Gas Crisis Sparks Widespread Gas Rationing
A severe natural gas shortage has triggered strict rationing across major cities and threatens broader nationwide limits within a year. Utilities refuse new customers and cut back existing service as state commissions impose restrictions amid debates over exploration, pricing, and regulation. Paul Mazursky to Produce and Direct His Own Screenplay in LA Venice project Love in Blame begins filming later this year.
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Plan to Get Rich by Renting Ears to Listeners
HAL BOYLE reports on a comic scheme from New York: The Big Friendly Ear, Inc. would place many studios with a six foot mechanical ear and eye, charging a quarter for 15 minutes of listening. Only topics excluding sex would be allowed, with fees rising as the device improves.
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Yellow Thunder’s Body Not Mutilated Autopsy Finds No Torture
Rapid City South Dakota AP reports a second autopsy on Raymond Yellow Thunder found dead in a Gordon Nebraska used car lot did not support Indian claims of torture or mutilation. An Indian leader contests the rumors and questions why they began, citing ongoing tensions for Indians near the areas described.
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Weather and death autopsy report and tensions rise
Weather report for 24 hours ending 7 am Friday shows highs in the 60s to 80s and lows in the 30s to 50s with Arkansas forecast fair and warmer. A second autopsy confirmed death from a cerebral hemorrhage in Yellow Thunder, a 51 year old Sioux man found February 20 after being removed from an American Legion dance. Five white defendants faced charges of manslaughter or false imprisonment. AIM and relatives called for further investigation. about 1000 Indians protested in Gordon urging unity and accountability.
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Cucumber Contracts Offered By Brown-Miller Company
Calvin J. Caldwell announces cucumber contracts for Brown-Miller Company. Contracts and seed available at Barry's Grocery on Main Street in Hope and from Roy Smith, Route 1, Hope. Prices per cut for 1972: Grade No 1 nine dollars, Grade No 2 four dollars ten cents, Grade No 3 two dollars twenty cents, Grade No 4 one dollar.
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Minute worth study shows time value at work
AP features calculates that a $3.36 an hour rate equals 5.6 cents per minute and a 36.9 hour week yields about $218 a year from coffee breaks and chatter. A Bulova exec loses 16.7 cents per minute, about $725 annually, highlighting how time use differs from perception.
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Bulova Watch Co
IRA identifies three terrorists killed in Belfast blast
In Belfast, the IRA says Lt. John Jomson aged 20, Lt. Gerard Crossan aged 21, and Tony Lewis aged 16 died in a bomb workshop explosion. The British army and police say a 30 pound gelignite device accidentally detonated while being primed.
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Tax consultants give six different results for the same return
In Charlotte the six tax consultants offered divergent outcomes for a couple’s federal return with itemized deductions. Ranging fees from 27 to 50 dollars, disagreements covered deductions from car damage to crutches. Only one consultant noted alimony and crutches expenses. one warned the signer bears responsibility for all content.
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Business Spending Paradox Shifts in Economic Outlook
New York AP reports a paradoxical shift as consumer spending trails projections while business outlays surge. Economists cite rising durable goods orders and higher contract awards, with corporate profits up about 15 percent after taxes and cash flows stronger, predicting at least a 10 percent rise in spending on new plant and equipment this year, offsetting slower retail demand.
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