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TTTT 11 ir. a 6 f5 5 Tuesday April 13, 1999 Decatur, Illinois Serving Central Illinois Since 1873 fl JK TTh 0 vlnfa Wtffiirl Iv rl VJ' J. 8V II A III II I I If II 1 1 I Area voters face a variety of issues, ballots at the polls today T7 By RON INGRAM Staff Writer Information's just a call away Decatur School District. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Voters should carefully check their preprinted ballot application form the one they must sign when they report to the poll to vote to make sure all the units of local government for VOTE Continued on A4 results from a change in state law consolidating elections normally held in November into the spring. Throughout Central Illinois, village board, city council, school board, park board and fire protection district board members will be elected today. Various referendums are on the ballot including a $64.8 million building bond proposal for the For election information, including locations of polling places in your county, call your county clerk. The following are telephone numbers for area county clerks. Christian: 824-4969 Coles: 348-0501 DeWitt: 935-2119 Douglas: 253-2411 Effingham: 342-6535 Fayette: 618-283-5000 Logan: 732-4148 Macon: 424-1305 Moultrie: 728-4389 Piatt: 762-9487 Shelby: 774-4421 DECATUR There are 80 ballot styles in Macon County precincts for today's general election, said Steve Bean, county clerk.

That could cause confusion among voters, Bean said. The large number of ballot styles no precinct will have more than seven ballot styles Preserving the past A new home for Mount Pulaski Township Historical Society keeps city legends, memorabilia alive. Celebrate C1 Fighting back against the odds if Back to basics Faced with a tight labor market and a rising need for better-skilled applicants, more companies are offering remedial programs or infusing job training with basic skills lessons, according to a study released Monday by the American Management Association. Business A7 1 i I- i 4 Cubs lose home opener Back home at Wrigley Field, Sammy Sosa wanted desperately to please, to give everyone who came what they wanted to Ail i. fl see.

Instead, his struggles at the plate con A i tinued. Not only didn't he homer, he managed just one hit as the Chicago Cubs lost their home opener to the Cincinnati Reds 7-2. Sports B1 f- fay Under judge's civil ruling, Clinton ordered to pay expenses to Paula Jones. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A federal judge found President Clinton in contempt of court Monday for giving "intentionally false" testimony about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, imposing a historic judicial rebuke on a chief executive who survived congressional impeachment just two months ago.

Historians said they believed Clinton was the first president to face such a penalty, a lasting stigma that could also force him to pay tens of thousands of dollars more to Paula Jones beyond the $850,000 he paid to settle her sexual harassment claims. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright imposed a civil rather than a criminal penalty for Clinton's testimony in the Jones case, ordering him to pay Jones "any reasonable expenses including attorneys' fees The judge also ordered the president to pay $1,202 as reimbursement for the judge's travel in the case, and set in motion a process that could strip Clinton of his Arkansas law license. "The record demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the president responded to plaintiff's questions by giving false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process," Wright wrote Wright said she would delay enforcement for 30 days to give Clinton an opportunity to ask for a hearing or to appeal. One option is for him to use his legal defense fund, which has raised $4.5 million, to pay the sanction.

One of Jones' lawyers said the legal expenses could be "tens of thousands of dollars." Senior presidential aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Clinton lawyers regarded the penalty as relatively light because the judge had the option of imposing an immediate criminal contempt penalty of up to six months in prison or referring the president for possible prosecution. "I will have no comment until I have had the opportunity of reviewing this matter fully," said Robert Bennett, the lawyer who represented Clinton in the Jones case. At her home in Cabot, Jones was overjoyed. "Ah! Ta ta ta ta ta. That's all I have to say," she said, waving her hands above her head and dancing.

Asked if she believed the sanction against the president was good for the country, Jones said, "I could care less. It's not about that, it's about what he did." Wright said her decision to dismiss the Jones case a year ago would not have changed, even if the president had been "truthful with respect to his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky." Herald ReviewKelly J. Huff ONE STEP AT A TIME: Learning to walk after suffering the effects of shaken baby syndrome, Kristina Simmons takes small steps with the assistance of a walker and physical therapist Angie Held at Decatur Memorial Hospital. Toddler struggles to overcome effects of shaken baby syndrome I IWKTO 1 Here are the winning numbers selected Monday in the Illinois State Lottery: a Pick Three-Midday: 4-6-9 Pick Three-Evening: 4-6-8 Pick Four-Midday: 1-9-2-5 Pick Four-Evening: 9-9-3-2 Little Lotto: 04-17-2O-22-30 Lotto jackpot: $8 million Big Game jackpot: $7 million By AMY BURCH Taylorville Bureau Chtef TV.

Partly cloudy. to anyone," Lazoritz, medical director of the child protection center at Children's Hospital in Wisconsin, said. "What some call shaken baby syndrome, others don't call shaken baby syndrome. Many babies are shaken and we don't know about it." And, he said, many doctors especially in the emergency room where severely shaken babies end up aren't trained to detect shaken baby syndrome. "As in most medical things, the more blatant cases are easy to diagnose," Lazoritz said.

"It's the subtle ones that are difficult." Anxious moments With Kristina, the diagnosis was obvious although Simmons initially SHAKEN Continued on A4 lems seems nearly endless. But she wasn't born with any complications. In fact, she was a normal baby until Aug. 6 when her baby sitter shook her leading to a 12-day coma, a stroke, 45 days in St. John's Hospital in Springfield, a lifetime of medical bills and a cloudy prognosis for a future that was otherwise healthy.

"Less than a minute of frustration caused this," said Kristina's mom, Janet Simmons. "It's just unbelievable to me." Kristina was one of the lucky victims of shaken baby syndrome. Although statistics on the condition are not kept by the state of Illinois, or few other states, Dr. Stephen Lazoritz said about 25 percent of the 16 to 20 cases of shaken baby syndrome he handles each year result in death. "There's no requirement to report it I IIUI I uu.

DECATUR Kristina Simmons' outgoing personality and angelic face mask the fact that she's not like most toddlers. The 16-month-old from Decatur doesn't spend her days using new skills such as talking and walking that other kids her age are working to develop past the rudimentary level. Instead, Kristina's schedule is packed with appointments to teach her those basic skills. Nearly every day she can be found in Decatur Memorial Hospital's rehabilitation department at appointments for physical and occupational therapy. Kristina also regularly sees a speech therapist, neurologist, eye specialist and rehabilitation doctor.

The list of Kristina's medical prob kL3 Tonight: Cloudy, cool. Low 46. Details B6 I IMEJ5 I Ann Landers C5 Business A7 Celebrate C1 Classifieds D1-6 Comics C6 Movies C5 Obituaries A5 Opinion A8 Puzzles D1.2.5 Sports B1-5 Television C7 countdown: Study finds tomato nutrient may be key ally in cancer fight that cancer tissue was less likely Yugoslavia seeks alliance with Russia As missiles continue to rain down on capital, passenger train reportedly destroyed. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) A wave of NATO attacks late Monday targeted Yugoslav fuel depots and heavy industry, and an allied hit was blamed for turning a Yugoslav passenger train into a heap of burning wreckage. Serb officials said at least 10 people aboard the train were killed and 16 injured.

Even as the alliance expressed regret over loss of civilian life, NATO foreign ministers vowed to press ahead. As darkness fell over the capital Monday, air raid sirens went off in Belgrade and other cities, heralding another night of raids. Near Kosovo's provincial capital, Pristina, the local crisis center said more than 15 missiles rained down on the capital. Celebrate 1000 envision the future PHILADELPHIA (AP) A study has found the first direct evidence that the nutrient that makes tomatoes red may protect men against prostate cancer by shrinking tumors and slowing their spread. The nutrient, lycopene, has emerged as one of the trendiest of all nutritional supplements in recent years.

Large population surveys have suggested that those who eat plenty of tomatoes a natural source of lycopene are less likely to get prostate cancer and some other malignancies. To see if tomatoes are truly the reason why, researchers from the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit gave lycopene capsules to men who were about to undergo surgery to remove their cancerous prostate glands. The study involved 33 men who were randomly assigned to take lycopene or nothing for 30 days before their prostate operations. Before surgery, the volunteers showed no obvious signs that their cancer had spread. After surgery, the doctors found to extend clear to the edges of the lycopene users' prostate glands.

And pre-cancerous cells in their prostates were less abnormal-looking. The findings were presented in Philadelphia on Monday at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Dr. Omar Kucuk cautioned against routine use of lycopene supplements without more evidence In the study volunteers were given two daily 15-milligram capsules of a lycopene extract. Kucuk said this is the amount of lycopene found in about a pound of tomatoes.

However, since lycopene is not easily absorbed from raw tomatoes, it might take two or three pounds to actually raise blood levels as high as were seen in the study. "The results are significant," said Dr. Frank Rauscher of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. "It's remarkable that lycopene may have both therapeutic and preventative value." Associated Press SEEKING SHELTER: Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo take shelter Monday from the downblast of a United States Air Force MH-53 helicopter taking off after delivering military rations to feed refugees at a camp near Kukes, northern Albania. Sponsored by.

Archer Daniels Midland Decatur Memorial Hospital Illinois Power Co. 50 cents Our 126th year Issue 103 Four sections NATO bombs also hit a military barracks in a Belgrade suburb, Studio radio reported. Yugoslavia's parliament voted Monday to join an alliance with Russia and Belarus an apparent move to try to draw Russia into the conflict, although Russia KOSOVO Continued on A10 War, not games, on the minds of Yugoslav players The NATO airstrikes in Serbia and Kosovo have sparked anguish and protest among Yugoslav soccer and basketball players in professional leagues throughout Europe. Sports B1 niiii limn "02138 2 fmMW ifmEmB (i.