European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Saturday november 24, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 5 Many ride trains buses cars sputter to Stop on freeways by the associated pres the fear of running out of gasoline prompted Many Holiday travellers to rid trains or buses rather than drive cars for thanksgiving Day trips. And they Proba Bly did t regret it. Some cars coughed and sputtered to standstill on freeways around the country As the fuel shortage became a reality Formant Drivers. We were getting two or three Calls minute this afternoon from motorists stranded without Gas spokesman ale Parley of the Connecticut automobile association said thursday night. Many Gas stations were reported closed but whether for Lack of fuel or because of the Holiday could not be determined. 4 spokesman for the american Auto Mobile association office in Columbus Ohio said 50 per cent of thursday s Call were emergency appeals for Gas. He said that at 8 . Only one Gas station in the area was open. Some of those Able to find Gas had to pay dearly for it. Station owner Harry Simmermon. Of Monroe township n.j., found no Lack of business despite prices described As thanksgiving blackmail by one local official. Simmermon charged 82 cents a Gallo for regular and 86 cents a gallon for Premium gasoline at his Shell station on Black horse Pike. Normally he Sells regular Gas for 38.9 cents a gallon and Premium for 45.9 cents. Some people pulled in Here and called me a Crook and others were so Happy to find gasoline they almost kissed the pumps he said. City Council president George Mcdon Ald called it thanksgiving blackmail but Simmermon called it a kind of Volun tary rationing and said it s Only a Sample of what s to come. With All this talk now about a 60-Centtax per gallon this May Well be a Sample of what the Public has to look Forward to he said. Those who decided on Public transportation did t have to worry about Gas but they had to hassle with crowds. Amtrak the nation s passenger rail Gaa cuts output of cars 79,000 for one week Detroit a general motors Fri Day trimmed 79,000 cars most of them Standard and intermediate sizes from its production schedules for the week of dec. 16. Pm s Normal weekly production is be tween 120,000 and 130,000 cars. The Decem Ber cutback is the company s first major reduction in five years. Pm described the reshuffling of production schedules in its . And Canadian As Sembly plants As a move to balance dealer inventories of certain passenger cars with customer demand in the  Richard c. Gerstenberg pm Board chairman said this slowing of production comes after three years of unprecedented output and sales which have strained our production facilities and those of our materials  Gerstenberg made no mention of the Petroleum shortage and its possible effect Oscar sales. Agency expels 2 nations London a South Africa and por Tugal have been expelled from the United nations intergovernmental maritime consultative organization because of what was described As their racial and colonialist policies. Service got every available coach they had out of Mothballs to handle the Load regional supervisor said. A spokesman said Amtrak s system wide reservation Center received 27,000 Calls for information on thanksgiving Day about 15,000 More than expected. Standing room Only was the Case on Many of Amtrak s trains especially the Washington Philadelphia new York  bus lines in new York said it expected 50 per cent More travellers than usual for the Holiday period. An additional complication in bus travel it s anyone s guess Kathy Goldman of Houston displays an eggplant grown by her brother in his outside. The Law Garden. A resemblance to actual person Sis purely coincidental. Up photo Al Cio Calls plumbers a ground for impeachment Washington up the Al Cio says president Nixon committed an impeachable offence when he created the White House  the plumbers were a White House group set up ostensibly to investigate the leak of the Pentagon papers in 1971, and described in congressional and court Testi Mony As the group responsible for the Bur Glary of the office of a psychiatrist who had treated Daniel Ellsberg who made he the papers Public. The Al Cio thursday called the plumbers a special and personal secret police answerable Only to the White House and operating totally outside the constraints of the  the labor federation is issuing a serialized 19-Point Bill of particulars Asto Why Nixon should be impeached and this was the second weekly  plumbers committed this crime with a Clear knowledge that it was crime the Al Cio said. They committed this crime under the Clear impression that they were ordered to do so by the president of the United  the federation charged that Nixon obstructed Justice by personally ordering that evidence of the plumbers involve ment in burglary be kept from the judge presiding Over the Ellsberg trial. He has sought to preclude further reve lations of the plumbers activities by classifying these As National Security mat ters it said. Richard m. Nixon has committed unimpeachable offence by creating a special and personal secret police by hiding its illegal activities behind National Security and by obstructing Justice in the name of National Security " last week the Al Cio attacked Nixon s Brief approval in 1970 of a secret Domestic Security plan which the federation said violated civil liberties by endorsing political surveillance wire tapping burglary eavesdropping mail interceptions and military spying on civil ians. Was the voluntarily imposed 50-mile-per-hour Speed limit on highways making for late arrivals. We be gotten so screwed up on schedules because of the lowered Speed limits that people Don t know what the hell is going on said one dispatcher at port authority in new York City. Beef prices dip but not to consumer Chicago a wholesale beef Price shave dropped by almost a third since their record High Levels in August but average retail prices have shown Little change in the same period. Live cattle sold at a High of about 60cents a Pound in mid August. Now the Price is about 42 cents a Pound. But the schedule of supermarket Bee prices now looks much the same As it did then. A nov. 1 associated press  showed the Price of chopped Chuck actually was higher than the aug. 13 sur vey prices in five out of seven major cities. The figures indicate that apparently the lower beef prices Are not getting passed on to the consumer said Bruce Butterfield a spokesman for the american meat Institute. I guess you la have to ask the retailers  the retailers say that if you Haven t noticed a drop in supermarket beef Price you just Haven t noticed. The average Market prices remain a about the same level As they did during the Peak period said Clarence Adamy presi Dent of the National association of food chains in Washington. But to presume the american housewife buys the average cuts of beef available on the counter is to presume the american housewife is  Adamy explained that specials have increased in frequency in recent weeks and have brought Down the actual amount spent for beef. The most serious thing retailers did when they were forced to raise their prices was to decline the number and depth of their specials Adamy said. But now we re getting dramatic Low prices in Al meats. I have a Freezer full of sirloin steaks that i bought for 96 cents a Pound Ata special last  wholesale beef prices dropped by 12.9per cent last month the Bureau of labor statistics said. But the Bureau s consumer Price Index shows that retail Price dropped by Only 3.6 per cent in the same month. Retail pork prices on the other hand dropped 7.4 per cent in the same period closely following the wholesale decline of7.6 per cent. Father son killed Hunting 10 Days apart Kalispell Mont. A a Kalispell Deer Hunter has been shot to death 10 Days after his father died in a Hunting  Drollinger 18, was Hunting with a companion South of Here thursday when the Accident occurred authorities  county Coroner Harold Fuller said Drollinger got out of a car on the Pas Senger Side at the same time that his part Ner shot at a Deer Over the vehicle s roof. Authorities said Drollinger stepped directly into his companion s line of fire. His father Wesley Drollinger died nov.12 near Kila about 10 Miles Southwest of Kalispell when his Rifle accidentally Dis charged while he was Hunting