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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1979
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Carter plan seen as essential
Lingerie thief
slips away
in Nebraska
United Press International
LINCOLN, Neb. — Police
say they are looking for an
undercover thief of sorts.
In one theft, the robber broke
into an apartment and got away
with 13 bras, three slips and
three nightgowns estimated at
$100, police said.
In another case, a 37-year-old
woman said an intruder entered
her unlocked apartment while
she was gone on a Sunday after
noon.
A pair of panties was taken
from her bedroom dresser, but
an older, smaller pair was left to
replace the pair taken, she said.
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United Press International
HOUSTON — Foreign oil will
cost the United States $77 billion in
1980, but the Carter adminis
tration’s energy program could re
duce imports by two-thirds. Trans
portation Secretary Neil E.
Goldschmidt told editors and pub
lishers Monday.
“The energy-inflation axis infects
our conduct of foreign affairs and
international policy,” Goldschmidt
said. “The fact remains we are pay
ing billions and billions of dollars of
oil tribute to OPEC, money that
gives them more leverage over our
foreign policy and at the same time
destroys our balance of payments
and devalues our currency."
Passage of the Carter energy pro
gram would give Americans “back
our economic and political birth
right,” Goldschmidt told United
Press International’s 20th annual
Conference of Editors and Pub
lishers.
Goldschmidt said the price of im
ported oil in 1980 will be $20 billion
more than this year despite energy
saving measures already enacted in
homes, industries and transporta
tion. He said it would take until
1990 to realize the predicted two-
thirds savings even with the im
mediate passage of Carter’s pro
gram.
“More than one-third of the rate
of consumer inflation is a direct re
sult of higher oil prices,”
Goldschmidt said. “In the first
seven months of this year, energy
prices rose 46 percent — the equiv
alent to a $42 billion levy with no
useful return to the economy.’’
The value of the dollar, he said,
has fallen 30 percent since 1973 and
the latest OPEC price increases
could result in the loss of 800,000
jobs.
“Americans know this and they
don’t like it,” Goldschmidt said.
“They want their president and
Congress to do something about it.
“The president’s determination to
set an absolute limit on the amount
of foreign oil which we will import
in the future has sent an unmistaka
ble message to OPEC, to the na
tions of the world and to the Ameri
can people: We have the domestic
resources in conservation, coal,
natural gas and oil shale to meet our
energy needs and we have the na
tional will and the national resolve
to achieve energy security.”
Goldschmidt described conserva
tion as the most cost-effective in
vestment that could be made in
energy, saying it unleashed a vast
capacity to create alternative forms
of energy including synthetic fuels,
geothermal power and solar energy.
New bumpers end
Six Flags sticker
United Press International
ARLINGTON — Nineteen years
after Six Flags Over Texas began
handing out the first of what
amounted to about 10 million free
bumper stickers, the giant amuse
ment park is giving up its sticker ad
vertising.
The sticker, which proclaims “Six
Flags Over Texas, Entertainment
Capital of Texas,” has appeared on
thousands of cars. But it doesn’t fit
on the smaller, more practical bum
pers of today, and so Six Flags has
decided to halt distribution of the
sticker as of Nov. 25, the end of the
park’s current season.
Already, park officials report,
they’re receiving requests for one
last, free sticker.
“We’ve sent out 53 in the past two
days,” said park spokesman Steve
Edmund. “We expect we ll get a lot
more requests once this gets more
publicity.
When the amusement park, lo
cated halfway between Dallas and
Fort Worth first opened in 1961, the
stickers were put on every vehicle
that drove into the lot.
“We were new and we needed
the publicity,” recalls Errol McKoy,
the park’s general manager.
In recent years, we’ve placed
signs near the parking lot toll plaza
which read, If you do not wish to
have a bumper sticker placed on
your car, please lower your visor.’
Very few visors are lowered. People
are proud of the fact that they have
visited the park, and a free bumper
sticker is a nice souvenir.”
But that era has ended as bum
pers on newer cars have become
less decorative and more practical,
leaving less room for stickers. Many
of today’s best selling cars have
bumper surfaces that are primarily
plastic and are broken up with plas
tic “chrome” strips. Bumpers on
economy cars are often narrower
than the traditional Six Flags stick
ers.
“It’s not that we have anything
against bumper stickers,” said
McKoy. “It’s just that we re running
out of places to put them.
He estimated more than 10 mil
lion stickers have been given away
during the park’s 19 seasons of oper
ations, during which 37 million
people have visited the sprawling
entertainment center.
“Frankly we hate to see them go.
But, on the other hand, we have to
change with the times and the folks
who design bumpers seem to be tel
ling us that times have, indeed,
changed.”
But that doesn’t mean park
visitors have to go home without a
free momento. The park plans to
offer free window decals beginning
next season.
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