Inflation fighters push gas rationing amid price gouging claims
Washington AP reports President Carter aides accuse gasoline distributors of illegal price gouging, urge consideration of rationing. Alfred Kahn and Barry Bosworth say inflation will stay double digits due to oil prices. They cite refinery costs and world markets, propose possible standby rationing and stricter wage price standards. In Kansas, court blocks county fireworks ban amid legal challenge.
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Washington
Carter
Alfred E. Kahn
Council of Wage and
Barry Bosworth
Council
House Government Operations Consumer Subcommittee
Kath
Saie Kan
House
Kahn
Thenergy Department
Bosworth
Maany
Guardsmen Escort Tank Trucks as Fuel Blockade Threat Looms
National Guardsmen with bayonet fixed rifles escorted oil terminal tankers in North Carolina while independent haulers warned of renewed efforts to block fuel deliveries in Alabama. Violence reports surfaced with nails spilled on Interstate 5 in California and gunfire on U S 301 in Maryland. Grocers warned of rising prices. Mondale urged truckers to resume work, federal officials offered safe corridors, and North Carolina Governor Hunt mobilized the Guard to protect terminals despite broad upheaval.
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National
North Carolina
Alabama
Iowa
Tennessee
Maine
National Guard
Augusta
Joseph Brennan
Canada
Interstate 5
California
U.S. 301
Cecilton
Midwest
East
New York
Walter Mondale
Jis
Jack Watson
Jim Hunt
Farmers warming to harvest as wheat quality rises
Farmers are just getting their feet wet as harvest begins with good quality wheat and low moisture. In Pierceville Christensen Grain received about 15,000 bushels, moisture 11 to 15 percent. Garden City Runge reported 1,200 bushels, moisture 11 to 14.4 percent. Seoti Collingwood elevator noted one load, moisture 2 to 13 percent, while Sublette’s Collingwood facility saw several loads by Thursday.
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Christensen Grain
Pierceville
Garden City
Levi Krehbiel
Krehbiel
Collingwood
Seoti
Sublette
OPEC raises base price and sets surcharges to $23.50 per barrel
Geneva based OPEC raises its base crude price to 18 dollars and allows surcharges up to 2 dollars, setting maximum including quality allowances at 23.50 per barrel. The move, the largest since 1974, could lift U.S. gasoline and heating oil by about four cents per gallon.
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Switzerland
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
13-Nalion Oil Cartel
Libya
Iran
Iraq
OPEC
Arabian Light
Bargo
United States
U.S. Energy
James Schlesinger
U.S
U.S. Treasury Department
Fuel pinch hits farmers as diesel runs short in Kansas
In Southwest Kansas some fuel dealers face acute diesel shortages through harvest. Collingwood Grain Inc. in Big Bow reports no diesel for days and warns July allocations may be zero. State set aside fuel offers temporary relief but won’t cover all needs, jeopardizing customers and ongoing harvest work.
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Cy Bill Calvert
Kansas
Big Bow
Collingwood Grain Inc
Bill Hetzler
Hetzler
Collingwood
Champlin Petroleum Co
Stanton County
Manler
Johnson
Kansas Energy Office
Topeka
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Kansas Energy
Joe Fishbind
Fishbind
Tribune
Co-op
Mang Balon
Kansas Energy A Farmland Industries
Garden City
Hottest Day Of The Year At Garden City
Wednesday's high ranged around 106 degrees as Garden City recorded the season's peak at Garden City Municipal Airport flight service and KIAL Radio noted 106. The Garden City Experiment Station logged 102 degrees tying June 15 for 1979's warmest day, while 6 pm readings showed 103 at the Colonial Savings sign.
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Garden City
Mercury
Kial Radio
Colonial Savings and Loan Co
N. Main
Weather Sunrise Forecast For Garden City
Partly cloudy through Friday with widely scattered thunderstorms tonight. Lows tonight in the upper 60s to low 70s. Highs Friday mid to upper 70s. Winds variable 5 to 15 mph tonight. Chance of rain 20 percent tonight. Temperatures and precipitation for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Thursday. Hi Lu Prec 06 67 Garden City.
Elephant Attack Ends Trainer's Life in Woodland
A trainer Morgan Berry 68 suffers death after a bull elephant named Tonga tosses him in Berry's pen. Authorities cannot determine if death stems from the elephant or a heart attack given Berry's poor heart condition.
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Woodland
Wash
Morgan Berry
Herry
United States
Berry
Gary Waddell
Cowlitz
Tonga
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