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Voluntary gas purchase limit may end up becoming mandatory WASHINGTON (AP) An official appeal to motorists to use only 10 gallons of gasoline per week could come mandatory if the emergency energy bill becomes law. The measure, threatened by a presidential veto, would give President Nixon broad powers to limit energy use, including gas rationing. However, the bill must pass three last-day congressional hurdles today before it reaches Nixon's desk. The bill first must be returned to Senate-House conferees to clear up a problem in a section restricting excess profits earned by the petroleum dustry as a result of fuel shortages. Then the measure must weather floor debates in both the Senate and House where a growing number of members are calling for its defeat.

If the bill passes and is signed by the President, voluntary energy conservation measures such as a proposal to limit gasoline sales to 10 gallons per Washington for the holidays to set an customer and gas consumption to 10 example. Photographers recording a gallons per week could be made man- Nixon-Simon meeting quoted the Presi- datory. However, the White House has indicated Nixon is prepared to veto the bill because Congress would have the power to repeal conservation measures, other than rationing, put into effect during the recess. Energy chief William E. Simon said Thursday said the administration will make the 10-gallon limit on sales mandatory once Congress provides authorization.

He also said a decision will be made by New Year's Day on whether or not to ration gasoline. If it does come, the 10-galloris-per-week guideline could prove to be an appropriate standard, Simon said. In other developments? -President Nixon indicated during a photo session that he may stay in Crisis sparks purchase of 'practical' presents By NICK TATRO Associated Press Writer Energy-minded shoppers are buying more practical gifts this Christmas even if they won't fit in a stocking or under a tree, report some of the nation's leading department stores. An Associated Press survey of department stores in nine cities showed sales were healthy. But tight fuel supplies and lower living room temperatures have spurred some changes in buying habits.

At Montgomery Ward's in Chicago, Vice President James Lutz said: "Sales of wood-burning fireplaces, portable heaters, storm windows, power saws, axes, locking gas caps, gas cans and siphons have shown a particular increase in popularity, primarily due to the energy crisis," he said. Perhaps the greatest impact has been felt in clothing departments. "There is an indication that a greater emphasis is being placed by shoppers on buying of wearing apparel, such as children's flannel pajamas and men's thermal underwear," said a Gimbels' spokesman in New York City. L.L. Bean's Inc.

in Freeport, Maine, specializes in heavy winter clothing and store officials report sales are booming. "We're having an awful time keeping flannel pajamas in stock," said night manager John Chaney. "And for some reason, goose-down jackets are doing real well." "Sales of sweaters and robes anything in that warm clothing category are far in excess of last year," said a Jordan Marsh spokesman in Boston. "Apparently of- the energy crisis, people are buying more practical gifts." "There's been a switch in emphasis toward sportswear for men and women and a little less interest in more dressier styles," said Edward Kaiser, president of Titche's in Dallas. The Los Angeles-based Broadway chain reported a sales increase in fake and fun furs which a spokesman attributed to the desire to stay warm and save energy at the same time.

Space heaters, microwave ovens and electric blankets are also cited as big money-makers this season. At the same time some stores were prospering, gasless Sundays have meant shopper-less days for others, especially those in downtown areas. In Washington, D.C., a spokesman for Woodward Lothrop said there was a marked drop in the number of shoppers on Sunday since gasoline stations began closing to conserve fuel on Dec. 2. Shoppers got off to a slow start this year but stores report spending has been picking up as Christmas draws near.

"We are experiencing no resistance to expensive items and we are doing a strong business," said Kaiser of Titche's. Edward S. Donnell, president of Ward's in Chicago, said in a recent speech that the energy crisis will "affect patterns of buying rather than levels of spending. "The gasoline shortage, in some ways, helps our business. Smaller car demands will reduce steel require- -ments in that industry and will help the appliance industry," KSU jury recesses following testimony CLEVELAND, Ohio The federal grand jury investigating the Kent State University shootings recessed for the holidays after hearing three hours of testimony from one-time FBI informant Terrance B.

Norman. The 24-year-old Norman, now a Washington, D.C., policeman, was one of six witnesses appearing before the jury Thursday. He refused to talk to newsmen after leaving the Federal Office Building. Norman had been identified previously as a paid FBI informant on the Kent State campus at the time of the May 4, 1970 incident that left four students dead and nine wounded. However, a source close to the investigation said he no longer was an informant when the fatal confrontation between Ohio National Guard soldiers Free firewood is available The U.S.

Agriculture Department will provide some free wood for your fireplace this winter but you have to cut it yourself. The wood, which is available in the national forests in 44 states, previously has been available only to miners, prospectors, lumbering companies, and the like. This area's nearest national forest is Wayne National Forest in southeastern Ohio. Consumers who want to cut their own firewood should contact a supervisor's office or a ranger's station to get a permit. They are listed in the telephone directory under the U.S.

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riar dflivtrywatkly Vwr tt'-W- and antiwar demonstrators occurred. A member of the National Guard has accused Norman of firing the first shot on that day. Norman has denied firing the gun he was carrying, and police to whom he surrendered the weapon backed up his statement. Also among those testifying Thursday was Terry Strubbe of Cuyahoga Falls, who was a student working for the university radio station at the time. Strubbe told newsmen that U.S.

Department of Justice lawyers questioned him on one of four tape recordings he made at the scene. That recording, made from his dormitory window overlooking the scene of the shooting, contained crowd sounds and the sounds of gunfire. Strubbe said the tape has the sound of a single shot followed by a pause, then two more shots, then a barrage of shots and a longer pause followed by one final shot. The whole series of shots took only 13 seconds, he said. Three campus policemen also testified but refused to discuss their testimony with newsmen.

Their attorney, Stephen T. Parisi, would say only that they "answered all questions fully and completely." The three are Detectives Thomas Kelly and Robert Winkler and Patrolman Harold Rice. J. Stanley Pottinger, chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said his staff will continue to work on the investigation while the jury is in recess. The next jury session is set for Jan, 7, dent as saying, "We're all going to stay up here and freeze.

Someone has to set an example and I guess it's got to be me." But others present quoted the President as saying, "You guys can stay here and freeze." administration and the Air Line Pilots Association disagreed sharply on whether the nation's airlines will be allotted enough fuel to avoid service cutbacks in January. A spokesman for the pilots said the ministration had agreed to avoid scheduled 10 per cent cutbacks but administration spokesman said no agreement had been reached. Rep. Harley 0. Staggers, D-W.

chairman of the House Commerce Committee, says conferees have run into a misunderstanding on excess- profits restrictions in the energy bill. "I'm sure we can settle this thing in five minutes," Staggers said. But another member of the conference, Rep. Clarence J. Brown, R-Ohio, described the bill as "teetering on the brink" of collapse.

House and Senate leaders have said the energy bill is the major obstacle to be cleared before Congress can go home for Christmas. Yule bonuses at Starlight total $3413 A total of $3413 in Christmas bonuses was presented to the 53 workers and four supervisors of Starlight Workshop at a party Thursday night. The workers are mentally retarded adults of Tuscarawas County who act as a non-profit corporation which sub-contracts work from area businesses. Workers are paid on a piece-work basis at 60 per cent and remaining funds are deposited for expenses. All funds left at the end of the year are then dispensed as Christmas bonuses.

Some 125 persons attended the party Including Chairman Don George, Treasurer John Vesco and Secretary Mrs. Shirley Galanga of the workshop board. Santa Claus gave popcorn balls and a gift to each worker and Mrs. Ruth Payne, president of the Parents Council, gave the welcome and was in charge of refreshments. Most work the adults do is assembly of basic parts and packaging.

They also enjoy arts and crafts and recreation during their five-day workweek. It is hoped that this training will tually lead to placement in outside or community positions. 1200 candles will be lit at Strasburg Residents of Valley Estates Plan, north of Strasburg, for the second year are planning a luminara Christmas Eve. The age-old custom of lighting all streets of a neighborhood with candlelight symbolizes the bonfires the' shepherds built to light the way to the manager in Bethlehem on the first Christmas Eve. About 1200 candles will be placed in paper bags and when lighted will burn for hours, spreading a soft glow over a wide area.

The display will be lighted at 6 Christmas Eve. A light snowfall will not cancel the display, but in the event of rain or strong winds, the project will be postponed until Christmas night. If weather conditions are not favorable either night, the project will be canceled until next year. For those interested in viewing the spectacle, Valley Estates is reached by taking the first road to the left after passing Cindy's Restaurant north of Strasburg. Firefighters hold party The New Philadelphia firefighters held a Christmas party, proceeded by a dinner, at the fire station Wednesday night.

The dinner was catered by the Broadway Methodist Church women. Chief Elmer Renicker, 15 firemen, and their wives attended, Icy Icicles hang from this Minneapolis, hotel after fire ripped through five of the building's six floors within 15 minutes, gutting the structure. Occupants Thursday were driven from the building into the sub-zero cold, but no serious injuries were reported. Five persons, including two firemen, were treated for smoke inhalation. Eighty-four persons had been registered in the hotel, many of them transients.

(UPITelephoto) At Mideast peace talks Kissinger plea follows stem Gromyko warnings GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) The first Arab-Israeli peace conference 1 irf the 25 year existence of the t.9tie. 1 i Henry A. Kissinger calling "on the two sides "to break the shackles of the past and to create at last a new hope for the future." Kissinger, the American secretary of state, spoke after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko accused Israel of creating an intolerable situation in the Middle East and warned that "the Arab: cause" had the full support of the Soviet Union. Kissinger and Gromyko are the conference cochairmen.

The historic conference opened 40 minutes late with the chief antagonists, Israel and Egypt, at opposite sides of a seven-table circle. A television hookup carried the opening session to all West' European countries, Israel, Romania, Algeria and Tunisia, and the highlights were taped for broadcast in Eastern Europe. "We do not embark on these talks with false expectations," said Kissinger. "In the months ahead we will know success and I dare say we will know deadlock and perhaps despair. "Lgt us all, resolve today tha'jti we will overcome hatred." Gromyko warned that "the fire of war in the Middle East may flare up at any moment." "Any delays in obtaining a settlement could be dangerous," he declared.

Egypt's foreign minister, Ismail Fahmy, indicated one of the deadlocks that Kissinger predicted: He insisted ithat Israel must pull back from all territory occupied during the 1967 Six: Day War including Arab East Jerusalem. Israel has said repeatedly that it would not give up all the captured territory and that it would never relinquish East Jerusalem, which Jordan seized in the 1948 war. The opening session lasted for an hour and 25 minutes, then the conference took a three-hour lunch break. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban was to speak at the afternoon session. Christmas is $10,667,000 payment in legal fees from antitrust suit The Washington Post WASHINGTON Lawyers who negotiated an unprecedented $100 million settlement of an antitrust suit against five antibiotics firms in 1969 are now about to get final payments of fees totaling $10,667,000 a record for antitrust litigation.

The largest fee, $6,388,834, was awarded to the Washington and New York law firm of Colson and Shapiro, formerly Dickstein, Shapiro and Galligan. David I. Shapiro was the principal architect of the settlement, the first in history to compensate individual con- Centenarian couple married 72 years 'Mr. Green 9 among celebrants for 'Missy 100th birthday SEATTLE (AP) Laura Green is 100 today, and she's having the family in for cake. Among the joiners will be her husband of 72 years, Joshua Sr.

He's 104. "Missy," as he calls her, and "Mr. Green," as she calls him, are so much a rarity that a mathematician says there couldn't be more than six other couples in the country who both are 100. Today's milestone, expected to be attended by the couple's son and two daughters, will be observed in the Greens' Seattle home, where they still live with the aid of nurses. In their younger days, the Greens, who were married in their home state of Mississippi on April 24, 1901, were not unlike many other American couples.

He made the money and pretty much decided how it would be spent, Joshua Green the couple's son, recalls. Green Jr. says his mother was "an energetic sparkling woman, very pretty but strong- She had to be strong to deal with dad." Green Sr. made his money in the years just before and after the turn of the century when he worked as a purser on a steamboat. He saved his money as a purser, then bought the boat.

He later formed a trading and navigation company and made a comfortable fortune. He sold the company in 1926 to retire. But he bought a small bank, the Peoples Savings Bank in Seattle, to keep busy. It became Peoples National Bank, and Green Sr. is still honorary chairman of the board.

Green Jr. is the active chairman. Green Jr. says probably the most exasperating incident for his mother occurred when crows used to wake the family early in the morning at their home at nearby Bainbridge Island. "Mother wore earplugs and slept through it but Dad wouldn't use them.

So one morning he got his 12-gauge shotgun, opened the bedroom window, stood back in the middle of the room so he wouldn't waken the neighbors and pulled the trigger "Mother was sound asleep and it almost blew her out of bed. She got dressed and went to town and we kids had to go to town and persuade her to come bijck." sumers overcharged by reason of an antitrust conspiracy and to award unclaimed funds to states, counties and cities for such purposes as combatting drug abuse. Former White House aide Charles W. Colson will not share in the fees, having played no role in the case after he joined the firm early this year, Shapiro said Thursday. He also said the firm is paying out $2.5 million of the $6.3 million to law firms around the country that assisted in the case, which has been in the courts for 10 years.

Ranking second to the Shapiro firm are a Chicago father-son team, Lee A. Freeman and Lee A. Freeman who are getting a separate fee of $2.5 million. Under a plan approved by U.S. District Judge Inzer 0.

Wyatt in New York $1 million is going to three other Chicago lawyers, Granyil I. Specks, Perry Goldberg and Josef D. Cooper. Three other firms will share a total of $278,150. Up to now, the law firms had received approximately one-third of the fees in two interim payments.

On Monday, Judge Wyatt approved a pay-out of the balance, and checks are now in the mails. Checks for a total of about $80 million also are en route to the major beneficiaries of the litigation that were overcharged for the antibiotics, public hospitals and 43 states, 22 cities and counties, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Lottery winners HARRISBURG, Pa. Winning numbers in the Lucky 7 Pennsylvania lottery are 64166, 499, 434 and 725. The Baker's Dozen winners are 586704, 83029 and 256.

Thi TIMES-REPORTER A 0 21,1973 A'J OOVEfl.NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO Obituaries Mrs, Florence O'Dell ZOAR Mrs. Florence Estella O'Dell, 96, of here, formerly of ville, died Thursday morning in Country Lawn Nursing Home at Harmon. Born in Germano to Alfred M. and Sarah A. Smith Spear, she had lived in Zoar 11 years and was a member of First United Church of Christ of husband, Edward died in 1962.

Surviving are 10 nephews and three' nieces, including Mrs. Dorothy Scaffidel with whom she resided. Two sisters ana a brother are deceased. Services will be Saturday at 2 in Cole' Funeral Home atSteubenville with 1 Glen Swoop officiating. Burial will be iri' Union Cemetery at Friends may call at Lebold Funeral' Home in Bolivar tonight from 7 to 9.

Miss Ruth Lamberson COSHOCTON Miss Ruth D. Lam-' berson. 77, of 1 Sheridan rd. died today in Memorial Hospital where she had been 4 patient since Nov. 10.

She was a daughter of Charles and Nannie Hay Lamberson and was a member of the First Church of Christ's Scientists. Surviving are a sister, Helen, of the home, and several cousins including Mrs. Robert (Marie) Baker with whorb' she made her home. Services will be Sunday at 2 in Given Funeral Home with George Rassman oC- ficiating. Burial will be on Oak Ridge Cemetery.

Friends may call Saturday from 7 to 9 and Sunday until 2 at the neral home. Walter Courson CANTON Walter E. Courson, 71, of 3803 llth st. SW died Thursday morning in Aultman Hospital, after suffering a heart attack last week in his home. Born in Curllsville, he had lived here 37 years, coming from Dover.

He owned and operated the Courson Refrig' eration Sales and Service was a employe of Republic Steel and had managed the cafeteria of the former American Sheet and Tinplate CcJ. in Dover. A U.S. Army Medical Corps veteran of World Wars I and II, he was a member of Zion Lutheran Church here and the American Legion. i Surviving are his widow, Margare't Yebel Courson, formerly of Dover; a son, Maj.

Walter E. Courson Jr. of Sap Antonio, a sister and a brother, Mrs. Ernest (Helen) Hay wood of Los Angeles, and Robert S. Courson of here, and two grandchildren.

Services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in Reed Funeral Home, where friends may tR 9. Rev. Tom B. Homrighausen will officiate and burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.

Mrs. Ida Duerig RITTMAN Mrs. Ida E. Duerig, 82, a resident of Dover 13 years until moving here in 1963, died Thursday in a nursing homeatWooster. She was born in Switzerland and was a member of New Philadelphia First Presbyterian Church.

Surviving are a son and daughter, Paul Duerig of New Philadelphia and Mrs. Joan Watt of here; seven brothers and two sisters including Samuel Gerber of Dover, and five grandchildren. Her husband, Ernest, died in 1944. Services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in Milton United Presbyterian Church here with Rev.

Stuart Barr of New Philadelphia officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery at Massillon. Friends may call tonight from 7 to 9 at Gillman Funeral Home, 55 S. Main st. The family requests memorial contributions be made to New Philadelphia First Presbyterian Church.

GM recalling 780,000 autos DETROIT (AP) General Motors is recalling more than 780,000 of their 1974 model cars and trucks because of a defect in the front suspension systems that could cause a steering pull to one side. GM said Thursday the recall is its largest such campaign in two years. In December 1971, GM called back 6.9 million vehicles for possibly defective engine mounts. The latest defect was made public Tuesday by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, but GM denied his charges that it had delayed unnecessarily in reporting the safety-related defect. The cars subject to recall are most intermediate and large sized autos built before the last week in October.

Also involved are Chevrolet El Camino and GMC Sprint model pick-up trucks, vehicles built on an intermediate-size passenger car chassis. Consumer prices take sharp leap WASHINGTON (AP) Food and fuel prices drove the cost of living up sharply in November, the government said today in another grim inflation report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the Consumer Price index rose by eight- tenths of one per cent last month, matching the rise of October, as food prices surged again after a temporary tapering off. In the 12 months ending in November, the cost of living rose 8.4 per cent, the biggest 12-month increase since June 1951, the bureau said..