Truckers Expect Problems Amid Sunday Gasoline Curtailment Debate
Local truck stop owners and service station operators weighed Nixon’s plan to halt Sunday gasoline sales from 9 p.m. Saturday to midnight Sunday. They warned trucks could slow supply chains for Christmas, while some stations already cut Sunday hours. Executives noted many will stockpile or fuel up earlier, and some question the effectiveness of a Sunday ban.
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Marilyn Holmes
Nixon
Gene Price
Price
Roswell
Roswell Area
National Truck Stop Association
Woody
Second St
W. E. Wood
Bob Heffner
ICX Trucking
Heffner
North Main Shell
N. Main St
Larry Payne
Payne
Staton
Ed Lynch
Plains Park
Conoco Station
California
Wool Bowl finances look fine despite early uncertainty
Wool Bowl president Jerry Smith said no detailed proceeds figure available yet as sales and bills are tallied. He estimated 3,500 fans at $3 could yield about $10,500, above a $6,000 ticket budget. Navarro Junior College Bulldogs beat Fort Scott Greyhounds in the classic with cooperating weather.
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Jerry Smith
Wool Bowl
Smith
Navarro Junior College Bulldogs
Corsicana
Tex
Fort Scott
Kan
Defense bill trims back on missiles and force program
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a 74.5 billion defense bill cutting 8 to 10 billion from Minuteman missile defense and 240 million from the Trident submarine program. It also proposes volunteer force education quotas and to weed out underperformers, while scrapping Project Sanguine underground submarine communications antenna. Weather outlook: variable clouds, mild winds, slight shower chance tonight. cooler Tuesday.
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Jim Adams
Associated Press
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
America
U.S
Wisconsin
Pentagon
Congress Reopens With Ford Nomination and Energy Bills
Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess to debate Gerald Ford’s vice presidency nomination in the Senate and to act on energy and daylight saving measures. The House plans a year round daylight saving bill and a Senate vote to roll back Saxbe’s salary to aid cabinet eligibility. A debt limit increase to 475.7 billion is slated with possible public campaign financing attached.
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Washington
Gerald R. Ford
Congress
Senate
Ford
Senate Rules Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
House
William B. Saxbe
Ohio
Senate Judiciary Committee
Saxbe
Treasury
Secretary says she heard missing tape
Rose Mary Woods testified she listened last week to a White House tape later described as having a missing 18 minute segment. She said the portion labeled as a mistake was heard, but questions did not probe the June 20 1972 conversation at issue.
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Washington
Nixon
Rose Mary Woods
White House
Miss Woods
Washington Federal Court
Steve Bull
Witness Woods Warned On Silence In Watergate Tapes Hearing
Miss Woods, Nixon secretary for 23 years, was warned of her right to silence as hearings with Judge Sirica focused on the Watergate tapes. The judge ordered the White House to explain the blotted-out June 20 segment and to produce the recordings for judicial safekeeping.
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Miss Woods
White House
Watergate
U.S
John J. Sirica
Nixon
H. R. Haldeman
Sirica
Haldeman
Los Angeles Times
High Administration
Rose Mary Woods
the Times
Washington
Charles S. Rhyne
Rhyne
Times
Camp David
Federal loan aids Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative
Sen. Joseph Montoya says the federal government will loan 491000 dollars to the Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative to expand service across 10 New Mexico counties. The White House submits a 22 page Watergate filing to Judge Sirica claiming two tapes should be fully withheld from the grand jury.
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Washington
Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative, Inc
New Mexico
Joseph Montoya
D-N.m
White House
U.S
John J. Sirica
Watergate
Watergate Grand Jury
Israeli Egyptian cease-fire talks resume near Cairo
Israeli and Egyptian generals met at Kilometer 101 east of Cairo to seek a breakthrough on troop withdrawals along the Suez Canal. Talks were to continue Wednesday with no details released, as Arab leaders gathered in Algiers for a unified approach to Geneva peace efforts.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Suez Canal
U.N
Kilometer 101
Cairo
Israel
Geneva
Canal
Algiers
Nixon sets fuel cut plans amid looming shortages
President Nixon announced a 15 percent cut in gasoline and home heating oil deliveries to curb a severe shortage expected to harm the economy. Measures include Sunday sales bans, 15 percent jet fuel cuts, 10 percent industrial oil reductions, and 25 percent heating oil cuts, with further actions pending emergency legislation.
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Stan Benjamin
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Congress
White House
King Opposes 50 MPH Speed Limit As Unrealistic
Gov Bruce King endorsed Nixon energy conservation but called the proposed 50 mph limit for passenger cars unrealistic. He noted state action already caps state vehicles at 60 mph and urged voluntary observance, warning enforcement would be heavy in the West.
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Santa FE
N.M
Bruce King
Nixon
King
New Mexico
Seaboard
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