European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 18, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 expert says heat May claim thousands by the los Angeles times Chicago a killer heat wave continued to Fry the Midwest tuesday with languid enervating 100-degree tempera Tures that one environmental expert said might claim thousands of victims by the end of summer. Certainly More than 10,000 deaths was the prediction of w. Moulton Avery executive director of the Washington based Center for environmental physiology and an expert on heat related ail ments. And it would t Surprise me if i exceeded the number of deaths in 1980." the National Center for health statistic reported 15,000 heat related deaths that year when persistent hot weather Smoth ered much of the Midwest and North East. In metropolitan Chicago alone thereat has been blamed for two deaths a Day every Day so far this month. The highest mortality is among peo ple who have underlying diseases like cardiac patients those with emphysema or alcoholics said or. Cai Glushak a University of Chicago Hospital emergency room physician. Also at risk Are infants and the elderly. But others also could be in danger. Inthe last month two new York men 23 and 24, died of heat stroke while running temperature in degrees fahrenheit 110 105 100 95 90 85 80 75 70 relative humidity in percent it i v a 113 104 96 90 84 78 73 67 is note it 123 110 101 93 -86 79 74 68 135 120 107 96 88 81 75 69 is impossible for 149 132 114 100 90 82 76 70 the air to 144 124 106 93 85 77 70 absorb 136 113 97 86 78 71 122 102 88 79 71 108 91 80 72 More moisture above in corporate Challenge races. Our Call volume probably reached re Cord Levels in the last three or four Days said Suzanne Halpin acting vice presi Dent of new York City s emergency medical services. Avery said that the death rate fro heat related maladies this summer is Likely to be higher than it was during 1980, because the nation s elderly population is larger now and because this summer s oppressive weather has been especially severe in Urban areas wit their big concentrations of population. Avery also said that this summer s heat promises to last longer and cover a big Ger area of the country than the hot weather in 1980. Tuesday s temperatures in downtown Chicago steamed to 104 degrees. The heat Index a combination of How thereat and humidity feel on the skin the summer equivalent of Winter s wind chill Factor reached 111 degrees. In St. Louis the temperature hit 101 degree Sand the heat Index edged near 115 de Grees. It was 103 in Des Moines Iowa,101 in Madison wis., 100 in Indianapolis and 102 degrees in Paducah ky., where the heat Index hit 115 degrees. One measure of the heat this Summers cumulative. In Chicago for example the Days of temperatures 90 degrees or More have totalled 45 More than six weeks since late May. Seven of those Days were 100 degrees or Wanner More Days Over the Century Mark than have Ever been recorded in any summer Here. At tuesday noon in Chicago it was shot and so difficult to breathe that downtown workers stayed in air conditioned offices or crowded into Cool department stores. Tourists were staying off the streets of Washington d.c., where the tempera Ture moderated tuesday to a Mere 93degrees 10 degrees cooler than it was there on monday. A lot of people arc going indoors to beat the heat said Tom Murphy Man Ager of tourism promotion for the Washington convention and visitor association. At midday the pavement in chicag was so hot that the anti cruelty society warned pet owners that walking their dogs on the hot pavement would result in burned paws. The heal which already has combined with dry weather to devastate the nation s agricultural Economy this year is now inflicting damage on the Midwest manufacturing Economy. Steel plants and Auto factories Are reporting lower production this week because of the weather. In South Dakota ranchers were warned not to transport their livestock to Slaughter or to feed lots until tempera Tures moderated. And at the National zoo in the nation s capital sprinkler were installed in several animal pens to give the wild animals Relief from thereat. Flag order causes Flap at steel Plant Ashland by. A the management of a steel Plant ordered workers to take Down an american Flag because company officials said it had been Hung Pri Marily to Embarrass visiting japanese businessmen. However Michael Hewlett president of unite steel workers of America local 1865, said the Flag was displayed at Aramco inc s Ashland works to show the japanese we Are proud to be american steel  i hate to see a company that forgets what they Are or did they he asked monday. Hewlett said hourly workers Hung the 15-Square-Footflag sunday night from a beam in a cast House at one of the Plant s furnaces. It was removed monday before the visiting officials of Kawasaki steel corp. Saw it he said. Aramco spokesman Bill Scaggs said the order to re move the Flag was made after consulting with top Man agers at Plant which employs about 3,500 people. The Flag was put up principally to Embarrass our visitors from Kawasaki he said. Scaggs said the Kawasaki officials were at the Mill to discuss Trade agreements. Hewlett was particularly incensed by a company offer to let steelworkers keep the Flag up if they Dis played a japanese Flag alongside. The Issue of japanese imports displacing american jobs has Long been a sore Point with steelworkers. In 1982, Union members Here took sledgehammers an pounded a japanese car into junk then packed the pieces into a coffin and tried to ship it to Japan. Pilgrims Pray Tell of miracles Lubbock Texas a several Hundred people remained at St. John Neumann roman Catholic Church on tuesday to Pray and share accounts of the miracles they claimed to have witnessed the night be fore. While about 50 people lined up inside the darkened Sanctuary to Pray and leave Flowers before a Small statue of the Virgin Mary others gathered in Small groups in the courtyard outside to talk about what the had seen during monday s evening mass. One woman stopped by the Fountain to dip her Rosary beads in the water. Thousands of worshippers interrupted the outdoor service Early monday evening with cries and applause As hundreds claimed to see Jesus and Mary when a Ray of Light burst through the Clouds. Some worshippers said the Sun appeared to dance in the sky while dozens reported that the Silver beads on their rosaries turned to a Gold color. Others in the crowd including several priests said they saw nothing in the sky but the Sun and Clouds but the pastor of the Church said it looked to him like Host spinning inside the  about 12,000 people came to St. John Neumann charismatic Church after three parishioners reported receiving messages from the Virgin Mary. I will look upon you and you will see my eyes one reported message said. Other messages told the Parish to pre pare for miracles on monday s feast of the Assumption which celebrates the entry of the Virgin Mary into heaven after her death. Humiliated Blind woman to get $ 17,312 san Francisco a the City has offered a$17,312 settlement to pay a Blind woman for her humiliation after she was forced by a policeman to cleanup after her guide dog. Raygena Harper a 25-year-old stockbroker sued the City Over the september 1985 incident. She said she would accept the settlement offer from the City attorney s office which also must be approved by the Board of supervisors. The reason i will Settle for this amount is that it has been going on since 1985," she said. I d prefer to go to trial because i would win hands Down. It in t the Money. They could pay me $500,000 and it would t be enough for what they  the officer Aaron Barnes a 22-year police Veteran said i was just doing my Job. I did t know she was Blind and that it was a guide dog he said. Barnes stopped Harper As she was walking to lunch with some co workers and friends accompanied by her guide dog Flora. She said in her lawsuit that the do indicated it needed to defecate so she led it to the Gutter next to the curb. Moments later she said Barnes walked up and or dered her to clean up after the dog in accordance with the City s proper scooper Law that requires pet own ers to dispose of an animal s waste. Temptation producers expanding film s release Hollywood Calif. Not after successfully opening the last temptation of Christ in nine major cities Las weekend Universal pictures will Send its controversial movie farther afield. Martin Scorsese s revisionist View of Jesus will open in two Texas cities Houston and Austin in addition to other openings in its second week of re lease. Universal will also open the movie in Philadelphia and in Santa Ana South of los Angeles and More cities May be added this week. All nine Heaters in which the movie opened last weekend were owned Byci Neelex Odeon which is 49 percent owned by Mca. In Santa Ana though last temptation will be playing at a theater be longing to the Large am Chain in Philadelphia at an Independent Thea Ter and in Austin at a theater owned by Norman Lear s act Iii. Lear the creator of All in the family is a supporter of people for the american Way which opposes conservative religious organizations on first amendment issues the film s opponents have admitted that their strategy of parades and pro tests backfired last weekend when the movie sold $401,000 Worth of tickets an average of $44,000 per theater. According to Sally Van Slyke vice president of Universal s Field operations pickets who had been numerous at times on Friday in some cities including new York were Down to a handful at most Heaters by tuesday. Van Slyke said that although concerned christians an umbrella organization had received a permit for 1,000 people to demonstrate in Washington on monday evening Only 30 showed up. The Rev. Donald Wildmon the head of the american family association a Christian fundamentalist organization based in Tupelo miss., has threatened a yearlong Boycott of any theater playing the movie and several theater chains have backed away from showing it. Allen Wildmon an associate director of the american family association and Donald s brother said there was a Good possibility of a massive picket in Austin next weekend. The last temptation of Christ stars Willem Dafoe As Jesus and Barbara Hershey As Mary Magdalene