Lobby Push for US Tanker Fleet Boost Sparks Cost Concerns
A powerful coalition of shipbuilders operators and unions backs a House bill to require up to 30 percent of imported oil carried by year 1980 in US flag private tankers. Critics warn a $13 billion US built tanker program raises oil costs and may boost overall fuel bills by billions while surplus foreign tankers exist.
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Carter
House of Representatives
U.S
America
Oan
Liberia
Maritime Lobby
Ohana
Gerald Rafshoon
Today in History highlights from 1788 to 1963 events
Highlights include New Hampshire ratifying the Constitution in 1788, Cyrus McCormick patenting the reaping machine in 1834, U S troops landing in Cuba in 1898, and Tobruk falling in 1942. Also 1945 Okinawa surrender and 1963 Paul VI election.
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Associated Press
United States
New Hampshire
Cyrus McCormick
U.S
Cuba
Scapa Flow
Scotland
Tobruk
Libya
Okinawa
Milan
Italy
Paul VI
American Medical Association
Cherry Hill
New Jersey
Pretoria
South Africa
Jean- Paul Sartre
Jane Russell
Childress Index Publication Details
The Childress Index is Childress Texas oldest business institution. Published in Childress by The Childress Index Inc. and printed in Childress by Ox Bow Printing. Editions on Sundays Tuesdays and Thursdays. Second class postage paid at Childress Texas. Subscription rates listed. Prices: local one year seven dollars, other counties eight fifty, Carter monthly one twenty five, annual twelve dollars.
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Childress Index
Childress
Texas
The
Childress Index, Inc
Mors Higley
Carter
Energy policy debate fuels a Nobel economist critique
Morris Higley presents Milton Friedman’s energy column as compelling and argues the energy crisis is a technical issue shaped by OPEC and flawed U.S. policy. He challenges moralizing rhetoric and calls for full-cost gasoline pricing, domestic energy investment, and targeted relief rather than broad taxes or price controls.
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Morris Higley
Milton Friedman
Newsweek
Energy
Carter
William Jame
U. S
OPEC
Congress
U.S. Treasury
House’ Energy Committee
Public notice of electric rate change in Texas
Harmon Electric Association plans to raise rates effective July 1 1977 or as allowed by law affecting all customers in Childress and Hardeman Counties Texas. The 11.5 percent revenue increase is based on the year ending June 30 1976 and requires regulatory approval. The Public Utility Commission of Texas holds the statement of intent on file at the Hollis Oklahoma office.
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Harmon Electric Association, Inc
Childress
Hardeman
Texas
Public Utility Commission of Texas
Hollis
Oklahoma
May Personal Income Gain Lifts Mood in Markets
The Washington statistics factory signals improving economy amid NYSE margin debt hitting a record $9.07 billion in May. Analysts grow cautiously optimistic as income rises 0.06 percent and the prime rate influences sentiment.
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New
York
Washington Statistics Factory
New York Stock Exchange
Congress probes EPA noise control program failings
A House subcommittee reports that five years after the Noise Control Act Congress enacted, EPA has identified 11 major noise sources and issued final rules for only two. Airplane noise remains unresolved as EPA and FAA clash over jurisdiction. Rep Rooney threatens program funding cuts to force action.
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Washington
NEA
House
Congress
Congressional
Environmental Protection Agency
General Accounting Office
House Commerce
Fred B. Rooney
D-Pa
EPA
Federal Aviation Administration
Rooney
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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Christler
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Bankruptcy Court
Earl Harwell
Federal Reserve Board
Arthur F. Burns
Burns
Wright Investors’ Service
John Wright
George Bernard = Shaw
By Roger Bollen
Business Mirror
Martha Angle and
Robert Walters
Martha Angle
Kentucky
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