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City Journal, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001 The weather National Temperatures Today Sunday Monday Tuesday Temperatures indicate Friday's high and Los Little Rock Angeles 38 .50 g8 Forecast overnight low to 7 p.m. Hi Lo Pre Otik Louisville 49 35 Sioux City and vicinity: 26 21 cdy Lubbock 53 35 34 Plenty of cloud cover today Amarillo Albuquerque 55 56 27 32 cay Miami Memphis Beach 78 56 43 with a good chance for show- 30 18 .01 cay Midland-Odessa 56 32 cir mid-afternoon. Asheville Anchorage Milwaukee 39 27 cdy ers by Temper- Atlanta .39 Mpis-St Paul 31 31 atures will warm into the mid- Atlantic City Nashville 39 36 ..19 cdy New Orleans 46 30s. The rain mixes with and Austin cir New York City 33 changes to snow with 2-4 Chance of showers Chance of showers Partly sunny Partly cloudy Billings Baltimore 41 sno Norfolk, Va.

40 15 cir inches possible by the time it High around 37 High around 24 High 18 High 13 Birmingham 39 .08 cdy North Platte City 28 sno ends Sunday evening. High Boise Bismarck .41 Omaha 35 26 cdy 13 coy Oklahoma cir Orlando 31 52 .02 temps Sunday will be in the Boston 23 cdy Pendleton 36 ..30 mid- to upper 20s. Dry condi- National weather Buffalo Brownsville 35 Philadelphia 30 cir tions Monday through The forecast for noon, Saturday, Jan. 13. Burlington, Vt.

21 48 12 sno Pittsburgh 27 cir cdy Phoenix 53 49 .48 cdy Wednesday and seasonal with Casper 27 cdy Portland, Maine cir 52 cir Portland, Ore. 33 48 26 .06 Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. .35 cdy Providence high temps in the mid- to Charleston, W.Va. upper 20s. Cheyenne 50 19 sno Raleigh-Durham 55 44 cdy 10s Chicago cdy Rapid City 48 sno Cincinnati 33 cir Reno 38 37 .08 cdy cir National Sioux 20s.

Cleveland .43 Sacramento 56 45 .04 cdy Temperatures cdy Richmond 48 (Data recorded by the Weather Service at Columbus, Ohio 29 cir St Louis 40 34 .02 Gateway Airport) cir Salt Lake City 36 34 .11 cdy 40s 10s Dallas-Ft Worth cir San San Diego Antonio 55 50 .84 High Friday 30s 30s Dayton Denver 27 sno San Francisco 54 .07 30 Low Friday 27 Des Moines 33 33 San 84 Normal high 27 20s Detroit 33 30 cdy Santa Fe 18 .01 cdy 40s Duluth .05 cdy St Seattle Ste Marie 41 cdy Normal low 7 El Paso Record 59 40s Evansville 32 cdy Shreveport 42 23 40 Record 1912 -35 Fargo 20 cdy Spokane 33 29 cdy Fairbanks coy Sioux Falls Record high 1987 64 Flagstaff 30 30 1.05 Syracuse 69 30 19 55 cdy Record low 1916 -28 30s Great Falls 27 20 .09 sno Topeka 50 25 rn 50s Grand Rapids 35 24 cdy Tampa-St Ptrsbg .08 cdy 46 38 .03 cdy Tucson 55 43 .51 cdy Jan. 12, 2000 60s 50s 50s Helena Hartford Spgfld 33 26 sno cir 45 34 Tulsa 43 33 Temperature Humidity -Os Honolulu 83 cir Wichita 38 52 24 cdy rn 3 a.m. 28 Houston 39 48 31 44 cdy cdy Wilmington, Wilkes-Barre Del. 43 24 cir 6 a.m. 28 0s 50s -60s Jackson, Indianapolis Miss.

42 38 cdy National Temperature Extremes for Frinoon 28 0 Jacksonville 50 .12 cdy day 60s 10s Juneau 33 22 .01 sno High 79 at Vero Beach Melbourne and 3 p.m. 29 20s 50 70s Kansas City 44 29 Opa Locka FI 6 29 Las Vegas 50 37 cdy Low 9 below Zero At Saranac Lake Ny p.m. 80s 30s FRONTS: Global Temperatures 2001 AccuWeather, Inc. COLD WARM STATIONARY the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. Friday.

Lima 69 Precipitation 70s 70s Temperatures and weather conditions during La Paz Total Total Precip. Precip, Normal for for to for total Jan. 7 year for p.m. month to Thur. date to Friday date TR TR .00 .00 .26 Via High Associated Pressure: Low Press Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Ice Sunny Pt.

Cloudy Cloudy Athens Beijing Bangkok Auckland Barcelona Barbados Amsterdam Hi Lo Wthr cdy rn Lisbon Manila Madrid Mexico London Nairobi Moscow Montreal Managua City 8881688285 49 383 Normal for year to date .26 Beirut Mason City 33 Belgrade New Nassau Norfolk 30 Bermuda Osaka Berlin cdy Delhi River stages Sioux 37 Scottsbluff Pierre 30 Bogota Oslo 35 Brasilia Panama 89 Sioux City 9.71; minus .12 Omaha 33 Brisbane Paris 38 Rapid 26 Brussels Rio 93 Budapest Rome 62 North Platter 31 Lincoln 35 Sioux B'Aires cir San Jose 82 Degree days Des Moines 37 Cairo cdy San Juan 83 Calgary Santiago 89 Heating degree days 36 Caracas 68 cdy Sao Paulo 88 86 Council 33 Copenhagen cir San Salvador Accumulated (since July 1) 3,705 Dhahran Sapporo Dublin cdy Seoul 18 Frankfurt cdy Singapore 89 Geneva Stockholm 28 23 A mix of freezing rain, sleet or Rain changing to snow in after- Occasional freezing drizzle or Guatemala City cdy Sydney 90 Today freezing drizzle northwest late. noon. Highs 25 to times. 35. Tonight, light freezing in rain changing 20s to Hanoi Harare cdy cdy Taipei Tegucigalpa Sunrise 7:53 Sunset 5:16 today, changing 30s.

to snow snow, heavy at Windy snow late east. Highs in Havana cir Tel Aviv Highs in Tonight, snow with blowing and drifting snow. to lower 30s. Tonight, snow Helsinki sn Tokyo Sunday heavy at times northwest third. Lows in 20s, with teens pan- statewide and windy most loca- Hong Kong cdy cir Toronto Istanbul Vancouver Sunrise 7:53 Sunset 5:17 Lows in mid-20s to lower 30s.

handle. tions. Lows 15 to 25. Jerusalem cdy Vienna Jo'burg 36 cir Warsaw 36 28 Kiev sn Zurich 36 Moon phases Recorded Report Meteorologist Matt Chase M9. For port a from 24-hour the National recorded Weather weather Ser- reMatt Chase is chief meteorologist at KCAU-TV.

He pro- SIOUX CITY, vice at Sioux City Gateway Airport, vides the Journal's daily and five-day forecasts. You can call (712) 276-3248. Weather informahear his reports Monday through Friday at 5, 6 and 10 in Last New First Full tion also is avaliable on the National p.m. on KCAU. First Quarter moon Quarter Moon Weather Service radio frequency Jan.

16 Jan. 24 Feb. 1 Feb. 8 162.475-MHZ. Hospital overloads worry authorities PHILADELPHIA (AP) Hospital cutbacks and closings coupled with nurse shortages are forcing more and more overcrowded emergency rooms around the country to send ambulances elsewhere.

The hospitals do not have enough ER staff or beds to handle the crush. Health care officials say no one in critical condition is being turned away, and other patients are simply being directed to other hospitals nearby. But they worry what could happen if the crunch gets any worse. "We're dealing with lives. It's not like we're selling widgets," said Brian Connor, president of the Massachusetts Ambulance Association.

When a hospital goes on diversion, as it is known, it puts out the word to emergency services, so that ambulance drivers and their passengers do not have to wander from hospital to hospital. Walk-in patients are still being treated, but many of them are waiting hours to be seen, and then waiting in the ER some more until a bed opens up somewhere in the hospital. Nearly all hospitals have to divert patients from time to time, particularly in the winter, which is the season for colds and flu, as well as chest pain and heart attacks from shoveling snow. But the problem appears to be happening more often, earlier in the season, and over broader areas than usual. In Delaware County, outside Philadelphia, all seven county hospitals were full Monday night and went on diversion.

In the Harrisburg area, all five hospitals had to divert patients for most of three days last week. Experts attribute the problem in part to long-term changes in the health-care industry. In the past 10 years, more than 1,000 hospitals and 1,100 emergency rooms in the United States have closed, and others have had to cut back because of diminished payments from Medicare and managed-care plans. Add to that: severe nationwide shortage of nurses, and an aging population that is starting to require more hospital care. "It's like the highway system, which was pretty much ignored and fell into disrepair until federal and state governments decided they needed to rebuild the infrastructure," said Dr.

Michael Carius, emergency room physician at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut and president-elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians. "We've put health care on the back burner for so long, it's going to take a massive commitment to say, 'We have to have more beds, better-equipped hospitals a system that meets the needs of the Four charged in drug-house shooting PHILADELPHIA (AP) Two men were charged Friday with killing seven people in a drug house last month over what police called "nickel-and-dime drug dealing." Two others were charged with weapons and drug offenses. The massacre, the city's worst shooting in decades, stemmed from one group of dealers undercutting the other's prices, police Capt. James Brady said. Jermel Lewis, 23, and Sacon Youk, 19, were charged with seven counts of homicide, attempted murder, aggravated as- ALMANAC Jaclyn Erickson, Sioux City, a daughter, Jan.

11, 2001, St. Luke's Regional Medical Center. Steven and Brandi Lockmiller, Sioux City, a son, Jan. 2001, St. Luke's Regional Medical Center.

Hospital admissions Thursday Admissions ST. LUKE'S REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER P.O. Box 2000 2720 Stone Park Blvd. Sioux City, lowa 51104 Parris L. Armell, Winnebago, Virginia E.

Baker, Storm Lake, Iowa; Lewis Elmer Curl, Sioux City; Faye Dunn, Marcus, Iowa; Elmer O. Emerson, Sioux City; Jaclyn P.A. Erickson, Sioux City; Bernadine K. Evjen, South Sioux City; Delores M. Foster, Sioux City; Angel A.

Hernandez, South Sioux City; Audrey, A. Lambert, Sioux City; S. Lockmiller, Sioux City; Mette P. Malek, City; Buffy L. Molisee, Sioux City; Ervin F.

Ommen, Akron, Iowa; Leonard E. Wacheldorf, Mapleton, lowa. Dissolutions Jan Maree Mascarello, James Richard Mascarello, married Dec. 17, 1972, in Ida Grove, lowa. George Nick Margeas, Gwenda Michelle Margeas, married Dec.

7, 1991, in Minnesota. Rick Donald Small, Gina Nicole Small, married Dec. 26, 1992, in Elk Point, S.D. Rita J. Top, James D.

Top, married Oct. 23, 1992, in lowa. Linda K. Ingalls, Douglas L. Ingalls, married Nov.

6, 1987, in Sioux City. Myriah Jean Hamel, Steven Ronald Hamel, married June 17, 1999, in Elk Point. Betty Diana Corey, Steven Edward Corey, married April 6, 1968, in Nebraska. Kimberly K. Tucker, Rex R.

Tucker, married Feb. 14, 1987, in Sioux City. Ana J. Quintanilla, Ricardo Quintanilla, married April 8, 1989, in Texas. Mark A.

Wilkens, Patricia L. Wilkens, married July 16, 1977, in Georgia. Kimberly Ann Axthlem, Charles Axthlem, married July 30, 1988, in lowa. Kristina Dailey, Gary Dailey, married May 28, 1991, in Florida. Angela Sue Stoltze, Stanley Alan Stoltze, married March 25, 2000, in lowa.

District court Before Judge John D. Ackerman Second-degree theft Lori Ann Nieman, 37, Sioux City, allegedly from Nov. 17 through Dec. 21 obtained property by deception; pleaded innocent, trial set March 6, $7,000 bond. Forgery Lisa M.

Crippen, 27, Sioux City, allegedly on Sept. 5 forged a check, pleaded innocent, trial set April 17, $9,000 bond. Third-degree burglary, operating while intoxicated Ryan Reed Rogers, 19, Sergeant Bluff, allegedly on Dec. 23 entered an occupied structure with the intent to commit a theft and operated a vehicle while under the influence of drugs alcohol; pleaded innocent, trial set March 20, $13,000 bond. Felon in possession of a firearm Van Eugene Mosier, 37, Ida Grove, lowa, in a plea agreement pleaded guilty to the above charges; five years prison suspended, three years probation, $2,000 fine plus surcharge, 100 hours community service, court costs, attorney fees.

Forgery (three counts), child endangerment, failure to appear Michelle Dawn Goree, 24, Sioux City, in a plea agreement pleaded guilty to the above charges and had seven counts Getting serious about investing? We have been since 1871. Call Today Bill Rosacker 15 1st Avenue NW Investment Representative Edward Jones Le Mars, IA 51031 Serving Individual Investors Since 1871 712-546-8105 Member SIPC www.edwardjones.com of forgery dismissed; seven years prison suspended, two years probation, restitution, court costs, attorney fees. Second-degree theft Derek Arthur Daniels, 42, Sioux City, in a plea agreement pleaded guilty to the above charge; five years prison suspended, three years probation, $750 fine plus surcharge, restitution, maintain employment of at least 35 hours per week, obtain sex abuse treatment, random urinalysis, court costs, attorney fees. Forgery Tereso M. Gonzalez, 43, address unknown, allegedly on Jan.

7 possessed a resident alien card he knew was forged; pleaded innocent, trial set March 6, $10,000 bond. Marriage licenses Layne Earl Schlemmer, 36, Euless, Texas Tanya Georgianna Kazos, 38, Dallas Brian Clifford Anderson, 34, Sioux City Debrah Kay Marshall, 47, Sioux City Joel Lloyd Magee, 39, Dakota Dunes Kimberly Marie Simmons, 30, Sioux City Jarvis Michael Horn, 24, Sioux City Shanna Marie Wilson, 21, Sioux City 255-9536 COMMUNICATING DOORS by Alan Ayckbourn Opens Jan. 19 New comedy, mystery, thriller. You cannot miss this show! Box Office Open 1-5 Mon-Sat PRODUCTIONS THEATRE 417 Market St. Sioux City, IA www.lambtheatre.com Journal Publisher (USPS Ron Peterson Periodicals postage paid at Sioux City, 515 Pavonia St.

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293-4200 Advertising Manager Steve Griffith. Classified Manager Rachel Production Bob 293-4291 sault and simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and robbery. Youk's mother, Meejain, said her son was innocent. The two other men were charged with drug and weapons offenses. Police would not elaborate on the charges.

Four masked men entered the house Dec. 28, forced the 10 people inside to line up on the floor and sprayed them with bullets from at least three different automatic weapons, police said. Seven were killed and three others injured. Visit Us On The Web www.siouxcityjournal.com Search The News Find A New Career Buy A Vehicle Find A Dream Home Sioudand Outtloors email.