F.P.C. SEEKS DATA ON GAS RESERVES; Rules, 3-2, That Producers Must Reveal Figures
Date: 06 February 1974
By Washington Star-News
Washington Star-News
FPC votes to force individual natural gas producers to make public extent of natural gas reserves, reversing position it took in Oct '73 when it ruled that such date was valuable trade secret and that making it public 'without due compensation would most certainly be inimical to competition'; concludes public right to information outweighs private proprietary interest; decision is made specifically in connection with refusal of 4 cos to provide information, as other producers have already done; Comr Don S Smith, in siding with Chmn John N Nassikas and Comr William L Springer, casts key vote; strong dissent of Comrs Rush Moody Jr and Albert B Brooke Jr noted (M)
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Business Briefs; Congress Gets Savings and Loan Bill Savings Units Report Deposit Inflow Savings Bond Sales Nearly Double Datsun and Other Prices Going Up
Date: 06 February 1974
By Washington Star-News
Washington Star-News
HLBB sends to Cong legis that would establish class of Fed chartered stock savings and loan assns and allow their conversion from depositor-owned to common stock ownership; HLBB chmn Thomas Bomar tells US League of Savings Assns that bill would bar takeover of savings and loan units by bank holding cos by requiring would-be buyer to be on approved list (M)
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SOUTH KOREA BANS A JAPANESE DAILY
Date: 05 February 1974
Special to The New York Times
South Korean Govt on Feb 4 bans distribution in South Korea of leading Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun on ground that it has published articles 'unfriendly and unfair' to South Korea; Mm of Culture spokesman Kim Dong Ho specifically complains that newspaper carried in its Jan 30 edition commentary written by pro-Communist Korean resident in Japan which 'maliciously defamed' Korean Const and Pres Park Chung Hee's decree of Jan 8 banning any criticism of S Korea's present pol structure
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COAST PROSECUTORS CONFER WITH KROGH
Date: 06 February 1974
Special to The New York Times
attys from office of Dist Atty Joseph L Busch on Feb 4 talk for 6 hrs in Washington with former White House aide Egil Krogh Jr, as he begins serving 6-mo prison sentence for his role in '71 burglary of office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding; is reptdly 1st time Los Angeles prosecutors discussed operation with Krogh
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Long Island Press Now 10c
Date: 05 February 1974
Long Island Press on Feb 4 raises price of weekday paper from 5c to 10c, attributing increase to rising production and distribution costs
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Judge Signs Order for Nixon Testimony in Trial; 2 Others Join in Request Krogh Suspended as Lawyer Egil Krogh Jr. was accompanied by his wife, Suzanne, as he arrived to surrender at U.S. District Court yesterday.
Date: 05 February 1974
Washington State Sup Ct on Feb 4 suspends former White House aide Egil Krogh Jr from practice of law until final disposition of disciplinary action proceedings against him by state bar assn
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Budget Reflects Impact Of the Watergate Case; 46 Per Cent Increase Presidential Residences
Date: 05 February 1974
Special to the New York Times
Pres Nixon's fiscal '75 budget contains less money for disaster assistance than previous yr's (S)
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