Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • 1

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The cold caused many of the city's homeless to seek shelter. "We're not quite full. I think we'll sell out tonight, though," the DES MOINES (AP) Record-breaking cold forced the homeless into shelters and racing greyhounds off the track Friday as temperatures plunged to dangerous levels across Iowa. The coldest weather of the winter ended a week which began with record-setting high temperatures in the 70s. Most of the highs on Friday didn't even get above zero.

Police reported a 67-year-old Sioux City woman was unable to unlock the door to her home after falling on the front porch Tuesday night and died of exposure. Rev. Ralph Huff of the Bethel Mission in Des Moines said Friday. Ottumwa also set a record low at 10 below zero, breaking a record of 9 below set in 1956. Early Friday, wind-chill readings dipped to 73 below in Mason City, 71 below in Estherville, 69 below in Sioux City, 68 below in Fort Dodge and 63 below in Waterloo.

Actual temperatures included a frigid 22 below in Estherville, 20 below in Spencer and Mason City, 18 below in Fort Dodge and 17 below in Sioux City. By Jeff Tecklenburg City Editor And Douglas Hines Staff Writer Neither rain nor snow nor sleet you know how that goes. Mason City postal carriers didn't face any of that stuff Friday. But they did encounter a brutal foe known as Wind Chill Factor. Whipped by strong winds, the WCF was the equivalent of 70 degrees below zero early Friday and didn't get much better the rest of the day.

The overnight low at the Mason City airport was 21 degrees below zero, just missing the record of 22 below set in 1923. The day's high was 11 below. "We weren't even going to send the city carriers out this morn-See COLD, A2 AP photo Cold walk: A pedestrian tries to cope with 24 below zero weather in Minneapolis Friday. Remembering Holly, Valens and Bopper President: rescue proposal won't be popular Lawmakers oppose depositor fees WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush, quickening the pace of consultation on the savings and loan crisis, was told by congressional leaders Friday that a rescue plan should include higher industry insurance premiums, but not new Wt- LAK Mr if, iX i depositor fees. Bush said that whatever plan JvlWr-.

if il Rock fans mark 'day music died' By Greg Smith Associated Press Writer CLEAR LAKE Thousands of Buddy Holly fans from the South to Great Britain braved numbing cold Friday to remember the day the music died. Holly and fellow early rock'n'rollers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson died Feb. 3, 1959, when their small airplane crashed in a blinding snowstorm en route to Fargo, N.D., after the performers' show at the Surf Ballroom in this North Iowa community. The 50-year-old ballroom was the site of the all-night sock hop Friday.

Women dressed in saddle shoes, bobby socks and poodle skirts and men with white socks, leather jackets and T-shirts with rolled-up sleeves filed past the Feb. 3, 1959, edition of the Mason City Globe-Gazette displayed in the lobby as 1950s and '60s music blared in the background. week. On Thursday, he addresses a joint House-Senate session on the budget. From the congressional leaders, participants said, Bush heard overwhelmingly one-sided advice against a proposal, not yet formally ruled out within the administration, for a new fee on deposits in thrifts, banks and credit unions.

"I don't recall anybody taking the other side of that issue," Sen. Donald W. Riegle the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told reporters his administration presents to Capitol Hill next week "will not be popular." And he said he doubted Congress would fare much better. Bush summoned- the leaders to the White House "one day before he was to meet with his top aides in a session today at the Camp David, presidential retreat, where he and first lady Barbara Bush were to spend the weekend. The president told Friday's audience he hopes to have the administration's plan for bailing out ailing in place early in the Staff photo by JIM REYNOLDS Concert recreation: The D.C Drifters from Austin, were among the acts performing Friday night at the Lake TheaterOpry House in a theatrical recreation of the Feb.

2, 1 959 Winter Dance Party. names of the dead musicians and the words, "Their music lives on," stands just outside the entrance. Hatter" Hensley, who organized the annual observance 11 years ago when he was with KEZV radio, said more than 2,000 tickets were sold for this year's memorial sockhop. "I love this stuff," said Jan See HOLLY. A2 The newspaper featured a photo of the wrecked airplane and one-column photos of Holly and Valens.

Portraits and posters of Holly line the walls, and a six-foot high memorial etched with the Study: School aid plan to cut property tax Computer simulates Branstad idea Mew allegations won't delay Tower vote legislators of his own Republican Party who argued it would force property tax increases of up to $45 million across the state. Under the complex formula, state spending is tied to how much schools can collect in property taxes. While Branstad aides rejected the charges, they had no concrete evidence to bolster their case until Thursday. The simulation, prepared by the Department of Education, showed total property taxes collected in the first year of the new formula (1990-91) would be $3,324,246 less than would be collected that year under current law. Under current law, schools would collect $627,490,439 in property taxes for the 1990-91 See SCHOOLS, A2 DES MOINES Gov.

Terry Branstad's plan to revamp school finances would spark a property tax cut of more than $3.3 million in its first year on the books, according to a computer model. The computer model listed 98 of the state's 433 school districts which would collect fewer property tax dollars than current law would allow. The other districts' taxes would be unchanged. The reductions vary from a few hundred dollars to more than $100,000 in districts such as Muscatine and Marion Linn-Mar. Mason City's would drop about $7,000.

The computer simulation of the new formula's impact has been eagerly awaited by all sides in the school-funding debate. Brandstad's proposed revision has drawn sharp criticism from He said an FBI report on the subject should reach the committee "on Monday and we can proceed to a vote Tuesday or Wednesday." Tower, meanwhile, sought to dispel any impression of an embattled nominee, meeting for about two hours at his Jefferson Hotel residence with five people likely to be named to deputy posts at the Pentagon. He later issued a statement, saying the meeting had been scheduled for a week "and had nothing to do with the proceedings before the Senate Armed Services Committee." "The discussions centered on the schedule of events for the first six months of the administration, the relationships among various positions within the Pentagon, policy and strategy, and management reform," the statement said. WASHINGTON (AP) The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday new allegations against Defense Secretary-designate John Tower won't delay the panel's vote for long. Congressional sources said the allegations concerned drinking and womanizing.

The committee had been expected to vote Thursday to recommend Senate confirmation of Tower, but that was postponed after the emergence of the new allegations. Sen. John Warner, declined on Friday to say what the information dealt with. But other sources indicated it concerned Tower's personal life, and specifically alcohol and women. "It's just another chapter in an ongoing investigation," Warner said.

"I don't attach any more significance to this chapter than to any other." Congressional sources said new allegations about Tower surfaced after conservative lobbyist Paul Weyrich said in public testimony Tuesday that he had seen Tower publicly inebriated and with women other than his wife on several occasions. Committee members later met in private with Weyrich, and several indicated they saw no bar to his confirmation. At the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said, "Our feeling is he will be firmed. Whenever you have a candidate who is undergoing this kind of scrutiny there are always things that turn up. We will await the final judgment." Rep.

Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he did not think it was "necessary at this time to withdraw the nomination." BOLIVIA Tomorrow New leader in Paraguay; coup leaves scores dead PARAGUAY Saturday BRAZIL Military WjRebelllon In Quotes Argentina "I don't like the I go to my room and lock my door." woman chosen for jury panel in trial of Oliver North. DetailsCl5. Index A.M.-Kids B9 Ann Landers BIO Bll Briefings A2 Calendar Classified CI 5-20 Comics Horoscope Bll Iowa A3 Nation Neighbors C14 North Iowa CI 3 Obituaries C14 Religion Sports D21-24 St oc A4 Weather ft I URUGUAY 200 miles 1 "My government will respect the human rights of everyone to make democracy a reality," Rodriguez said during a short speech at the 19th century National Palace. At least 18 soldiers and a handful of civilians were killed during fierce clashes between troops loyal to Stroessner and Rodriguez, the Roman Catholic Church-run Radio Caritas said, saying that the total could top 200. It gave no source or explanation for the wide fluctuation.

Officials at the main military and police hospitals refused to give figures on casualties. But a police sergeant said: "I'm sad for my 35 dead companions. About 150 soldiers died at the presidential escort batallion, and two civilians." ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) Gen. Andres Rodriguez was sworn in as president Friday after ousting President Alfredo Stroessner in a coup that reportedly left scores dead. Rodriguez ordered the dictator out of the country he had ruled for 34 years.

Rodriguez, who had been Stroessner's second-in-command in the army and whose daughter is married to Stroessner's son, took the oath of office and then swore in a nine-member Cabinet comprised of seven civilians, an active general and a retired general. Paraguayans poured into the streets to celebrate the bloody military coup and to gape at damage left by hours of heavy fighting i between rebel soldiers and police and troops loyal to Stroessner. Weather Stroessner, 76, was put under house arrest at an army base, about 30 of his followers and aides detained, and the hierarchy of the government and ruling Colorado Party replaced. A conflicting report said Stroessner was ordered out of the country, and that he was en route to exile in Santiago, Chile. Winterfest '89: We'll preview the celebration of outdoors Iowa in winter and bring you a rundown on the activities planned at Mcintosh Woods State Park next Saturday.

OUTDOORS. Cold: Cold weather continues today with "highs" reaching 5 below zero. DetailsA8. 1.