BP Weather Forecast Omits Warmth Amid Cold Weekend
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies this afternoon and Sunday. Temperatures stay bitterly cold with highs near zero to five above and lows around ten to twenty below tonight.
15 Jan 1977
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1977
Page
1
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies this afternoon and Sunday. Temperatures stay bitterly cold with highs near zero to five above and lows around ten to twenty below tonight.
Local readers explore wine choices and pairing ideas while noting personal tastes influence selections. The piece highlights abundant information sources and suggests individual preferences matter in matching wines with foods.
Union workers at nine resort hotels unanimously approved a contract ending a walkout that began on Christmas Day. The accord provides higher pay better benefits and guaranteed tips and allows all strikers to return to work.
Actor Peter Finch, known for roles as dissolute aristocrats and the deranged anchorman in Network, collapsed at the Beverly Hills hotel Friday morning while awaiting a breakfast with director Sidney Lumet. He had appeared recently in Raid on Entebbe.
The Justice Department told an attorney for former CIA director and ambassador to Iran Richard Helms that he is a target of a federal grand jury investigation. The panel in Washington is hearing allegations Helms and ITT officials conspired to shape testimony given in the 1973 Senate probe of ITT CIA activities in Chile.
The senate judiciary committee finished four days of hearings on Griffin Bell to be attorney general and invited the former federal judge to return Monday for further questioning.
Bill Brock of Tennessee won the Republican national chairmanship on the third ballot, defeating Dick Richards and three others. He succeeds Mary Louise Smith after Ford's defeat, vows reform and wider appeal to counter Watergate and recession. Brock carries moderate support and aims to broaden the party’s base.
The CDC advisory panel urged resuming the swine flu vaccination program with moratorium lifted for high risk groups like the elderly and chronically ill. Physicians decide vaccine access for other adults, while recipients are warned of a possible link to Guillain Barre syndrome. 35 to 45 million people in high risk groups expected to be vaccinated.
A Cedar Rapids federal court jury convicted Glenn McClintic at 12 14 a m Saturday on five of six counts charging schemes to obtain merchandise by fraud. He was acquitted on one extortion loan count tied to Scott Voeltz and Robert Braumann.
Aspen, Colo AP Claudine Longet, former showgirl, found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the shooting death of Vladimir Sabich. Jury of seven men and five women deliberated 3 hours 40 minutes reducing from felony reckless manslaughter to a misdemeanor. Longet proclaimed innocence as ex-husband Andy Williams watched.
Three Utah judges and Gov. Matheson rejected attempts to block Gary Gilmore’s execution, clearing the way for his dawn firing squad death before sunrise Monday. Anti death penalty lawyers lost stays from a federal judge, Utah Supreme Court justice, local district judge, and the governor, with further weekend appeals anticipated in the 10th Circuit.
Gov. Ray proposes no general tax hikes yet targets at least 20 million in annual relief by suppressing the personal property tax phase out and taxing military personnel claiming Iowa residency. The plan would keep the $58,500 exemption level, tax 31,000 military residents, and shift some school aid costs to property taxes while the overall outlook improves.
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