A10 THE WORLD, Coos Bay, Ore. Wednesday, June 25, 2005 Weather National weather Oregon weather Thursday, June 26 AccuWeather com forecast for daytime conditions, lowhigh temperatures The AccuWeather.com forecast for noon, Thursday, June 26. I -10s -Os Os 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s WASH. Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. Y5492l Pendleton Portland 5790 jjQ- Newportj5374 0 4490 IDAHO I Eugene North Bend 51774 0 10 lf588J V.
yj nev. 2003 AccuWeather, Inc. CAUR Curry County Coast Today: Sunny. Highs In the upper 70s except around 90 near Brookings. North wind 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. North wind 10 to 20 mph. Thursday. Sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s. North wind around 15 mph. Thursday night Partly cloudy. Lows In the lower 50s. Northeast wind around 15 mph.
South Central Oregon Coast Today: Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North wind 10 to 20 mph. Tonight: Clear. Lows tn the mid 50s.
North wind around 15 mph. Thursday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North wind around 15 mph. Thursday night: Clear.
Lows In the lower 50s. Northeast wind around 15 mph. Central Oregon Coast Today: Sunny. Highs 65 to 75. North wind 5 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Clear. Lows around 50. North wind 1 5 to 25 mph decreasing to 5 to 15 mph. Thursday: Sunny. Highs 68 to 75.
North wind 5 to 15 mph Increasing to 15 to 25 mph. Thursday night: Clear. Breezy early. Lows in the lower 50s. North wind 1 5 to 25 mph decreasing to 5 to 1 5 mph.
North Oregon Coast Today Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Light wind becoming north 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Tonight Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
North wind 10 to 20 mph becoming light. Thursday: Mostly sunny day. Lows 50 to 55. Highs in the 70s. Light wind becoming northwest 1 0 to 20 mph in afternoon and evening.
Central Douglas County Today: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast wind 5 to 1 5 mph. Tonight: Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph. Thursday: Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North wind around 1 0 mph. Thursday night Clear.
Lows In the upper 50s. North wind around 10 mph. Eastern Curry County and Josephine County Today Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast wind around 15 mph.
Tonight: Clear. Lows near 50. Northeast wind around 15 mph. Thursday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
East wind 10 mph becoming Northwest in the afternoon. Thursday night: Clear. Lows in the tower 50s. Northeast wind around 1 0 mph. South and Central Willamette Valley Today Sunny.
Highs near 85. Afternoon north wind 5 to 15 mph. Tonight Clear. Lows around 50. North wind 5 to 15 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. Highs 90 to 95. North wind 5 to 15 mph. Thursday night Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
North wind 5 to 15 mph. Greater Portland Area Today Mostly sunny. Highs 80 to 85. Light wind. Tonight Clear.
Lows around 55. Light wind. Thursday: Sunny. Highs 90 to 95. Light wind.
Thursday night Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Light wind. fe Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Showers T-8tonra Rail Flumes Snow Ice FRONTS The Tide Tables 2003 AccuWeather, Inc.
COLD WARM STATIONARY A High Low Shower Rain T-torm Flurrio Snow Sunny Pt Cloudy Cloudy Oregon Temps Temperature extremes and measurable precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. Wednesday. HI Lo Prec. Astoria 65 46 0.00 Brookings Ag Stn 79 51 0.00 Bums 73 39' 0.00 Eugene 75 43 0.00 Florence 63 47 0.00 Klamath Falls 72 45 0.00 Medford 79 51 0.00 Newport Airport 61 45 0.00 Pendleton 80' 51 0.00 Portland 75 53 0.00 Redmond 75 39 0.00 Roseburg 77 52 0.00 Salem 75 46 0.00 Local high, low, rainfall Tuesday: High 63, low 48. Rain: None.
Total rainfall to date: 36.46 inches. Rainfall to date last year 33.60 inches. To determine the predicted time and height of high and low water for the locations below, add or subtract as indicated from the following table: HIGH LOW Location Min. Ft. Min.
Brookings 0.1 Gold Beach 0:02 PortOrford 0.4 Bandon 0.1 0:14 Charleston 0.04 0.7 0:16 Empire 0:46 1:06 Coos Bay Docks 1:35 0.5 1.44 Umpqua River 0:14 0.1 0:19 Florence 0:53 1:14 HIGH TIDE A.M. P.M. Date h.m. ft. h.m.
ft. 25- Jun 10:48 4.7 9:48 6.9 26- Jun 11:43 4.9 10:22 7.0 27- Jun 12:31 5.1 10:56 7.1 28- Jun 1:13 5.2 28- Jun 11:31 7.2 29- Jun 1:53 5.3 30- Jun 12:06 7.3 2:31 5.4 LOW TIDE A.M. Pin. Date h.m. ft.
h.m. ft. 25- Jun 4:16 0.7 3:25 2.9 26- Jun 4:58 0.2 4:11 3.2 27- Jun 5:37 4:54 3.4 2S-iun 6:14 5:35 3.5 29- Jun 6:51 6:16 3.6 30- Jun 7:28 6:56 3.6 Temperatures indicate Tuesday's high Miami Beach 74 84 1.10 cdy and overnight low to 8 a.m. Eastern Time. Milwaukee 69 93 cdy HI Lo Pre Otlk Mpls-StPaul 69 88 .17 Albuquerque 93 64 clr Montgomery 70 92 cdy Anchorage 62 52 cdy Nashville 65 89 clr Atlanta 86 70 cdy New Orleans 78 90.
cdy Atlantic City 93 66 clr New York City 66 93 clr Baltimore 91 64 clr Oklahoma City 77 90 cdy Birmingham 90 69 clr Omaha 73 92 Bismarck 65 51 .68 Philadelphia 67 95 clr Boise 82 49 clr Phoenix 76 98 clr Boston 78 64 clr Pittsburgh 55 87 clr Burllngton.Vt. 96 62 cdy Pocatello 47 62 .02 cdy Casper 44 40 .28 cdy Portland.Malne 55 78 .01 cdy Charleston.S.C. 89 69 cdy Providence 60 61 clr Charleston.W.Va. 86 60 clr Rapid City 51 53 .53 cdy Charlotte.N.C. 88 61 clr Reno 44 75 clr Chicago 92 73 cdy Richmond 66 91 clr Cincinnati 87 60 clr Sacramento 61 91 clr Concord.N.H.
93 62 cdy St Louis 72 91 cdy Dallas-Ft Worth 94 78 clr St Thomas 80 88 cdy Denver 61 47 cdy Salt Lake City 60 51 .17 cdy Des Moines 94 78 San Antonio 96 78 cdy Detroit 88 66 cdy San Diego 67 60 clr Fairbanks 69 55 cdy San Francisco 80 56 clr Fargo 76 55 .57 cdy San Jose 86 61 clr Green Bay 88 75 .07 cdy San Juan, P.R. 89 78 cdy Helena 61 42 cdy Santa Fe 90 49 clr Honolulu 89 76 cdy Seattle 71 52 clr Indianapolis 87 64 cdy Spokane 74 48 clr Jackson.Miss. 92 72 cdy Washington.D.C. 90 66 clr Juneau 54 50 .14 rn Wilmlngton.Del. 92 65 clr Kansas City 91 77 Yakima 82 58 clr Key West 87 71 1.31 National Temperature Extremes Las Vegas 86 72 dr High Tuesday 104 at Laredo, Texas Little Rock 73 92 cdy Low Wednesday 28 at Stanley, Idaho, Los Angeles 60 74 cdy and West Yellowstone, Mont.
High pressure in the East today brought mostly sunny skies and dry conditions to a wide area from New England to the Deep South while thunderstorms threatened the north-em Plains and Midwest. Partly cloudy skies and dry conditions were also predicted in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, and the Southeast. Clouds were likely to move into the Great Lakes resulting In storms that could contain frequent lightning, heavy downpours, hall, wind gusts up to 70 mph. Scattered showers were expected to develop over southern Florida. And other strong showers were predicted over Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin.
Farther south, showers and thunderstorms containing occasional lightning, brief downpours and gusty winds were also expected over west-em Texas. In the West, showers were forecast to sweep over the northern Great Basin and northern Rockies. The strongest storms will contain occasional lightning, brief downpours, and gusty winds. Meanwhile, higher elevations of Wyoming were expecting some light snow. Elsewhere, high pressure was predicted to bring partly to mostly cloudy skies and dry conditions to the Pacific Northwest, California, southern Great Basin and desert Southwest Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 Sunny.
Highs in Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. the lower 70s. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Sunrise, sunset June 2 1-25 5:37, 9:01 June 26-30 5:39, 9:01 Moon watch New moon June 29 Competition draws teens from all over South Coast 66 Don't be so nervous. It takes a lot of courage to do what you're doing. Judge Ron Nance to a Bay Area Teen Idol contestant Contest from Page A1 for all those nice people was great.
I hope my chances are good (at becoming a finalist) but there is still a lot more people going to audition." Auditions on Monday and Tuesday resulted in 12 teen-agers displaying their vocal talent for the judges, said emcee and organizer Kevin Stufflebean. More teens are expected to enter the competition tonight and Thursday, he said. "We're hoping to get more teens to come out so we can narrow things down," he added. Stufflebean said getting 123 people to audition would be the most ideal. "We're getting there, one by one," he said with a smile.
"Everyone the judges and the teens are having a great time. I think the performers are also getting valuable feedback and information from the judges." Powers teen Stephanie Robertson said she had so much fun getting on stage and singing "The Rose" even though she was the competition's first performer. "I've always been into singing," said the 17-year-old with a big grin. When her family moved to the tiny community about a year ago, Stephanie said she was dismayed to discover there was no choir at Powers High School. The teen was determined to hone her skills so she practiced on her own time.
"I thought I did great," Robertson said of her performance Monday night. "I'm really, really happy. I was terrified to death at the time because I was first." A few of the performers nerves came through during their audition. to work on her volume and projection. "Don't be so nervous.
It takes a lot of courage to do what you're doing," said Judge Ron Nance. Katrina said the experience was nerve-wracking. "I was nervous, but I think overall I did good," she said. "I just have to be louder." Thirteen-year-old Andrea Walters surprised judges with her choice of "The Star Spangled Banner." Nance asked her why she chose that song a song professionals have trouble with to sing. "It's well known," said Andrea.
"I thought it would bring out my talent." "It's hard to do," Nance replied. "You did very well." Auditions will resume tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Celebration Center stage (the former Port Theater), which is located at 1954 Union St. in North Bend. Friday's auditions will begin at 2:30 and run until 6 p.m.
Call backs for performers will be held from 2:30 to 6 p.m. on Saturday and the judges will announce the 22 finalists. The finalists' first performance will be as a group during the Fourth of July celebrations at Mingus Park in. Coos Bay. The actual competition starts Thursday, July 10, at 6 p.m.
and will be held at the Celebration Center. At the end of the night's competition, two finalists will be eliminated. Performers will continue to be eliminated over 1 1 weeks until two remain. Everyone in the community teens and adults alike is invited to attend the weekly competitions. For more information about the competition, those who are interested can call Bay Area Together for Youth at 751-7886.
99 Katrina Capote, a freshman at Marshfield in the fall, fidgeted with her long, brown hair on stage as her quiet soprano voice wavered as it floated over the judges heads. The judges told Katrina her performance was good, but she needed Greenspan: Deflation is only a slight possibility Drop in transportation orders pulls down durable goods total Interest from Page A1 economist at John Hanco*ck Financial Services. Commercial banks probably would match any reduction in the funds rate with the same-sized cut to their prime lending rates, a benchmark for many consumer and small-business loans. The prime rate, which generally moves in lockstep with the funds rate, currently stands at 4.25 percent, the lowest level since 1959. At either 4 percent or 3.75 percent, the prime would be at its lowest point since 1958.
A reduction to the funds rate also would be aimed at warding off the economically dangerous threat of deflation, a widespread decline in prices, something that could emerge from a stagnant economy, economists said. Although Greenspan and his colleagues say the chance of deflation is remote, the central bank still must be alert because of deflation's potential to wreck the economy, they said. Fed policy-makers raised the specter of deflation at their last meeting on May 6 and have talked about it since then, raising expectations the Fed would cut rates at its June meeting. Last week, the Federal Reserve reported that big industry boosted production in May for the first time since February. Production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities nudged up by 0.1 percent last month after dropping by a sharp 0.6 percent in both March and April, the Federal Reserve said last week in a report that economists had viewed as a sign that the industrial sector could be turning a comer.
In today's durable-goods report, orders for transportation equipment fell by 1.6 percent in May, after a 4.7 percent decline in April. Excluding volatile transportation orders, which can swing widely from month to month, orders for other durable goods edged up by 0.2 percent in May, compared with a 1.5 percent drop in April. Orders for automobiles inched down by 0.1 percent in May, following a 3.5 percent decline. For computers, orders went down by 1.1 percent last month, compared with a 18.8 percent jump in April. Orders for communications equipment fell by 5.2 percent, the biggest drop since December.
In April, such orders fell by 4.5 percent Orders for machinery dropped 0.9 percent in May, following a 5.3 percent decrease. Orders for electrical equipment and appliances went down 2.2 percent, after a 2.3 percent decline. Primary metals, the category the second straight month, while home sales soared, stoked by super low mortgage rates. Against this backdrop, economists widely expected Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his Federal Open Market Committee colleagues to slice the federal funds rate now at 1.25 percent, the lowest since President Kennedy's first term by either one-quarter of a percentage point or a bolder one-half point when they wrap up a two-day meeting Wednesday. An afternoon announcement was expected.
The funds rate is the Fed's main lever for influencing the economy. The last time the Fed cut the funds rate, the interest banks charge each other on overnight loans, was Nov. 6. Reducing the funds rate to either 1 percent or 0.75 percent would push that rate down to a level since 1958. "A rate reduction is all about taking out some insurance against the risks that the economy will be weaker than the Fed actually expects," said Bill Cheney, chief that includes steel, saw orders fall by 0.5 percent in May, compared with a 2.1 percent increase in April.
Shipments, a good barometer of current demand, also dipped by 0.3 percent in May, after a 1.1 percent decline in April. NORTHWEST STOCKS Closing and 8:30 a.m. quotations: Stock Close 8:30 Alaska Airlines 20.26 20.60 Intel ....20.47 20.67 Klamath First. .16.96 16.90 Kroger 16.83 16.65 Microsoft 25.69 25.91 Nike 56.63 56.90 NW Natural ...27.53 27.36 Pulitzer 46.26 46.13 Safeway .20.45 20.37 Umpqua Bank .18.40 18.44 Starbucks 24.01 24.22 Verizon 40.70 40.68 Wash. Mutual .42.40 42.43 Weyerhaeuser .53.11 53.70 Dow Jones closed at 9,109.85 Provided by Coos Bay Edward Jones LOTTERY Pick 4 Here are the winning numbers in the Wednesday Pick 4 drawings: 1 p.m.: 0-5-5-3 4 p.m.: 9-3-3-8 7 p.m.: 7-9-0-4 10 p.m.: 2-3-3-4 On the Net: Oregon Lottery results are available at: http:www.oregonlotlery.org Palestinian militant groups agree to ceasefire Environmental groups seek more salmon aid Environment and Public Works fisheries subcommittee, Lohn said it was too early to tell whether the 10-year plan will succeed.
He noted that all but seven of 124 actions required as of this year have been implemented as expected or with only minor changes. signed in Damascus, Syria, by top Hamas leader Khalcd Mashal and Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah. It came after lengthy negotiations between the militant groups and Marwan Barghouti, a leading Palestinian figure in Fatah who is jailed in Israel. Barghouti signed the agreement on behalf of Fatah, which is headed by Arafat and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the source said. Another militant group, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, is associated with Fatah.
Word of the accord came as Palestinian officials said Israeli Bv Dan Perry Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Three key Palestinian groups, including the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, agreed today to halt attacks on Israel for three months, a senior official of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction said. The official, Kadoura Fares, speaking on behalf of Fatah, said a formal statement about the ceasefire would be made later today. Fatah also signed the agreement. According to another Palestinian official, the document outlining the truce terms was helicopters fired rockets at two cars in the Gaza Strip, causing an explosion. However, there was no confirmation from witnesses and militants have previously set off explosions while transporting or building bombs.
The military wings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa have carried out bombing and shooting attacks against Israelis during 33 months of fighting, killing hundreds. The cease-fire was a key element for implementing a U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan that aims to halt the fighting and create a Palestinian state by 2005. Fish from Page A1 executive director of Save our Wild Salmon, an advocacy group. Conservation groups have urged Congress to substantially increase funding for salmon recovery. Lohn said drastic measures were unnecessary.
While pledging to abide by Redden's order, Lohn said the judge focused on "specific technical issues" that did not refute the original salmon plan's intent or effectiveness. At a hearing of a Senate On the Net: NOAA Fisheries: http:www.nmfs.noaa.gov Save Our Wild Salmon: wildsalmon.org.
