European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday August 18,1988 record heat Wilts Midwest Northeast gets some Relief new York a air conditioned government buildings were opened for the elderly in two states and state fair exhibitors packed livestock in ice As record heat covered much of the United states. Record highs were set tuesday from the Eastern Plains to the Ohio Valley and the National weather service predicted More heat and High humidity across the nation s midsection but the Northeast got a break. It s great 25-year-old new York City sanitation worker Frank Nahogyil said while sweeping a Street. We be been sweating like hell the last few weeks. I Start at 6 in the morning. I d be dripping wet by 7 and dying by 10. But now there s a  the temperature in new York City reached Only 86tuesday, after 32 Days of 90-degree-and-above temperatures. In Portland Maine and Wilkes Barre pa., the overnight temperature dipped below 60. The heat continued elsewhere. Temperature records for the Date were reached in More than a dozen cities. Milwaukee broke a 52-year-old record for the mos Days of triple digit temperatures in a year five. The 100-degree Reading tuesday also broke the High for the Date of 98 set in 1937. In Chicago the temperature was 100 the 46thday the Mercury has hit the 90s or higher this season. Things did t Cool Down much by Early wednesday it was 86 in both St. Louis and Minneapolis St. Paul after Midnight. High temperatures were expected to Range from the Middle 90s to near 105 degrees from the mid Atlantic states through the lower Ohio mid Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys into the Central Plains. In Kansas City the heat bothered some 10,000 competitors at the drum corps International world championships. And the artificial turf at Arrowhead stadium did t help with the temperature an Esti mated 130 degrees on the playing Field said Joe Clark the stadium s Security manager. Iowa gov. Terry Branstad authorized the use of some air conditioned government buildings for the elderly and others who wanted to escape the heat. In Wisconsin Dane county executive Richard j. Phelps ordered the county forum exhibition Hall opened to elderly persons and others. Kentucky officials advised those without air conditioning to go to centers for the elderly or shopping centers. At least six Kentucky school systems have delayed classes or closed schools this summer because of the heat said Gordon Nichols chief spokesman at the state department of education. As people turned air conditioners on to Cool off Many utilities reported record electricity consumption. Town Council members in Poughkeepsie ., tired of hearing How hot it has been this summer passed a Resolution monday night making it illegal to report a temperature Over 90 degrees within City limits. Anyone caught violating the Law will be banished to the top of the local civic Center s marquee where they will be sentenced to make ice sculptures until the sculptures no longer melt the Council said. For or. Dies of cancer on his 74th birthday Poughkeepsie  A Franklin Delano Roosevelt jr., a former congressman and third son of Franklin d. And Eleanor Roosevelt died of cancer wednesday his 74th birthday at the Vassar Brothers Hospital. Roosevelt who lived in nearby Mill Brook was admitted to the Hospital july 21, said Charles Gill a spokesman. Hedged at 8 . Christopher Roosevelt said his father died of lung cancer. It was a very late diagnosis and very fast  Roosevelt a Liberal Democrat who cameos age while his father was president began his own political career in 1949 when he Defeated the tammany Hall backed democratic candidate for the 20th congressional District seat. He served three term sin Congress retiring in 1955. Although Roosevelt bore a striking re semblance to his father and even shared the habit of throwing his head Back whence laughed he said in a 1954 interview with the associated press that his father did not train him in  when first elected Roosevelt said his Victory was proof that we Are experienc ing a revolution in american politics and he predicted the end of big Cit party organizations formerly held by irresponsible clubhouse  but Congress was the Only race won from the powerful tammany  lost the democratic nomination for governor in 1954 to Averell Harriman who was supported by tammany Boss Carmen Disapio. As a Consolation he was nominate for attorney general but he lost that race to a popular Republican Jacob k. Javits. Roosevelt a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law school ran for governor again in 1966 on the Liberal party ticket know ing that he would lose but determined to Force the democratic Bosses to open the nominating process to the voters in Pri Mary elections his son said. A close Friend and Earnest campaigner for John f. Kennedy Roosevelt served a Kennedy s undersecretary of Commerce and was the first chairman of the equal employment Opportunity commission under president Lyndon Johnson. At the time of his death Roosevelt was chairman of the executive commit tee of the Mickelberry corp. And chair Man of the Board of the Park Avenue Bank in new York. His last Public appearance was june 4when he visited the ancestral Home of the Roosevelt family in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands which has been turned into the Roosevelt study enter. Joined by the grandson of former Brit ish prime minister Winston Churchill Roosevelt presented former Germa Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with the Man survives drive Down 250-foot Cliff Palos Verdes estates Cut Ltd