Gas reserves seen adequate for January amid steady allocations
Most large area suppliers report adequate reserves and no January shortage. DOE officials in Philadelphia expect no problems, with Sun Co. allocations at 93 percent sales and ARCO at 85 percent of January 1978 base. Getty plans full 100 percent, while others show slight declines. motorists urged to conserve as prices and regulations shift.
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Daily Times
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DOE
Gene Harris
Philadelphia
Sun Co
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Suun
Lou DiCave
Claymont
DiCave
Sun
ARCO
Getty Co
Htad
Anderson
Pennsylvania Service Station Dealers Association
Yeadon
L.D
Bud’’ Davis
County reissues trash bids after bid clause clash
Delaware County Council rejected four bids for hauling trash from the Chester TV transfer station due to a clause in the specifications. The clause about transfer operation experience and a 4 000 ton per week capacity led bidders to object and the county plans revised, clearer terms.
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Linda Demeglio
Daily Times
Media Courthouse
Chester TV
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J. Erik Shaeffer
Charles W. Maggio
Maggio
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Makowski Hauling
SCA
Eagleville
Carlisle Peet
Chester County
Council
Eagleville Excavating
Roller Craze Engulfs Young Skater Darren Laws
Glenolden by Ruth Bissex. Darren Laws, 12, started roller skating two years ago and has moved from basic balance to advanced trick skating. The nationwide craze now includes unlikely mentions such as an episode of Charlie’s Angels.
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Ruth Bissex
Daily Times
Glenolden
Darren Laws
Charlie’s Angels
Darren
Battle skirts cop layoffs in Chester clash
City council orders 25 police layoffs to be considered but Mayor Battle delays action after FOP Lodge 19 requests binding arbitration. Salary demands equal about 3 million and current force stands at 127. Budget adopted December 26 cuts trash fee plans but preserves real estate and business taxes amid wage dispute.
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John Roman
Daily Times
Chester
Fraternal Order of Police
FOP
Lodge 19
Joseph F. Battle
Battle
Yavet
James Carr
Parks Fired as Miss America Host After 25 Years
Bert Parks, longtime master of ceremonies for Miss America, was fired by pageant president Leonard Horn of Atlantic City. The Daily News cites the dismissal in a letter and notes no comment from Parks or Horn. Potential successors include John Davidson, Mac Davis, Merv Griffin, and Gavin MacLeod.
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New York
UPI
Bert Parks
New York Daily News
Leonard Horn
Atlantic City
N.J
Parks
Two men rob Sears service station on 63rd Market Streets
Borough police report two men with a shotgun robbed the Sears service station at 63rd and Market Streets Wednesday night about 7 45 p m. They demanded cash, the cashier handed over several hundred dollars, and the pair fled by car toward Philadelphia. Several customers witnessed the holdup.
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Illbourne
Sears
63Rd
Market Streets
Philadelphia
Grandmother's kin charged with fraud
Patricia Ann Gannon of Oxford and her estranged husband Matthew Mark Gannon, both of Chester, were charged with embezzling about $90,000 from Patricia’s grandmother Lillian Tonden over 17 months from March 1978 to August 1979. Gannon arraigned on multiple theft and forgery counts, bail set at 35,000. husband billed at 100,000.
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Trisha Cofsell
Daily Times
Marcus Hook
Syearold
Chester County
Patricia_Ann Gannon
Oxford
E. 21St St
Chester
Fibre Metal.Co
Concord
Matthew
Mark .Gannon
Frank Hazel
Gannon
Lillian Tonden
Church ‘St
Sun Co
George Paige
Delaware County
Paige
Henry Silva
Audit Finds Irvis Expenditures Questioned in 1977 78
Legislative Audit Advisory Commission released findings showing House Speaker K Leroy Irvis and other lawmakers incurred questionable expenses totaling about 5 582 for picnic staffer reimbursements 4 529 in unallowed costs and 234 in unexplained entertainment while in office The report calls for an internal auditor and centralized payroll and expense controls to curb spending abuses The audit covered 1977 78 and notes Price Waterhouse cooperated but records for two Senate funds were unavailable amid a separate probe into Sen Henry Buddy Cfiani Cianfiani and other lawmakers Also cited were double payments to former legislators and Christmas gift purchases by leaders Smith and Manderino The report argues for clearer personnel data and spending rules to prevent future misuse
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Harrisburg
UPI
K. Leroy Irvis
Legislative Audit Advisory Commission
General Assembly
Philadelphia
Price Waterhouse& Co
Irvis
Dallegheny
Nancy Sobolevitch
National Geographic
Three Mile Island
Price Waterhouse
Senate Appropriations Committee
Sen
Henry
Buddy
Cianfiani
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