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— Griffin Daily News Monday, Novembers, 1973
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Rescue workers use a ladder to help trapped victims from
a bus that crashed into a concrete freeway pillar on 1-880
killing at least 13-persons and injuring dozens. The bus
Bus wreck
13 dead; driver not drunk
By ROBERT E. SWEET
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)
— An autopsy has ruled out the
possibility that the driver was
intoxicated or suffered a heart
attack when his “gambler’s
special” Greyhound bus bar
relled into a freeway pillar,
killing 13 persons.
The weekend tour bus, filled
with 43 Richmond, Calif.,
members of the all-black
“Variety Swingers” social club
hoping for luck at the casinos,
crashed while en route from the
San Francisco Bay area to the
gambling meccas at Reno. All
of the passengers were either
killed or injured.
Sacramento County Coroner
George Nielson Sunday said
tests showed the driver, Dou
glas Moore, 26, of Hayward,
was not under the influence of
alcohol or drugs and “had an
amazingly healthy heart.”
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National Transportation Safe
ty Board investigators sifted
through the rubble today in
hopes of finding some clue to
the mysterious Saturday night
mishap which left seven men
and six women dead.
The Greyhound special hit a
steel guard rail and “plowed
dead center” into a pillar
Cold weather may bring
blackouts and brownouts
By MATHIS CHAZANOV
United Press International
The administration’s energy
expert said Sunday that a cold
winter will mean “blackouts
and brownouts” in the Midwest
was a “gamblers special” enroute from San Francisco to
Reno. (UPI)
surrounding an overpass on
Interstate 880, three miles north
of the state capital. The impact
split the bus open about one
third of its length and sprayed
passengers, seats and parts of
the bus over an area the size of
a football field.
Nine victims were reported in
either serious or critical condi-
and on both coasts because of a
fuel shortage. He said it would
have happened even without the
Arab oil boycott.
The only immediate answer,
said former Colorado Gov. John
A. Love in an interview with
U.S. News and World Report,
“is to slow the increase in
demand.”
In Beirut, sources in the Arab
oil world said Saudi Arabia has
decided to stop sending crude
oil to Holland, Canada, the
Bahamas, Trinidad, the Nether
lands Antilles, Puerto Rico,
Guam and South Africa, all
nations that have delivered oil
to the United States.
Saudi Arabia also has cut its
crude oil production, by 26-Mi
per cent, and other oil
producing countries are doing
the same. The Middle East
Economic Survey said Saturday
that Kuwait production is now
75 per cent of what it was
before Oct. 6.
While not cutting off any
sales, the Nigerian government
has decided to double the price
of crude oil, to $8.31 a barrel, a
spokesman said. The African
country exports 37 per cent of
its petroleum to the United
States.
Holland, which along with the
United States was cut off from
its Arab oil sources because of
its pro-Israel policies, tried a
ban on Sunday driving as a
way to save fuel, and police
said it worked, with only a
handful of arrests. Most people
walked and rode bicycles.
The Common Market nations
MY OPPONENT,
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(Paid Political Adv.)
tion at various hospitals today.
Two motorists who were
passed by the bus minutes
before the crash said it was
travelling between 80 and 100
miles an hour. But a Grey
hound spokesman refuted the
remarks, saying the bus had a
governor on the engine which
prevented it from exceeding 67
mph.
are meeting in Brussels today
and Tuesday to talk about
possible fuel-sharing to make
up for the Arabian cutback.
Love said the energy situa
tion in the United States would
have been tight even without
the Arab oil boycott.
“The areas that concern me
most are the East Coast,
particularly New York and New
England, and the upper Middle
West,” he said.
“It seems to me that perhaps
it would be easier to respond
quickly to the needs in New
England which could be served
by tankers,” Love said. “If the
upper Middle West, on the
other hand, is hit by a cold
winter, there will be serious
difficulty.”
“If the Arab boycott contin
ues for an extended period, and
the American people do not
take steps to conserve energy,
then additional government
action will be necessary or we
will, in fact, have blackouts or
brownouts,” Love said.
He said the United States had
been threatened with substan
tial fuel shortages even before
the war and the only immediate
answer “is to slow the increase
in demand.”
He said the administration is
considering several measures
to save gasoline and heating
oil, including lower highway
speed limits and a contingency
plan to ration heating oil.
Fugitive escaped
Mauldin blames police
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
(UPI) — Syndicated editorial
cartoonist Bill Mauldin,
stretched out on a hospital bed
because of back injuries suf
fered in an auto accident with
two police cars, looked up
momentarily and said “I
understand the fugitive got
away.”
He shook his head and said
the whole affair was the “usual
heavy-footed incompetence”
displayed by police chasing a
suspect.
“I feel like I’ve been kicked
in the back by a mule—which is
exactly what happened,” Maul
din said. “We were mousetrap
ped. One police car was
coming alongside us in the
dirt and another police car
rammed us from the rear.”
The incident began Saturday
night when police were called
to investigate a family trouble
call. When officer Charles
Swanberg arrived the man
allegedly causing the disturb
ance had left and, according to
witnesses, was drunk and was
carrying drugs.
Swanberg spotted the car he
was looking for and chased it at
speeds over 100 miles an hour
along an interstate highway.
Another officer Johnny Elms,
joined the chase.
Mauldin had just arrived
from Phoenix and his wife and
son met him with the family’s
small station wagon at the
airport for the drive to their
home in Santa Fe, N.M.
Mauldin lives in Santa Fe and
commutes to work to Chicago
during the week.
An Air Force family, towing
a trailer toward a new duty
assignment in Aurora, Colo.,
also happened to be on the
road.
Mauldin and the Air Force
motorist saw the flashing police
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lights in the rear view mirrors
and pulled to the side of the
road. But the suspect’s car ran
off the road, spun into the dirt
and hit a fence.
A third police car, ahead of
the first two, slowed down and
the cars driven by Swanberg
Prof gives
Carter
good grade
ATLANTA (UPI) - A
University of Tennessee
political science professor says
Gov. Jimmy Carter’s
reorganization effort has had a
significant and positive impact
on state government.
Dr. T. M. Simpson 111 spent
the summer studying Georgia’s
government and released a 33-
page report of his findings Sat
urday at the annual meet of the
Southern Political Science
Association.
He said Carter’s reorganiza
tion, which combined some 300
agencies, boards and bureaus in
to less than 30, has been far
reaching.
“There is no question that re
organization ... has had its costs
and will continue to have costs
as well as benefits,” he said.
“That reorganization has come
to be exaggerated by its pro
ponents as well as its opponents
does not alter the fact that re
organization has been signifi
cant.”
Simpson said Carter has also
“significantly improved Georg
ia’s cash management” through
new policies for banking the
state’s income.
Georgia was selected for the
study, Simpson said, because
Carter’s role seems to be more
pronounced than those of other
Southern governors.
and Elms crashed into the rear
of the cars driven by Mauldin
and the Air Force man.
“The oncoming officers tried
to stop but they couldn’t see
anything,” Officer Meliton
Otero said. “That is when they
struck the other two cars that
were stopped.”
Otero confirmed the suspect
escaped.
“In the dirt, the wreck and
confusion and all, he had it
made,” the accident investiga
tor said.
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Liz raises $200,000
AMSTERDAM (UPI) - A
weekend art auction hosted by
actress Elizabeth Taylor raised
1200,000 for widows and orphans
of Israelis killed in the 1973
Middle East war.
“The reason I am doing this
kind of Elizabeth Taylor stunt
for war victims is that we have
to care for those who are
bereaved,” Miss Taylor told
participants who paid SSO
apiece to attend.
“I am clearly pro-Israeli, but
even more pro-humanity,” she
said.