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Show Friday January i1_ 1980 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 5 4 Oil Firms Hike Gas Prices by 3 Cents a Gallon By ROZ LISTON United Press Internationa! The latest round of gasoline and home-heating oil prices — the second in less than a month — will be felt very soon by American con sumers. Exxon USA, Chevron USA, Tex aco Inc., and Phillips Petroleum Co raised their wholesale gasoline prices by3 cents a gallon Thursday Exxon and Phillips also boosted home-heatingoil prices by 3 cents a gallon. Shell Oil Co. Wednesday lifted its wholesale gasoline pr es by 5 cents a gallon nationwide and increased home-heating oil prices by between 5 and 6 cents a gallon, depending on the region. Shell also raised its aviation turbine fuel by 5 centsa gallon The latest gasoline price in. creases could appear at the pump almost immediately because the Energy Department permits dealers to pass their wholesale buying costs directly along to the motorist. Consumers’ heating oi! bills also will reflect the newest hikes 30 on because home-heating oi! no longer falls under government price con trols OPEC failed to agree on a uniform stocks rose last week during the oil price at its Dec 18-21 meeting in “sracas and most other cartel membersraised their oi! prices someretroactively to Nov or Dec four-day New Year's holiday and 1 The U.S. oil industry last raised gasoline prices by between 3 at 3 cents a gallon and increased home- Supplies of distillate used primarily for home-heating oil declined last week to 225.9 million barre!s from 229.1 million barrels remained above the minimumac ceptable level for the second week in a row the previous week but still were above year-ago stock levels of 219.1 million barrels the API said However, in suburban Philadelphia. Sun Oil Co. officials said Thursdaythatif a war broke outin Motorists practiced conser Exxon, Chevron, Texaco. Phillips vation over the New Year's heating oil prices by an average 3 and Shell blamed the latest in creases on foreign crude-oil price in cents a gallon in mid-December as a result of crude-oil price boosts by Saudi Arabia and three other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. weekend when driving weather was relatively good in most parts of the Stitute had at least some good news The API reported Thursday in New York the nation’s gasoline creases The American Petroleum In an oil analyst said nation “This the Middle East and oil shipments from that region were blocked. oil pattern reflects a continuation of the sharp decline in demand that was apparent in November and December stockpiles in the United States would last only 10 days. For Price Gouging Gas Station Owner Could Draw Jail Term of 27 Years BOSTON (UPI) — A gasstation owner who charged the highestpricesin the United States during last summer's gasoline crisis — un to $156 a gallon — faces up to 27 years in jail for price gouging. ‘A seven-man, five-woman federal jury Thursday night found Beacon Hill Gulf station owner Glenn M. Heller guilty of all 27 counts of criminalprice gouging. In a 2% year period. the government charged, Heller charged up to 70 cents per gallon above the maximum price allowed by law. Helleris believed to be the first gasoline dealer convicted of price gouging in federal court since gasoline prices began their steady rise several years ago. U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel set Feb.4 for sentencing. Heller could receive a maximum 27yearprison sentence and be required to payfines of up to $270,000. U.S. Energy Departmentofficials who iestified at the trial estimated that Heller illegally made about $108,000. muchofit during last summer's gasoline shortage. Heller, 30, of Boston, made no comment to reporters as he left the courtroom. It was not knownwhetherhe would appealthe conviction. The jury reached its verdict after just one day of deliberations. The trial lasted a week. Heller’s service station, which charges customers 50 cents for air and $1.50 for a road map, gained nationwidepublicity last summer when Heller kept jacking prices almost daily, while appealing Energy Departmentorders to cuthis prices ‘An Energy Departmentaudit showed that Heller sold unleaded gas for $1.56 a gallon, 70 cents over the maximumallowed by law. and $1.52 a gallon for rae gas when the maximum ceiling was 83.1 County Sheriff’s Dept., following 9 cents. fruitless search that was cut short by darkness. A sheriff's spokesman said the motorist’s station wagon was pulled from the creek along with a second vehicle, occupied by Ernie Higginbotham, 38, of Langun Niguel and Patti Leonard,33, whose address wasnot released. Neither Higginbotham nor Ms. Leonard wasinjured in the mishap, but a ground and air searchof the creek to the ocean failed to locate the driver of the other vehicle. Bundy Attorneys UsePoll Results Crises Roundup Brown Arrives in Shanghai SHANGHAI, China (UPI) — Defense Secretary Harold Brown arrived in China’s largest city today and said his visit to China is not aimed against the Soviet Union. Brown,thefirst U.S. defense secretaryto visit Chinasince the communist takeoverin 1949, ar- Search for Accident Victim Fruitless The driver of one of two cars washed off Camino Capistrano into Trabuno Creek near San Juan Capistrano, Calif., by torrential rains has tentatively been listed as a drowning victim by Orange rived in Shanghai from Wuhan. 300 miles up the Yangtze River. Brown will tour a base of China’s East Sea Fleet and a machine tool factory Saturday and ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI) — Few Orlando voters are familiar with circumstances surrounding Kimberly Leach's kidnapkilling but almost all of those polled last month recognize the name of Theodore Bundy. That wasthe conclusion of a telephone survey of over 300 people. Defense attorneys present the results today in supportof their request that Bundy's second agreed to hear arguments on the request this morning. Elevenjurors remaintentatively seated after four full daysof intensive interroga- murdertrial be moved again Residents of Live Oak, where Kim's decomposed body was found abandoned two years agoin a rusted pig sty, were so inflamed that Circuit Judge Wallace M. Jopling called off jury selection there. He decided Bundy should be tried in Orlando. Defense attorneys claim tion. Fivejury prospects already empaneled were dismissed late Thursday because of peremptory challenges, bringing to 35 the numberof people who have been excused. Nine challenges have been used. Bundy’s notoriety has preceded him. They have asked for a change of venue. Jopling January leave for Washington on Sunday. Exile to Shah Seen Humanitarian ABC said it had learned Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi will send his spokesman Robert Armao to Washington to speak to President Carter's chief of staff Hamilton Jordan about other placesof exile besides Panama. Thursday night the deposed monarch wants to leave Panama,his sixth homein exile since he Senator Favors learance was forced to leave Iran last Janauary. PANAMACITY, Panama (UPI) — Secretary of Transportation Neil Goldschmidt defended Panama’sdecision to grantexile to the shah as “a humanitarian and statesmanlike action.” But ABC News reported from Washington Olympic Boycott WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., said today he favors a boycott of the summer Olympic games in Moscow becauseof the ‘outrageousviolation” of the U.N charter by the Soviets in invading Afghanistan. Moynihan said the Soviets saw the holding of the Olympics in their country “as a great legitimizing eventin their history.”’ “For many, many years they've tried to get he the Olympics to Moscow and have failed,” said.“Nowthey've doneit ... and now they have created this outrageous violation of the United Nations charter of everyprinciple of peaceful internationalrelations. Therefore, we sayif that’s whoyouare ... we don’t go to your festival.” Moynihan made the commentsin an interview on the NBC-TV “Today” program. Sale Starts January 5th Carter Says Detente Notis nowDead dead in view of the WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Carter says America’s detente with the Soviet Union is not dead, but the United States must strengthen its alliances and military power to dealeffectively with the Russians. House Carter, in an interview at the Whitedetente Thursday with NBC News, was asked if with theSoviet Union Russian invasion of Afghanistan. “No, I don’t believe so,” Carter said. “Wewill still continue to work toward peace, which we are presently preserving. Westill believe that we can in the future preserve our communicato tion with the Soviet Union,that we both want avoid war. Out Blockade Vance Doesn't Rule Vancesaid the United States wimounta full WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance today declined to rule out out the possibility of a U.S. naval blockade of Iran to back economicsanctions against that country. ic sanctions He also said the U.S. economRussian invaagainst the Soviet Union for the ue for a long sion of Afghanistan may contin time. ° Shipp ing economic embargo of Iran because of the Tehran hostage situation even if Russia vetoes a pending U.N. Security Council resolution for a world-wide embargo againstIran. ‘Asked if he would rule out a possible U.S. navalblockadeto back suchunilateral sanctions by the United States, Vancesaid: “T do notrule it out.” ning IssuedIran, Bloc xekade Warcalling for sanctions against official TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) — top Iranian to warned today that any American attempts an interblock Iranian shipping routes as partof to war. national economic blockade would lead In aninterview released shortly before thea on U.N. Security council began its meeting resolution Commerce Minister Reza Sadr told the official Pars news agency: “Tf the American fleet blocks the mouthof the Persian Gulf (Strait of Hormoz), thatwill result in war.” Islamic Leaders Plan Meetingthe today BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — Kuwait to atjoined 11 other Moslem nations in agreeing s to tend a proposed meeting of Islamic countrie Moslem discuss the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on the Pakistan and Bangladeshearlier called Islamic 42-member Organization of Nations Conference,described as a mini-United foreign the for Islamic countries, to hold minister level meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan Jan. 26. 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