overnight air freight business, which has specific crunch periods, he said. The company also stresses that many workers like part-time hours. The union concedes that part-time work is a valued option, but said it represses the career re ii -jnzzzz usi 153289-012 Air Movin UpTempo Nike 154082-131 Air Gridstar Nike 153276-141 Air Edge Max Nike 153261-141 Air Grill Reebok 7235315 Bullet Low 85.00 60.00 85.00 74.95 80.0069.95 zizzzzzz zi Nike 104074 101 AirMaxTriax Nike 178031 Air Turf Raider Nike 130927 002 Air Winged Flight Nike 142003 GTS Canvas Adidas 071267 Bryant Elevation Adidas 071427 Malice Adidas 045019 0ZWEEG0 95.00 Adidas 070243 Equipment Onslaught HI 77.00 75.0064.95 39.95 Lis! Our Price 90.00 65.00 Nike 174080-131 Air Volt Speed 65.00 Reebok 1132004 Roadwalker DMX FILA 5T157VTarp Low NEBRASKA SPORTS II Nike 105096-151 AirMaxTriax Nike 174100-041 Air Trepidation Reebok 135820 Interval It- Pricm Effectia Thraui Sw4 Amuft 1997 STORE HOURSi Monday-Friday KfcOO-StOO Sat. W-6 Sua, 12-5 Lxi Sporting Gooto Hebnska Sports 523 Ham Fremont 6r5025 TrtmmM Fremont NE mmW 402-721-5255 Center Columbus. Nebraska Nebraska Sport 58025 Sunset Piw Norfolk, NE 68701 402-371-3352 Nebraska Sportt Nebraska Sporti 4304 Souft 84th 61127 Westgste Center Columbut.NESSSOl 402-331-1150 IWWJm.