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Newspaper
Dixon Telegraph
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1989
Page
2
Surgeon General C Everett Koop reviewed anti smoking successes to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1964 report linking smoking to death. He cited declines in adult smoking, legal restrictions, and ongoing deaths and health risks tied to tobacco use, urging stronger cigarette controls.
The United States canceled planned naval drills off the Libyan coast and moved operations to another area of the central Mediterranean. The routine training was to involve carrier battle groups led by USS John F. Kennedy and USS Theodore Roosevelt amid international concern over U.S. actions against a Libyan chemical plant near Rabta.
The government has paid 1.4 billion in drought aid to 285 652 farmers and ranchers through December 31. North Dakota Illinois Minnesota Montana Iowa and South Dakota lead with nearly 917 million. Wheat and corn crops fell sharply. overall U S grain production down 29 percent from 1987. Congress approved a 3.9 billion drought relief package as the largest disaster aid program.
Joel Steinberg’s murder case centers on mental state as the defense seeks to prove Hedda Nussbaum faked her psychiatric condition. Steinberg will be examined by Dr. Martin Brecher, with a related testimony expected from Dr. Azariah Eshkenazi about Nussbaum’s hospitalization and alleged malingering.
Washington polls show opposition to court-ordered school busing has eased from 78 percent to 54 percent nationally. The NAACP LDF study notes strong support for poverty-alleviation programs and reveals white and Black audiences diverge on busing, with 51 percent of whites and 79 percent of Blacks now favoring it in tested scenarios.
Nearly 150 nations wrapped a five day conference with a joint statement not to use toxic arms and urged Geneva to push a treaty banning production use and stockpiling. U S delegate Maj Gen William Burns said the final declaration was diluted to gain unanimity while Youri Nazarkine called U S defense budget enrichment of new chemical weapons transmission systems deplorable. Arab states failed to tie chemical and nuclear disarmament but the meeting backed broad disarmament aims.
High winds battered California with gusts up to 69 mph in Ontario and 40 mph in Lancaster, causing power outages to about 6000 homes and sparking a brushfire near Los Angeles. Freezing rain threatened the Northeast, with alerts for Pennsylvania New York Michigan and flash flood watches in Tennessee Alabama and Virginia. Snow was forecast for several western and northern states as rain marked much of the pattern.
Dixon temperatures forecast show highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s to 30s with scattered rain chances through the weekend and colder conditions Monday. Daily Illinois State Lottery draws list numbers for the daily game, Pick Four, Cash Five, and a projected Lotto grand prize of 15 million dollars for Saturday.
Commodities and futures at noon show live beef cattle and hogs prices with February through August contracts, soybeans, corn, wheat, meal, oil, cocoa, sugar, and metals. Agricultural goods include feeder cattle and livestock contracts while energy and financials feature T bonds, gold, cotton, silver. Quotations credited to Majewski Beeler and O M.
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