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A national Coalition predicts heat cut-offs to rise United Press International WASHINGTON — A con sumer coalition on energy issues predicts more than 300,000 American households will have their natural gas and heat shut off this winter for non-payment of bills. The study, released by the Citizen-Labor Energy Coalition, predicts shutoffs will occur at more than twice last year’s rate. The coalition’s findings are based on a national survey of gas utility disconnections as of Sep tember 1982. “It won’t be just the poorest people who will lose their heat this winter,” said William Hut ton, secretary-treasurer of the group and executive director of the National Council of Senior Citizens. The coalition estimated more than 1 million residential gas disconnections occurred in the United States between October 1981 and September 1982. Based on those figures, it pre dicted: • At least 300,000 households will have their gas heat turned off this winter. That compares with about 150,000 households the coalition estimated were faced with disconnections last winter, the first year a survey was performed. • Many gas users, who barely made it through last winter with out being disconnected, may lose their heat this winter if they do not have the $100 to $200 needed. Natural gas prices will be up an estimated 20 percent to 25 percent this winter compared with last w inter, and some cold- weather cities could have in creases of 40 percent. • Tens of thousands of Amer icans whose gas heat was discon nected last spring in states where winter disconnections are not allowed still owe utility bills of $300 to $500, offering little chance for reconnection before ' AGGIE CINEMA CEPHEID VARIABLE Just in time for Halloween" POLTERGEIST THURSDAY-SATURDAY THEATRE Hockey without ice staff photo by Ocom Cathy Poole, a political science sophomore from Whitney, tries to score in one of the field hockey team’s practices next to Cain Dining Hall. 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