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Ex Pennsylvanian recalls harsh winter in Snow Belt and early motoring. The writer notes subzero spells in Wilkes Barre and Pocono areas, contrasts with milder Cincinnati, and recalls open cars of the 1910s and early heaters. Awarded weather memories urge a southern retreat.
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Alex H. Washburn
Arkansas
Cincinnati
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Florida
Winterhaven
Fla
Wilkes- Barre
Wyoming Valley
Canada
New York State
Pocono Summit
Buckhill Falls
River Ice Thickens on Arkansas River Near Little Rock
River ice stretches bank to bank in areas north and west of Little Rock with patches up to a mile long and about one inch thick. Corps official warns prolonged freezing could hinder heavy barge traffic. Coast Guard cutter to clear navigation channel from Conway to Lake Dardanelle. Last bank to bank freeze was 1948.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Lake Dardanelle
John Mann
Corps of Engineers
Broadway Street
North
Mawn
Coast Guard
Conway
Scientists isolate organism linked to Legionnaires' disease
Scientists report isolating a previously unidentified organism in the Legionnaires' outbreak. Antibodies appeared in 29 of 33 survivors' blood samples, yet how the bacterium spreads remains unknown and officials stress the disease is not contagious. Researchers continue tests on blood from the 151 survivors to confirm findings.
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Atlanta
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
David J. Sencer
National Center For Disease Control
Bellevue-Stratford
McDade
Charles Shepard
CDC
Rioting Triggers Sadat to Revoke Price Hikes in Egypt
In Cairo riots over rising food and fuel costs led President Anwar Sadat to scrap recent price increases after police fired on protesters near Al Azhar University. A 10 year old boy was killed and curfew was ordered for Cairo Alexandria and Suez City. The government blamed Communist agitators and planned parliamentary reviews.
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Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Alexandria
Suez City
Suez Canal
Cairo Radio
Mamdouh Salem
Salem
Center Party
Sadat
Aswan
Tito
al Azhar University
Cancer Society asks Congress to move drug testing control
The American Cancer Society urges Congress to transfer authority over testing of new anti cancer drugs from the FDA to the National Cancer Institute. The group argues cancer patients differ from others and need faster access to experimental therapies amid a dispute with FDA safety concerns.
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Congress
FDA
New York
American Cancer Society
Food and Drug Administration
National Cancer Institute
Society
Paul G
William Gyarfas
Bureau of Drugs
Inflation cools to 4.8 percent in 1976 year end data
The Labor Department reports December prices up 0.4 percent and 1976 inflation at 4.8 percent, the lowest in four years. Food and nonfood prices rose modestly, grocery declines helped curb inflation, real earnings edged higher, and overall 1976 growth slowed after a strong start.
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Ford Administration
Labor Department
Consumer Price
Commerce Department
Mistrial Declared in Local Robbery Case
Presley Juan Starks Jr., 22, of Nashville faced a Nov. 18 1975 Clyde’s Department Store robbery in Hempstead County Circuit Court. A photo tied to Starks was admitted as evidence, but the jury was dismissed as a mistrial was declared. Clyde Coffee, owner of the store, has died since the robbery.
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Presley Juan Starks, Jr
Nashville
Clyde's
Hempstead County
Alma Joyce Davis
Washington
Main Street
Second Street
Division Street
Jack
Clyde's Department Store
Gunter
Starks
Don Steel
Hugh Lockadoo
Steel
Lookadoo
Clyde Coffee
Davis
Coffee
Baby
Obie Griffin
Hope
Johnny Ray Wilson
Wilson
Rights leaders seek final bid to block Bell nomination
Civil rights leaders plan a last effort to defeat Griffin Bell as attorney general nominee while two other Carter picks advance. The NAACP mobilizes Washington testimony from Jesse Jackson and Aaron Henry and parents of desegregation lawsuits to oppose Bell, though committee prospects look favorable for Bell and for Adams Kreps toward Senate approval.
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Carter
Griffin Bell
Senate Committee
Senate Commerce Committee
Brock Adams
Juanita Morris Kreps
Judiciary Committee
NAACP
Bell
South
Clarence Mitchell
Jesse Jackson
Operation Push
People United To Save Humanity
Aaron Henry
Mississippi Naacp
Atlanta
Austin
Tex
Corpus Christi
Senate
Theodore Sorensen
CIA
Ford proposes ending gasoline price controls
In a last minute move before leaving office President Ford proposed lifting gasoline price controls. Congress has 15 days to veto. a negative vote in either house kills the plan. Administration spokesmen say pumps would feel little immediate impact. FEA estimates unleaded gas could rise by about two cents a gallon due to higher refining costs, offset by small price reductions elsewhere.
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Ford
Carter
Washington
Presidnt
Ford Today
House
Senate
Administration
Federal Energy Administration
Cold weather shuts down schools and factories nationwide
Subzero temperatures and natural gas shortages across the East, Midwest, and South forced hundreds of thousands to stay home as schools and factories closed. Gas lines froze, evacuations began in Raleigh County, and Amtrak canceled or delayed trains due to damaged passenger cars and boilers.
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Associated Press
Midwest
West Virginia
Raleigh County
Beckley
Cabot Corp
Shady Spring
Prosperity
Bradley
Maple Fork
Beech Run
Summers County
Cabot
Fayetteville
Chicago
National Weather Service
Columbia Gas
Ohio
Dayton
New Jersey
Amtrak
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Joseph McDade
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South Florida
Miami
West Palm Beach
Tampa
Auburndale
Tennessee
Public Service Commission
Clarksville
Tenn
Nashville Gas Co
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