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I November 9, 1998 Decatur, Illinois Serving Central Illinois Since 1873 35" rA 1 vf i YJ SI I 1 illi nil. -r- IttrilllW If OHWSfe OJ h1 "Face the Nation." A third House Republican who was weighing a run for speaker, Rep. James Talent, of Missouri, withdrew his name and threw his support to Livingston. Two additional potential candidates for a House Republican leadership position may be ready to make a move. Rep.

Jennifer Dunn, is giving renewed consideration to challenging Rep. Dick Armey, R-SPEAKER Continued on A12 need," Livingston said on ABC's "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts." His only opponent thus far, Rep. Christopher Cox, proposed a cooperative agreement with the Republican Senate something seldom seen under Gingrich and promised to keep social policy issues out of basic spending bills, a legislative tactic that often tied the House in knots. "This is not just about who is going to be the next speaker of the House, it's about the direction of the country," Cox said on CBS's parade through the Sunday talk shows, the GOP contenders differed less on policy issues than on whether to work with Democrats next year in a narrowly divided House A common campaign platform seemed to be, "I'm not Newt." Rep. Bob Livingston, hoping to succeed Gingrich, spoke of working with Democrats to produce legislation on which a broad majority can agree.

"I intend to reach out and bring anybody who wants to together to formulate the legislation that we b5- rV Top contenders travel talk show circuit, vowing more compromising styles. WASHINGTON (AP) The Republican leadership battle took to the airwaves Sunday as candidates to replace departing House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his lieutenants sought support from colleagues who want the GOP to show a friendlier and more effective face. Momentarily interrupting their fevered phone campaigning for a Vandalia's Veterans Day Associated Press UPENDED: Ray Agnew and Marco Farr drop Bears quarterback Steve Sten-strom. Rams slam Bears One quarterback's poise outshines another's solid performance: Tony Banks leads St. Louis over the Bears and Steve Stenstrom, making his first start Sports B1 Memories, honor to fill Avenue of Flags By TONY REID Staff Writer 1 lit Glenn rebounds A perky John Glenn shows no ill effects from his shuttle flight, as he tells senior citizens to follow their dreams.

Nation A2 1 i 1 OXr, -fl rest VANDALIA "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them." British poet Laurence Binyon wrote that about the dead of World War but he could easily have been eulogizing Vandalia's Avenue of Flags. On Wednesday, Veterans Day, more than 900 flags will flood the city's Fairlawn Cemetery in a sea of red, white and blue. The 5-foot-by-8-foot flags will line the approach to the cemetery and every road within, with enough left over to ring the Old State Capitol building and even the Tourist Information Center on North Fifth Street. "Every one of them is a casket flag that once draped the coffin of a deceased veteran," says Wayne Hathaway, sergeant-at-arms for the American Legion's Crawford-Hale Post 95 in Vandalia.

The Legion is the keeper of the flags and sets them up and takes them down on major occasions like Veterans Day. "On a morning when the wind is blowing, and you've got all those flags out, it's a lovely sight," adds Wayne, 66, a veteran of the Korean War. "We're honoring our veterans and preserving their memories." Each example of the Stars and Stripes hangs from a 12-foot pole, and every pole bears a plaque giving the name of the veteran, the conflict served in and who donated the flag. -i Livingston Cox Contenders for the House 1 speakership selling the main message, 'I'm not Newt' Livingston hears public on Clinton People's impeachment opinions will be weighed, speaker candidate says. WASHINGTON (AP) In his first remarks on President Clinton's troubles since the Republican upheaval, the leading contender to succeed Newt Gingrich as House speaker said Congress must take into account the public's view that the presidential affair and cover-up do not warrant impeachment.

"I don't know if he's home free or not," Rep. Bob Livingston, said on television Sunday, the eve of a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what constitutes an impeachable offense. "The charges are that he lied under oath. And I think that is very serious." Livingston said he would vote for impeachment "if the evidence is there." "We cannot simply disregard the fact that there are other people in our society, in the military and in various other walks of life, CEOs or principals of schools, who have been likewise charged and have lost their jobs," he said. He added, however: "I think that the American people have certainly indicated in the polls that they don't see it as an impeachable or dismissible offense, and that would have to be considered in the political arena." Livingston was asked about polls suggesting voters felt last Tuesday's poor election showing by Republicans was due to their handling of the Lewinsky matter.

"Obviously they have decided that we didn't do a good enough job," Livingston said on ABC's "This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts." Both Livingston, currently chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and his opponent for the speaker's job, Republican Policy Committee chairman Chris Cox, said they would rely heavily on Judiciary Committee's recommendations in the impeachment inquiry. The committee IMPEACH Continued onA12 Power 'saving' Ex-football star R.V. Brown's message, huge biceps impress young people to try to convert their friends to follow Christ Brown talked to more than 200 at a Mount Zion church on Sunday. Central Illinois A3 J' -A 'fr fC 5N i I TT i A (it i VETERANS Barry shudders Dave Barry tells his tale of surviving Hurricane Georges, explaining how the storm decided to avoid his shuttered home and telling how people can aid the victims. Opinion A10 Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the Illinois State Lottery: Pick Three-Evening: 9-5-4 Pick Four-Evening: 9-4-8-2 Lotto jackpot: $4 million Big Game jackpot: $18 million Continued on A4 Postcards Ail Herald ReviewDennis Magee 1 STARS AND STRIPES: LaVerle Knebel, 73, left, and Wayne Hathaway, 66, will help organize a massive display of patriotism in Vandalia on Veterans Day.

More than 900 flags will be posted. REID Today: Rain developing. High 54. Tonight: More rain. Low 50.

Mattoon still rebounding from tornado in March Details B10 tci.js:- r.l 'Willis -f Y. Ann Landers A7 Classifieds B6-9 Comics A9 Lifestyle A7 Movies A7 Obituaries A11 Opinion A10 Puzzles Sports B1-5 Television A8 Hurricane Mitch's terror will linger long TRUJILLO, Honduras (AP) Flushed out of her village by Hurricane Mitch's raging floodwa-ters and drifting for six days far into the Caribbean Sea, Laura Isabel Arriola de Guity was alone. Her husband and three children were dead. All she had was a makeshift raft, the sea below her, the sun in the day and the moon at night. There was no land in sight.

On the sixth day, she spotted a duck near her raft. "I started to talk with this duck," she recalled. "I said 'Little duck, send a message that I'm alive. Take me to my people Take me to the shorn' "I started crying and I said, 'Why don't you take me so that I can fly somewhere with Arriola's desperation ended hours later. She was spotted by an airplane looking for a yacht that had disappeared during the storm.

A British helicopter rescued her. The 36-year-old schoolteacher is recovering from dehydration, sun exposure and hypothermia MITCH Continued on A1 2 Hi Trexler, who was in St. Louis when the twister slammed into Mattoon, recalled that portions of his metal buildings "were all over town." "A farmer came in after finding a piece of our tin at Dead Man's Curve, four miles out," Trexler said. "Other pieces were at the Eagles Club, Peterson Park, all over. There's still stuff stuck in the trees along Lake Land Boulevard." Trexler said he has one more building to complete, which will bring to 400 the number of units available for rental.

He's also added a security fence but admits ruefully that tornadoes have no respect for such items. Officials at the time were By DEBBIE PIERCE Mattoon Bureau Chief MATTOON When an early-morning tornado spun through Mattoon on March 28, it changed not only portions of the landscape, it also changed people's lives. Now, more than seven months later, the ravaged landscape is returning to normal as houses and businesses are repaired. Residents, too, are beginning to heal, although the memories of the storm and its destruction are forever etched in their minds. "I hope I never see it happen again," said Larry Trex-ler, who lost six of the 11 buildings, or 225 units, at his Space Rental business on South 19th Street.

Herald ReviewKelly J. Huff REBUILT: Larry Trexler, owner of Space Rental in Mattoon, is still recovering from the tornado that leveled a large part of his business in March. 50 cents Our 126th year Issue 313 Two sections "A bank had a safe in storage, and the storm moved it clear into another unit," Trexler said. TORNADO Continued on A4 grateful the storm hop-scotched rather than staying on the ground along its northeasterly path, but that capriciousness caused more than a little head-shaking among residents. 02138 "00001" LLit.