Complaints Of Gasoline Price Gouging Flood Fed Office
The Federal Energy Office reports a flood of complaints from motorists about gasoline price gouging with charges 10 to 25 cents higher per gallon. IRS checks monitor compliance with price controls as Bork directs court action against excessive pricing. Energy Chief Simon notes mid January allocation limits may undercut demand and warns of rationing potential by March 1.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Energy Office
Robert Nipp
Nipp
Robert H. Bork
U.S
Bork
Internal Revenue Service
William E. Simon
Simon
Atomic Energy Commission
Venezuela
America
Sybia
Iraq
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
George M. Bennsky
State Department
Fuels and Energy
Three Thorntown Teens Arrested Over Glue In Car
Thorntown youths Daniel T. Zell Robert Dean Show and Richard Dale Robinson were stopped in Lebanon for a license plate violation and found with glue and equipment for sniffing. They were jailed Friday night on drug charges after being taken to Boone County Jail and notified to their parents and the juvenile office.
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Thorntown
Lebanon
Sherman Rutan
Daniel T. Zell
South Front Street
Rutan
Zell
Robert Dean Show
South Market Street
Richard Dale Robinson
Boone County
Alvin Dale Benson
Nixon frees impounded funds for rural water and school meals
The Nixon administration bowed to congressional pressure and releases 30 million of 150 million impounded for rural water and sewer grants, with 120 million remaining blocked. It also boosts subsidies for school breakfasts and lunches and launches a 40 million WIC program into full operation.
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Nixon
Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Congress
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Commissioners Delay County Appointments
Boone County Commissioners again deferred appointments for Highway Superintendent Worth Township trustee county attorney and a member of the County Board of Zoning Appeals. Acting Highway Superintendent Robert Denney led clean-up after a 14 inch December snowfall while the board reviewed a performance bond over the courthouse outer dome repairs by Mid Republic Construction Co.
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Boone County
Worth Township
County Board of Zoning Appeals
Ross Hollingsworth
Worth Two
Perry Township
Zoning Board
William Renner
Zionsville
Robert Denney
Denney
Rex Sprong
Owen Hansen
Mid-Republic Construction Co
Mid-Republic
Deputy Killed At Lafayette Square
Indianapolis police report deputy sheriff Steven Abbott 27, working security at Block's Department Store, shot in the neck while confronting a suspected shoplifter who fled in a car from Lafayette Square Shopping Center. He died an hour later at Methodist Hospital after firing a shot at the getaway vehicle.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Steven Abbott
Lafayette Square
Abbott
Methodist Hospital
Solzhenitsyn exposes Soviet terror in new Gulag work
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago 1918 1956 revealing the Soviet secret police network and camps. He argues repression must end for fundamental change though stops short of a call for system downfall.
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New York
UPI
Alexander Ys
Soviet Union
Solzhenitsyn
Lenin
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Ivan Denisovitch
Weather outlook with showers and mixed precipitation
Cloudy with showers likely today and a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Rain shifts to light snow ending tonight. Clearing Sunday morning then mostly sunny by afternoon. Colder tonight and Sunday with highs in the upper 30s today and around 30 Sunday. Precipitation chances: 60 percent today and 40 percent tonight.
Zionsville Loitering Law To Be Appealed
Four men Gregory Baker Robert Hunt Harry Walker and Daniel Davis will appeal loitering convictions in Boone County Circuit Court with attorney representation by Goodman and Pinkus. Judge Michael Disler noted the appeal targets the law’s validity while the court may not treat it as a priority.
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Zionsville
Michael Disler
Boone County
Gregory Baker
Robert D. Hunt
Harry
Tut) Walker
Daniel A. Davis
Goodman
Pinkus
Craig E. Pinkus
The
Indiana Civil Liberties Union
Walter Pestridge
Bowen Backs Free Port Plan and Tax Reform in 1974
Indiana Governor Bowen says his second year will push tax relief programs and improvements in corrections health recreation highway construction and humane government while backing free port legislation on a slow phase in. He endorses ethics guidelines and faster interstate projects and supports short term aid for South Shore rail despite caution on rapid tax changes. He pins hopes on warehouse tax credits and inventories policy to boost Indiana business and outlines cautious fix for revenue loss over a 10 to 20 year horizon.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Bowen
Richard G. Lugar
Birch Bay
D-Ind
South Shore Railroad
Robert Orr
Indiana
Assembly
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