Cold snap causes frostbite cases but no serious injuries
A freezing spell led to several frostbite cases reported on a Saturday scene with jumper cables. Authorities confirmed no serious injuries or deaths resulted from the extreme cold.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1977
Page
17
A freezing spell led to several frostbite cases reported on a Saturday scene with jumper cables. Authorities confirmed no serious injuries or deaths resulted from the extreme cold.
Long rebuilt hopes meet stubborn poverty and fear as Beirut residents and traders try to resume life. Civic plans clash with wartime ruins while emigration, loan shifting, and revived trade shape a fragile peacetime economy.
An article in Family Safety magazine warns that a coin operated game called Death Race promotes a war like mentality by turning players into actual agents of violence. Critics from the National Safety Council and Automobile Club of Southern California condemn the game as morbid and dangerous. The machine was removed from Marriott's Great America in Gurnee Illinois after complaints, and distributor Empire Distributing stopped its sale.
Hearing set at 9 00 AM January 12 1977 in Cedar Rapids City Hall to review proposed plans specifications and cost for water pipe fittings hydrants valves tapping valves and sleeves. Bids for the same materials due January 1 1977 with bid bonds and Iowa preference. City reserves right to reject bids and waive informalities. Lois M Keller City Clerk published January 1 1977 Cedar Rapids Gazette.
A fragmented advertisement lists multiple tradesmen and firms offering home services. Includes attic and office window repairs, cabinet work, cleaning, dirt and sand filling, patching and plastering, room additions, painting, roofing, chimneys, gutters, exterior work, hauling, cleanup, and complete estimates from Jim’s Sonatae Service and Mervin Larson among others with contact numbers.
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