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BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. 15, No. 32 Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1970 22 Pages 10 Cents Mercury hits new lows New cold wave hits north, midwest By United Press International The East had somewhat wanner recorded 4 below zero at midnight, history late Tuesday. A do-it-yourself A tugboat was disabled with It was cold this morning. like 36 temperatures but snow and brisk ousting the old record for Jan. 20 set in buff "liberated" a snow plow in propeller trouble when it apparently degrees below zero at Bemidji, Minn., winds combined to keep life miserable. 1883. Sioux City, Iowa, racked up a 19- Philadelphia. struck an ice floe in the Upper Bay 35 below at Grand Forks, N.D., a A Navy cargo ship was torn from its below reading and Rochester, Minn., Snow was falling from the Virginias between New York City's Staten Isand record 28 below at Minneapolis, and 18 anchorage by 50-knot winds and read 26 below, both records. to Delaware and Maryland. New York and Manhattan. below at Moline, HI. rammed stern-first through part of the By 6 a jn., St. Louis had tied today's City was under a hazardous driving Rain and strong winds extended Some cities set a record low for $200 million Chesapeake Bay Bridge- record f 7 below. warning as the fresh snow covered from northern California to western Tuesday at one minute before mid- Tunnel complex n3ar Norfolk, Va. An inch of snow in Washington scattered ice left by previous storms. Washington and gale warnings were night, then established a similar In the Midwest, the day started out created what police called one of the Nearly 1,700 workmen were salting posted. In Oakland, Calif., a slipping worst traffic jams in the capital's roads and sidewalks for the rush hour. hillside fell another foot Tuesday, record for today shortly after. on a threatening note. St. Louis, Mo., Cold Detroit fireman YOUOAY 197Q JANUARY 197Q S . M T W T S Dredging 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20[Hl22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 starts Where the action is Friday ByPETEPEPINSKY inlet last April under terms of a one- Ladies, get your needles and year contract with the city. thread in order, because Dredging work to remove the Frequent soundings, electronic tomorrow morning at 9:00 a class existing shoals in the Boca Raton Inlet depth recordings and aerial in lingerie starts. Gladi King will will begin Friday, weather permitting. photographs indicated the movement teach you how to make nighties, The maintenance dredging by Ar- of some water-borne sand around the girdles and all kinds of un- vida Corp. will take approximately one end of the north jetty and some wind- mentionables. Be at the Com- month. The contractor, Inland Ser- blown sand from the beach over the munity Center when the action vices Company, will provide a sub- north jetty. starts? merged discharge line to allow Lorraine Ficek was a little bit passage of boats while the work is puzzled when the News asked her being done, but it may be necessary to Franchise if it was to be "ladies only." stop traffic during the installation President Nixon queries Vice President Agnew on the Australia, where large crowds gathered around his hotel period. "There wouldn't be any men to yell all night in an attempt to keep him from sleeping. interested in lingerie would results of his recent eleven-nation tour of the Far East. Mayor Emil Danciu, in announcing there?" she asked. Agnew received a warm welcome everywhere except in (UPI Telephoto) the operation, warned that "Caution fee shows will be needed at all times by boaters to avoid collision with the floating Boosters meet equipment." He added that boaters Israeli troops invade Jordan, from many municipalities up and 27% jump down the Gold Coast use the inlet, and Members of the Jet Booster public awareness of the project will be Club will meet at 8 o'clock tonight highly important. Thanks to the power company, the at the bowling lanes. They'll The work is to be done under permits city of Boca Raton has $15,000 worth of complete plans for their annual run into heavy resistance previously issued by the state of unexpected funds to play with. banquet scheduled for Feb. 23 at Florida Trustees of the Internal Im- John Ray, district manager for the Community Center. provement Fund and the Corps of Florida Power and light, presented By United Press International Moneim Rif ai, in an interview Tuesday Jordan said the Israeli troops, with Engineers. The contractor is obtaining the City Council with a check for over Cairo television, said Israel's dozens of tanks, armored vehicles and the necessary city and county permits. $224,919.36 for 1969's franchise fees last An Israeli punitive task force of 800 recent escalation of attacks against artillery pieces, crossed the cease-fire Mayor Danciu learned of the night. soldiers and 40 tanks and armored the Arab nations was aimed at line just below the Dead Sea at 7 p.m. dredging in a letter from Norman City Manager Alan Alford said he Bundle up vehicles struck into Jordan Tuesday disrupting the Big Four Mideast peace Tuesday and ran into heavy resistance Cortese, staff engineer of Arvida amount budgeted was $210,000. The night and battled Jordanian, Saudi talks in New York. immediately. Corporation. Arvida undertook the check also represented a 27.5 per cent Arabian and guerrilla forces for 21 —Israeli Foreign Minister Abba initial opening and maintenance of the increase over the 1968 franchise fees. Gus Hager, Boca Raton's hours before withdrawing today. Jordanian military sources said the Eban told UPI in an interview the cooperative observer of the Israeli air and artillery joined the Israeli army used a mixed battalion of United States has been out- Weather Bureau, warns Qiat attack, longest since the 1967 war. armor and mechanized infantry, everyone should bundle up maneuvered by the Soviet Union in the which would amount to about 800 men. The Israeli command said the Israeli Big Four talks and suggested some Nixon urges action on tonight. He says the temperature raiders began returning to Israeli The armored spearhead consisted of may go down into the 40's. At other method be used. some 40 tanks and armored cars, the territory at 2 p.m. (7 ajn. EST) after —A bomb hidden in a mailbox ex- least that beats Indianapolis, Ind. 19 hours of battle but Amman sources said. They said the Israelis — the mercury hit 40 there last ploded in Beirut and blew a hole in the struck at least five miles into Jordan. nation's housing need spokesmen said the battle was still wall of a hospital Tuesday night. It was night. Worse yet, that 40 had a raging two hours later. Israeli claimed to have killed five minus sign in front of it. the fourth explosion in the past three WASHINGTON (UPI) —President ficials of National Association of Home Israel said its forces killed five Arab days in Lebanese Moslem and Jewish Arab guerrillas and destroyed several Nixon said today the downward trend Builders. They discussed what the guerrillas in an attack mounted as neighborhoods. military vehicles. Unofficial reports in new home building "must and will President described as "a crisis reprisal for repeated shelling of from Amman listed Jordanian ca- be stopped." situation" in housing. Quick facts Israel's only potash plant south of the sualties as one civilian killed and In a special statement, he said: Dead Sea and said it lost no men or GI newsman seven wounded. "The private sector and all levels of Chairman Paul McCracken of the equipment. The guerrillas said they Target of the Israeli raid was an government must take the steps White House Council of Economic o Weather: Fair today with in- lost six dead and four wounded and Arab guerrilla buildup in the Safi-Feifi necessary to assure that the nation's Advisers was present at the White creasing cloudiness tonight caused "heavy" Israeli losses. transferred area of Jordan. From there, the housing needs are more fully met House today to discuss the President's and tomorrow. High yes- The Jordanian cabinet met in guerrillas had shelled an Israeli potash now." statement and the economy in general. terday 73, low this morning plant Sunday and Monday, knocking emergency session and King Hussein SAIGON (UPI)—A GI newscaster On the eve of his State of the Union 51. Low tonight 40-50, high spent all night and today at military out its power. speech to Congress, the President tomorrow 73. Noon today 65. who told his audience its news was headquarters in Amman assessing censored said today he felt his transfer "The coming operation in the area is warned at the same time that in order Boating: Seas two feet near reports from the battle area. The to a remote central highlands base was still going on and when complete, the to combat inflation "some needed shore, five to six feet from the Amman government instructed its punishment for his on-the-air force will return to its base," a Tel federal programs simply will have to Gulfstream eastward. Inland U.N. ambassador to protest to the statement. Aviv communique said. be postponed so that we live within our waters will have a light chop security council. Spec. Robert F. Lawrence, 27, of The raid, the communique added, means." In a series of other Middle East followed "repeated attacks on our The presidential statement preceded today, increasing to choppy Atlanta, Ga., flew this afternoon to There are a million and one developments: territory, on the Dead Sea (potash) what sources said would be heavy tomorrow.