Gasoline price protests spread across Nation
United Press International reports a growing protest against gasoline price limits. Houston stations close while New York Long Island dealers plan action. Nationwide talk of rationing home heating oil and propane follows. A Wichita man, Earl Shaw, dies in a backyard gasoline still explosion.
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United Press International
Houston
Tex
New York
Long Island
Washington
White House
Nixon
Reagan Couch
Cost of Living Council
Valley dealers to go fishing protest hits Arizona stations
In Phoenix area a wave of potential closures may hit up to 300 Southern Arizona gas stations this weekend as dealers protest Phase IV price controls. Cecil Thompson urged his Mesa shop to shut Friday and disappear until controls end, while the association claimed no official action was taken. Dealers say two oil firms raised wholesale prices this week and that they must absorb the increases.
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Service Station Dealers Association
Michigan
Treasury
Washington
New England
Long Island Gasoline Retailers Association
Phoenix
UPI
Arizona
Central Arizona Service Station Operators Association
Cecil Thompson
Mesa
Opan Britton
United States Service Station
Klahr to Return to Court Over Ballot Wording
Phoenix city hall candidate Gary Peter Klahr resumes court action seeking to challenge the ballot legend vote for six. He argues the wording misleads voters into selecting six candidates, despite a 1971 charter repeal and current state law interpretations.
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Phoenix
UPI
Gary Peter Klahr
Klahr
Desert Shadows New Bluebirds Plan Activities
Betty McDonald's Bluebird group met last week to choose a name and lay out plans for an all-day picnic hike to Squaw Peak desert horseback ride and a zoo picnic. Paradise Valley School Board meets Thursday at 8 p.m open to the public.
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Betty McDonald
Bluebird Group
Squaw Peak
Paradise Valley School Board
Bud Brown seeks court order for Alaska pipeline rights of way
Scottsdale businessman Byron T. Bud Brown requests a default judgment and rights of way and permits to build the Alaska North Slope pipeline. He proposes an 800 mile aerial tramway with automatic leak valves, oil retardants storage and emergency facilities to Valdez, avoiding tundra damage. Brown Enterprises is based at Thunderbird Industrial Air Park.
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Scottsdale
Byron T
Bud” Brown
Bud Brown Enterprises, Inc
Rogers C.B. Morton
Alaska Pipeline Service Co
Brown
Alaska North Slope
Valdez
Thunderbird Industrial Air Park
Arco Expects Alaska Pipeline Cost To Hit 4.5 Billion
Atlantic Richfield says the Alaska oil line may cost nearly 4.5 billion, about 1 billion more than earlier estimates. The project would move up to 2 million barrels daily from Prudhoe Bay to Alaska ports and refineries with Arco covering about 28 percent of costs amid delays and tougher environmental rules.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Atlantic Richfield Oil Co
Prudoe Bay
Alaska
Arco
Phoenix Bicentennial Committee Names General Chairman
William R. Shover, public relations and personnel director at Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., is named general chairman of the Phoenix Bicentennial Committee. Mayor John D. Driggs says three subcommittee chairs will be named soon to plan themes Heritage 76 Festival USA and Horizons 76.
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William R. Shover
Phoenix Newspapers, Inc
Phoenix
Pointment
John D. Driggs
Franco Receives Compliments at Madrid Ceremony
Generalissimo Francisco Franco in a captain-general uniform receives homage from government church and diplomatic officials in Madrid during a formal ceremony. Cavendish dignitaries and military leaders attend as Franco presides over the event in the capital.
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Madrid
UPI
Francisco Franco
Franco ceremony marks 37th anniversary as chief of state
A victory date ceremony marked Franco’s 37th anniversary as chief of state following a thanksgiving mass. Franco was named chief of state on October 1, 1936 in Burgos, then capital of nationalist-held territory.
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Franco
Burgos
You Cant Build An Ark In Mendocino County
Willits high school hopes to probe bureaucratic red tape by staging a mock ark project. Students sign as Noah Lamechson and seek permits and financing while contacting banks coast guard and zoos. The spoof reveals officials concerns and responses with playful twists.
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Jack V. Fox
Willits
Calif
UPI
Noah
Willits High School
Coast Guard
Noah Lamechson
Lamech
Old City
Rich Wilkinson
Rich
Lamechson
Planning Commission
Bank of America
Ark
Lameschon
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Herbert Nye
Nevada
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Kane
Earl Shaw
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Desert Shadows
Judy Ogorek
Media Center
Anthony
Aline) Pellegrino
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Bud’ Brown
Morton
Eugene D. Tyc
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