Harrisonburg Daily News Record (Newspaper) - December 14, 1973, Harrisonburg, Virginia Weather In Brief Portly Cloudy THE HEART VALLEY OF Vol. 77, No. 63 Prm Features & Service December 14, 1973 For News ' Three Sections 28 Pages Ten Cents Idle Trucks Attract Fire From Guns By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Independent truckers turned off their engines Thursday and began a Other ignored the protest and occasionally found themselves the targets of flying bullets and The protest was called by most of whom own the trucks they They complain that higher prices for diesel fuel and reduced speed limits cut their profits Some trucks - but no truckers - were damaged in the Isolated incidents of violence and But the main effect of the protest shutdown appeared to be the gathering of caravans of angry drivers at truck stops and fewer big rigs on the Truck traffic was reported lighter in several Eastern and Midwestern where the protesters were most successful in idling to protest higher fuel costs and reduced speed At least 580 trucks stood idle at five truck stops in the Little and truckers switched off ignitions at a number of stops in Florida and other Many truck stop reported fewer drivers showing up for Although no organized protest effort was visible in Western stotes such as Fuel Used As WASHINGTON - The voted Thursday to prohibit the allocation of scarce fuels to bus children beyond neighborhood By a vote of 221 to 192, the House added the measure sponsored by Rep. John D. to the emergency energy legislation requested by President said his amendment could save more than 78 gallons of gasoline The amendment would not toke effect until the next school The House voted earlier to exempt the coal industry from restrictions on any windfall profits earned as a result as fuel Members from oil producing states said they will submit an amendment to exempt the petroleum industry as The effect of amendment on school districts already bound by busing plans was but members said the vote represented a congressional expression of The which has passed special energy tabled a similar busing It appeared doubtful that the measure would survive the conference that will resolve the differences between the two The debate on always an emotional subject in the produced a rare instance of a member's words being officially stricken from the Congressional Rep. Bella S. called the amendment and Her words were objected to by Rep. Robert E. under a House rule which makes it out of order to impugn another member's After the remarks were read back to the Speaker Carl Albert upheld point of order and the words were deleted from the official The House version of the energy would grant the President broad powers to order rationing of gasoline and other scarce fuels during the energy He also would be empowered to draw up energy conservation but Congress would retain the right to amend and approve or disapprove any measures before they could go into Today's Index 2 19 6 4 3 Jeane 7 Local U 16 14 TV 12 2 RX will be closed Saturday Dec. IS at B Dixons Drug Va. SPEEDY CAR WASH has plenty of Gulf Come fill up and get a free car N. Main & Noll Drive CLOSING We will be closed on Saturdays for the remainder of Dayton Farm Supply the head of that state's newly formed Independent Truckers Association said fewer rigs were on the not that they're joining the said Harold just that a lot of them are scared they're going to run out of fuel or have their trucks damaged The chahman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in Washington that he shared the concerns but disagreed with the absolutely no justification for using strongarm tactics to punish the innocent American Arch Booth But the immediate effect on consumers appeared to be Trucks carrying produce in central California continued to and spokesmen at several Midwest livestock markets said deliveries were lighter than but predicted no long-term The stoppage was not sanctioned by the Teamsters which estimates there are 21 million trucks registered About 170,000 company drivers and 50,000 independents are represented by the The impact of the protest was difficult to Business was off at some truck stops normal at Truck traffic was reduced on some but elsewhere massive rigs The scattered incidents of violence occurred primarily in Pennsylvania and where truckers last week staged blockades of major The only blockades reported Thursday were at truck stops where drivers were - turning off their engines in parking lots and preventing other drivers from for the Ohio Patrol traffic was down as much as 85 per cent in areas near scenes of the but said police did not intend to people apparently are blocking truck stops and but you have to realize who these people are - they're he truckers detaining truckers and we're not going to Stete police reported that 66 tires on trucks at the John trucking firm in were slashed during the causing an estimated The firm was not taking part in the police An Ohio Highway Patrol post at Canfield reported seven shooting incidents involving rolling trucks on Interstate 76. Striking A Blow Mrs. Nancy Fraber of 32-year-oId mother of has found a job in a domain usually reserved for She Is a carpenter's helper on a AP house construction Mrs. Farber Is assured cooperation from other Her Is foreman of the Plants To Be Cut WASHINGTON - Federal energy chief William E. Simon said Thursday all lighting in commercial and industrial buildings will be ordered reduced as soon as he gets the authority from announcing mandatory steps to combat iSaid all federal agencies must get rid of their by Jan. 1 and must cut the mileage their employes drive during work by 20 per cent during the first three months of next But Simon said no decision has been made on whether to ration He said that if government's conservation in programs believe we will not need named to head the new Federal Energy said an estimated 800,000 barrels of oil per day can be saved by cutting lighting in all and industrial including retail factories and He said building managers and owners are being asked to reduce lighting voluntarily to new standards until Congress approves the necessary The reduction in lighting of commercial and industrial buildings will be nearly 50 per cent in new Simon In the lighting reduction will amount to about 75 per cent. Simon also announced a proposal to eliminate lighting on major highways and freeways except for interchanges and where lighting would be cut 50 per cent. He said that if the highway lighting option becomes as much as 15,000 barrels of oil daily could be The energy chief - Requested citizens to restrict voluntarily their use of electrical space Space heaters in federal buildings were - Asked commercial building managers and owners to eliminate lighting on a voluntary basis during non-working - Announced a plan to encourage car pooling by federal Under the all federal parking places are to be allocated by using a point system that gives more points for the number of people in the - Required federal agencies to tune their automobile engines at least once a year or every 12,000 miles and ordered them to put stickers on government cars to remind federal drivers to comply with the 50-mile-per-hour speed - Ordered temperatures in federal buildings to be maintained at 65 to 68 degrees during working hours and to no more than 55 degrees during non-working the systems shall be no lower than 78 - Placed all petroleum exports under a licensing system so that the can keep an eye on how much oil is shipped Simon said the amount is slight but the government wants to be sure that exports do not When the government announced its plans Wednesday for the priority production of the regulations proposed that gasoline production be limited to 75 per cent of last year's Tape Conversation Gone Forever WASHINGTON - The 18 minutes of conversation blotted out of a key presidential Watergate tape probably cannot be experts reported And they said they cannot support the White House explanation that a lamp and electric typewriter might have caused the the experts told U.S. District Judge John J. they are turning their attention to the tape recorder used by President Nixon's Rose Mary when she listened to the Miss Woods said she may have pushed the wrong record button for 4-5 minutes - but not 18 - thus erasing part of the Other testimony by White House indicated the belief that Nixon's longtime secretory is responsible for wiping out conversation and replacing it with a to be confirmed by further study are some indications that the Uher recorder could have produced the buzz and that any speech that might have been recorded under the buzz probably will not be Sirica said in a based on preliminary findings of the Existence of the interrupting a toped conversation between and chief of stoff H. R. Haldeman three days after the Watergate was disclosed Nov. 21 by White House lawyer J. Fred After the report the White House lawyer accept the We accept whatever they The technical called together originally to examine the authenticity of the seven subpoenaed tapes turned over to concentrated on the flawed tope of June 20,1972. Sirica said the panel expects to give a final report shortly after the first of next then continue its comprehensive study of the authenticity and integrity of the topes in The White House analysis said the conversation related primarily to and But Haldeman's made at the indicate that the conversation included tolk about the break-in at Democratic party The portion Watergate prosecutors believe may contain the Watergate discussion is not on the parts of the tape that can be made In other - Sources said a congressional committee on internal revenue taxation has found the IRS did not harass those considered by the White House as Sources said the committee checked tox returns of some 600 persons on the so-called White House enemies list were and that the number that had been audited by the IRS was not - The Gallup in a survey token Nov. 30-Dec. 3, found that public approval of Nixon's performance in office increased by 4 per cent. The survey was made after Nixon made a number of public appearances around the The majority of those questioned said they did not approve the way Nixon was handling the but the approval rate was up to 31 per cent from the 27 per cent showing a month - An assistant prosecutor continued going through files in the White searching for requested Watergate Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said the examination of documents is being in such a way the confidence of presidential papers will be The White House had been critical of Jaworski's staff in recent weeks and Warren said the complaint on the Virginia Loses Med School Grads RICHMOND - Virginia's pressing problems in health care are doctors who train in the stote and distribution of medical school a legislative commission said in a report released The Medical Facilities Commission said in its report to the governor that the number of Virginia medical school graduates has increased to the point that it may be almost adequate to meet expected needs in the stote by 1978. But retaining doctors in the stote and distributing them to areas where they are needed are the report has been shown that the location of graduate medical or residency training is the most single factor in determining the location of the commission The report said this has been at a University of Virginia affiliate program in where 63 of 70 graduates established their practices within 75 miles of the city areas of Southwestern Virginia where a serious physician The continued budgetary support for of University of Virginia affiliated programs in Lynchburg and Graduate medical education programs at the Medical College of Virginia and the Eastern Virginia Medical School also should receive the report It is expected that there will be 318 people graduating annually from Virginia medical schools by 1978, the report a figure nearly equal to the projected need of 336 graduates by that The number of graduate medical education positions should be increased to at least equal the number of medical school the report The study said Virginia should train and stort into practice annually at least 111 care physicians and There currently are 79 residency programs in primary care the commission There should be direct stote support for graduate medical positions in primary care the commission And graduate in psychiatry should be coordinated between the medical schools and the Department of Mentol Health and Mentol with 75 per cent of the support provided by the department and 25 per cent by the medical Residency programs in Virginia should be developed by the medical community hospitals and the State Council of Higher Education response to changing needs in the the report Other commission recommendations - Coordinated efforts between the three medical the education the Medical Society of Virginia and the State Board of Medicine to provide organized regional plans for continuing education of - An appropriation of to continue the current health manpower study by the education - Establish a health affairs information and data center to gather information about health much of which currently is - Establish a permanent of the House of Delegates on Welfare and Institutions to assist state officials and legislators in The purpose was to make room in refineries for other petroleum But as the regulations were being energy office stoff members discovered the figure should have read 95 per rather than 75 per cent. Stoff members said the error was discovered in time to keep it from printed in the Federal after correcting the official they dropped the other staff the agency's official newsmen and millions of Americans were left with the erroneous impression that production was being cut 25 per rather than 5 per cent. The error did not come to light publicly until 10 hours after the first announcements were Simon said the 5 per cent production reduction would cut gasoline supplies for consumers by 15 per after tap priority users are Simon said gasoline consumption must be cut by 25 to 30 per cent next year to meet the As Simon held his first of a series weekly news President Nixon told newsmen that the nationwide demand for gasoline last week was 15 per cent less than what the government had He credited voluntary cooperation by Americans with the energy conservation The first of a series of fuel reports showed that in the last three the nation has cut its oil demand by 1.1 million barrels The petroleum shortfall for the first three months of next year because of the oil cutoff is estimated at 3.3 million barrels a There are 42 gallons in a Simon said that a decision on rationing would be made by the end of the month but added that he is not sure which is a formal rationing program or an informal rationing plan in which motorists line up at service stations for the gasoline that is In other Simon announced that the Environmental Protection Agency had agreed to relax temporarily federal air pollution standards in New York and New Jersey to permit emergency use of coal by several power Russell B. head of the Council of Environmental said the decisions would increase air pollution in New York City and New putting the quality of air back to 1971 He conceded that mortality rates could increase as a result of the In energy - Eastern Air Lines Local 140, based in asked that the Air Line Pilote Association consider a shutdown of the nation's transport system during the Christmas - A setting a nationwide 55-mile-per-hour highway speed limit for all vehicles was recommended by the Senate Works Unlike a this one would let states set limits lower than 55. - State governors generally agreed to try to gain greater participation in allocating scarce Several members of the National Governors Conference's energy indicated they believe they have been ignored by the White Valley Deaths Theodore Imaa 66, of Mrs. Magdalene Frances Weaver 72, of Rt. 1, Details on page 13
