Neosho News (Newspaper) - December 2, 1973, Neosho, Missouri station for By JIM Associated Faced with WILLSE Press Writer the of were at a being limited time and to 10 gallons found that prospect or a nearly gasless motor ists wheeled into service sta tions Saturday to fill their tanks before the turnoff of gasoline pumps in an effort ease the fuel to in an They got started last said Ed pump manger at a large Exxon station in We pumped gallons in six That breaks all In several ran dry and remainder to deal lines of stations leaving the with long President Nixon requested a week ago that service stations voluntarily ban Sunday An Associated trade of survey government states in Press groups and agencies in all 50 at least threequarters of the stations plan to countless motorists else Like to the ing up My Georgia Georgia Mobley Sunday closings by daddy lives in and he has a reacted stock many prices had gone up Three major oil companies Atlantic Richfield and Sun oco put into effect price hikes of between 2 and cents per Theyre not as worried about the supply of gas as they are about the reported Jerry an attendant at a Sunoco station in the Boston suburb of We went up 2Va cents a gallon this Its really been pretty quiet Nearly a third of contacted reported were seeking gas to fill spare Most were being turned away because the con were considered Some gas station operators contacted Saturday complained their voluntary closing would mean lost Others said they intended to remain open because it would cost too much to shut i I the stations customers fill she said ant filled her I south bad as an attend car at Doc Bru ners Texaco station 20 miles east of Thats why Im filling up We could down there on one tankful coowner of Shell stations in Detroit said hed close its spread the other four sub and v I gas one supplies among is on per cent If I get of gas if we had to go tomor A random 50 i i survey of some gas stations by AP staffers in 16 states showed many dealers planned to close Sunday simply because they were short on Some in My biggest volume its about 25 of my he sale closed all four stations Id lose about gross prof it a Thats a hell of a to Congress to Phone Price Ten Cenl DECEMBER 1973 SUNDAY MISSOURI VOL NEOSHO lot of money A pending in would give Nixon the power make the closings which some operators said theyd X By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Israeli military com mand reported nine incidents on the tense Egyptian and Syr ian ceasefire lines Saturday and said guerrillas fired on Is troops near the Lebanese A military spokesman claimed forces from Egypts 2nd Army opened fire on Israeli troops four times during the day east of Lake southeast of He said units from Egypts 3rd Army opened fire in four other in in the Small Bitter Lake No Israelis were reported in jured and there was no con from Egypt or United Nations truce Talks on troop pullbacks designed to prevent further fighting along the Suez Canal have been stalled since b Palestinian guerrillas claimed they killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers Saturday in an ambush near the northern Israeli settlement of A communique issued in Bei rut by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said an Israeli patrol of two half tracks and infantrymen was ambushed by a guerrilla group making its way into Israeli on other The communique said the guerrillas were part of a com mando force formed by several guerrilla organizations to con the fight against In the 45minute the two were destroyed and their occupants killed or the communique It did not mention guerrilla losses and there was no imme diate confirmation from Egypts government spokes man said in Cairo that resum ing the ceasefire talks between Egypt and Israel at Kilometer 101 on the road would be pointless because Is rael would only use them to stall without Premier Golda Meir said on Israeli radio that the break down at Kilometer 101 need not hinder opening of a e peace conference tentatively scheduled for 18 at Gen is just as important 1 as it is to us she to them The spokesman in med told newsmen that Washington and Moscow should Israel to honor its sig nature and carry out the agree ment to disengage opposing ar mies along the Suez Egyptian spokesman have hinted earlier that President Anwar Sadat would be unwill ing to have Egypt participate in the Geneva peace talks un less the Suez ceasefire lines are Egypt broke off the ceasefire talks saying Israel was balking on the second of the six points in the ceasefire agreement negotiated by Secre tary of State Henry Kissin David dies in TEL AVIV AP David the tough little man who forged Israel from a struggling Jewish settlement into a proud modern died Saturday after a He was was Israels first premier and served in that post running the burgeoning Jewish state like an Old Testa ment More than any other he helped mold it into his own image dogged and His name meant son of a lion He chose it himself when he arrived in Palestine as a Polish immigrant in 1906 and used it throughout his stormy declared Israel a state and for years his fiesty with his two tufts of white represented Israel to the world the way Charles de Gaulle represented France and Winston Churchill represented He retired from public life in 1970 and lived his ast years in a prefabricated cottage on a desert He last ap in public at the nations 25th anniversary celebration in watching the ceremonies wearing a farmers spent most of his final days writing his tions of the early Israeli history he helped But he regu larly took a walk twice a day across the Biblical sands on which Abraham once tended He will be buried there in the Negev Desert Monday beside his wife Paula at Kibbutz Sde near a beautiful canyon and the peach and willow trees The second point of the 4 agreement calls for dis cussions to the question of the return to the 22 posi tions in the framework of agreement on the dis engagement and separation of forces under the auspices of the United Meir described Egyp tian proposals at the Kilometer 101 discussions as unacceptable because they went far beyond the bounds of the ceasefire She did not Gurion Aviv he I helped grow once told a he Close friends said requested in his will that the desert funeral service be simple and without But body will lie in state in the parliament building in where it will be flown by helicopter Sunday morning to give Israelis a chance to mark their respect for the man who brought their state to life with a declaration of its existence in the uncertain days of Since that day May 1948 had led Is through two wars with the in 1948 and and provided them with an example of courage for the third in Workin could BEST FLOAT m I Parade held Not only was it the best but was Chester K dB A 4 m float was judged dressed as reindeer pulled the float the entire length of Christmas the Daily News Color Photo by Curt Win a ex of conserving fuel as eight young girls WASHINGTON AP Meet ing for less than two the Senate failed Saturday to break the impasse that has left the federal government debt billion over the legal Neither side in the resulting from a measure to provide public financing of presidential pushed very hard for The days only vote was a 3428 decision to As a the Senate will convene at 10 the first time in 112 has scheduled and held a session on a An hour it will vote on a move to invoke cloture and force early action on the extending the federal debt ceil which contains the cam financing James the leader of the move against the campaign suggested that the Sunday session ibe moved up to 9 or delayed until 1 so members can go to worship Walter D one of the leading propo nents of the replied that if we were able to pass on to the President a measure that would clean up American poli we would be doing the Lords Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield asked unanimous consent to switch the Sunday session to 1 but a group of Republican senators poured out of the GOP cloakroom to That would have coincided with the kickoff for the Wash ington York Gi ants professional football game at nearby Robert Kennedy a GOP staff aide During the in sisting he wasnt said he wanted a vote on re moving the campaign financing provisions from the debt Supporters of the campaign who blocked a sim ilar move 36 to 32 Friday were unsure they had enough so they began With the House in adjourn ment until the Senate by itself cant do anything about the debt which reverted ai midnight Friday to though the actual debt is currently Until a new is the government cant sell bonds or conduct other legal billion in cash pn hand to pay bonds and other debts until at least The Treas ury suspended sale United States Series E and H savings bonds but said it expected to have authority to resume in a few Some congressional action is likely before any real financial crisis Even the matter wont be set That will merely the package to be sent to a conference com where provisions for public financing of Senate and House campaigns are expected to be House leaders have said they can pass if it contains only two One calls for mandatory public financing of presidential genera The other is a matching N ixon wi dure Cor presidential primaries that could give candidates up to billion in public The money would come out of the fund being created by the checkoff under which taxpayers can earmark of their taxes to pay for cam Many House how are strongly opposed and House passage is far from as n I Thousands q see holiday tel II tO parade here WASHINGTON AP Pres ident Nixon is preparing to dis close that he and his wife will give their San estate to the government upon their it was learned Close Nixon associates told The Associated Press that a family decision was reached some time ago to follow the precedent of other presidents and leave the California valued at about for public Instructions relayed to law yers preparing the Nixons es tate plan were to make certain that the oceanside villa and surrounding six acres are free and clear when eventually transferred to the sources The estate lawyers reportedly are not yet certain whether the property will be turned over to the government via the First will or by Within the past few sources members White House group now com detailed statements on Nixons personal finances were told that the estate plans would other of a be disclosed this The group of lawyers and other working in a suite in the Executive Office Build is poring through stacks of the Presidents personal records to draft One official said the state ments will disprove once and for all all the charges leveled against the President that used campaign funds to buy that he has a secret investment port folio or that there are irregula in his income According to sources familiar with their the series of statements and ac companying documents will show that all of Nixons in vestments are in California and Florida real estate and in bank One of the documents under preparation is a cash flow statement listing Nixon with gross income of be tween 1969 and May 1973 and with gross ex of during the same The difference between the two figures was combined with on hand WASHINGTON AP Some congressional Republicans ac knowledge that President Nixon is operating against a late January deadline in his cam to lift the Watergate cloud from his If he fails by the time the next session of Congress be about a serious impeachment move they I think thats a valid assess said John Tow chairman of the GOP policy Committee and a strong Nixon Tower expressed confidence that substantive supportive evidence will be re leased by the end of the including transcripts of some of the Watergate I believe these will vindicate the he Tower is one of a number of senior Republicans in both the House and Senate who say the 18minule gap in a key Water gate tape has severely darn aged Nixons Operation I think it started out very well but I think the gap in the tapes has slowed the momen conceded John expected to be elected shortly as the new House Republican Its two steps forward and one step said Sen ate GOP Whip Robert Grif fin of He still has a long way to Griffin and Rhodes disagreed with the idea that there is any kind of deadline by which the President has to clear himself or face a real danger of I dont think he has got any time limit at Rhodes Griffin said he would not want to put a deadline on Nix ons saying the matter is up to the James in he doesnt think Nixons grace period is even that If he doesnt do it right ho said of presidential any allegation will continue to receive a willing re More important than satisfying Congress or the he is that people be When Congress finally quits later this House and Senate members will have four or five weeks to sample opinion back home in the districts and states in which many will have to run next This could be a key nant of the views they bring back to Washington a number at the start of 1969 and has been placed in bank the statement Among those accounts are two certificates of deposit total ing purchased from a Key bank head ed by Nixons friend Bebe according to the One of the for was purchased in Sep tember sources and the for was purchased last The statement also lists the President with a savings account and a checking account with a balance of The Dade state Richard is seeking a court order to back up a for Nixons bank but bank officials are fighting the case on grounds the records are Nixons purchase of certifi cates of deposit came to light last week after Gerstein issued his A certificate of deposit earns more interest than a regular savings deposit but must be left in a bank for a specified peri A White House official said Nixon bought the certificates so that he did not have an ex large checking ac This official said Nix ons checking account grew as his salary and proceeds from the sale of property went into interest in Nixons bank records apparently is re lated to the disclosure during recent months that re from billionaire Howard Hughes in late 1969 and has said he kept the cash in a bank safe deposit txx for three years before re turning it earlier this Both bank officials and presi spokesmen have said there is no connection between Nixons certificates of deposit and the Hughes Thousands of people lined the downtown district Saturday for the annual Christmas which traditionally opens the holiday season in The weatherman cooperated perfectly as temperatures were in the high 60s and the skies were In the float the Diamond Schools took the first prize with a large sleigh by eight young ladies dressed as Second prize of went to the First Baptist Church Youth It was a float depicting peace on earth among Third prize of was awarded to the Neosho United Methodist Church Youth Choirs which depicted peace on earth around the entire The several bands in the parade were all given plaques and organizations entering floats were given each to help defray Following the parade Santa who rode in the parade in a customized was stationed at the municipal auditorium where he met with children and gave away free Stores in Neosho will begin observing holiday hours on M at which time they will remain open until 8 Monday through Saturday through The stores will close at the usual time on Herb Long 4513179
