November 28, 1973

United Air Lines announces on Nov 27 that it will lay off almost 1,000 employes, including 300 pilots, as result of flight cutbacks resulting from fuel shortage; says lay-offs were planned prior to Pres Nixon's announcement of additional reductions in jet-fuel allocations, and that further layoffs might be necessary as result of President's actions; several major airlines rept they are also studying possible layoffs because of President's announcement that fuel allocations will be cut by 5% effective Dec 1 and additional 10% on Jan 7; airline sources speculate that total job reductions will exceed 5,000 by mid-Jaunary

The Senate approved legislation yesterday that would require that public funds, rather than private donations, pay for election campaigns for the Presidency and Congress. Details on Page 48.

A continuing boom in exports helped the United States register another large surplus in its foreign trade in October, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. Details on Page 61.

Minority group organizations — Hispanic, Oriental and American Indian, as well as black —have been exerting pressure on television stations in various parts of the country to ban from the air, or substantially edit, hundreds of motion pictures that they consider racially offensive.

HR on Nov 27 votes, 311-88, to put nation on yr-round daylight saving time for 1st time since World War II in move to conserve energy; bill, which now goes to Sen, would require clocks in every state but Hawaii to be turned ahead 1 hr starting at 2 AM on 1st Sunday that falls more than 15 days after enactment of bill; yr-round daylight saving time would be in effect for 2 yrs; while states would no longer have option of exempting themselves from daylight saving time, those states divided by time zone boundaries would be allowed to exempt 1 part of state from daylight saving time so that there would be uniform time for entire state; HR, by vote of 83-2, exempts Hawaii after Repr S M Matsunaga noted that his state was closest to equator and had relatively little variation in length of day between seasons; bill's floor mgr Repr H O Staggers, Dem, says that Interior Dept estimates that extra hr of daylight would save equivalent of 3% of nation's estimated energy shortage; critics of measure, including Repub Reprs H R Gross and T L Carter, argue that bill is 'gimmick'; say House Commerce Com in approving bill acknowledged there was no certainty that energy consumption would be reduced directly from yr-round daylight saving time