Huge Natural Gas First Quarter Profits Seen in Bitter Winter
Pittsburgh based reports say natural gas firms expect large first quarter gains from heavy winter demand as prices rise for homes and industry. Analysts warn profits may be short lived without additional supplies later in the year and defend price increases as necessary amid shortages.
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Corry Area Schools to Reopen as Gas Curtailment Eases
National Fuel Gas lifts curtailment for Corry area, allowing 40 percent reduction in industrial gas use. Commercial customers may set thermostats to 62 degrees, schools to reopen at 8 am with classrooms at 62 and other areas maintained. Residential customers urged to conserve fuel gas for remaining winter.
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Lose Some Water classes: schools closed then reopen
National Fuel Gas directed schools to stay closed until Thursday but reversed after talks with Public Utility Commission officials. Superintendent Charles Kreps said evening non educational activities are banned through March 1, with sports and activities allowed during the day or after school but no night events until March 31 to satisfy the PUC directive.
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Water Crews Rush To Mend Mains
City water department crews rush to repair two breaks in water lines, locating the Wayne and Hast Smith streets break and the North Center and Park Place leak. Crews expect quick work, as reservoir levels indicate loss and ground is frozen making digging costly.
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City Needs 13 For Snow Removal Jobs
Erie County Civil Defense announces Corry is allotted 15 slots in a snow removal program. Of 18 selected, 10 work for the city and three for the Fourth Ward elderly housing. Jobs last through this month. unemployed due to energy shortage qualify. Applicants see Gary Webb at North Center Street Bureau of Employment Service. City crew to clear intersections and roofs from snow buildup to prevent crashes.
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Gas supplies ease as workers, students return to jobs and classes
Hundreds of thousands of laid off workers and vacationing students head back to work and school as the natural gas shortage eases in the Northeast. Subzero temperatures persist in major cities, while parts of the East and Midwest dig out from heavy snow. New York State and California reach deals to import gas, allowing about 2,000 shuttered industries and 200,000 workers to return. Buffalo remains hard hit with driving ban and closures, and a Niagara Falls death linked to the storm marks the 25th weather fatality in the Buffalo area since the blizzard.
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Snow War Erie Gets Help From Army Corps of Engineers
Erie borrows snow removal gear from the U S Army Corps of Engineers while Corry reverses a state road snow removal agreement. PennDOT and county officials supply earth moving equipment to clear snow on routes including Route 426 toward New York state line. Erie County seeks to divert newer PennDOT snowblowers to Corry as massive drifts slow rural areas. Police warn residents to move cars or risk towing as plows begin a five day blitz to clear inner city streets.
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Ex Navy Schoolmate Tops Carter CIA List
President Carter eyes Adm. Stansfield Turner a Naval Academy peer as a leading CIA candidate. Cabinet session closed to reporters accompanies talks with Harold Brown and Thomas B Lance while other contenders include Moyers and Helena Knoche.
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Boyle Freedom Hearing Today
MEDIA Pa AP Former United Mine Workers president WA Tony Boyle was to bid for freedom today as lawyers argued bail pending retrial on murder charges. Prosecution veteran Richard Sprague opposed release. Charles Peruto sought bail for Boyle. Boyle, 75, is serving three life terms for ordering killings connected to the 1969 triple murder.
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