New York Shut by Snow Sleet and Freezing Rain Storm
A major winter storm paralyzed the New York area with snow sleet freezing rain and hail closing schools delaying commuters and pausing stock and commodity markets. Energy chief William E Simon assured farmers they will receive necessary gasoline propane and fuel oil despite allocations.
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New York
UPI
Washington
API
William E. Simon
Simon
Agricultural Outlook
Agriculture Department
Light truck traffic bolsters nationwide hauler protest
In Columbus UPI reports light peak hour truck flow as independent drivers claim the nationwide shutdown persists. Carl Bray of Middletown says thousands of Ohio rigs and millions nationwide are not rolling amid talks of lower fuel prices and higher speed limits. COGDA notes Sunday gas station closures do not save gas as Saturday fill ups surge. In Chicago a 35 year old man shoots neighbors over leaf raking, then surrenders.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Carl Bray
Middletown
Central Ohio Gasoline Dealers Association
COGDA
Oren Dewey
Dewey
Chicago
Harry Curtis
Clyde Steele
Ruth
Curtis
Steeles
Nader Calls Energy Crisis Phony and Urges Cuts
Philadelphia UPI Ralph Nader told TEA that the energy crisis is the most phony crisis in modern society and urged reduced fuel use by business. He opposed gas rationing and higher prices and questioned 40 percent energy waste as the basis for a crisis.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Ralph Nader
Tax Equity For America
TEA
Nader
Georgia coaching great Wallace Butts dies at 68
Wallace Wally Butts former Georgia football coach known for building the program to new heights died at 68 from an apparent heart attack. He collapsed at home after a morning walk and was pronounced dead upon arrival at Athens Hospital.
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Athens, Ga
UPI
Wallace
Wally”’ Butts
Georgia
Butts
Athens Hospital
Getty III Refuses Ear Reattachment After Release
The grandson of J. Paul Getty III, released after five months with kidnappers, rested at Villa Carla clinic in Rome. Hesaid he would not undergo plastic surgery to replace his missing ear, choosing to remember the moment as is.
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Rome
UPS
J. Paul Getty
J. Paul Getty III
Villa Carla Clinic
Getty
Giovanni Iacovoni
December 17 1973 Weather and Local Births and Deaths
Mostly cloudy and cold with snow flurries likely today in Norwalk Highs in the upper teens to low 20s Wind chill and precipitation probabilities given Tonight and Tuesday remain cold with lower temperatures and light snow flurries Possible 70 percent today 30 percent tonight 10 percent Tuesday Sunrise and sunset times listed Local births report Rick Werner a boy at 8 East Main Street Death notices list Angelo P Pannucci 60 Milan Oscar Musgrove 58 Willard and DeLeon Pastarmadjieff 44 Willard
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Norwalk
Angelo P. Pannucci
Milan
Oscar Musgrove
Willard
DeLeon Pastarmadjieff
Ed Nixon calls Watergate a tempest in a teapot
Edward C. Nixon says the Watergate scandal is a tempest in a teapot and that Rose Mary Woods could have made a mistake on the 18 minute tape. He defends his brother the President and notes tapes were meant to record history not destroy a person.
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Ed Nixon
Washington
UPI
Edward C. Nixon
Nixon
Rose Mary Woods
H.R. Haldeman
Edward Nixon
Linwood
Wash
Seattle
White House
Executive Mansion
Arabs Hijack Pan Am Jetliner in Rome Bombing
Arab guerrillas destroyed a Pan Am jet at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome and hijacked a West German Lufthansa aircraft with hostages. Officials warned as many as 15 passengers may have burned to death in the bombed plane while Lufthansa later reported no passengers aboard the hijacked plane.
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UPI
Leonardo da Vinci International
Lufthansa
Beirut
Pan Am
Pan American
Hearing Set On Digester and Beirut Plane Assault
A dual report covers a January 29 tentative state hearing on the Liquid Disposal Co. digester after EPA denied a variance to operate outside rules. The piece also notes Rhodes Scholar Matthew Valencic, a Western Reserve and Kenyon College alum, earning a Rhodes Scholarship for two years at Oxford.
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Liquid Disposal Co
Huron County
William W. Owens
George F. Linn
Ira Whitman
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Norwalk
The
U.S. 250
Wakeman
Matthew Valencic
Western Reserve High School
Valencic
Matthias Valencic
Kenyon College
Gambier
Science Society
Rhodes
Oxford University
England
Sheriff Closes Office For Rest Of Year In Ohio
IRONTON Ohio Lawrence County Sheriff James Howell closed his office for the rest of the year saying county commissioners broke a promise to provide extra revenue Only emergency calls will be answered for 17 days No legal papers service or patrols will occur Salaries reportedly ran out in September due to overhiring and were temporarily funded for nine full time and one part time deputy authorities said
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Ironton, Ohio
UPI
Lawrence
James Howell
Howell
Sheriff's Department
Lawrence County
Louis Bryant
Bryant
Newark Tonight Christmas Programs at Two Elementary Schools
Children at League and Bronson Elementary Schools will present Christmas programs tonight at 7 30 at the schools.
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League and
Bronson
Norwalk High to stage three one act plays Tuesday
Norwalk High School Theatre Guild presents three one act plays Tuesday evening with minimal scenery. Director Sam Busco says staging lies with audience imagination. Cast includes Ray Missey Eve Tracey Buck Adam Deb Schriner and others. curtain is 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium with tickets at door.
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Tracey Buck
Ray Missey
Deb Schriner
Norwalk High School Theatre Guild
Sam Busco
Robin Archibald
Janet Reilly
Jack Carstensen
Mark Bucci
Mark Twain
Adam
Clarion State College
Busco
Theatre Guild
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Owens
Whitman
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Whitmen
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Leon Riley
Gordon Lagerstrom
St. Louis Park
Minn
Lagerstrom
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Sharon Brooks
Forest Hills
Neil Simon
Rick Kerkhoff
Wendell Rakosky
Jeannie Missey
Karen Antrim
Rakosky
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Norwalk High
Eve
Serpent
Anna Lippman
Plaza Suite
Norma
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