Wide Open Spaces Create Dilemmas
Fresno reports on Interstate 5 traffic during the first big holiday rush. Drivers enjoy faster trips between San Francisco and Los Angeles but face long lines for gas and restrooms at sparse stations. Stations near Los Banos pumped 26 to 32 thousand gallons as crowds stretched miles and minutes.
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Fresno
Calif
Joe Esparza
Standard Oil Co
California 180
Los Banos
Visparza
California
Esparza
George Bates
Standard
Bates
Disneyland
Kettleman City
Sid Caraway and the J. K. Caraway ranch near Lubbock
Sid Caraway arrived in the Lubbock area in 1891 and, with five brothers, managed the J. K. Caraway family ranch five gates from downtown. The land later became part of the city limits near the 50th Street corridor.
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Sid Caraway
Lubbock
J. K. Caraway
Frontier Lubbock
50Th St
Sid
Belfast Bus Ambush Highlights Northern Ireland Violence
Gunmen sprayed a Belfast bus with at least 20 shots injuring four of twelve passengers as sectarian violence surged in 1972. Two British soldiers were wounded, police arrested a republican leader in the south, and officials urged peace for 1973 amid a toll of 681 dead over three years.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Highfield
Irish Republic
Martin MccGuiness
McGuiness
Irish Republican Army
Londonderry
Republic
William Christie
Lord Grey
London Daily Telegraph
TRA
Long Kesh
Cramtin Road
Quadruplets Born to U.S. Attorney's Wife in New York
Linda Schreiber delivered four babies at New York Hospital on a Saturday morning. The children include three boys and a girl, each with birth weights ranging from 3 lbs 10 oz to 4 lbs 5 oz. The father, James Schreiber, is an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, and the mother is 27, a former teacher with a two year old daughter.
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NEW York
U.S
New York Hospital
Linda Schreiber
James Schreiber
U.S. Atty. Whitney
North Seymour
Man J’hattan
Schreiber
Morton Bedrick
Italy Hikes Auto and Coffee Taxes With New VAT
Rome continues price shifts as a January 1 VAT increase raises costs on automobiles and coffee. The new tax structure applies at every stage from raw materials to final sale, impacting consumer prices.
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Rome
Abernathy Youth Shot Hunting Injured in Quail Hunt
A 17 year old Abernathy High School junior Billy Beeson was in serious condition in Hendrick Memorial Hospital Abs men after a hunting accident. He was wounded by a blast from a shotgun while quail hunting near Novice in Coleman County.
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Abernathy
Billy Beeson
Hendrick Memorial Hospital
Abslene
Beeson
C. B. Beeson
Novice
Coleman County
Escape Fails After Bank Robbery Suspect Leaps Jail Fence
Santos Maria Vasquez, 30, accused of robbing Elsa State Bank and kidnapping an employee, slipped over a 10 foot electrified jail fence in Cameron County yard during a diversionary melee. Barlow was later released unharmed. Vasquez faced trial set for January 8.
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Brownsville
UPT
Elsa
Tex
Cameron County
Santos Maria Vasquez
Vasquez
Rio Grande Valley Bank
Robert Barlow
Barlow
Boy Dies From Accidental Gunshot Wound in Texas
Terry Glenn Harrison aged 13 died at Montgomery County Hospital in Cleveland Texas after an accidental gunshot wound suffered earlier at his New Caney home. Authorities said the incident occurred Saturday and led to his death later that day.
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Cleveland, Tex
Terry Glenn Harrison
Montgomery County Hospital
New Caney
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Lupnock Ecconomics Council
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Ant
A. G. Becker and Co
Uvlekeicu Pater
Tokyo
Carl H. Stein
Bill Blackwell
Kakuci Tanaka
United States
John Cassel
Japan
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Peking
Southeast Asia
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Speed
Sale
Admiral Microsonic Ovens
Color TV
B&w TV
Speed Queen
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Hardwick Gas and Elect Ranges
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Goodhousekeeping
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Jimmy
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