Blizzard of 77 Closes Schools and Halts Traffic in New York
The Blizzard of 77 moved into northeast Canada after dumping heavy snow on Syracuse region, closing several Lake Ontario area schools including Mexico Academy Centra Pulaski Hannibal and Sandy Creek. Oswego reports 4 to 10 foot drifts and 12 to 18 inches of snowfall with Route 12 reopening and Hancock Airport back to normal. A snow emergency remains in Oswego with parking bans on emergency routes and several districts reporting delays or snow days.
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Canada
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Oswego
Cayuga
Jefferson County
National Weather Service
Hancock Airport
State University of New York At
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Mexico Academy
Centra
Pulaski Academy Central
Cato Meridian
Hannibal
Sandy Creek
Belleville Central
South Jefferson Central
Red Creek Central
Allmar-Parish-Williamstown
Weedsport
John E. Fitzgibbons
Bus-Car Crash Kills Passenger, Wounds 25 Students
A loaded Millbrook area school bus collided head on with a car on N Y 44 near Millbrook Dutchess County. One car passenger died, the driver in critical condition, and about 25 students were injured. The bus driver had minor injuries.
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Millbrook
Dutchess County
N.Y
Michael J. Milczewski
Union Vale
Winifred Miczewski
Edward Nelson
Patricia Edgerton
Millbrook High School
Miller Riford push for federal funds
Albany area assemblymen Hy Miller of DeWitt and Steve Riford of Auburn urge $1.5 million in the state deficiency budget to hire more DEC staff so it can process and submit up to $250 million in federally funded municipal construction applications before the September deadline. They warn current backlogs risk losing New York’s share, noting potential 8 000 jobs and over $10 million in personal income gains. Aides may involve the congressional delegation as well.
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Albany
Department of Environmental Conservation
Hy Miller
DeWitt
Steve Hiford
Auburn
Miller
Riford
DEC
Aiford
Ford to give last State of Union talk
President Ford will deliver his third and final State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. An aide calls it an upbeat swansong as he accounts for 29 months as the un elected president. The address airs at 9 pm on major radio and TV networks.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Jobless Decline Offset by Wholesale Price Jump
The government reported December unemployment at 7.9 percent, down from May 1975 highs, signaling a tentative revival. However wholesale prices rose sharply led by food costs with coffee pork and poultry boosting the index by about nine tenths. Industrial prices cooled as natural gas costs receded. Total unemployed fell by 210,000 to 7.6 million while employment rose 226,000 to 88.4 million, mainly among adult men, as two months of gains followed a stagnant period.
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Washington
Naliot
Carter
Labor Department
Israelis protest French release of Daoud
In Tel Aviv a crowd of several hundred Israelis demonstrated outside the French embassy condemning France for releasing Abu Daoud a Palestinian suspected terrorist. Protesters shouted anti Giscard d Estaing slogans and cited the Munich attack victims including families of 11 Israeli athletes.
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France
Abu Daoud
Giscard
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Dent Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Tlaoud
France Sells 200 Mirage F1 Bombers to Egypt
Paris AP sources report France will deliver 200 Mirage F1 fighter bombers to Egypt by year end. Industry sources value each jet at about 6 million dollars and speculate Saudi funds may back the purchase during President Giscard d Estaing's upcoming visit to the region.
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Paris
France
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Kennedy Corman plan aims comprehensive health reform
Column notes the Kennedy Corman national health plan would cover all, overhaul HEW administration, and add 24.8 billion annually by 1980 with staged funding. It would end Medicare Medicaid and private insurance, funded by payroll, wages, self employment taxes and general revenues, costing 7.9 billion to admin.
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Congress
Edward Kennedy
D.mass
James Corman
Cal
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Tip) O'Neill
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