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Pres Ford promises decision by early '75 on whether pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to lower 48 states should traverse only US territory or run through Canada (S)
The House Rules Committee yesterday blocked the. six‐year, $11.8‐billion masstransit bill, but the committee chairman and supporters of the legislation predicted that the vote would be reversed today. Page 18.
Takes over insolvent Franklin Natl Bank on Oct 8; details (L)
Boston Mayor Kevin H White goes into Fed Dist Ct on Oct 8 and requests US marshals to keep order in dispute over school busing for integration; Judge W Arthur Garrity, who earlier in '74 ordered busing plan put into effect, schedules hearing for Oct 9; shortly after call for marshals, widespread stoning of cars by black youths erupts in previously quiet, predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood; 23 white persons and 13 blacks reptd injured; Boston Teachers Union asks that pss be closed on Oct 9 because of deterioriation of situation; school supt William J Leary rejects request; White says that he is requesting marshals because Boston police force is stretched 'razor thin' and that resentment over Tactical Patrol Force in S Boston is contributing to tension there; stresses that busing plan is result of Fed ct order and that it is up to ct to help implement it; trouble in Roxbury began with fights at previously all-black English HS; illus; black community leaders urged students not to go to S Boston HS after Oct 7 violence there and what they considered unsatisfactory meeting with White; NAACP files counter to White motion that appears to call for possible use of Natl Guard (L)
econ analysis of Pres Ford's econ program says problems of public utilities would be eased somewhat by both increase in investment tax credit and wholly new proposal for deductability to corps of divds on pfd stock (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 9, 1974, covering October 9, 1974.
Olivia Newton-John
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Barry White
Bad Company
Elton John
1974Keith Booth, American basketball player and coach[â ]
Keith Eugene Booth is an American basketball coach and former National Basketball Association (NBA) player. Booth played college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1993 to 1997. He was an assistant coach at his alma mater under Gary Williams from 2004 to 2011. He was also an assistant coach for G. G. Smith with the Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team.
1974Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi[â ]
Shmuel Herzfeld is an American Orthodox rabbi. He is the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivas Elimelech. He previously served as Senior Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., and before that as Associate Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. He is a teacher, lecturer, activist, and author.
1974Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (born 1908)[â ]
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[â ]