Weather outlook: frigid highs near zero
Frigid conditions with highs around zero and clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Monday. Lows are forecast 10 to 15 below zero. Volume 93 Number ?
12 Jan 1975
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1975
Page
1
Frigid conditions with highs around zero and clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Monday. Lows are forecast 10 to 15 below zero. Volume 93 Number ?
President Ford will unveil a $15 billion tax cut and a program to raise gasoline prices to curb consumption as the core of his State of the Union package. Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the decisions are made and Ford will address Congress in a noon CST joint session.
A state ASCS release confirms 4324 acres owned by foreign buyers in Iowa and notes involvement by West Germans Italians and Canadians in sales across Benton Cedar Fayette Van Buren Mitchell Worth Cedar counties. A 202 acre Mitchell county deal to Kafft von Rigal of Voerde West Germany is to close March 1 with details limited by attorney client relation.
A weekend blizzard with winds up to 90 mph battered the upper Midwest and northern Central Plains, killing at least nine people and injuring many. Deaths occurred in Omaha, near Norfolk, and across Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Michigan as snowdrifts and power outages disrupted travel.
A witty reflection noting that claiming no mistakes means relying on a poor memory, whether of the speaker or the listener, with attribution to Teetait.
A senate subcommittee urged a worldwide oil demand cut of seven million barrels a day to spur price cuts by OPEC. The U.S. would reduce consumption by 2.5 million barrels daily, with rationing and a geographic allocation program, while opposing gasoline tax hikes. The panel seeks antitrust testing of exclusive buyback rights and repeal of the foreign oil depletion allowance.
In a four part series Isaac Asimov weighs science’s promises against its perils. He cites gene transfer fears, SST ozone effects, and energy breakthroughs like dynamite as both tools for progress and sources of risk. He warns that many advances carry irreversible consequences and urges caution in wielding powerful discoveries.
Palestinian guerrillas said their commandos ambushed an Israeli patrol on Mount Hermon near the Lebanese border, destroying two armored cars and killing 10 Israeli soldiers. Israel reported four wounded and evacuated to Haifa. A Cairo statement by the Shah of Iran and President Sadat called for Israel's total withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.
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