Austere federal fuel program reshapes allocations nationwide
The Nixon administration orders a standby gasoline rationing plan with rules prioritizing essential services and military needs. New regulations shift refinery output toward other products, set hardship carve outs for service stations, homes, and businesses, and allow states to reserve portions of gasoline, propane, middle distillates, and residual oil for limited relief while tracking increased demand since the base period.
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Pevementt
Nixon
John Hill
Hill
Ceuthack
Gas saving carburetor rumor sparks industry talk
Rumors swirl that a gas saving carburetor could give automakers a big competitive edge, prompting talk of cooperation among firms to protect mutual interests. A California Air Resources Board spokesman says people want miracles and believe these stories.
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California Air Resources Board
Medicare pay dispute over old bills and overtime law doubt
A widow asks ACTION LINE for help recovering nearly $1,000 in doctor bills dating back to 1970. Occidental Life Insurance says some charges may have been paid. they will reconstruct records. A son unpaid overtime case notes restaurants often lie outside wage rules. CALIR division cites 436-4286 and possible changes to overtime laws announced in May.
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Medicare
Occidental Life Insurance Co
The
W.F
Lakewnol
California Industrial Relations Department
Division of Industrial Welfare
Action Line
California Industrial Welfare Commission
Low cost exercise options in Long Beach area
The YWCA at 550 Pacific Ave offers Slim and Trim with eight weeks of classes for 10.50 plus 2 five dollar annual memberships. Long Beach City College provides free public recreation activities at Liberal Arts Campus 4901 B Carson St 420-1248. Many LB libraries also post schedules. no formal registration needed. next session starts in February.
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Action Line
V.S
Long Beach
YWCA
Pacific Ave
Long Beach City College
Community Recreation
Liberal Arts
B. Carson St
LBCC
Coffee houses offer amateur singers a stage in Long Beach
E T of Long Beach notes three venues by name where a sister can sing publicly. The Peanut Gallery at 1431 E Broadway hosts Wednesday nights, Wooden Key at 39th Place offers Thursday nights, and LBSU Bogarts Coffee House in the student union runs Thursday afternoons. Contact Steve Redfearn at 498 5241.
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E.T
Long Beach
Action Line
Peanut Gallery
E. Broadway
Long Beach State University
Bogart
LBSU
Steve Redfearn
Train Derailment Sends 45 Hurt and Fire Flares Fright
A freight train derailed near McGregor Texas injuring 45 with 16 hospitalized including Mrs Don Summers. Firefighters battled a following blaze after two tank cars carrying vinyl chloride chlorine gas and naphtha exploded. Police evacuated scores within a 22 block radius as witnesses described a blast likened to an atomic explosion.
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Don Summers
Arington
Tex
John M. Gardner
McGregor
Texas
Santa Fe Railway
Ank
McGregor Depot
Beef price surge hits all time high confounds buyers
Executives report wholesale carcass beef costs rising to one to three cents per pound from lows six weeks earlier. Market players warn of customer resistance and higher usage of extenders. Beef demand falls as sales volume dips about 18 percent year over year while cattlemen note fewer weekly sales.
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John Fazio
Fazio
Vario
Gronsky
Sea ordeal told by Haiti refugees
Thirty eight Haitian refugees endured nine days at sea on a leaking 20 foot sailboat before rescue by Miami area fishermen and a U S Coast Guard cutter. They spoke of sickness fear and prayers as they avoided looking at those who died. Immigration hearings follow.
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MIAMS
Josephine Tertulien
Miss Tertulien
South Florida
U.S. Coast Guard
Constanly
Bliss Tertulien
Greater
Jean Claude Navalier
Haiti
Marie-Marthe Salnon
Experts conclude erasure of June 20 1972 tape cannot be recovered
A six member panel concludes the buzzing gap on a taped White House conversation could not be created by single foot pedal use and that the obliterated section likely contains the dialogue. They note the hum is not from the typewriter or lamp and say recovery of intelligible speech is not possible with current techniques.
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Tally
J. R. Haldeman
Miss Woods
Haldeman
See
White House
Sirica
Special Prosecutor’s Office
Richard H. Bolt
Franklin Cooper
James L. Flanagan
John G. McKnight
Thomas G. Stockham Jr
Mark Weiss
Officer risks thin ice to save a fisherman life
Allegheny County Police Sgt George Ault reached a 71 year old fisherman James Goodyear who had fallen through thin ice on North Park Lake. Ault stretched out over the hole as the ice beneath him gave way and pulled Goodyear to the edge of the hole in 14 feet of water. Goodyear was treated for exposure at a hospital while a fishing companion and four park supervisors helped.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
George Ault
North Park Lake
Ault
James Goodyear
Cadogan
Goodyear
Jet crash in fog near Will Rogers kills two in Oklahoma City
A business jet attempting to land four miles short of Will Rogers World Airport in dense fog crashes. Two aboard are dead. The Kerr-McGee Corp. owned aircraft flew from Corpus Christi to Oklahoma City. George Clark of the NTSB attributed the crash to fog during approach.
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Oklahoma City
Will Rogers World Airport
George Clark
National Transportation Safety Board
Fort Worth
Kerr-McGee Corp
Corpus Christi
Kissinger reports Egyptian proposals to Israeli leaders
Kissinger told reporters aboard the Egypt to Israel flight that Egyptian ideas received a constructive nod from Israeli officials. He noted differences in disengagement plans focus on force thinning near the Suez Canal and the number of missiles tanks and soldiers left in each territory. Syria may attend Geneva phase two while talks in Moscow anticipate Brezhnev's Cuba visit around January 24.
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Kissinger
Egypt
Israel
Suez Canal
Beirut
al Hayat
Syria
Geneva
West Bank
Jordan
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