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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1975
A ‘little old woman’
robs bank with pistol
Associated Press
AMARILLO — A little old
woman armed with a derringer pis
tol robbed the First National Bank
Wednesday of $44,381, police said.
The woman, described as be
tween 50 and 60 years old, was ar
rested minutes later near the bank.
Police said shortly after her arrest
they received a telephone threat
that a second bank would be blown
up unless the woman was released.
Police said a similar threat was
made by a woman caller to FBI
agents in Dallas nearly 400 miles
away.
Bank officials said the woman
poked the derringer at tellers and
demanded cash, several bundles of
which was turned over to her.
Police said she was arrested min
utes later in a car bearing Arizona
license plates.
The telephoned threats were
made by the woman’s accomplice,
police theorized.
Victory for Ford
Senate fails to override veto
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Wednesday failed to override Pres
ident Ford’s veto of a bill extending
oil price controls for six months.
The vote was considered a major
victory for Ford in the struggle to
determine the future course of the
nation’s energy policy.
The 61-39 tally fell six votes short
of the two-thirds majority necessary
to override a veto. Democratic lead
ers virtually conceded defeat two
days before the vote.
Unless Congress and the adminis
tration can reach agreement on a
temporary extension and gradual
phase-out of controls, the failure to
overricfe the veto is expected to
force Americans soon to pay more
for fuel, food and most consumer
goods.
Various studies give varying re
ports on the impact of de-control.
The Congressional Budget Office
has estimated that sudden decon
trol of oil prices might increase
consumer prices by almost 2 per
cent by the end ofl977 and increase
unemployment by about 0.6 per
cent — some 600,000 jobs.
The Agriculture Department
said elimination of the controls
woidd increase retail food prices
about seven-tenths of one per cent
over the next 27 months.
Ford’s energy officials have esti
mated that removal of the controls
would increase the cost of gasoline
six or seven cents per gallon. But
they said this could be cut back to
three cents by removal of the $2 per
barrel fee on imported oil.
They said that with removal of the
fee, the decontrol would add no
more than about three cents per
gallon to consumer petroleum pro
duct prices.
The Senate vote came after four
hours of debate.
“If the Congress wishes to
White House delivers
intelligence documents
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White
House began delivering stacks of
classified documents to the House
Intelligence Committee Wednes
day night in response to the panel’s
subpoenas for intelligence assess
ments on the 1973 Middle East War
and Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus.
The subpoenas were issued earli
er in the day when the White House
failed to meet a 2 p.m. deadline
for documents that chairman Otis
G. Pike, D-N.Y., said the commit
tee needs for hearings on how good
U.S. intelligence was before those
conflicts.
Pike said the committee will be
gin hearings Thursday morning on
U.S. intelligence assessments be
fore the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
Hearings are to start Friday on Tur
key’s invasion of Cyprus.
Pike also said the committee will
conduct hearings later on intelli
gence assessments before the Com
munist Tet offensive during the
Vietnam war and the recent coup in
Portugal.
The subpoenas were issued after
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tance agencies, the Brazos County
Community Council and the Cros
sroads Outreach Center.
The Value Clarification Program
provides drug education and abuse
prevention information to the seven
counties in the Brazos Valley.
The purpose of the program is to
help people clarify their present and
future abuse prevention goals, Don
Wilcox, Crossroads Outreach
Center Director, said.
Discussion and information ses-
'sions are planned at schools and var
ious organizations, such as the Girls
Club.
The program will use 32 trained
personnel from local schools and
agencies to lead the sessions.
the White House failed to voluntar
ily provide all the documents
sought.
The committee has been told that
U.S. intelligence agencies were
divided in their assessment of the
1973 Middle East war.
Asst. Defense Secretary Albert
C. Hall said that “one agency was
absolutely convinced there was not
going to be a war and another be
lieved war was imminent.
The committee authorized Pike
to issue the subpoenas by a vote
of8 toO, with Rep. David C. Treen,
R-La., voting present.
Treen said he was concerned the
intelligence agencies had not been
given an opportunity “to outline the
dangers and risks of turning over
the testimony.
The House committee s investi
gation opened on costs of U.S.
intelligence. Pike said the commit
tee will now go “all the way to the
other end of the spectrum to look
at the results of these intelligence
investigations. ”
achieve decontrol more gradually, I
will work with the members to
achieve that objective, Ford said
afterwards in a statement.
He also submitted legislation
which he said was designed to “en
sure an orderly and fair transition
from price controls ’ in the event a
compromise cannot be reached.
The measures would subsidize
farmers for any increased fuel costs
and provide aid and protection for
small oil refiners.
Farmers would receive a rebate
of approximately six cents per gal
lon, to be paid with revenues de
rived from a windfall profits tax on
oil companies, a White House fact
sheet said.
Small refiners also would receive
a federal rebate to soften the impact
of higher prices, financed from
windfall profits taxes, but the ad
ministration did not spell out the
details. In addition, they would he
given legal protection to prevent
petroleum suppliers from abruptly
terminating a franchise, the White
House said.
President Ford said in a state
ment the vote “was not an adminis
tration victory. He said in the long
run it “could well be a victory for
homeowners who use heating oil,
for drivers who buy gasoline, for
factories and utilities which con
sume fuel to power their machin
ery, for farmers who use fuel to run
their equipment ...
“There is a lot of work to do to
make American energy indepen
dent. Let’s get on with it — to
gether,” Ford said.
Ending controls that have held
down U.S. oil prices has been at the
heart ofFord’s energy policy, which
is aimed at forcing conservation and
giving the oil industry more money
to search for new energy’.
Congressional Democrats fear
another round of fuel-price hikes
would result in more inflation and
unemployment. They said the rec
ord of quadrupled oil costs over the
past two years proves that higher T
gasoline and fuel-oil prices will not H IT'
cut consumption. Kyt-'h
All controls on oil prices expired I an i'd
Sept. 1, but the oil industry k-1 the ni
withheld most price increases pend- jnpu(
ing a final government decision on b D r
whether controls would be re- exten
newed. |de''C
The controls have held the aver- such
age price of U.S.-produced oil lo |bra' n
about $9.50 a barrel, $4 lower than
the world-market level set by the
Middle Eastern producing coun
tries. A permanent end to controls j
would allow U.S. oilmen to raise
prices to whatever level is set on the
world market.
Backing away from his earlier
call for an immediate end to con
trols, Ford Iras asked — and the
House has rejected — a gradui
phase-out over 39 months, during
which time the price of oil wouldbe
allowed to rise f rom $11.50 a barrel
to $13.45.
At the end of39 months, theceil-
ing would vanish.
To allow time to work out that
arrangement as well as a tax system
to take away excess oil profits and |
return them to consumers, Fordlras
agreed to support a 45-day exten
sion of the controls.
Faced with the choice of haying
controls for 39 months, evenata |
reduced level, or no price con
trols at all, some observers predic
ted the Democratic-con trolled
Congress would grudgingly accept
the Ford plan. But there is noassur
ance that will happen.
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Recycling site
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By DON MIDDLETON
StaiT Writer
Texas A&M University will soon
he enlarging its contribution to the
preservation of the environment.
With the construction of a recy
cling center at University-owned
Hensel Park, Aggies will he able
to dispose of cans, paper, rags, clo
thing and other recyclable materials
in a manner consistent with ecolog
ical practices.
The project is sponsored by the
Student Y Association and funded
by Student Government, Col.
Logan Weston, Student Y coordina
tor, said Wednesday.
“Student Government gave us
$300 to build a recycling disposal
center in Hensel Park,” Weston
said. “The center is about one-
third completed, and when it is
finished it will consist of a roofed
patio surrounded by a cyclone
fence.”
The center will be a collection
location for the Twin-City Mission’s
recycling program. The main Mis
sion office is located in Bryan.
Employes of the mission, mostly
alcoholics, former mental patients
and drug addicts undergoing a sort
of recycling themselves, pick up re
cyclable articles from several loca
tions in the Bryan-College Station
area, Col. L. J. Schoenemann, the
Mission’s supervisor, said Wednes
day.
The materials are then processed
for resale. Paper, rags and metal
are sold in hulk to private commer
cial concerns. Clothing and furni
ture are offered to the general pub
lic at the Mission’s second-hand
store.
Revenue from the sales of bun
dled paper, crushed metal cans and
repaired clothing and furniture, is
used to feed and house the em
ployes as well as transients and
needy families in the area, Schoene
mann said.
In addition to the Hensel Park
center, three or four collection
points will he designated on the
A&M campus. Student service or
ganizations will he responsible for
transfering materials from the cam
pus to the Hensel Park center.
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