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Clements told a news conference at the Society of Petroleum Engi neers’ annual convention here that he plans to discuss his proposal with Reagan and other officials next week when he visits Washington. He said domestic prices should be stabilized between $20 and $25 per barrel. Asked if he was advocating fed eral price controls, Clements said simply, “We need to come up with some kind of formula.” Besides the president, Clements said he will discuss the plan with House Speaker Jim Wright and Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who he says supports the plan. The governor wouldn’t say whether Baker’s support means Rea gan favors the proposal. The petroleum industry and the Texas Railroad Commission support a national energy policy, Clements said. “We as an industry can’t make plans when you have prices yo-yoing up and down.” The governor also spoke of the need for improved technology to help spur the domestic energy in dustry to recovery. “Long-term technology is the an swer to our industry,” said Clements, whose Sedco Inc. is now a division of New York-based Schlumberger Ltd. He said one form of new technol ogy, enhanced oil recovery, could significantly impact the country’s trade deficit by enabling U.S. pro ducers to extract a greater amount of the country’s reserves and dimin ish its dependence on foreign en ergy. The United States imports about 46 percent of its oil, which Clements called the “largest single factor in our deficit in balance of trade.” In Advance MSC to present discussion of religion MSC Great Issues and the Muslim Student Association will be presenting a discussion of Ju daism, Islam and Christianity re ligions at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Rudder Theater. Speakers, one from each reli gion, will explain aspects of their religions, including their beliefs in God, the scriptures and the conception of salvation, said Richard Stadelmann, an assistant professor in the humanities de partment and moderator for the discussion. After each representative speaks, Stadelmann will ask ques tions about each religion and pre sent objections, he said. Then questions will be taken from the audience. Dr. Steve A. Johnson, from Chicago, will represent the Islam religion, Stadelmann said. John son is the executive vice president of the American Islam College in Chicago. Representing Christianity will be Dr. Carrin Dunne, a professor of religious studies at Rice Uni versity. The Judaism representa tive is Rabbi Lawrence Jackofsky, regional director of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega tions. Plainview man builds extensive collection of Nazi memorabilia PLAINVIEW (AP) — When the Allies overran Germany’s jackbooted Nazis to end World War II in Eu rope in 1945, thousands of U.S. GIs brought home souvenirs of their conquest of one of the world’s might iest military machines. Today those remnants of death and destruction are collector’s items and a Plainview man has built an ex tensive collection of Nazi war mem orabilia. Doug Edwards, 31, has been col lecting Nazi war souvenirs for the past five years. He keeps his rare Nazi treasures, whose worth he esti mates at $25,000 to $30,000, locked away in a vault. Although his eyes light up and his face breaks into a big smile of conta gious enthusiasm when he talks about the MP-40 submachine gun that Nazi tnoops used or the exacting details of the officers’ dress daggers, he is quick to point out that he has no sympathy for the beliefs ortacticsof tne Nazis. “Believe me, I’m an American and I love this country,” he says. Edwards says he has learned a great deal about Germany and Ger mans in the Nazi era. Because there are collectors throughout the world, a thriving business exists in duplicating thest items, he says. To determine whether a piece is authentic or a “repo,” Edwards says he looks for the small details thattht makers of fakes leave out. The most valuable item in his col lection is silverware crafted espe cially for Adolf Hitler, he says. Each knife, spoon and fork is made of German silver and on the handle is an engraved eagle perched atop a swastika inside a circle and the ini tials “A.H.” for the infamous Fuhrer. punk r< sound: in new . DALLAS (A iave mellowed ! Tobeapunk. | "It is defin |unk rock hap [ecent intervie Ind of his U.S for Australia, tt’s something bout in rock ’r ; “The fact th; tie like me aro hat attitude ai us transforme hing that’s jus rasin 1977.” The 31-year Iso. Critics s; 'Whiplash Smi ind vulnerable leparture fron ords which po n'roll bully. His bleaches piked and his tumor” still is tegins concert tetween a iug< rood. But offsi immed glasse: neer is often r< The change todced by crii imile” was rele tit singles, “To yrical ballad, “f However, 1 hange as a nat lidn’t surprise “It’s fantastii re said in 19' ‘You can break then there’s a s tart new move icep going. T1 elf-destruct e [roups did. Th mpart the spir vas definitely a “Punk rock mells funny.” Telephone service to offer information on A&M events By Doug Driskell, St# f t Writer , A telephone information line that announces major campus current events will be available to students by Oct. 5., the student body president said at the Memorial Student Center Council meeting Monday night. The service will list current events on the MSC student activities cal endar, said Mason Hogan, student body president. The message will last about 45 seconds and may be up dated daily depending on how many activities occur that week. “When it is operational, we will probably start it on Sunday night, give the events through Wednesday, then come in and update it for the rest of the week,” he said. “We do not have a set number now, but ban ners will be distributed later giving the number.” Originally a ‘gripe’ line was to be established, he said. But because a transmitting tape recorder was the equipment provided, no calls could be recorded. In other actions: • Frank Muller, vice president for operations, said spaces for in door Danners, outdoor banners and displays in the glass cabinets in the basement and the second floor of the MSC must be reserved 28 days before displaying them. Previously, MSC committees had a seven-day advantage over non committees, he said. This new policy gives equal consideration to all orga nizations on campus. “We (building operations commit tee) felt MSC committees have the advantage of being up here and if they want a display bad enough they should be up here at 8 a.m. on the 28th day beforehand,” Muller said. The $10 deposit fee for each ban ner or display no longer is required, he said. The accounting involved re quired too much work just tohavea punishment, he said. “Legally, we would have to take every check we were given, depositit in an account and then write checks out of that account back to the orga nizations using the space,” he said. “This is too much leg-work for a de posit.” • Hogan said the eternal flame donated by the Class of’83 maybe lighted again at the class’s five-year reunion next fall. After meeting with the Class of ’83 representative, Hogan believes the flame will be kept. Alumni from the class will pay the $10,000 needed to repair the monument, he said. AMARILLO Texas banker ( from the Liberr private plane ; yond the end of The fiery cr; charred remain panics’ suspicio covered from tl of the banker. Now, more t the crash, offn the Booker ma pelled insurano dons that Lemc one else’s body set the autopil plane to crash ai “There’s no he is," Dr. Willi sic anthropolog; identification o( said Sunday. Texas farm land may end as nuclear dump HEREFORD (AP) — A U.S. Department of Energy official said Monday that plans to acquire private farm land for a nuclear waste dump in the Texas Panhandle will continue despite protests that the government is moving too quickly. DOE spokesman Linda McClain said that although the agency’s guidelines are under fire in Congress and could change, the department will follow the original site selection process until Congress tells it to do other wise. McClain’s department has notified farmers west of Amarillo of a draft plan for land acquisition for the con troversial nuclear dump site. The Texas site is the only one that would involve con demnation of private land. The other two finalists are on f ederal land at the Hanford nuclear reservation and at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Critics told a Spokane, Wash, newspaper that the En ergy Department is putting in motion plans to acquire private land to justify its presence in Texas at a time when Congress has cut off money for exploratory shaft drilling in 1987 and 1988 at all three sites. Farmer Wayne Richardson told the Spokane Chroni cle and Spokesman-Review that irrigation wells for his multimillion-dollar seed farm business are within the nine square miles of rich agricultural land that the En ergy Department wants to lease or buy for site work. “We feel this move is definitely not in compliance with the intent of Congress, which has withheld funds for the national program,” Richardson said. 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