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Highway Deaths Decline Mech nic's 4 Jan. Nancy's Is Daily Success Living plant for me," Nancy said. "The Auto Gets Gasoline Shortaos vide the power necessary to get a car rolling or else the speed to sustain operation on a Freeway but not both. "J.R." got around that obstacle by using two electric motors. The "power" motor takes care of getting the car from a standing stop to a moderate speed.

As the accelerator Is depressed further, the "speed" electric motor takes over and 100MPG By MICHAEL WESTER PLAINVIEW, Tex. (LP!) machine is in the basement of doesn't look his age, has a straight body and a keen mind. He said there are many mileage "culprits" in today's automotive world. "Nowadays, everybody's got to have an automatic transmission," he said. "That's 10 per cent of your engine's power wasted right there." He doesn't like antipollution devices on cars.

"You're burning more gasoline because these contraptions rob you of a good 10 per cent of your mileage. If you're going to burn more gasoline for the same amount ol distance, how can you say you're creating less pollution?" He said the chief "culprit" might be the American driver. the Central Plains Hospital, Success for Nancy Wall is being By LARRY L. PAYTON Irving Daily News propels the car st normal free unused as far as I know." alive every day. way speeds- By the time she was 17 Nancy Two years following the trans IRVING, Tex.

(UPD James Williams said the beauty of had undergone a kidney trans plant, Miss wall had an oper Raymond "Friends call me The Auto Club of New York the system is that the gasoline ation in which her old kidneys Williams, 74 year-old motor doesn't have to be run plant and three other major operations. Almost three years later, she now is able to smile once AP Survey Shows Breakfasts Cost More By ASSOCIATED PRESS The old year ended with n-other round of price increases that pushed the (amity grocery bill to a level 13 per cent higher than it was In March, an Associated Press marketbssket survey shows. The average increase in the price of a selected market-basket was two per cent in December alone. The AP surveyed the prices of IS food and nonfood items in 13 cities on March 1 and has rech-ecked them at the beginning of each succeeding month. and two ribs were removed.

One month later another operation mechanic who loves to "tinker," drives a car he says gets 100 ning for the electric car to work. said it found eight service stations open in the metropolitan area Tuesday. The Christmas holidays had brought complaints about Sl-a-gallon gas at a And be said he keeps It turned removed obstruction of the new again. miles on a gallon of gas. 'For mine to be a cadaver kidney.

It combines electrical power off in. city driving because of the noise it makes. with a gasoline motor. www A fourth operation became Brooklyn station, but an Internal Revenue Service spokesman kidney (taken from a body), they (the doctors) said it was a perfect match," she said. "It Williams' engine uses a one- By ASSOCIATED PRESS No gasoline meant a stay-at-home New Year's holiday for most Americans.

But it also meant fewer deaths on the nation's highways. It you can't get gas, you can't drive very far. And if you can't drive, you arent likely to be killed in a traffic accident. That sums up the situation on the nation's highways over the holidays. State police accustomed to holiday tolls In highway crack- He switches it on when he gets to the open road to it will keep cylinder, 12 horsepower gasoline said there were few complaints necessary a year later wnen doctors discovered her kidney wasn't a kidney disease, so I his four batteries fully charged motor to power a generator.

New Year's Day. haven't bad much trouble with medication had caused a brain The Carolina Motor Club esti Without using the generator, which he yanked from a welding which In turn provides charge for four ordinary 12-volt automo it." tumor. Surgeons removed a par mated 70 per cent of the stations An active 19-year-old, Miss in North Carolina opened on ticle of the tumor and the rest was reduced with cobalt treat New Year's Day, the Automo Wall his little time to think about the fact she is carrying around someone else's kidney. ments. bile Club of Maine reported tive batteries.

Detroit automakers have had troubles developing sound transportation machine on electric rig, the batteries are still good for 20 miles without recharging. Williams has operated a machine shop lor 40 years. He The marketbasket bill was ut about half the stations in the "My left hand was paralyzed foMfd themselves working during December in 12 of 13 1 WW for a while, but now it's just the as an answering service for state open, about a third of the stations in Texas were open, At 12 she contracted a blood closed service stations. Traffic fingers," she said. "But over-all power which wouidn require disease which led to a gradual and about 20 per cent of the sta I feel great now, and just wont was reported light even In areas more fuel to generate the elec tricity than a conventional inter kidney failure.

Her parents were tions in Michigan were reported to be like everyone else and do shuttling her back and forth to open by the state AAA there. things for myself. with available gasoline and state death tolls were well below last year's level. Dallas' Parkland Hospital for One of seven stations open in Although she still needs a me- treatment. She was 15 when the the Columbus, Ohio, area said it About the only calls we are i a I checkup every three doctors decided she needed the had very few customers.

"I getting are from people asking if any gas stations are open," an months, her doctors have pronounced her physically able to nal-combustion engine. Some say an electric car would have to be "plugged in" each night and would have to have its batteries recharged every 50 miles or so. Another problem is that an electric engine can either pro help of an artificial kidney, thought I'd do great business to dialysis machine. Illinois trooper said. day, but I guess everybody work.

1 really didn know anything Tuesday situation was sim "They told me to keep busy filled up yesterday," said sta tion operator Robert Parks. about it," she said. "I didn't ilar to the holiday weekend it and to get a job," she said. "At even know what an artiticial completed. Gasoline was al "We figure about 85 to 95 per present I'm doing occasional ba cent of the stations will be kidney was.

I expected it to look like a big kidney, but instead it bysitting and few short term closed because of a lack of prod looked like a big washing ma jobs, but I hope to soon find fulltime position." ready scarce on Saturday. An estimated 95 per cent of the nation's service stations closed on Sunday and fewer than usual opened again Monday. uct between now and Wednes ney transplant recipient. "They all act like they're scared of me," she said. "If I were working, I'd do my best.

That's all anyone does." chine." day morning," said Dan Usner, The trouble she said Miss Wall became the subject president of the Louisiana Ser cities checked, with Increases ranging from a fraction of a per cent in Miami to five per cent In Atlanta. The only decline came in Seattle where the market-basket bill was down one per cent. The housewife trying to feed her family a hearty breakfast was among the hardest hit by the December price rises. Eggs and milk led the list of Items rising in price. Eggs, which went up in 12 of 13 cities checked during November, rose again in 11 cities from Dec.

1 to Jan. 1. They declined in the 12th city Los Angeles and remained the same in the 13th New York. The price of a doten eggs rose to a record level of $1 a dozen or more in August, dropped back down briefly, then inched up again. The December price rises ranged from two per cent In Philadelphia and Miami to 14 per cent in Detroit, where a dozen, medium white eggs went from 85 to 97 cents.

The average Increase was six per cent Milk prices went up during December in eight of 13 cities checked, rising an average of people are afraid to hire a kid- of a great deal of community vice Station Association. Usner By New Year's Day, some goodwill when word of her ill a few stations remained open to serve motorists heading ness spread around Plainview. stations had gotten new supplies The community pitched in to of gasoline and could have home from the Sugar Bowl foot raise funds to help pay the me opened for business. But most ball game. www dical bills and finally to pur decided to stay shut anyway.

chase a dialysis machine to re As the four-day holiday week The Missouri Highway Patrol said only 5 per cent of the sta. end neared an end, 318 traffic deaths had been recorded, com tions in the St. Louis area were pared to 438 in last year's three- lieve the family of having to travel to Dallas for the expensive treatments. "I never had to use the machine, however, because the doctors found the perfect trans- open, and subzero temperatures day New Year's weekend. and a nine-inch snowfall kept The National Safety Council most people home watching had predicted that the 197374 football and parades on holiday weekend would produce between 470 and 570 deaths pn the highways.

Only three stations were open for business in Kansas City, an. The Illinois Gasoline Dealers other area with subzero weather Association said only three of six per cent. The price went and heavy snow. 5,000 Chicago-area stations were down in two cities and stayed open, and they had lines several the same in three. The increases Gas Cutoff Extends KC Vacation KANSAS CITY (UPD A cutoff of natural gas for heating to senior high schools along with bitter cold weather forced the Kansas City school district "I'm a happy man to find you," said Maj.

Leland R. Sina-coe as he drove into one of the open stations with an ice-en blocks long. The state police spokesman said the situation was the same throughout the brought the price of a quart of whole milk in most cities to about 41 or 42 cents in contrast to an average price of about 33 or 34 cents back in March. crusted Cadillac. state and added, "Most of the i callers say they are staying at Simcoe, who was en route from Hot Springs, to home if it's that much of a i-v.

Vi' tuSj QMffilfilKa) '''ft-; gamble." Omaha where he is stationed at Offut Air Force Base, said he www almost ran out of gas when he Stations along the Florida hit Kansas City Monday night Turnpike were open as were many stations in the Tails and bad to stay in a motel because he couldn't find an open bassee area. But most other sta Israel (CONTINUED mill PAGE ONE) that if Mrs. Meir can receive a mandate to form a new government with the same coalition, she will have to make concessions to hawks in the peace talks with the Arabs. www Labor's traditional partner. gas station.

tions in the vacation state were closed, and state police said nine traffic deaths had been "This morning I called the po Tuesday to cancel all classes for Wednesday. The decision gave an extra day of Christmas vacation to 62,000 students in elementary, junior high and high schools, and the district had not decided whether to postpone reopening even further. The problem was compounded by record low temperatures hovering near zero over the area, and snow packed streets left over from a weekend storm which made school bus trans lice dispatcher, and they told me you were open. I'll make it recorded compared to state pa trol predictions of 44. all right now." the National Religious party.

which was expected to win five Briefs IV ED FROM PAGI FROM PAGE OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT AT seats, must be invited to return (CONT1NVKD ONE) to the cabinet. The party has adopted a hard-line position on Kidnapers Demand $10 Million nnnna portation nearly impossible. The Gas Service Co. notified the school district Monday that returning captured Arab lands the main question at the peace talks. it was cutting off gas to five of the district's II senior high Mrs.

Meir says she will be flexible on the subject of territory. Begin and the National Reli schools. Additional cutoffs to some elementary schools were possible. gious party take an opposite view. The cold weather, not the fuel shortage, was blamed for the Israel's negotiators at the mil cutoff.

itary talks In Geneva were ex BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) The People's Revolutionary Army, a guerrilla group, is asking $10 million for the release of Victor Sam-uelson, a kidnaped American Esso executive, sources said Tuesday. The sources said the company is still negotiating the demands. The sum was believed the highest ransom demand made in Argentina by kidnapers, political or criminal, who hold four foreigners and two major Argentine victims. Samuelson, 36, manager of the Esso oil refinery in Camp-ana, 60 miles north of here, was seized by about 12 armed men Dec. 6.

The Cleveland, Ohio, native was eating lunch in a company club dining room when the men entered. The group fled the building after spray-painting the walls with slogans vowing to continue to fight against foreign companies. Sources close to Esso, a subsidiary of Exxon, said guerrillas were demanding $10 million in goods. Gas Service Co. said it had re ceived curtailment orders from its supplier, Cities Service Gas of Oklahoma City, because Cities Service could not increase the amount of gas going into the pipeline to respond to heavy de DO YOU WELCOME TIME-SAVING DulVE-Kl Our modern "drive in" facility i at your service.

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No details of the meeting were released. Arab territory was obviously uppermost in Begin's mind when he told a postelection rally: "Now there is a clear majority against any proposal to repartition the land of Israel. This should be known all over the world, in the capitals and amongst the nations." 33 Killed in Plane Crash terruptible contract with the gas company and has standby fuel oil systems adequate for a few days operation when gas is rut off. when you lake advantage of rt. The drive-in windswt ore part ot the Great Soumern regular office location.

A school district spokesman said there was also doubt wheth TURLN, Italy (AP) A twin-engine Italian jetliner carrying 42 persons crashed and caught fire on New Year's Day while approaching Turin airport in fog and rain. Police er classes would be held Thurs day or Friday. SAVE BY JAN. 1 0 EARN FOR ALL OF HEW EARNING PERIOD THAT STARTED JANUARY 1ST! said 38 persons were killed. The Fokker F28 of the domestic airline Itavia struck house under construction and slammed to the ground near a farmhouse, airport police said.

Flames immediately engulfed the plane, trapping most of those on board, they added. "It was foggy; I was in the front section," survivor Enrico Isotii said from his hospital bed. "Suddenly the plane tipped to the right and we hit something. Then it was smoke all over. I dont remember much else." Begin (CONTI.NVED mow PAGE ONE) strumental in formulating the policy of nonwithdrawal from captured Arab land without a peace treaty.

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Gibson, 623 South New, was cited on an intoxicated driving complaint last night Officer Ray File said Gibson registered .18 per cent alcohol on a test after his vehicle was stopped at McDaniel and Market about 6 35 p.m. He also was ticketed on a complaint of driving the wrong way. government accepted a peace plan proposed by then Secretary r-rt of State William P. Rogers. Backing the opposition, Begin strengthened his Knesset base by joining with two other right wing splinter groups into the Likud Unity bloc.

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