Albuquerque Tribune (Newspaper) - September 18, 1973, Albuquerque, New Mexico The Albuquerque Tribune Vol SS No 15 LOCAL Sunny and mild today and Wednesday with highs in the mid to low Tuesday September 32 Pages in Four Sections HOME EDITION p.m Stock Prices TEN CENTS WEEKLY White House silent on report Agnew to resign WASHINGTON UPI The White House refused today to con- firm or deny reports that Vice dent Spiro T Agnew was considering resigning The deputy White House press y Gerald L Warren also responded with a no comment when asked of President Nixon had full confidence in Agnew The Washington Post quoted an unnamed Republican leader as saying that Agnew was considering resigning possibly this week A spokesman for Agnew said I am quite sure he has no such plan UNDER CLOSE QUESTIONING by re- porters this afternoon Warren made it clear he was acting on Nixon's orders not to comment on the matter He declined even to comment on a question about whether the position would encourage speculation that Agnew might be prepared to resign The unidentified senior Republican who said he spent two hours with Agnew late last week attempting to talk mm out of the decision predicted the ignation may come this week according to the newspaper ONE UNNAMED ASSOCIATE of new's said the resignation would be un- thinkable I would be shocked flabbergasted Agnew was notified Aug 1 by U.S ney George Beall that lie was under as part of an inquiry alleged kickbacks by Maryland contractors to state political officials Agnew said he was innocent The Post said Agnew repeatedly refused requests from the newspaper for either an interview or a direct comment on his re- ported discussions of resignation Agnew according to the Post said he would not respond to stories from unnamed sources J MARSH THOMSON the Vice dent's press secretary told UPI that he the story to be very far off the mark I did not consult closely with the Vice President when I first heard about Thomson said and I am quite sure that this is not all what he plans to do I don't regard this current story as ing any more to it than the many others that have been coming and getting undue attention due to the current atmosphere Thomson said Vice President Agnew Minor NM gasoline shortage seen Prizes galore photo by RoWe Jonis Phillips 16 not only has her hands full of prizes from the State Fair but the top of her head as well Janis daughter of Mr and Mrs James Phillips Jr of Albuquerque is among the thousands of New Mexico agers flocking to this year's Fair Tribune Staff Writer New Mexico's service stations today in a flux of closings and openings may see a minor shortage of gasoline during the last of this month Ray Primmer manager of emergency services for the American Automobile Association in New Mexico said It appears we will have a minor shortage ing the last week or 10 days of September He said that other cities in the nation especially Boston are expecting to see crucial shortages of gasoline at that time MR PRIMMER said he did not know the reasons behind the expected age It comes on the heels of sporadic openings and ings around the state today of service stations IV retail sales of gasoline The New Mexico stations are following a national shutdown trend Most stations in however re- mained open today as a group of several dealers were meeting to decide whether or not to shut down And the City tion Department today said it was keeping a close watch for possible down by stations Primmer said he feels Albuquerque stations will not act today however Fair features cutting horses By HOWARD BRYAN Tribune Staff Writer Performing with the grace and ease of a ballet dancer a world champion cutting horse jumped off to an early and wide lead day in open cutting horse competition at the New Mexico State Fair Sugar Vaquero a quarter horse owned by S Currie and Brazos Bend Ranch of Houston won ready this year and is said to be the biggest money winner in the history of cutting horse competition RIDDEN BY Bobby Sikes the horse cut a series of calves from a herd of cattle in the Horse Arena and kept them from ing to the herd in footed maneuvers that brought applause from the spectators Contest finals will be held at 7 tonight in Tingley seum prior to the rodeo show State Fair livestock ing continued at a heavy pace today with sheep goats and swine competing for championship honors The Junior Breeding Sheep Show opened with the judging of fine wool breeding sheep and the top honors going to Jeffery Perez of the Torrance County 4-H Club Young Perez exhibited the grand and reserve champion fine wool rams and ewes JUDGES LOOKED over H amps hi res in the Open Swine Show and awarded champion ribbons to mals exhibited by Jack Duffey of Lovington and Kenneth Carter of Hatch Judy Stubblefield of Amarillo Tex showed the champion Nubian in the Dairy Goat Show while top Saanen and Toggenburg honors went to goats by Stephen and Dan Consodine of Portage Wis Competition to select a 1974 State Fair Queen con- today with the 21 candidates displaying their horsemanship abilities to judges in the coliseum The rodeo at 8 tonight in the coliseum will feature the last of three personal appearances by country music star Charley Pride IDEAL WEATHER tions continued to prevail as the State Fair entered its seventh day Monday attendance at the exposition was down ly under the same day last year but the race track handle set a Monday re- cord The exposition attracted visitors Monday as compared with an ance of on the same day last year The Monday horse races attracted fans about less than last year but they posted a record parimutuel handle for the Continued on Page tions in Las Cruces which earlier today were 50 per cent shut down by late day were only 10 per cent shut Deming which had been 20 per cent shut down lier today on the other hand later had 65 per cent of its stations closed All the majors are closed in mer said is 20 per cent closed he added But 1 see no other lems in New Mexico at this he added GALLUP STATIONS which had led the protest in New Mexico with a day shutdown are open today In Albuquerque mond McDonald president of the newly formed Dealers tion was meeting today with association members to tell them about his mal hearing Monday in Washington with Cost of Living Council CLC bers Mr McDonald that CLC Deputy Director James McLane indicated that prompt action would be taken and that there will be an upward adjustment in gas prices He said that informed observers at that hearing determined that prompt means anywhere from two days to a week MR MCDONALD had told the CLC Monday that 90 per cent of the gasoline retailers will go out of ness unless the council lows them to raise prices He said that it became obvious to me during that hearing that the date on which enacted Phase IV controls are quite unreal even though they say they used a large con- firm in the East It's obvious they have no real knowledge of the grass roots of the service station McDonald ed HE SAID he felt tude to Sen Pete V ici who set up the hearing with the CLC and said that the senator's effort on behalf of the dealers wasn't finished Gary House tive assistant to City Trans- Continued on Page Possibilities of technology outlined chief talks at luncheon By URITH LUCAS Tribune Staff Writer Technology must be used to broaden the horizons of mankind the president of American Telephone and Telegraph Co told today Robert D Lilley of New York City spoke at the ed Community Fund off luncheon at the Convention LFC urges probe of Victorio gold Tribune Santa Fe Bureau SANTA FE The Tax Study Committee has adopted a resolution urging the state to gate the claims in Inside The Tribune Football on page Accent Bridge Horoscope Inside the Markets Obituaries TV Weather Town Grier tion with the alleged rio Peak treasure and ascertain whether or not any such treasure exists The committee indicated it wants the state to share in the wealth in the event the treasure reports are true Victorio Peak is on owned land leased to the federal government for the White Sands Missile Range THE LATE Milton E Doc Noss said he ered a vast treasure in gold and historic relics in a cave in the San Andres 1937 and re- moved some of the items before a faulty dynamite blast sealed the entrance in 1939 His former wife old Ova M Noss of Clovis has filed a billion suit in Federal Court against the federal and state Continued on A-S ter The goal is A record persons attended Cars filled every available parking space downtown TECHNOLOGY MUST improve our standard of living and our level of un- Mr Lilley said He called the eon an apt occasion to talk about technology because some of the finest cal minds in the country are represented at Sandia Laboratories here in Dr Morgan Sparks ident of Sandia ries served as kickoff chairman He arranged for Mr appearance here JOE S REINHART is campaign chairman and Joe Lopez is vice chairman Gov Bruce King was among those attending the big kickoff luncheon He said Bell Laboratories has contributed cantly to the of new materials medical electronics and the artifical larynx HE CALLED one of the greatest achievements the discovery of the for which Bell ries scientists received Nobel prizes He said the transistor spawned a billion state electronics industry and made possible laser surgery the pacemaker and miniaturized hearing aids Lilley was presented with a large cartoon drawn by C Earl Mac McGinnis ical cartoonist He also re- a wooden ner Mrs Lilley was given an oval shaped Nambe bowl The first report luncheon will be Sept 26 Other report luncheons will be Oct the final luncheon uled Oct 26 Nearly volunteers will take part in the Continued on page A-S Happiness is Looking over United Community Fund goals are from left Robert D Lilley New York guest er at today's kickoff eon Joe S Reinhart by Al Cabrol chairman Mrs Lilley and Joe Lopez vice chairman Mr Lilley is president of the American Telephone and Tele- graph Co Would eliminate catalytic converters cars may beat pollution standards C 1973 New York Times News Service NEW YORK A radical system aimed at meeting the legal limitation on auto engine emissions is being developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration The concept involves the use of hydrogen as an additive to gasoline in modified versions of standard internal combustion It has shown promising results in laboratory tests but will not help power an auto for another two months THE DEVELOPMENT is being carried out by the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory whose Ranger and Surveyor vehicles the moon as a prelude to the manned lunar landings Engineers at the Pasadena Calif facility stressed that the work was in its early stages with numerous difficult technical details still to be worked out It it too soon to talk about whether we really have a handle on being atye to meet the federal said Harry Cotrill the project manager in a telephone interview We're quite excited by the results so far but we have a long way to go STARTING MONDAY representatives of the major auto manufacturers will be visiting the laboratory for a series of demonstrations of what has been accomplished so far Dr William H Pickering the laboratory's tor said the companies had been invited to assess the utility of this system with a view to the possibility that they might wish to work cooperatively with us The space agency has allocated for ths first six months of the effort Pickering estimates that it might take a total of million to million to meet the emission standards now mandated for 1976 and 1977 under the federal Clean Air Act A KEY COMPONENT of the JPL system based largely on research conducted by an engineer named Jack Rupe is a hydrogen generator that could be aboard the car Cotrill predicted that a fully developed research vehicle able to meet the emission standards could be running about two years from now But after he said it would have to be for mass production It wouldn't be ready yet for the little old lady from Pasadena The laboratory has bought two Chevrolet Impalas to be used as the research vehicles The concept would be applicable to airplanes as well as cars A PRIME ADVANTAGE of the JPL approach its proponents contend is that it would meet tion requirements without attaching catalytic devices to engine as planned by major Detroit car makers Reservations have been widely expressed in the technical community about the auto tration on such catalytic devices This is because of their cost because of doubts Continued on Pipa ft
