Winter Storm Closes Texas Schools and Gas Shortage Hits Regions
Broad snow across North Texas shuts many schools as bitter cold and icy roads slow travel. Gas shortages trigger emergency plans in the Northeast and Midwest, with layoffs and business closures. The Buffalo area reports the heaviest blizzard impact and looting arrests while fatalities from exposure and accidents rise nationwide.
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Texas
Midwest
Associated Press
Red River
Gainesville
National Weather Service
Federal Power Commission
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Detroit
Carter Sends Tax-Cut Plan With $50 Rebate To Congress
President Carter forwarded a $31.2 billion two year jobs and tax cut proposal to Congress featuring a $50 tax rebate for most Americans. He said the plan aims to spark growth while slowing unemployment and inflation and would deliver about $11.4 billion in rebates this year and $10.6 billion over the next two years. The package includes $4 billion for public works, 415000 public service jobs, and training targeted at youth and veterans, with five guiding principles including continuity speed fairness and budget restraint.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
Arkla lifts gas curtailment for local industries
Arkla Gas lifted a 48 hour curtailment at 7 am Sunday for Mead's Bakery Coca Cola Bottling Fairmont Dairy and Fort Sill Laundry after weekend operations and alternate energy sources limited usage. Local Arkla manager Jim Noury said companies may resume normal operations Sunday. The last curtailment this winter was Arkla’s fourth amid a national energy problem.
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Arkansas
Louisiana Gas Company
Mead’s Bakery
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Fairmont Dairy
Fort Sill
Coca-Cola
Mead’s
Arkla
Jim Noury
Weather Outlook for Southwest Oklahoma
Fair skies and warmer temperatures are forecast through Tuesday in Southwest Oklahoma. Winds ease tonight with temperatures in the low 20s. Tuesday’s high should reach the mid-50s. Sunday’s high was 35 and the low 17.
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Oklahoma
January Cold Snap Devastates Southwest Oklahoma
January 1977 opened with record cold as a massive front brought freezing drizzle and up to 10 inches of snow in Lawton and eastern Oklahoma. Temperatures fell to -3 degrees with wind chills near 45 below zero, closing schools and businesses and prompting National Guard assistance.
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Oklahoma
Lawton
David Boren
National Guardsmen
Oklahoma Senate leader weighs natural gas tax reform
Senate President Pro Tem Gene Howard suggested a bill to cut Oklahoma's 8 percent gross production tax on natural gas to ease the burden on state residents. He also floated creating a separate agency to regulate utility rates, potentially moving oversight from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Governor David Boren is interested but undecided.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Gene Howard
Oklahoma
David Boren
Rob Pyron
Boren
Howard
Vance Promises Frank Talk on Injustice Worldwide
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance vowed at his first news conference to speak frankly about injustice in the Soviet Union and elsewhere without harming U.S. policy. He supported Sakharov while avoiding comment on Carter's view, and signaled a softer line on Cuban troops in Angola though not forcing their removal as a precondition for talks. He dismissed Rhodesia's internal solution as unlikely to succeed.
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Washington
Cyrus R. Vance
Soviet Union
Vance
Moscow
Carter
Sakharov
State Department
Angola
Africa
U.S
Havana
Rhodesia
Ian D. Smith
Rising Costs Threaten County Finances
County Clerk Rosa Hines warned that rising costs and limited revenue will force Comoache County to fold within a year unless state legislation or federal revenue sharing funds are restored. She proposed four income methods to replace about 150000 of the county’s current revenue sharing.
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Comanche
Rosa Hines
Longet Sentenced to Jail in Lover’s Death
Claudine Longet, age 36, was sentenced by State District Court Judge E. Lehr in Aspen to 34 days in Pitkin County Jail for the shooting death of her lover last March. She received two years probation, with the judge noting a jail term was needed to uphold the law.
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Aspen. Colo
Claudine Longet
Pitkin County
State District Court
E. Lehr
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Dis
Jody Powell
Dear Abby
Editorial Oreweee
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Arctic
United States
Andrei Sakharov
Cuba
Fomer
Henry A. Kissinger
Castro
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Lee County
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