Monday, January 23, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
Temperatures plunge
‘Siberian Express’ hits East
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United Press International
An advancing surge of
deadly cold slammed into the
East Sunday, plunging tem
peratures as low as 40 below
zero. Much of the rest of the
nation warmed up from the
winter’s “Big Chill II,” which
has killed nearly 40 people.
Records cracked like icicles
across the East. The mercury
dropped to 33 degrees below
zero at Concord, N.H., break
ing a record of 23-below set in
1961. It was 23-below in
Elkins, W.Va., eclipsing the
\7-below set in 1970.
The deep freeze extended
to Mississippi, where a 10-
below surpassed the record of
13-below set in 1940. The na
tion’s morning cold spot was at
Chester, Mass., where the
mercury reached a teeth-
chattering 40-below.
“We’re accustomed to tem-
| peratures below zero,” said
'National Weather Service
observer Dave Parrett, who
noted the chill enveloping
Chester was the fourth 30-
Concord, N,H
i, W. Va.
' Mi
Canaan, Vt
Old Forge, N.Y,
DuUes Airport, Va,...,.
below reading this year. “But
that’s getting cold, even for
us.”
Other cold spots included
Canaan, Vt., and Old Forge,
N.Y., where temperatures
dipped to 36 below zero. The
18-below at Dulles Airport in
Loudoun County, Va., broke
the record low of 14-below set
on Feb. 18, 1979.
The cold wave — dubbed
the “Siberian Express” —
moved east from the southern
Plains and Midwest after kill
ing at least 37 people since
Tuesday. Temperatures over
the western two-thirds of the
country rose to more humane
levels.
It was to reach the 30s in
Indianapolis, and most cities
in Nebraska were reporting
readings in the 20s. A radio
announcer in St. Louis urged
listeners to get out and wash
their cars while temperatures
were in the mid-30s.
Ice fisherman Tim Holtan
in Mankato, Minn., said tem
peratures in the 20s made it an
ideal day for ice Fishing.
“It’s a lot easier to drop a
line in the water when it’s
above zero,” he said. “I’ve
been fishing when it’s 60-
below. This certainly makes
for much more pleasant
fishing, no question about
that.”
A Pacific storm brought
rain to western Washington
and western Oregon, with
snow and freezing rain furth
er inland. Gale force winds
slapped the Pacific Coast.
Nearly an inch of rain fell at
Quillayute, Wash.
In Salmon, Idaho, frigid
flood waters from the ice-
packed Lemhi and Salmon
Rivers subsided from residen
tial areas Sunday but moved to
agricultural areas in the north
part of the city.
Volunteers tried to re
route water through city
streets. About 250 people
have fled their homes since
the water started rising.
Thursday. Near Kalispell,
Mont., nine people were killed
and 18 injured Saturday in a
fiery crash on icy U.S. High
way 2 of a tanker truck and a
school bus carrying a high
school wrestling team.
Aides say Union address
will please conservatives
ongress begins second session
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Con
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ampus ■as, immigration and wilderness
:mony **|rotection still unresolved.
; in part* But the second session of the
arly if !:|98th Congress is expected to be
it jhafti Jominated by election-year poli
tics — with all House memoers
and half the senators facing vo
ter tests — and debate over U.S.
receive0BL ) |j C y j n Lebanon and Central
America.
| Both the House and Senate
iblems l[|eonvene Monday, but little busi-
Jcaust'jness is scheduled before law-
julcl pulifakers take a 10-day recess in
‘ins'ar, frbruary for annual speech-
'U^tfn This year, the lawmakers are
expected to make early efforts to
vould aim ss legislation linking aid to
;e careo.B entra i America to human
blockgWights progress, an immigration
faculty ml bill to tighten restrictions on
ieonvaoidllcgal aliens and employers, and
• officelw a bill to revise bankruptcy laws.
I' But it’s an election year, when
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minimum necessary to keep the
country running — including
approving another round of
appropriation bills that include
Army Corps of Engineers, In
terior, defense and other pro
jects of interest to the region.
Natural gas legislation is a ma
jor issue still unresolved, with
heated battles going in both the
House and the Senate. The
Reagan administration wants to
decontrol all gas by 1985 but
there is major consumer opposi
tion to the decontrol of “old
gas.”
Senate-passed Simpson-Mazzoli
immigration reform bill will
make it to the House floor this
year.
As the lawmakers return,
some are unsure whether the
Before their Nov. 18 adjourn
ment, senators overwhelmingly
rejected two diametrically
opposed, and the most compre
hensive, plans to change natural
gas price controls. House Ener
gy Committee Chairman John
Dingell of Michigan, mean
while, stopped debate in order
to shut off amendments that
could lead to decontrol of gas
discovered before 1978.
House Speaker Tip O’Neill
last year exercised his power
over the calendar and blocked it,
saying Hispanics opposed it and
he feared President Reagan
would veto any bill that passed
Congress to garner support
among Hispanics. However,
O’Neill said during the recess he
might let his House colleagues
consider it this year. The Hispa
nic Caucus, meanwhile, has
been working to come up with
an acceptable counter-proposal.
The bill, sponsored by Rep.
Romano Mazzoli, D-Ky., and
Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo.,
would penalize employers who
knowingly hire illegal aliens and
give amnesty to aliens already in
the country.
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Not one wilderness proposal
from the region has managed to
receive final approval from
Congress, but lawmakers will try
this year to protect acreage in
Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri,
New Mexico, Texas and Wyom
ing. Only Missouri’s Irish wil
derness has made it out of both
houses, but a conference com
mittee needs to negotiate the
differences in acreage involved
in the respective bills.
The problems faced by far
mers when grain elevators go
bankrupt — a situation brought
to national attention by Puxico,
Mo., farmer Wayne Cryts — still
have not been solved by Con
gress.
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., has
sent the chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, Peter
Rodino of New Jersey, a blister
ing letter urging him to conform
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Spring of 1981.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — In a
State of the Union address this
week that will set the stage for his
expected re-election bid, Presi
dent Reagan will declare,
“We’ve done a good job” on the
economy and reassure conserva
tive backers by promising a new
push on tuition tax credits,
school prayer and abortion,
aides said.
Reagan will make the speech
at 10 p.m. Wednesday before a
joint session of Congress. It will
be the 197th State of the Union
address. Just four days later, he
is expected to declare his candi
dacy for re-election.
He is not expected to
announce major new initiatives
or programs in his State of the
Union speech, except to prop
ose funding for a manned space
station.
“The speech will be an over
view — in terms of his philoso-
phy — what he came to
Washington to do and how it has
worked out so far,” an aide said,
adding that Reagan thinks his
administration has “changed the
way the government relates to
the people.”
Aides said the president has
worked on several drafts of the
speech “building on the theme
tnat consistency has been the
hallmark of this administration
— staying the course. He will
emphasize together we have
made progress, but there is
much more to be done.”
Reagan plans to announce he
will “redouble efforts” to win
approval for school prayer, res
trictions on abortion, and tuition
tax credits for parents of chil
dren in private schools.
On the economy, aides said,
Reagan will tell Congress, “we’ve
done a good job,” of pulling
America out of a deep recession.
But he will not be specific on
budget or deficit Figures, since
those will be in his proposed
budget for the 1985 fiscal year,
which will be delivered to Con
gress Feb. 1.
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