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Page 2 Journal-News, Hamilton, Ohio Thursday. January 10. lit74 Ice, snow plague mid-continent areas By Associated Press Ice and snow plagued a wide area from (he Plains to the Great Lakes and New England today, bringing hazardous driving conditions and school closures in numerous communities, Snow swept across the midcontinent in a 300-mile- wide swath from Kansas to Michigan and in a narrower band eastward through southern New England. Some typical snowfall measurements were 8 inches at Warrensburg, 3 inches at Topcka, and Springfield, III. and a inches at Columbia, and Fort Wayne, Ind.

South of the snow, ice gbzed trees, utility poles and -roads. Some roads in Oklahomc were covered by inches of ice as, sleet hardened. The ice storm, skidded across the Mississippi Valley from Arkansas and Missouri into southern'Ohio. Freezing rain and drizzle' mixed with snow chilled parts of Kansas. The ice also crept south into southeastern and west- central Texas as temperatures dipped into the 20s a( some places.

A massive traffic jam developed on U.S. 69 south of Muskogee, when heavy trucks could not make it up a hill. The dangers of walking on ice resulted in the death of one elderly Southern Illinois man 'who slipoped and hit head: while to enter a car. Showers and thundershowers were reported over parts of eastern Texas and Louisiana, 'southern Tire prices get hike okay WASHINGTON The government has approved price increases for the tire industry averaging about 3,3 per cent and has scheduled hearings on proposed a i i a increases. The price hikes authorized by the Cost of Living Council on Wednesday, effective Jan.

15, would increase the price of a steel-belted tire now costing $40 to If the additional price requests are approved, the same tire could sell for $42.80. i S-Sper cent increases, a a applicable to tires and conceivably add another 10 ubcs wcre authorized for Armstrong Rubber Cooper; Dunlop Tire Rubber Firestone Tire Rubber General Tire Rubber; Goodrich; per cent to the price under a council guideline allowing such additional boosts for individual items so long as the average increase does not exceed that authorized. Goodyear Tire Rubber and Uniroyal Inc. ST. PETERS Social RIDGELAWN AVE.

EVERY FRIDAY EVERYBODY HAS FUN Big PRIZES ALWAYS PLIM1NARIES 7:20 Reg. 8PM AT and rate hike under Investigation 'WASHINGTON (AP). The Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation into a major rate revision sought by American Telephone Telegraph Co. in its leased line rates. ATT had sought permission to put the new rates into effect Jan.

14. But the FCC delayed the move least until April 14 while it probes what it termed "substantial questions of lawfulness raised by the revised tariffs." The ATT proposal involves those lines reserved by businesses for' (heir exclusive use. These lines generally are used for teletype or computer communications and not for telephone conversations. Arkansas and Tennessee. Dense fog shrouded the Gulf Coast, eastern Terincuce and the Heavy-snow and- ice, and watches were issued from the Plains to the Great Lakes for today.

1 the East was' not 'm-, eluded, but-from 6 to 10 inches' of snow blanketed New -through Wednesday. The hardest-Bit were the Catskills and portions of the lower Hudson Valley of New York, with eight 16-10 inches of snow. Other snowstorms dusted the central and northern Rockies and parts of Washington state. Low clouds and fog clung to central California. Temperatures before dawn ranged from 28 degrees at Bismarck, N.D., to 76 at Key West, Fla.

Mushroom retail (APK 'Th. Food and Drug lrtd from market several brands of le-ounee sizftcanned mush- KKHIW It says could be tainted wlU iSSlSinum tpxin. I. recall, announced Wednesday, includes mushrooms packed before May 10,1972, under the Colonial Farms or Star Chef brands, both produced by the Oxford Corp. of Oxford, Pa.

Blng Crosby Illness Fire kills 4 children; mother safe BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) Doctors say they have tested tissue from Bina Crosby's afflicted lung and found no indication of cancer. a i physician, Dr. Stanley M. Handing, said Wednesday that the crooner had a lesion about two inches long and 1 inches wide on the upper part of his left lung.

He said the i lung also had an abscess. "Mr. Crosby is confident; has a good appetite and is optimistic," said Hanfling. Statement As Of December 31,1973 ASSETS First Mortgage Loans $93,094,148 All Other Loans 10,478,318 Real Estate Owned and In Judgement. 37,877 Loans and Contracts Made To Facilitate Sale of Real Estate 99,650 Cash On Hand and In Banks 1,962,634 Investments and Securities 4,991,905 Fixed Assets Less Depreciation 1,547,973 Deferred Charges and Other 2,059,593 TOTAL ASSETS $114,272,098 LIABILITIES Savings Accounts $85,123,996 Advances From Federal Home Loan Bank 10,200,000 Other Borrowed Money 1,000,000 Loans In Process 6,267,862 Deferred Income 2,623,573 Other Liabilities 1,330,163 Specific Reserves 65,833 General Reserves 5,585,424 Undivided Profits 2,075,247 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET WORTH.

$114,272,098 OffiCERS E. Sander-, CfiQiimon of iho Eoard: E. Hjolmar Persian Vtce Chairman of the Board: Lynn I. Frjliche President William C. Bceter 111 V.ce President Lending; Ralph N.

Shclion Vice President Finance: 8rucc E. latins Vice PfesidcM Operations Jack W. ATrr.slrang Vice Piesident Marketing 8OARO OF DIRtCTOflS WEST SIDE FEDERAL Vour kind of people, your of QQC) Main it'- in Hcmil.on. 667-8230 Lindecvvoia. airliela Branch at Pieasani Avenue, Middletown Branch: Witclwood Shopping Center 660 University 424-3591 NEW BEDFORD, Mass.

(AP) Flames swept through a housing project town house and killed the four children of'Mrs. Dale M. Whiltemqre, 16 months after her only other child was killed by a car. dead in the blaze Wednesday nfghl were identified as Earl Whittemore, TerriAnn, Ronald, 10; and Cindy, 13. The mother, Mrs.

Dale M. Whittemore; escaped unharmed, police said. The fifth Whittemore child, Howard, 8, was killed in September 1972 when he was struck by a car. Two residents of the Evergreen Park, project, Abelardo Guadalupe, 35, and his brother, Raymond, tried unsuccessfully to rescue the children. "I could hear them screaming," Guadalupe said.

"I asked the little girl to jump, but' she panicked. She just, wouldn't jump." Bread price tiff WASHINGTON (AP) A bakery industry prediction that the price of bread could soar to $1 a loaf by spring has been discounted by a top Agriculture Department official. The official, Asst. Agriculture Secretary Carroll G. Brurtthaver, called the prediction "an irrational statement" and said wheat would have to cost $60 a bushel for a one-pound loaf to cost $1 at the retail level.

Cambodian napalm PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Cambodian air force fighters dropped napalm today on Khmer Rouge insurgents threatening Phnom Penh's airport. Frontline field commanders called in the prop-driven T28s lo drop the flaming chemical on a series of villages five to seven miles northwest of the city and less than two miles north of the airport. Julie story fn print WASHINGTON (AP) Julie Nixon Eisenhower's first literary effort, a children's story about a White House dog, is being published with fanfare this month by the Saturday Evening Post. "Pasha Passes By" was inspired by one of the Nixon's three dogs, Yorkshire terrier Pasha. With it the President's daughter launches a new "read Children's Literature Series for the magazine.

19 sick on charter flight Food poisoning suspected in air passenger illness COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Airport authorities were holding food today from a chartered flight from Pueblo West, 19 passengers were taken to area hospitals Wednesday night to be treated for food poisoning, police said. The 19 were among 63 passengers returning from a 24- hour land sales presentation in Pueblo West sponsored by McCulloch Properties, a spokesman for the firm said. IMMEMORIAM GEORGE SEXTON Sheriff of Union Count), Uteri), Indiana Died Dec. 31,1973 For we are saved by hope: Bui hope that is seen Is nof hope: For what a man seelh, Why dotn he yet hope for? Bui if we hope for'hot we see not, Then do we with patience wait for it. All those treated at local hospitls were by early morning scheduled for flights to their The McCulloch In-? ternational Airlines flight'; made stops at Pittsburgh, and-' Toronto, an spokesman said.

Airport police said the, 1 food would be tested. A i i Laurence Laurie said crew'-J reports indicated may simplyri have been airsick. The group, all of applied for the expense-paid i trip, departed Tuesday Colorado, Laurie said today Richard the manager of the firm.i which chartered the said he suspected the food'? on the flight to Colorado was. contaminated. Charge It Bank Amertcard Charge or your Leiffielt Credit BIG SAVINGS When you them the Wwnen's-Teen's most wanted styles VALUES to $1699 is the lime to save on bools as never before! Choose liom the seasons stylos, designed lor closer lit lo keep your leet warm and dry on cola days.

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