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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1078
Kansas, Utah may join suit against gas bill
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United Press International
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas attorney general may join with
officials of Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma to challenge the constitu
tionality of the new energy bill that would allow the federal govern
ment to dictate pricing of intrastate natural gas sales.
The attorneys general of the three other major gas-producing states
Thursday announced they plan to file a lawsuit against the new bill.
They oppose sections of the bill imposing federal price ceilings on gas
produced and sold within individual states.
They contend such controls amount to an unconstitutional
encroachment on state sovereignty.
Currently gas produced and sold within a state is not subject to
federal control, and therefore often is higher priced than gas sold in
interstate commerce, which is subject to federal price controls.
The new energy bill would expand federal controls to include in
trastate gas under broader provisions in the legislation that would
provide for the gradual price deregulation of natural gas by 1985.
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah may join three gas-producing states in
a suit challenging portions of the recently passed energy bill.
Attorney General Robert Hansen said Friday he would contact the
attorneys general of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana about the possi
bility of Utah’s joining the suit being prepared by those states.
The suit seeks to block sections of the bill that will extend federal
price regulations on natural gas produced and sold within a state.
“Inasmuch as those three states have publicly announced they are
going to file suit, it is clearly indicative they have satisfied themselves
that they have legal precedent to file such a suit and I think Utah, as a
gas-producing state, should look favorably on joining that action,”
Hansen said.
Mountain Fuel Supply President B.Z. Kasder said if the state
wants to challenge the federal government it should file on a different
question.
“If they’re going to take on the government they should challenge
the right of the government to regulate the price of gas no matter
where it comes from, either in-state or out of state.”
Dangers’ cited
News blackout defended by prison chief
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HUNTSVILLE — The public’s
right to know clashed last week with
the cision to conduct busi-
985. It rats ness under a news blackout after an
inmate work stoppage and incidents
of within the state prison
system.
It caused some sleepless nights
, the presii forW.J. Estelle Jr., director of the
aidhisatk f eX as Department of Corrections,
and frustration for reporters trying
leech on fa to assess to what extent the strike
oy, a Dem had caused violence or affected daily
ie Senate,! operations at the six prison units in-
John Cni wived.
jpublicaidi Fundamental to the question was
the First Amendment right to free-
pt ople on (l om 0 f the press: does a reporter
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to report the news, to monitor the
actions of the state?
The American Civil Liberties
Union in Houston, at the urging of
some members of the press, dis
cussed the possibility of a lawsuit to
force disclosure from prison offi
cials.
“There was no benefit in not
keeping the public informed,” said
an obviously weary Estelle, Wed
nesday during a news conference
before an aggressive group of re
porters at a Goodwill Industries
chapel.
“It was only when I realized that
our content and frequency of re
leases was contributing to the in
creased risks and danger for inmates
and staff alike that the decision was
made; and only then after a great
deal of soul-searching.
“I am sensitive to the public’s
right to know what is going on in
their prisons and I’m aware that the
only way this happens is through
your work. At that particular time.
United Press International
WASHINGTON— A new na
tional Christmas tree has been
ransplanted within sight of the
White House, replacing its brown
and dying predecessor.
The new tree, a bushy, 30-fbot
Colorado blue spruce, was secured
Friday by guide wires at the Ellipse,
he circular park to the south of the
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agriculti nua l Pageant of Peace, a two-week
observance.
The park service made a 2,000-
rovide tli Nik search of Maryland and
,reign nat Pennsylvania before settling on a
!ree from the front yard of Mr. and
Mrs. William E. Myers of Shiloh,
Pa. The Myers were paid $1,500 for
the tree.
The new national Christmas tree
ts the s h meant to be permanent. It is often
nlused with the annual Christmas
tree that is donated for use inside
the White House each year.
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my judgment was that the safety of
people and protection of state prop
erty was an obligation best met by
temporary silence.
“I don’t expect everyone to agree
what I did was right, but I hope they
understand my motives.”
The TDC is the nation’s largest
prison system, with 25,000 inmates
and a support staff and cadre of cor
rections officers of 3,000.
Estelle said in the next 30 days he
and Ron Taylor, his chief spokes
man, would meet with “a represen
tative group of the press” to help
develop guidelines for such a situa
tion, should it ever develop again.
“We don’t enjoy the prospect of
being caught in a Catch-22 situa
tion, as I felt I was. This decision of
the news blackout was not gone into
lighdy. We wrestled with it for a
number of hours.”
Estelle said he consulted with the
governor’s office where his actions
were reinforced.
“They gave me a lot of consolation
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and a lot of sympathy,” he said, “just
like a lot of people in your profes
sion did.”
Last Monday Estelle asked
lawyers from the attorney general’s
office to inform U.S. District Judge
William Wayne Justice in Houston
of the developing situation in the
prison units. Justice is hearing an
inmate class action lawsuit alleging
prison living conditions constitute
cruel and unusual punishment. The
inmate work stoppage began as a
sympathy strike for the eight inmate
plaintiffs involved in the lawsuit.
“His responses in open court
condemning the work stoppage ac
tions were welcomed and ap
preciated. This, too, has contrib
uted to improving conditions,” Es
telle said.
“We did not put any words in the
court’s mouth. The court’s reaction
was certainly its own. Those who
know Judge Justice know he is his
own man.”
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