Killian Seeks Gasoline Rationing Explanation HARTFORD (AP) - Thirty- Panics and Dealers from Jan

<■ X The Weather* •s , Increasing cloudiness to n i^ t with lows in the 30s. Rain likely Tuesday with highs in upper 40s. Precipitation chance 70 per cent Tuesday. MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1973 - VOL. XCU, No. 160 Manchester—A City of yUlage Charm .TWENTY PAGES PRICE: nPTEEN CENTS . ‘I?' Killian Seeks Gasoline Rationing Explanation HARTFORD (AP) - Thirty- panics and dealers from Jan. 1, Ruwet-Sibley, Inc.; United Oil ty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst to retail price of gasoline in one gasoline distributors have 1971 to the present. Co., Inc. impanel a federal grand jury to creased between seven and been subpoenaed by Connec The following distributors Mobil Oil Corp.Atlas Oil Co.; see if there is a national con lOcents. This means that infla ticut Atty. Gen. Robert K. were subpoenaed; Callahan Oil Co.; Bernard J. spiracy to limit gasoline sales. tion in the price'of gasoline cost Killian to explain their involve Atlantic Richfield Co. (Arco)- Dolan Co.; Ed’s Garage, Inc.; The request was made in a our consumers...about $100 ment in a reported effort by Canaan Oil Co.; Danielson Oil Ellsworth & Lassow, Inc.; Fitz telegram March 30. To date, million in the past year alone Bolton Murder Scene five major oil companies to ra Co., Inc.; Keller Oil Co., Inc.; simmons Sales Corp.; Flem Killian said, he has had no rep and the end is nowhere in tion gasoline supplies in the Pearl Oil Co. ming Rutledge Oil Corp.; Maus sight,” he said. ly- “Obviously effective action Officials confer late Saturday at the scene of a shooting in Bolton in which Harry T. state. BP Oil Corp.Mercer and Son, Inc.; Mystic Oil Co., In the telegram, Killian said Inc; Petroleum Marketers, Inc. at the federal level is the only Miner was fatally wounded. Miner, operator of a package liquor store, was shot as he Killian said the subpoenas Distributors, Inc.; Mercury the rationing system was based were issued last Friday and Fuel Service, Inc.; RPC Corp.; Texaco Inc.Consumers way thf! monopolistic pricing arrived home with Saturday’s receipts. (Herald photo by Pinto) “on a purported national gas Saturday under Connectiut’s Joseph A. Russo Oil Co.; Spicer Petroleum of Connecticut, Inc.; oline shortage which may well practices of the oil industry can antitrust act. Fuel Co., Inc.; Wallack Bros. Krall Coal and Oil Co., Inc.; have been deliberately created be brought under control. And The distributors have until Cities Service Oil Co. (Citgo)- Republic Oil Co., Inc.; Stan to drive independent (dealers) we have no indication that the April 19 to supply information Automatic Comfort Corp.; dard Cycle and Auto Supply out of business and drastically federal government is con concerning gas supplies and Benedict & Co.; Kenyon Oil Co.; and Wesson, Inc. increase the wholesale and cerned about uncontrolled infla Police Seek Slayer correspondence with com- Co.,Inc.; Rex Oil Co., Inc.; Killian also called on U.S. At- retail price of gasoline.” tion in gasoline prices,” Killian Killian said he also was added. awaiting a reply from John T. “As I indicated to Atty. Gen. Dunlop, director of the federal Kleindienst, we will proceed Cost of Living Council, who was under our own Connecticut an Clf Bolton Man titrust law to seek injunctive asked on March 16 to supply in Town Given Quarterly relief against this new quota formation on what impact gas Harry (Pete) T. Miner, 47, of immediately called the am Manchester High School in 1945. system which, by limiting the Bolton Center Rd., was bulance. The ambulance ser While at the high school he oline and petroleum price ceilings would have on Connec supply of gasoline and pronounced dead-on-arrival at vice notified the police. played varsity football. He eliminating all remaining com Manchester Memorial Hospital Police said the receipts of the graduated from Munson Rev-Share Allocation ticut. “It looks as though the petition, will put our consumers Saturday night of gunshot day were not found on Miner's Academy in 1947. He attended totally at the mercy of the wounds in f lic t as he was get body leading them to speculate the University of Maryland. northeastern part of the coun SOL R. COHEN sharing funds for fiscal year the current payments hold con try, and Connecticut in par ,major oil companies,” he said. ting out of his car in his own that robbery was the motive for He was a World War II Army 1973-74. stant, Manchester can expect a “The subpoenas We served driveway, according to State the shooting. Police said, veteran, serving in the Military (Herald Reporter) ticular, is being singled out to The $228,278 received today, grand total of at least $4,252,500 bear the brunt of this claimed Friday and Saturday are the es Police. however, they have not ruled Police Division. Manchester today received a added to $467,775 received by June 30,1977. Adjustments in sential first step in attacking Miner, owner and operator of out other possibilities. He owned and operated the $222,278 federal revenue shortage,” Killian said Mon previously, brings to $696,053 the federal formula used for day. the most recent twist in oil the Rt. 6 and 44 Package Store, The package stores close at 8 Rt. 6 and 44 Package Store in sharing payment for the first Manchester’s revenue-sharing payments already received “Every time the price of gas company policy-the arbitrary Bolfon, was returning home p.m. and the shooting occured Bolton for 19 years. quarter of calendar year 1973. grant for the current fiscal year may increase the grand total. establishment of a quota with the day’s receipts and, ac about 8:15 p.m. After receiving oline goes up one penny, it costs Besides his mother, he is sur The sum is a substantial in (ending June 30). Of the $467,775 received prior the consumers of Connecticut rationing system which may cording to police, had apparent the call. State Police from vived by a sister, Mrs. Robert crease over the $116,000 to The five-year federal to today, all but $16,775 already drive independent dealers out ly just stepped out of his car Troop K, Colchester and FBI $13 million,” he said. D. Murdock of Bolton. $118,000 anticipated. program is set up to run is allocated — $250,000 for “Last year, approximately of business and totally destroy when he was shot. Police have agents, using police dogs, com Another $228,278 is expected through fiscal year 1976-77. If sidewalks and $201,000 for what little remains of free com- not determined whether there bed the wooded area to the rear Funeral services will be 1.3 billion gallons of gasoline in July, and an equal amount roads. were purchased by Connecticut petition in gasoline was more than one person in of the Miner home. Police also Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the each quarter thereafter, in In general, funds received by citizens. Over that period, the marketing,” Killian said. volved in the shooting. searched cars in the parking lot Holmes Funeral Home, 400 dicating Manchester can an municipalities under Public Elliot M. Gross, state of Fiano’s Restaurant which is Main St., with the Rev. David ticipate $889,113 in revenue- Law 92-512, “Fiscal Assistance medical examiner, said Miner nearby. M. Campbell of the United Cambodian to State and Local died from internal bleeding The investigation is con Methodist Church of Bolton of r Governments,” may not be caused when the bullet passed tinuing under the direction of ficiating. Burial will be in Wap- used for ordinary operating Ceiling Prices Capt. Walter Stecko of State ping Cemetery, South Windsor. Highway 4 through his left hand, his chest ^ISews expen$08 „for an educational auDd right lung.^ ‘ Police Headquarters. Friends may call at the system and may not be used for ■SPdllcb s iid the'* vlfetim’s Mr. Miner was born March 7, funeral home tonight from 7 to Capsules i Reopehed projects alrrady being funded mother, Mrs.. Margaret Miner, I Posted Today 1926, in St. Petersburg, Fla. He 9. The Manchester Ixidge of by federal or state grants. with wtom he nfiade his home, lived many years in Elks, of which he was a PHNOM PENH, Cambodia The act provides they “may said she heard a shot and went (AP) — This capital’s fuel shor “ By DUDLEY LEHEW Manchester, moving to Bolton member, will have a memorial Shoot At Choppers be used only for priority expen Associated Press Writer out: to Investigate. She found 16 years ago. service tonight at 7 at the tage appeared to be nearing an ditures.” SAIGON (AP)—Two more her! son in a pool of blood and He graduated from funeral home. end today. A second river con “Priority expenditures” are The new signs listing meat price ceilings appeared peacekeeping helicopters in the voy was steaming toward defined as ordinary and beside roasts, chops and drumsticks today, but the Mekong Delta were targets of Phnom Penh and the govern necessary capital expenditures Communist Forces today, ac butcher’s cleaver may continue to spend more tinte than ment announced that its troops (including new school construc cording to the Saigon govern usual stuck in his chopping block. had reopened Highway 4, the tion), and ordinary and ment. city’s only land link with the Spot checks with leaders of A shopper who thinks the Consumers Continue Nine persons were killed necessary maintenance and im seaport of Kompong Som. operating expenses for; last week’s meat boycott in posted price is illegal should Saturday when an Air America Two fuel tankers and a dicate shoppers leaning over check with the store’s per helicopter flying for the inter ..

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