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Morning i BE Navy 33 SC State 46 Virginia 35 Washington 20 Carolina 30 7 VMI 7 Michigan 11 College Wake orest 17 urman 34 Michigan 17 PennState 20 2 5 X13 NC Stale 30 Carolina 12 Iowa 17 5 scores Guilford 27 Georgia Tech16 Nebraska 38 Oklahoma 42 Davidson 12 Alabama 6 Minnesota 7 Pittsburgh 10 Mostly (W sunny yy Expected high today 68 1AX Saturday High 82 Low 58 more on A2 MHP I rM Greensboro News Record Vol 94 No 260 Greensboro NC Sunday Morning September 16 1984 75 06615 Diana': breaks not all bad TV coverage worth millions official says ItaH phots by Jeswlt Rodrteuti Wk ByJACKSCISM StaH Business Writer Make no mistake about it Diana was a destructive hurricane visit Long Beach or Southport if you have any doubts But in terms of long range eco nomic effecta the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade apparently was not as devastating as many had feared it would be especially after it sat out at sea for two days and built up strength At least one Wilmington official sees some economic bene sprouting from the storm Na tional TV coverage of Hurricane Diana was one name with that hurricane was worth millions of dollars in free said Joseph Augus tine executive vice president of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce no longer are the Wil Now people all over the country know about us and our Unofficial estimates have put the damage from the storm as high as $65 million including $272 million in New Hanover County $20 mil lion in Brunswick County and an additional $185 million in crop dam age for five southeastern counties However Russ Edmonston pub lie information officer for the state Division of Emergency Manage i ment would confirm only the $272 million figure for New Hanover which he called a preliminary" estimate Edmonston said state and local officials completed their preliminary damage estimate for Brunswick County and he said damage estimators from the NC Department of Agriculture will not begin their surveys until Monday A spokeswoman for the US ii 1 i xOHBrlBWjEyjaJWlMMfiia 4 iiiWw I XT BEiamgaga A L' Tl i a tragpMMw ymrrowji I IEEaapw jgg 1 yj jTSTfCSflfe rayjs' SK iiMlwafc aoi c1 1 Ti sbBheIBIIHH3HISEbEf a Bar in i 1 1 rom airplane hurricane damage clearly visible Saturday at Carolina Beach (See Costs A14) Diana left some vivid memories By JIM BRADY and JULIE GILBERTO or 17 hours Thursday Hurri cane Diana lay siege to southeastern North Carolina Between 1:15 am when Diana's eye first passed over land near Southport and 6 pm when she was stalled near Whiteville and downgraded to tropical storm sta tus the hurricane caused damages unofficially estimated at $65 million affecting an estimated 3545 families by destroying 68 homes and heavily damaging 325 others Saturday night the weakening Diana was off the coast of Canada 450 miles southwest of New found land The storm stirred an assortment of responses Tense or easy terrify ing or exciting the moments seem still fresh to those who reckoned with Diana SOUTHPORT Dannie Shef field by profession an ray tech nologist was manning a ham radio set up in the Dosher Hospital cafe teria when Hurricane Diana roared ashore Thursday at 1:50 am Relaying messages between emergency agencies in a virtual dead tone Sheffield provided one of Brunswick few remaining communications links With a tem porary antenna on the hospital roof and his personal ham radio gear on the table in front of him Sheffield relayed messages between shelters and county officials Sheffield shrugs off his contribu tion was just business as usual passing what needed to be passed" Sheffield said panic Every body seemed to be taking it with a stiff upper lip "1 just handled the traffic that needed to be done It didn't concern More storm stories photos onA14A15 me It was about the same motions we normally go through with some thing like this practiced dis aster plans and communications so not anything new" More than the angry winds and sheeting rain Sheffield remembers eye quiet Spooky quiet" DARK BRANCH Shortly be fore midnight Everlene Jones 72 left her home and joined several families gathered at Kendell Chapel AME Church to ride out the storm had the light on long as it would she said we had candles so anyone traveling by the road would have somewhere to stay But nobody else About 1:30 Thursday morning the wind picked up she said Rain battered the roof and crackled against the window panes said the building starts to crack all we have to do is lie down beneath the pews They let hardly anything fall on Suddenly We heard this boom a loom a A few people scrambled out into the storm returning to tell Jones that the church's teeple had fallen onto her car smashing the windows and crumpling the trunk said to the Lord I'm she said The next day Jones returned to (See Path A14) Parents staff celebrate children's lives Intensive care nursery holds reunion By DAVID NEWTON SUH wrlttr A celebration of life brought parents from as far away as Tennessee and South Carolina to the grounds of Moses Cone Memorial Hos pital on Saturday They were celebrating the lives of their children all bom premature in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery Their struggle for survival had led the parents through a time of doubt and dread On Saturday the mood was festive Light blue helium balloons bounced in thewind as children shrieked and cut paths be tween parents standing by a picnic shelter The shared anxiety of past sleepless nights was familiar to the group which num bered more than a 100 1 Perhaps the button on 3 year old Jennifer pink shirt explained it: a Jennifer entered the world' 15 weeks pre mature a very purple 1 pound 12 ounces battling a strep infection and a heart mur mur Her chances for survival were less than 65 percent And her parents dare start thinking she might make it until she survived her first week smothered in her crib by monitors and tubes Somebody stuck the button a on her crib during her two month stay in the nursery It was returned to her parents when Jennifer came home and some body found it while cleaning her crib the first month she was isolated com pletely" recalls the father David Tabor who has since moved the family to Charles ton SC first we could wear gownk and masks and gloves and go in and see her and rub her arms and legs But we pick her up or anything for five Today Jennifer weighs 32 poimds eager ly points to her picture in a crib and is in what her father calls her phase Everything you say she wants to know That same question but with different implications wracked Richard Nunn 30 and Odessa Long 38 two and a half years ago They both had premature sons and shared a lot of anxious moments when they ran into each other at the hospital how we cried together?" asks Nunn 30 a Greensboro automotive parts buyer His son Matthew was bom three months premature and weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces He stayed in the hospital four and a half months and was the second premature child Nunn and his wife Gaynelle had is nothing you can say bad about the people at Cone Nunn says holding a blond haired alert Matthew treated us just as good Lord!" Long thought the 10 week premature birth of 1 pound 13 ounce Adnan would be her fifth miscarriage doctor gave no hope" says Long who is a detective in the Greensboro Police youth division first time 1 saw him I thought he looked like a small animal A mouse or a rat was such a comfort to find somebody else sharing the same experience" she says of meeting Nunn cried and prayed and sat in the rocking chairs and talked with the The involvement of the nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery goes be yond talk This year's gathering resulted from the desire to renew ties with the children and families they had shepherded through rough times (See Cone A18) St Photo John Pppo piss Hl 4 AlwS' Jennifer Tabor with dad David Princess Di has son name not yet chosen Now York Tlmot Now Urvico 1 LONDON The Princess of gave birth Saturday to her second son who became third in line for the British crown after his fa ther and his 2 year old brother Prince William The princess formerly Lady i Diana Spencer entered St Hospital in Paddington just north of central London early Saturdaymorning dressed in red and smiling 1 broadly I Her child was born after' nine hours of labor during which the I Prince of Wales the heir to the I throne remained at her side The 'baby weighed 6 pounds 14 ounces 'Buckingham Palace announced There was no word on the choice of a name As soon as the new prince was bom Prince Charles rushed to the telephone to tell his mother Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family who are on their annual visit to Balmoral Castle in Scotland A few minutes later a bulletin was posted at the castle in the re mote Highlands It said: "Her Royal Highness the Prin cess of Wales was safely delivered of a son at 4:20 pm today Her Royal Highness and child are both The child was delivered by the royal gynecologist George Pinker (See Princess A 18) Miss Utah Sharlene Wells named Miss America 1 985 How To Reach Us Circulation 373 7222 News 373 7001 Sports Scores 272 5636 Classified Adv 373 7123 Chuckle Great people are known by their deeds: the rest of us are known by our mort gages Th AmkUM Pru ATLANTIC CITY NJ Miss Utah Sharlene Wells a Mormon who often jogged up a mountain to train for swimsuit competitions was crowned Miss America 1985 on Saturday ending the most scandalous of the 63 years Miss Ohio Melissa Bradley 23 of Mans field who was once accused of shoplifting was chosen as the first runnerup The second runner up was Miss Mississippi Kathy Manning Miss Minnesota Lauren Susan Green was third runner up Miss Texas Tamara Hext was the fourth runner up Wells a 20 year old resident of Salt Lake City threw her arms around Miss New York Mary Ann arrell and then hugged Miss Ten nessee Shelley Mangrum as she was pro nounced the winner in a nationally televised Wells journalism at Brigham Young University Wells says she hopes to become a news anchorwoman in a major television market She also wants to (See Pageant A2) Arts G8 Books E5 Business 01 8 Classified D9 30 Crossword 8 Editorials E2 4 Entertainment G1 8 House and Home9 Life Leisure 10 show and before a capacity crowd of 21000 at Convention Hall Her crowning end? a year that saw Vanessa Wil liams 21 of Millwood NY become the first black to win the contest and the first woman to relinquish the crown after Penthouse magazine published nude photographs of her taken before last contest in its September issue A junior studying com munications and broadcast aHKy 91 Music G7 Obituaries D9 People 3 Sports B1 12 Television G5 Theaters G2 3 Travel G6 7 Weather A2 Weddings 5 7 9 i VC5 'a1 5 fttd.