Gas cuts close Syracuse area schools and industry
Central New York faces gas curtailments as Niagara Mohawk waits on suppliers. About 14,000 workers statewide idled and 200,000 statewide workers affected. Gov Carey orders 1,319 public schools heated by gas to close for the week, with Onondaga County districts listed among closures.
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New York
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
Syracuse-area
Niagara Mohawk
Public Service Commission
Syracuse
Hugh Carey
Eifect
Carey
Onondaga County
Ween
Baldwinsville
Liverpool
Lyncourt
Marcellus
Skaneateles
Solvay
West Genesee
Westhill
BOCES
DeVille Sloan
Manlius-Pebble Hill
Syracuse Hebrew Day School
Jordan-Elbridge
Walsh Busy Florida Amid Blizzard and Fuel Crisis
Rep. Walsh, recovering from shingles, flew to Florida after the November election and returned briefly to Washington for four hours on Jan. 4 to take the oath. He then left to Florida again as Syracuse faced a severe energy crunch during Carter's gas plan debate. Meanwhile Rep. Hanley remained in Syracuse offices, holding private meetings on the energy situation.
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William Walsh
Florida
Walsh
Washington
Carter
Rep
James Hanley
Syracuse
North Country storm blamed in 5 deaths
A blizzard in Jefferson and Lewis counties has caused five deaths and stranded nearly 1,000 in Watertown area. National Guard, Fort Drum vehicles, and Marines aided rescue as 60 inches of snow piled drifts, with 50 mph winds. Temperatures expected to dip to 0, with near-blizzard conditions and flurries in Syracuse.
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Jefferson
Lewis
Watertown
National Guard
Vito Castellano
Carey
Super
OSS
Fort Drum
Donald Newberry
Jefferson County
Syracuse
Sears, Roebuck
State Office
Chesebrough-Ponds
Sears
Winds, blizzard toll rise in western New York
Severe winds and heavy snow paralyzed western New York as the blizzard killed 12 people including a Castile couple and a Parma pair. State of emergency persisted in Niagara Falls and surrounding counties with looting and price gouging reported and mass closures.
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Buffalo
New York
Niagara Falls
Donald J. O'Hara
Niagara County
Oneeighborhood
Grover
Wyoming County
Wyburn Scharet
Josephine
Castile
Sheriiffs
Leroy
Strict fuel orders keep millions home during brutal winter
Severe cold sparked a national natural gas shortage with millions staying home in the East and Midwest. At least 54 weather related deaths were reported as states cut nonessential activity to conserve gas. More than 1.5 million layoffs followed and schools closed in several states while pipelines reported rising supplies. Detroit saw temperatures never above freezing since Christmas Day as deaths clustered around stranded autos.
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Midwest
Federal Power Commission
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Detroit
Women's role changes ignored in SS law
Sylvia Porter argues Social Security reforms over 40 years ignore shifts in women's roles and family life. She notes rising female employment since World War II, with 60 percent of working women married, and cites factors driving change such as higher education, later marriages, lower birthrates, and dual-income needs, while many women still work in low paying jobs.
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Sylvia Porter
U.S
Porter
Berg
Arctic Air Chills the Nation
A weather diagram shows shifting wind patterns bringing the East and Midwest their coldest winter in five years. The present air currents split from the usual upper atmosphere flow, triggering unseasonably cold conditions across the region.
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East
Midwest
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Marianne Roche
Onondaga Lake
North Country
Q Lifestyl
Sylvia Port
Eee
Earl Wilson
Naborland
Jim Harrington
Erié County
Kenneth Braun
Wyoming
Genesee Counties
Columbia University
Eli Gins
Naska
Greenland
Mexico
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