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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1977
Page
11
Detroit AP reports March new car sales top 1 million for first time since 1973. Domestic sales 895,319 up 10 percent. imports set a monthly record 187,700, up 45 percent. Total 1,083,019, up 15 percent. GM up 11 percent, Ford up 24 percent. Chrysler and AMC down amid market shifts.
The Southeastern United States faces ongoing severe weather after a damaging storm system. Allen Pearson, director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center, notes the Dixie pattern foretelling continued tornadoes and cold rain into March and April with Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi bearing heavy deaths. Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia report further fatalities.
Investigators say a Southern Airways DC-9 hit hail so hard cockpit chatter was inaudible minutes before the crash near New Hope, killing 69. The jet carried 81 passengers and four crew. 60 died aboard, eight on the ground, with one more death the next night. The CVR shows hail for over a minute. engines failed. a crew member spoke of a busted windshield at 14,000 feet.
A compact quip notes trucks are formidable and dependable on highways, highlighting their size and driving steadiness as a humorous truth about road safety and authority behind the wheel.
An engine detached from an American Airlines Boeing 707 carrying 45 people near St Louis, prompting an emergency landing. A woman sustained a minor back injury from an escape chute but continued to Los Angeles on another flight. The engine fell about 100 miles west of St Louis and had not been found by Wednesday.
The 1977 weather outlook suggests relatively large crop supplies if conditions stay favorable. Prices may rise 4 to 5 percent this year and about the same next year, with 5 to 6 percent gains possible under adverse weather.
On this date in 1909 Robert Perry became the first civilized man to reach the North Pole, marking a historic Arctic achievement.
A twin engine military jet crashed in flames in a plowed field west of Le Loup Kansas, narrowly missing houses. Victims were 2nd Lt. Ross Keller 28 of Topeka and 1st Lt. Carl Camp 28 of Overbrook, both with the 190th Defense Evaluations Group at Forbes AFB Topeka.
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