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The G wrews Bowling 'Green Slat* University Vo*, 60, No. 58 Tuesday, Feb. 1.1977 Gas shortageputs millions out of work, school By The Associated Press used for homes in the Northeast the cold snap, warned that the THE NATURAL GAS shortage unemployment compensation from the freze, could get federal and Midwest. bill must move quickly through has so impacted industry-there funds that are already $3.6 help. The severe cold blitz that has At least 11 states ordered Congress. "I hope senators will have been one million layoffs in billion in debt, the government left at least 76 Americans dead emergency measures to deal restrain their zest for offering Ohio alone-that state unem- said. JANUARY WAS the coldest and sliced deeply into natural with the weather and energy what they consider to be long- ployment offices stayed open Among the states hardest hit month in Philadelphia in 187 gas supplies has forced millions crisis. range solutions. The result can over the weekend to process by the chill were New York and years--as far back as the of Americans off the job or out be no bill at all." applications. of school. Pennsylvania, both of which National Weather Service was MORE THAN 75 deaths were The House Commerce Com- The heavy demand for were declared eligible for federal able to research average mon- Thousands of schools, par- attributed to the weather during mittee also was preparing the unemployment compensation due disaster relief. Carter also said thly temperatures. It was the ticularly in the Northeast, were the brutal storms and frigid bill for possible floor action to weather-related layoffs will Florida, where the winter citrus coldest January since 1918 in closed yesterday as state of- temperatures. today. put new pressure on state crop suffered extensive damage New York City. ficials fought to preserve In Washington, meanwhile, diminishing gas supplies. Congress worked on emergency The gas shortage forced the legislation proposed by President layoff of more than 1.5 million Carter to redistribute natural gas workei-s in areas where plants to those areas that need it most. and businesses were ordered to Sen. Majority Leader Robert C. close or reduce operations so Byrd of West Virginia, whose available heating fuel could be state is one of those strained by Hundreds stranded by weekend blizzard By Cindy Leise Staff Reporter Everyone had a story. Truckers spun tales of 13-foot drifts. Volkswagen owners described how they crammed eight frostbitten travelers into their tiny cars. Even the old-timers reluctantly agreed-"this is the worst," "ain't been nothing like this," and "I've seen 'em all, but..." < And what they saw, of course, was the weekend's blizzard that Trucks and cars from all over the country temperatures forced travelers to spend some blinded drivers, froze engines and forced more than 300 travelers Snowed in parked in the Stadium View Plaza over the time in the city. into University and city shelters. weekend. Closed roads and below zero ABOUT 1Z0 truckers, family members and employes of the University and other Bowling Green businesses camped on the floor of McDonald cafeteria. The National Guard Armory, 212 E. Wooster Teaching plans may change if schools close St. housed and fed about 110 people and more than 60 stranded travelers stayed with residents. By Kevin McCray situation that may affect student combination of these and or If schools were to hold classes Some were not so fortunate. Five Springfield men were found dead Managing Editor teachers. several other plans, according to on Saturdays to make up for lost in a car northeast of Fostoria in Seneca County. Numerous cases of If a student teacher's school Harris. time, student teachers also would frostbite and wind exposure were treated at area hospitals. Many Contingency plans are being would close, attempts will be Harris emphasized that report. cars were abandoned on major highways, as if news of a sudden developed by the University made to place the person into although these alternate Harris said University student invasion had been announced. But the only invaders were the winds, Student Teaching Office and schools remaining open. programs may lack the value of teaching officials are working the temperature and the snow drifts. the College of Education in the HOWEVER, HARRIS said his contact with children and youth daily with the state department Several Wood County residents were stranded in homes without event area schools are forced to office is waiting until the state in the classroom, they will not of education to deal with the food or fuel, according to county officials. One woman and her two close, leaving approximately 600 decides if all schools in the adversely affect the student student teaching situation. children burned clothes, furniture and boards in a vain attempt to University student teachers out region or state will be closed teaching requirement for cer- Students planning on teaching keep warm. The temperature in the house was below freezing. in the cold. before it begins transfering tification. during spring quarter should not When rescuers arrived, the woman was chopping down her front With school closings likely in student teachers. be affected by this quarter's door for fuel. She was frostbitten. Her children were unharmed. many instances because of If alternate schools are IF SCHOOLS were to reopen decisions, according to Harris. dwindling energy supplies, Dean unavailable, on-campus programs after an undetermined period, Officials will meet at 3 p.m. A PREGNANT Wood County woman was stranded in her rural David. G. Elsass and Dr. will be instituted to complete student teachers would be Thursday in the Educational home when she started having labor pains, according to a William Harris, director of certification requirements. "expected to be on the job each Memorabilia Center to rule on spokesman for the Wood County Disaster Service. He said the student teaching said in a joint The on-campus programs could day that school is open during the present student teaching woman and her husband started for the hospital in a Volkswagen, statement yesterday that efforts include classroom simulations, the University term" according situation and will announce their which broke down soon after leaving the house. A Pearl Oil Co. are being made to handle any seminars and academic work, a to the statement. action then, Harris said. truck picked the couple up, and after a short ride, transferred the woman to an all-terrain vehicle. After another short ride an am- Economic plan includes $50 tax rebate bulance arrived and whisked her to Wood County Hospital, where she gave birth to a healthy boy. to page 5 Carter program faces Congress WASHINGTON (AP)-President in December was 7.8 per cent. their rebate for extra fuel. public service employment jobs Carter sent Congress yesterday over the next two years. his $31.2-billion economic BUT THE PRESIDENT THE CHIEF components of the -an additional $1.9 billion for program that includes a $50 tax warned Congress against trying program had been outlined by 346,000 new job training and rebate for nearly every to move faster to create jobs, as administration officials recently. employment positions under the American. He said the program some lawmakers have said they They include $50 tax rebates for Comprehensive Training and "only promises what can will try to do. "To force more nearly every American this year, Employment Act, with special realistically be done" to speed money, faster, into the system with the total rebate cost programs for youths, Vietnam- economic growth. would risk poor administration,'' estimated at $11.4 billion. era veterans, Indians and "The economic program I have Carter said. Other features are: migrant workers. proposed will set the stage for However, he said the program -Permanent tax reductions -another $1.1 billion for an substantial growth in the years is flexible enough to be adjusted totaling $4 billion each year for anti-recession revenue-sharing ahead," Carter said in a upward or downward to meet taxpayers in low and middle- fund to support local and state statement He also promised his specifi needs of the economy in income brackets, up to an in- government jobs in high administration will "never let its the future. come level of about $17,500 an- unemployment areas. guard down" against inflation. Chairman Charles L. Schultze nually for a married couple. -reductions in business taxes Carter said the two-year of the President's Council of -an additional $4 billion for totaling $2.5 billion through program would help create one Economic Advisers held open the emergency public works projects, either an increase in the in- million new jobs by the end of possibility that tax rebates for on top of $2 billion already vestment tax credit or a tax this year, which would leave the Americans could be increased, authorized. credit equal to 4 per cent of a nation's jobless rate at about 6.8 especially if the severe winter -new spending totaling $4.1 firm's Social Security tax per cent.