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BRIDAL SHOWCASE '04 A special section MASON CITY WINS IN OVERTIME Sports, Page 7 ivn i i i i jr r- Warmer Sunny and warmer today with highs around 10. Mostly clear tonight with lows around zero. Sunday will be partly cloudy and warmer with highs around 20. Weather details: Page 2 Saturday January 21, 1984 Mason City-Clear Lake, Iowa Copyright 1984, Lee Enterprises Inc. 25G Finally, some rehef from the bitterly cold weather is in sight.

Warmer air was expected to begin moving into Iowa today, bringing temperatures in the teens ABOVE zero in the North Iowa area and wanning into the 20s Sunday. Mason City was the coldest spot in the state Friday morning with a reading of 21 below zero and it didn't manage to get above 10 below all day. Overnight lows in the state Friday ranged from around 20 below in the extreme north to near 10 below zero in the south. Spencer recorded a low of 19 below while Lamoni had 14 below and Davenport had 13 below. Around the state, according to Associated Press reports, the wind chill was 30 below in the far west to 50 below zero in the east.

The Associated Press further re-' ported painful cold air wafting down from the arctic tundra set records as low as 40 degrees below sero Friday as it spread over the eastern two-thirds of the United i i Hart stop IIP 11 School Board to study building sale, budget sented his ideas on agriculture, environmental -standards, income taxes and nuclear arms control. Today he will take part in a forum on agriculture and rural life in Ames. (Staff photo by Ken Lee) U.S. Sen. GaryHart, D-Colorado, appeals to North Iowans for support Friday on the final stop of his caravan campaign across the state.

Hart, one of eight Democratic candidates seeking the party's presidential nomination, pre ate vM sr Results of a middle school evaluation also will be available for board study Monday. The evaluation includes study of middle school academic, activity and exploratory offerings. In other business, the board will be introduced to "Project 2000," a plan to upgrade and retool the school district's programs as it heads toward the 21st century. The plan includes consideration of an enrichment levy, schoolhouse fund levy, future building closings and consolidations, acquisition of funding from outside the district, such as an "Adopt-A-School" program or establishing a district foundation. Other items on the board's agenda include: discussing procedures for naming the girls Softball complex.

considering a calendar for the 1984-85 school year. -r- review of the quarterly enrollment report. comparison of budget balances in Mason City and other similar school districts. Following the regular meeting, the board will meet in closed session to discuss contract negotiations with teachers. pesis for States.

Snow fell in Florida, and never had a January morning been so cold in parts of West Virginia. At least 21 deaths nationwide have been attributed to this week's frigid weather. A cold wave the last two weeks of 1983 killed more than 350 people in the nation's coldest December ever. The invasion of cold air, called the Siberian Express because it comes from Siberia by way of the polar regions and western Canada, pushed temperatures below zero from the Rockies to New England and as far south as Nashville, Tenn. It was 40 below zero in Minong, Wis.

compared with the morning low of 11 at Nome, Alaska and the northwest winds made it feel more like 60 below in places. "In fact, if you want a nice, warm vacation, you can go to Alaska," said Nolan Duke of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo. Juneau and Anchorage were both at or above the freezing mark, he said. It was the coldest January morning ever recorded in Elkins, W.Va., where the mercury hit 24 degrees below zero. At least 23 schools zero across most of that state.

Some of the other colder readings included a record 38 below zero at International Falls, 34 below at WMiston, N.D., and K8nmn M-Itah 3z Heinw at West Yellowstone, and and 31 below at Fargo, N.D.,' and Hibbing, Minn. In the suburbs of Washington, D.C., the temperature dipped to 6 below zero at Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, 10 degrees below the record for the date set in 1967. Air valves froze on train cars on the Washington area's subway system, causing major rush-hour delays. Several school districts opened late because of snow-clogged roadways. taken no action on changing the State Patrol's affiliation.

The Highway 18 project Includes widening the present roadway to four lanes between S. Illinois and California avenues and replacement of the Winnebago River bridge. The project cost has been roughly estimated at $3.2 million. The DOT has already purchased the needed right of way and completed the project engineering work. "It's just a matter of getting if let and getting started," Solem said.

The work is scheduled to be completed between April and November. Solem said if a construction contract can't be awarded in March or April, the project could be delayed another year. The Highway 18 project has been on the DOT'S drawing board several years. It was placed on the 1984 construction calendar about two years ago after a lobbying effort by city officials and residents. hikes day U.S.

economic growth slowed substantially in the final quarter of 1983. And he said there are indications of further slowing this year. i he said, Reagan feels a big tax hike "would be inappropriate because we're not as certain the economic recovery is as baked in the cake, as satisfactory, as we want to make sure it is." The administration believes a tax increase could slow things further by cutting the amount of money Americans would have to spend or invest. On the other hand, many economists say high budget deficits vuuiu uov tuts. v-o aivJ again, also stifling recovery.

Highway 18 East work may be delayed in'd 40 days, Hart joked after the appearance that he is ''fading" physically. He pretended to have a pair of wobbly knees, caught himself on a table and smiled. "It really is exhausting. The meals are at" so many different times and I don't get a chance to exercise," said the 46-year-old Hart, who added that he usually lifts weights to stay fit. Hart's assistant press secretary, Don McNab of San Francisco, said the senator chose the relaxed setting of Jake's because "Hart doesn't make speeches.

He talks to people at informal places because that's where they're used to going. "We've been to cafes and grain elevators all around the state, from Red Oak to Keokuk to Council Bluffs," said McNab. "Stuff like this won't show up in the polls. It won't show up until caucus night." Hart spoke about money whether it was taxes or campaign contributions from special interest groups during a large portion of the 35 minutes he. was at the restaurant.

"We cannot govern if we're be-, holderi financially and politically to political action and special interest groups," said Hart, who was the first presidential candidate to refuse financial aid from special UK terest groups. Hart called the' federal income tax system.a "national scandal." "I'm amazed there has not been a massive citizens' revolt to throw politicians out of- office on that issue alone. "Our tax system is tilted toward MASON CITY Mason City School Board members face a busy agenda Monday as they continue to deal with tight finances, learn results of a middle school study and are introduced to "Project 2000." In addition, the board will consider asking voters to sell Grant to ShopKo a Green Bay, based discount store. The board will meet beginning at 4:30 p.m. and will break for dinner from about 6 to 7 p.m.

before concluding the meeting at the School Administration Building, 1515 S. Tom Jolas, chairman of "the-Mason Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee, and Don Callahan, ShopKo's director of store planning, will visit with the board about the possibility of selling the Grant property. School officials plan to ask the board for permission to get an appraisal of the property and to put the matter up for a special election since voter approval is required for any sale. Grant School currently houses the district's Alternative School program, but school officials said relocating the program is not a "major deterrent" to selling the site. In addition, school officials said it is unlikely the district would ever use the building as an elementary school again.

The School Board has been grappling with tight finances this year and administrators will present proposed cuts of 8775,600 for the next school year. This latest reduction proposal is about $100,000 less in personnel cuts than presented to the board last month. However, two other cuts are suggested for the first time: cutting a middle school position to save $18,000 and dropping the summer program for preschool handicapped children to save $12,000. As a money-saving effort, the board will consider an early retirement plan for' administrators and teachers which would offer.v a onetime incentive of extra money and paid health and dental benefits for the 1984-85 school year. The plan also would reduce the number of younger teachers laid off, officials said.

The board will look over the district's preliminary budget for the 1984-85 school year, but no action is needed until March 15. cit that soared close to $200 billion last year. Other officials say proposals to cut spending will be modest. But McNamar said, "There's still a lively school of thought, of which I'm a prominent member, that further spending cuts can be made." McNamar said the tax increases that likely would be proposed include some measures the administration has asked for in the past. "Some people call them cats and dogs," he said, giving no further details.

Other officials say there probably would be proposals for making employees pay taxes on some employer-paid health insurance premiums, and for removing tax By Carl Dann Staff Writer MASON CITY One of the few advantages of being a so-called darkhorse in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, according to U.S. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, is that the candidate doesn't have to win to be in the thick of things. Hart made an appeal for support here Friday night to approximately 90 people sandwiched into Jake's Pizza. It was the final stop on his three-month caravan campaign across the state and also his fourth appearance in North Iowa.

"You are very powerful people. You could have an enormous impact," Hart told his listeners, some of whom possibly may be delegates, when Iowa holds the nation's first precinct caucuses Feb. .20. "When you throw away the (opinion) polls and endorsements and name recognition and most of the money what I think we can do is surprise the punsters and pollsters. "I can come out the leader of the darkhorses and do even better.

I don't have to win the first caucuses," he said. Raised on a ranch in eastern Kansas, Hart has a reputation as one of the most pro-farm voting members of the Senate. That Iby-alty to agriculture is not publicized only while he is in the Midwest, Hart said. "1 stress agriculture because of my background and because it's a central part of revamping the country," said Hart. "I talk about agriculture not.

just in Iowa, but' anywhere else where people will listen." After visiting 46 Iowa counties in Inside the Globe Records 2, 19 Obituaries 2 Weather 2 Mason City 3 Letter 4 Sullivan 4 Nation 5 Sports 7-9 Outofdoors TO North Iowa 11 Clear Lake 12 The Big 13 Religion 14, 15 FarmBusiness 16 RuraLlfe 17 Comics 18 Dear Abby 19 At Wit's End 19 Daydreams 19 Clubs 20 the middle- and lower-income people," Hart said. "Reagan's poliicies led to a $750 billion unfair tax cut." He said that as president he would present a "simple, equitable, progressive tax program" to Congress and demand no changes be made on -the measure; he would call for a vote of for or against. "In the program, 80-90 percent would pay taxes which were no higher. And if a person "was below the poverty level, he would pay none," Hart said. The slack, he said, would be taken up by those with larger incomes, who would pay on a more graduated scale.

So how was Hart's appeal received by the public? Charlie Biebesheimer, Mason City, spent l'i years in Colorado and was able to see firsthand how the senator performed. Biebesheimer, who. heard Hart speak in Iowa City last year, said he likes the candidate because "he is very much an environmentalist." "I like his military and foreign policy, too," said Biebesheimer. Biebesheimer said that in Hart's home state, the candidate is "well-liked. Except in Denver.

There's not a lot of support for him there because' of all the' corporations." Hart also seemed to make a good impression with Lisa Smith, Clear Lake, who admitted before the senator arrived that she had come at Biebesheimer's "1 don't pay' much attention to politics, but I. liked what he had to say," said massive tax increase to close the budget deficit." Baldrige said deficits are a concern, but "the main problem is in- creases in government expendi-' tures, not the fact that taxes are low." "We see" no possibility in an elec-, tion year of getting a program through the Congress that will have a proper mix" of budget cuts and tax increases, he said. "We feel after the election our first priority will be to get the proper mix through Congress in 1985." With Reagan's fiscal-1985 budget request due soon, McNamar said there still was debate in the administration about the size of any spending cuts to hold down the defi- MASON CITY Bid letting for the Highway 18 East widening project here has' been delayed until March 15 and there's a chance the project won't be started until next year. Odeli Solem, Iowa Department of Transportation district planner, said the project's bid letting, originally scheduled for this week, has already been delayed twice because DOT officials are uncertain the. necessary money will be available.

"Right now, we're looking at the fact that the Legislature has indicated it wants to put the State Patrol under the DOT. If it does that, it will cost the DOT $30 million," he said. "Actually, it would defer $60 million worth of projects. For every $1 diverted, we have to defer $2 in road building work because of the way our cash flow works." The State Patrol currently is a division of the Department of Public- Safety. The Legislature has breaks from the practice where cities and colleges sell some buildings and other- property and lease them back.

The minor tax reforms are expected to bring in billion ir new revenues in the 1985 fiscal year starting on Oct. 1, leaving the deficit at around $180 billion, officials say. The red ink reached a record $195.4 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. Meanwhile, administration officials said Reagan is expected to talk about the deficit issue in his weekly radio address Saturday.

McNamar noted the Commerce Department reported earlier Thurs Keagan' unlikely 'to seek big tan WASHINGTON (AP) A top Treasury Department official said Friday President Reagan will propose "cats and dogs" tax hikes this year, but they won't do all that much to close the huge federal deficit. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige confirmed Reagan is all but writing off chances for a "proper mix" of deficit-reducing measures until next year. "We will be coming down with some tax measures" to bring in more money and trim the deficit at least somewhat, said Deputy Treasury Secretary R.T. but with the nation's economic recovery apparently slowing down, "we have decided not to propose a A.