Mayor Alexander Under Fire Over Travel Vouchers
City Auditor criticizes Mayor Lee Alexander for travel vouchers lacking required details. Audits show multiple trips to New York City and Washington with no stated purpose or outcomes. Officials note 23 trips to NYC in 1978 totaling 47 days and $3,600 in taxpayer costs, excluding city car use. Rumors claim frequent Thursday departures for weekends in NYC. Alexander unavailable for comment. (Concluded on Page Four)
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Heat Wave Looms Over City With Scattered Showers
National Weather Service forecasts hot humid conditions at Hancock Airport. Sunny periods will mix with scattered showers or thunderstorms through tonight, with a high near 80 to 85. Tonight and tomorrow face variable clouds and a 30 percent rain chance. tonight's low near 60 and tomorrow's high in the mid 70s. Weather map on Page Four.
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Abrams urges high level talks to avert heating oil crisis
New York Attorney General Robert Abrams called for a summit with federal energy officials and Northeastern state leaders to craft a program preventing a disastrous home heating oil shortage next winter. He urged price controls, better allocation rules, and regulations banning discriminatory credit terms, warning that without action middle class and elderly families could freeze or go without essentials. Stanley Fink proposed a governor coalition to freeze prices and help consumers with credit policies, while Abrams noted summer price spikes and declined existing deferral programs. He pressed the Energy Department to curb onerous credit terms and said Bardin supported a regional meeting plan.
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Heating oil shortages worry Northeast homeowners
The Carter administration grows optimistic about overall heating oil availability but retailers and homeowners in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut report shortages this summer. Dealers warn of higher prices as prices approach 80 cents a gallon versus 48.5 cents last year, prompting talk of an economic assistance program for hardest hit families.
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Recess delays Carter energy package face uncertain fate
Washington notes say a 30 day congressional recess dampens progress on President Carter's energy package though aides expect public pressure to revive support. White House officials cite last spring windfall profits tax as a model, while lawmakers worry momentum from gasoline lines and oil price hikes may fade by December. In New York Lotto drew six numbers 7 23 7 35 22 32 17 with supplementary 2.
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Carter energy plan analyzed as disaster analysis
Evidence mounts that President Carter's third energy plan is a disaster due to high costs and misdirected subsidies. Michael McManus analyzes the plan in today's Opinion section.
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