KUTV Newswatch 2 at 6 and 10 pm: Tuesday, February 27, 1979

Digitized version of an aircheck for the color broadcast of the evening news from February 27th, 1979, originally recorded on U-matic videocassette. Includes commercials. Broadcast headlines 6 PM: Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Califano says Utah cancer rates study will be one of his Department's main priorities; Two Salt Lake City men killed when their light plane crashed into a mountain in Box Elder County, UT; Salt Lake County Sheriff Pete Hayward discusses the use of deadly force among police and outlines a new gun training program; Fire at Fruehauf Trailer Division in Salt Lake City caused by a spark from a welding torch; Fire and police investigators looking into the cause of a fire at Bennett Paint Company in Ogden, UT; Godron Doxey and William Hager arrested for setting a fire in 1978 at a senior citizens' apartment complex in Ogden, UT; A group of women protest and demand an apology from Third District Judge Bryant Croft who used the term "invited rape" when overturning a jury's guilty verdict in a rape case; The swearing in of Salt Lake County's surveyor-elect postponed because the elected official is not a licensed land surveyor; US Forest Service closes American Fork Canyon due to high avalanche danger; Weather report; Idaho football player is the latest victim in a string of college football dirty recruiting tricks; Local and national sports; members of the Ute Indian Tribe greet world featherweight boxing champion Danny "Little Red" Lopez at the Salt Lake City International Airport; Effects of President Carter's proposal of gas rationing in Utah if the energy crisis worsens; Utahns' reactions to President Carter's proposal of gas rationing Broadcast headlines 10 PM: A US House of Representatives Investigative Subcommittee will hold hearings on radiation-induced cancer in Southern Utah and Nevada; Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Califano says Utah cancer rates study will be one of the Department's main priorities; World and national news headlines; Effects of President Carter's proposal of gas rationing in Utah if the energy crisis worsens; Utahns' reactions to President Carter's proposal of gas rationing; Two Salt Lake City men killed when their light plane crashed into a mountain in Box Elder County, UT; Salt Lake County Sheriff Pete Hayward discusses the use of deadly force among police and outlines a new gun training program; Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich wins political victory as voters decide to hike income tax and to keep the municipal light system; Chicago Mayor Bilandic unseated by Jane Byrne; Orem, UT community residents complain about chuckholes; Weather report; Local and national sports; Highland High School vs. East High School basketball game