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Tuesday, December 13, 1977
University Daily Kansan
New gas hookups to be allowed
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission withdrew its threat yesterday to limit Cities Service Gas Co. from offering natural gas service to new customers after Jan. 1.
However, the commission left open the question of whether it would eventually impose a growth restriction on the company.
Cities Service serves Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. It has been under a commission order to limit its growth since June 14 but the commission currently is reconsidering the issue.
On. Sept. 30, the commission ordered Cities Service to submit a service schedule Jan. 1, 1978, and warned distributors they would be unable as service after that date at their own risk.
THAT SEEMED to mean the commission might apply the Jan. 1 service schedule as the actual growth limit. This would mean that the commission might eventually order gas service to customers added after that date cut off.
Yesterday's order removed that threat.
Churchill's wife dies in London of heart attack
By TAD BARTIMUS Associated Press Writer
LONDON-Lady Clementine Spencer-Churchill, for 57 years the wife and "darling Clemence" of Sir Winston Churchill, died of a attack at her home yesterday. She was 82.
Sir Winston, Britain's World War II prime minister who died in 1965 at the age of 90, wrote of his wedding in 1968: "I married and lived happily ever after. My marriage was the most fortunate and joyous event which happened to me. I love life, for it can be more glorious than to be in one's walk through life with a being incapable of an ignoble thought."
Lady Spencer-Churchill was stricter while lunching with her longtime secretary, Miss Nonie Chapman, at her apartment overlooking Hyde Park in the center of London. Her grandson, Winston Churchill, a member of Parliament, announced her death.
"This was very sudden." he said.
HE SAID she had no recent history of heart trouble, although she had been in failing health the past few years. He said he was recovering well; she had been remarkably well.
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She had a broken nose and stressed and looked forward to an afternoon drive when she collapsed and died, her grandson said. He said her funeral would be private and a memorial service would be held in early 1978. No date has been set for the funeral.
Last July, Lady Spencer-Churchill underwent abdominal surgery at London's King Edward VII hospital for an undisclosed aliment.
"But she was quite well after that," her grandson said. "In fact, she made a remarkable recovery. In recent weeks she had been quite well and strong and was up to doing everything she was looking forward to coming away and spending Christmas with us in the country."
THE YOUNGER Churchill is the son of Randolph Churchill, Sir Winston and Lady Spencer-Churchill's only son. Randolph was a writer and writer. He died in 1988 at age 37.
The couple had four daughters: Diana Churchill, twice-married, who died in 1963 from an overdose of sleeping pills; Sarah Churchill, an actress; Mary Churchill, who married prominent with political Sir Charles and Margaret Frances Churchill, who died at age 2.
Since her husband's death from a stroke, Lady Spencer-Churchill's only income has come from declining investments and the need to pay for her long week due every widow and widower in Britain.
BRITONS EXPRESSED shock and shame when they heard of her plight and suggested special legislation or a public appeal to provide for her needs. The proud aristocrat let it be known she deplored any such idea and it was dropped.
She was born April 1, 1885, to Sir Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche Hozier. She was known as a beauty in 1908 when, as a 23 year-old scaupita, she captured the eye of a young woman, whom they weed on Sept. 12, 1908, at St.Margaret's Church within sight and sound of big Ben.
apparently allowing continued service with any growth limit would not be retractive.
Commissioner Don Smith, the only one of the five commissioners to dissent, complained that the new policy means the commission is really starting from scratch in seeking a decision in this controversial case.
An announcement by the commission said its earlier order "cause uncertainty among Cities" customers and has led to unilateral decisions by others which have placed a cloud over future building activities and may not be reconciled with the public interest."
THE COMMISSION said it "may well conclude that no growth guidelines are in place."
The commission said it expected to decide the case some time within the next year, and would seek additional support.
*One of Cities' largest customers, General Motors Crop., has favored limiting Cities' growth in order to protect the gas supplies to itself and other existing customers.
distributors observe prudence in their marketing activities.
The commission's original order would have allowed Cities Service to add new customers, but only if gas was made available to them through abandonment of service, or fuel conservation by existing customers.
The commission had reasoned that with natural gas in short supply in recent years, adding additional customers would mean spreading the available supplies thinner during shortages, thus harming existing customers.
Cities Service has told the commission it is purchasing or developing new gas supplies and should not be subjected to a service-ordered limit on service growth.
KANAS CITY, Mo. (OUP) - City officials intend to send the Missouri Legislature a $1. million bill for lost convention business that would ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
"We're damn serious about this",
Councilman Joe Serviss told the Kansas City Star. "The state is going to pay, or at least to pay," the losses we're feeling from this bovetox.
KC seeks lost convention pay
The boycott is sponsored by The National Organization of Women. A huge list of organizations supporting the ERA has been formed in states in states that have ratified the amendment.
Since the boycott began, three large conventions scheduled to have taken place in Kansas City have been canceled and moved to pro-ERA states. City officials estimate the loss of those conventions will cost the city's economy $1.1 million.
"The ledger sheet will show the Jeff City group what they've cost Kansas City and the team. The document also shows how much."
WASHINGTON (AP)—Congressional leaders decided yesterday to adjourn the 1977 session Thursday and encouraged last week's vote on legislation funding bill need for a vote on that day.
The bill, to raise an additional $27 billion in payroll taxes during the next decade to keep Social Security solvent, is stymied by a proposal that would provide for tax credits for college tuition.
THERE WAS NO official movement yesterday to reconvene the House-Senate conference committee that broke up Friday night in disagreement over the $250 tax
credit after resolving all differences on SocialSecurity itself.
Hope still alive for Social Security bill
But discussions were going on behind the scenes. Members of the Senate Finance Committee were alerted to attend a closed-door informal meeting today with Social Security, among other legislation, on the agenda.
Chairman Al Ulman, D-Ore, of the House Ways and Means Committee, who is also the head House negotiator on Social Security, was due back in Washington today.
Chairman James Burke, D-Mass., of the Social Security subcommittee, asked all
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City officials have said they are ready to take the state to court to make it share in the cost of a lawsuit.
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"ST. LOUIS, Kansas City, any city in this state that has convention business will feel the effects of this boycott." Serviss said. "We are not forced to look for to ERA as a money matter."
members to urge the conferees to try again to reach agreement.
ALLOWING THE legislation, which is intended to keep Social Security from running out of reserves, to go over to 1978, he said, "just means more worry and anxiety for the elderly depending on their checks."
The City Council has gone on record supporting passage of the ERA—a fact especially upsetting to city officials angry about the state's stand. Serviss said he thinks state legislators must be made to see that the ERA is no longer an emotional issue.
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An effort will be made by council members this week, Serviss said, to give the city planners priority on the list of matters the city plans to lobby for next year in Jefferson City.
"The boycott will continue," Serviss said. "It will end up becoming a matter of survival, such as saving our Battle convention conventions and the Apache, because conventions keep canceling."
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