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THE BATTALION Page 9 WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 16, 1978 ■Auction of oil pipeline equipment set I I \|t United Press International A UJ|fORT WORTH — Every major ction company in the nation 'anted the job won by Bill Miller .’s firm — dispersal of the con- iction equipment used to build e Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. ‘This was a fairly long, drawn-out ocess,” Miller said. “We started igotiating on this thing a year and half before we got it.” But when the details had been orked out, Miller & Miller Au- 560 nnihtf oneers > Inc., in a joint venture - ’ J *ith Morrison-Knudson Co., of ise, Idaho, had the contract to mendm ^ er ^ ousan< ^ s tons heavy p le( j rj juipment used in history’s largest "’^instruction project. Later this month, 700 pieces of |t f p' habilitated, tuned and freshly linted machinery will be auctioned i Miller in one of five sales esti- nated to bring $70 million. 'I The equipment, owned by the eight oil pipeline companies which taxpayers before |j| tax levies,! an bill determii Property 'ssnientr— ementfori ncreasej. e signed hce to r ■bout the g the fo 'I for participated in the largest building project in world history, was de scribed as in good to fair condition and will be sold to the highest bid der, regardless of price. Morrison-Knudson is responsible for rehabilitating and handling the equipment, which includes bulldozers, graders, cranes, buses, loaders, water and dump trucks, mobile welding units and air com pressors. Two of the auctions are being conducted in Fairbanks, Alaska, and three more are being held in Moses Lake, Wash. The first of the Alaskan auctions was held in June, the sec ond is scheduled Sept. 20-22 and the first of the Lake Moses auctions will be Aug. 28-29. Miller said the Moses Lake sales are expected to bring about 50 cents for every dollar of original cost. “We re selling it as it comes out of the shops where it has been re habilitated,” Miller said. “When we accumulate enough to attract a crowd of buyers, then we have a sale.” He expects the August auction to attract a crowd of as many as 3,000 persons from around the world. The first sale in Fairbanks brought cus tomers from Japan, Mexico and Venezuela, even though most of the equipment sold in the first batch was best-suited to stay in Alaska. “Some of the equipment that we felt like could be used in Alaska, that had a good market up there, was sold up there,” Miller said. “And, some equipment was dam aged beyond repair, damaged or wrecked. Primarily that was the equipment that we felt was more suited and would have a better mar ket in Alaska than down here. “I think it brought as much or more money than it would have brought down here. They’re buying it up there with the freight already paid, where a buyer here has to pay freight.” The equipment, mostly 1974-76 models bought new and used a few years, was shipped to Moses Lake by barge train. The auction site is Grant County Airport, which for merly was Larson Air Force Base. Pistol used to kill Oswald goes to Washington for tests United Press International DALLAS — The .38-caliber pis tol used by Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald has been taken to Washington for ballistics tests or dered by the House Assassinations Committee. The committee, which has been trying to obtain the weapon since June 1, also wants to learn where Ruby received the revolver. The Cobra Colt pistol was taken to Washington Sunday by Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Tex., a friend of Dallas attorney Jules F. Mayer, the inde pendent executor of Ruby’s estate. Mayer said he gave the gun to Mattox because he was “the only man I would trust with it. ” Mattox said he would turn the gun over to the committee some time Tuesday. Ruby died Jan. 3, 1967, leaving behind little more than the revolver and other personal belongings — and $48,000 in federal and state taxes. GET ACQUAINTED OFFER BRASS BELT BUCKLES $098 ONLY AT THE WITH PURCHASE " OF ANY PAIR OF BOOTS OR ■ SHOES. ^ $098 WITHOUT BOOT O 1 PURCHASE HOUSE OF SOOTS 112 NAGLE* IN THE GREYHOUND BUS STATION * NORTHG ATE LOWEST BOOT PRICES IN TEXAS NOCONA BOOTS/CASUAL SHOES ASTRO TENNIS SHOES uto insurance rates based n sex unfair, official says United Press International AUSTIN — A Massachusetts in- tveragei irance official says automobile in- Falls tosi irance rates should not be set ac re beeoi irding to age and sex, but a lob- Thefi /ist for the insurance industry says moving such standards would in ease prices for most Texas drivers. m inch, itonio,»l indies, iral bend i so last f inches. througli, es James N. Stone, insurance com- issioner of Massachusetts, onday urged a House subcommit- on auto insurance to scrap the rrent classification system for auto ivers and prohibit price discrimi- tion on the basis of age, sex or ,!l ' prital status. “Chromosome count and your year of birth should not determine lhat you pay for insurance,” he bid. ’ Insurance company spokesmen argued that there is statistical evi dence that young, single drivers have more accidents and that males under 21 years old have a loss ratio three times that of older drivers. "You’ve got some irresponsible young drivers, there’s no doubt about that. The question is whether the responsible young driver is any more to blame for that than you and I are,” Stone said. Stone said that insurance com panies should be forced to sell policies on the basis of each indi vidual’s driving record, not the av erage accident losses for his age, oc cupation or marital status. But William H. Huff III of Dallas, spokesman for the Texas Association of Fire and Casualty Companies, told legislators abolishing sex, age and marital status classifications would raise auto insurance pre miums for 85.7 percent of Texas drivers. Huff urged the subcommittee, headed by Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, to drop its plan to rec ommend combining Texas’ current 40 driver classifications into five groups. Two spokesmen for senior citizen groups praised the proposal. Ernest Cabe, representing the Texas As sociation of Retired School Teachers, and Lyle Hamner, repre senting the Texas Senior Citizens Association, said many insurance companies now refuse to sell auto insurance to drivers 65 or older. r firemen secure butane-spewing tmimk truck, save 12 rural families United Press International QUITMAN — Firemen Tuesday ghted an overturned tank truck aking potentially explosive butane and said 12 rural families could irobably return to their homes by t l )C g rr jHate afternoon. rtmeim “The situation out there seems e Iw ’ wellin hand this morning,” a police and : dispatcher said. stpnW ■ “The truck is upright, the gas has e pass een pumped into another vehicle I , id the firemen plan to burn off the \vn, inday, >wned 5i ATI, I', of tk deep 1 ie BraJ pass ve hi : in the d near earlier rs droffl wadin? deringi ; affed 1 utane residue within the hour. The racuated families can then go ime.” Officials said the truck was one of vo bound for Houston when it rertumed on Highway 37 about 3 miles west of Quitman. The driver of the wrecked vehicle, Willie Carl Carter of Orange, Texas, was hos pitalized for observation. The driver of the other truck, who was not identified, was booked on a charge of driving while intoxicated, officials said. The truck was lying on its side in a concrete culvert, spewing butane during the early morning hours. But officials raised the truck with a crane, and then pumped the con tents of the tank into another vessel. The spokesman said there was a serious chance of fire, and as many as 30 people from 10-12 houses had been evacuated as a precaution. “Any little thing could set it off,” the spokesman said. “We’ve shut off all the pilot lights in the area, and cut off electricity. 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