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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1973
Page
4
Gov. Robert Docking warns the nation faced a harsher energy crisis in the future but avoids public alarm, urging energy sufficiency. He notes possible effects on Kansas highway plans, state finances, agriculture, and upcoming legislative priorities for 1974 and 1975.
News briefs note fewer tankers plying seas since the Arab oil embargo began in October and slowdowns to save fuel. Ozark Air Lines reports new fuel allocations offsetting a 14 percent 1947 cutback, with a 6 percent service reduction still planned. An Indiana ruling keeps Fort Wayne birth records sealed amid a McGovern link. Skylab crew watches Kohoutek as comet nears the sun and discusses with its discoverer in mission control.
Joseph L. Mohan Jr. 22 of Leavenworth shot himself after his wife Joyce Little Mohan 19 was killed Aug 18 when thrown from a carnival ride at the Leavenworth County Fair. Police found a suicide note and a shotgun beside him. Funeral at Larkin Funeral Home with burial at Sunset Memory Gardens.
William Chalmers Chapman 38 senior vice president and director at H O Peet & Co Kansas City died in a local hospital from cardiomyopathy. He previously supervised underwriting for Merrill Lynch in the Great Lakes region and joined H O Peet in 1968 to organize and head a corporate underwriting department.
Partly cloudy through Saturday in northeast Kansas with highs in the upper 30s and night lows around the 20s. West winds at about six to twelve miles per hour overnight.
Free transportation for New Year’s Eve is funded by McGuinness Distillers in Toronto from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. with last year’s program drawing over 240000 riders. Similar efforts occur in Windsor and Hamilton, plus door to door bus service in Kingston by local groups. Alberta towns arrange reserved bus routes and Lethbridge raises funding after a period without traffic deaths. Charlottetown joins with Legion and fire stations for minibuses, though riders must be inebriated enough to qualify.
In New Orleans the Interior Department says 87 bids to drill for oil off Mississippi Alabama and Florida coasts were accepted after a December lease sale. Two bids were rejected Mesa's 202000 on tract 3246 and Atlantic Richfield's 350000 on tract 3299.
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