Government adjusts heating oil and gasoline prices during energy crisis
The Cost of Living Council authorized a two cent per gallon increase for home heating oil and ordered a one cent drop for refinery price gasoline. Saudi Arabia signaled possible embargo relaxation with Israel withdrawal, while watchdogs probe diesel overcharges and energy-related crime risks rise amid fuel shortages.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
Sheik Ahmen Zaki Yamani
Yamani
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel
White House
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Senate House
Arthur M. Okun
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
Teamsters
James E. Fitzsimmons
Nixon
American Petroleum Institute
Council
James W. McLane
Denver school to use sun for heat
Westminster Colorado AP Gov Vanderhoof notes Denver Community College north campus will be heated entirely by solar energy. Architect John Anderson says hot water heated by sun will circulate through standard equipment with storage to cover cloudy periods. The $7.9 million building expects a $1 million solar premium but lower operating costs.
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Westminster
Colo
Denver Community College
John Anderson
Anderson
ABA Partnership Architects of
Denver
Colorado
Westminster City
John Vanderhoof
Truckers Lift Blockades After Officials Threaten Action
Ohio riot police and National Guard crews moved to clear two road blockades on high fuel price protests. About 50 drivers abandoned a site at the intersection of Ohio routes 16 and 161 near Columbus after a 9 p.m. deadline.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Pennsylvania
National Guard
Columbus
Butte Weather And Interstate Protests Roil Roads
Partly cloudy in Butte with scattered snow Friday. The piece notes a 10‑highway clearance order over 15 miles along I 70 through Ohio and reports about 300 truckers stalled on auxiliary roads while I 70 and the Ohio Turnpike faced heavy congestion. Governors threatened National Guard action and numerous arrests occurred amid protests linked to road blockades.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
Ohio Turnpike
John J. Gilligan
Walter Barclay
Omaha
Neb
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
National Guard
New Jersey
William Cahill
Delaware Memorial Bridge
Little Rock
Ark
Memphis
Tax relief proposals proposed by Republicans in Helena
The Department of Revenue estimates income tax relief bills would cut the general fund by 41.4 million through June 1977. Three Haines measures would reduce the cash on hand by 16.2 million in 1973-75 and 24.2 million in 1975-77, leaving more money in taxpayers pockets to spur growth. Projections assume bills take effect January 1, 1974. one bill would remove a 10 percent surcharge, another would raise personal exemptions from 600 to 750, with annual losses rising through 1977.
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Helena
Republican
Department of Revenue
Tom Haines
Missoula
Haines
Montana trims meat bill consolidates butcher shops
The Montana State Department of Institutions moves to centralize its butcher shops at the State Prison Ranch near Deer Lodge to cut more than 100000 dollars a year from meat costs. The plan shifts processing from Warm Springs Galen Boulder and Fort Harrison to the prison operation, with six butchers and a meat inspector, and may take effect by next month after a fall start.
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Helena
State Department of Institutions
Betty Waugh
Deer Lodge
Warm Springs
Galen
Boulder
Veterans’ Home
Fort Harrison
State Prison
City builds single complex for police fire and admin
City Council approved a single building to house police fire and city administration at an estimated 1,211,560 dollars with no site chosen. A consolidated complex would cost about 670,000 dollars less according to committee chair Phil Paull.
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Phil Paull
Charles Kestle
Ways and Means Committee
Claude Pettibone
Gas coupon plan eyed to curb unlicensed drivers
Montana officials including Atty. Gen. Woodahl and MPH leaders endorse issuing gas coupons to licensed drivers as a way to deter drunks and others driving after license revocation. The proposal aims to target about 50,000 unlicensed motorists, roughly 10 percent of drivers, and would tie fuel access to license status.
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Helena
Atty
Robert L. Woodahl
Montana Highway Patrol
MPH
Woodahl
State Department of Justice
Robert McKay
Tooley
Judge awards damages for trumpet injury in Potomac collision
U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt ordered Head Construction Co. to pay Edward S. Petersen $77,640 after a small speedboat hit a barge anchored on the Potomac River. The court found the barge improperly anchored and unlit as required by law, injuring Petersen’s lips as a Navy Band trumpeter.
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Washington
U.S
John H. Pratt
Head Construction Co
Edward S. Petersen
Navy
Petersen
Potomac River
Butte Irish leader Joseph E. Sullivan dies at 1409 Warren
Joseph E. Sullivan longtime Montana Power Co chief accountant and Friendly Sons of St Patrick leader died Tuesday night at home. Mass Friday at St John Church burial Holy Cross Dolan's Mortuary in charge. Survived by wife Mabel son Joseph F daughter Mary Margaret and brother Edward P. of Butte.
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Joseph E. Sullivan
Butte
Montana Power Co
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Warren Ave
St. John Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Dolan
Sullivan
Central
the Elks Lodge
Knights of Columbus
Mabel
Joseph F
Mary Margaret
Edward P
Distillers Cut Production Amid Heating Oil Shortage
Glasgow Scotland AP reports a severe heating oil shortage forces Scottish distillers to reduce output. The Scotch Whisky Association notes oil is essential for production including steam heating of stills, affecting Britain's top dollar earner sector.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Scotch Whisky Association
Britain
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al Carr
Butte Weather
Elyria
Sandusky
Arthur Hutchinson
Standard State Bureau
Servative
Mike Billings
Billings
Montana
Ed Kellner
Paull
Pettibone
Duane Tooley
Judge
Toot
Distilleries
Scotch
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