Christmas clubs find funds used for non holiday buys
A study shows 70 percent of Christmas club savers spent on non holiday items with Chase Bank surveys confirming frequent early withdrawals. Many accounts go to November payouts with 75 percent of clubbers being women. Some funds go to permanent savings or education, while a few use it for insurance or tuition.
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Carole Martin
NEW York (Ap
The
Christmas Club Corp
Chase Manhattan Bank
Pye
Ymanick Timmer
Brooklyn
N.Y
Chase
Haiti
Connecticut
Bank of Montreal chief warns U S Canada rift risks collision
J Leonard Walker, Bank of Montreal president, says a strong American European bias harms Canada relations and warns that U S Ottawa tensions over Nixon surcharge could trigger a costly collision. He credits Nixon's dollar policy but fears domestic politics worsen ties and neglect endangers North American harmony.
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Jeffrey ST. John Copley
Montreal
Canada
Bank of Montreal
J. Leonard Walker
United States
Europe
America
Atlantic
Pacific
Nixon
North American
Trudeau
U. S
Japan
Mitchell Sharp
New York
Toronto Star
Walker
Ottawa
Washington
U.S
Rigs in Permian Basin slip to 167 in two-state area
Weekly survey by Reed Drilling Tools shows 167 active rotary rigs in the Permian Basin region down seven from 174 last Friday. Lea County has 16 rigs, Pecos County 26, Martin County 19, with District 7-C San Angelo at 22 and District 8-A Lubbock at 21.
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Reed Drilling Tools
Permian Basin
New Mexico
Lea
Texas Railroad Commission
Midland
Pecos County
Martin County
San Angelo
Lubbock
Delaware shifts to tourism over heavy industry protection law
The Delaware governor signs a law barring heavy industry along the Delaware Bay and Atlantic coast to curb pollution and safeguard recreation. The measure blocks Shell Oil Co from building a $100 million refinery on 5,600 acres near Smyrna.
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Delaware
Delaware Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Shell Oil Co
Smyrna
Auto Train Service Links Washington Area to Florida
Auto Train Corp will start daily service Dec 6 between Alexandria Virginia and Sanford Florida allowing cars on board. Each 25 car train carries thirteen automobiles and continues to attract bookings into next year. Passenger fares include a car and up to four people with meals for 190 dollars. extra passengers cost 15 dollars each. Regular rail coach fare Washington to Orlando runs about 37 dollars per person.
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Vernon Haughland
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Autotrain
Washington Area
Florida
Alexandria
Sanford
Fla
Richard Golstein
Auto- Train Corp
Europe
Auto-Train Corp
Amtrak
National Railroad Passenger Corp
Goldstein
New York
Washington
Orlando
Spy Ouster Hurts Reds in European Espionage Ties
Paris and Berlin face embarrassment as Britain expels 105 Soviet spies. The disclosure strains Franco German relations and shifts focus away from NATO defense. Brezhnev’s visit to Paris looms as editors question Moscow’s peaceful aims.
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Paris
Britain
Moscow
U.S. Senate
Mike Mansfield
U.S
Nixon
America
Europe
Enterprise
Surtax
Kremlin
London
le Figaro
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Black Sea
Willy Brandt
Brezhnev
Georges Pompidou
Brandt
Pompidou
Russia
France
Figaro
West Germany
Constantine Melnik
New techniques urged for drilling
Independent oil operators were urged to assess properties for new recovery methods. Dr. Paul B. Crawford of Texas A&M said over 15 new techniques exist, with only 25 percent of oil in place currently recovered. He cited chemicals and nuclear detonations as examples and noted many formations still hold abundant oil.
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Max B. Skelton
Houston
Paul B. Crawford
Texas A&m
Crawford
Independent Petroleum Association of America
New York
Robert C. Seabring
First National City Bank of New York
United States
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
Free World
Seabring
Tom B. Medders Jr
Wichita Falls
Tex
GAO urges treating alcoholism in military as disease
Congressional investigators estimate about 130000 alcoholics in the armed forces and urge the Pentagon to adopt a comprehensive treatment program. They argue treating alcohol abuse as a disease would save careers and at least 120 million dollars annually, replacing the current misconduct approach.
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Washington
Pentagon
General Accounting Office
Defense Department
GAO
World Health Organization
The
American Medical Association
Hughes
Sea lion Samantha headed back to Florida from Bath NC
Samantha the 165 pound sea lion that escaped from Seamann Marine Institute near Key Colony Beach Florida six weeks earlier is being returned to Florida after turning up on the Pamlico River near Bath North Carolina. A Tampa resident notified the institute after reading a newspaper item about her. Samantha was coaxed into a cage with fish after performing tricks at a marina.
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Washington, N.C
Samantha
Sea Lion
Florida
Seamann Marine Institute
Key Colony Beach
Florida Keys
Pamlico River
Bath
N.C
Billy Bosman
Institute
Tampa, Fla
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Tom Green
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Iowa
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