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Show 5V ,r r, ! 4 A Jhe Salt Lake,Tribune, Wednesday, CarrriicTiaeT June 13 1973 1 i a.v week to More Gas Stations Cut Hours, Study Says By Brian B. King travel routes in 48 states reported normal operations with adequate supplies for the com- Associated Press Writer - More and WASHINGTON more gasoline service stations are cutting back on their hours of operations as summer travel begins, a national spot survey showed Tuesday. The American AutomoDile Assn, reported that its second weekly spot check of gasoline supplies shows a sharp drop in the percentage of service stanormal" operations with tions and a corresponding increase in the number cutting back weekday and weekend operating hours. Sixty-fou- 1,689 ing weekend, an AAA spokesman said. Last week, the organization reported that 75 percent of 1,439 stations in 46 states were operating normally- Personnel Problems The number of stations closing earlier than normal during the week rose from 24 percent to 32 percent, the AAA said, but some of that was due to rather personnel problems than gasoline shortages. The AAA undertook the weekly surveys. It said, to try to better gauge the amount of percent of the stations along major r gasoline available to the motorist in the wake of what it scare termed conflicting slories related to a reported energy crisis. This week it found about the 7 percent same percentage of stations limiting motorists at the puml to 10 or 15 gallons a stop. Some dealers along virtually every major turnpike in the nation and especially in Florida are allocating gasoline, the AAA said. A lone exception among tlw turnpikes, the AAA said, was the Ohio Turnpike, which has gone to court against Texaco, Inc., one of its suppliers, in an effort to avoid allocations. The survey showed distinct improvements in the South-- ' east gasoline situation over the week before, spotted New York, New Jersey and the western mountain states as the most favorable for the motorists and pinpointed California and Nevada as trouble areas. The surveys cover both major oil companies stations and independents. The AAA said it found less than half of one percent of the stations checked were closed for lack of gasoline. But a spokesman said it does not yet trust the reliability of that figure because of sene prob lems in the surveying. The problems in California and Nevada are occurring outside metropolitan areas, the survey report said. Overall there, 55 percent of the stations checked reported normal operations, 42 percent were closing early and 10 percent were allocating. Motorists were advised to keep tanks above the half-fumark and not go into the desert without a full tank. ll Ts Reveal Actioa In Washington Tuesday, the White House announced that steps the federal government will take to conserve energy will be made known within a 16 days. And during the second day of administration hearings into oil shortage problems. Sen. Robert Dole, urged a mandatory allocation program because, he said, the governments voluntary program has not shown that farmers will be adequately supplied. In the AAA survey, Southeast stations that the week were anticipating even tighter supply situations reported better conditions this week. The number allocating has dropped slightly from 8 percent to 7, the number anticutbacks dropped cipating from 24 percent to 10 and the number closing earlier increased from 33 percent to 36 be-Jo- ; We cam literature) and Chiropractor. SPEARS fail Classifieds Sett 4 CHIFimtCTlC k Jeriey Ste. 10th ? o tre -- ?jOW We knjoW tp ;jU S) Moss Jabs Nixon On Prices Bureau made O Tribune Washington WASHINGTON If President Nixon it a point to go shopping at least once a r a !-- , '1 mont'i the na itions econom- ic problems might receive more satisfactory attention,-Sen- . Frank E. Moss, tcld the Senate Tuesday. The Utahn did so while supporting an amendment proposing a wage and price freeze. i ' Sr J Cl - v & 90-d- && The effect of these presidential expeditions to the marketplace would surely be salubrious, for anyone who has been to the supermarket, the hardware store or the service station in the past five months is acutely aware of how prices have been going up, said Sen. Mqjs., , ts ' - o I? o Birth Curb Called Safe (UPI) - Dr. WASHINGTON Ralph B. Woolf, medical director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said Tuesday that testimony about the dangers of using Intrauterine devices (IUDS) had caused needless concern on the part of millions of American women. Woolf v testified before tha House intergovernmental relations subcommittee which on May 30 heard Maj. Russel J. Thomsen, an obstetrician and gynecologist with the Army Medical Corps, warn that IUDS had caused fatal internal injuries in some users of the contraceptive devices. Woolf K said the hearings had caused a great deal of confusion and anxiety on the part of many millions of women who wish to continue to use birth control but who have been made fearful of it. 'I,-- " I'yA U-- v'"' V: - Blast, Fire Hurt 38 K 1 ,1 'I. L ' .w . J v PHILADELPHIA (AP) -least 38 persons were injured Tuesday night when an and fire raged; explosion through a South Philadelphia! ink plant. Public Properties Commissioner William Costello saidl two of the injured were in; critical condition. He said 37 of the injured were firemen and one was a policeman. At My father watted until he retired to buy the car he'd always wanted . That was too long for me? Many of the injured were1 taken to Pennsylvania Hospital where a spokesman said! several would be admitted.! The spokesman said that all; suffered from smoke inhalation and injuries caused by falling debris. The fire, of undetermined origin, sent billowing flames and thick black smoke morej than 200 feet into the air. Thej flames could be seen several miles away. fire officials said the blaze broke out around 9 p.m. at the; Frederick Levey Co., a manu-- J facturer of printers ink, and a; subsidiary of Cities Service Oil1 fD i JimiDOin: 525 South State, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 Phone: v 801-521-66- 04 . releaied pain and our free local HOSPITAL 333-I- mn. Cola. 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