Gas Station Prices Burn as IRS Pushes Gas Regulation Clash
Gasoline station operators and the IRS edge toward a clash over pump prices after Christmas reports of price gouging. Dealers push higher markups amid government limits, with many stations planning to close if not allowed to raise prices. The IRS will monitor prices across the New Year weekend as reports indicate widespread violations and an expected fuel shortage in some states.
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United Press International
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
American Automobile Association
Murphy
Robert Jacobs
Illinois and Indiana Gasoline Dealers Association
New York City
Golden
California
New Jersey
Garden State Parkway
Pittsburgh
City to haul discarded Christmas trees to landfill again
Sanitation Superintendent Jim Brightwell says the city will likely remove fallen Christmas trees from residential alleys and dump them at the landfill this year. Burning trees remains illegal and a county tree chipper will be available on date yet to be announced.
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Jim Brightwell
Brightwell
Hughes Grand Jury Near End Of Hughes Airwest Probe
A 23 member federal grand jury in Las Vegas nears completion of its month long inquiry into Howard Hughes acquisition of Airwest. Witnesses include Robert Maheu Hank Greenspun and Chester Davis as the Watergate inquiry looms over Nixon era approvals.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Howard
Airwest
Civil Aeronautics Board
Nixon
Watergate Committee
Watergate
Terry Lenzer
Washington
Las Vegas Grand Jury
Nixon approves partial funding for farm conservation program
The Nixon administration will spend 90 million of 175 million originally approved by Congress for conservation projects in 1974, impounding 85 million. The plan caps revival of Rural Environmental Conservation Program while allowing 10 million to revive a Water Bank for marshland preservation. The program will offer cost sharing and partial payments to farmers for environmental practices and long term conservation work.
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Washington
API
Nixon
Congress
Agriculture Department
White House
Office of Management and Budget
Battle near Saigon as rice clash intensifies in Mekong Delta
Government forces and North Vietnamese regulars fight hand to hand in Chuong Thien province near Vi Thanh, a three day battle for the autumn rice crop. Air strikes supported the defense and casualties include 18 government dead and 81 wounded with 40 missing, while communists suffered 25 killed.
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Saigon
UPI
Mekong
Chuong Thien
Cambodia
Vi Thanh
Vietnam
Tornado Season Swoops Across the South
Meteorologist Allen Pearson notes an unusually active 15 month stretch with more than 1100 tornadoes in 1973, including 115 during Memorial Day weekend. Warnings of flash floods hit Alabama Mississippi Tennessee and North Carolina with 89 deaths reported.
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Kansas City, Mo
UPI
Allen Pearson
National
Mobile
Sylacauga
Ala
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
North Carolina
Pearson
Arkansas
Missouri
Kentucky
New Jersey
Grand jury report could stir county business in dead week
The 1973 county Grand Jury may file its year end report this week, now at the printer, with Jan. 1 filing deadline. Foreman R P Richards is away on a two week trip but signed a letter protesting a county pay raise. The report may cover actions by the board of supervisors and includes a resolution asking reconsideration. County officials said only a portion of the agenda is set for the week with meetings of the Environmental Quality office and the Architectural Board of Review planned. planning commission is not meeting.
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Goleta Valley
Santa Maria
County Board of Architectural Review
Santa Barbara
Invest West
Hollister Avenue
Santa Felicia Drive
Seven-Eleven Food Store
Foster Road
Orcutt Road
la Patera Lane
Dick Praul
Grand Jury
R.P. Richards
Richards
Paul Floyd
Cost of Living Council
Joe J. Callahan
Callahan
County Office of Environmental Quality
County Architectural Board of Review
County Planning Commission and Subdivision Committee
Carry On London Cast Performs Amid Bomb Blast
The Carry on London cast continued the show after a bomb outside the Victoria Palace Theatre. Barbara Windsor received a standing ovation for You Made Me Love You as Sid James noted her composure. A second blast hit a subway ticket office with no injuries. Police had vague warnings of bombs in the West End and on the District line.
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London
UPI
Carry On
Victoria Palace Theater
Barbara Windsor
Miss Windsor
Sid James
West End
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Freeport
Bahamas
Bonanza
Pacific
West Coast Airlines
Board of Supervisors
U.S
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Jack Schat
North
H‘’Street
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McMahan
Lompoc
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