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John Korrill, executive director of the Alabama Farm Bureau Feder ation, says, “Everybody is hurting. But for some of our farmers, the hope of hanging on for another year is about gone.” Georgia Agriculture Commis sioner Tommy Irvin says even fed eral aid could not stave off disaster for some drought-ridden farmers. “More disaster loans are not really going to solve our problems because low-interest loans do not help a man when he’s already deeply in debt,” Irvin says. “What we really need is four or five days of rain.” The National Weather Service is offering little hope of that, with long-range outlooks for the area predicting no better than average rainfall. Forecaster Claude Hill said Wednesday, “Late this winter and during the spring, we have not had the systems develop in the Southeast that circulate the Gulf moisture . . . and the Atlantic moisture that we usually get.” Instead, the South has been get ting dry air from the Plains or has been under high-pressure systems that have kept out all other weather, Hill said. The First four months of the year brought just 6.47 inches of rain to Birmingham, Ala., 15.7 inches below normal and the driest such period ever recorded by the National Weather Service. Other record low amounts for January through April were set in Jackson, Miss., with 7.37 inches, and Atlanta, with 7.96 inches. Southeastern Louisiana has had 3.38 inches of rain since March 1, giving that region a chance of break ing its March-through-May record of 3.91 inches. , WO! THAT WA£ AH AWFUL TE^T... 10 E.&A1 OVE-^riOg^ A// HOUR . 1 WA5 WKITIH6 LIKE AFIEWi THIS /SWTGONWA BE GOOD A 77? OHj NO! X KNEW IT, X KWEW (T? BUT... WAIT A AUVI//E; 6 F0INTZ OFF F0K THIS OHt? WHY? Him Waldo You 5PELLEP "BRDLFUPS wTO/ye. by Kevin Tho 1 G RO w f! GRft/ 1 # ■Wfp/ p.o^ r! "fil ■ ' ^/OO/r/ />)« 1 / s<^r\ MEN VATCHWG M-JV ASAIftt. le pr< )U can t The P KK, WILL ISSUE HIS USUAL . CLARIFYING REMARKS... A W.. AFTER MANY WEEKS OP 9001 SEARCHING X HAVE PECIPEP^OT TO SEEK THE PRESIDENCY.. House defeats plan to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia Prelm \d; k N nh min le of . idves,” iams, a 1 Reopli higher let, a ci\ xBtigen Adak. |Ai At about 1( In southern Georgia and Florida, early-year rainfall has 1986 levels near or above average, but April still parched the soil that farmers had hoped to seed. About 41 percent of the U.S. pea nut crop comes from Georgia, mostly from the southern part of the state. The Georgia Crop Reporting Service says just 27 percent of the crop has been planted, compared with 60 percent at the same time last year and a five-year average of 35 percent. Some farmers have had to use their irrigation systems to get the ground wet enough to accept seed, says John Beasley, a peanut specialist in the Tifton office of the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. “That’s an expense they just don’t normally count on,” Beasley says. He says the irrigation cost will at least partially offset the advantages of higher production quotas and rates paid by the government in the pea nut program. WASHINGTON (AP) — The House followed the Senate on Wednesday and voted 356-62 to re ject President Reagan’s plan to sell missiles to Saudi Arabia, a strong vote that suggested enough strength to override a presidential veto in the House. It would take 289 votes in the Democratic-controlled House to override Reagan’s promised veto of the “disapproval resolution.” The Senate voted 73-22 late Wednesday against the sale, six more votes than the 67 needed to override a veto. Even though votes on veto over ride efforts frequently are closer than the original vote, House Mi nority Leader Bob Michel, R-Ill., had acknowledged before the vote that he was “not all that confident” Reagan could win a veto fight in the House. And the chief House opponent of the sale, Rep. Mel Levine, D-Calif., said, “I think when it comes down to the override, we’ll have the votes to win. We’re pretty close to having enough votes locked up.” However, both houses — not just one — would have to override Rea gan’s veto to block the sale, raising the likelihood that the final show down on the issue will be fought in the Republican-controlled Senate where Reagan would have to sway only a handful of opponents to win eventual approval for the sale. resident; presidential veto would have on- Ma eg schedule. Rep. Ed Zschau, R-Calif., sale should he approved te-j J “the only issue is whether the of the president can be relied e - - by countries in the Middle East (coi The $354 million package eludes Stinger shoulder-fititaltes, I- ground-to-air missiles, HarpwcombiiK ship-to-ship missiles, and ' prpxy ; winder air-to-air missiles. patients Never before has Congress re jected a weapons sale. The closest previous fight was in 1981, when Congress narrowly approved the sale of AWACS radar planes to the Saudis. Those planes are to be deliv ered next month. The deadline for congressional action is Thursday, the last day of a 30-day period that began last month when the White House formally no tified Capitol Hill of the planned sale. It was unclear what impact a Marriage rate for eligible women drops to lowest recorded level WASHINGTON (AP) — The marriage rate for eligible young women has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, new govern ment statistics disclosed Wednesday. The marriage rate for single women aged 15 to 44 was 99.3 wed dings per 1,000 women in 1983, the first time that measure has dipped below the 100 level, according to the new report from the National Cen ter for Health Statistics. The report, the most recent com plete marriage statistics available, showed a decline in total marriages from the record level of 1982. There were 2,445,604 marriages reported for 1983, down 10,674 from the year before. The total number of marriages in the United States has managed to maintain high levels in recent years despite declining marriage rates, be cause the maturing of the huge post- World War II Baby Boom genera tion increased the number of people in the most common marriage ages. Marriage rates are calculated in three fashions — per 1,000 people; per 1,000 women aged 15 and over and per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. The basic marriage rates are cal culated for women because those statistics have proven to be more ac curate than figures for men, Bar bara Foley Wilson of the Statistics Center explained. The more complex statistics con cerning remarriage rates, divorce and widowhood are separated by gender. The marriage rate per 1,000 peo ple in 1983 was 10.5, down from 10.6 a year earlier and the lowest rate since 1979, when it reached 10.4. For unmarried women aged 15 and over the 1983 rate was 59.9 per 1,000, down from 61.4 in 1982. That rate was a record low, like the one for women aged 15 to 44, which dipped from 101.9 to 99.3. All three rates peaked in 1946 in the surge of marriages that occurred following World War II. In that era, the rate was 16.4 per 1,000 people, 119.1 per 1,000 single women over 15 and 199.0 per 1,000 single women 15 to 44. While falling below that level, marriage rates remained relatively high through the 1950s. Rates then began to slip in the 1960s and 1970s. West Virginia plant release: toxic cloud ^ASlie a now one usef ul ol \ tele ociat jtiyes wines ( entally ttinnuii ail pali always o ten dire< NITRO, W.Va. (AP) - ardous fumes from a fire a : L . plant in West Virginia’s “chemffi, " a< 1 valley spread a foul-smelling patin por cloud over this communinT i, 8,000 on Wednesday, countyot’; T’I” dais said. Xr l,e< pnvsicia Kanawha County Com®||Ii‘ it(X * sioner Doug Stump said forabo-jv ai lla S an hour, residents were told c fP all< shut off their air conditionersai