Jacksonville Courier (Newspaper) - May 29, 1979, Jacksonville, Illinois crunch takes a traffic toll PETER MACKLER Associated Press were prepared to scramble and wait for gasoline over the Memorial Day but most found that the Great Gas Crunch of had taken a may not have been cheap and in some places was available only at the end of long but police and tourist groups throughout the country reported gasoline supplies adequate in most officials said bad weather over much of the nation kept would-be travelers or close noted heavy use of public transportation for some Amtrak riders had to stand in the aisles on trains taking them home the the number of traffic deaths over the three-day weekend also appeared to fall below National Safety Council had projected between 500 and 600 people would die in car accidents over the weekend that ended at midnight By early today the figure was just over 440, entered the holiday steeled against the nightmare of an with no place to fill Most found their fears Miranda of Phoenix packed a 55-gallon drum of gasoline in the back of his truck when he went camping near the town of Show in Arizona's White When he he found plenty of didn't Want to get up there and not be able to get Miranda should have bought all that gas in Show Low and carted it back to a realtor who bought a service station in to make room for an office gave away 10,000 gallons of in underground pumps help people in a two Good Samaritans loaded with emergency supplies of gas patrolled the roads for hours in search of stranded motorists whose cars had run But they found no only thing I've seen were a couple of flat tires and a couple of overheated said a Highway Patrol trooper who cruised Interstate 70 between Topeka and there were some rough spots for the holiday Prices for gasoline ranged up to in New York City and there were long lines at some Most motorists took it in I mind but it's gotten to be a way of said one who declined to give his at a service station on Interstate 95 in light plane ran out of gas and made an emergency landing on Highway 240 near Wash. Florida's Coast Guard auxiliary also said it had to help out a number of boaters who ran out of drivers reported a shortage of diesel fuel at stops all over Truck convoys cruised the some Western states to protest the shortage but no major traffic problems were operators of recreation spots banking on the holiday warnings of gas shortages that kept drivers off the road also kept their receipts just wish you people would stop writing about the gas a spokesman at the Seaside Amusement Park in Virginia chided a here haven't had any trouble getting You're just scaring away the 160. NO. 105 TUESDAY MAY 29, 1979 of plane crash Two federal safety officials one in the other at the crash scene in Chicago disagree over whether American Airlines Flight 191 was when an engine fell expert says it was impossible to control the aircraft once the engine while another says loss of the engine alone would not have crippled the plane said Monday that flight data recorded on the jumbo jet shows the crew was trying to correct the problems before it crashed Friday near O'Hare International killing at least 273 a inspection of engine mounting bolts on all got investigators turned up a second broken part from the engine assembly of the They said it was not clear what if it played in the nation's worst air dispute over whether the big jet could have been maneuvered to safety without its engine surfaced Monday between Langhorne Photos show the fatigued bolt and where the missing bolt should have been in the engine mounting of the engine which fell off wing of an American Airlines jet as it was taking off from O'Hare International takes office in Rhodesia Bishop Abel Rhodesia's first black prime was sworn into office on of rule in the former British a United Methodist took the oath of office shortly after being asked to form a government by Rhodesia's first black Joseph who also was sworn in was expected to name his 19-member cabinet Hie government will be formally the country's switch to black majority South Africa is the only assured foreign supporter of the new and it faces continuation of the guerrilla war waged by exiled nationalist leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert a boycott from the rest of black Africa and uncertain chances for recognition by the United States and a former schoolmaster and diplomat and descendant of a 19th-century Zulu at to the ceremonial figurehead presidency Monday by the two houses of the new Parliament elected last He is a member of the Ndebele tribe and is expected to act as a bridge between his people and Muzorewa's dominant Shona whose United African National Council won 51 of 100 seats in the lower will name a cabinet of 19 members including five But two of the three other black parties announced they would not accept the two cabinet seats allotted each of them by a proportional representation system in the of the dissidents was the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole's Zimbabwe African National which reiterated that it would not take the 12 seats in the lower house it won in the Texas U.S. District Judge John Wood known as for his stiff was shot in the back Of the head and killed as he left his apartment this spokesman for Northeast Baptist Hospital said Wood was dead on arrival at 9:30 manager of Chateau Dijon Apartments where Wood lived said a gunshot rang out at 8:25 a.m. as Wood left his apparently en route to the federal was sitting here and I heard one Mid manager Pauline was shot in the back of head and was turning gray by the time I got I thought at first it was a car backfiring and the next thing was police was to have presided at the upcoming drug conspiracy trial of Las Vegas gambler Jimmy whose stiff sentences earned him the nickname had been placed under protective custody by U.S. marshals last November after an attempt on Assistant U.S. Attorney James over many of whose narcotics cases Wood had Kerr was not Marshal Rudy Garza said security on a of Texas Law School classmate of Republican presidential candidate John had been lifted time He hadn't been threatened and felt he didn't need high 9S in 1934 Record low in 1947 High yesterday 80 Low last night 51 At noon today 77 and Vicinity Mostly sunny and warm Highs lower 80*. Fair and wanner Lows lower Ms. Partly sunny and continued warm Highs low to mid 80s. Skies Today May Jupiter right above the Saturn follows follows Bridge 3 Pointers 6 Mass. Firefighters carry Catherine Harrison down ladder after from top floor of her Mass. home after general alarm fire erupted early Her husband Robert and five 10; 8; 4; 3; and Teddy 2 all in the of the Federal Aviation and El wood vice president of the National Transportation Safety said in Washington that it would have been impossible for the pilot to land the crippled plane at O'Hare once the engine He said the plane was from the moment it left the is no certification procedure for flying without a whole engine he is no pilot training to deal with that no aircraft has ever been in the air under those There is no reason to think that once that engine came off the that it would Driver said investigators maintain a will fly with two engines after the third has proof of it is that it did go from ground zero to 600 and it did not leap up there on rubber Driver don't want to get into a fight with Langhorne but he's in Washington and we are here grounds registered in at first hailed the election as a democratic triumph but started claiming vote fraud when the returns made Muzorewa and his party the Another minority Chief United Federal also rejected the two cabinet posts to which it was entitled and indicated its nine members in the lower house would become the parliamentary opposition to the said he and his cabinet would take office regardless of what the other parties Prime Minister Ian Smith's transitional biracial which has been in office for 15 is scheduled to be replaced at midnight and the country will take the new name of Zimbabwe The Federal Aviation Administration will ground all aircraft because of as a result of the investigation into Friday's crash of an American Airlines plane that took at least 273 reliable sources reported announcement was to be made at an early afternoon news conference by FAA Administrator Langhorne M. said the who declined to be implies a weakening of metal parts or structures because of extended faulty manufacture or other sources could not say when the order would be eight U.S. airlines flying were told by the FAA Monday to inspect engine mounts on 134 of the The inspections were to have been completed by 3 a.m. EDT inspection orders came as government investigators continued their search for the cause of Friday's crash in ordered the inspections of the aircraft after investigators found that one of the small bolts attaching the engines to the plane's wings through connecting pylons broke just before the at the scene said Monday it was uncertain whether the bolt or the aft bulkhead of the pylon had failed Israeli warships sail through Suez United Press Israeli warships sailed through the Suez Canal today to become the first naval units of the Jewish state to use the waterway in Israel's 31-year passage of the the Ashdod and the Ashkelon was in accordance with the peace treaty signed by the two countries in Washington March 26, based on the Camp David Accords of last three landing craft vessels led the northbound convoy that left Suez Their shipping agent paid in transit first ship to go through the canal in of the treaty was the 4,500-ton freighter It sailed from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean April 30, five days after Egypt and Israel had made the treaty effective by exchanging ratification landing coming from Sharm El-Sheikh at the southern tip of the Sinai docked at Suez harbor Monday They are headed for Israel's Mediterranean port of They military trucks due for servicing and were the first Israeli naval units to go through the passage further underscored the new peace relationship between Egypt and plan to evict ethnic Chinese a Chinese charge Monday that Vietnam has begun a new purge of minority including tribes The new pressure on the minorities appears to be strongest in the where and Vietnam fought a border received instructions saying that there will be more fighting With China and that all the unreliable elements must be driven a refugee identified as Tien An Kan was quoted as saying by the New China News believe 600,000 to 700,000 ethnic Chinese remain in but that many hundreds of mors are or of various minority The moet widely U KONG Vietnamese officials say they will up their and evict most of Vietnam's ethnic Chinese sending some 1.5 million people as refugees to nearby officials say they are going to clean up all of a newly arrived refugee from Saigon told reporters say they are going to clean their society to the roots by forcing every Chinese to refugees said the Hanoi government suspects them of being a working on behalf of China and intend to drive the Chinese out by using various forms of including seising their property and temporarily jailing refugee accounts appear
