| Larry Powell: SF mayor's wife, heiress and gasoline were hard to find in '74 02/05/2001 By Larry Powell / The Dallas Morning News Good morning, time-travelers. Today we visit The Dallas Morning News of Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1974.
• FRONT PAGE NEWS – The big missing-person news was that Angelina Genaro Alioto, a former Dallas resident wed in 1941 to San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, had been missing since Jan. 20. (Aside: The really big disappearance of Feb. 4 was not yet released to the press: the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, 19, from her Berkeley apartment. President Bill Clinton pardoned Ms. Hearst for her bank robbery conviction arising from her association with her kidnappers, the Symbionese Liberation Army.) ... As the energy crisis, a result of the Arab oil embargo, gripped the nation, the Dallas City Council gave Dallas Power & Light Co. the nod to help build a $777 million nuclear power plant at Glen Rose. (Aside: Comanche Peak nuclear power plant began operating in 1990.)... President Richard Nixon proposed a record $304.4 billion deficit budget that he said would "avert recession, curb unemployment and fight inflation." It included funding for 30 lawyers and aides to help him in the Watergate case.
• INSIDE NEWS –Former White House aide Egil Krogh reported to federal prison for a six-month sentence in a Watergate-related case and said he knew nothing that would implicate Nixon in Watergate.
• COMMERCIAL BREAK – Southwest Airlines, advertising "Love is still our Field," charged $30 for round-trip "Pleasure Class Flights" to Houston's Hobby Airport. Braniff charged $15 for coach from Love to Hobby. ... Titche's department stores sold women's bell-bottom denim pants for $25. ... Jobs: switchboard trainee, $500 monthly; keypunch operator, $3.50 per hour. ... 1974 cars: Plymouth Duster, $3,399; Cadillac Sedan DeVille, $7,685.44; Mazda RX-2 Coupe, $3,795. ...For sale: a three-bedroom home with "8 acres of elbow room" south of LBJ near Preston Road, $120,000; a three-bedroom home on four acres in Plano for $76,900. Also for sale: A three-bedroom cottage with "great remodeling possibilities." That Highland Park price? "Upper $30s."
• LOCAL NEWS – The energy crisis had resulted in Dallas having just one all-night filling station, W.D. Tacker's Texaco in East Dallas – daytime customers were limited to 10 gallons, night customers to $2 worth, less than two gallons. ... The Dallas City Council agreed to study a Main Street Mall proposal to limit traffic to buses and pedestrians. ... Texan Anne Armstrong, President Nixon's liaison to the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, said Dallas was lagging in Bicentennial planning. And she said, "The Bicentennial is filling a need – the need to counteract disillusionment, cynicism and loss of confidence."
• THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT – At the movies: Al Pacino was in Serpico at NorthPark, Paul Newman and Robert Redford were in The Sting at the Medallion, Barbra Streisand and Mr. Redford were in The Way We Were at Park Forest, and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, from Richard Bach's hit novel about a bird, was at the Casa Linda. ... On TV: Happy Days, Maude, and Marcus Welby, M.D. ... Dining out: The Copper Cow Restaurants' "Prime Rib Rebellion" – $2.95 for prime rib and endless salad.
• EPILOGUE –Mrs. Alioto returned home on Tuesday and said she had disappeared because her husband needed "a little punishment." (Aside: They divorced in 1977.) She said she'd been on a tour of missions. "If one wants to escape and not see one's friends, go to a church."
Larry Powell can be reached at 214-977-8487; P.O. Box 655237, Dallas, TX 75265, fax 214-977-8319 or at .
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