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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1977 Gas sent as East flounders Mexico shares its supplies By United Press International Harsh winter weather moderated over much of the East today and a newly- signed emergency energy bill sent natural gas pulsing to the energy-drained Northeast, but new snows snarled emergency efforts to dig out snowbound Buffalo, N.Y. The economic toll of one of the bitterest winters ever continued to mount and a UPI count showed more than 3 million workers idled by weather and energy problems. Cleanup operations, beefed up by the National Guard and 400 Army troops, were just beginning to open a few Buffalo streets and traffic was starting to move yesterday when new snow, whipped by 40 mile an hour winds, blew into the city. Though only three inches fell, it produced turmoil in the already-crippled city. Motorists who ventured onto the streets fit for travel got snarled in new snow and traffic jams.

City bus service was temporarily suspended. Most of the East enjoyed a brief respite from the bitter winter but the National Weather Service warned that a new wave of sub-zero cold is expected in the upper Midwest during the weekend and probably will spread to the East. A law signed by President Carter Wednesday night began speeding emergency supplies of natural gas to areas where it is most needed. Federal Power Commission a i a i a Dunham said 103 million cubic feet of gas started moving up the transcontinental gas pipeline after an intrastate line in Texas was ordered to carry the fuel. Dunham said additional emergency movement of up to 650 million cubic feet per day is under consideration and that gas deliveries from Canada and Mexico are being arranged.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman in Mexico said that 2.4 billion cubic feet of gas began moving from there yesterday, a week ahead of schedule. "(Mexico) has managed to hook up a pipeline connection between Reynosa and McAllen, said Peter Carrico, the embassy's petroleum and minerals officer. A I I I PAGE 3 Major sewer construction is bad news for traffic UPlTelephoto Up to its eaves in snow Firemen standing on the roof of this house in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb of Depew managed to uncover the eaves of the Buffalo blizzard is killer house after it was completely buried by snow. Buffalo is slowly returning to normal after record snowfalls.

Stalled in he almost froze Apologises Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon has apologized to Ralph Nader for calling him names. Nader says he is not satisfied and a growing number of groups are calling for Dixon's ouster. The remarks reportedly are affecting relations between the FTC and various consumers' groups. Newsday News Service BUFFALO Paul Dengler remembers when this city's seven-day blizzard hit, first for his impatience at being stalled in the snow, then for his panic, which rose as the gasoline gauge in his car began to fall. He remembers feeling wanner when he closed his eyes in the cold one night last week.

"It sounds funny," he said. "I knew that I shouldn't fall asleep, but I thought 1 was getting warmer. I felt a lot wanner." But Paul Dengler wasn't really getting warmer. He was on the way to freezing. Finally, he remembers seeing a patrolman's badge glinting through the car window, and hearing the sound of the officer's shouts.

Paul Dengler, a 25-year-old truck dispatcher, was one of the thousands of persons stranded in cars and buildings during the vicious periods in this beleaguered city's snow crisis. The blizzard began the night of Jan. 26 and ended last Tuesday afternoon. It disrupted schools, businesses, government, travel and life. By Sunday seven persons had been found frozen in their stalled cars.

The 12th blizzard victim, a 65-year-old man, was found in a snowdrift Wednesday. Officials fear they will find more as the thousands of marooned cars around the city are' checked and snowdrifts up to 15 feet tall are cleared. Dengler had just finished i a i late Wednesday night at a downtown restaurant and discotheque in which he owns part interest. He started for home in suburban Blasdell. "Some snow had just started to fall, a few flurries, nothing bad," he said, "and I thought I'd better get moving." He was on Furhmann Boulevard, a 2 -mile road beside Lake Erie connecting two bridges.

The car ahead of him stopped suddenly. Dengler stopped as well, and waited. Ahead, two cars had become stuck in snow; within an hour an estimated 100 cars and trucks had lined up behind lights off and motors running. If was then that the low-pressure storm front that brought the blizzard edged into town. "The wind started blowing so hard that I couldn't hear the engine idle," Dengler said, "and there was so much snow thai I couldn't see the front end of my car.

just kept the heater on, and all I could think about was that this was going to make me late for work in the morning." Dengler huddled in his coat, watching the needle on his gas gauge edge down. After an hour, with the tank very low and dropping fast, he began lo panic. He said he rubbed frantically at the windows, trying to scrape off ice forming on the inside. Once he tried to get out of the car, but the slender 6- foot-1 man could hardly stand up in the wind. He could nol see the car a few feet in front of him.

Back inside his own car, Dengler began to get sleepy, and soon the car was out of gas. Dengler recall slumping over Ihe steering wheel, feeling comfortably numb for the first time in hours. Police officers and fire fighters by now were evacuating the cars one by one from each end of Fuhrmann Boulevard. They led the occupants by the hand to police vans usually used for transporting prisoners and shuttled those rescued to police precincts or churches. Dengler's car door was frozen shut when patrolman Duane Bonamici pounded on it, i Dengler's breathing was shallow and his color was pale.

His eyelashes, eyebrows, and mustache were covered with frost, and his legs and arms were stiff. "I could hear him, sort of, and I could see his badge," Dengler said. "But I couldn't move. I couldn't react." Bonamici finally got the door open and dragged Dengler to a nearby tractor-trailer with a heated cab. He sat there shivering and half-delirious for an hour, Dengler was told later, until he could be moved to a police car and driven out.

YOU'LL GET THE BIG PICTURE IF YOU READ THE CITIZEN. Woman found fall humiliating PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) A Superior Court jury has denied a woman $15,000 damages she sought from a bus company she said caused her injury and humiliation when she fell out of a bathroom OP. a moving bus. A jury of five men and three women returned the verdict in the case involving Patricia Lassiter, 41.

Mrs. Lassiter said she was riding with a group of women on a shopping tour our of Flagstaff in April 1975, when the bus stopped suddenly and she was thrown out of the bathroom at an inopportune moment. "I heard a lot of laughter and I turned around and asked what was going on, and they (other passengers) said Mrs. Lassiter fell out of the bathroom," testified Larry Reynolds, bus driver for Nava-Hop Tours. The complaint charged that Reynolds applied the brakes of the bus imprudently.

Other passengers on the bus said that after the incident Mrs. Lassiter "was the major topic of conversation for the rest of the convention." The suit also contended the woman was bruised and suffered a whiplash injury in the incident. ER WlLL NEVER KNOWINGLY BE UNDERSOLD BY ANYONE. WE INCLUDE DELIVERY AND SET UP. NO CHARGE WHEN VJf SAY: "BARGAIN CENTER MEANS MORE FOR YOURMONEY, WEMEANU' ILL.

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Miller Paving and Construction beginning in a month. The line will serve users inside and outside the city limits, and city and county funds will be combined to pay for the project, according to Tom Mundinger of the city water and sewer department. Construction will take eight months. He said the line will start at E. 17th St.

and S. Vine, go south to Aviation Highway, then southeast to Silverlake Road or 29th street. Builders probably will reach 29th and Aivernon two months after beginning the project, and from Aivernon to Wilmot Road. Officials expect extensive traffic disruptions as the line is installed. The line will transfer sewage from the area around Palo Verde High School to a trunk sewer at 17th and Vine, relieving other lines running north along Wilmot and Craycroft, and west on 22nd Street.

Fuel may be low Balloonist seeks wind TUCSON (AP) Cross- country a i Karl Thomas was somewhere south of Arizona in Mexico today, reportedly running low on the butane fuel that helps keep him aloft. Frank Benesh, a spokesman for Thomas, said here that he had nut heard today from Thomas or ground crew members following him. "My guess is that he could be sitting on the ground because he is low on fuel," Benesh said. "We simply don't know where he is. Some of the ground troops should be calling when they can get to a phone." Thomas, trying to break the record of '11 days for a a i a balloon flight, drifted into Mexico below Yuma, yesterday and stayed on the ground most of the day because of unfavorable winds.

Benesh said Thomas took off about 5:30 p.m. yesterday and winds carried him farther southeast into Mexico. He said that unless the ground crew found a butane fuel source south of the border, Thomas should have run very low on fuel overnight. The butane fuels burners that heat air to make the balloon rise. DON'T MISS THIS GREAT EVENT wv Open Fri.

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