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I'll- UiPSh WW 1 24A NEWS-PRESS. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1988 until (From Sunday until noon Monday) I 0-9'Lj TODAY'S OUTLOOK lsrrr sri iosj Norfolk Okla.City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Portland Providence Raleigh Rapid City Kent Richmond Si. Lous Saltldke 24; 34 cldy 3171 sun 13 43 ptel 19 27 sun 50 76 sun 09 18 ptel 21 29 sun 37 51 cldy 24 27 sun 20 36 sun 24 wind 3656 sun 20 33 sun 15 33 cldy 26 42 fair 30 71 cldy 50 76 sun 47 69 sun 70 84 cldy 5 20 snw 41 50 rain 35 45 ptel 16 20 ptel 22 ,58 cldy 47; 78 sun Sunday Monday Tides a.m. Tides p.m. Tide a.m.

Location High Low High Low High Low Big Carlo Pass 502 9:34 5:50 Boca Grande 4:34 9:30 5:22 Bokeelia 6:52 10:34 7:40 Bonita Beach 5:25 9:44 6:13 Cape Coral 8:32 11:57 9:20 Cape Romano 11:35 4:52 10:03 4:35 5:43 Captiva Island 6:10 9:56 6:58 Edison Bridge 9:14 12:50 10:02 Englewood 5:50 9:45 6:38 EvergladejCity 8:05 1147 6:40 8:56 Ft.Myer Beach 4:56 9:32 5:44 Marco 11:48 4:47 10:16 4:30 5:38 Matlocha 7:58 11:25 8:46 Naples 10:53 3:51 9:21 3:34 11:30 4:42 Pineland 6:56 10:23 7:44 Point Ybel 5:18 8:52 6:06 PuntaGorda 7:57 11:48 8:45 PuntaRassa 5:11 9:41 5:59 RedfishPoss 5:16 9:47 6:04 St James City 5:46 10:12 6:34 San Antanio San Die i2eVss dTf 2'S 30's (Eatl 50'S JSan City rfftWi frmn.ee I I V'lLS 60'S I L-Lor 7" zz 70-s I I 'N New Orleans Al-v TODAY'S KjjK STATE Warm Iront Cold (rant I San Frantjsco San Juan StSteMan Seattle Spokane Syracuse Topeka Tucson Tulsa 28 69 cldy 20 29 sun frc 18 24 snw 27 66 fair 26 73 fair; 18 28 cldy 13 32 sun 22 46 sun 20 25 sun 19 28 sun 20 50 ptel 14 31 ptel 35 45 ptel 24 27 sun 42 73 cldy 15 20 ptel 15 24 snw 11 23 sun 18 40 sun 32 52 wnd 5 19 ptel 2 22 cldy 7 19 ptel 22 45 sun 03 18 cldy 34 70 ptel -3 15 ptel 34 64 wnd 13 30 cldy 11 23 cldy -13 11 ptel 22 72 fair 12 27 cldy -10 9 snw 05 24 cldy 21 32 sun 27 40 ptel 73 82 sun 46 68 sun -4 21 cldy 25 65 fair 34 35 rain 11 49 cldy 38 75 sun 17 46 tstm 52 75 sun 11 24 ptel 12 46 ptel 01 18 ptel 0 20 wnd 17 34 ptel 32 65 ptel 19 26 sun City Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo BurlingtonV CharlestonWV CharlotteNC Cheyenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland ColumbiaSC ColumbusO Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Evansville Fairbanks FargoND Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis JocksonMS Juneau Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Washington Tcmpwetur extremal Occluded Stationary Maine Mostly sunny and windy. Highs 20 to 30. Tonight: Fair then cloudy. Lows -5 north to 10 High 14 at Palm Springs, Calif. Lew .21 below at OunnUon, Cols.

State i lost Mar. 11 Feb. 17 Fob. 34 a above south. Snow: Scattered flurries over most of the state.

Monday: Cloudy and snow. Highs 20 to 30. Gainesville Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50 and low 60s. Wind northeast 10 mph.

Tonight: Fair, lows in the mid-30s to upper 40s. Rainfall: No rain predicted. Monday: Partly sunny. Highs in the low to mid-60s. LA IT A Orlando Sunset todayi 6:18 p.m.

Sunrise Monday) 7:05 a.m. Moonrlso Monday! 5:35 a.m. Venus low in the west at 8:57 p.m. Jupiter low in the west at 10:25 p.m. Venus will pas to the north and east of Jupiter March 6.

Outlook through Thursday Mostly cloudy, and cool with a chance of rain Tuesday. Mostly fair and sunny Wednesday. Rain returning Thursday. Highs in the 70s. Lows in the 60s.

Beating (Cap Sablo to Tarpon Springs)! Today wind northeast to east 10 to 15 knots and seas 2 to 4 feet. Tonight wind east 10 knots and seas 2 to 4 feet. Bay and inland waters a light to moderate chop. Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 50s.

Wind light and variable. Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s. i Rainfall: None predicted. Monday: Partly sunny.

Highs in the lower 60s. Gainesville ,30 57 Jacksonville "30 54 Key West 56 73 Miami 45 73 Orlando 40 63 Tallahassee 21 56 Tampa 38 59 Canada 1 Calgary 19 42 Edmonton 9 31 Montreal 14l 21 Ottawa Ill 18 Regina -1 29 Toronto 11 19 Vancouver 43 47 Winnipeg 0 20 MelbourneX I. Tampa Sahrlnn 'S. I Sarasota Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid-60s.

Wind notheast 10 to 15 A. Charlotte I mJ West Clewlston Palm t4ort i BMChi mph. Tonight: Fair. Lows in the mid-40s to low 50s. Rainfall: Rain predicted.

Monday: Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Recorded at Page Field. Pep Saturday's night Cape Coral 42 64 66 (normal 74). FM Beach 52 68 Saturday's lowi Immokalee 43 62 40 (normal 52).

LaBelle 49 68 Record high for datoi Lehigh Acres 54 73 88 in 1959. PuntaGorda 51 66 Rocord low for datoi Naples 41 64 32 in 1955. Sanibel 46 63 1. 1-Naple. 1 Today: Partly sunny.

Highs in the upper A 60s. Wind northeast 10 to 15 mph. If xri Tonight: Fair. Lows in the low 50s to .5 Gulf watort 60 degrees. 24-hour rainfall: None.

Month to datos 1.05 inches. Normal for February: 2.06 inches. Year to datot 2.19 inches. Normal for tho yoari 53.64 inches. Rolaf Wo humidity! 76 percent at 8 a.m.

and 40 percent at 1 p.m. Lafco Okoochobooi 16.25 feet (desired level 16.02 feet). Highest wind gusti 12 knots (NE) at Fort Myers Beach. near 60. Wind northeast 5 to 10 mph Rainfall: No rain predicted.

Today: Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Wind northeast 1 5 mph. Tonight: Fair. Lows in the low 50s to near 60.

Rainfall: No rain predicted. Monday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Monday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.

Satellite photo recorded at 3is p.m. Saturday Snow cover the Plaint, Midwest and Tennessee alleys. 7T i Olympic frompageM the owner of the lot. Roggendorf contacts the Charlotte County Sheriff's Department. Joyce Esser receives notice that her family's house will be foreclosed upon on Feb.

19. Jan. 5: Title Insurance Co. of Minnesota files a $1 million civil suit against Floridians Title in Charlotte County Circuit Court, claiming Wat-kins misappropriated money that should have been given to the underwriter. Feb.

8: Joyce Esser files a complaint with the Charlotte County Sheriffs Department, charging that Floridians Title has misued the money she gave them for the home she bought last year. Feb. 11: Lawyers for Floridians Title and Title Insurance Co. of Minnesota meet in Charlotte County circuit court. Title Insurance Co.

of Minnesota's attorney demands Floridians Title's records be transferred to Title Insurance offices in Tampa. Title Insurance Co. is auditing Floridians Title's records. Circuit Judge Elmer 0. Friday rules that the records should stay in Floridians Title's Englewood office.

Feb. 12: In the morning, Title Insurance Co. says the Essers problem is a priority of the company. In the afternoon, it pays off the old mortgage on the Essers' house, meaning the Gulf Cove couple will not lose their home or their investment. W.

Donald Cox, the underwriter's lawyer, says several of Floridians Title's debts have been paid and more claims are coming in. He says Title Insurance Co. of Minnesota "is responsible for things that happened up to the termination (of the license on Dec. 17)." Here's a chronology of events so far In the unfolding problems associated with Floridians Title Insurance Co. Inc.

of Englewood. 1982: Floridians Title Insurance Co. Inc. files incorporation papers with the state of Florida to do business at 1505 S. McCall Road, Englewood.

Luther "Ed" Watkins is listed as president; Patricia Collins as vice president. October and November: Floridians Title is supposed to pay CRW Development of Englewood $366,000 it had received while performing real estate closings. Title Insurance Co. of Minnesota, the Englewood company's underwriter at the time, allegedly pays CRW and says Floridians Title's repayment checks bounce. November: Joyce and Tom Es-ser move into a home at 1226 Anderson Road in Gulf Cove.

They give Floridians Title $55,000 to pay off a previous mortgage on their new home. Dec. 17: At Insurance Title Co. of Minnesota's request, the state Department of Insurance cancels Floridians Title's license to operate as an agent of Title Insurance Co. of Minnesota.

Dec. 29: Ed Roggendorf, 57, of Bridgewater Township, N.J., comes to Florida and pays $10,000 for a lot at 1368 Kiskadee Drive in Englewood. He gives the money to Floridians Title. The school bus driver tells his children and grandchildren, "I've got land in Florida." "January: Roggendorf learns that the lot is not his because the company has not given his money to Before them had cone the usual rainbow of countries; from the trenchcoats of the Freich team to the bright red jackets of Fiji to a couple from Guam. "Jappy Birthday" was played for theAustralians, whose country is celebnting No.

200 this year. And where els do you ever see 19 people from Lieihtenstein in the same place? The Americans ha more than 100 athletes marching, krith only the hockey players missing They had to miss out since ABC hal talked the Olympic committee int scheduling the Americans for a prime-time game with Austria justa few hours later. Carrying the flag foithe U.S. was 39-year-old biathlete Ljle Nelson, in his fourth Olympics an who probably is as close to the Olynpic ideal as any. He has had to make sacrifices for Saturday morning he was remember how the monej was sj tight back in the late 1970s, he fount himself one day digging a ditch tthelp find a sewer pipe for a plumbtr just to make a few bucks.

Down the hole were him, his shovel, his tasters' degree in engineering andhis will to compete. A Nelson, who also is in the National Guard, added how he gets well with the Soviet biathletes, wo invariably are soldiers. And how tie Soviet openness seems to be evidett so far at the Olympics. 1 The Soviets are openly tradinj pins and conversing with the Ameri can athletes this year. A few years ago, Nelson said, one of the Russian oolrt merlnllcfe umnlH acts such as Los Angeles did four years ago in the Summer Olympics, the Calgary organizers preferred to stick to simple music and dance with a western theme, mostly by thousands of area children who had practiced up to a year for their five min-.

utes on the world's stage. Calgary was eager for its moment in the sun, even if the sun was behind the snow cloud. Nearly everything went smoothly with the performers, from the Indians who still honor all 1-year treaty with the Canadian government to the jet precision team flying overhead. "What these athletes are going to show you the next 15 days is real," said Frank King, chairman of the local organzing committee. "The dream has become a reality." There were the traditional rituals of lighting the Olympic torch, with the honors done by Robyn Perry, 12, an area seventh-grader.

There, too, were the trappings and realities of a modern Olympics. An hour before the ceremony started, the announcer chirped instructions for all fans to find the parkas that were left in their seats and wear them a certain way way "for better television effect." The effect was each side of the stadium looked like the Olympic flag. And not long after that announcement, a local Olympic official came through the press area, reminding the media not to stand up too quickly because the VIPs were sitting close by and there were "men with rifles upstairs who won't like sudden movements too very much." The loudest cheers were for the parade of athletes, and the loudest cheer of all was for the entrance of the Canadian team coming in last as the host country always does. Figure skater Brian Orser, who likely will battle American Brian Boitano for the gold medal, marched in front with the flag. Not long before that, the Soviets and Americans marched in one after the other; the Russians in fur coats and caps, the Americans in long coats, scarves and fedoras.

Ci -5 THOMAS A. PRICENEWS-PRESS Troubled Floridians Title Insurance Co. Inc. Is being Investigated for misuse of escrow account funds. din rn hie rnnm at mlHnlnht wnA Qfrornpage1A pins, not wanting to get caught by i soviet omciais.

"I'll probably have a tear in my eye," ne said earner in the dav be of many Northerners retirement in sunny Florida. He paid $10,000 to Floridians Title for the lot Dec. 29, he said. But the dream darkened when he later found out the state had already canceled the company's license, and that the seller claimed he hadn't received the money. Wally Senter, state title insurance coordinator, said Floridians Title's license was canceled because of "irregularities in its escrow accounts." Title Insurance Co.

of Minnesota may not be liable for the money because the deal was closed after Title Insurance Co. severed its relationship with Floridians Title. While Title Insurance Co. conducts an internal audit to determine the nature of the Floridians Title Irregularities, Roggendorf has filed a complaint with the Charlotte County Sheriffs Department. Haugk, who has the power of attorney for Roggendorf, is upset.

"We were like sheep (led) to the slaughter," Haugk said. He went on to protest a statement by sheriff's Cpt. Robert Miller who said what happened to Roggendorf was not a violent crime. fore the ceremonies, "but I don't know if it'll be from the wind on my contacts or the emotion." Saturday afternoon in a windswept stadium where the children played and the world watched, either would have done. Milky Way resembles warped record, new findings show ByPAULRAEBURN Associated Press University of Maryland, said Saturday.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Blitz said, "Our picture of the galaxy has changed significantly in the last fivetolOyears." The Milky Way, once considered merely a typical example of a spiral galaxy, is now thought to be a much more exciting and interesting aggregation. Among the recent findings reported Saturday were: Ninety percent of the galaxy is Invisible, and nobody knows what this huge "dark halo" is made of. The galaxy is powered by two compact objects at its center that might be the remnants of starburst formation or that could be associated with a black hole. The galaxy's dark halo could be full of remnants of the big bang called weakly Interactive mass! ve particles or WIMPs. don't know what it is, said Martin Rees of Cambridge University.

It could be made of a trillion very small, faint stars, each one-tenth the size of the sun. Another possibility is that it is composed of black holes, the remnants of massive stars. Or it could be made of WIMPs, an explanation that Rees said is more radical than the others. "What we want to do is narrow down the possibilities," Rees said. The galaxy consists of a slim star-studded disk about 100,000 light-years across, Blitz said.

(A light year is about 6 trillion miles.) Surrounding that visible disk is a cloud of hydrogen gas extending another 25,000 light-years. It is at the edge of that gaseous disk that radio astronomers have found warping and scalloping, Blitz said. Beyond that lies 90 percent of the mass of the galaxy. It is invisible, and astronomers BOSTON The disk-shaped Milky Way galaxy is not flat, but resembles instead a warped phonograph record and is adorned with a delicate, scalloped edge, new observations show. "The scalloping is something we don't understand," Leo Blitz, an astronomer at the.