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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981
Texaco answers
surcharge issue
United Press International
HOUSTON — Texaco Corp.
officials said a large part of the
company’s credit card business
would be lost if they had passed
along overhead expenses to card
holders rather than to dealers.
But the dealers said because of
the new 3 percent charge, they
will be forced to raise gasoline
prices about four cents a gallon
and it will be the cash customers
who will be unfairly punished.
J.C. Kiersted, Texaco spokes
man, said Monday the processing
fee is a move by the company to
recover a portion of the high cost
of maintaining the credit card sys
tem. In 1981, he said, the cost was
over $100 million.
Kiersted said the company had
several options available to cover
those costs, including assessing a
charge directly to card holders,
but a number of card holders
would turn in their cards.
“The effect would be to do away
with a portion of the system,”
Kiersted said. “The only fair op
tion which would hold the best
long term promise is the proces
sing charge be put on the dealers
to share in the cost of the benefit,”
he said.
The service station dealers,
along with the Lone Star Service
Station Association, bought large
advertisements in Houston news
papers Monday, calling the com
pany proposal “a rip off’ and a
“credit card con. ” The ad read: “It
seems that Texaco does not have
the integrity or courage to pass
their $100 million plus credit card
costs directly to their millions of
credit card holders who enjoy the
convenience of using the card. In
stead, Texaco has decided to dis
guise its surcharge as an added
cost of the dealer who sells your
gasoline.”
Oklahoma ‘Kangaroo’
is actually exotic cavy
United Press International
TULSA, Okla. —The “kangar
oo” that puzzled early risers with
its scampers through a north Tulsa
neighborhood has been captured,
and it turns out not to be a kangar
oo after all.
The creature finally captured
last weekend is a cavy, an animal
from South America, animal con
trol officer Arthur Dunn said
Monday.
The first report came weeks ago
from an intoxicated man who went
into a restaurant and said he had
just run over a kangaroo. Police
confirmed the man had a large,
dead animal resembling a kangar
oo in his truck.
A 2V2-foot cavy that animal con
trol officers cornered in a residen
tial area Sunday offers an explana
tion for kangaroo sightings by pap
er carriers and other early risers in
the neighborhood, Dunn said.
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HOUSTON — Brown & Hoot
Inc., replaced as designer and
manager of the South Texas Nuc
lear Project, may leave the project
completely, a representative for
Brown & Root said.
“We’re looking at all aspects of
this, but it is a question of our
future role in the project and it’s
under study,” Representative
Clark Councill said Monday.
The possibility of a legal dis
pute between Brown & Root and
the consortium of utilities, headed
by Houston Lighting & Power
Co. , that hired Brown & Root as
designer and builder was not de
nied by Councill.
HL&P last week in effect mod
ified its contract with Brown &
Root last week announcing that
Bechtel Power Corp. will replace
Brown & Root as designer and
construction manager.
Officials blamed Brown &
Root’s inability to hire enough en
gineers to do speedy design work,
manage construction and build
the project, all at the same time.
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HL&P asked Brown & Root to Peak plant in north la
remain as the prime constructor of South Texas was:
the plant under supervision of Root’s only attempti
Bechtel, its competitor. signing and b
“We do not want them to leave, power plant.
Beeth said. We feel that they are Brown & Root was
good constructors. " criticism by groups
The legal ramifications will be project, but HL&P
discussed with the parties, Beeth Regulatory Commis:
said. was fined $100,
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"You just don’t walk in to a pro- HL&P, Central Pow
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tion for competence it had built tion in late 1975 with
over more than three decades, cost of about $1 billion
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However, Brown & Hoot has Antonio official saidlagh
had relatively little experience work had reduced
building nuclear power plants. tion work force £
The firm was builder, but not 2,700.
designer, on Carolina Power & “We needed moreco®
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the mid-1970s and is builder only eluded that Brown
on Texas Utilities Co. s Comanche not do it,” Beeth said.
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