Tomorrow's Forecast: Cold Friday with Freezing Drizzle
Weather outlook calls for cloudy skies turning bitterly cold Friday. Freezing drizzle possible early, with afternoon flurries. Highs in the teens and north winds 20 to 30 mph.
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1990
Page
7
Bitter cold and blizzards sweep from border to border
Winter arrives early as storms drop 80 below wind chills in the northern Rockies and unleash a California blizzard. Eight deaths blamed across California, Oregon and Washington. Snow and ice trigger road closures, power outages, and school cancellations. residents urged to shelter animals and carry survival kits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ric Leyva
Associated Press
West
Rockies
California
Seattle
Mexican
Montana
Arizona
Jim Hatten
National Weather Service
Wyoming
Tehachapi Mountains
Los Angeles
Kern County
Otis Whinery
Bogus Basin
Boise
Idaho
Lew Peterson
Oregon
Washington
Icy Roads Grip Kansas as Cold Helps Freeze Surfaces
Extremely cold air and freezing drizzle left Kansans facing slick bridges and highways. Lows dip from near 10 below in the west to the teens southeast with wind chills well below. Ottawa crews treat drizzle while state and county workers plow and salt to reduce accidents amid advisory through Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Hill Frei
Weather Service
Seg
Sane Halt
Ottawa
Resignation of Soviet Foreign Minister Shocks Gorbachev Era
Eduard Shevardnadze resigned amid warnings of a drift toward dictatorship. Gorbachev, stunned, sought to reassure deputies while urging constitutional adjustments to consolidate power. Parliament urged Shevardnadze to stay as speculation swirled over successors and a wider international impact on reforms and the Gulf crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Brumley
Associated Press
Moscow
Eduard A. Shevardnadze
Soviet Union
Mikhail 5
Gorbachev
Shevardnadze
Congress of People’s Deputies
Foreign Ministry
Vitaly Churkin
Yevgeny Primakov
Persian Gulf
White House
Marlin Fitzwater
United States
U.S
James A. Baker HI
Germany
France
Kansas Small Employers Snub Health Benefit Tax Credit
An estimated 300 000 to 500 000 Kansans lack medical insurance and a state tax credit aimed at small employers may help. Law to support premiums began April 12 with funds for two new positions, but few firms under 25 have applied. Only six requests for the application have been logged by the Insurance Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris
Topeka
Kansas
Rich Huncker
Accident and Health Insurance Division
CPA
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Eduard Shevardnadze
Russia
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