Energy Crisis Actions Move Gas To Priority Use
President Carter signed emergency legislation to divert natural gas from low priority users to homes and hospitals and warned industries to be honest about supplies and profits. He issued a disaster declaration for Ohio as snow and energy shortages idle 1.5 million workers. A new Southwest storm spreads toward the midlands and East.
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Carter
Ohio
Southwest
New York State
Fort Bragg
N.C
Buffalo
N.Y
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Gulf Ports
Alaska
Labor Department
Armory in Raleigh County Suffers Freeze Damage
Armory Manager David Danko reports four heater units frozen and burst at the Raleigh County Armory Civic Center amid a 100 percent natural gas curtailment by Columbia Gas. The facility relies on kerosene torpedo heaters and electric space heaters with a gas furnace run for 90 minutes nightly as cold snaps disable the scoreboard.
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Raleigh County Armory
David Danko
Columbia Gas
Danko
Oak Hill Man Sues Welfare Department for Denied Benefits
Roy Neff of Oak Hill sues Department of Welfare Commissioner Dr Leon Ginsberg state hearings officer Jim Bragg and case worker Lucille Lechalk in Fayette County Circuit Court claiming his rights were violated by denial of benefits. The suit was filed Wednesday.
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Department of Welfare
Leon Ginsberg
Department
Oak Hill
Roy Neff
Jim Bragg
Lucille Lechalk
Fayette County
Public Meeting Set At FMRS For Mental Health Forum
A 7 p.m. public forum at FMRS Mental Health Center on Eisenhower Drive invites residents to share ideas for improving local mental health services. The session is part of a statewide series held in community mental health centers.
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FMRS
Eisenhower Drive
Cold spell to grip wide swath of nation this Thursday
Forecasters warn of a broad cold front from the Dakotas to the mid Atlantic and Northeast with snow from the Midwest to the Northeast and Great Lakes. Rain will soak the southern Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf as the East sees warmer conditions. Wirephoto map.
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Dakotas
Mid- Atlantic
Atlantic Coast
Eastern
Gulf
mid-Atlantic
Great Lakes
Airport Weather and River Conditions Report
Local conditions show a 24 hour period ending 10 am with high 35 and low 25 degrees. Record highs and lows noted for 1974 and 1985. Extended outlook promises snow flurries Saturday and Sunday, fair Monday with highs near 30 and overnight lows in the low teens. River gauges at Greenbrier and Bluestone are normal and frozen, Bluestone with 3.0 gates open. a new gauge at Hinton reads 22 feet.
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Greenbrier
Bluestone
Hinton
Rebate proposal debated for business tax relief
Lawmakers debated options to aid business with tax credits. A plan favored by Ways and Means Chairman Al Aliman offered a 25 percent credit on the first wages of newly hired workers. Critics argued such credits won t boost employment and may not raise sales, leaving unemployment unchanged.
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House Ways and Means
al Aliman
Schultze
Lawmakers Debate Energy Price Controls and Emergency Sales
The bill would let interstate pipelines buy under price ceilings with authority to cut emergency prices if needed, expiring in August. It blocks reopening existing contracts to renegotiate higher prices during emergency sales. Rep. John Young criticizes it as unfulfilling while Carter pledges a long term energy plan in April amid calls for lifting federal gas price controls to boost production.
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Carter
John Young
D - Tex
Congress
Jonben Home Destroyed By Fire
A mobile home owned by John Woody of Jonben burned at 2 40 a m. The structure valued about 20000 with contents around 38000. Firefighters found the home virtually destroyed on arrival and officials blamed a faulty electric heater. Woody can be reached at 643 5047 for clothing or furnishings donations.
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John Woody
Jonben
Coal City
Carter outlines plan to cut federal staff and committees
President Carter proposes trimming 1,250 advisory panels and top staff by a third, enforcing agency ceilings, and removing limousine services to foster a lean government. He stresses human rights, unity despite differences, and voluntary conservation as key to energy and economic policy.
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