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High 86°, low 63°. 845-2226 etails of Phase 2 conomic program liSSi . 4 be given tonight ■■i r I WASHINGTON ^—President bixon will outline the details of Jis Phase 2 economic program in a live radio-television broadcast It 7:30 p.m. EDT today. 1 Announcing this Wednesday, White House said the Presi- lent will go on the air from his Iffice and will finish his talk |ithin half an hour. 1 Nixon thus will beat by more nan a week the mid-October leadline he set some time ago Jbr laying out the program that Ml replace the current 90-day fage-price-rent freeze. Government sources reported _hat the Cost of Living Council, ne agency Nixon set up to ad- iiinister the wage-price freeze, |appears destined to be the chief folicymaking unit in the post- freeze program. However, these sources said Nixon could change his mind overnight about continuing the council, a group of top govern ment officials headed by Secre tary of the Treasury John B. Connally. A Senate committee voted unanimously Wednesday to give federal employes a pay raise of up to 6 per cent on Jan. 1 if Nixon’s new rules permit private industry to raise salaries after Nov. 13. Nixon has said Phase 2 will cover all segments of the econo my but he also has indicated it will focus on the larger indus tries and labor unions. He also has said that while it will feature voluntary coopera tion “it is also essential that there be government sanctions to back it up, and there will be.” Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, told the House Banking Committee Wednesday that a nongovernment wage-price review board should be set up to prevent what he called excessive price increases. Woodcock said such a board, composed of industry, labor and the public, will be organized la bor’s price for cooperation with Phase 2. On the labor front Nixon or dered the Justice Department to apply for a Taft-Hartley injunc tion against the Pacific Coast dockworkers strike. The court order would direct the workers to return to their jobs while con tract negotiations continue during an 80-day cooling off period. In cluded in the President’s order was a labor dispute at the port of Chicago. Similar strikes along the South ires damage two hotels in downtown Dallas area .rapes Lbs. TORES TER DALLAS (A*)—A fire broke lut in a downtown Dallas hotel ust before noon Wednesday, and fter the guests had been evacu- ted and the blaze brought under ontrol, a second fire flared at | hotel across the street. “The two fires coming together that—we need to sit down md evaluate things. Investiga tors are now working in both iotels,” said Capt. W. L. Calquitt, anking officer among the more than 100 firemen attacking the ires. The first and larger fire broke ut at Baker Hotel, and the sec- nd erupted at the Adolphus. About 125 United Daughters of he Confederacy were sitting lown for lunch in the Terrace loom on the Baker’s 17th floor ''hen fire broke out near them, fhey fled. Clouds of smoke billowed from the Baker, and air currents from the heat sent burning embers and broken glass showering down on to Akard Street, one of two thor oughfares passing between the Baker and Adolphus. The fire first was sighted by a passerby on Commerce Street, which also is between the two hotels. The Adolphus fire was found by two hotel stenographers work ing on the fourth floor. It was confined to a storage area. Capt. Calquitt said he would have no estimate of the Baker’s damage until later, but said it would be “hundreds of thousands of dollars.” Most of the damage was to the Peacock Terrace Room, a restaurant and ballroom. One guest at the Baker, Mrs. Paul Jones, 63, and her daugh ter, Mrs. Paula Tucker, both of Bryan, Tex., had registered a few minutes before the fire was seen. The two had gone to their room. on the 17th floor when they heard a commotion and stepped out to see smoke billowing through the hallway. The mother and daughter made their way down stairs to the lob by. Mrs. Jones, who fled her 17th floor room, was taken to a hos pital. The Baker lobby was used as a first aid station. Several peo ple lay on sofas. One was a wo man who walked down 15 floors and suffered smoke inhalation. One fireman was overcome by smoke on the 18th floor and had to be passed to the ground by relays because the stairwell is too narrow for stretchers. He was rushed to a hospital. A second fireman, also overcome, recov ered on reaching fresh air. • • Whitehead proposes revision of the electronic media laws NEW YORK _ Clay T. Whitehead, President Nixon’s di rector of the Office of Telecom munications Policy, propose d Wednesday a sweeping revision of the laws regulating radio and television. He proposed new regulations to e ud the chaos developing over & ccess to television time and li- cense renewals, and suggested that commercial radio be removed from some regulations. In a speech before the Inter national Radio & Television So- cicty, Whitehead proposed: The elimination of the Fair- n fi ss Doctrine and enactment by on gress of a statutory right of necess. —That license renewal process be changed to get the government out of programming. That the Federal Communica tions Commission recognize radio as a completely different medium from television and begin to re move it from regulation. Whitehead said the framework of relationships between broad casting, the government, and the public must be revised or it will result in continued chaos over re newing licenses and the fight o\ei access to air time. He warned, “The Fairness Doc trine and other access mechan isms are also getting out of hand. It is a quagmire of government program control and once we get into it we can only sink deeper . . . All Aggie Rodeo will begin tonight he annual All Aggie Rodeo ^ \ he held tonight and the fol- two nights at the Bryan p 60 Arena, two miles north of tyaii on Tabor Road. The rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. ® a ch night with six events for en and one for women. The ev euts, open only to Aggies, men !\. c °eds, are bareback bronc ! m e> saddle bronc riding, bull 1 3n g, calf roping, ribbon roping, ” steer wrestling for men. °uien will compete in the barrel racing event. racing event immediately follow ing the rodeo. Calf dressing will be the special event for the Corps outfits and dorm organizations. Each team will have three mem bers with a maximum of two teams per outfit or dorm. The fastest time will win a trophy for the team. Gold and silver belt buckles will be awarded in each event with a saddle going to the All-Around Cowboy. This award will be de termined by the highest total of points earned in two or more events. A Hard-Luck Cowboy and Cowgirl award will also be given. The courts are on the way to making the broadcaster a govern ment agent.” He said the coui’ts are making the First Amendment “whatever the FCC decides it is.” Whitehead proposed that tele vision time be set aside for sale on a first-come, first-served basis. “The individual would have a right to speak on any matter, whether it’s to sell razor blades or urge an end to the war,” he said. “The licensee should not be held responsible for the content of ads, beyond the need to guard against illegal material.” He said the criterion for re newal under his proposal would be whether the broadcaster has made a good faith effort to determine local needs and interests and meet them in his programming. “There should be a longer TV license period with the license re vocable for cause and the FCC would invite or entertain compet ing applications only when a li cense is not renewed or is re voked,” he said. At present li censes are for a three-year period. Whitehead said he sent a let ter Monday to Dean Burch, chair man of the FCC, proposing that the Office of Telecommunca- tions Policy and the FCC jointly develop an experiment to de regulate commercial radio. He suggested an experiment in one or more large cities. He proposed that programming not be reviewed for license re newal, that the Fairness Doctrine be suspended, and that “we should ultimately treat radio as we now treat magazines.” Atlantic and Gulf coasts ap peared to be waning slightly in the face of expected Taft-Hartley action. However, Nixon ordered fed eral officials to go to New York City to try to seek a settlement of the East and Gulf coast dis putes without resort to Taft- Hartley injunctions. Shipping sources reported that longshoremen were flocking back to work and full dock operations were under way in Port Arthur, Brownsville, Corpus Christi and Orange, Tex., as well as in Lake Charles, La. Longshoremen in Houston and Galveston, Tex., had ignored the strike order from the start. Shippers in New York said longshoremen also were working in Miami and Port Everglades, Fla., and were permitting con signees to pick up shipments on piers in Mobile, Ala., and Tampa, Fla. There still appeared no signs of a break in the soft-coal strike which has idled 80,000 miners in 20 states. It centers on a union demand that the top daily wage be boosted from $37 to $50 while fringe benefits are increased. Immediate legislation is needed in the field of abortion, states Sen. Tom Creighton Wednesday at a noon Political Forum presentation. Creighton emphasized the need for comprehensive state abortion laws. (Photo by Joe Matthews) Urgently, Creighton says State abortion legislation needed By SUZZANNE HORN “We are not here to discuss whether we like or dislike abor tion but rather to treat the num ber two health problem in this country as a fact that does exist” said State Sen. Tom Creighton, presenting his constituent’s side of the abortion reform bill at Political Forum Wednesday. The senator, in quoting directly from his speech on March 29, 1971, to the Texas Public Health Commission, said “We do not want to promote or condemn abor tion but to face the reality of the urgency of immediate legislation”. “In contemporary society where men and women want to control the planning of their families, it is their constitutional right to have privacy in marriage, sex and the ligitimacy of abortion,” said the senator. The state anti-abortion law which forbids legal abortion ex cept in the case of endangering the life of the mother has been declared unconstitutional in a re cent Dallas court hearing, Creigh ton commented. “If this ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court, total unregulated abortion control will be implemented,” he said. “The purpose of our bill (sec. 553) is two-fold: first to increase the maximum penalty for per forming illegal abortion from two to five years, second to deprive the illegal abortionist of his vic tim.” A&M Laundry pick up times are changed The University Laundry has announced a change in the pick up schedule for all students living in dorms or off campus. Students whose last names be gin with A, B, or C will now pick up their laundry on Wednesday after 3:00 p.m. instead of on Tues day. Students whose names begin with D, E, F, G and H will pick their laundry up on Thursday. I, J, K, L and M students will receive their laundry on Friday. Students whose names begin with N, O, P, Q and R now have to wait until Monday. The pick up day for S-Z students is Tuesday. The turn in time schedule for all students will remain the same. Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. More specifically the senator cited the conditions of this bill as “encompassing married and unmarried women over age 16 requiring only maternal consent and specifying no limit on the stage of pregnancy.” The prob ability that the above specifica tions would have to be modified was acknowledged by Creighton in drafting the following amend ment: “clinical abortions must be preformed within 12 weeks of pregnancy except to save the life of the mother.” In building his argument the senator quoted statistically that “four in every legal, medical abortions were fatal, whereas one in every three victims of illegal abortions required medical treat ment. Furthermore, 20 to 50 per cent of all maternity related deaths were due to illegal abor tions.” “The poor are the pathethic victims of the common “quack” abortionist they are often un able to pay for the ensuing medi cal attention so often required”, commented the senator. “None of the pressure groups advocate strict implementation of the anti-abortion laws” said Creighton in questioning the cre dibility gap. “It is not a matter of public concern for the unborn child or a blatant contradiction of social law that promotes the continua tion of the vague and overpro- tective Texas anti-abortion law,” noted Creighton. He considered the greatest ob stacle to abortion reform “ia re ligious question were one group tries to inflict its moral code on the rest of society.” For those that believe that abortion reform should be taken step by step in first passing a therapeutic law, Creighton argued that “in states where the law per mitted therapeutic abortions there had been no reduction in illegal abortions owing to the fact that those eligible under the law are either victims of rape or incest or mothers of potentially de formed children which are propor tionately negligible numbers.” When the floor was opened to questions the senator was asked if the open abortion laws would worsen the possibility of adopting unwanted children. “I feel that the pill is what is responsible for the limited num ber of adoptive children, not the open abortion laws, but this is not really the issue, it is a matter of personal freedom and the de gree of limitation.” The question of morality, more specifically what determines life and what are the implications of the passage of such a law in re lation to mercy killings, was the most common question asked the senator. He answered as he had in the past, “Our constituency is not burdened by the same under lying moral ‘hang-ups’.” Anti-pollution clearance asked of EPA by Ford WASHINGTON <A>> _ The En vironmental Protection Agency requested legal action Wednesday against Ford Motor Co., accusing the company of violating the Clean Air Act by shipping new cars to dealers before the cars received anti-pollution clearance. Ford conceded it shipped 207,- 500 uncertified vehicles, with pre- 'cautions to prevent their sale until they were cleared, but said the practice had EPA approval. In theory, Ford could be fined up to $10,000 for each vehicle found in violation of the law—a total of more than $2 billion—but Environmental Protection Admin istrator William D. Ruckelshaus said he was not seeking heavy fines against the company. Ruckelshaus wrote to the Jus tice Department on Oct. 4 re questing that it sue Ford, pri marily to establish a legal prece dent that would bar similar pre mature shipments in the future. “Effective enforcement of mot or vehicle emission standards will be substantially more diffi cult if the Clean Air Act is con strued to permit manufacturers to transport uncertified or non complying vehicles in interstate commerce to distributors or deal ers,” he wrote. But he added that because there had been no “formal judicial or agency pronouncement” on the issue earlier and because Ford tried to prevent sale of uncerti fied vehicles, “we do not believe it would be appropriate to seek a high level of monetary dam ages.” Ruckelshaus added, “it does not appear that the facts pertinent to this litigation will be disputed,” but on that point Ford officials seemed to disagree. A Ford spokesman said the company had oral but not written approval from EPA for the now- criticized shipments. Both Ford and the EPA agreed that the problem stems from the late promulgation of new federal standards to limit pollution-caus ing auto exhausts in the 1972 models. The standards were issued last November and EPA said all the major automakers had trouble getting sample vehicles tested and approved in time to begin dis tributing new cars to dealers. Early morning hospital fire causes no damage to building Several students on the north side of campus were awakened for their first class by the sounds of sirens about 7:30 a.m. Wednes day. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. A wastebasket fire at the Uni versity Hospital, the cause of the alarm, was out by the time three units had arrived from the College Station Fire Department. Though an exhaust fan had to be used to rid the building of smoke, Fire Chief Woody Sevison said the fire caused no damage or injury.
