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-THE DESERT SUN, Palm Springs, Calif. -Wednesday, January 28, 1987 The Weather Local High and low temperatures for 24 ending 5 p.m. yesterday. High Beaumont 71 Cathedral City La Quinta Indio Mecca Indian Desert Hot Wells Springs 28838RI North Shore 70 Oasis NA Palm Desert 68 Palm Springs 69 Humidity, 5 p.m. Rancho Mirage 68 1000 Palms 69 Top of the Tram 54 Twentynine Palms 69 Yucca Valley 65 WEATHER: Coachella Valley 345-3711 (Monday-Friday) SMOG: Coachella Valley (800) 242-4666 WIND: Coachella Valley and San Gorgonio Pass 345-2767 California hours Cheerful message Low 47 Democrats and 54 Republicans alike 46 cheered Rodney's State 41 46 of the Desert message, 42 saying no one can argue 44 with the 47 popular NA roadrunner's pleasant 51 prognostications.

The 53 highway-hopping 42 horoscoper's promise 52 of clear skies and a high 44 temperature in the low 41 43 70s Thursday was greeted by a standing ovation, although enthusiasm cooled when he predicted an early morning low in the upper 30s. Southern California High, low, precipitation for 24 hours ending at 5 a.m. today. DESERT AREAS Diminishing winds and clearing skies tonight. Fair Bakersfield 66 54 Thursday except for increasing high Eureka 64 43 1.03 cloudiness north areas.

West to northwest Fresno 66 50 .18 winds 15 to 25 mph by evening. Owens Lancaster 59 47 valley highs Thursday 47 to 57. Lows Los Angeles 72 56 tonight 18 to 28. Northern desert highs Oakland 53 47 Thursday 48 to 60. Lows tonight 28 40.

Paso Robles 68 47 .05 Southern desert highs Thursday 63 to 73. Red Bluff Lows tonight 38 to 48. Redwood City 58 50 .36 COASTAL AREAS Clearing Sacramento 51 45 34 tonight with local areas of dense fog, Salinas 61 50 .48 mainly inland valleys. Fair and a little San Diego 67 59 warmer on Thursday with some afternoon San Francisco 58 52 .66 high cloudiness. Highs at the beaches Santa Barbara 66 47 Thursday 62 to 68.

Lows 45 to 52. Highs Stockton 54 48 in the valleys Thursday 63 to 70. Lows 38 to 48. High, low, precipitation for 24 hours MOUNTAINS AREAS Clearing ending at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

skies tonight with local gusty westerly Apple Valley winds 15 to 25 mph. Fair Thursday. Barstow 63 39 Colder with resort highs Thursday 38 to Big Bear 53 29 48. Lows tonight from near 20 in the Bishop 64 24 higher valleys to the lower 30s Blythe 72 49 elsewhere. Catalina 66 49 ANGELES AND VICINITY Long Beach 69 49 Mostly clear and cool tonight.

Lows 47 to Monrovia 72 50 52. Fair Thursday except for afternoon Monterey 58 52 high clouds. Highs 66 to 70. Newport Beach 69 53 SAN FERNANDO, SAN GABRIEL Ontario 69 53 AND SAN BERNARDINO VALLEYS Pasadena 70 55 Mostly clear tonight except for local Riverside 73 51 areas of dense fog late tonight and early San Bernardino 70 51 Thursday. Cooler.

Lows 43 to 50. Some San Gabriel afternoon high cloudiness Thursday, San Jose 62 44 otherwise fair and a little warmer. Highs Santa Ana 53 in the 60s. SantaCruz 56 45 COASTAL AND INTERMEDIATE Tahoe Valley 50 27 VALLEYS Mostly clear and cooler Yosemite Vly 51 29 tonight with local areas of dense fog late Obituaries Macavinta forecasts tonight and early Thursday. Lows mainly in the 40s.

Fair Thursday with some afternoon high clouds. A little warmer. Highs in the 60s to near 70. OWENS VALLEY Decreasing clouds and winds tonight. Colder.

Lows 18 to 28. Fair Thursday with highs again in the mid-40s to mid-50s. SANTA BARBARA AND VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL AREAS, SANTA MONICA BAY AREA, LONG BEACH AND ORANGE COUNTY METROPOLITAN AREAS Clearing and cooler tonight with local areas of fog in the early morning hours. Lows 38 to 50. Some afternoon high clouds Thursday, otherwise fair and a little warmer.

Highs in the 60s. LAGUNA BEACH TO THE MEXICAN BORDER COASTAL AREA Mostly clear tonight except for early morning low clouds or fog. Cool. Lows 47 to 52. Fair and a little warmer Thursday.

Highs in low to mid-60s. IMPERIAL AND LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEYS Clearing and cooler tonight. Lows 38 to 48. Mostly sunny and cool Thursday. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.

ANTELOPE VALLEY, MOJAVE DESERT AND DEATH VALLEY Decreasing clouds and winds tonight. Cooler. Lows 28 to 40. Death Valley low 44 Some afternoon high cloudiness, otherwise fair and cool Thursday with local gusty northwest winds. Highs in the upper 40s and 50s.

Death Valley high Thursday 63. The nation Temperatures indicate previous day's high and overnight low to 5 a.m. PST. Hi Lo Pre Otik Albany, N.Y. 17 -09 cdy Albuquerque 53 32 Amarillo 58 33 cdy Anchorage 19 05 cdy Asheville 29 21 .02 cdy Atlanta 35 27 cdy Atlantic City 28 12 cdy Austin 75 45 Baltimore 28 -02 Billings 58 26 edy Birmingham 39 24 cdy Bismarck 33 06 Boise 52 33 .04 Boston 26 08 cdy Brownsville 76 56 Buffalo 24 14 .02 Burlington, Vt.

13 02 cdy Casper 46 36 clr Charleston, S.C. 43 34 cdy Charleston, W.Va. 30 16 .01 cdy Charlotte, N.C. 34 24 cdy Cheyenne 56 24 clr Chicago 25 21 .03 Cincinnati 24 20 cdy Cleveland 23 13 .01 cdy 38 29 cdy Columbus, Ohio 29 22 edy Concord, N.H. 25 -16 clr Dallas-FtWorth 76 42 cdy Dayton 24 20 cdy Denver 62 32 cdy Des Moines 42 17 cdy Detroit 22 16 .07 sn Duluth 25 11 cdy El Paso 67 33 clr Evansville 26 21 .07 Fairbanks 12 00 .05 clr Fargo 28 22 cdy Flagstaff 56 39 cir Grand Rapids 20 18 .01 sn Great Falls 54 32 clr Greensboro, N.C.

32 21 cdy Hartford 22 -06 cdy Helena 50 cdy Honolulu 80 66 cir Houston 72 55 cdy The world Temperatures and weather conditions from midnight to midnight on previous day. Hi Lo Wthr Amsterdam 32 23 cir Athens 63 48 cdy Bangkok 86 70 clr Barbados 84 75 cir Beirut Belgrade 43 36 cdy Berlin 32 28 cdy Bermuda 68 60 cdy Bogota 68 36 cdy Brussels 34 16 cdy B'Aires 100 73 cdy Cairo 64 45 clr Caracas 75 57 cdy Copenhagen 34 21 clr Dublin 43 32 cdy Frankfurt 18 sn Geneva 41 25 cdy Havana 90 72 cdy Helsinki 00 -09 clr Hong Kong 63 55 clr Istanbul 50 39 cdy Jerusalem 48 43 cdy Jo'burg 81 59 clr Cathedral City; a daughter, Robertalyn Graves of Thousand Palms, and 10 grandchildren. Burial will be at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City. Schwartz Services for Cathorine Louise Schwartz, 68, of Coachella will be at 11 a.m. Friday at FitzHenry Funeral Home in Indio.

She died in Monday in Coachella. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday at FitzHenry Funeral Home in Indio. Mrs. Schwartz was born in Kansas.

Survivors include her son, Neil Purdie of Rialto, and a brother, John Jennings of Amarillo, Texas. Burial will be at Coachella Valley Cemetery. Bennett Private services and burial were held for Klaire M. Bennett, 84, of Palm Springs. She died Saturday at Care West Palm Springs.

Mrs. Bennett was born in Palouse, and lived here three years. Survivors include her husband, Erie; a daughter, Delores Coleman of Palm Springs; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to Desert Hospital Auxiliary in Palm Springs. The Desert Sun 1987 611 South Palm CA Canyon 92262 Drive Member Palm Springs, CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER A Gannett newspaper ASSOCIATION Published evenings Monday-Friday and Saturday mornings.

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Box 190, Palm Springs, CA 92263 Thursday Jackson, Miss. 57 35 cdy Jacksonville 45 29 cdy Juneau 36 22 cdy Kansas City 24 Las Vegas 64 54 Little Rock 61 37 Louisville 23 22 .10 Lubbock 73 34 Memphis 42 30 MiamiBeach 63 47 Midland-Odessa 77 40 clr Milwaukee 25 22 .02 sn Mpls-StPaul 31 25 Nashville 26 14 .03 New Orleans 56 40 New York City 26 14 Norfolk, Va. 29 18 edy North Platte 59 19 Oklahoma City 48 30 Omaha 46 25 Orlando 52 33 cdy Philadelphia 25 04 cdy Phoenix 79 56 cir Pittsburgh 23 09 Portland, Maine 20 -06 Portland, Ore. 49 42 .18 Providence 27 04 cdy Raleigh 30 19 cdy Rapid City 50 26 Reno 64 33 .09 cdy Richmond 28 -01 cdy St Louis 39 22 Salt Lake City 50 31 .01 San Antonio 75 42 cdy San Juan, P.R. 87 68 cdy StSteMarie 25 23 .10 sn Seattle 55 43 .31 rn Shreveport 70 36 cdy Sioux Falls 41 09 sn Spokane 37 33 02 Syracuse 22 -01 cdy Tampa-StPtrsbg 53 42 cdy Topeka 29 22 clr Tucson 86 49 clr Tulsa 50 26 cdy Washington, D.C.

30 07 cdy Wichita 52 24 clr Wilkes-Barre 22 -02 cdy Wilmington, Del. 28 01 cdy Lima 81 68 clr Lisbon 63 57 rn London 45 36 clr Madrid 55 43 rn Manila 66 clr Mexico City 77 34 clr Moscow 05 -11 cdy Nassau 71 57 cir New Delhi 75 44 clr Nicosia 61 57 cdy Oslo 32 10 cdy Paris 34 30 cdy Peking 41 25 cir Rio 87 69 cdy Rome 48 41 rn San Juan 87 71 clr Santiago 84 52 clr Sao Paulo 78 66 rn Seoul 43 30 clr Singapore 84 72 rn Stockholm 14 05 cdy Sydney 77 64 clr Taipei 61 54 cir Tel Aviv 59 48 cdy Tokyo 54 37 clr Vienna 34 28 clr Warsaw 25 16 cdy 20 30. 30 COLD 40 MILD 60 50 High 70 Temperatures MILD -70 80 80 FRONTS: Warm ww Cold Showers Rain Flurries Snow Occluded Stationary 4 Metro smog EL MONTE (AP) All areas of the South Coast basin will have good air quality today, the Air Quality Management District reported. It is the 28th consecutive day that good air quality has been forecast in all areas, Good air and a Pollutant Standard Index of 42 was forecast for the Riverside San Bernardino area, the San Gabriel- Pomona valleys, inland Orange County, the Hemet-Elsinore area, coastal areas, metropolitan Los Angeles, the low deserts, San Fernando-Santa Clarita valleys, high deserts, Big Bear Lake and Banning. Canada Hi Prec.

Calgary Edmonton 29 39 928 Montreal 12 03 Ottawa 13 00 Regina 25 08 Toronto 24 07 Vancouver 48 43 2.8 Winnipeg 25 00 .2 High temperatures Tuesday. Lowest this morning. Precipitation in millimeters. A Pacific storm pushed inland today, spreading snow, rain and high winds, while snow was scattered across the Midwest and low temperatures prevailed across the East. Rain, with snow in the mountains, extended from southern California to Oregon and Washington.

Elsewhere, snow was scattered from the southern Appalachians across the Ohio Valley to the Great Lakes. Snow was mixed with freezing drizzle in southern Michigan and northern Indiana. Low temperatures held their grip on the eastern half of the nation, with early: morning readings from 11 degrees below zero to the single digits common from the middle Atlantic Coast region across upstate New York to northern New England. Temperatures dipped into the 20s to 30s in the Southeast. The Pacific storm prompted a heavy snow warning for the Cascade and Siskiyou mountains of western Oregon.

Travelers' advisories were issued for the Cascade and Olympic mountains of western Washington and high wind warnings were posted for the northern Pacific Coast. Winter storm warnings for heavy snow and gusty winds were issued for northern California's Sierra Nevada and Shasta Siskiyou mountains and for the mountains of west central Nevada, Western storm heads to East; Florida farmers on alert The Associated Press A powerful Western storm packing snow and 70 mph gusts headed toward the frigid, snow-fatigued East today as Florida farmers tried with to protect their crops from a big chill and schools in three states remained closed. "We'll be up all night checking and watering," strawberry grower Jim Meeks said Tuesday night in Plant City, near Tampa. Much of the state was under frost and freeze warnings. At 2 a.m.

PST, it was 29 degrees in Jacksonville, 34 in Orlando and 45 in Tampa. Across the Southeast, early morning temperatures were in the 20s and 30s. Readings from 11 below zero to the single digits were reported from the mid-Atlantic coast to northern New England. To ward off damage from the chill, Florida farmers soaked grapefruit, orange and other citrus. "Obviously, we have cause for concern," said Dick Whalley of the Florida Citrus Mutual, a growers' association.

"The only place we appear to be safe from potential damage is far south. where the temperatures are predicted to be above 30 degrees All of Palm Beach should be concerned." The newest storm was expected to move across the Plains, hitting the East late Thursday and early Friday, said Scott Tansey, of the Last, quarter Jan. 22 The moon New moon Jan. 29 First quarter Feb. 5 Full moon Feb.

13 The sun Rises: Jan. 29, 6:46 a.m. Jan. 30, 6:45 a.m. Sets: Jan.

28, 5:12 p.m. Jan. 29, 5:13 p.m. U.S. extremes High Tuesday 86 degrees at Tucson, Ariz.

Low this morning 20 below zero at Houlton, Maine. National Weather Service's Severe Storms Center in Kansas City, Mo. "It looks like there'll be a storm system over the Tennessee Valley, with some of the precipitation mov- U.S. summary ing into parts of Maryland and Virginia, and parts of the Carolinas as well," Tansey said. "It's kind of early to say whether this is going to be a real big Cooper Services and burial for James Richard Cooper, 67, of Cathedral City were held today at Riverside National Cemetery.

Mr. Cooper died Sunday at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs. He was a native of Kanawha, Iowa, and lived here for five years. Mr. Cooper was a chef for 40 years.

He was also a former bundle dropper for The Press-Enterprise. He was a member of the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans. Survivors include two daughters, Mary Cooper and Pamela Cooper, both of Palm Springs, and a son, Randolph Cooper of Alexandria, W. SERVICES AT AND on FUNERAL DIRECTORS 666 VELLA ROAD PALM SPRINGS PHONE 327-1257 ABBOTT, VICTOR Services Pending GRIFFIS, HELEN Services 2 p.m., Wednesday, Wiefels Son ELDER, ROBERT Services Private BAUER, NATALIA Services Private SCHONEY, REX Services 11 a.m. Wednesday, Palm Desert Latter Day Saints Church COOPER, JAMES Services Graveside, 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Riverside National Cemetary DUNHAM, Ila Services Oregon BUSCH, BERNHARD Services Pending MENDOZA, FREDERIK Visitation 5-9 Wednesday. Services 10:00 Thursday Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Palm Desert CASSEL, DUCAN Services Pending AKERS, FRANCIS Services Pending JENSEN, HELEN Services Pending FEWINGS, KENNETH Services Private DRABANT, CATHERINE Services Private SHYERES, GERALDINE Services Pending VINUM, CURTIS Services Pending Services for Lucia Vega Macavinta, 64, of Palm Springs were held Tuesday at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Palm Springs. She died Friday at Kenneth Norris Hospital in Los Angeles. Mrs.

Macavinta was born in Kalibo, the Philippines, and lived here 20 years. She was a registered nurse at Desert Hospital for 18 years. Mrs. Macavinta was a member of the Philippine-American Club of Palm Springs and the Aklan Association of Los Angeles. Survivors include her husband, Tiburcio; two sons, Larry V.

Macavinta of West Covina and Ossil V. Macavinta of Palm Springs; a daughter, Loveta M. Del Rosario of Fontana, and three grandchildren. Burial was at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City. Schoney Services for Rex J.

Schoney, 59, of Palm Springs were held today at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Palm Desert. Mr. Schoney, a landscaper for 19 years, died Friday at Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe. He was born in Orem, Utah, and lived here for 19 years. Survivors include his wife, Margaret; three sons, Joseph Schoney of El Toro, Brant Schoney of Buffalo Gap, S.D., and Thomas Schoney of EXPRESS SHUTTLE SERVICE TO LAX (per person, 1 way) Also low individual fares to other destinations in Los Angeles scheduled service.

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