Gas charts reworked after severe midwestern shortages
Federal Energy Administration officials revise charts and tables to reflect gas curtailments across six midwestern states and one on the eastern seaboard. Despite the adjustments, businesses and schools in Ohio Texas Oklahoma Missouri Kansas and Nebraska faceshutdowns while North Carolina suppliers rush to backstop priority customers amid long standing supply concerns.
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Federal Energy Administration
America
FEA
Ohio
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
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Nebraska
North Carolina
Longet Trial Opens With Prosecution Case
In Aspen Colorado Claudine Longet sits with head in hands as prosecutors begin presenting their case wording her as a confused ringy woman who said I shot him I didn t mean to it was an accident She repeated the line during testimony and prosecutors aim to finish their case after calling 11 witnesses Monday including former deputy George Ackerman who described her behavior and remarks about her lover s death
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Aspen
Colo
Claudine Longet
Sheriff
George Ackerman
Rocky Mountain
Andy Williams
West Coast tankers crew survive Cape Ann wreck split
Gilmete and Selleck clung to opposite ends of a broken tanker as 35 foot waves and 70 mph winds battered them. Six American crewmen were rescued by Coast Guard cutters and helicopters off Gloucester Massachusetts after the ship split in a winter storm. One crewmember Joao Da Rosa 41 of Pawtucket Rhode Island is missing presumed drowned after leaping for a rescue basket.
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Harry Selleck
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Pawtucket
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Magnuson Warns Of Tanker Traffic Growth
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson warns that tanker traffic in coastal waters harbors and inland waterways is increasing daily and will worsen oil spills and environmental risks. He says congestion heightens dangers as bulk oil carriers grow in number.
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Washington (Ap
Warren Magnuson
Senate Commerce Committee
Washington State
French court frees Abu Daoud in Munich Olympics case
A Paris court released Abu Daoud the Palestinian leader alleged to have led the 1972 Munich Games attack. West German and Israeli extradition requests to keep him jailed were rejected as unacceptable.
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Abu Daoud
Munich
Mother Arraigned In Death At Burlington County
Inez Council of Brooklyn New York faced a manslaughter charge in the death of her 21 year old daughter in Mount Holly New Jersey authorities say the daughter was smothered with a turpentine soaked cloth prescribed by a root doctor to rid her of demons. She appeared in court crying Hallelujah and requested God’s help and bail was set at 25000 with a plan for psychiatric evaluation and legal representation.
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MT. Holly
N.J
Inez Council
Mrs. Council
Brooklyn
N.Y
Burlington County
Thomas McCormick
City leaders share similar outfits amid Rotary chat
Councilman Lloyd Olsen Frank E. Alexander and local architect Mills Fitzner in matching suits joke about style. Aiken Youth Life group endures snowbound after Black Mountain trip while chaperones celebrate rescues. Sen Strom Thurmond quips about party labels during Rotary meeting.
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Lloyd Olsen
Frank E. Alexander
Mills Fitzner
WLOW
Aiken
Black Mountain
N.C
Defeated At Polls He Has Inside Track Edmunds New Vice Chairman
Aiken County Council will elect a new vice chairman at tonight’s special meeting. Edmunds who lost to Mim Woodring in district four says he will not comment and plans to move from district four. Cullinan, serving since 1972, says he can do some good if elected and notes he has left party labels behind. Chairman Warner declined to comment.
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Lin Smithwick
Aiken County
Edmunds
Woodring
Cullinan
Board of Commissioners
Carrol H. Warner
Deep Freeze Grips Nation Across Regions
The first major winter storm of 1977 spread from the Southwest to the Northeast and into Canada, bringing heavy snow, ice, and subzero temperatures. Officials reported at least 14 storm related deaths as power outages and travel disruptions spread from Florida to New York and New England.
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Associated Press
Canada
New England
Bitter cold grips Aiken area with 15 degree low
Aiken area residents shivered as temperatures plunged to 15 degrees last night. Lows are forecast to dip again tonight with a 15 degree reading in Anderson making it the coldest of the morning. A warming trend and high 40s are expected tomorrow with little chance of rain and icy roads continuing in western South Carolina. Pickens and Oconee Counties report school closures.
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South Carolina
Pickens
Oconee
Anderson
Woman 17 Pleads Guilty in Social Services Fraud Case
Aiken teen received probation after pleading guilty to obtaining $550 in illegal benefits from the S C Department of Social Services. Mrs James, mother of two, failed to report marriage while receiving aid. five year repayment condition and five year probation set with a $500 fine. Department vows crackdown with four more fraud cases pending.
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Aiken
General Sessions
S. C
Department of Social Services
Wilhelmina McMillan James
Social Service
James
Richard T. Poore
Richard T. Poore, Director of Social Services
Aiken County
Social Services
Susan Schultz
James Poore
Poore
Thurmond Filibuster May Be On 95th Congress Agenda
A Thurmond brand filibuster over common sites picketing and right to work bills may be on the agenda for the 95th Congress. Speaking before yesterday's Rotary meeting at the Ramada.
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Rotary
Ramada
City Approves Two Horse Creek Facility Ordinances
Ai ken City Council passed two second reading ordinances on the Horse Creek Basin Wastewater Treatment Facility. One authorizes a service contract with Ai ken County and names Mayor H Odell Weeks and City Clerk I M Hendrix. The other grants temporary borrowing power up to 1.4 million by bond anticipation notes from Farmers and Merchants Bank at 34 percent interest as needed.
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Horse Creek Basin
Aiken
H. Odell Weeks
I. M. Hendrix
CAC Denies DSS 90000 Overpayment Claim in Audit
Aiken County Community Action Commission challenges a DSS audit asserting it did not spend 90000 from DSS funds for transportation for Medicaid clients. CAC says the January 6 article misstates facts and notes court remand of the dispute.
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CAC
Department of Social Services
DSS
Aiken Standard
CAP
South Carolina
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