Cold Wave Cuts Natural Gas to Power Firms Across Texas Panhandle
A polar air mass chills the Panhandle and state driving gas supplies down for Lubbock Power and Light and Southwestern Public Service Jones Station. Industrial customers with standby gear are cut first to protect residences, costing the city about $6,000 in one day as fuel oil costs rise and plant workers operate boilers around the clock.
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Panhandle
South Plains
National Weather Service
North Central
John Sims
Pioneer Natural Gas
Lubbock Power and Light
Southwestern Public Service Company
Jones Station
Power
Costa Soa
Tle Polar
Computer based marriage counselor known as Love Machine
A University of Miami mathematician trains a campus computer to simulate social structures in a field called sociocybernetics. Code names Annie and Gertie refer to cases as the machine models 65 000 mood combinations for two people before acting on home relations.
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Richard Brooks
Caryn Berryman
University of Miami
Henry W. Kunce
Tee Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Annie
Helen
Betty
Gertie
Sadie
Henry W. Kanee
SEC Proposes Merger To Open Stock Market
The SEC urged joining all U S exchanges into a single nationwide market open to all investors and allowing brokers tied to mutual funds to join if they serve mainly clients outside their parent firms. The plan, after 3.5 years of hearings, needs congressional approval and faces Capitol Hill resistance.
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United Press
Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Father Of Five Slain In Holdup
Two men robbed a Detroit savings and loan Wednesday taking about $4000 and shooting the manager to death. They abducted a woman in a nearby lot, released her unharmed a few blocks away, and fled. The First Federal Savings and Loan Association offered a $10000 reward for killers of its Conant branch manager, father of five.
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Detroit
Savings and Loan Association
Pit
First
Federal Savings and Loan Association
Conant
Spur High students protest coach resignation in cold walkout
About 122 of Spur High School’s 130 students staged a walkout in 25 degree weather after the resignation of football coach Bobby Adkinson. They gathered near the campus, chanted We want the coach, and lasted two periods. Only eight stayed inside as basketball practice continued.
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SPUR
Spur High School
Bobby Adkinson
Rep Mahon to Seek Re Election to 20th Congress Term
U S Representative George H Mahon of Lubbock says he will run again for a 20th consecutive term in Texas 19th District elections. At 71 he chairs the House Appropriations Committee and the joint Senate House committee on federal expenditures. Mahon has won awards from the American Political Science Association and the American Good Government Society. See REP MAHON Page 4.
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U.S
George H. Mahon
Lubbock
Texas
Mahon
U. S
House of Representatives
House Appropriations Committee
Joint
Senate
House
Jias
American Political Science Association
George Washington
American Good Government Society
Fury erupts as Dublin embassy is burned in protest
Thousands of Dublin residents stormed the British Embassy in Merrion Square and set it ablaze in a protest linked to Londonderry Bloody Sunday. Police blocked fuel-carrying mobs as fires spread, with damage estimated at 234000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Merrion Square
Belfast
Stewartstown
London
Prayer Closure Blesses Reader Adoration
A reader offers a closing prayer thanking God for the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. The petition asks to walk in the Savior’s path each day with a brief Amen.
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Jesus Christ
Cash Cache Found in Vietnamese Cave Sparks Court Case
A former Vietnam platoon leader testified that an Army ammo box in a cave containing 150000 in fifty dollar bills caused shock among his men. Donald Morrison recounted finding the cache while exploring caves in mid 1968. Dan Dorsey disputed ownership claims as the case heads to the Court of Claims.
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Associated Press
Washington
Vietnam
Dan W. Dorsey
Court of Claims
Dorsey
Minneapolis
Minn
Donald W. Morrisson
Monroeville
O.B. Menos
Dean Schnoor
Dorsey and
Morrison
Georgia State Highway Department
Porsey
Draft Lottery May Be Last For U S As War Ends
United Press International reports that March 6 and 7 yielded numbers 1 and 2 in the 1973 draft lottery, the nation’s fourth and possibly final such drawing barring a new emergency. Officials say few of the 2 million men born in 1953 will be inducted this year amid Vietnam withdrawal and Nixon’s push toward an all voluntary army by mid 1973 when the draft law expires. Curtis Tarr notes the lottery is held earlier in the year.
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United Press International
Washington
U.S
Vietnam
Nixon
America
Tarr
Induction Plans Seen as Vietnam War Winds Down
A March 6 Selective Service drawing marked the 287th red capsule drawn in the draft process. Robert E. McDonald of Harrisburg Pa pulled the date as one of six youth advisers. Stephen R. Hartley of Cumberland Md selected a blue capsule. The piece notes shrinking manpower needs and a shift toward an all volunteer Army by 1973 amid lower yearly draft totals.
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Commerce Department
Robert E. McDonald
Harrisburg
Selective Service
McDonald
Stephen R. Hartley
Cumberland
Soldier Yokoi Returns to Japan After 27 Years in Guam
Shokichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who hid in Guam caves for 27 years, returned to Tokyo amid crowds. He receives back pay and pensions totaling 228 dollars and is gifted about 16,200 dollars. He expressed shame at having survived the war.
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Press International
Tokyo
Shokichi Yokoi
Guam
Yokoi
Mt. Fuji
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