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i PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE Tl'ESD AUGIST July Price Of Gasoline Hkdnwiv Fund Defended Ford Plan to Divert Gas Taxes Attached 'I I A it 4 Yellow Cab Seeks 9.6 Hike in Fare Yellow Cab Co. of Pittsburgh has asked for a per cent rate increase to become effective Sept. 6. The request, filed with the state Public Utility Commission, would increase the initial charge of 85 cents for the first quarter of a mile to R5 cents for the first sixth of a mile. The charge of 1(1 cents for each additional fifth of a mile would he increased to 10 cents or each additional sixth oi a mile.

Company President James P. Smnott said the rale increase is necessitated by rising costs of cab maintenance, including parts, gasoline and oil. Smnott also noted company faces increased costs in employes' benefits. -A Strike Stops IVort Invest Flights Here Bv Tiw Aisnnntnri Pmw A strike by Northwest Air lines pilots left an estimated 450 travelers ut Greater Pittsburgh Airport scrambling for alternate flights yesterday. An airport spokesman said the shutdown, which idled 37 ground employes of the airline, caused minor confusion and booking problems.

Northwest, nation's seventh-largest airline, operates 11 daily flights from Pittsburgh to Washington, I). Detroit and Cleveland. The flights were canceled pending the outcome of the National walkout by more than 1.550 pilots. The Air Line Pilots Association struck Northwest in a contract dispute shortly after 2 a.m. yesterday.

Picket lines were set up at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Internationa! Airport, where the airline is based. A spokesman in Pittsburgh said ticket and ramp workers reported for work yesterday but ere expected to be furloughed. W. J.

Usery head of the federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, is meeting with the union and company. Campaign Move WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, long eyed as a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is taking a first official step in that direction, it was announced yesterday. By DAVE LEKFJIR Co'il-Oni-tli' Slnff Wrllr-r The Ford administration is trying to destroy the billion hichway trust fund in the "hiRpest consumer ripoff since the invention of the one-armed bandit," a Republican member of Congress charged here yesterday. "The President wants people to continue paying the lour-cenl-a-gallon federal tax on gasoline, then take three cents of it away from highways and put it in government's bottomless pit." declared U.S.

Rep. E. G. Shuster. Pi-Everett.

"If implemented, the Ford program will allow the same thing to happen to our highways that has happened lo the railroads in America they will crumbie." Shuster, ranking Republi-c a on the House surface transportation subcommittee of the Public Works Committee used Pittsburgh as the starting point for a one-man crusade to save the controversial trust fund. Other stops this week will include Toledo, Ohio: Grand Rapids, Ford's own backyard, and New Orleans. Shuster however, he is paying for the visits primarily out of his own pocket and is not being financed or sponsored by the powerful highway lobby. Under the Ford proposal, only one rent of the four-cent gas tax the heart of highway trust fund would be retained by the fund, to complete the nation's interstate network. Assoclcitpd Press Wirephoto search laboratory where he was to stay, with Rep.

Bill Alexander of Arkansas, until tomorrow. They will observe some scientific experiments. As Weieker doe, his staff aide, Tim Keeney, kept a watchful eye on him. Senator Dives Sen. Lowell Meicker of Connecticut, right, dives off Freeport in the Bahama Islands yesterday.

He was to enter an underwater re- i E. G. SHUSTER Two cents would be transferred to the general fund where it could be used for anything, whether transportation onenled or not. And the last penny would go to the slaies for local use. "One of the biggest myths of the program is that the public has been led to believe d.verted funds will be used to bolster mass transportation programs." Shuster said.

"They could be. but there's no guarantee. My bet is they won't. And anyway, the answer is not to rob Peter to pay Paul. The answer is to creale separate trust funds for all the nation's transporta-t i needs, including highways, railroads and mass transit." Shuster said another popu-1 a misconception is that America is going to be paved over by superhighways.

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In addition, a stamped, self-addressed envelope is to be included return of the money if the order can't be filled. MINNEAPOLIS, (AP) The entire supply of 2.8 million canning jar lids purchased by Goodwill Industries of Minneapolis has already been ordered by home canners," and a lot more lids are wanted. The organization and the U.S. Commerce Department last Thursday announced the emergency plan to distribute lids by mail order. The goal was to ease the nationwide shortage of lids as consumers begin to harvest garden products.

The lids purchased from three suppliers were offered to mail-order customers. Nine-dozen lids were to be packaged per $5 order, with no more than one order accepted from one household. The 2 8 million supply was sufficient for 26.000 orders. The first lids shipped to Goodwill's Minneapolis plant Ycur SUPER Western Pennsylvania Pontiac Dealers say: Up 3.1 Cents WASHINGTON (AP) -Gasoline price increases in July pushed national average at the pump to 58.7 cents per gallon for regular gasoline, the Federal Energy Administration reported yesterday. The total was 3.1 cents per gallon higher than the June average, which was 1.8 cents higher than the May average.

The FEA also reported its latest data showed price increases in June for premium gasoline, diesel fuel, and fuel oil. Meanwhile, gasoline con-sumption, which used to rise at a rate about 4.6 per cent a year, has crept up only 1.9 per cent in past two years, the FEA said. This amounts to a saving of some barrels per day below what would have been burned if past increases had continued, the FEA said. Summarizing its most re-c surveys, the FEA reported: Premium gasoline increased from 59 cents per gallon in May to 60.3 cents in June. Diesel fuel at both truck stops and service stations averaged 51.4 cents per gallon jn June, an increase of 1.1 cents at truck stops and 0.4 cents at service stations.

Wholesale residual fuel oil, burned mainly in power plants and other steam plants, increased seven cents per barrel to an average of $11.77 per barrel in April', the latest available figure. Of 21 major oil companies, 10 increased their prices in June for home heating oil, the FEA said, but the agency did not announce a specific average price. City Plans New Phones Relief is in sight for callers who have to wait through two or three dozen rings before reaching City Hall switchboard. The Flaherty administration announced yesterday it plans to switch most of the city phones over to a Centre system in which each office will have i own number. Cost of the work is estimated at $22,500.

A similar proposal was rejected by City Council three years ago because some numbers believed the Centrex system was not good public relations. argued that taxpayers should at least be able to talk to a receptionist when the person they call is not in. Council is expected to approve the new system because of a compromise allowing council members to retain their own central switch-board. Council President Louis Mason said it is important to members that they have their calls screened. Rig Crushed, Driver Killed A tractor-trailer westbound smashed through guard rails of a Parkway East overpass yesterday afternoon falling on a similar rig below on the Ardmore Boulevard rampand crushing its driver to death, state police said.

A third tractor-trailer on the Ardmore Boulevard ramp in Forest Hills then collided with the two rigs. The dead driver was identified by Columbia Hospital as Robert Beltz. 59, of Wooster, Ohio. J.W. Anderson, 39, of Navarre, Ohio, was in serious condition with internal injuries.

The driver of the third rig and a woman passenger, both from Binghampton, N.Y., were treated and released. Motorcycle Crash Kills District Youth Denis Horner, 18, of Washington, Washington Cbunty, died last night after he lost control of his motorcycle on Interstate 79 north of Mead-o I a in Washington County. He was dead on arrival in Washington Hospital. State police said the motorcycle hit the guard rail several times before Horner was thrown. 20 Deaths Reported East Coast Heat Ends With Severe torms WHILE OUR STOCK IS GOOD AND OUR SELECTION IS Select Your Favorite Color in the Particular Model with the Equipment that Best Suits Your Transportation Needs Save Money Save Gas tF.

The Perfect Family the L-Q-X, 1975 Pontiac CATALINA arrived yesterday. By that time. 90.000 orders already had been received. Donald Giese, Goodwill Industries executive director in Minneapolis, expressed hope that more lids would be obtained. Until that possibility has been exhausted, it was decided to return checks to persons whose orders couldn't be filled from the initial supply.

In Washington. Matthew Warren of Goodwill Industries of America said efforts were being made to obtain more lids. The shipping by United Parcel Service will begin when cartons arrive for packaging the lids into quantities of nine dozen. "We haven't sent out a lid yet," Giese said. "Maybe i tomorrow." Orders for lids are to be addressed to "Goodwill Indus weekend from heat prostration and three people were killed in New York City in i fights over gushing i re hydrants.

An 11-month-old girl drowned in Hyattsville, after her mother left her in a bathtub to cool off. Heat stroke was blamed for death of a 26-year-old woman who fell asleep while sunbathing Sunday in South Plainfield, N.J. Police said Linda Saverd apparently had been in the sun for six hours, lying on a chaise lounge lined with aluminum foil. It was 98 in Philadelphia Sunday, two degrees above the old record for the date. Burlington, tied the 92-de-gree mark set there in 1944, and it hit 114 in Phoenix, three degrees above the old record.

The 100-degree heat in Maine killed as many as 0 0 broiler chickens and Interstate 80 near Gary, buckled under the heat. CM, UAW Meet To End Walkout LORDSTOWN, Ohio (API-Negotiators General i Motors Corp. and striking United Auto Workers Local 1714 met again yesterday in an effort to end the dispute which has idled 9,500 workers. The local struck July 18 in a long-sim mering dispute over production standards at the Fisher Body fabricating plant. Lack of parts 1 to closing the adjacent Vega-Astre and van assembly lines, idling another 7,300 workers.

Crime Report The following serious crimes were reported to city police during the past 24 hours: Two men poslno as ooHcemen to gain entronce to the Northslde apartment of a vouna couple robbed them at l-nite- Eoint of $600. The couoie. of the 2500 lock of Perrvsvllle Avenue, said one of the men pulled a knife and oushed the husband into the apartment, Both men then beqan ronsocklna the arort-met. The husband handed them the $800 after one held a knife to his wife wd snid, "I'M cut her throat II we don't get any money." A Yellow Cob driver told police three men who hailed his taxi at the Greyhound Bus Terminal, Downtown, robbed him of $300 of his own cash, S7.S0 In cornoony money and $30 watch otter he took them to North MurMond Avenue and Upland Street, Homewood. Two young men, ont with sowed-off shotgun hldrlin unrter his trenchtoaf, stole $250 from Tommy's Oil Co.

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OfFICIAl t.F.A. HIGHWAY MIVINO TESTS By Tht Associated Prsi The East Coast heat wave broke yesterday with scattered thundershowers, but the high humidity remained after two days of sweltering temperatures as high as 103 degrees and at least 20 deaths. The cold front that brought the relief also spawned some thunderstorms in which at least one person was killed by lightning and a dozen injured near Ellington, N.Y. A Delta Airlines DC9 jet en route from Cleveland, Ohio, to Burlington, made an emergency landing at Syracuse, N.Y., after large hailstones smashed the windshield and injured two crew members and three passengers. Hospitals in Boston reported five deaths over the Agnciv Seeks To Sell Beer GOLDEN, Colo.

(API-Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was interviewed yesterday by Coors Beer officials for a possible bcr distributorship. A company spokesman said Agnew is trying to get one of four new franchises in Houston. Coors is making new marketing efforts in East Texas. Agnew and a man identified by Coors employes as pro golfer Doug Sanders arrived at the brewery here in a black limousine with Colorado license plates and refused to answer newsmen's questions, proposal, because Flaherty pressed them for fast action on the earlier proposal.

The ordinance authorizing the $3 million contract does mention Medical Pavillion by name, although Flaherty acknowledged that is the organization with which the city wants to negotiate. The ordinance indicates that the Pavillion would somehow be part of a nonprofit corporation to develop emergency medical system. i iiillll iitaiLLt J.d puijitowphiiiiii.iii uniPivnKn lji tj' $3 Million Contract Proposed Pete Favors Pavillion On Health Care Plan 1 it i-kffinmYrf StMi iJtilim, Mayor Flaherty proposed yesterday that the city turn over development of an emergency medical care system to the Central Medical Pavillion under a 30-month, $3-million contract. In May the mayor had proposed that system be operated in cooperation with five city hospitals. Several council members indicated yesterday they have reservations about the.