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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1977
Page
7
Flood relief centers report 206 dead in the Seoul region with 85 missing and 476 injured hospitalized. 22,000+ houses damaged and 79,000+ people displaced as rescue workers search amid ongoing rain and potential further showers. US says no American casualties.
In 1610 Kepler predicted Mars would have two moons. They were not discovered until 1877 by Asaph Hall at the U S Naval Observatory in Washington D C.
UPI reports U.S. automakers project 1978 second quarter profits for the Big Three between 1.6 and 1.75 billion dollars, a 7 to 17 percent rise from a year earlier, with Ward's Automotive noting cost pressures and possible final peak before costs rise erode margins. GM, Ford and Chrysler forecast record or near-record earnings though Chrysler faces a 30 million hit from a St Louis plant strike.
French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre says he will open a traditionalist seminary in the United States within two years. He visited Dickinson Texas to consecrate a chapel and celebrate a pontifical mass and suggested the chapel could become the center for the true Catholic faith in the United States.
A mistaken pump restart order in the Alyeska Pipeline may have triggered the explosion that killed one man and destroyed a pump station. Spokesman Larry Carpenter says the error likely occurred when a pump was started during maintenance and could have been ordered anywhere along the line from Valdez to the pump station 300 miles north. Oil flow may resume by week’s end, with several weeks possible. Two transportation inspectors investigated, noting the valve gushed oil into a hot turbine, likely causing the blast.
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