Gasoline shortages hit stations as New Year travel peaks
Long lines and frustrated motorists awaited fuel as pumps slowed to a trickle. A spokesman warned gas would be unavailable from five p.m. to Wednesday morning, with up to 95 percent of stations closing Tuesday in some areas. Dealers cited January allocations and rationing as chaos grew, police were called to quell disputes, and officials in Missouri reported 85 percent of stations closed or cutting sales.
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Bitter cold ends year as winter storm rolls across nation
The Associated Press reports a severe winter storm dumps heavy snow from Kansas to Ohio, worsening holiday travel amid a gasoline shortage. Minnesota warns motorists with empty tanks to guard against exposure as temperatures plunge. Be midji records 35 below. Snow totals reach 9 in Cincinnati, 6 in Dayton, 5 in Cleveland, and up to 12 in Kansas City. Hundreds delayed as Lambert-St. Louis airport closes over 20 hours. Cold worsens to 25 below with winds.
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New Year Celebrations Across World Dismiss Woes
A look at global year end celebrations amid crises. Times Square in New York lit up as England declares New Year a holiday. Israeli troops on high alert near battlefronts as Japan marks the Year of the Tiger. Skylab crew returns to 1974 as U.S. festivities unfold in New York, New Orleans, Chicago and Cleveland with varied events.
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Britain Starts Three Day Work Week To Conserve Power
London reports a three day work week aimed at easing Britain's worst postwar economic crisis as industry runs on half time to save electricity for hospitals sewage works and schools. Food stores and processing plants stay open. Whisky beer and pubs exempted. Public buys surge as New Year celebrations approach. About six million workers may be idled and pay could drop by forty percent.
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Energy Office Allows Retailers to Raise Gas Prices
The Federal Energy Office permits gasoline heating oil and diesel retailers to raise prices by 1 cent per gallon, with wholesalers allowed a half cent hike. Together these increases could lift pump prices by 1.5 cents per gallon, as part of ongoing efforts to offset higher costs and curb price gouging while supporting dealers amid reduced allocations. Nixon reaffirmed a tough stance and urged conservation compliance.
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Meir's Labor Leads Israeli Vote But Faces Narrower Knesset
Early returns from about one eighth of polling stations show Premier Golda Meir's Labor coalition ahead yet with a smaller margin in the 120 seat Knesset. Analysts project Labor 49–51 seats and Likud 35–37, while turnout nears 80 percent and the army remains on alert amid Arab tensions.
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Unresolved Issues Await Congress in New Year
Washington AP reports a crowded agenda for the 93rd Congress with possible impeachment actions against President Nixon. Key tasks include an emergency energy bill, campaign finance reforms, presidential and congressional election funding, trade authority, pension reform, and wage controls, all set against Watergate investigations and budgeting challenges.
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New President of Mormon Church Recovered From Open Heart Surgery
Spencer Woolley Kimball, 12th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is reported to be recovering after open heart surgery. The church leader, regarded as God's spokesman on earth, faced the operation in Salt Lake City with church officials announcing his condition.
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Mor mon Church taps Kimball as president after health scare
Good Morning Men who work with Elder Kimball, 78, who became Mor nin president Tuesday, say he has recovered remarkably well from illnesses and is starting long days again. He underwent open heart surgery in April. Kimball headed the Mor man's Council of the Twelve Apostles which selected him to lead President Harald B. Lee. Lee died last Wednesday. The Church head is considered a prophet, head, and revelator who communicates with God. Elder Kimball, an apostle for 36 years, is a widely traveled church leader. He and his wife Camilla Ey ring Kimball have four children and over 30 grandchildren. He has had serious health issues, including a lung ailment that temporarily took away his speech and left him with a raspy voice. One vocal cord and parts of another were removed. He suffered a serious case of see.
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Tanks Filled With Home Heating Oil Across East Coast
New York AP report notes heating oil tanks are near capacity along the East Coast due to milder than expected fall and winter weather. Gasoline supplies are in poor shape, despite generally good oil inventories, with past patterns of oil surplus and gasoline shortages echoed after the October Arab embargo reduced imports.
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American Petroleum Institute
No New Year Observed as Register Offices Close
The Danville Register departments will be closed tonight for the New Year holiday. The test edition will be prepared for Thursday morning.
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Manchester Union Leader retracts charges against Murray Chotiner
The Manchester Union Leader published a front page retraction Monday of April articles alleging Murray M. Chotiner organized political espionage teams and influenced events for sinister ends. The paper settled Chotiner's $3 million libel suit in a confidential accord filed in U S District Court in Concord New Hampshire.
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Weather Readings Front Atop Register Building Virginia and North Carolina
Weather readings describe considerable cloudiness in Virginia with a chance of snow flurries in the west and rain changing to snow elsewhere. Temperatures vary from highs in the 30s west to single digits in the east. Tuesday night and Wednesday turn colder with 20s to teens. North Carolina sees rain turning to snow flurries in the mountains, followed by colder conditions and a Wednesday, partly cloudy, cold day.
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