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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
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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.