Stand-By Gas Rationing System Being Set Up
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PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT- MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD. Mancheater, Conn., Wed;, Dec. 86.1873 t C WW ‘ V •>. \ Manchester—A City of Village Charm \. V - :fr Stand-By Gas Rationing System Being Set Up WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Simon also urged high school stations “ would not be about a third the size of a dollar government today set up a students to help ease the de ;y tolerated.” bill. on the stand-by system of gasoline mand for gasoline by “walking’ The plan would cost 91.5 Simon said that he was still rationing that would allow taking buses or riding bicycles billion dollars a year, if im convinced that the American ' drivers an average of 35 gallons to school instead of driving.” plemented, Sioon said. The cost public “ could lick the fuel / V ’ a month. The government order^ a would be offset by a charge of crisis.” If the public continues The plan, which would make three month supply of gas 91 per person for coupons. to cooperate with government use Of color coupons, would go rationing coupons to be printed The coupons would be dis conservation measures, he into effect if fuel conservation by the Bureau of Printing and 2 Last week’s devastating ice storm was the What were our priorities as we worked tributed to all Americans 18 said, the nation could avoid measures fail to ease the Engraving. years or older who hold drivers further restrictions that might to restore service? energy crisis, federal energy Simon said one key indicator licenses. The number of include longer periods of worst in recent Connecticut history. Now, with chief William E. Simon sa d at a that would activate rationing coupons each person receives closing service stations and a news conference. would be long lines of cars jam To the extent possible, we first worked to restore electricity each month would vary “accor complete ban on driving on cer electric service restored to the one-quarter of Simon ^ id the plan could be ming service stations. He said ding to the population density of tain days of the week. to hospitals, police stations and other vital public services. put into effect by March 1. ‘‘three or four hour waits” at the area where he lives” and Simon said the “shortfall in a million customers affected, we want you Then line crews began clearing broken main distribution the availability of mass transit. crude oil was not as great as the The average distribution government had expected.” He 7 lines of trees and limbs so that eiectricity would be available would amount to 32 to 35 gallons said the Federal Energy Office to know how we went about doing what Business Losses per month per person, Simon was planning for the worst con to the large blocks of customers supplied by these lines, said, but would \be flexible tingency. had to be done, and why we did it that way. p n ce the main lines were back in service, we were able to enough to allow the coupons to A full description of the Due To Storm be exchanged on the open rationing system will be \ concentrate £>n neighborhoods and individual homes still market. This would head off the published in the Federal \ black market that plagued Register in two weeks, Simon out of sOrvice. Being Compiled rationing during World War II. said. The coupons would be mul Each person will be m ail^ MONDAY, DECEMBER 17 Unofficial figures compiled ticolored, with the color \ Two Signs Of The Times estim ated 9250,000 loss in (See Page Ten) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 by the Greater Manchester -economic injury, CHark said. changing every 30 days, and By early morning, the storm which had moved in Sunday night The efforts of-repair crews were reflected In continued Chamber of Commerce show Clark defined tangible losses Fog throughout much of the state yesterday and early as it began lifting and a row of downed tree limbs from last was building a heavy layer of Ice on trees and lines. Limbs today slowed traffic down to a crawl at some^times. This that Manchester businessmen as losses in merchandise and progress. Six p.m., Wednesday, December 19 week’s ice storm which await pickup by town crews. suffered very serious losses, other property. Economic in and trees were crashing through electric lines, bringing down ' picture, taken on Princeton St. this morning, shows the fog (Herald photo by Ofiara) during last week’s ice storm jury was defined as business Youth To Assist Customers Without Eiectricity: 84,758 crisis, Richard Clark, executive lost due to the storm crisis. poles and leaving thousands of customers without power. vice president of the chamber, Lillie Coverage THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 said today. A check of several local in In Town Cleanup Efforts were made immediately to obtain ail available Gasoline Group Official i Capsules ■ Six food stores checked surance agents Wednesday By early morning, with service restored to the majority of Wednesday reported 961,000 in additional line crews and tree trimmers from other utilities showed that insurance carried tangible losses and about 9140,- by local merchants will The Manchester Youth Com route will cover several streets customers whose homes had been without eiectricity, Deplores Price Gouging 000 in economic injury. ’Those and contractors to supplement the efforts of the 995 linemen News probably only cover about five mission and local Boy Scouts in the North End. Successive clean-up efforts were set back by the arrival of still another stores represent about .35 per per cent of the tangible losses, today offered to' help elderly,, routes wind crosstown, working and 250 tree trimmers normally available to handle our daily cent of the total number of food HARTFORD (UPI) - An of sonal knowledge of any station resident, said he was in line to Clark said, and none of the handicapped, and shut-in*"^ north to south, Giles said. storm, which presented new problems in the form of heavy stores in Manchester, Clark economic injury. townspeople clear their proper The Herald will publish work load. They began arriving in Connecticut within hours. ficial of the Connecticut practicing profiteering and If he buy gasoline and was allegedly said. rain, and melting ice falling from trees. Trees which had been Gaspline Retailers Association did the association "would told the station was out of gas The figures obtained from ty of debris resulting from last pickup route schedules Milk Case A total of 38 downtown several stores Wednesday were week’s ice storm. tomorrow. In addition, CL&P, HELCO and Northeast Utilities engineers, bent under a load of ice caused new breaks in wires as they ^ said today his organization does counsel against it and I don’t oline, but a white man pulled in WASHINGT9 N (UPI) - The Manchester stores surveyed not condone reported gasoline think we'd want them as behind him and was served. a preliminary part of a .report " The volunteer cleanup effort Giles advised townspeople to Special Watergate Prosecutor’s Wednesday reported tangible being prepared by the chamber is being organized by Youth place debris on their front technicians and other support personnel backed up the snapped up, leaving additional customers "without power. profiteering and he questioned members.” “This is a clear violation of Office says White House tapes losses of about 96,000, wito an the extent of the illegal practice . He said as far as any other the state public accom (See Page Ten) Commission (3iairman Richard yards, near the sidewalks, but linemen’s efforts throughout the state, dispatching crews, Despite this, progress on Thursday was substantial. and documents do not support Gowen an^Boy Scout District not on the sidewalks or in the in the state. action taken against such gas- modations law,” said Arthur L, the charge that the Justice Charles Matties, a director of oine stations, “The IRS has the Green of Manchester, commis Commissioner Frank Ennis. It roadways, inspecting lines for service breaks, guiding crews froni Midnight, Thursday, December 20 , Department filed an antitrust will be coordinated with Town Giles asked residents to place CGRA and also vice president federal legal powers to cope sion director. suit against milk producers in “ out-of-state, delivering supplies and doing a multitude Customers Without Electricity: 25,978 of the National Association of with it.” The other incident involved a of Manchester pickup of the tree limbs on their front yards an effort to extract con Storm-Damaged debris, scheduled to star Mon with the larger end of the of other jobs. Gasoline Retailers, said he was Matties said while definitely Hartford man who said he was tributions for President Nixon’s “not going to question” figures opposed to any Illegal profit toid at a gasoline station to buy day. branch near the street, to make 1972 re-election campaign. The it easier for town employes to FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 released by the Internal making, the association “is his gasoline in his “own section Associated Milk Producers, Efforts of the youth will be E Even as they worked, damage grew increasingly worse in Revenue Service showing that trying to get a larger profit of town.” Equipment limited to cleaning fallen tree feed branches into a wood The rain continued into Friday, hampering restoration work. Inc., defendant in the 1972 an chipper. some gasoline, diesel fuel and margin for gasoline stations.” Green said it was an attempt branches and brush, Gowen most areas of Connecticut. titrust suit, has asked the Property owners who need By midnight, 13,000 mord customers had been connected and heating oil dealers in Connec Matties said gasoline station to drive the.man to North Hart courts to order the tapes and said, and the volunteers won’t ticut were profiteering from operators have been faced with ford, the bjack section of the ci be able to cut large tree limbs.