Gasoline rationing considered with standby plan
The Nixon administration weighs a standby gasoline rationing system with printed coupons and local boards while delaying a final decision on whether to implement rationing. Energy officials cite three to four scenarios and urge action by spring, with a voluntary 10 gallon per week limit proposed to avert rationing.
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Washington
William E. Simon
Congress
Simon
John Sawhill
Federal Energy Office
Gasless Sundays and Christmas see mixed station openings
A survey by the American Automobile Association found 8 percent of stations open on December 24 and 12 percent on Christmas Day, with most stations cutting hours or closing for Christmas. An Associated Press check reported similar plans, as about 90 percent were set to close on Christmas. some stations limited purchases to 10 gallons. The report notes many outlets were near exhausted December gas allocations.
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American Automobile Association
District of Columbia
Associated Press
Nixon
Gasoline Giveaway At Mount Shasta Station
Russell Brownell, a service station operator in Mount Shasta California, gave away 3600 gallons of gasoline to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service after overcharging a penny per gallon. Motoring crowds lined up in freezing 5 a.m. cold for miles as the station opened.
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Mount Shasta. Calif
UPL
Russell Brownell
Brownell
Internal Revenue Service
Air travel chaos as storms flood East Coast and Midwest
Weather grounded planes and heavy snow caused widespread delays. Greyhound in Chicago reported record bus crowds while Amtrak trains sold out from Chicago Union Station. Flights out of Milwaukee were stalled into the early morning.
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East Coast
Midwest
Greyhound Buses
Chicago
City Loop
Frank Peppin
Man Airlines
New York City
Logan International
Boston
O Hare
Appalachians
General Mitchell Field
Milwaukee
Amtrak
Passenger Railroad Corporation
Union Station
Washington, DC
Bitter divided Congress adjourns without energy bill
Congress adjourned for the winter after failing to pass emergency energy legislation. President Nixon regretted the failure and urged voluntary conservation while White House aides doubted a call back before January 21. The dispute centered on windfall profits and a proposed 10 gallon per sale gasoline limit.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
White House
Henry M. Jackson
Wash
Jackson
Senate Interior Committee
Capitol Hill
House
Thomas P. O'Neill
Senate House
Senate
al Uilman
D-Ore
Ways and Means
Ullman
Carl Albert
Hugh Scott
D-Wash
Federal Energy
William E. Simon
Simon
Secretaries Name Courtesy at Mather AFB
A Sacramento secretary named Merry Christmas stands five feet seven inches with green eyes and brown hair. She has endured 24 years of teasing about her name while working at Mather Air Force Base in California.
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Merry Christmas
Mather Air Force Base
Sacramento
Calif
Weather outlook with warmer temps and a mix of precip
The forecast shows warmer air and mostly cloudy skies with tonight’s low in the upper 20s to low 30s. Tomorrow brings a chance of rain and highs in the upper 30s, with snow likely Tuesday and clearing, cooler by Wednesday and Thursday with lows in the teens to 20s.
Stolen Rembrandt to be ransomed in Cincinnati case
Thieves who stole two Rembrandt paintings from a Cincinnati museum agreed to a $100,000 ransom for one work. The other, Portrait of an Elderly Woman, was recovered Thursday by intermediary James Hough who also learned the ransom money was dropped off at an undisclosed site. The paintings were taken Tuesday and Thursday from the Taft Museum area near Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
John Warrington
Taft Museum
James Hough
Cincinnat
Hough
Cinemnay
Springdale
Belfast moderates to carol in effort to scrap barriers
In Belfast Northern Ireland Catholics and Protestants plan a joint Christmas carol gathering to urge the British army to remove road barriers that separate communities. The event signals easing tensions as power sharing discussions continue. Intermittent violence since 1969 has claimed many lives and left barriers of barbed wire in place.
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Belfast
Carol
Northern Ireland
Ireland
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