THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1979
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e nation
dd-even fever sweeping nation;
ationing in East — Texas to follow
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■your car’s license plate ends in
™6, 8 or 0, you got a spot in the
nes Wednesday in parts of New
y, the New York City area and
mnecticut.
If your license plate ends in 1, 3,
or 9, you will have to wait until
/ when you will be joined by
jest of the drivers in New Jersey
motorists in the Washington,
, area who go on the odd-even
m of rationing then,
irting Monday, Texas drivers
will line up by the numbers and
imposing a minimum purchase plan
to keep drivers from topping off
their tanks. Energy Office Director
Joseph S. Fitzpatrick said Tuesday
the plan probably will be im
plemented before the weekend.
The odd-even system, which
showed some success in California
where the gas shortage first ap
peared, is gaining converts around
Rhode Island motorists may soon
find themselves under the same sys
tem. Massachusetts was considering
the country as a way of reducing
pump lines and spreading dwindling
supplies.
New York Gov. Hugh Carey,
Gov. Ella Grasso of Connecticut and
Texas Gov. Bill Cl ements an
nounced their odd-even systems
Tuesday.
And in both Connecticut and
New York, the rationing plan is de
signed to discourage cheating: the
states could fine violators —- both
the motorist and the dealer — with
ruckers strike; protest
el prices, weight system
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truck driver was found shot to
:h Wednesday morning where
iis Muck had jackknifed off the road
I Hr Tuscumbia, Ala., in a mount-
I ■ tide of violence affecting the
I Hay strike of independent truck
1’ers.
le strikers threatened a na-
|wide shutdown at midnight, a
pkers spokesman said.
William Hill, chairman of the In-
bendent Truckers Group, said on
| NBC “Today television show in
shington it was too late to call off
the shutdown set for 11:59 p.m.,
local time Wednesday because
there were too many truckers
groups involved.
The walkout was expected to halt
the movement of large quantities of
produce where the harvest is in full
swing and of gasoline supplies.
Forty-three persons were ar
rested in Alabama at a trucker pro
test in Winston County.
State troopers said the dead man
was found shortly after 4 a.m. near
the intersection of U.S. 72 and U.S.
43 in Colbert County where the
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kylab balancing
aneuver sucessful
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WASHINGTON — The Skylab space station turned around in
[orbit Wednesday in a key maneuver aimed at opening the way for an
unprecedented attempt if necessary to keep it from falling over
populous Europe and Asia next month.
Acting on instructions radioed up from Earth during the night, the
I 78.5-ton orbiting laboratory changed into a position intended to bal
ance the increasing forces of gravity and atmospheric drag and keep it
from tumbling out of control.
j The maneuver started at 8:50 a.m. EDT while the abandoned
[ spacecraft was about 165 miles over the South Pacific Ocean. Thirty
minutes later, as Skylab passed over the Ascension Island tracking
station in the South Atlantic, engineers confirmed that Skylab ma
neuvered as planned.
The station ended up in a sideways position as it circled the globe.
“Everything looks pretty good,” reported control center spokes
man Robert Gordon in Houston. “All systems aboard Skylab look
good.”
He said it would take several hours of tracking to confirm that the
118-foot assembly remained in its new orbital orientation.
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truck was parked. His name was not
immediately released nor were de
tails on the shooting. The indepen
dent drivers are striking and pro
testing the high cost of diesel fuel
and the 55 mph speed limit.
Hill said of the planned shut
down, “We re not trying to hurt
anybody. But we re being hurt by
the oil industry (which) is holding
back supply in order to raise
prices.”
The shutdown. Hill said, is a
“protest against the oil industry.
And it’s high time the government
do something about the oil industry
that is really causing a tremendous
amount of inflation in this nation.”
He predicted an overwhelming
majority of independent truckers
would join the shutdown by the end
of the week.
Hill said the top priorities of truc
kers include:
—One hundred percent alloca
tions of diesel fuel.
—A reasonable surcharge to
cover the increased cost of fuel.
—A uniform weight system.
—Opposition to the adminis
tration’s call for deregulation of the
trucking industry.
“I was involved in 1973-74 when
they said they had a shortage of
fuel,’ Hill said. “After we went on a
shutdown, all of a sudden we got all
the fuel we wanted — and the prices
stopped rising.”
Truckers, meanwhile, escalated
their two-week protest by blockad
ing gasoline distribution centers in
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi
gan.
Hill, however, disapproved of the
blockades.
fines of up to $1,000. Additionally,
cheaters in Connecticut could get
up to a year in jail.
Although most of New Jersey
won’t come under the plan until to
day, the system was in effect Tues
day on the Garden State Parkway
and officials found the initial results
encouraging.
“We are very pleased,’’ said
Parkway operations manager John
Simons. “The lines were substan
tially reduced, and I think the pub
lic understands, although it is some
times hard to convince them.”
The odd-even plans were coupled
with some sort of antitank-topping
measure — either a minimum pur
chase limt or a requirement the tank
be at least half empty to purchase
fuel.
That was encouraging for gas
dealers like Don Turner at the Mus
tang Service Center in Dallas, who
said Clement’s decision to order an
odd-even system for Dallas, Fort
Worth and Houston wouldn’t solve
the problem.
“They’ll just buy every other day
whether they need it or not, said
Turner, who added, about half his
customers have been buying only a
few gallons of gasoline to top off
their tanks.
There was one encouraging note
Tuesday for desperate drivers.
In London, Saudi Arabian Oil
Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki
Yamani said Tuesday Saudi Arabia is
considering a million barrel a day
increase in oil production to stop
world panic, but only if indus
trialized nations drastically cut con
sumption. The current world short
age of crude is estimated at 2 million
barrels a day.
And there was a discouraging
note, too. Connecticut state Rep.
John Groppo had planned to be on
hand when Grasso declared the
mandatory gas rationing. But he
couldn’t make it. He couldn’t find
any gas.
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