During the first time since Dec. 29 it was above the freezing mark.

Ice james on many rivers of the Plains caused some minor flooding and melting snow caused by the warming trend added to the problems.

Rivers remained high across the southern third of the nation from Texas to the central Atlantic Coast.

Rain continued in the West Palm Beach, Fla., area, where up to 9½ inches was reported for a 17-hour period.

## Fuel experts tell method to cut use here

By JIM WOOD

Caller Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — As the weather experts here tell it, people in South Texas can reduce their fuel usage by up to half or more by lowering their thermostats by six degrees.

The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has arrived at these conclusions with a series of "daily mean temperature" calculations.

NOAA calculates that a six-degree rollback in thermostats would cut fuel usage by 49 per cent during winter months in Corpus Christi. It would climb to 53 per cent in the Valley, according to NOAA. Nationally, the savings would be 15 to 20 per cent.

Calculated another way, the fuel savings would range from about 8 per cent per thermostat degree in Corpus Christi to nine in the Valley.

Now this is all well and good.

It's a way to work toward the national winter goal of 68 degrees. But to cut back a thermostat you have to have one.

That means your home must have central heat.

That means it must be, for the most part, a modern home.

Which further means that the statistics just don't mean anything for about half of South Texas where some of the country's poorest people live.

How do you turn back the thermostat in a shack with a space heater or a wood burning stove?

be near 60. High temperatures will be in the mid 70s.

## Temperatures are

Temperatures indicate overnight low, daytime high; Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7 p.m. CDT.

### NATIONAL

<table><tbody><tr><td>Albany</td><td>.9</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td>Albuquerque</td><td>.26</td><td>54</td></tr><tr><td>Asheville</td><td>.27</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td>Atlanta</td><td>.31</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>Atlantic City</td><td>.10</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td>Baltimore</td><td>.14</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Billings</td><td>.40</td><td>49</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham</td><td>.46</td><td>51</td></tr><tr><td>Bismarck</td><td>.1</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>Boise</td><td>.39</td><td>49</td></tr><tr><td>Boston</td><td>.7</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Buffalo</td><td>.12</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td>Burlington, Vt.</td><td>-.10</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Casper</td><td>.34</td><td>41</td></tr><tr><td>Charleston, S.C.</td><td>.40</td><td>50</td></tr><tr><td>Charleston, W.V.</td><td>.29</td><td>46</td></tr><tr><td>Charlotte, N.C.</td><td>.24</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Cheverne</td><td>.35</td><td>51</td></tr><tr><td>Chicago</td><td>.25</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td>Cincinnati</td><td>.27</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Cleveland</td><td>.25</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Columbia, S.C.</td><td>.34</td><td>41</td></tr><tr><td>Columbus, Ohio</td><td>.24</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td>Dayton</td><td>.24</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td>Denver</td><td>.25</td><td>47</td></tr><tr><td>Des Moines</td><td>.23</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td>Detroit</td><td>.18</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>Duluth</td><td>.8</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Fargo</td><td>.3</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Great Falls</td><td>.2</td><td>44</td></tr><tr><td>Hartford</td><td>.3</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td>Helena</td><td>.39</td><td>51</td></tr><tr><td>Honolulu</td><td>.76</td><td>79</td></tr><tr><td>Indianapolis</td><td>.27</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Jackson, Miss.</td><td>.54</td><td>65</td></tr><tr><td>Jacksonville</td><td>.53</td><td>73</td></tr><tr><td>Kansas City</td><td>.24</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td>Las Vegas</td><td>.33</td><td>57</td></tr><tr><td>Little Rock</td><td>.34</td><td>43</td></tr><tr><td>Los Angeles</td><td>.50</td><td>81</td></tr><tr><td>Louisville</td><td>.33</td><td>44</td></tr><tr><td>Memphis</td><td>.41</td><td>52</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><tbody><tr><td>Richmond</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>St. Louis</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>St. Petersburg</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Salt Lake City</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>San Diego</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>San Francisco</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>St. Ste. Marie</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Seattle</td><td>.02</td></tr><tr><td>Shreveport</td><td>.19</td></tr><tr><td>Sioux Falls</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Spokane</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Syracuse</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tucson</td><td>.18</td></tr><tr><td>Tulsa</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Washington</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Wichita</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Highest Monday</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Florida; lowest, 30 bel</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Maine</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><tbody><tr><td>.08</td><td>Abilene</td><td>TEXAS</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Alice</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Alpine</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Amarillo</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>.50</td><td>Austin</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Beaumont</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Brownsville</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Childress</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>College Station</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>CORPUS CHRISTI</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Cotulla</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Dalhart</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Dallas</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Del Rio</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>El Paso</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Fort Worth</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Galveston</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>.16</td><td>Houston</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Longview</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Lubbock</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>.09</td><td>Lufkin</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Marfa</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>McAllen</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Mineral Wells</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>.30</td><td>Palmdale</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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Jan. 15 - 14

# Kissinger Tells Israel Of Arab Plan

By BARRY SCHWEID

JERUSALEM (AP) — Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger today outlined Egypt's counterproposals for a withdrawal of military forces on the Suez front and said Israeli leaders appeared to find "constructive aspects" in the plan.

Kissinger emerged from a two-hour meeting with Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and said they had "a very warm and I think very useful discussion."

"We learned in very great detail what the Egyptian ideas are," said Eban. He added that the talk had been "very useful, detailed and substantive."

The foreign minister went from the meeting to Premier Golda Meir's home to tell her about it. Mrs. Meir is confined to her home with an attack of shingles.

The chief point under discussion is what Egypt is willing to do in the way of thinning its forces and arms on the east bank of the Suez Canal in exchange for withdrawal of Israeli troops from the canal.

Kissinger brought the Egyptian counterproposals Monday night from Aswan, where he conferred once more with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The American said he believed they had "narrowed the differences substantially" and he hoped to narrow them further during his talks with the Israelis.

Egypt apparently had no objections to Israel's offer to pull its troops back to a line about 20 miles east of the canal. But Kissinger returned to Israel with a map showing the positions the Egyptians insist on holding on the east bank as well as the buffer zone the Egyptians are willing to let the United Nations peacekeeping force man between the two armies.

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Kissinger brought the Egyptian counterproposals last night from Aswan, where he conferred once more with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The American said he believed they had "narrowed the differences substantially" and he hoped to narrow them further during his talks with the Israelis.

One high-ranking American official with Kissinger said he thought the differences between the Israeli proposal and the Egyptian counterproposal were manageable. The principal disagreement apparently is over the number and kinds of antiaircraft missiles and

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Dayan said shortly before Kissinger's return that the Soviet Union has rebuilt most of the missile sites in Egypt and Syria that were destroyed in the October war and has introduced new and longer-range missiles into the armories of both nations.

THE ISRAELI government's chief opposition, the right-wing Likwd bloc, claimed that the Egyptians also had built missile sites in the areas east of the canal that they occupied in the war.

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