Sunday Driving Curb Considered to Save Fuel Nationwide
Washington officials say a Sunday driving curtailment is under review as a fuel saving measure. White House aides hint at Sunday station closures and possible blue laws to shorten store hours. The plan could cut 660,000 barrels of gasoline daily, with partial bans to allow churchgoing. Europe also restricts Sunday driving amid oil shortages.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
John A. Love
Charles DiBona
Congressional Joint Economic Committee
DiBona
Love
Capitol Hill
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Germany
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Europe
Pentagon
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
E.T. Klassen
Senate backs Nixon power to ration fuel nationwide
The Senate approved a one year energy emergency bill by 78 to 6 authorizing President Nixon to order gasoline rationing and other fuel saving steps. The measure allows speed limit cuts thermostat rules and hours reductions in schools while empowering shifts to coal and fuel prioritization for mass transit and regulated agencies.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
House
Henry M. Jackson
Dash
Ben-Gurion Shows Improvement After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Former Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion improved after a cerebral hemorrhage but remained in serious condition, according to his physician.
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Tel Aviv
David Ben-Gurion
Dozen Men Reach Australian Coast After 175 Day Raft Voyage
A dozen men including three Americans from Philadelphia landed on Balina, 130 miles south of Brisbane, after 175 days at sea aboard three balsa wood rafts. The Americans Thomas Ward Michael Fitzgibbons and Thomas McCormick all 23 years old.
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Brisbane
Australia
Philadelphia
South Pacific
Ballina
Thomas Ward
Michael Fitzgibbons
Thomas McCormick
Cambodian air force pilot in palace bombing remains unknown
In Phnom Penh the pilot who bombed Lon Nol’s palace compound still at large after a second attack since March 17. Three people were killed and ten injured as antiaircraft guns tracked the plane heading east from the scene.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Lon Nol
Nine Common Market Ministers Plan Unity Proclamation
Nine foreign ministers from Common Market nations scheduled a meeting to approve a Western European unity proclamation. The Nixon administration hoped to shape a new Atlantic Charter this year but shifted focus to other issues. The proclamation aims to back continued American troop presence in Europe and urge joint action on global issues beyond economics.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Nixon
U.S
Europe
White House
Nixon Signs 21.3 Billion Defense Bill
President Nixon signed a defense bill authorizing 21.3 billion dollars for the Defense Department. The measure cuts 600 million below Pentagon request and trims overall armed forces strength by 43 000 from the 2 233 000 budgeted. Overseas troop levels would fall to address balance of payments deficits.
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Nixon
Key Biscayne
Defense Department
Pentagon
U.S
Europe
Banker A. J. Morris Dies At 92 In Ossining
Arthur J. Morris, noted banker and financier who launched the Morris Plan enabling wage earners to borrow without collateral and helped establish credit life insurance in the United States, died Sunday at age 92 in Ossining New York.
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Ossining. N.Y
Arthur J. Morris
Morris
Senate committee approves Gerald Ford nomination as vice president
The Senate Rules Committee unanimously approved Gerald R. Ford as vice president sending the nomination to the Senate floor for a vote expected next week. The committee reviewed campaign contribution inquiries and declared FBI findings negligible while listing Ford's net worth at 256378 and planning to publish his financial statement.
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Senate
Gerald Ford
WY. P
Washington
Senate Rules Committee
House
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Howard W. Cannon
D-Nev
Rules Committee
Cannon
FBI
Robert Byrd
D-W.va
Marlow Cook
R-Ky
Oswego County approves 1974 budget of 26 million dollars
Legislators adopt a 26 million dollar county budget with a 1 dollar decrease in the tax rate to 59 per thousand. A public hearing at the County Building drew no opposition as Budget Officer Charles Say ers answered questions from the League of Women Voters. The session clarified budget breakdowns and workload figures for Mental Health and Social Services, noting 123 workers and over 4,500 clients.
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Oswego County
League of Women Voters
Charles F. Sayers
Sayers
League
Abo
Mental Health and Social Services
James Wright
Social Services Department
Holiday Traveler May Find More Stations Closed
Washington AP reports Thanksgiving travelers may encounter more service stations closed this year than last. Gas supplies are holding up. no major fuel problems expected on major highways. Kay Aldous notes a 13 week pattern of early closings and weekend limits, advises keeping tanks half full in remote areas and reducing night driving.
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Washington
American Automobile Association
Kay Aldous
Aldous
Alous
Energy Crisis Triggers Market Plunge Amid Recession Fears
Analysts link rising energy crisis fears to a potential 1974 recession as stocks slide. The Dow fell 28.67 points to 862.66, its worst single day since 1962, with the NYSE composite down to 53.76 as 1,404 issues declined. Institutions largely stayed out, amplifying the drop.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
New York Stock Exchange
Alan Shaw
Harris, Upham Co
Autumn Snowstorm Follows Tornado Toll Across Midwest
A powerful autumn storm lashed the midcontinent with heavy snow and subzero temperatures after a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas. The system left at least five dead, including three infants, and injured more than 30 others as funnel clouds touched down, damaging property and overturning mobile homes.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Kansas
Local Weather Summary for Today and Outlook
Sunny with highs in the mid 40s this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight with low near 35. Cloudy periods tomorrow with a chance of showers and highs 50 to 55. Light east winds today around 10 mph turning southeast 10 to 20 mph tonight and Wednesday. Probability of precipitation near zero this afternoon then 90 percent tonight and 50 percent Wednesday. High 40 low 32.2 mean 24.4 humidity 95 percent.
Ads Seek Recruits for Ac Priesthood in New York
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York launches a broad recruitment campaign for its shrinking priesthood. The ads feature Father John O’Leary with a provocative line about priests and prisoners. It’s described as possibly the first nationwide diocese effort of this scale.
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NEW York (Ap
John O'Leary
Archdiocese of
New York
Cambodian air force arrests after Lon Nol palace bombing
Cambodian police and military sources say several senior air force officers were arrested and T28 fighter planes grounded after Monday's bombing of President Lon Nol's palace compound by an air force pilot. In Tel Aviv a Red Cross plane carrying 20 Israeli POWs landed after noon local time while five other planes had arrived from Cairo overnight without the Israelis they were to carry home.
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Red Cross
Tel Aviv
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
T28
Lon Nol
Jaworski Briefed on National Security Matter
Washington AP briefed that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski was told of a national security issue related to Watergate in a White House briefing last week. Jaworski’s office confirmed the briefing but provided no details to staff. Archibald Cox had a similar briefing about a month earlier before his firing on Oct 21.
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Washington
Leon Jaworski
White House
Jaworski
Archibald Cox
Democrats toChoose Site for 2,500-Delegate Midterm Convention
A special panel will decide December 12 which city hosts next year's Democratic midterm convention. Seven cities presented final briefs behind closed doors in a hotel room meeting with party officials reporting the process.
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Washington
DPR House Vet Affairs Chair Seeks GI Bill Benefit Cut
Trim would reduce proposed educational benefit increase under the GI bill from 13.6 percent to an unspecified level. Rep. William Jennings Bryan Dorn, a Democrat from South Carolina, says an 8 to 9 percent boost would be more reasonable and could avoid a possible veto.
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Washington
House
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
William Jennings Bryan Dorn
D-S.c
Japan asks industries cut oil and electricity use
Tokyo called on major industries to reduce oil and electricity consumption by 10 percent to ease a fuel shortage. Chief Cabinet Secretary Susumu Nikaido also said Japan would soon send special envoys to the Middle East to discuss fuel problems and foreign policy.
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Tokyo
Cabi
Net
Susumu Nikaido
Japan
Middle East
Nobel Economists Urge Arab Oil Embargo Replication
Four Nobel prize winning economists urged nations hurt by the Arab oil embargo to consider starting a similar embargo themselves. They said countries deprived of Arab oil can refuse to supply food and manufactured goods to nations that commit the embargo and that the United States should not change its policy toward Israel because of the embargo.
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Cambridge, Mass
United States
Israel
Senate panel weighs bill to lift Saxbe salary barrier
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans a vote today on a bill to remove the constitutional barrier to Sen. William Saxbe becoming attorney general. The panel also considers a proposal to appoint a special Watergate prosecutor, seeking to avoid a Wednesday meeting on the prosecutor bill.
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Saxbe
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
William B. Saxbe
Ohio
James 0. Fast
Elliot L. Richardson
Congress
Senate
Space Plumbing Improves Skylab 3 84-Day Mission Prospects
Space Center Houston reports a repaired cooling loop boosts odds of a full 84 day Skylab 3 mission. Astronauts Carr Gibson and Pogue faced leaks in both cooling loops and completed a four hour repair boosting confidence in continued orbital operation and possibly reducing planned space walks to one.
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William R. Pogue
Neil Hutchinson
Gerald P Carr
Edward G. Gibson
Poue
Orbiting Laboratory
Pogue
Hutchinson
Eithr
Pocue
Gibson
Tanks and Troops Patrol Athens Amid Overthrow Talks
Athens sees tanks and troops on patrol as President George Papadopoulos faces calls to quit. About 15 000 protesters surged last week with 11 dead and 148 injured. police detained dozens for martial law violations and handed out sentences. Debate rages over who fueled the riot and who occupied the Athens Polytechnic Institute last week.
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Athens
George Papadopoulos
Athens Polytechnic Institute
Monjay
Polytechnic
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