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eather Local Weather REGI0NA155Veat fieri conditions and high temperatures in the 30s and 40s. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESERT AREAS Mostly clear Friday. Variable high clouds Saturday and Saturday night except partly cloudy over the Owens Valley. Mostly clear Sunday except some clouds over the northern deserts. Gusty west to southwest winds Saturday afternoon through Sunday.

Owens Valley highs in the 60s with lows in the low 30s to low 40s. Upper desert highs io the mid-60s to lower 70s with lows in the 40s to lower 50s. Lower desert highs in the 70s to lower 80s. Lows in the 50s. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FROM MARIN, SOLANO, SACRAMENTO AND EL DORADO COUNTIES NORTHWARD Increasing clouds and chance of rain spreading from the north Friday.

Rain likely Friday night turning showery Saturday. Lingering showers mainly over the mountains Sunday. Snow at higher elevations. Coastal highs 50s. Lows 40s and lower 50s.

Coastal valley highs 50s to lower 60s. Lows upper 30s to near 50. Inland valley highs mid-SOs to mid-60s. Lows 40s to lower 50s. Mountain highs 40s and lower 50s.

Lows mid-20s to mid-306. River Report The Kings River report for the past 24 hours: Calculated natural flow 128 second feet; Pine Flat Dam storage 50,498 acre-feet; actual flow 151 second feet; released units below Highway 99 was 0 second feet. Temperatures Temperatures indicate previous days high and overnight low to 8 a.m. EDT. For Kings County and the six county area, fair tonight.

Mostly sunny Thursday except increasing cloudiness in the north during the afteraooo. Light wind tonight with lows in the 40s and lower 50s. Highs Thursday in the mid-60s to mtd-70s. The maximum relative humidity Tuesday at Lemoore Naval Air Station was 52 percent, minimum was 36 percent. The three-day extended forecast, Friday through Sunday, patchy coastal fog and low clouds.

Increasing clouds and mostly sunny south Friday. Chance of rain in the north and over the Sierra Nevada Friday night and Saturday. Variable clouds with lingering showers over the Sierra Nevada Sunday. Snow at higher elevations. Coastal highs mid-50s to mid-60s.

Lows mid-40s to mid-50s. Coastal valley highs in the 60s. Lows 40s to lower 50s. Inland valley highs 60s and lower 70s. Lows mid-40s to mid-50s.

Mountain highs upper 40s and 50s. Lows mid-20s to lower 40s. Sunset Wednesday Sunrise Thursday Sunset Thursday Sunrise Friday 6:14 p.m. 7:15 a.m. 6:13 p.m.

7:16 a.m. Looking AHead SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL AREAS Partly cloudy Friday morning becoming mostly sunny Friday afternoon. Cloudy Saturday and Saturday night. Partly cloudy Sunday. Highs in the low 60s to lower 70s.

Lows mostly to tbe 50s. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN AREAS Mostly clear Friday except partly cloudy coastal slopes Friday morning. Cloudy Saturday and Saturday night. Partly cloudy Sunday. Gusty westerly winds Saturday afternoon through Sunday.

Highs in the 50s. Lows Crime Continued from Page 1 If the conferees can agree on legislation acceptable to Bush, prospective handgun purchasers are likely to face a waiting period while police check to determine if they have criminal records. Both the House and Senate approved waiting periods for handgun purchases but differ on assault weapons. The House rejected a ban on 13 types of semiautomatic weapons. The Senates bill, passed in July, would ban nine types of assault-style weapons.

The Senates five-day waiting period was included in its crime package while the seven-day period approved by the House was passed as separate legislation in May. Both the House and Senate would apply the death penalty to more than i 50 federal crimes, including hijackings, terrorism, espionage, treason and political assassinations. The death penalty could be prescribed for such non-fatal crimes as hijacking, possession of large amounts of cocaine, the wounding of the president and attempted assassination that results in critical injury. The House voted 223-191 Tuesday to reject a provision to allow defendants in capital cases to escape execution if they could show that the death penalty was applied in called exclusionary rule, which prohibits illegally seized evidence from being used in court. The Senate rejected the presidents proposal to allow exceptions 'It is time that we start focusing on these noncon-troversial nuts and bolts remedies that really reduce Rep.

Charles E. Schumer Democrat, New York Accu-Wealher'' forecast for daytime Si San Francisco 66 Los Angeles 72' Pacific Ocean 1991 Accu-Weather, Inc. XXX XXX SHOWERS RAIN T-STORMS FLURRIES SNOW Thomas Continued from Page 1 I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially bituaries Robert 1 A memorial service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Nov. 9 in Hanford for Robert C.

Burr, 65, who died Sept. 3 at Camp Verde, Ariz. i At 10:30 a.m., a memorial also is planned in the same cemetery for his father-in-law and mother-in-law, V. and Beulah Hawley, at the Hawley family plot. Carl Hawley jtiicd Sept.

his wife had preceded in death. Mr. Burr was bom in Hanford, jon of the late Robert and Alice Clark Burr, longtime Lakeside area residents. He attended Lakeside Elementary School and graduated in 1944 from Hanford High School where he was in the top 10 in his class. He also was an outstanding 'A-H member and as a teenager was a itate 4-H winner.

In 1946 and 47, Mr. Burr was in Jhe Airborne, stationed in Japan. Upon his return to the United States, he bought property in the Lakeside area and started farming. Mr. Burr had come from a farming family, looked upon agriculture as a challenge as well as an occupation, land thus pursued a career that was to Lee Terry Lee Robnett, 44, of Avcnal -died Monday in Hanford.

Death was to a heart attack. I Mr. Robnett, bom in Cooper, Texas, had lived in Avcnal for 11 lycars and for the past decade was employed in oil field maintenance Chevron. He was a U.S. Army veteran.

Surviving are his wife, Glenda; a son, Ethan Robnett of Avenal; three daughters, Tessa, Tara and Magan Robnett, all of Avenal; his mother, Fanny Ruth Humphries of Texas; two brothers, Bobby Jack Robnett Terry for warrantless searches if federal agents thought they were acting properly. But the House approved the provision over objections of Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. When the Senate passed its crime bill, Sen. Joseph R. Biden chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, invited the House to adopt less restrictive language on habeas corpus.

An issue that helped prevent agreement last year on broad anticrime language will not be at the table this year. ICE SUNNY PT. CLOUDY CLOUDY discharge and perform all duties incumbent upon me as an associate justice of the Supreme Court under the Constitution and the laws of the United States, so help me God. Thomas is the courts second black justice. C.

Burr take him to another continent, an island in the Caribbean and to another state in the years that followed. He was married to the former Barbra Hawley in 1948. Mr. Burr was elected trustee of the Lakeside School District by write-in vote in the early 1950s. In 1959, he moved his family to Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia, Africa, where he fanned tobacco and com for four years.

Upon their return to the United States in 1963, the Burrs settled in Yuma, where he farmed for another eight years. After the children completed their education and both married, Mr. Burr and his wife moved to Santa Ana, Costa Rica, in 1971. There, he raised jicama, asparagus, sweet potatoes and other crops unusual to that area. The Burrs migrated back to the States again in 1988 and lived in Camp Verde, until his death.

Mr. Burr is survived by his wife; son, Bruce Burr of Houston, Texas; daughter, Robin Liles of Yuma, a sister, Robin Brisco of Tus-tin, and six grandchildren. Robnett and Cloyce Robnett, both of Texas, and a sister, Beth Scoggins of Texas. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery at Coalinga.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the Buchheim Family Coalinga Chapel. Remembrances may be sent to the Senior Class of 92 and Sixth Grade Camp, in care of Shirley Hodges, 204 San Mateo Avenal, CA 93204. Albany.N.Y. Albuquerque Amarillo The House and Senate bills, however differ on the important procedural issues, including Bushs proposal to restrict so-called habeas corpus petitions by state prisoners, particularly those on death row.

The Senate has passed the president's proposal. But the administration objects to House-passed habeas corpus language and officials warn that Bush could veto crime legislation if this provision is included in the final package enacted by Congress. The House version would give state prisoners the chance to file only one habeas corpus petition to appeal their convictions unless they find new evidence of innocence or a miscarriage of justice. The administration says the exceptions are loopholes that would allow endless appeals, iThe administration also opposes a 1 House provision that would negate a 1989 Supreme Court decision that prohibits state prisoners from citing high-court rulings made after their convictions as the basis for seeking a new trial. The House and Senate bills also differ on the exceptions to the so- PORTRAIT STUDIO At the corner of 12th Lacey Specializing in Children Family Portraiture Call 585-8066 -orawt ublic Meetings Schools Workers Compensation Board Members of the Kings County Schools Joint Powers Agreement Board for Workers Compensation will meet Thursday to consider reimbursement of benefit costs for the past three months, to hear a proposal on a three-year asbestos follow up, and to consider approving an audit contract from Behrens, Bckcdam and Blackburn, CPA, Inc.

for the fiscal year ending June 30. The board will also meet in closed session to consider permanent disability settlements. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. in the Kings County Office of Education. Armona Elementary School District Trustees of the Armona Union Elementary School District will meet Thursday to consider allowing the superintendent to draft a board policy for the prevention of gang symbolism and gang behavior at Armonas two schools.

The board will also consider requesting estimates for replacing the playground surface at Armona Elementary School, the first installment of the 1991-92 review of board policies, and approving certification of temporary athletic team coaches. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the district office board room at the Armona Community Center Building. Hanford Recycling Task Force The Hanford Task Force on Recycling will meet Thursday to receive updates on the citys commercial and residential recycling efforts and the new automated refuse service, and to consider a recycling drawing. The meeting will begin at noon in the Council Chambers of the Hanford Civic Auditorium.

Avenal City Council An emergency ordinance that would prohibit parking in city right-of-ways will be considered by the Avcnal City Council at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Avenal Justice Court. The council will also consider a cooperative agreement with Caltrans on Highway 33 intersections; and consider awarding a contract for Highway 269 concrete work. Lemoore Union High School District The Lemoore Union High School District board of trustees will meet Thursday to consider a developer fee agreement with the city of Lemoore, approval of a child care bid, an alternate education site for the placing of portable buildings, and the Fullbright and International teacher exchange programs. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.

in the district office. their locality in a racially disproportionate manner. The Senate had defeated the provision by a wide margin and the administration worked hard to scuttle it in the House, contending it would impose racial quotas on the death penalty. Proponents afgued that black defendants are sentenced to die for crimes for which while people receive life terms. At the end of 1990, blacks made up 40 percent of the 2,356 inmates on death row but only 12 percent of the nations overall population.

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