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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 16, 1978
■Auction of oil pipeline equipment set
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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
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determii
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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. With it (the
weather) damp like it is, the gas is
lying pretty low on the ground.”
The truck was one of two oper
ated by Enterprise Products of
Houston, according to a spokesman
for the Wood County SherifTs of
fice. Sheriffs deputies also arrested
a man for DWI after he crashed
through a barricade at the scene.
“He busted one of the roadblocks
out there, the spokesman said. “Af
ter they got to him, they found he
was pretty well lit.”
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