Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • 1

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Low tonight 20 below zero to 30 below. High Saturday around 10 below zero. Outlook for Christmas day. continued very cold, little or no snow. Weather details: Page 2 Friday, December 23, 1983 Copyright- 1983 Lee Enterprises.

Inc. kiiDDg mm In fact, the Christmas weekend is likely to be a record one as lows overnight tonight are expected to hit 20 below to 30 below and remain bitterly cold through the period. Highs will be no better than 10 below to 15 below today and 10 below Saturday. Record low temperatures, according to Globe-Gazette records, are 18 below on Dec. 24, 1920, and 18 below on Dec.

25, While it's too early to be too optimistic, moderating temperatures may be in store early next week. Forecasters are calling for highs of zero to 5 below Sunday, inching upward to the teens to perhaps the 20s by Tuesday. Power outages The bitter cold caused repeated power outages Wednesday night and Thursday in a Clear Lake housing subdivision and for an area near Nora Springs, according to Nick Veverka, operating superintendent for Interstate Power Co. in Mason City. Veverka said fuses in lines serving the Four Winds subdivision, north of Highway 18 and west of the Fertile blaCktop in Clear Lake, were tripped three times during the night, probably by wires "galloping" in the winds.

"Galloping" is caused when ice-and snow-coated electrical wires are whipped by winds. Veverka said the outages occurred about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and 12:30 and 4 a.m. Thursday, with the longest lasting no more than an "hour or so." He said the outages affected about 20 customers. He said crews restored power each time, and" were able to see better at daybreak and solve the problem.

Southeast of Nora Springs, a blackout occurred about 3:30 a.m. Thursday when splices came apart causing a conductor to come down, Veverka said. He said that with wind-chill factors at 60 below, metal in the splices shrink and they come apart. He said the blackout was not a major problem and did not last long. Veverka said crews go out in two-man teams and take turns working in the dangerously cold Record (Please turn to Page 2) 1989, it said.

Unemployment stood at 8.4 percent of the civilian workforce ia'. November, after falling sharply from the post-Depression peak of 10.8 percent in December 1982. Inflation, well under the torrid double-digit levels of just a few years ago, is running at an estimated rate of 4 percent in the final three months of this year. Short term interest rates are around 9 percent. Private economist Allen Sinai took issue with the administration projections in future years.

"It's inappropriate to plan for a sustained expansion when the major ingredient is not in view a tightening of the budget," said Sinai, chief economist for, the New York investment house of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Inc. The new projections are used by the administration in fashioning its budget blueprint for the 1985 fiscal year which starts Oct. 1. Mason City-Clear Lake, Iowa MASON CITY North Iowa's ridiculous winter weather turned a bit more ridiculous Thursday and it was only the first day of the season. Believe it or not, the day's HIGH temperature of 15 bplow zero at 7 a.m.

equaled the previous record LOW for Dec. 22, a 15 below reading way back in 1897, according to Globe-Gazette weather records. The low of 22 below was, of course, a record for Dec. 22, and a record for Dec. 23 was assured early today when the thermometer read 20 below at 12:30 a.m.

and was certain to go lower. The previous low tor Dec. 23, according to Globe-Gazette records, was 12 below in 1897. Lake Mills homo lovolod by gas blast LAKE MILLS Three Lake Mills residents escaped serious injury when a natural gas explosion leveled the Scott and Yvonne Hele-geson farm residence near here Thursday afternoon. Robert Norem.

an employee of Peoples Natural Gas in Lake Mills, was treated tor burns at the Family Medical Clinic in Lake Mills and released, according to the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department. Yvonne Helgeson also was treated at the medical center and then transported to Joseph Mercy Hospital in Mason City, where she was treated and released. Scott Helgeson received burns but did not seek treatment, of icials said. The explosion was caused by a buildup in natural gas, a sheriff's department spokesman said. The state fire marshal's otiice and Peoples Natural Gas personnel are investigating the incident.

Lake Mills firefighters were called to the brick farmhouse, located about one-half mile east of Lake Mills, shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday, authorities The house had been "completely flattened" by the explosion and fire, said Duane Skellenger, a training oiiicer with the Lake Mills Fire Department. At the time of the explosion, Scott Helgeson and Norem were in the basement where Norem was working on the furnace. Yvonne Helgeson was upstairs, according to the sheriff's office. Fire departments from Lake Mills, Northwood, Joice and Emmons, were called to the scene.

Also assisting were the Winnebago and Worth County sheriff's departments and the Lake Mills Police Department. 5 I lit 'HrxvX Us -rit vl's 1 1 i i fs I Forecast has inflation up, jobless rate down Undercover Jeri Waldschmidt, Mason City, is bundled to the hilt to protect against Thursday's brutally cold temperatures and brisk winds while waiting tor a bus at 6tlf and S. Pierce. The high temperature in Mason City was just 15 below zero Thursday, following the early-morning record low of 22 below. (Staff photo by Jeff Heinz) KUHosf city stores will open WASHINGTON (AP) The economic recovery should slow next year but still hold to a steady pace, leading to a decline in unemployment to an average of 7.8 percent and a slight boost in inflation, to about 5 percent, according to the Reagan administration.

Martin Feldstein, the president's chief economist, said the fresh forecasts, released Thursday, show "six good solid years" through 1989. But he emphasized they assume congressional adoption of the administration's plans to help pare budget deficits now running around $200 billion a year. "We would expect to have lower growth and higher'inflation than these numbers suggest, if there's no change or only trivially small change in the fiscal outlook," said Feldstein, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. Private analysts said they had no quarrel with the 1984 forecast but were skeptical of the outlook for future years, which calls for steady growth of 4' percent, after adjustment for inflation, through 1988. It envisions unemployment gradually falling to 5.7 percent in 1989 and the inflation rate tumbling to 3.5 percent by then.

Short-term interest rates should fall from 8.5 percent next year to 5 percent in William Pappas i a JK Christmas sales," said Mallory. "We're going to be open early to let them take advantage of that." He also is expecting Monday to be busy. At least, said Mallory, "if it runs true to form it will be." Mark Harrington, salesman at Walker Shoe Store, said they were waiting to see if the other stores were going to be open and it looks like most of them are. Besides, said- Harrington, "Our big sale starts Christmas eve (Saturday) so that's another reason why we will be open." Christmas coming on a Sunday has caused some head-scratching by some associations and store Records 2 Engagements 8 Obituaries 2 Anniversary 8 Weather 2 Diversions 9-10 Mason City 3 Dear Abby 10 Club notes 3 Clear Lake 12 Opinion 4 Sports 15-17 Nation 5, 7 Comics 18 Giants of Faith 6 FarmBusiness 19 North Iowa 8 Some Clear Lake stores to be open on Monday. Page 12 Ski Shop, Larsen's China and Gifts, Artz and Merritt Sporting Goods and the Trouser Works.

Walker and Trade Home shoe stores will be open, Tiedemann reported. Most women's clothing stores, including Lundbergs, Stevensons, Roberts Clothes of Charm and Sei-ferts, will be open Monday. As for how busy the stores will be, Lindgren said, "We're gambling that it will be a big day." At least, he said, it will be an opportunity for customers to be able to make exchanges as well as spend money they receive as Christmas Lindgren noted that major partment stores, particularly in metropolitan areas, traditionally are open the day after a holiday tranirinnalv Court suspends romaindor of Pappas' prison sontbneo Monday groups. By mutual agreement three downtown men's clothing stores, GUdners Clothing Store, St. Clair Starks and Eddie Quinn Clothier, decided to be closed Monday.

Steve Quinn, at Eddie Quinn's, remarked that the three stores' owners "all kind of have a feeling about the holiday and decided employees deserve an extra day." "We feel our customers will be understanding about that," Quinn said. Car dealers also will be closed, the Chamber of Commerce was informed by the dealer's local association. am took food to those unable to go to the distribution point. Under the agreement, O'Brien paid for about 100 pounds of food for each family, including a 20-pound ham, other meat, canned goods, fruits, fresh vegetables and Christmas candy. He also is giving each family notarized letters that allow them to go to a local department store to get $300 worth of toys or clothing, with a similar arrangement for up to $500 for winter heating bills.

"This is what Christmas is all about," said the Rev. Mark Turn-bough, one of the volunteers helping with the program in this city known (Please turn to Page 2) Thanks to crime sontonco. 1 By Gary Orimmond Staff Writer MASON CITY Because it's expected to be a bumper time for buying as well as exchanging merchandise, most Mason City stores are expected to be open Monday, Dec. 26, the day after Christmas. "Most large major stores will be open," Gary Lindgren, vice president and chairman of the retail division of the Mason City Chamber of Commerce, said he could "safely say." He mentioned Damon's where he is merchandising manager, Bergo'-s, Younkers, J.C.

Penney and Sears. In fact; said Lindgren, "more stores will be open than stores closed." Donna Tiedemann at the Mason City Chamber of Commerce took a quick telephone survey Thursday confirming this. She found that all stores in the city's three shopping centers, Wil-lowbrook Plaza, Sears-Target and Regency Square, will be open, as will Alco, just south of Regency. Some specialty shops, such as Morel and Gordon's jewelry stores will be closed as well as Max Boyd Business Machines, Carleton Stewart Music and Yelland and Hanes. Osco Drug and Decker Sporting Goods on Federal will be closed as will Curries Ace Hardware on Washington.

McGregor Furniture Co. will be open but Tyler-Ryan Furniture will be closed, Tiedemann said. Kel-lum's interior decorating is "questionable," she added. Other stores on Federal Avenue that will be open include Wayne' a- IVMISSOUn nOUUV mGTS nOIIUUV By Carle Dann Staff Writer MASON CITY Former Mason City attorney William Pappas was freed from prison Thursday as the remainder of his term was suspended and he was placed on five years' probation. The decision was handed down in District Court here by Judge M.D.

Seiser. Afterward, Pappas received handshakes and hugs from officials who had watched the proceeding. Pappas, 63, pleaded guilty two years ago to taking more than $30,000 from two clients' trust funds and lying to the court about one of the accounts. In September, Pappas began serving a prison term of up to 10 years. He had been ordered to re- (Please turn to Page 2).

NOEL. Mo. (AP) Dozens of families lined up for free groceries, toys and clothes Thursday, beneficiaries of a wealthy businessman who agreed to spend $90,000 on the needy to stay out of jail for floating checks. Donald O'Brien, 55, pleaded guilty in November to a misdemeanor charge of misapplying funds from the State Bank of Noel, of which he is principal owner. As part of a two-year probation sentence, he agreed to pay for up to $90,000 in food, clothing, toys and heat for 100 needy families in largely rural McDonald County.

Families selected by the state Division of Family Services went to City Hall to pick up their food Thursday morning while volunteers such as Christmas even when it falls on a Sunday. "They are going after as much business as they can get, and they have to be open a lot of hours," Lindgren said. He allowed that independent stores such as his tend to feel that employees should have this time off. But because Monday is the day when stores are open late, until 90 p.m., and it is the day after Christmas, "we decided that we better be open," Lindgren said. Bill Mallory, manager at Kmart, Highway 18 West, said his store would be open.

In fact, it will open at 8 a.m. instead of the usual 9:30 a.m. "Most people expect a lot of.