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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 10, 1973
THE BATTALION
Congress To Act On Intrastate Sales
Southwest To Be Hit Hardest For Gas
HOUSTON UP)—A consulting
engineer who is studying the
nation’s natural gas shortage
said Tuesday the Southwest’s
option of using or selling its own
gas may be lost in the near
future.
D. N. McClanahan of Houston
said it is likely the Southwest
will "bear the brunt of natural
gas curtailment.”
In a speech before the Natural
Gas Men of Houston, McClana
han said it is generally conceded
the new Congress will act on
significant gas legislation and
that some of the proposals will
involve intrastate gas sales.
Some of the proposals involv
ing intrastate gas, he said, likely
will include some manner of fed
eral control over such sales.
Much of the natural gas pro
duced in Texas is sold within
the state and is not under the
Federal Power Commission’s au
thority to control the wellhead
prices of gas sold into interstate
commerce. Spme consumer spokes
men in the East, West and North
have long suggested the FPC be
given jurisdiction over intrastate
sales so as to bolster supplies for
those areas.
“I think we would be kidding
ourselves if we didn’t consider
that some of the gas consuming
areas will consider the intrastate
gas volume in the Southwest as
a proper additional source of gas
for the interstate gas markets,”
McClanahan said.
He said some congressional
proposals "could take the form of
end use controls.”
All this means, he said, is that
the Southwest’s industrial fuel
supply is vulnerable.
"In the near future the South
west won’t even have the option
to use or not to use its own gas
such as it has had in the past,”
he said.
McClanahan said this year’s
natural gas shortage of about
3.4 trillion cubic feet is expected
to increase to 5.1 trillion cubic
feet by 1975. These figures did
not take into account, however,
possible increased imports of
liquefied natural gas.
McClanahan made his observa
tions as both the FPC and the
Texas Railroad Commission were
taking actions aimed at giving
homes top priority for gas sup
plies.
The FPC on Monday proposed
a system of rationing scarce sup
plies to give first priority to
homes and to commercial con-
Also on Monday, the Texas oil
and gas regulatory commission
issued an order establishing pri
orities for homes, hospitals,
schools, churches and other "hu
man needs” in the event of gas
service curtailment in the state.
McClanahan said such priori
ties could mean the curtailment
of gas service to the industrial
segment of the nation could reach
as high as 30 per cent of indus
trial demand.
Abominable’s Prints Found?
KATMANDU, Nepal (A 3 ) — A
U. S. expedition has made three
plaster casts of ape-like foot
prints found in the area of the
Himalayas where natives have
reported seeing the Abominable
Snowman.
The casts have been placed
under lock and key at the U. S.
Embassy here.
A young American zoologist
who cast the strange footprints
said they were different from
tracks of known animals his ex
pedition discovered thousands of
feet high in the snow of a Hima
layan valley.
“Our Sherpa guides identified
them as those of Yeti,” said the
scientist, Jeffrey A. McNeely,
28, of Los Angeles.
“Yeti” is what the Sherpas,
strong Nepalese mountain people
who guide foreign mountaineer
ing expeditions in the Himalayas,
call the legendary being intro
duced to the world in 1951 by
British journalist Eric Shipton
as the Abominable Snowman.
Many Sherpas claim they have
seen him.
Outsiders have never seen the
creature, although a handful
starting with Shipton have photo
graphed unexplained footprints.
McNeely’s casts are the first re
ported taken of such tracks.
McNeely’s team of American
zoologists, ornithologists and bot
anists is on a 15-month expedition
in the Himalayas’ Arul Valley,
about 50 miles east of Mt. Ever
est, the world’s highest mountain.
The expedition is to study animals
and plants of eastern Nepal, in
cluding the Ye can be
found.
McNeely, a Peace Corps volun
teer based in Thailand, said in an
interview the footprints resem
bled those of a mountain gorilla
found 14,000 feet high among the
peaks of central Africa.
He said the prints were almost
Batt News Summary
WASHINGTON UP) _ Whole
sale farm prices, which are large
ly exempt from federal price con
trols, skyrocketed 6.8 per cent in
December for the biggest month
ly jump in more than a quarter
of a century, the government said
Tuesday.
At the White House, a spokes
man said of the higher farm
prices: “We’re going to take steps
to deal with it.”
WASHINGTON — Adm. Thom
as H. Moore said Tuesday the
12-day bombing blitz of Hanoi
and Haipong effectively curtailed
North Vietnam’s ability to wage
war in the South.
The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff also told news
men the Pentagon has contingency
plans for more bombing but said
"I, like everyone else, hope a
settlement can be reached” at the
Paris peace talks.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme
Court gave the government power
Tuesday to seize the private
records of taxpayers if they have
been turned over to an accountant.
"There exists no legitimate ex
pectation of privacy,” said Justice
Lewis F. Powell Jr. in the 7-2
decision, unless the transfer was
temporary.
The ruling went against a rest
aurant owner under investigation
by the Internal Revenue Service.
NEW ORLEANS—Police Supt.
Clarence Giarrusso said ballistics
tests proved the weapon found
beside a dead sniper who killed
six persons was the same .44
Magnum used to kill a young
police cadet and wound another
policeman on New Year’s Eve.
Giarrusso also identified the
sniper, killed by riflemen from a
helicopter Sunday night, as Mark
Essex, 24, of Emporia, Kan., said
to have been living in the New
Orleans area about six months.
WASHINGTON — A jury of
eight women and four men was
selected Tuesday to hear the trial
of seven men charged with break
ing into Democratic National
Headquarters last summer.
The panel, which includes seve^i
black and one white; woman anjl
three black and one white man,
was agreed to by opposing at
torneys after two days of sifting
through an initial group of about
250, almost all of whom said they
had prior knowledge of the high
ly publicized case.
WASHINGTON — A direct
challenge to the House’s rigid
seniority system of promotion has
been hurled by a quiet, conserva
tive Republican, John N. Erlen-
born of Illinois. Meanwhile, Sen
ate Republicans broke with a 127
year tradition Tuesday and for
mally sacked seniority in deter
mining their ranking members on
committees.
The step was taken at a secret
afternoon meeting of the Senate
Republican Conference.
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Two members of the expedition
—t-Dr. Howard Emery, 34, a Los
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and Ted Cronin, 27, an ornithol
ogist from Wilmington, Del.—
found the footprints on Dec. 20,
McNeely said.
They had camped at 12,500 feet
the night before and discovered
the tracks the next morning,
passing as close as a foot from
their tent. He said the two scien
tists had heard nothing during
the night.
Notified of the discovery, Mc
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