California sues feds over oil price ceiling impact
Sacramento officials say California loses 650000 dollars daily as the state petitions the courts to block the federal energy office from ending state and local oil exemptions. Controller Houston Flournoy notes retroactive price shifts have cost the state 1.3 million dollars received and 57 million in pending payments, urging action to restore sovereign sale rights.
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UPI
Houston Flournoy
California
State Lands Commission
Commission
Flournoy
Federal Energy Office
FEO
Federal Energy
William Simon
Washington
FEC
Simon
Highway Patrol Quietly Idle in Gas Lines Across California
California Highway Patrolmen spent 5,900 hours in February waiting in gas lines costing about 59,000 dollars. E.D. Heringer, assistant patrol commissioner, said fuel delays hinder prowls cars. a list of stations refusing patrol service was handed to Standard Oil officials. Standard urged independent Chevron stations to prioritize emergency vehicles.
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UPI
California
E.D. Heringer
Standard Oil Co. of
Heringer
Chevron
Governor Threatens Takeover of San Francisco Sewage System
Tuesday in Sacramento United Press International reports the Governor warned he would assume control of San Francisco's sewage system and shut it down if ongoing pollution remains a public health hazard. He praised winter fuel storage as generally turning out well and apologized for remarks about botulism linked to the Patricia Hearst kidnapping food giveaway. The Senate approved pesticides measures allowing officials to bar harvests with excess pesticides. Committees advanced rape victim privacy protections and legislative vacancy appointments. The Assembly took no major action.
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United Press International
San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Senate
Seeley
Harmer
Glendale
Assembly
Nixon subpoena case in Los Angeles proceeds to motion
Judge Gordon Ringer weighs whether to press forward or drop the Elisberg burglary case as the district attorney seeks to reduce the Ehrlichman Liddy Young matter to a single charge. Federal prosecutors favor trying Ehrlichman and Liddy on related break in charges.
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UPI
Nixon
Superior Court
Gordon Ringer
District Attorney
Elisberg
John Ehrlichman
Joseph Busch
Watergate
Leon Jaworski
Washington
Ehrlichman
G. Gordon Liddy
Busch
Liddy
David Young
White House
Weather across regions brings storms and wintry reminders
Heavy thunderstorms battered portions of Texas early today with hail and damaging winds near Miranda City. Rain and snow showers plus thunderstorms stretched from Washington and Oregon to western Montana while wintry air affected the Northwest and parts of Virginia and North Carolina.
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United Press International
Texas
Virginia
North Carolina
Miranda City
Washington
Oregon
Montana
Teen hijacker seizes Japan Air Lines jet over Okinawa
Joel Tucker, one of 425 captives aboard the Boeing 747 hijacked by 18 year old Katsuhisa Owaki, recounts a calm 6% hour ordeal. The teen demanded 55 million in ransom before police seized him and freed all passengers unharmed, aside from one heart attack.
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Okinawa
UPI
Joel Tucker
Seattle
Wash
Japan Air Lines
Tucker
Boeing Corp
Katsuhisa Owaki
Tokyo
Japan
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