Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 5

4th Car Manufacturer Cuts Back 5 American Motors to close doors for a week US Steel announces 8 price hike preventing the return to normal coal production Meanwhile a natural-gas shortage hit several areas of the country with supplies being reduced or cut off terday in Westchester NY New Jersey Tennessee and Virginia Hie Consolidated Edison Co announced that eight of its customers four in Westchester' Ccunty will get -no natural gas through April 15 The move came as the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission banned the sale of natural gas to new customers after March 1 1975 to hoard dwindling supplies Assistant Treasury Secretary Gerald Farsky a participant in the energy talks held by President advisers at Camp David Md yesterday listed the options the administration is considering to ease the energy crisis but declined to say which of them were more likely to be adapted The methods he said included re ducing demand a either a tax on garoline a horsepower tax or a tax on or through some limitation on exports volumetric or a price Such pressure on the demand side' he said would have to be coupled with some form of allocation Two other mechanisms under consideration were the imposition of heavy' tariffs cn imports and rationing is really the extension of the mandatory allocation he said Stores Cut Sugar Prices Combined New Services American Motors Corp said yesterday that it will stop production of its three automobile models for one week next month temporarily forcing more than 15000 workers into unemployment The smallest of four major car manufacturers has about a four-month supply of unsold cars because of low sales Almost 9000 workers will be laid off Jan 6 at Kenosha Wis 3000 in Milwaukee 1500 in Brampton Ont and 1500 in four small component plants at Evart Mich Stratfort Ont Coleman Wis and Iron River Midi The total number of hourly workers is about 20000 This week almost 25 per cent of the total hourly work force has been idled 65300 at General Motors 33000 at Ford and just over 70000 at Chrysler The announcement came as US Steel Corp the largest steel producer disclosed sweeping price increases averaging about eight per cent over two-thirds of its product line The hikes will primarily affect the construction rail and oil industries Most of the increases become effective tomorrow Steel sheets and strip used in the auto industry were not affected and the increases were expected to have little if any effect on the auto industry In the coal industry striking mine construction workers picketed minwi for the second week yesterday idling at least 50000 miners in five states and By Jim Smith The retail price of sugar in most Long Island supermarkets dropped 20 to 30 cents for a five-pound bag yesterday The some of which said they vvre wiling below refused to characterize the drops as a but they said that the decreases were in part a response to prices set fay their competitors Prices still varied greatly from store to store a random check showed ard remained about four times last year's price of 79 cents for five pounds And despite the latest decreases industry sources cautioned that sugar prices could rise again at any time A spokesman for the American Sugar Cane League in New Orleans said no one knows what will happen to the price of sugar in the near future Meanwhile in Hartford Corn on the 201st anniversary of the Boston Tea Party about 25 persons dressed in tricorne hats and marching to the beat of a fife and drum corps threw a papier-mache head of off a bridge into the Connecticut River to protest sugar prices The protesters said they wanted to show a parallel le-tween the colonial boycott of expensive English goods in 1773 and the American anger over high sugar prices today The lower retail prices cm Long Is- land yesterday were a reaction to announcements Friday that A ms tar Inc the largest cane sugar refiner and Sucrest Corp another major refiner had cut the wholesale price of refined sugar by four cents a pound to 57 cents It marked the third simultaneous reduction from the peak price of 7195 cents on Nov 25 At in Maniiiuwet national brands were selling yesterday for $319 for a five-pound bag and the house brand for $315 both 30 cents lower than last price the manager said A buyer Irving Gorman stressed that llie store still is a dollars-and-ce nts on each bag it sells because its inventory costs are higher than shelf prices A spokesman for Food Fair headquartered in Philadelphia said its Long Island prices which were $309 yesterday for both house and national brands will drop to $279 today lfe said Food Fair will be lasing money by selling sugar at the new price but had made the cut in hopes that wholesale (Continued bn Page 21 TAME mMEMPILOTIEin) For One Woman the Show Is Over This is the third in a series of articles on the problem of unemployment on Long Island By Ed Lowe to get raxed up pretty and sit in front of the television camera and talk firmly about rights and Ms wl got a bachelors degree in broadcast journalism instead of English I want to get out and wind up site said has been running into the kinds of subtle discriminatory practices that she once talked about cm her own show ran into the former sports editor of the station down at the unemployment she said had advised him to go to the Professional Placement Bureau in Hicksville but they did not tell me that presumably because I am a woman My resume said that I was a TV producer and hostess and a writer who had also worked in business sales and promotion But they the state unemployment office even want to look at my portfolio If I were a man with that kind of background that kind of versatility I would have a much better chance Yet still the question of survival That incident made me very angry but if I make a slink now the unemployment service people might get miffed and make it harder for me to get a job the double bind women are Looking for a job Ms Palenik said makes being out of work much more expensive "I drive around a lot so I use more gas on the phone more making more calls out of the area Babysitting costs Pm still paying the mortgage I want to give up the house because the only equity have Sometimes I feel as though people look at a person like me and understand how rough it can be to survive: that I bought clothes in six months that my son is wearing second-hand stuff They say she lives on Huntington Bay Road and has a glamor They know that I fight like hell to do what I want to do and I get my ass out there and do he has been laid I I off' Oren Palenik 38 of Huntington hostess JJ- for the Ch 67 daytime show for the year that WSNL has been broadcasting has been out of work since Oct 11 was laid off along with several other people at the station because they cut back on their live programs to use old serials that cost leas said Ms Palenik who was just recently divorced and who lives on Huntington Bay Road only started recently looking hard for a she said get some income from my former husband -but the combination of $57 a week in unemployment insurance and the money from my husband is not enough to survive Besides I would not want to not work I think women should work I suppose make some people angry have to look around hear about different jobs in different places then go after them I go into New York and I really anyway because then never see my son If I was to pursue broadcasting in New York have to work 14 hours a day because such a competitive field I hate New York City anyway I lived there 10 years Besides life is too short to commute like to have the kind of job I just finished because always believed women can do more than-they think they can do especially in surburbia Surburbia becomes a rut Long before the movement got started I wanted to do a radio program talk about going back to work going bade to school how to understand insurance law you know furniture and cars are not mysterious but I could never get a job like that and still make enough money Frankly I used to like Nrwidtjr Ftioto by Naomi Lasdoa OREN PALENIK 38 divorced one child graduate in broadcast Journalism former television hostess of "The Nassau-Suffolk Woman" oxporionco in promotion fundraising sales Monthly income $245 plus lass than $150 alimony Monthly liabilities: $368 mortgage $100 child care $246 phone electricity heat is i 6 I i I J' i ft r- -i -f 'I V-M A Ai i.