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A18 ThePaducahSun Thursday, August 18 1988 SCHOOL Continued from page 1 state has mandated programs without funding them, putting pressure on the local finances. She also expressed concern about the difference of opinion between Gov. Wallace Wilkinson and the General Assembly on what direction the state should take to improve education. . Manchester said she has worked hard to keep aware of actions of the General Assembly and voice her views on how it would affect the local system. She spent several weeks in Frankfort during the 1988 legisla- . tive session following education ' bills. "We are in good (financial) shape locally because the people of Paducah have risen to the occasion," she said. The board earlier this year Imposed a 3 percent utility tax which was approved without opposition for city residents. Manchester said the school' system has excellent administrators and teachers dedicated to doing "what is best for the students." She has a child at Paducah Tilgh-man High School. -Black said he frequently encourages others to run for office. This time friends encouraged him. "I decided I should start practicing what I've been preaching," he said. He has three children in the city school system: one at Clark elementary, one in the middle school and one in high school t Black said he isn't running on any single issue or against any past actions of the board, but because of a desire to help continue the tradition of "an excellent school system. "I have a great philosophical sympathy for public education and feel that it needs to serve everyone. " That means attempting excellence to meet a wide spectrum of people. "I see the school system as an extremely critical element of a community's overall fabric, one that holds the community together and helps it to prosper." He said Paducah has a tradition of being an excellent school system, even though it has faced many tough challenges because of the makeup of the district. He said 52 percent , of the students are economically disadvantaged. Black said the teachers have been "quiet heroes" in maintaining Oregon hay given to Marion farmers Associated Press) LEBANON, Ky. Twenty-seven carloads of Oregan hay arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday for distribution to Marion County farmers hit hard by the drought. Stocks of local interest Sep Dec Mar May Jul Furnished by HJHlard-Lyons Tbdiy'i Oflnm 24 42 32 .-V 29 39y' 23 y 38 15 24 47 - 74V V 45 - 18 34 36 V 114 46 32 18 19 32 39 84 2 35 22 22 27 31 m OFT) 30 32 37 none 29 31 AT&T Am Elec Pwr Air Products Allied Corp AnhBusch BellSouth Bwn Ferris Coca Cola . Energas HB Fuller GAFCorp GenMtrs Goodrich Gen Corp IC Industries IngrRand IBM JC Penney Kmart Ky Utilities Lowes LouG&E Martin Mar Pennwalt Sears TECO Energy Union Carbide Westvaco Wal-Mart CBT Corp. . CSI Peoples 1st Aug Sep Nor Jan Mar May Jul Aug Sep No Grain markets CHICAGO (AP) - Futures trading on the Cbkuo Board of Trade Wed: OpesHlgkUwUstCkf. WHEAT t . , t,M b ntataum; nn per bnskel Sep 3.67 J.904 3664 3.90 -.004 Sc 1.M4 4.03 3.974 4.024 Mar 4.01 4.05 1.99 1034 -.114 May S.77 1.61 J.754 1794 -.01 Jul J.54 3.56 3.49 1.51 -.034 Tue.'l sales 13,263. Tue.'l open int 54,960, off 44S. CORN I.M Bvlitmim: dollin per buad Sep 163 2 66 171 115 -02 Dk 193 1964 117 195 -.01 Mar 15 10O 2.914 1994 May 191 3.004 1924 3.00 -.01 the excellence. 1 "We can't just drift along and assume excellence will continue. We have to listen carefully and analyze our problems , and give careful thought to think out the strategy to survive and excel." His father, Bill Black Sr., was on the board from 1954 until 1976 when he did not seek re-election. He was "board chairman 18 years. Gwinn said he is running because of a desire to get Evolved in helping the community. "I'm not running as a reformer or because of some displeasure with the school system, but because I . feel I have something I can contribute," Gwinn said. "I think I can help improve what already is a ' fine school system." He said adequate state funding is a problem. "Kentucky's funding is low compared to other states and we have to find ways to get the most out of the dollars we have." Gwinn has a child at Clark and one at the middle school. He said the education system must be evaluated to be sure it is "meeting the needs of our youth and the direction they are going in the future." MOVIE Continued from page 1 tha Hughes and her uncle, Emmett. Lloyd plays Samantha and Willis is Emmett. "Mike" was interested in creating this garden for the Bruce Willis character to putter around in," Dyer said. She was glad to supply a couple of climbing rose bushes and hollyhocks. Johnson chipped in beebalm, cleomes and other flowers. In return, McCombe promised to make a donation to the club to help pay for publishing the book. "I'm not sure how much it will be, but we'd do anything to sell the books," Dyer said. She and Johnson appreciate McCombe's handiwork at the big house on North 15th Street. "We drove over to Mayfield to see it," Dyer said. "We think he made1 it look just as he wanted it to." She isn't worried that stars Willis and Lloyd will outshine her roses. "What appealed to us was that he noticed the garden club's book," Dyer said. "I will probably see the movie to see how the flowers appear in the scenes." It's no rumor. It's Rumer. Willis and actress Demi Moore named their baby daughter Rumer Glenn, according to Paul Bloch, Willis' Los Angeles publicist. The 8-pound, 1-ounce girl was delivered Tuesday morning at Western Baptist Hospital. Bloch said he didn't know where the couple got the name. "Both are fine and back home and Bruce is already back at work," he said. 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I ales 1,101 Tue.'l open int 7,322, 0035. SOYBEANS MM ca mlainma: Mars xr basM 4.53 0. 1.53 1.77 .114 HI 1.31 (.09 f.W 169 1.95 1.67 1.94 .144 1.72 192 1.89 1.92 .12 1.72 1.81 1.67 1.90 .09 1.59 1.70 1.52 169 .02 1.41 656 1.41 1.56 -.03 1.25 1.32 1.20 830 7.70 7.70 ' 7.60 7.60 -.05 7.23 J.29 J.21 7.22 -.07 Tue.'l sales 60,599. Tue.'l open u 115,100, off. 107. Most active stocks NEW YORK (AP) -Stock prices barely budged this morning in light trading. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial ttocki wu up ill point to 2,026.14 by It a.m. Among broader market indicators, the New York Stock Eicnange composite index of all listed issues rose 0.04 to 147.66. The American Stock Exchange's market-value index fell 0.07 to 294.06. Advancing issues slightly outnumbered decline! on the NYSE; with 411 up, 365 down and 551 imchaneed. Volume on the Big Board totaled 16.96 million shares after the first 30 minutes. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones image rose 4.45 points to 1025.96. Losing issue outnumbered advances by about 7-4o4 in composte trading of NYSE-listed stocks, with 742 down, 660 up and 50 unchanged. Big Board volume totaled 169.50 million share, rs. 16171 million Tuesday. NEW YORK (AP) - Early prices for NYSE listed moat active stocks: . 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He was overseeing a project on Bleich Road today. HEAT Continued from page 1 "We think, we hope, we won't have to make any curtailments," he said. "But the more the public can cooperate with us ... the more the likelihood is we won't have to." The federal utility urged customers to turn off all lights and appliances possible, adjust thermostats or turn off air conditioners, postpone the use of hot water, avoid using electrical dryers and limit cooking. He said the request does not apply to the elderly. ' Olin Bryant, general manager, v said Paducah Power System employees set an example by turning the thermostat up on the air conditioning system and turning off lights as much as possible, using only natural light through the windows. "We feel our system Is in good shape, but we're watching it very closely," Bryant said. "We don't know of any spots in our system that are coming close to being in trouble, despite the stress that is being placed on it." At 5 p.m. Wednesday, the demand for power across the Ten- PrimeC 2952 124 12 124 Primcasl.60 525 28 27 27-4 ProctG 180 533 734 724 73 PSEG2 296 234 234 23 4 PugetP1.7( 460 184 184 184-4 QuakrO 1 677 54 534 544 4 RangrO 311 64 64 64 RounsE . 379 16 164 164 4 Salomn .64 1165 234 224 234 4 Saral.ee 1.20 972 41 404 4144 SchrPlgl.40 384 524 524 524 Schlmbl.20 699 344 344 344-4 Sears 2 472 354 354 354-4 ShLehH .75 406 24 244 244 4 SmkBckl M 403 46 454 454 SonyCp ,29e 384 53 534 534 4 Southfi114 277 21 21 21 SwBeU141 422 364 36 364 SquarD192 424 41 41 41 Syntex 1.30 347 174 364 374 Va Tambdl.92 344 54 54 54 Tennco3.04 445 464 464 464-4 Teiaeo3 577 464 464 464 Teilnst.72 472 394 39 3944 Teitrnsl 439 23 23 23..... Travler2.40 341 344 34 344 Tyler ,44a 321 17 174 17 4 USGn - 105 74 74 74 USX 1.20 631 284 21 284 4 UCarb.10 310 224 224 224-4 UnElecl.92 408 22 214 22 ..... Unisvsl 627 32 31 314 UJer'Bk .96 419 234 23 234 4 USShoe.46 662 264 264 2644 Upjohn .72 3354 324 32 32 4 UtaPL 132 376 294 294 29 Varo .40 477 234 234 23 VistaCb.50 322 47 47 47 WalMrt.16 470 314 314 31 WtPtP 1 1.20 423 33 324 324 4 Weyeril.20 292 244 234 234-4 William 1.40 164 294 29 29 Zayre.40 459 214 21 214 Livestock markets 34 34 37 ' 94 10 10 17 FEDERAL STATE MARKET NEWS SERVICE, Aug. II - Kentucky Purchase Area Hoc Market report includes five buying stations. Receipts: 451. Barrows and gilts steady. Sows steady to II higher. US 1-2 220-250 lbs. H6 0046 50 US 1-2 200-220 lbs. .144.00446 00 US 2-3 220-250 lbs. 145 50446 00 US 34 250-270 lbs. 444.50445.50 SOWS US 1-2 270-350 lbs. B .00434 00 US 1-3 300-400 lbs. . 432 00433 00 US 1-3 400400 lbs. 31 00433 00 USl-1501ha)lbs. 430 00433.00 US 2-3 30O500 lbs. 429.00430.00 14.. 104.. 10 124 124 4 184 184 254 254 34 344 4 67 674-1 55 554 304 304-4 254 254-4 1 14 614 614 43 434-4 544 544-4 194 20 4 14 14-4 5 5 Precious metals 27 27-4 254 254-4 12 16 24 124 H 164 4 24.. 144 144 14424 35 354 4 504 51 -4 17 17-4 It 104-4 424 42 4 124 124 43 43-4 NEW YORK (AP) - Gold and silver futures rose slightly Wednesday on the New York Commodity Exchange. Gold settled 12.10 higher across the board with October at 1435.10 a troy ounce; silver was 1 cents to 3.7 cents higher with September at 16.665 troy ounce. if t iOjl I hi - i 1 7,7 j ft BARKLEY THIELEMANThe Sun nessee Valley climbed to 21,343 megawatts as temperatures topped 100 degrees. That broke a summer record set in August 1983 when use was 20,373 megawatts.- Despite the record, Steffy said at a news conference today that amount was about 400 megawatts than the utility had projected. He said the plea probably cut the use by about 100 megawatts. The plea for reduced usage continues through Saturday, he said. Stiles said the all-time TVA record is 22,478 megawatts, set during the winter of 1983. The agency's last emergency appeal for conservation came in January 1982, Steffy said. Bryant said Paducah Power System's previous record of 133 megawatts set in 1980 was broken this week by about .10 megawatt. He cautioned customers to expect higher utility bills as a result of the almost Vh weeks of extreme high usage. "They haven't been faced with 21 days like this before," he said. "They can't compare their bills to last July or August because the conditions then were just not the same." Brad Perkins, a spokesman for Big Rivers, said the utility set a new record with 1,127 megawatts demand Tuesday, and expected that was broken Wednesday, although figures weren't available. "Despite these new peak demands, we have no problems at this point," said Perkins. With the availability of power from its D.B. Wilson generating plant in Ohio County, Big Rivers has sold power to TVA this week, he said. Jackson Purchase Electric Cooperative, which purchases power from Big Rivers, broke an August 1987 record of 106 megawatts with 108 megawatts Wednesday. David Stiles, general manager, said, "This is what we had forecast in our power requirement forecast to Big Rivers, based on the real hot August we had last year and a dry spell that set a 40-year record. We have no prospect for any power shortages, but people should use it wisely," he said. Psychologist Jack Runyon of Psychological Associates of Paducah thinks people are better able to warm up than cool down. "Heat saps our energy more than cold does," he said. "It takes everything out of us." Even so, Runyon hasn't seen an increase in depression because of the hot, sticky weather. "Several years ago, we had a long cold, snowy spell where people were trapped in their homes," he said. "We saw some people with cabin fever. But I have not seen it like that with the heat." Peabody appeal won't delay taxes Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A coal company's decision to keep fighting higher taxes on its mineral reserves will not delay mailing and collection of tax bills, the state Revenue Cabinet said. The cabinet said Tuesday it would set the state property-tax rate immediately, allowing county clerks to prepare and mail bills for state and county taxes, despite Peabody Coal Co.'s efforts. NOTEBOOK Seating next to .Bush's box suits convention alternates By BILL BARTLEMAN . Sun Staff Writer Jon Pancake of Grand Rivers and Glen Jermstad of Paducah are finding their seats as alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention are popular, even though they're near the rear of the massive Superdome. 1 "We are right next door to Vice President George Bush's box," Pancake said in a telephone interview from New Orleans. "We've seen Barbara Bush ... and lots of other celebrities. Last night, Dan Quayle was there. We were close enough that we could've reached out and touched him." Jermstad said alternates normally try to trade credentials with regular delegates, whose seats are closer to the podium. However, he said the reverse has been true this year. "Everyone wants to sit in the alternate section," he said. Jermstad said he learned that Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana was going to be Bush's running mate about 30 minutes prior to the official announcement Tuesday afternoon. Like most others, he'll probably never forget where he was when he heard the hews. "I was waiting for Bush to arrive for a ceremony along the Mississippi River and had to use the restroom, I was in there and the guy next to me asked if I had heard the news. He told me one of the networks had reported it was Quayle. Sure enough, 30 minutes later Bush arrived and made the announcement." The list of Kentucky's delegates sounds like a menu a popular item in New Orleans. In addition to Pancake, there's of Lexington, Guss Parsley ol Brownsville, Linda Pepper of Irvmgton and Betty Cook of Prospect. SPEECH Continued from page 1 business will be to ratify Quayle as the vice presidential nominee and applaud his acceptance speech. Amid the delegates' enthusiasm over the choice of Quayle, questions were raised about his experience, wealth, a 1980 sex-and-influence scandal and his military record. Quayle himself, in an interview on CBS, said he was "almost certain" that the governor or lieutenant governor of Indiana were not asked to help him get in the National Guard in 1969 and avoid the draft and Vietnam service. ' Bush seemed unperturbed by the questions, praising Quayle as one of the GOP's "rising young stars" and saying they would work "like a couple of pit bulls" to whip the Democrats. . In nominating Bush on Wednesday night, Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas said he has "the experience, he character and the strength to ead this great land." Gramm said Dukakis would "wimp America and endanger the peace." A child of the Eastern Establishment, Bush was raised in Greenwich, Conn.,, surrounded by a cook, servants and a chauffeur. His father was a wealthy New York financier who became a U.S. senator and instilled in his children the notion of civic responsibility, that Sweepstakes went well for Illinois Might participate again next year if game restructured Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The only state to offer the Triple Crown Sweepstakes this year said the lottery based on the results of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes went "very, very well" for its first year. Illinois didn't make much of a profit on the game, but "all of us know in the lottery business that there are few instant successes," Sharon Sharp, director of the Illinois State Lottery, said. Sharp said Illinois officials might be interested in participating next year, provided that certain parts of the game were restructured. But a decision will not be made for a few more months, she said. Kentucky isn't in the market to offer the Triple Crown Sweepstakes because the state doesn't have a lottery system. A' measure that would allow the state to have a lottery is to be on the November ballot. . Sales for the game totaled about $7 million, said Kathy Rem, the Illinois State Lottery public information officer. Each ticket cost $2. The game's prizes large sweepstakes awards and smaller "instant winner" amounts totaled $6.3 million. Rem said administrative costs consumed the remainder of the revenue. The top prize in the final sweepstakes drawing, to be held Aug. 29, is $5 million. The second prize is $1 million, and three $100,000 prizes and five $50,000 prizes also will be awarded. Illinois paid just $2.9 million of the lottery's revenues for the top two prizes because an annuity fund Bob Burger of Lexington, Ray Veal with privilege comes obligations. Now 64, Bush has a long resume of service: Navy combat pilot, congressman from Texas, ambassador to the United Nations, envoy to China, chief of the CIA and two-term vice president under Ronald Reagan. Gramm called Bush simply ''the greatest vice president this nation has ever had." Delivering a seconding speech that drew roars of applause, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno shouted, "III be damned if I'll sit still while people who can't carry George Bush's shoes ridicule him." In advance of his address, Bush went to the Superdome to practice at the podium. Looking out over the floor, he tucked his eyeglasses in his pocket, saying, "I'd like to do it without my specs." Bush said he was comfortable using the TelePrompTer, a device that scrolls a speech text in front of a speaker without being seen by the audience. However, Bush's media adviser, Roger Ailes, said: "We're a little nervous about the TelePrompTer. He's not used to it." According to the convention, script, Bush will begin his remarks precisely at 10:09 p.m. EDT and talk for 20 minutes, followed by a long and loud demonstration by delegates and the world's largest-ever balloon drop: 150,000 floating down from the ceiling. r.- will distribute payments to the winners over a period of 20 years. Although the prizes consumed most of the revenue, Rem said, lottery officials did not consider reducing the prizes because they were advertised before the game began. "We couldn't renege on our promise," she said. Even though the state didn't make a big profit, she said, the game might have helped Illinois sell more tickets in its other lottery games. "From that point of view, it was successful. There was a lot of excitement about it," she said. Rem wouldn't say how much of the lottery's proceeds went to the firms that marketed it, G Tech Corp. and Triple Crown Produce Hons. The latter firm is a corpora tion owned by Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., Pimlico Race Course in Maryland and the New York Racing Association, that works to promote and market the Triple Crown. Audrey Korotkin, director of Triple Crown Productions, would not say how much money Triple . Crown Productions or Churchill Downs would receive for selling the right to use their name. G Tech plans to launch a more detailed study of the lottery this week after conducting exit interviews with Illinois lottery officials and sales representatives, said Vic Collucci, manager for special project sales. "We'd like to take some of the rough edges off, but we think we have a very good concept," Collucci said. The game consisted of an instant-winner game and a section where players scratched the card to reveal the name of a horse. If the horse listed won one of the' Triple Crown races, the ticket qual ified for the final sweepstakes drawing.