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Eagle-Gazette, Saturday, October 8, 1994 LOCAL location in the city. Lancaster police Friday afternoon Target that open she and the noticed bird the was cage missing. door was decision Two treated after accidents Pickerington man expected Two people were taken to the named to council hospital after two separate next week accidents Friday. Meredith Whitlow II, A Pickerington resident has Clyde been appointed to the Governor's Columbus, was riding his motor- Council on People with DisBy JOAN SLATTERY WALL cycle north on Forest Rose abilities. The Eagle-Gazette Staff Avenue Friday morning when a Frank P.

Sobolewski, a car pulled from a stop sign on Republican, was appointed last Target Stores officials plan to Union Street and struck him, a month the council for decide next week whether they Lancaster to a term police report said. ending Aug. 19, 1997. He will locate a store in Lancaster. Whitlow was taken to Fairfield replaces Kenneth V.

Morlock, a Target spokeswoman Gail Medical Center, where he was Dorn said Target's board plans to Republican from Columbus, meet next week to review capital treated and released, a nursing whose term expired. supervisor said. Sobolewski received his expansion plans and at that time Police cited the car's driver, from the Ohio of will decide whether to build the degree College Robert Eugene Rowland, 62, of Podi-atric medicine and has a store in Lancaster. 1313 E. Main Apt.

4, for private practice of general and "If we would agree to it failure to yield from a stop sign. surgical podiatry services. internally through the capital Rowland expansion plans, it would be built was not injured. a separate accident in the definitely midyear," in Dorn 1995 said and probably afternoon, William Karl Weber, Forest, college Friday. 60, of 2053 N.

Columbus was Lancaster Planning Commis- driving west on East Main Street hosting workshop sion in July OK'd an occupancy when his car collided with and compliance permit that would Wayne National Forest, in another at the intersection of Pearl allow the company to build the cooperation with Hocking Colstore in River Valley Plaza com- Weber lege, is hosting a Project Learning Avenue, according to a police plex on River Valley Boulevard report. The driver was of not injured. Tree workshop in Nelsonville. the other car, next to Toy Family Warehouse. Project Learning Tree is an The John Bercher Tryon, 46, Marietta, store treated and I released from interdisciplinary environmental was would take about six months to Fairfield Medical Center after the education program that provides complete, Dorn said.

students with opportunities to The Glimcher the devel- accident, a nursing supervisor investigate environmental issues said. oper of the complex, would retain and encourages them to make of the land and A passenger of his vehicle, ownership provide Janet Marie informed, responsible decisions a long-term lease on the store. on behalf of the environment. The Ammon, 54, The city's engineering depar- Police cited Tryon for a red workshop is for educators, youth Marietta, was not injured. tment is reviewing water and group leaders and individuals sewer plans for the site, city with an interest in learning about light violation.

engineer Kent Huston said. environmental issues. Target, headquartered in Cockatoo missing The workshop is set for 9 a.m. Minneapolis, operates 611 store to 4 p.m. Friday at Hocking in 32 states and employs about from Petland Woods Conference Center, 117,000 people.

Seven of the located off the Hocking Parkway stores are located in Ohio. The An umbrella cockatoo valued on Wolfe-Bennett Road. company estimates building 50 to at $2,500 was reported stolen For more information or to 60 new stores in 1995. from a local pet store. register, call Regina Martin at the Lancaster City Council will A clerk at Petland, 1639 N.

Athens Ranger District, 614-592- have final approval of Target's Memorial Drive, reported to 6644. Fair (From page 1) the 4-H Club Panorama, when the Junior Fair queen is chosen, is set for 7:30 p.m. at the show arena. Also on Tuesday, the judging of Junior Fair beef show and showmanship is set for 8:30 a.m. with the Junior Fair goats judging at 9 a.m.

Area married couples will celebrate anniversaries of 50 years or more at the WLOH radio tent at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. Other events of the day include the national kiddie tractor pull at 5 p.m. and the combine farm implement demolition derby at 7 p.m. The 4-H horse queen contest is set for 8 p.m.

Wednesday at the show arena. Because Wednesday is Senior Preview (From page 1) premiere. In gratitude for things Kerr did for the community, Benson said, a of people in Lancaster presented a plaque to Kerr in 1951. The plaque was placed above the Kerr family fireplace then on Lincoln Avenue, and the family has kept it ever since. During Preview Day, the plaque will be rededicated to the Fairfield County Agriculture Society.

Clinton (From page 1) off Kuwait. Senior Pentagon officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Clinton ordered a series of precautionary steps designed to give Saddam pause, including: shifting the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, currently in the Adriatic Sea, to the Red Sea from whence i its aircraft could strike Iraq if necessary. It is expected to arrive by Sunday night; sending a four-ship amphibious assault group carrying 2,000 Marines from the southern Persian Gulf north toward Kuwait; dispatching Army ships loaded with heavy weaponry toward the Gulf. They are normally based on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia and will take up to five or six days to reach the region; increasing airborne reconnaissance; updating a target list for potential air strikes by Tomahawk cruise missiles; and putting some Army units in the United States on alert to go to the region. The units have been told to be WEATHER FORECASTS OHIO Today will be partly sunny, with a chance of showers or thunderstorms northwest.

Highs will be in the 70s. Tonight, showers becoming likely. There is a chance of thunderstorms northwest half. Lows will again be in the 50s. Sunday, showers are likely.

There is a chance of thunderstorms southeast. It will be cooler, with highs in the 60s. LOCAL Today will be partly sunny and mild, with highs between 75 to 80. South winds will be 5 to 15 mph. Tonight, showers are likely, especially after midnight.

There is a chance of thunderstorms. Lows will be between 55 and 60. The chance of rain 60 percent. Sunday, showers are likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs will be in the mid60s.

The chance of rain 70 percent. EXTENDED The extended forecast for Monday and Tuesday will be dry north, with a chance of rain south. Lows will range from the upper 40s north to the lower 50s south. Highs will be between 65 and 70. Wednesday, there is a chance of rain.

Lows will be in the lower 50s. Highs will range from the upper 60s to lower 70s. NATIONAL Weather The forecast for noon, Saturday, Oct. 8. Bands separate high temperature zones for the day.

60s 60s 60s 40s 90s 50S 705 50s 60s 80s, 70s 60s 909 80s FRONTS: 70s COLD WARM STATIONARY 1994 Accu-Weather, Inc. Pressure SE RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW 03 HIGH LOW SHOWERS ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY Via Associated Press NATIONAL SUMMARY: Southerly winds along the Easterr Seaboard will bring unseasonably warm air northward into New England today. Showers and thunderstorms will stretch along a cool front from the western Gulf Coast into the Great Lakes region. Chilly weather and some clouds will linger in the dominates the western third of the nation.

Warm, humid The Associated Press Warm, humid air from the Gulf Coast produced showers and 8 thunderstorms from the Upper in Mississippi Valley to Texas on Friday, while the East and West coasts were mostly sunny and seasonably mild. Thunderstorms rumbled across the Tulsa, area in the afternoon, dropping at least inches of rain on the city. Elsewhere in Oklahoma, hail the size of quarters pelted areas south of Bristow and more than an inch of rain fell near Lawton. Strong winds blew across COURT NEWS DIVORCE DECREES Cindy Morgan vs. Richard Morgan John H.

Richards vs. Frances H. Richards Marla. J. Miller vs.

William R. Miller Jr. Elizabeth J. Lescaleet vs. George W.

Lescaleet Patricia Householder vs. John R. Householder Mary A. Jimmo vs. Joseph A.

Jimmo A. Carol Helton vs. Ronald L. Helton Tonya L. Mayne vs.

Jeffrey B. Mayne Marianne T. Moskal vs. Thomas E. Moskal DISSOLUTION DECREES Marcia S.

Ellis and George S. Ellis Thomas R. Eisert and Debra J. Eisert DIVORCE COMPLAINTS Rebecca S. Cramblit, 524 W.

Wheeling vs. Billy S. Cramblit, Glouster DISSOLUTION PETITIONS Sandra S. Hughes, 61.9 Franklin and Philip L. Hughes, 1474 E.

Tiki Lane John F. Shaw, 636 N. Eastwood, and Susan K. Shaw, 1125 Old Ave. Debora L.

Gaffney, Baltimore, and James E. Gaffney Baltimore Laroy Winborne, Pickerington, and Alice F. Wellman, Columbus Marian S. Crook Young, 419 Hilltop Drive, and John W. Young, 419 Hilltop Drive MARRIAGE LICENSES Michelle R.

Neff, 24, Lancaster, assistant buyer, and Matthew J. Gawronski, 24, Amanda, graphic designer Jill C. Blimes, 18, Pickerington, unemployed, and Kevin M. Rhodes, 19, Pickerington, carpenter Constance L. Probasco, 71, Lancaster, retired, and James A.

Thompson 73, Gahanna, retired. Angela M. Poulson, 21, Reynoldsburg, collections manager, and John W. Keller, 28, Lancaster, machinist Karen A. Schultz, 22, OHIO Weather Saturday, Oct.

8 forecast for daytime conditions and high temperatures MICH. Cleveland Toledo PA. Youngstown Mansfield IND. Dayton Columbus Cincinnati W. VA.

KY. Portsmouth to Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Via Associated Press GraphicsNet Accu-Weather, Inc. NATIONAL TEMPERATURES Temperatures indicate previous and overnight low to 8 a.m. EDT.

Hi Lo 59 35 Albuquerque 70 48 Amarillo 79 53 Anchorage 48 44 Asheville 66 55 Atlanta 81 58 Atlantic City 63 37 Austin 90 75 Baltimore 65 43 Billings 55 41 Birmingham 81 61 Bismarck 71 46 Boise 65 36 Boston 61 46 Brownsville 90 79 Buffalo 61 45 Burlington, Vt. 55 46 Casper 46 34 71 65 Charleston, W.Va. 68 42 72 55 Cheyenne 56 38 Chicago 74 61 Cincinnati 71 51 Cleveland 67 43 Columbia.S.C 77 49 Columbus, Ohio 69 45 58 35 Dallas-Ft Worth 89 74 Dayton 69 49 Denver 67 42 Des Moines 80 61 Detroit 68 48 Plains, while sunshine Duluth 66 57 El Paso 81 57 Evansville 79 55 air causing areas of Minnesota, North Dakota and Nebraska. Rainfall for the 24 hours up to a.m. EDT included: 1.81 inches Dickinson, N.D.; 1.24 in Minneapolis and Jamestown, N.D.; and 1.12 in Bismarck, N.D.

Winds from the Gulf Coast helped temperatures remain warm across the southern Plains. Morning readings stayed in the 70s from southern Texas to' eastern Oklahoma. The morning low of 79 at Brownsville, Texas, tied the warmest low for the date, in 1962. Elsewhere, a high pressure system anchored over the mid- Buckeye 5: 6-11-17-19-29 Grove, teller, and Jeffrey A. Roberts, 31, McConnelsville, The Super Lotto jackpot is $8 finance manager million.

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New Little Country is set to perform at 7 p.m., while The Heartland Band is scheduled for 9 p.m. The Junior Fair livestock auction, part one, with market goats and swine also is set for Thursday, as is the 4-H awards program. Friday is Homecoming Day complete with the Junior Fair livestock auction, part two, of market sheep, rabbits and chickens and market beef cattle. Saturday is Roundup Day with the parade of champions at the grandstand at 10 "The plaque will be mounted on the west end of the grandstand," Benson said. After the rededication, concessions and rides will open Preview Day at noon Sunday and will close at 7 p.m.

"People will be setting up, and will be visiting," Benson said. The Junior Fair will show dogs, cats and pocket pets in the Show Arena during the day beginning "ready to get on the plane," the senior official said. They were not identified. There are about 12,000 U.S. military men and women in the a Persian Gulf region, including 11 Navy and Marine ships.

The Aegis cruiser Leyte Gulf, which is armed with 122 cruise missiles, and the destroyer Hewitt, which has 72 cruise missiles, are in the Gulf, officials said. There are Air Force F-15 fighters to in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, along with other warplanes, tankers, attack helicopters and utility aircraft, they added. One official said a "huge" number of Iraqi troops had been seen moving south. Clinton decided to take precautionary action because of the uncertainty of what Saddam might do and the length of time it takes to get U.S. forces ready to move into the region, the official said.

Iraq can get the economic sanctions eased only by complying with U.N. resolutions, and not by moving troops to the border, Clinton said. Pentagon officials said the Iraqi troops included Republican Guard units. a.m. H.R.

Garn and Show Me Band country and western show is at 7:30 p.m. at the show arena. Harness races will take place daily at 1 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The auto demolition derby is set for 7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Midway features each day include rides, food vendors, antique buildings, gospel music at the church, Flakey the Magic Clown, Duffield's Circus Calliope and Dr. Happy LaClair featuring "Blaze." Preview Day features free admission and free parking. Gate admission all other days is $3, and parking is $1. with the dogs at noon.

"We'll have gospel entertainment with music in front of the grandstand starting at 1 p.m.," Benson said. "It's just a day to introduce people to the fair, and hopefully they'll come back the rest of the week," he said. Some of the buildings at the fair, including the arts building, will be closed while exhibitors set up Sunday. The troops include mechanized units with tanks, artillery, trucks and SA-8 anti-aircraft missile units, but no SCUD missiles have been seen, one senior Pentagon official said. The move was considered significant, but not as big as the invasion force that took over Kuwait in 1990.

"Confrontational tactics will prove no more successful now than in the past," the State Department said, referring to the 1991 war in which the United States and allied nations forced Iraq to reverse its annexation of Kuwait. Pentagon officials suggested the latest military troop movements could be a form of attention-seeking bluster or even normal rotations. A leading Iraqi dissident said the movements followed the suppression of an uprising in the Iraqi armed forces against Saddam. Perry said the United States had a "very substantial capability" in the area and would be ready to make any deployment necessary. On Thursday, Baghdad had warned it would prevent U.N.

monitoring of its military facilities unless the U.N. Security Council eased its four-year embargo on Iraqi oil sales. Atlantic region caused typical fall weather across much of the East. Under mostly clear skies, temperatures cooled into the 30s from West Virginia to northern Maine, where several places even reported frost. Early afternoon temperatures warmed into the 60s and lower 70s across the region under sunny skies.

In the West, a high pressure system produced dry and cool weather. Lows dropped into the 30s across many areas in the West, with some 20s in the higher elevations. Along the West Coast, temperatures fell into the 40s and 50s. DEATHS Bernice M. Biechler, 91, Newark, formerly of Baltimore, died Oct.

6, 1994, at Newark Health Care Center. John Michael Turben, 48, of 9174 Broad Amanda, died Oct. 6, 1994, at Fairfield Medical Center. See page A5 for today's obituaries. LOTTERY CLEVELAND (AP) Here are Friday night's Ohio Lottery selections: Pick 3 Numbers: 8-2-0 Pick 4 Numbers: 7-1-9-9.

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