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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 lists the haunts for tourists Washington api the air Force May have poo poohed but another government Agency seems less sceptical As to encounters of the ghost Treyve even put out a guide called the supernatural haunted houses and legendary the travel services eight Page foldout lists upwards of 21 ghosts in eight states and 29 Sites including Southern boyhood a governors an army fort and an anchored most of the shades apparently Are con tent to simply show themselves at the tourist but others do interesting things like sip Ping peering into sleep ing faces and complaining about poorly Hung the guide gives Telephone too to communicate with real of unfortunately for ghost most spots close by 5 Long before prime time for spirit viewing Only the myrtles in offers evening by appointment at the Francisville mansion on the oldest Plantation in the a French erness makes an appearance to peer visitors dont get test Louisiana and Virginia Lead the haunt with 10 Sites followed by the District of Columbia with California Maine and one apiece in Mary Pennsylvania and ghosts seem to Cotton to Louisiana plan at new is haunted by the spirit of a Lovely the guide at the travel serv ice talks persist that thus Mas Sive Home is haunted by a child who rises from the cemetery and by spirits who Nois ily turn Calendar other Quirky spirits include one with a fondness for spirits who empties decanters at the governors mansion in and at Shirley Plantation in Charles City the portrait of aunt Pratt makes ghostly noises when Hung chattering spirits inhabit the Marine antique shop in Home of Over 250 mechanical music most ghosts award might belong to fort Monroe at which houses at least 10 spirits in private Resi Dences and military youll find big name ghosts on the Henry Clay visited often at Oaklawn Manor in and today returns in spirit form to the according to facing Gas chamber in reporters murder after being sentenced to die in he Ari crime report Lona state prison Gas chamber for the found guilty c car bomb slaying of Arizona Republic on june Ley were killed the Jondy of time Nader awarded in airline bumping suit 1948 postwar Germany big Gest Blac Market involving a gang of International narcotics paddlers whose activities May Dwarf the ton Kronberg Castle jewel was Dis closed in Frankfurt w58 president Eisenhower told soviet Premier Nikolai Bulga Nln be was ready for a Summit conference with Kremlin Leaden if preliminary Neotia Lions give Good Hope of advancing the cause of peace and Justice in the 1968 the pledged in Washington it would drive to prevent the Vietnam War from spilling Over into Cam but left open the possibility of not Pursuit of enemy troops that take Refuge across the Washington a a Federal judge has ordered Allegheny airlines to pay con Sumer advocate Ralph Nader be cause it bumped him from his reserved seat on a flight nearly six years the ruling tuesday by District judge Charles Richey is the fourth major court proceeding in the which had made its Way to the supreme Nader sued Allegheny in 1972 after he found himself without a seat on a flight he was scheduled to make from Washington to for a speaking appear he accused the airline of fraud in concealing its overbooking practices from in richly ordered Allegheny to pay to Nader and to the connect Cut citizen action an organization he had been scheduled to of the was in punitive damages and was in actual but in the court of appeals re versed ruling that airlines Are be Gilly permitted to sell More seats than Are actually available for a flight and to deny seats to passengers with confirmed Reser Nader took the matter to the supreme which in 1976 reinstated his suit and directed Richey to determine whether the airline had put Forward a Good Faith de in his ruling and award Richey said Allegheny failure to Tell Nader and other passengers of its overbooking policy was the result of a conscious and deliberate policy by the but the judge reduced his award to 000 in punitive damages and in actual damages to Nader and deleted an award to the Connecticut Richey said Allegheny must pay a Puni Tive hum because the Mere fact that a fraudulent practice is commonplace in a particular Industry in no Way deprives that practice of its outrageous Robert Lees boyhood Home in reportedly is haunted by a Little boy who Many agree is the ghost of Robert Lee the Agency Fielding a revolutionary War is said to haunt a Home of georgian design at Fredericks should the spirits move you West coast occur in san Diego and san in the latter youll find the 160 room Winchester us former owner kept expanding it in the Hope that rooms for Good spirits would keep evil ones Whaley san Diego City Hall in the is said to be haunted by an unfortunate Gallows judge Thomas Whaley lived there and presumably did the two naval ghosts Are listed one a the other a suspected in Decatur House is haunted by the spirit of its first Ste phen a naval hero who died in a tragic in aboard the Constellation lurks the ghost of a Sailor who died in 1799 and returns to Clear his name of of the Agency charges Exxon with overcharging Washington api the depart ment of Energy said wednesday that the nations largest Petroleum pro May have violated Federal Price ceilings and overcharged the Public some million for crude a spokesman for Exxon immediately denied that the company overcharged for its Oil or violated the Federal Price ceiling he said the company would contest the the department said it issued a notice of probable violation to Exxon after its audit of the company turned up the possible Vio lations the audit began after the depart ment issued a similar notice involving alleged overcharges of million last Exxon is now suspected of having Over charged almost a Quarter of a billion Dol dispute Over Texas lease an Exxon Charles said in a statement from Houston that the department was trying to apply Federal Price ceilings retroactively to Exxon past Oil the dispute involves Oil production from a number of leased areas in the Hawkins Field of Wood and an interpretation of the difference Between old and new Oil produced from the same under the Federal old Oil was allowed a Price ceiling of around a barrel while new Oil could claim prices of up to per in determining whether production from an existing Oil Field was old or new the government decided that the amount of Oil produced by the Field in the past would be the cutoff All production up to that amount would be considered old any produced beyond that would be considered new Oil and would qualify for the higher one unit Fields the problem began when Exxon decided to operate the Field As one unit As a Way to increase the company calculated the historic old Oil production for each individual lease in the Hawkins Field and then calculated the additional new Oil production for each the Energy said the company should have calculated the old Oil production for the entire Field in Stead of calculating it by each individual  
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