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FRIDAY. MAY 4. 1»7»
Students can use Q-huts
for storage in summer
But U.S. gas problems continue
Iran meets peak oil export quota
By JEAN LONCSERRE
Battalion Reporter
If summer storage is a problem,
the department of student affairs has
an answer: Students can store be
longings at the Quonset Hut.
“We don't use one of the Q-Huts
during the summer so we allow stu
dents to store their belongings there
for a small charge,” said Nolen
Mears, residence education coor
dinator
"The idea got started last ydar
when we (the department of student
affairs) found out there was a need
for this type of service.”
Mears said the price for storing
goods will be "on a one piece basis.
We will charge $1 per small box, $3
per large box, and $5 for things like
cirpets, furniture, bikes, and that
price is for the entire summer," he
said.
Small storage rooms at
warehouses cost from $15 to $30 a
month. “Last year we had one girl
store all the furniture she had in her
apartment and it only cost her
around $&> or $30 total,” Mears
said. t
Mears said all reasonable security
measures will be taken at the
Q-Hut, but that the University will
not be held responsible for any
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“We require everyone wishing to
store items to sign a release state
ment in case something does hap
pen to their belongings,” Mears
said. “But as far as we know there
were not any problems of that kind
last year.”
Mears said extra security mea
sures, including the installation of
new locks, are being taken this year.
The storage items will be taken
until the 4000-square-feet Q-Hut is
foil.
Storage will begin on Sunday and
continue until Thursday. Students
may bring their items to the Q-Hut
during those days from 1 to 6 p.m.
Items can be claimed beginning
Aug. 26, for a 5-day period. All un
claimed items will be given to char
ity.
United Preu International
Iran says it has reached the revo
lutionary government's mandated
peak export rate of 3.5 million bar
rels a day, but the stabilization has
not eased American gasoline woes.
Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan
announced the leveling off in an
interview on Tehran Radio Wed
nesday.
Iran, the United States’ second
largest source of foreign crude oil
prior to the fall of Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi's fall, exported about
5.5 million barrels of oil a day and
provided about 10 percent of the
total U.S. petroleum imports.
The American Petroleum Insti
tute reported Wednesday U.S.
crude oil imports dropped sharply
last week to 5.8 million barrels daily
from 6.5 million barrels the previ
ous week. - .
• In its weekly bulletin, the API, an
oil industry trade association, also
said U.S. gasoline stocks declined
last weqk to 231.8 million barrels
from 233.3 million barrels the week
before.
But the institute said the U.S.
import level last week was slightly
higher than the 5.5 million barrels a-
day at the same time last year.
In Washington, the Energy De
partment accused seven major oil
companies of overcharging custom
ers nearly $1.7 billion during the
past six^ars.
Paul Bloom, the department's
special attorney for compliance, said
the oil was priced at about $12 per
barrel instead of $4 to $5 per barrel
in violation of price controls estab
lished after the 1973 Arab oil em
bargo. '
The seven companies and the
amounts they were accused of over
charging were: Texaco, $888.3 mil
lion; Gulf Oil Co., $578 million;
Standard Oil of California, $101.6
million; Atlantic Richfield, $42 mil
lion; Marathon Oil, $29 million;
Standard Oil of Indiana. $24 mil
lion, and Standard Oil of Ohio $1.7
million.
The violations, uncovered in au
dits of the oil companies' books, oc
curred from August 1973 through
March 1979. Bloom said the listed
amounts included an-substantial
amount of interest.
President Carter's proposal to
begin phasing out price controls on
domestic crude oil June 1 narrowly
escaped defeat in a vote by the
House Commerce Committee Car
ter’s plan to eliminate controls by
late 1981 is designed to lessen the
nation’s dependence on foreign oil
by spurring U.S. exploration And oil
production.
The Senate approved Carter s
lan to order public and commercial
uildings to set their thermostata no
lower than 80 degrees in summer
and no higher thTan 65 degrees in
winter, btit refused to authorize re
strictions on outdoor advertising
lights.
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AUSTJN — Although critics re
ferred to it as a cow chip masquerad
ing as a rose. House members have
approved a bill to deflower city
councils' power to regulate electric
utility rates and give the duty to the
Public Utility Commission. The
move was one of several passed by'
the House.
T in satisfied this bill remains no
more than a cow chip in an open
field, said Rep. Bob McFarland,
R-Arlington.
“You can paint it red and shape it
like a rose, but you can’t change
what it is.”
Critics argued the bill will result
in higher rates and loss of local input
in setting electric rates. Under the
bill’s provisions, the PUC would
have original and exclusive rate
setting jurisdiction, except in cities
served by municipally owned elec
tric companies.
Rep. Craig Washington,
D-Houston, also expressed concern
about taking away local control but
contended cities actually are ineffec-
• tive in setting the rates under cur
rent law. ‘
City councils usually are forced to
defend their rate decisions before
the PUC because electric com
panies appeal virtually all the local
rulings. The PUC has final jurisdic
tion.
“There is something good that can
come of a cow patty,” Washington
said in answer to McFarland’s criti
cism.
The bill, which passed 74-65
Wednesday and now goes to the Se
nate, was strongly supported by util
ity companies. #
A bill by Rep. Gene Green,
D-Houston, requiring Texas drivers
to acquire windshield stickers show
ing they have liability insurance be
fore they are allowed to drive in the
state also passed the House and was
sent to the Sfenate.
•vThe mandatory liability insurance
bill may face a tougher time in the
Senate, though Texas motorists con
tinue to complain about uninsured
drivers who do not pay after acci
dents.
The House tentatively approved a
plumber licensing bill, also spon
sored by Green, which passed the
Senate earlier in the session. Some
legislators had fought the proposal
to require licensing of plumbers in
counties of 80,000 or more popula
tion.
The bill was modified to apply
only to Harris County where Green
said he had received numerous
complaints about plumbing work
done outside the city Hmits!" Under
current law, plumbers in cities of
more than 5,000 people are re
quired to be licensed but there is no
licensing law for those who work in
unincorporated areas.
Health Department officials
looking for wandering elephant
United Pros International
“'•4 NEW YOftK — After spending a
fruitless da>! stalking a wandering
elephant tnrough the streets oF'
Brooklyn, city officials Thursday
took their search-underground, con
tacting informants who wanted to
remain anonymous.
The big game hunt through
Brooklyn's Bay Ridge district — the
neighlxirhood where John Travolta
boogied to “Saturday Night Fever”
fame — began Wednesday with
some leg work by Health Depart
ment officials checking on a tip from
“reliable informants” that an
elephant was being harbored be
hind a warehouse.
City officials followed by scores of
reporters created a circus atmD r
sphere in the vicinity, but no
elephant was found.
Thursday, officials decided to give
up the street safari temporarily and
check interagency records. "We
have to speak to some people who
won't talk when they have all the
press around." an official said.
Marvin Bogner, a spokesman for
the Health Department, admitted
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he hadn't seen t|ie elephant, but
said two governmental agercies, in
cluding -■ the Department of
Environmental Conservation, had
phoned in independent reports, as
well as several citizens.
Burger s conditions
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WASHINGTON — American
Bar Association officials have taken
steps to make sure Chief Justice
Warren Burger doesn’t get into any
more battles with television re
porters at future lawyers’ conven
tions.
And the silver-haired chief justice
has indicated he will comply, and
allow his future speeches before the
ABA to be filmed — under certain
conditions.
Burger’s dislike for TV cameras
flared at the ABA’s annual midyear
meeting in Atlanta last February,
where he sought to evade filmjerews
preparing to do a broadcast profile
of him for CBS’ ”60 Minutes” pro
gram.
He agreed to make his annual ad
dress on the judiciary at the ABA
meeting only if the 250,000-
member organization accepted his
ban on electronic coverage, said
President S. Shepherd Tate.
That led to some criticism of the
ABA for accepting Burger’s condi
tions. In apparent response, the
group's Board of Governors adopted *
a resolution April 6 concluding:
"The country is best served by
the broad distribution of informa
tion about the legal system and the
role of lawyers and the courts.
“General membership meetings
of the ABA are open to the regis
tered representatives of all news
media unless specific exceptions or
limitations are made by the Board of
Governors," it said.
He said under the present rules.
Burger could ask to speak without
cameras, "but he probably wouldn’t
get it. "
He noted, however, there have
been “indications” the chief justice
intends to accept future invitations
and “will permit television provided
lighting conditions are controlled
and the cameras are stationary.”
Supreme Court spokesman Bar
rett McGum confirmed Burger has
laid down three conditions for tele
vision coverage of future appear
ances — no “daring lights,” no "rov
ing cameras and no “spot inter
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