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Show 'f fr-tWi- 1 fL - Winter warmth. As gardeners look for the first crocus oil on baseball gloves, and small boys rub neats-foo- t of are the Freeze memories Big fading. But, before warm weather dims memories too much, we want to acknowledge some outstanding performances during the past winter by Mobil employees and by our contractors, distributors, and haulers who moved heating oil and gasoline. to where they were needed most. A few examples: t 1. f 1 w! ; oui i (1 Raymond Genadek drives a Mobil fuel-o- il truck in St. Paul, Minnesota. While making a delivery, with the temperature at 20 below zero, he saw an elderly woman walking down the street without a coat. She seemed bewildered, so he took her to the Mobil terminal and got the police to drive her home. Later, her daughter telephoned her thanks. contract hauler in Indianapolis. To keep his trucks going, he repaired them at night, lying on the weather. Without his dedication, ground in below-zer- o fuel-o- il not have been made some deliveries would many of them to customers. Karl Tielking is a non-Mob- I Judy fxner with her husband Dan, a golf pro. She says, "I am not a hooker. I wrote to tell the truth, not as part of a conspiracy to defame lack Kennedy." il Nowhere was the situation more desperate than in Buffalo, where 14 feet of snow fell during the winter. Vet our refinery never shut down. During the blizzard that began January 28, food and sleeping accommodations were arranged for 150 people trapped there. Workers caught a few hours' sleep on stretchers after 16 straight hours of duty. Next door, the marketing terminal lost electric power, and 20 people (some of them not Mobil employees) were stranded for three days and nights. They bundled up in sweaters and coats, catnapped on locker-roobenches, vehicles to obtain food at a and used nearby restaurant. When power returned, they dispatched trucks with fuel oil to hospitals, highway departments, schools, and other ff.ey installations. Doug Hoffman works at the Paulsboro, New Jersey, heating oil branch. He learned that a mother and three children (not Mobil customers) had no heat. The mother spoke little English He went to the home and found that one child in particular was suffering intensely from the cold. He delivered the fuel oil quickly, and started the furnace. benefited from cooperation among the Coast Guard, marketers, and marine transportation experts Mobil is the only supplier on the island. Robert Caldwell, the distributor, ran out of heating oil, and the weather prevented him from bringing m more by barge from East Providence, Rhode Island. The Mobil 20 barge was dispatched from New York City. As it approached Nantucket, two Coast Guard cutters moved in to act as escorts The trip normally takes about two days. This one took six, but the product arrived, and people kept warm. Hundred-YeWinter will long be remembered as the worst spell of weather since the U S Weather Bureau began keeping records It should also be remembered for bringing out the best in people. The CONTINUED "The truth is that when met him he was a Senator. Call me stupid or naive if you like, but I was not an angel and he was not the President of the United States. Later, when he became President and I saw him in the White House, that whole part of our relationnever called ship was cumbersome. him 'Mr. President.' He was jack, just Jack to me, and I thought I was in love with him. I had had a dreadful marriage and I was disillusioned with marriage. ... So I think that what I had with Jack was a relationship that seemed very safe to me. "I didn't have to commit myself to him. I wasn't with him all the time. I loved him when I was with him and loved talking to him. I I m Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, JUDY EXIiER ar the truth. part of a Kennedy. Books 'Dreadful things said' "I wrote the book to tell am not a hooker. I am not conspiracy to defame Jack The intelligence committee revealed our relationship and the extent of our phone calls. didn't break the story. It was they who broke it. And then dreadful things were said about me. Not only by Frank Sinatra, but others I had regarded as my friends people that I knew, like Jack's secretary Evelyn Lincoln and his assistant Dave Powers. "When Dave Powers, who used to show me around the White House must have been there 15 or 20 times told the press that the only Campbell he knew was Campbell's Soup, think that was the breaking point. That's when I decided to do the book and tell the whole truth and defend myself. I I 17, Mobil Observations, 8 Box A Mobil Corporation 150 East 42 Street. New York I N Y 10017 97 Wob Co'potlton Lawyers wary "A lot of publishing house lawyers said to me, 'We might have trouble with this one, it has so many big names.' So one publisher after another fell out. Doubleday wouldn't consider it because they had published Rose for Kennedy. Bantam wouldn't touch it Jackie the same reason. Viking because Kennedy works there. Dick Snyder at S&S Simon & Schuster had published Teddy Kennedy, so he and Pocket I I "People don't have to believe me if they don't want to. My Story, as bizarre and incredible as it seems, has been published in dozens of countries overseas, and none of the characters mentioned in it has sued anyone." Fear of libel is the basic reason Scott Meredith gives for the? difficulty the Exner book encountered in finding an American publisher: wouldn't touch it. "Even Helen Meyer at Dell, which published The Happy Hooker and Elizabeth Ray's story, wouldn't touch it. She said she would, provided the author I would indemnify her in case of libel. enough told her the author didn't have her money, but I offered to indemnify for my 10 percent commission. Anyway, more than 55 American publishers turned it down until Barney Rosset of Grove Press finally decided to take a chance on it. "I think Barney is going to have a runaway best seller, because Judy Exner told the truth. It may be unpleasant or scandalous," Meredith asserts, "but am convinced it's the truth." I |