European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 1, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 heat stress Index the heat stress Index combines the effects of temperatures and relative humidity to indicate the likelihood of heat disorders heat Index effects on people 80-90 fatigue possible with prolonged exposure and or physical activity 90-105 sunstroke heat cramps and heat exhaustion possible with prolonged exposure and or physical activity 105-130 sunstroke heat cramps or heat exhaustion Likely and heat stroke possible with prolonged exposure and or physical activity .130 heat stroke sunstroke highly Likely with continued exposure to estimate the current heat stress Index use the table below to find the nearest current temperature in the top Row and current humidity in the first column. Current heat Index is where the columns and rows intersect. Then Check the above table to determine possible health hazards. 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Chicago Tribune graphic sources Central weather service and National weather service rain relieves Plains other areas still dry by the associated press rain soaked the drought stricken Plains thursday but the governor of Al Obama s prayers for precipitation were not immediately answered and forecast ers remained gloomy that the nation s dry spell was ending. It s Likely to get worse before it gets better Michael Hudlow director of hydrology for the National weather service said As Long Range forecasts were released wednesday. Showers and thunderstorms fell thursday Over much of the Central Plains and rain was widely scattered Over much of the upper Plains and the lower and Middle Mississippi Valley. Americans who prayed or danced for rain in recent weeks got it in Spades in some places wednesday. In North Platte neb., More than 2 inches of rain fell in about 90 minutes flooding City streets caving in the roof of a downtown business and causing at least $25,000 damage to a hotel authorities said. A Tornado touched Down near the City but no injuries were reported. Springfield mo., received More than 3 /2 inches of rain wednesday More than double the record set on the Date in 1905, the weather service said. Nearly 5 inches deluged Wilsey kan., 60 Miles Southwest of Topeka and Hill City s.d., got 2 inches. But the weather service issued an advis Ory wednesday saying the nation s driest areas remained basically unchanged. The most critical area extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Border East of the Continental Divide and West of the appalachians. Drought conditions Are severe to extreme in the Inland Pacific Northwest California the Northern Rockies the Northern Plains the great lakes the Ohio and Tennessee valleys the Southern appalachians and Northern new England. Record heat has exacerbated the prob Lem. In the first 25 Days of june nearly 550 High temperature records were set or tied the service said. For the next 30 Days below Normal rain fall was expected in Michigan Ohio Indi Ana Illinois Kentucky and most of califor Nia. However above Normal rainfall was predicted for some drought plagued parts of Montana Wyoming South Dakota Nebraska Kansas new Mexico Iowa mis Souri Oklahoma and Texas. As the weather service released its fore cast Republican vice president George Bush attended a livestock auction in Marion wis., and his democratic presidential rival Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis visited an Iowa Cornfield. We do want to help Bush told about 200 people at the auction. I Don t want to Over Promise he said cautioning that no major changes should be expected in Federal Dairy policies. Dukakis visiting a farm South of Des Moines stressed the importance of pulling together during the drought. We re one nation and one Community and one family he told about 250 people under threatening skies and in Chilly weather that caused Many to Don sweaters. I Don t know whether those storm Clouds overhead mean Dukakis brings Good for tune he said. I Hope  in Alabama gov. Guy Hunt a primitive Baptist preacher who ran a farm before his 1986 election declared wednesday a Day of prayer and asked All alabamians to join him. Many of our people Are suffering Hunt said in a prayer at the Start of a meeting with legislators at the governor s mansion. He asked god to bless our state our lands with Bountiful  it did t rain wednesday but John Hoffner of the weather service in Birmingham said the governor s prayers were Well timed because a storm was approaching Northern Alabama. The rain in Spain not falling mainly in the Plain Madrid Spain a unseasonably Cool and Rainy weather has ruined crops dampened normally sunny resorts and caused traffic problems for spaniards taking to the nation s already Trou bled highways for july holidays. Precipitation has been higher than Normal through the whole month of june with More Days of rain and a lower than average temperature National meteorological Institute forecaster Patricio Fagundez said thursday. But Fagundez said the forecast prom ised a change to More seasonable weather by next week especially along the Mediterranean coast. He said the National meteorological Institute had no figures to compare cur rent rainfall with that of previous years. Recent storms damaged crops in the Mediterranean coastal regions of Murcia and Valencia where officials said rain had Cost Farmers 2.3 billion pesetas $ 19 million. Hail this week caused 1.2 billion pesetas $10 million in damage to crops in the Cen trial province of Toledo. Water Levels in Spanish reservoirs were up 123 percent Over the same Date last year the Public works ministry said. A traffic department official said nine million Holiday travellers were expected to circulate this summer on Spain s antiquated highways. The official said All Road construction has been suspended until monday to ease traffic problems during the weekend exodus from Spain s major cities to the Countryside and coasts. Spanish National radio Rne said 200,000 vehicles were expected to leave the capital thursday. The rain will make traffic much worse and there will be More tie ups but the sus pension of the work should ease the Situa Tion said the traffic official who is not identified in keeping with custom. The official said the traffic department also planned to hand out some two million cassette tapes filled with music advice and jokes for travellers made angry and impatient by predicted backups. Half a million of the tapes have been recorded in arabic and portuguese and Are to be distributed in special rest areas along routes frequently travelled by moroccan and portuguese Emigrant workers returning Home for vacations through Spain from Northern Europe. Abc dusting off old show scripts for fall season Burbank Calif. A Abc says it will pull scripts from old shows off the shelf and refill them with new actors this fall but striking writers warned that the strategy would fail because there s no such thing As a writer proof  the network will use recycled scripts rejected pilots foreign and writer proof work As part of a four Point plan to Deal with the strike Abc entertainment presi Dent Brandon Tartikoff said wednesday. We at Abc have worked too hard dragging ourselves out of the ratings cellar to sit Back and let our efforts be dashed because of the strike Tartikoff said at a news conference that was sent by satellite to Abc affiliate stations. We have been sitting Back patiently watching the negotiations but today we Are taking  the network will announce a revised fall schedule within 10 Days he said. We want to let both the Public and our Advertis ers know that come hell or High water we re g9ing to deliver original shows in the fall Tartikoff said. But a spokeswoman for the 9,000-member writers Guild of America questioned that Resolution. They re not going to fill their fall schedule with out Aga members Cheryl Rhoden said. Even scripts that Are already written take rewrite work. There is no such thing As a writer proof  the Guild struck the Alliance of motion picture and television producers on March 7. Tartikoff noted that Abc was in better shape than the other networks because its coverage of the sum Mer olympics in Seoul Korea and baseball s world series would delay its fall schedule anyway. But Abc was fast approaching the time when without contingency plans it would be unable to put a fall schedule on the air Tartikoff said. The four Point plan would include original shows of existing series that have signed interim agreements with the striking writers such As the Cosby show,1 a different world Highway to heaven and  such Asun variety show no gnaw 10 heaven Auu i a. Writer proof programming sue solved mysteries and a presentational that does not require writers. The Purchase of British and Canadian comedy scripts and passed Over Pilot scripts in which additional episode scripts had been ordered but never filmed. The revival of old shows that Are recast and filmed again using the original  Abc programming department was sifting through nearly 500 properties looking for possible shows that could be put on the air Tartikoff said. He defended the plan to revive old shows and said they were not  would be much easier to simply buy the Golden Oldie reruns than to film the new shows he said. The example i be been giving to the studios is suppose that Bruce Willis had not gone into Moon lighting you could get eight to 10 old Richie Brock Leman scripts a Short lived spinoff of the Rock Ford files and re do them with Willis he said. We All know that a lot of recycling goes on in this business anyway. Look at Broadway. Without Revi Vals half of Broadway would be