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“there’s more gas in Sperry ville than anywhere else in the world.”
THE EMPORIUM is conserving gas in its delivery runs. “We used to send a couple of truckloads a week, just for two or three stops. Now we go every 10 days to two weeks, but we wait until the truck has a full load.”
The real crisis hasn’t confronted them yet, Hitt said, making a point in which several other businessmen concurred. “Much of our weekly traffic between April and November is long-range— people from far away like California. I fear we won’t have many of them. But we’ll have to wait until April to tell. “Yeah, things look better, but I’m making no judgement based on four weekends . It’s surely not over. ’ ’ □
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