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Ford willing to delay tariff hikes THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1975 Page 5 WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Ford vetoes the hill which would block his oil import tariffhikes for 90 days, he will delay for 60 days his scheduled two monthly $l-a-barrel boosts, White BUSINESS COLLEGE • rm MARCH 18 ■ 822-6423 or 822-2 368 THE STEAK HOUSE Noon Special 11-2 Chicken-Fried Steak 1803 Texas 822-2430 $1.39 Les Lyons 707 University Dr., College Station He must be doing something right. Any man who has earned the Diamond Medallion must be doing something right. So right that it puts him in a class by himself. This designation, which goes to only a very few young Provident Mutual agents each year, reflects fine service to clients and an excellent grasp of life and health insurance coun selling. Like all coveted honors, the Diamond Medallion is not easy to come by. Les’s agency, his cli ents, and his Company congratulate him on a job well done. PROVIDENT MUTUAI S LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA House sources indicated Monday. Furthermore, these sources indi cated, Ford will at that time — Tuesday — also defer for 60 days his equally controversial plan to re move price controls on domestic crude oil April 1. The goal of both delay actions would be to give Congress time to produce an energy program. Such steps toward some com promise would avoid an energy- economic policy confrontation bet ween the Democratic-dominated Congress and the Republican-held White House, these sources sug gested. The steps also would save politi cal face for both sides and strengthen the President’s hand in the veto showdown — especially in the Senate, where the outcome could he close. The sources indicated the White House remained undecided Mon day on precisely how to make the announcement, with options rang ing from a prime-time television appearance to a low-key release by spokesmen as the message is sent to Congress. The sources commented after top Ford administration officials and Democrats who control the House Ways and Means Committee began searching through their rival prop osals Monday, seeking the elements of an energy legislative com promise. A comprehensive plan assembled by the committee’s Democrats is a “definite move in the right direc tion,” Treasury Secretary William E. Simon told committee Chairman AlUllman, D-Ore., who agreed it is a “real basis for talking.” Meantime, at the White House, President Ford huddled with Re publican congressional leaders on energy and the economy. A GOP senator indicated Ford would defer the second and third dollars of his controversial scheduled $3-per-barrel oil tariff increase. Ford plans an announcement Tuesday in reply to a Democratic proposal that he defer these higher tariffs while compromise energy talks are under way, a White House spokesman said. The President has promised to veto the bill Congress sent him blocking the tariffhikes for 90 days. House Speaker Carl Albert said there is no question but that the House will vote to override, but he could not speak for the Senate, where the vote is too close to call at this time. The President “is in the process of looking at all the alternatives right now and he has not reached a deci sion on” the matter of whether to defer the second and third dollars of the tariff hike, Simon told reporters. The first dollar went into effect Feb. 1. White House spokesmen also in sisted after the session with the leadership that Ford had not come to a decision. But Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania said of the tariff deferral idea: “It is certainly possible, given a spirit of compromise, that something may happen there.” Scott said he left the session feel ing there would be modifications in Ford’s program. Sen. William Roth, R-Del., is sued a statement before the leader ship meeting saying a proposal he made last week that further oil tariff increases be deferred for 60 days “is very likely to be accepted.” Simon and Federal Energy Ad ministrator Frank G. Zarb, were among Ford administration officials who were lead-off witnesses as the Ways and Means Committee, which must originate all legislation involving taxes, launched two weeks of hearings on the energy is sues. Simon and Zarb said Ford’s proposals were preferable to a plan made public by committee Democ rats on Sunday. The Democrats’ plan outlined by Ullman calls for a gradual tax hike to 40 cents a gallon by 1979 on excess use of gasoline beyond a family’s av erage basic needs, with rebates through coupons or tax reductions; gradual imposition of oil import quotas as economic conditions per mit; creation of a federal agency to buy imported oil; levy of an excise tax on new cars with heavy gasoline drinking habits; and a tax up to 85 per cent on petroleum producers’ windfall profits. Along with his special tariff pro gram on imported oil, Ford recom mended eventually replacing that levy with a $2-per-barrel excise tax on all domestic crude oil and im ported oil; imposing an excise tax of 37 cents per thousand cubic feet on natural gas, putting a windfall pro fits tax on oil producers, removing price controls on domestic crude oil by April 1, and taking price regula tion off new natural gas. SAINT THOMAS’ EPISCOPAL CHAPEL AND STUDENT CENTER 906 Jersey Street (Southern Boundary of Campus) Telephone; 846-1726 Sunday, 8, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Canterbury Eucharist and Supper, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Holy Eucharist and Breakfast, 6:30 a.m. The Rev. James Moore, Chaplain. The Rev. W. R. Oxley, Rector Bell operations may stay secret SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Public eyes may never see — nor should they — many pages of depositions dealing with operations of the nation’s main telephone utility, its lawyers say. State District Court Judge Peter Michael Curry said Monday that he would unseal the sworn statements given in a $29.2 million lawsuit against Southwestern Bell Tele phone Co. only if lawyers for both sides agree to open them. Southwestern Bell lawyer Jack Hebdon said, “We wanted to seal them from the first to let the court then rule on what evidence is admissible . . . what’s not admis sible should go out the window as far as public disclosure is concerned. Various American Telephone & Telegraph Co. AT&T and Bell sys tem executives have given deposi tions in the libel-slander suit by ousted executive James H. Ashley and the family ofT. O. Gravitt, who headed Bell’s Texas operation until Moore ... ‘having a little fun’ AUSTIN (AP) — Sen. Bill Moore, D-Bryan, who frequently was at odds during the recent unsuccessful Constitution Convention with Speaker Price Daniel Jr., got official sanction Monday to organize a search party in Daniel’s behalf. Moore said later that his tongue- in-cheek resolution was “just having a little fun.” The Moore resolution, which was approved by the rest of the Senate without dissent except that Sen. Don Adams, D-Jasper, asked to be shown as “present,” said that whereas Daniel “is now at Liberty, in more ways than one, having withdrawn at least temporarily from the political scene to practice law in his own hometown ...” Then the resolution ended with the resolve that the Senate “in rec ognition of his past services, take the lead in sending out searching parties to discover the Hon. Price Daniel Jr. and ascertain if he plans any future political activities or whether he prefers to continue run ning his trotlines on the Trinity River and its tributaries.” There was no debate or comment from other senators. ALL.EN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment" 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 TUESDAY AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL EN GINEERS meets in room 103 of Zachry En gineering Center. Pictures will he taken at 6:30 followed by the meeting and speaker Galen Mills at 7 p.m. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL EN GINEERS meets at 7:30 p.m. in room 203 of PAN AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION TOWER SPECIAL “Something Different” Your choice of any three meats or cheeses plus choice of variety bread with a cup of savory hot soup. All for $1.50 plus tax. ' BEVERAGES EXTRA. SERVING EACH WEEKDAY FROM 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tower Mezzanine Regular buffet on first level ‘Quality First’ u p.n Zachry. Dr. Tom Weir will speal I ERICA N STUDENT AS meets at 7:30 p.m. in room 501 of the Rudder Tower. EAGLE PASS HOMETOWN CLUB meets at 8 p. m. in the MSC Lounge to elect officers for next year. AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCI ATION STUDENT CHAPTER AUXILIARY meets for a panel discussion on being “Mrs. Vet erinarian” at 7:30 p.m. in room 201 of the Vet School. AGRONOMY SOCIETY will meet at 7:15 p. m. in rm. 105A of the Agronomy Bldg. ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY will meet at 7:30 p.m. in rm. 305 of Fermier Bldg. NATIONAL ASSN. OF BIOENGINEERS will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Zachry. ISSHINRYU KARATE CLUB will meet at 6:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White. MID-JEFFERSON COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB will meet in the Oak Forest Trailer Park recreation rm. at 7:30 p.m. New officers will be elected. A&M WHEELMAN will meet at 7:30 p. m. in rm. 230 of the MSC. CHEMISTRY DEPT, will present N. J. Handshaw seminar entitled “The Biosynthesis of Fatty Acids" at 5 p.m. in rm. 231 of the Chemistry Bldg. “Empirical Description of Vapor-Liquid Critical region based upon Coexistence Data” will be the title of a seminar at 5:15 p.m. in rm. 227A of Zachry. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL EN GINEERS will present “How to Conduct Your self in an Interview” at 7 p.m. in rm. 103 of Zachry. HORTICULTURE SOCIETY will meet at 7:30 p.m, in rm. 104 of the Plant Sciences Bldg. AG COMMUNICATIONS CLUB will meet at 7.30 p.m. in rm. 021 of the Reed McDonald Bldg. East 29th St. WareVio^s^ 3715 E Z9£K Street ■Town & Courvhry Cemfer Bryan-sTexas Talk with a Professional to be sure. MICKEY E. LEA 822-1559 The word “professional” is reserved for those men whose actions are wholly devoted to the best interests of their clients. This builds the bridge so vital to any financial relationship: trust. If you are considering life insurance call a professional, Mic key Lea, and be sure. Jeffepson fl 3200 So. College Ave. P. O. Box 3667 Bryan, Texas 77801 he committed suicide at Dallas last October. Hebdon said the depositions con tained much which would be inad missible at the trial. Among items which Bell lawyers have contended are irrelevant to the trial are questions about Bell politi cal activities, irregular financing procedures and allegedly deceitful rate-making policies. The first deposition filed was that of C. L. “Chet” Todd, vice presi dent and general manager of Southwestern Bell in San Antonio. Curry said if one deposition is opened, then all depositions would be opened. “I’m not going to open one and make them choose which ones they want. We re not going to play it that way,” Curry said. WEDNESDAY SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS meets at 5 p.m. in room 7 ofZachry Engineering Center for yearbook picture and a business meeting. EL PASO HOMETOWN CLUB meets at 7:30 p.m. in Lounge B in the Corps Area. PRE-VET SOCIETY meets at 7 p.m. in room 203 of Zachry for yearbook pictures and a short meet ing. SENIOR CLASS COUNCIL meets at 7:30 p.m. in room 502 of the Rudder Tower. CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT hosts a graduate lec ture by Prof. Kenneth]. Klahunde of the Univer sity of North Dakota at 4 p. m. in room 231 of the Chemistry Building. Topic is “Organic Chemis try of Metal Vapors.” METEOROLOGY SEMINAR features Dr. J J Stephens of Florida State University at 1 p.m. in room 210 of the O&M Bldg. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS DEPT, will pres ent a seminar by Dr. A. F. Spilhaus titled “Poten tial Food Production from the Sea and the Growth in Population” at 1:15 p.m. in rm. 226 of the Library. ECONOMICS DEPT, will present a seminar hy M. O. Reynolds entitled “A Model of IQ, Occupa tion, and Earnings. ” The seminar will he at 3:30 p.m. in rm. 209 of the Harrington Center. CHEMISTRY DEPT, will present the following seminars: 11 a.m. Faculty recruiting seminar in rm. 1032 of the Chemistry Annex. 2 p.m. “Ap proaching Enzyme Models with Crown Ethers” in rm. 1032 of the Chemistry Annex. 4 p.m. “OrganicChemistryof Metal Vapors in rm. 231 of the Chemistry Bldg. ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY seminar on “The Role of the Manufacturer s Representative” will he at 3 p.m. in rm. 305 of Fermier. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING will present a lec ture entitled “Applications of acoustic Emission in Evaluating the Stability of Geologic Structures and Materials” in rm. 102 ofZachry. GRADUATE LECTURE will he presented by Dr. Walter Rundall at 4 p.m. in rm. 204 of the Har rington Center. & TAPE DECKS LISTEN TO THE QUALITY SOUND OF WITH SPEC,ALLY SPEAKERS, TU RNTables , SOUND CENT*ft 3806A OLD COLLEGE ROAD 846-3517 e* ce. TSsS 5 * to''’J aaV ?!\ <»»’ • fried ^kiikett 110 Dominik Drive, College Station, 693-2611 3320 Texas Avenue, Bryan, 846-3238