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Administration spokesman Robert Ortner, chief economist of the Commerce Department, said the Federal Reserve Board’s factory production index, down 2.1 percent in December, was “extremely disappointing and unfortunate” but “no disaster.” It was the fifth consecutive monthly decline for factory pro duction — a grim sign of con tinued recession. Auto assembly production in December dropped to what would be an annual rate of 4.6 million units, according to the Federal Reserve Board’s index of industrial production, which was released Friday. But the total production cut backs among the nation’s factor ies were so widespread that the auto portion contributed only a small amount to the overall de cline. Production and assembly-line employment drops when people and businesses stop buying and unsold backlogs of goods accu mulate faster. However, layoffs have been especially evident in the auto in dustry. In a bit of good news, the Commerce Department also re ported Friday that wholesale prices rose 7 percent last year — the smallest increase since 1977. The Labor Department’s Pro ducer Price Index — a broad measure of wholesale price changes — showed only a 0.3 percent growth in December, finishing last year with a moder ate 7 percent gain. On Wall Street, the stock mar ket was bolstered by the news of lower inflation and scored its second consecutive gain Friday. The Dow Jones industrial av erage, a 3.33-point winner Thursday, tacked on 5.32 points to 847.60. But the average lost 18.93 points for the week overall and is down 27.40 points for the first two weeks of the year. Ortner called the moderate price increase for dealers “very encouraging for the outlook of sustainable growth in the eco nomy.” In other economic news, Cali fornia’s Home Savings of Amer ica, the largest savings and loan in the nation, reached across the state lines of Texas and Illinois to swallow six other associations. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said Friday it was the most extensive combination yet of ailing thrift institutions put together across state lines by federal regulators, a strategy in tended to avoid the collapse of ailing associations and huge los ses of federal insurance funds. Mine fire may have spread United Press International CENTRALIA, Pa. — Clouds of steam spewing from a “bot tomless” hole outside Centralia lEESSSt Open Mon-Thurs 7:15 ALAN ALDA CAROL BURNETT CINEMA l&ll 846-6714 % £ CORNER UNIV | & COLLEGE AVES. % have renewed fears that a 20- year-old underground mine fire threatening the town is spread ing and could be nearly twice as large as previously believed. “I think it’s bottomless,” Joan Girolami, spokesman for the Concerned Citizens Against the Centralia Mine Fire, said Friday after visiting the site. “It’s pretty big. I think this mine fire is a lot bigger than they (government officials) think it is.” Fumes from the fire leaking into homes forced 27 families to relocate late last year under a joint federal-state program. Located midway between Centralia and nearby Ashland, the 4-foot-wide hole of undeter mined depth is more than 1,200 yards south of where the fire has been confirmed as burning. Dennis Wolfe, a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources chemist who in spected the hole Thursday, said it was impossible to know with out more tests whether the mine fire was responsible for the steam. He said instruments found no trace of carbon mono xide or carbon dioxide fumes in the steam from the hole. The U.S. Office of Surface Mining said it would send in spectors to the site to conduct tests. If the mine fire is producing the steam, which was first noticed early in the week, it would mean the southern arhi of the fire had spread westward. CONTLN ENTAL gfBn Dmfif 8 lal—7:45 9:55 Bryan-College Station’s Newest Theatres NOW OPEN SCHULMAN 6 THEATRES 2002 E. 29th 775-2463 7:45 9:45 6:50 9:00 * * * * ♦ * * ♦ ♦ * ♦ * * * * * * * * * '+ * ♦ * * * * * * * * ♦ * * * * * ♦ ♦ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chevy has ft* to make this Holiday Season the funniest ever! PGl-x- .„.(8 Not since Gone With The Wind’ has there been a great romantic epic like REDS WARREN BEATTY DIANE KEATON 7:55 Nobody leans on Sharky’s Machine. BURT REYNOLDS SHARKYS MACHINE 7:35 9:55 by Frank L. ( Spons Ed (hen 24 high s< |ayers came toT< ty morning for Isit, they encount g situation. Although the at piing to do wit curring here sii events had evi th them. After ets had narrowe iioices to a prec (finding the Athlet Jn a state of hys Jave the recruits feiiings about Te: rsity. But finding the uddle of a sear ;hletic director ; placement for achTom Wilsc iv his own a ■exas A&M ■ranic E. Va lo idea wha iennext; “It tell you. It'yc ilease /el me Staff photo by Daniel Sanders turned home 1 < ^Eon unresolved S.M Athletic 1) i turmoil. The mother ol uitssaid her soi lirn home fron $ dth a different .'iBlian when he h« imost like he wa ieleft and he can asn’t excited ; aid. “(He) r< ard A&M, but i One-wheeled wiz Donny Carter, a freshman bio-med major from Katy, practices yet another form of transportation with this unicycle outside his apartment. Haig soon to return to Middle East talks now. With Universi dead Coach G.l lechler’s rejectic jf Texas A&M ithletic directo nore than $2 m lersity still need rector. Althougl hat a search is lor a replacenu Texas A&M Bo hairman H.R. tas insisted that United Press International WASHINGTON — The Un ited States will undertake an in tensive, active role in the stalled Palestinian autonomy negotia tions with Secretary of State Ale xander Haig returning to Egypt and Israel in two weeks. Although the mission is not described by Haig as a shuttle between the two capitals, the in tense diplomatic activity amounts to an all-out effort to solve a problem which has not budged for about two years. In Jerusalem Friday, Haig said he would come back to Israel and Egypt in late January after his Jan. 27 meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva. Two days after Haig’s next trip to the Middle East, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to come to Washing ton for a continuation of what Haig describes as “the political will” to find a solution. The intensive process was planned to begin in December, but the Polish crisis intervened and the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights complicated the negotiations. Haig defined his trip to the Middle East this week as a “fact finding” mission to isolate and clarify the differences that have kept the autonomy talks stalled for the past two years. 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