25 Cities May Lose Airlines Due to Fuel Shortage
Seven carriers ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to drop all air service to 25 cities amid fuel shortages and rising layoffs. Eastern announces 360 pilots furloughed and 2,460 other employees cut. Pan Am plans 1,000 cabin attendants furloughed as 160 pilots have already been dropped. Some towns face potential loss of scheduled service, though many have alternate carriers.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Air Transport Association
Eastern
Pan Am
Oklahoma
Ohio
CAB
Allegheny
Keene
N.H
Worcester
Mass
Watertown
N.Y
Glens Falls
Saranac Lake
Plattsburgh
Lafayette
Ind
Bridgeport
United Airlines
Frontier Airlines
Way Clear For Saxbe Way Clear For Saxbe
Senate action on William B. Saxbe as attorney general appeared assured after a 15 to 1 vote in the Judiciary Committee. The sole no came from Sam Ervin Jr. as the panel met 21 hours behind closed doors to discuss Jaworski’s independence and White House assurances.
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Atty
William Saxbe
Capitol Hill
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Washington
William B. Saxbe
Sam Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Senate Watergate Committee
Leon Jaworski
Saxbe
Ohio
Jaworski
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Philip A. Hart
D - Mich
Nixon
Hugh Scott
Scott
White House
Kennedy
Hart
Short Working Week Hits British Paycheck
London reports a sweeping austerity plan threatens pay and jobs as Anthony Barber unveils energy tightening measures. A 24 day work week and a three day week loom, with taxes, imports controls, and possible rationing. Heath warns of a harder Christmas as unions push for higher pay beyond the seven percent inflation cap.
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London
Anthony Barber
Britain
Edward Heath
House of Commons
Times of London
House panel approves SBA loan bill with anti influence clause
Washington AP reports the House Banking Committee approved a bill extending the Small Business Administration lending authority only after attaching a strong prohibition against White House or other outside influence on loans. The House sent to the Senate a bill to adopt year round Daylight Saving Time by the second week in January, setting clocks ahead one hour on the fourth Sunday after signing.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
The
Small Business Administration
White House
House
Senate
Truck Strike Shows Little National Impact
The two day shutdown by some independent truckers has had little apparent effect on the nation s trucking industry. Department of Transportation checks found lighter than usual truck traffic in five states Pennsylvania South Carolina Florida New York and Ohio.
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Washington
Department of Transportation
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Florida
New York
Ohio
Wisconsin Superintendent Barbara Thompson May Get Federal Post
Wisconsin Superintendent Barbara Thompson said she is among seven prospects for the federal assistant secretary of education post in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The statement came during an interview with WIZM in La Crosse.
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Madison, Wis
Wisconsin
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Barbara Thompson
Station Wizm of
la Crosse
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Indochina Oil Cutoff Vote Shocks Senate Deficit Fallout
The Senate approved 60 to 33 a petroleum cutoff to Southeast Asia and cut military aid by 476 million dollars from Nixon’s budget. The move targets oil shipments to Vietnam Cambodia and Laos, with House-Senate talks likely to adjust the defense bill. Senator Norris Cotton argued the cut protects New England from cold by stopping oil exports.
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Washington
Senate
Bouih Vietnam
Cambodia
Pentagon
Nixon
Indochina
House
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
New England
Vietnam
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Laos
Mansfield
Mark O. Hatfield
R-Ore
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Appropriations Committee
U.S
Three Die In Brown County Crash Raise Wisconsin Toll
The Brown County crash left three people dead near Green Bay, raising Wisconsin's 1973 road toll to 1,097. Victims included Gerald Danforth, 18, and Richard Grignon, 28, with a third identity withheld. coroner tied Claudia Wells death to a November accident, and another fatality from Marathon County injuries was reported. Weather outlook shows patchy clouds and light snow possible through Saturday with cold lows.
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Associated Press
Brown County
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Outagamie
Gerald Danforth
Oneida
Richard Grignon
Kaukauna
Kenosha County
Thomas Dorf
Claudia Wells
Racine
Edward Henkelman
Merrill
Marathon County
House Drops Antitrust Exemption For Retailers In Energy Bill
House action on an emergency energy bill stalled liberal and antitrust provisions as lawmakers voted 223 to 170 to preserve a section allowing retail and service firms to voluntarily limit hours and schedules to save energy. The energy crisis abroad and domestic protests continued as UK cuts the work week and Fascinating shivers in fuel supply sparked layoffs and industry disruption.
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Washington
House
Senate
Federal Energy Office
Wiliam E. Simon
Simon
Great Britain
Edward Heath
Heath
American Airlines
Riyadh
Faisal
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Nixon
Sadat Rejects Direct Talks With Israel at Peace Conference
President Anwar Sadat said Egypt will not negotiate directly with Israel at the Middle East peace conference. He spoke in Cairo after meeting Kissinger, expressing willingness to be in the same room but not to hold direct talks, and hoped for disengagement talks before Christmas.
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Sadat
Anwar Sadat
Cairo
Henry A. Kissinger
Elias Antar
Associated Press
Egypt
Israel
Middle East
Kissinger
Saudi Arabia
Faisal
Nixon
Washington
U.S
Geneva
Ellsworth Bunker
Paris
Bunker
United States
Energy crisis lays off thousands in aviation and auto
Layoffs announced this week in the airline and auto industries will add thousands to unemployment as fuel shortages bite. Eastern Airlines and Pan Am cut many jobs. Allegheny Airlines plans 30 percent schedule cuts. Auto plants report about 6,000 layoffs, total 177,000 affected. Fuel constraints drive reductions. experts forecast unemployment rising into 1974.
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Nice Tatro
Associated Press
Eastern Airlines
Pan American Airways
Allegheny Airlines
Herbert Stein
Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
More Court Room Staff Are Needed By ED ARNDORFER
Manitowoc County faces a critical need for more court personnel and facilities. Efforts for over a year seek a separate Circuit Court judge or a third county court to ease a high judge-to-population ratio. Branch 2 in County Court handles most traffic and criminal work, while Branch 1 covers wills, estates, adoptions, juveniles, and divorces. Allan Deehr assists with Circuit Court duties for Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties. A municipal justice court in Manitowoc could relieve Branch 2’s civil backlog, which included 171,640.64 in fines and costs last year. The Manitowoc County Bar Association has urged a separate circuit judge. no action has occurred yet. The Fourth Judicial Circuit is among the state’s busiest one-judge circuits. A regional court plan could divide the state to ease workloads.
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ED Arndorfer
Herald-Times
Manitowoc County
Harold W. Mueller
Leon H. Jones
County Court Branch
Allan Deehr
Manitowoc
Sheboygan
Branch 2
City of
Mueller
City of Two Rivers
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Deehr
Wintry Weekend Shapes Up in Wisconsin Weather
A cold wintry weekend shaped up across Wisconsin with light snow in the south adding four to seven inches on Thursday. An Arctic high kept new accumulation limited though temperatures fell below zero at night. Race and Kenosha reported five to seven inches while Manitowoc and Two Rivers felt heavy waves along the shore. O'Hare saw up to eight inches in northern suburbs as bitter cold set in.
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Manitowoc
Two Rivers
Wisconsin
Madison
Green Bay
Race
Kenosha
O'Hare International
Chicago
Superior
Milwaukee
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