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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, December 11, 1973
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First White House Tapes
Delivered to Jaworski
MARCUS NALL, TAMU senior marketing student of
Apt. 278, Plantation Oaks, was awakened at 2:07 this morn-
ngwhen flames from his burning bed singed his leg. Randy
ichards, a roommate, threw the burning mattress out the
jvindow. Fire Chief Douglas Landua said the one-alarm
lire damaged the mattress and springs and the carpet be-
ieath the bed. (Photo by Steve Ueckert)
Short Term
Bike Plans
Vesented
Bicycles and their role on the
ampus will be discussed by the
University Traffic Panel Wed-
resday.
In an effort to provide a more
ophisticated system for bicy-
ilists, the Student Government
Campus Planning Committee has
:ompiled a list of proposed
ihanges to the current bicycle
•egulations.
These changes include using
registration stickers instead of
license plates, discontinuing bi-
ycle registration cards, incor
porating bicycle registration with
the preregistration process, al
lowing bicycles to be parked on
the mall, implementing the pro
posed bicycle pathway around the
mall, making ramps at curbs and
adding more bike racks.
"There are 15,000 registered
bikes on the campus,” said Stu
dent Services Chairperson Steve
Wakefield. “It’s time there was
change in attitude between the
cyclist and the pedestrian for a
lot safer campus.”
Wakefield said that there were
0 plus bicycle rack spaces avail
able in storage which were
bought last year. He also said
26 bikes had been stolen this se
mester, 11 of which had been re
covered and needed to be claimed.
‘‘All suggestions are short term
and are intended just to get us
by until 1976 when long range
campus plans go into effect,”
said Wakefield.
In reference to the energy
crisis, Wakefield said it was not
his responsibility to encourage
bike riders on the TAMU cam
pus.
“But there is no reason in the
world not to have better facili
ties available for a period like
this,” concluded Wakefield.
Corporate Profit Seekers
Said to Overprice Food
WASHINGTON <AP) — A gov
ernment study made last year
showed that 13 types of food
products were overpriced in super
markets by a total of $2.08 bil
lion, a spokesman for a consumer
group said Monday.
John Hightower, coordinator of
the Food Action Campaign, a lob
bying group founded last summer,
told the Senate monopoly subcom
mittee that a Federal Trade Com
mission staff study “revealed that
monopoly power” in the farm ma
chinery industry alone added an
extra $251 million to the price at
the retail level for farmers.
In testimony, Hightower, for
mer Democratic Sen. Fred Harris
of Oklahoma and Kay Pachtner of
the California Food Action Cam
paign said corporate giants domi
nating the food industry are in
terested solely in profits and not
efficiency, productivity, quality or
price competition.
An FTC staff member, Russell
C. Parker, testified “a very sig
nificant cause of high food prices
is monopoly and oligopoly in the
U. S. food industries.”
Parker said later Monday that
the FTC study shows “monopoly
per
margins” ranging from 7.31
cent for soft drinks to 3.1 per
cent for meat packers. Reducing
the calculations to what extra
amount an individual shopper
pays because of “monopoly over
charging” was not done and would
involve many specifics and as
sumptions, he said.
Sen. James Abourezk, D-S.D.,
said that because of “the threat
to the food industry” from giant
monopolies, “consumers pay more,
perhaps as much as $3 billion an
nually, for products that have less
and less nutritional quality and
taste.”
WASHINGTON (A>)_President
Nixon’s Operation Candor con
tinued Monday with the dis
closure that “a significant num
ber” of White House tapes were
turned over to special Water
gate prosecutor Leon Jaworski
during the weekend.
In addition, the special prose
cutor received on Monday tapes
of two subpoenaed Watergate
conversations from U.S. District
Judge John J. Sirica.
The two deliveries marked the
first time presidential tapes have
been turned over to thfe prose
cutor’s office.
The White House delivered the
tapes the same weekend it re
leased a mass of documentation
relating to President Nixon per
sonal finances.
Neither Jaworski nor the White
House would say which tapes
were delivered on Saturday.
“We have asked for these and
we have insisted they be delivered
to us and they were delivered,”
Jaworski said. He added that
there were “still some outstand
ing requests for tapes from the
White House.”
Deputy White House Press
Secretary Gerald L. Warren said
he would “prefer to maintain the
confidentiality” of dealings with
the prosecutor.
Jaworski’s office said the tapes
received from the White House
“will be carefully analyzed. Such
of these as contain information
material to the special prosecu
tor’s investigations will be pre
sented to the grand jury without
delay.”
In addition, an announcement
said, “A substantial number of
documents requested by the spe
cial prosecutor were also delivered
and assurances have been given
by White House counsel that
searches now are in progress for
other documents for which re
quests are outstanding.”
Sirica gave Jaworski copies of
White House tapes of conversa
tions of March 13 and 22, 1973,
which had been subpoenaed last
July.
All the subpoenaed Watergate
tapes, except for two the White
House says never existed, were
turned over to Sirica three weeks
ago.
The White House asserted a
claim of executive privilege in
asking that all or part of three
of the tapes be withheld from the
Watergate grand jury on grounds
they contained nothing’ related to
W atergate.
No claims of executive privi
lege were asserted for the two
March conversations given Ja
worski by Sirica.
Sirica gave Jaworski copies
after he and his clerk verified
they were identical to the original
tapes, still in the judge’s posses
sion.
They both involved conversa
tions between the President and
aides, including John W. Dean
III, then White House counsel.
Dean told the Senate Water
gate committee that during the
meeting on March 13 the Presi
dent said he had approved offer
ing executive clemency to Water
gate conspirator E. Howard Hunt
and that Nixon also said it would
be no problem to raise $1 million
to buy the silence of the seven
original Watergate defendants.
Students asked for suggestions
Bus Route Input Needed
For those students, staff and
faculty who did not ride the uni
versity shuttle buses last semes
ter, now is the time to make de
sires known for next semester’s
service.
The Shuttle Bus Committee is
currently conducting a survey to
determine if enough ridership in
terest can be generated to add
Time it was
And what a time it was.
It was. . .
A time of innocence;
A time of confidences.
Long ago it must be,
I have a photograph.
Preserve your memories,
They’re all that’s left you.
—Paul Simon
(Photo by Steve Ueckert)
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any additional routes or expand
current ones for next semester.
Charles Powell, chairman of the
committee, stated potential riders
need to be identified in relatively
contiguous areas. If anyone is in
terested, they chould call 845-
3112, 845-1741 or 845-1913 and
give the following information:
name, residence address and tele
phone number.
Powell noted the information
would then be plotted on maps to
determine the economic feasibility
of establishing routes to service
these new riders. He explained to
add one additional route for eight
hours per day, a ridership of at
least 400 personnel would be need
ed. Semester charges for the ser
vice are $9 for individual students,
$12 for student husband-wife (one
must be a student) and $11 for
faculty-staff.
Service cannot be guaranteed
to each requestor Powell said. But
he did emphasize that in light of
the current energy situation every
effort will be made to establish
routes within economic reason
that would be of assistance to
University personnel.
Texas Prodigy Van Cliburn
Played Carnegie Hall at Age 13
Oil Yet Claims Federal Policy
Should Take Part of Fuel Blame
By KATHY YOUNG
Lack of exploration, a Middle
East crisis, increased demand due
to anti-pollution devices and en
vironmentalists led to the gaso
line shortage in the U.S., said A.
B. Nichols.
Nichols ’57, is a 16-year veteran
in oil production for a major oil
company. He is now based in
Houma, La., working with off
shore drilling rigs.
He feels the government has in
terfered with the production of
oil and is in part responsible for
the present shortage. In 1954 the
Federal Power Commission was
given the authority to set the
Price of natural gas at the well
head by the Supreme Court.
This reduced the oil companies’
incentive to explore for oil since
the prices couldn’t rise as dictated
by supply and demand, continued
Nichols.
Secondly, the depletion allow
ance which gives the oil companies
a tax break was decreased from
27 per cent to 20 per cent, said
Nichols. This tax break helps the
oil companies spend money on ex
ploration which often results in
no new oil sources.
There is a time lag between ex
ploration, development in the oil
field and getting the gasoline on
the market. This time lag may be
as long as several years from
drilling to the pipeline.
“Up until this time a reserve,
amounting to gasoline needed for
several years, has been main
tained,” said Nichols. “The Fed
eral Railroad Commission set
quotas on the amount of oil a
company can sell and the rest
goes into a reserve. This reserve
is now dwindling because demand
has outstripped supply.”
The increase in demand is due,
in part, to inefficient engines,
said Nichols. This inefficiency is
caused by the introduction of
pollution control devices which
use more gasoline for fewer miles
than older models.
He feels automobile manufac
turers should use smaller engines
and mass transit systems should
be encouraged.
“Environmentalists stopped de
velopment and the exploration for
oil which would have eased the
demand if they had been allowed
to explore in some areas,” said
Nichols.
Eight years ago the search for
oil began in Alaska but it was
halted by the lobbying of environ
mentalists in Congress, continued
Nichols. “The crisis wouldn’t be
as severe if we had the Alaska
pipeline years ago,” emphasized
Nichols.
Environmentalists also stopped
exploration off the coast of Cali
fornia because of the fear of
pollution by an oil spill.
“Oil is a biodegradable natural
resource and pollution is not a
direct result from exploring for
oil,” said Nichols.
Oil spill pollution is not lasting,
it will decompose.
“Arab oil is cheaper than the cost
of exploring for oil so we bought
their oil because a profit could
be made,” said Nichols.
Nichols said the oil companies
knew of the impending shortage
and tried to get their message to
the people with the advertise
ment: “A nation that runs on oil
can’t afford to run short.”
Fountain
Services
Slated
Christmas services by the Stu
dent Y Association will be con
ducted tonight.
A unique program is planned
for the fountain area of the J.
Earl Rudder Center, beginning at
eight, announced Y President
Mike Pennick.
Christmas carols, with the audi
ence singing along with the New
Tradition Singers, and an audi
ence candle lighting will be fea
tured. Readings by students and
the message by Logan Weston,
YMCA religious life coordinator,
round out the program.
Student participants are Donnie
Albrecht, chairman of Y religious
activities; Corps Chaplain Elroy
Whitworth; Roger Monk; Jackie
Heyman, Y treasurer, and Steve
Eberhard.
Van Cliburn, a pianist who
made his debut with the Houston
Symphony at the age of 12, will
perform here Thursday.
Cliburn’s appearance is spon
sored by the Opera and Perform
ing Arts Society and will begin
at 8 p. m. in the Rudder Center
Auditorium. OPAS subscribers’
tickets have been mailed; advance
tickets are on sale in the Audi
torium Box Office.
Cliburn was taught to read
music when he was three by his
mother. The year after his debut,
Cliburn appeared in Carnegie
Hall as the winner of the National
Music Festival Award.
After spending much of his
childhood in Kileen, Tex., Cliburn
went to study at the Julliard
School of Music in New York.
He graduated with honors and
was the winner of several scholar
ships and awards including the
Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation
Award. No prize is awarded in
the annual Leventitt competition
unless the judges feel there is
a worthy recipient. When Cliburn
won in 1954 he was the first win
ner in five years.
The award gave Cliburn the
privilege of playing with the
New York Philharmonic and the
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Denver and
Buffalo symphonies.
After winning the Moscow Com
petition, Cliburn was invited to
play several concerts in the
USSR by Nikita Khrushchev.
When he returned to New York
City, he was met by President
Dwight Eisenhower and received
the first ticker tape parade that
city gave a classical musician. He
returned to Russia in 1962, 1965,
and 1972.
Cliburn makes more than 60 ap
pearances each season in the U. S.
and Canada and is noted for his
outgoing performances and his
6-4 frame. He is one of the most
highly demanded concert pianists.
Cliburn’s performance here will
include works by Brahms, Bee
thoven, Chopin and Debussy.
GOP Outlook Good—Bush
HOUSTON (A>) — Republican
National Chairman George Bush
says he believes the party will
overcome problems related to
Watergate and make a surprising
showing in the 1974 congressional
elections.
“I would be foolish to predict
a large pickup in either house but
I feel that by the fall of 1974 we
will be in good shape as to issues
and a lot of people will be sur
prised by numbers,” Bush said
at a news conference Monday.
He made the remarks follow
ing a meeting with a group of
businessmen at a closed session
sponsored by the Republican
Congressional Boosters Club.
Bush said the club is raising
funds for 1974 Republican con
gressional candidates who are
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
not incumbents.
Bush said he saw no big
groundswell for impeachment or
the resignation of President
Nixon.
“I think people now want to
see some elements get off the
President’s back,” he said. “The
people are turning around.
They’ve had enough.”
Refrigerator
Re-rental Set
Refrigerators may be re-rented
for the spring semester today,
Wednesday and Thursday at the
Refrigerator Office in the old
hospital basement between 7:30
p.m. and 9 p.m.
This is the last time to renew
rental, according to Larry Mc-
Roberts, Student Government
Campus Projects Chairman.