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United Press International
AKRON, Ohio — What has 90
feet and carries $500 million on its
back? A device called a “strongback
dolly” used for ground transport of
NASA’s space shuttle orbiters. The
feet are Firestone transteel radial
tires — 80 of them on the dolly and
10 slightly larger ones on the truck
that pulls it. The dolly isn’t geared
for fast getaways, however, it moves
at a sedate pace of three to five miles
an hour.
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1979
Page 3
7 ew students took advantage of General Telephone Com
pany’s “gripe session” Wednesday which the company had
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
offered as an opportunity for students to air any complaints
they might have against the company or its service.
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By STEVE LEE
Battalion Staff
“Gee!” “No, G.T.E.”
So goes the cutesy line in the television advertisements for General
Telephone and Electric, the company that provides telephone serv-
fcce for this area.
But some students here are not amused.
Two weeks ago, the student government business and consumer
[relations committee passed out phone service surveys in the Memo
rial Student Center. An overwhelming majority of those who com
pleted the surveys indicated they were unhappy with the phone
company.
When asked how they would rate the services of G.T.E., most
students answered either “fair” or “poor,’’according to the unscien-
[tific survey.
Some phone company representatives came to campus Wednes
day, at the request of the student committee, to talk with students.
iFew students attended, but those who did had complaints ranging
rom billing problems to “snotty” operators.
Bill Erwin, division manager of the Bryan branch of G.T.E.,
delded the complaints, offering solutions and taking down the phone
lumbers of those students whose phones have been acting up.
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United Press International
| WASHINGTON - President Car
ter says oil companies should be
made to plow back into exploration
and increased production all profits
[reaped from price decontrol so they
cannot “buy circuses or timberlands
or motels.”
Continuing his fighting talk to the
oil industry, Carter said Tuesday at
his 47th news conference and his
first in Washington since Feb. 27,
he will fight for a windfall-profits
tax,
And, given the mood of the coun
try, he expects to get it, he said.
Even with such a tax, Carter said,
the industry would get $6 billion in
increased revenue during the next
three years.
would certainly favor either
laws or administration action to put
constraints so that they would plow
back that oil into energy produc
tion.’’ he said.
■‘For them to take that money and
use it to buy circuses or timberlands
or motels or department stores,”
Gaiter said, “contravenes the need
of our country, and it contravenes
the purpose I and Congress have in
mind when we give them that
additional income.”
■ The American people are willing
to face the hard reality of the petro
leum problem,” Carter said. “But
they are not, and I am not, willing to
see their sacrifices mocked by a
wholly unjustified giveaway to the
oil companies.”
Carter also said:
—”1 believe we will see a turn
very shortly in the inflationary trend
downward.” He reiterated his op
position to mandatory wage-price
controls and expressed undi
minished confidence in anti
inflation adviser Alfred Kahn.
—He would establish “very
quickly” a presidential commission
to investigate the causes of the
Three Mile Island nuclear plant ac
cident and recommend safety re
medies, but said the nation cannot
turn away from nuclear power “in
the foreseeable future.”
—”A few issues remain to be re
solved” in reaching agreement with
the Soviet Union on a strategic arms
limitation treaty. Press secretary
Jody Powell said later he did not ex
pect a SALT II agreement to be
reached during the 10 days Carter is
on vacation.
—-Allegations that some bank loan
funds received by the Carter family
peanut business may have been
channeled into his 1976 election
campaign are “absolutely and totally
untrue,” and he will cooperate fully
with federal investigators probing
those allegations.
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Erwin emphasized that the account manager — the student who is
billed each month for all long distance calls made from one phone —
is responsible for collecting money from his roommates. If he fails to
pay the full bill, it detracts from his credit rating, even if the unpaid
bill was his roommates’ fault.
“You are building up telephone credit here at A&M,” Erwin said.
“A lot is going on you.”
This also means if a roommate leaves without paying a bill, and he
can’t be found, the account manager is responsible. But if the room
mate is found, then the account manager can be cleared.
One student told of how she was forced to go without a phone for
four months when she was assigned to a dorm room in which a
previous occupant had an unsettled phone bill. Her roommate was
the account manager and the ex-resident had left the country with
some $300 in overdue bills, leaving the account manager responsible.
The phone was disconnected when the new resident moved in.
Erwin replied, “This is a situation we ll have to work v/ith.”
Another major complaint involved an off-campus resident whose
phone was disconnected, even after an overdue bill was paid. He
received notice that the company would disconnect his phone in 20
days if the debt was not settled. He paid the bill a few days later, but
the phone was disconnected. The company said he would have to pay
a $20 fee to have the phones reconnected.
Erwin said this should not have happened and that the company
would investigate.
Ted Geoca, chairman of the student committee, said about 400
surveys were filled out. He said most of the students’ gripes dealt
with billing problems, noise on the line during long-distance calls,
calls being cut-off and undesirable attitudes of certain operators.
Another problem students cited, he said, was phones disconnected
over the Christmas holidays due to an unpaid bill. He said notices
were mailed to the students’ local addresses during the holiday, and
many were unaware their phones would be dead when they re
turned. Erwin said students should give the company their home
addresses before they leave.
Geoca was disappointed with the low turnout Wednesday and said
another session may be planned soon.
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