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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1977)
iCas town told as not available mationoi l!| I'nitcd Intcriuitional DENVER CITY — This tiny iVest Texas city is one of several so it! ooomtowns which has been re- nyresin born since one of the richest oil and gas fields in the world was liscovered below its surface. But oprovij^ esidents face a winter without iiel to heat their homes because availiljlhe federal government says here is just not enough natural ;as for them. “Telling the people of Winkler bounty that they can’t have gas lecause it’s not available is like elling people along the 1 Mississippi River in flood stage hat they can’t have any water,” aid Winkler County Judge E.C. xieklear. The city, along with 17 other ’exas and New Mexico towns, is ndera federal curtailment plan mposed July 1 on El Paso Natural Gas Co., an interstate ipeline company regulated by le Federal Power Commission. The city council last week uliscfe sked the FPC for eme gency re- )U ^® ief from the curtailment order edW was designed to conserve 42-)« earce g as supplies. "We’ve got folks who want to ight about this, ” said Ralph "ownes, the city’s municipal sec- etary. “They work in the oil atch and they know it’s all a : in PF‘. to PH: it ner PFi n Ik his k bunch of bull out of Washington about the gas shortages. If they turned prices loose, there’d be more dad-burn gas than we could use. In addition, residents have been warned that if the gas quota set for the coming winter is ex ceeded, they face penalties of $5 per thousand cubic feet. El Paso presently charges 73 cents per thousand cubic feet. Last year, residents used 312,000 cubic feet more than would have been permitted under the new curtailment or der. “It would have bankrupted this little town if the quota had been in effect, Townes said. The city’s crisis has prompted the chairman of the Texas Rail road Commission, which regu lates intrastate gas prices, to find ways to help the city, but im mediate solutions are hard to find. “The only thing we could do is find someone drilling a new wildcat (oil well), and there’s no such thing as a wildcat in a proven field like this, Townes said. Townes said residents feel they are being short-changed by a system which apparently bene fits consumers outside the state. Krueger argues deregulation means cheaper energy costs THE BATTALION MONDAY. AUGUST 29. 1977 Page 7A United Press International AUSTIN — Deregulated natural gas would cost more than it now does, but it still would be the cheapest source of energy for the United States, according to Rep. Robert Krueger, D-Tex. Krueger, a leading proponent of deregulation of oil and gas, Saturday debated James F. Flug, director of Energy Action Education Founda tion which recently helped defeat deregulation proposals in Congress. The debate was conducted at a meeting of the Texas Consumer As sociation. “Natural gas today at deregulated prices is cheaper than any other source of energy for this country,’’ the secondterm congressman said. “The other source is expensive foreign oil.’’ Krueger said current federal reg ulations unfairly force Texans to pay higher prices for natural gas than other state’s pay for Texas gas. He likened the situation to “col onialism” of the state’s natural re sources. “We need to recognize that in Texas a vast amount of industry that came to the state came because of available energy supplies,” Krueger said. “With price controls comes federal allocation authority.” The federal government will di vert natural gas from Texas industry during harsh winters to help north ern and eastern states, he said, which will cost the state jobs and revenue. Alternatives to importing more foreign oil would be energy stamps. Is to Davis defense attempts to discredit Mrs. Davis 12 £ United Press International ^ IMARILLO — For five days the shy blonde socialite sat in the tness stand, alternately tearful 1 tense as attorneys grilled her out her drug habit, her love life, kirpt rhazy memory. 1' she admitted she had taken up to " ere: D tablets a week of the pain-killing civil' jg Pereodan and probably was dieted. besiirt 5h e acknowledged that shortly it the) fore she filed for divorce from her fllk sband she began a relationship k th a boyfriend, and then later ed a lover to move in with her. he conceded her memory was f concerning some of the events night her lover and daughter re shot to death in a sensational fcciety murder in Fort Worth. Ifcv week’s end it almost appeared [ though Priscilla Davis, rather onj an her estranged husband, T. Cul- " p Davis, was on trial. , /j She is the state’s star witness in L Q le murder trial of her millionaire sband — accused of shooting to t&Ml ath Mrs. Davis’ daughter by a Vlartii evious marriage, 12-year-old repo£ drea Wilborn. Davis also faces ednes irges of murdering Mrs. Davis ler, Stan Farr, and wounding Id p oth Mrs. Davis and a family friend, rom: Testimony enters its second week ;idenl day. son Mrs. Davis — wearing a stylish r, I2f ortment of frocks, gaucho pants J sweaters to the witness stand — rns i i told the story of how she and [ideal irr returned to the mansion that iwilll Jit and Davis stepped from the idows, shooting her in the chest, ifficn e has told the jury he then killed icfsli rr. ; hita. Because of her key testimony, de- i a li ise attorney Richard “Racehorse” vasal iynes spent five days last week at- stul tnpting to punch holes in her tes- ,gy P bony. Haynes led Mrs. Davis through a exf minting of her 200-pill a week hat) rcodan habit, and she admitted ng le probably was addicted at one also ie. He pressed her about her al- ;arl 5ed use of cocaine and other m (I ags, but Judge George Dowlen ) fit ally limited further discussion of ofi : subject. vad He attempted to introduce evi- dgn nee that W.T. Rufner, one of Look! March of Dimes TO PROTECT THE UNBORN AND THE NEWBORN THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY THE PUBLISHER <fe) Unless youhelp. Call 845-2611 direct federal energy subsidies or tax incentives to the oil industry, Krueger said. Flug contended that deregulation is a “fraud” because natural gas prices will be regulated by someone — either the government through the Federal Power Commission or the oil companies. “There’s nothing new about this fight — it’s been going on since the ‘40s and ‘50s,” Flug said. “It’s been proven time and time again that all we would get is higher energy prices and no more energy.” If Congress did approved a de regulation plan, the “oil companies wouldn’t know what to do with all their profits,” Flug said. “Chances are, they would make so much money it would exceed their capacity to hide the profits,” he said. “It would be so obvious that they had so much money they didn’t know what to do with, they would have a real fear that they faced the breaking up of the oil companies, divestiture, or even nationaliza tion.” Flug said the oil companies now are making so much profit they are investing in department stores, in surance companies and real estate. ) A Royal Welcome to all Brazos Valley Newcomers from the “Home of the Queen Sizes” If you have difficulty find ing stylish Fashions in your Size, we can help you. 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