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Show wiwjg" The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, January 5, 1 1974 Power, Gas Consumption Down Survey Finds Conservation Aid r.cr, that there By Louise Cook Pres;, Wnter Energy conservation efforts hy Americans during De"em-he- r resulted in uleetncuy and natural gas savings of more lhan II) percent in some areas, an Associated Press survey showed Fnday The exact savings were to measure because of variables like the weather, population growth and the Christmas and New Years holidays. Itihty spokesmen said, 3 W ps--t how- - States e definite signs of cutbacks m consumption as a result of things like fewer Christmas lights and lower home temperatures A spokesman for the Philadelphia Electric Co said December usage was down 1 percent over the same period in 1972 although the company had forecast a 4 percent growth "Its the conservation said a spokesman, who explained that weather factors had been taken into effort, Dennis the Menaee account m the projected fig- ures Nearly 37 Billion KW The Edison Electric Instiof an association tute, investor-owneutilities which surveys nationwide used tion, said Americans 26 879 billion kilowatt hours during the week ended d Dt 22, 197.1 That was an increase of 2 7 per cent over the same week in 1972 when Americans used 3) 914 billion kilowatt hours and contrasted with the four By Hank Keteham Time Law Exempt In Areas WASHINGTON I (UPI) -- Claude S Bnnegar Friday granted a temporary exemption from the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Act to several counties in Oregon and Idaho, and redrew the time one boundary in Kentucky Not HERE The act gi.es into effect Sunday at 2 a m. as part of the national effort to conserve energy. Bv Drew Von Bergen Imted Press International - State legislatures may also exempt one of the states tune ones in 12 states that have more than one zone at anytime before the current law expires, April 2771975 WASHINGTON Sen M Howard Metcnbaum, who has called for President to Nixon , sign sworn , re- was m to of- fice Friday, Rereplacing W llpublican ham B Saxbe, who accepted the nomination -, as attorney! geneial Sen Installation Metenbaum ot Metenbaum boosted the Democrats majority in the IRS Says 'No to Benny In Donation Deduction - A 155,000 tax deduction claimed WASHINGTON (UPI) by comedian Jack Benny for donation of his radio scripts and to a California university has been other memorabilia disallowed by the Internal Revenue Service, gov ernment records show. a result, the tax agency says Benny and his wife, Mary, owe back taxes As $109,000. The , have Bennys contested the finding m U.S. Tax Court The case goes back to 1967 when Benny donated the Jack Benny Archive to the University of California at I os Senate to lb The assistant secretary of the Senate. Darrell St Claire, administered the oath to the Cleveland tall, industrialist in a bncf ceremony at the Capitol white-haire- MetenbaunTs wib Shirley, and four daughters weie at his side, along with Saxbe Vote in November Gov John C.illigan, a Demo- crat. named Metenbaum, 5b. to fill Saxbe s seat In November Ohio voters will pick a senator to fill that seat between Dec 15 and Jan 3, 1974 as well as a senator to r term beserve a full next January ginning Fm mor astronaut John Glenn, who lost a 1970 primary race to Metenbaum, h is announced his candidacy to oppose the new senator for c'ection to the full M e t z e n b a u m e r m subsequently lost the dose 1970 general election to Sen Robert Taft Jr , 18 but the IRS told Benny it would not approve the deduction because it has not been established that you owned the mate . . Even if the comedian can show for tax purposes, that the items belonged to him rather than networks and others, the would limit deductions to fair market value IRS said which it placed at $21,000 for archive and $713 for the photos and awards In determining the value of noncash gifts, the IRS usually makes its own appraisal as a check against any ap praisal obtained by the donor. it Immediately after the while Saxbe and the other dignitaries were still mended by the crowd, Metenbaum was barraged by icpotters with questions about 4 The weather turned m The teen-agunemployment rate, as a remained high last month, 14 7 whole, percent. s While young women and of wave unemployed in lead the first what some economists are predicting v, ill be a recession sparked by the of energy crisis, married meri and heads households are so far holding their own e teen-ager- According to government statistics, unemployment for heads of households was unchanged in December, holding steady at 2 9 percent. 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You can sear, fry, brown, grill and saute' in one skillet and all your dishes will be predictions some when the weather colder, power goes up Noimally, is Weather also made it diffi-(ul- to measure the exact amount of the conservation-relate- t d savings Finns Ponder Extent of Power Saved oath-takin- ol President Reserves Opinion Metenbaum leserved an Nixon opinion on whether should be impeached saying he pieferred to wail until the matter reaches the Senate and formal testimony on dial ges is heard He said he w mild not judge the matter on the basis oi newspaper reports or polls " He acknowledged, howevei that he had in the past cal'ed tor Nixon to resign in the in terest of national unitv He is President, adding. right to about facts not my favorite the senator said People have the know everything of Watergate " Fnergy conservation piacti-ce- s may have resulted in and natural gas decreases m consumption elec-tucit- y Utah m December, but there no definite proof, Utah Power & Light Co. and Mountain Fuel Supply Co officials said Fnday. is Janies L Shoemaker, public aftairs manager for UP&L, said moderate temperatutes are behev ed to be the biggest tactor in the lower percentage increased kilowatt hour sales from 64 percent m September to .3 percent m October and 3 7 percent in No- of vember When the figures tor Dehe are available, added, "we suspect there will be some savings due to conservation of energy Harold Simpson, public relations director for Mountain Fuel Supply, said deliveries of natural gas for December were the same as a xear ago. cember back in stock and ready for delivery! 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Percent Unemployment in December Continued From Page One percent in November to 14 December. discover quick and easy cooking with the Amana Radarange Under normal conditions, the company said, it would have expected a December growth rate of 4 percent m electricity usage, 8 percent m natural gas consumption and 3 percent in steam usage The figures for the week ended Dec 30. when the Christmas holiday cut unto the work week, showed a drop of 7 8 percent in electricity, 4 8 percent m natural gas and 8 5 percent m steam six-ye- impeachment Nixon The fotowing year. Benny gave UCLA a collection of photo graphs, plaques and awards with an appraised value ot $14,000 return and claimed this as a deduction on his . Normal Gain Watergate and possible Angeles (UCLA). The collection, with an appraised value of about $141,000. contained radio Mr. Benny and television scripts, television files and tapes, and miscellaneous souvenirs of the entertainers career The Bennys claimed thg full amount as an income tax deduction according to tax court records. rial fa,it: Saxbes Position by the changeov er. totaling a Ohio Demo Takes Puerto Arizona, Rico, the Virgin Islands and parts of Indiana voted earlier to exempt themselves from DST. and will not be affected Hawaii, Grossman said the temporary exemptions for Oregon and Idaho alfected one county in Oregon, and the southern half of Idaho included in the Mountain Time Zone The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said this week that city resi-- " dents had cut their use ol 14 by nearly electricity a took law since percent etfect Dec. 21 requiring conservation by both residential and commercial consumers "Cooperation by the public has been tiemendous," said William Sells, a department engineer. In the New York City area. Consolidated Edison said that during die week ended Dec 23 its customers used 2 7 percent less electricity, 3 5 percent less natural gas and 4 2 per centless steam than in the comparable week i.i 1972. The company said the figures were adjusted to take weather into account $ DST " y de-p- Bnnegar's action will permit legislatures m those slates to consider action exempt the coupties m the ones from Mountai.i Time They are Alaska, Florida, Kansas. Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas During the week ended Dec was 1973, consumption 31 952 billion kilow alt hours, dow n 1 5 percent from the 32.440 billion kilowatt hours in the same wets in 1972. This year, however, Christmas fell on a Tuesday and many businesses closed Monday, making a three-dawork week, one less day than m 1972 Los Angeles Down 29, The average high tempera-tui- e for the first 26 days of December in the Lus Angeles aiea was 70 7 degrees and the average low was 50 2 degrees In he same period a year earlier, the average high was 68 8 degrees and the average low was 47 8 degrees, but Intent spokesmen said the weatner alone could not have caused the decrease ransportation Secretary year-roun- d preceding weeks when 1973 consumption was lower than 1972 usage A spokesman that the noted, however, normal growth rate would have been 7 or 8 percent of people out oi work rose by 170 (100 in December to a total oi 4 4 million out of a civilian labor toice ol 90 million Those numbers were adjusted tn Probe Begins - BALTIMORE (UPI) Maryland and Service have Revenue the Internal launched the nations first federal-statinvestigation of possible overcharging, hoarding and blackmarketing of ful supplies, it was announced Friday The action will include fuel inventories of all service stations and pc oleum companies in Maryland and a fuel price watch and a full investigation of all unthe IRS and the state usual activities. said m a joint office comptrollers e odd-shap- take into account seasonal variations in emplov ment Ol the 4 4 million total unemployed, the government said, or 1 8 mnlion, had lost the.r last jobs and are not merely looking for work for the first the job market after time cr raising a family. This proportion of people laid off was higher than at any time since last June, the Labor Department reported two-fifth- Another indication of a slowing economy was the sharp increase in Lecember m the number f underemployed those foiced to work Miort hours because of 'lack orders, ns tends shortages or similar problems That number rose month to J 6 million bv lbO 000 c. last ed Fast-free- ze wide-rang- ZCMI JANUARY 5T |