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The prices aren’t badA stav-close-to-By DAVID K0R3With gas in short supply and many east coast service stations closing today and tomorrow, many locals will slay local this New Year’s Eve.If the energy - crisis isn't enough lo keep potential goers close to heme, maybe the threat • of bad weather and slippery roads will, 'fire weatherman predicts a windy, rainy eve with low temperatures in the 30s.Many persons who. might ordinarily travel south -for beach and sun or-northward to the ski slopes fcr the holidays have opted to stay on the island this year. There's reportedly litUe of the white stuff, and no gas for the' trek south.Jimmy the Greek says the Notre-Dame-Alabama game, to be televised at 8 p.m., could be another reason fcr staying at home.For 'persons who are too steeped in holiday cheer to drive home next year, area police departments will transport them home of to the station for s cup uf coffee tonight.For many restaurateurs• contacted this morning, it looks like a good year.for holiday parlies, anyway.Christie's, the waterfronf restaurant that ’ recentlychanged hands and Is ad-'■ vertising 'a party for “old and new friends,” has booked “too many,” according to a restaurant spokesman. Jto dinner reservations can be taken there or at The Pier between 6 and 10 tonight. All reservations at Christie’s,' the spokesman said, were made by islanders.Through local entertainment businesses should be booming by the time or if the ball drops on Time Square tonight, a■home New Yearspokesman at Leo's, the Long Wharf dub, said hJs business has dropped off considerably this year. He blamed Navycutback:.Many of the sell-out guests at the Treadway Inn, numbering about 300, are Waters, said a hole! spokesman the place is attractive to them for the short travel distance, combined with a total tarriff for room, dinnerparty and a 2 a.m. continental breakfast for less than $20,The Sheraton-lslander Inn also reports reservations for more than 3-DO guesls, many of whom have been at the hotel forthe weekend. It has scheduled three simultaneous parties toserve Jifferent tastes.The Hotel Viking, which last week applied for bankruptcy, reportedly has many guests at the hotel, where Biggy’s club plans a party. Buffet and champagne for $20. As of this morning, Biggy said he had about 100 reservations.For the post-eve Bloody Mary crowd, the Friends of the Newport Music Festival will have a “Hangover Brunch” at the Clarke Cooke House (Candy .Store), where three television sets will bring the games to die-hards in the lounge; $10.And the Reading Room is hclduig its traditional brunch fcr members and^their guests.
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Mon, Dec 31, 1973
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