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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1973
Page
1
Americans faced a third Sunday without gasoline sales as the market slumped and dealers sought ways to make low mileage cars more appealing. A spokesman for Vic Koenig noted the cooling demand and ongoing adjustments in pricing and incentives.
Maj. Richard Laritz said an unarmed American officer was murdered in cold blood after raising his hands to surrender during an ambush on a Special Forces team near Saigon. Four Americans and three Vietnamese were wounded. one Vietnamese was killed while the team searched for a helicopter crewman believed dead in 1966.
An accident by 16 year old Bryan Collins on icy streets caused a transformer to fail, leaving residents in the northeast section of West Frankfort without power from 6:20 p.m. to 10:40 p.m. Police cited loss of control on slippery roads and a subsequent tree impact as the cause.
Kissinger travels through the Middle East as the Geneva peace conference is postponed until Friday due to procedural disagreements. Assad and Kissinger held frank talks in Damascus after which Syria agreed to exchange ambassadors, while Waldheim and UN roles remain disputed.
Three Skylab astronauts report five gypsy moth eggs hatched aboard the space station, the first of 1 000 eggs in a study to see if weightless conditions speed hatching. The team notes the hatchlings are alive and moving as they consider feeding and future mass rearing for pest control strategies.
The item notes Herrin mayor John McOvey described as a hard knocks college graduate. The piece appears in today’s paper with the mayor highlighted in a feature by John Trimble on page 24.
The report notes mostly cloudy skies with a chance of light snow flurries and highs in the low 30s. Tonight remains partly cloudy and colder with lows in the upper 20s. Monday brings partly sunny skies with a high near 35 and a 40 percent chance of rain today.
A winter storm swept the Midwest and midsection of the Appalachians with heavy snow expected in West Virginia Maryland and Virginia and Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Light snow fell from the Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley. Travel advisories were issued for several states while Duluth and surrounding areas reported heavy accumulations and highway closures. Temperatures ranged from 11 below zero in Minot North Dakota to 81 in West Palm Beach Florida.
Governor George C. Wallace’s daughter Peggy Sue, 23, married Mark Kennedy, 21, of Greenville, on Saturday in Montgomery. Wallace, wheelchair bound, gave her away at the ceremony following a blind date meeting a year earlier.
President Nixon signed a bill placing the nation on year around daylight saving time starting January 6, with clocks moving ahead at 2 am. He urged Congress to act before the Christmas recess on a broader energy conservation bill. The measure could save up to 150,000 barrels of oil a day and may reduce electricity and heating demand. An executive order sets up appeals for time-zone exceptions while House and Senate work toward final energy legislation with broad presidential powers and various restrictions.
Drivers across the United States debated extending a fuel price protest and low speed limit stoppage. Some expected to hold the shutdown through the weekend, while others reconsidered after reports of reduced turnout and talks of government action.
As fuel shortages press, Northeast colleges already close longer than usual for Christmas while many campuses keep calendars soft until January. Some states waive 180 day requirements, with Maine Maryland New Jersey and Delaware extending vacations. The National Education Association backs prioritizing schools in energy emergency plans.
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