Midland Reporter-Telegram (Newspaper) - January 25, 1977, Midland, Texas HOME EDITION THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLAR Box TEXAS Dally Sunday 35 JANUARY 1977 20 4 SECTIONS FEA invokes powers to head off shortages THE HARD WINTER THOUSANDS LAID OFF The Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Invoking emergency powers unused since the 1973 Arab oil the Federal Energy Administration has taken steps to head off looming shortages of home heating oil in five Midwestern At the same FEA has issued new regulations permitting diversion of propane from current industrial users to hospitals and other users if necessary to compensate for shortages of natural Both approved by special White House energy adviser James came in response to the fuels crisis facing much of the eastern twothirds of the nation as a result of severe winter In an energy development not directly related to the winter fuel President Carter Monday ordered the FEA to withdraw a plan for ending federal price controls on gasoline a plan put forward in the final hours of the Ford Administration but opposed by many congressional Democrats and consumer Withdrawal of the which otherwise would have gone into effect automatically on March 1 unless vetoed by at least one house of Con was not intended to imply any position on the ultimate merits or demerits of gasoline a White House statement Carter will review the decontrol the White House statement noting that emergency actions taken now to deal with fuel shortages could affect gasoline supplies and prices next summer and thus could make continuation of federal price controls The Administration recognizes that there are significant problems with the existing control but believes that a hastily considered action removing such controls might create far more serious the statement The Ford Administration had said that controls were distorting oil in dustry operations and that prices would not rise substantially as a result of While officials grappled with the complex federal rules changes they hoped would ease the fuel members of the Carter family and others in the new Administration got some not altogether pleasant tastes of what life is like with the thermostat set at 65 degrees when outside temperatures remain below Carter last Friday called on all homeowners to turn the heat down to 65 degrees during the day and lower at night to save Members of Carters new Cabinet met in the White House Cabinet room Monday and an aide said afterward I can assure you it could not have been more than 60 degrees in that One wall of the Cabinet Room consists of glass doors fronting on the Rose which now is wrapped in a blanket of snow and At the Cabinet according to a Carter said there had been some initial reluctance among members of his family to accept the 65degree thermostat but by suppertime Sunday night they said they liked Now were wearing sweaters when wed normally wear shirt Carter was quoted as Carter urged members of the Cabinet to be sure thermostats were being dialed down in their offices as well as in federal buildings across the Spot checks at several agencies indicated the Presi dents admonition was being In its effort to avoid home heating oil shortages in several Midwestern the FEA was directing specified refiners in North and Min to shift from the production of jet aviation fuel to 1 heating which is also a form of the extremely light 1 heating oil is used by only a tiny fraction of those heating with oil most use the or 2 In the Upper 1 oil is used by fully 10 per cent of all those heating with according to FEA officials largely because the thinner when used alone or blend ed with 2 will keep flowing in stead of congealing in cold Natural Gas Shortages Many Industrial Plants Closed Scattered Closings Kerosene Shortages Sources FPC and FEA Florida Freeze puts migrants out of work THE ABOVE SHOWS states affected this week and last by the unusually cold The Federal Energy Administration said Monday that a survey indicated at least workers were laid off during some part of last week because of natural gas Leaders wont energy input WASHINGTON AP The Senate and House Democratic leaders told President Carter today they should have been brought into discussions on emergency natural gas legislation After putting the price lid back on Carter is considering taking the lid off natural gas prices in an effort to cope with a shortage that has closed schools and caused layoffs of as many as Carters top energy James worked with congressional committee staffs on Monday to draw up possible emergency legislation aimed at easing the natural gas which have been aggravated by this winters bitter Senate Majority Leader Robert said he and House Speaker Thomas ONeill urged Carter in the future to include the party leadership in legislative discussions at the same time as committee chairmen Byrd talked with newsmen after a Democratic leadership meeting at the White House with Carter at which Byrd said the current gas shortage and other matters were He said the first he knew of administration efforts to develop emergency natural gas legislation was what he read in the newspapers and added that so far as he knew Adlai Stevenson chairman of a Senate Commerce sub was the only Congress member Schmidt confer West Germany AP Vice President Walter Mondale and West German Chancellor Helmut Sch midt began private talks today about economic problems of the Western world and West con sale of nuclear equipment Walter Mondale of Mondale drove the long block from his hotel in a 25car motorcade escorted by 10 motorcycle policemen wearing leather Two members of the federal border guard presented arms as Mondale arrived at the chancellery building and was greeted by Schmidt at a news conference in London on Monday called for a concentrated operation by the United West Germany and Japan to stimulate international trade and economic who had been meeting with British Prime Minister James said a program of joint economic action should be worked out for consideration at the summit conference which President Carter will attend in May with the govern ment chiefs of West Ger Italy and The whose country has the strongest economy in Western said there is no lack of money the problem is that it isnt distributed benevolently among the He said such more prosperous countries as the United West Germany and Japan should act together to stimulate their economics so they would help other nations by buying more from Mondale noted during a news conference Monday that the spread of nuclear material and technology would also be one of the topics he would discuss in President Carter and his vice president share the Ford ad ministrations opposition lo the agreements West Germany and France have made with and to sell them reprocessing plants that could con vert used nuclear fuel into plutonium usable in atomic Both West Germany and France have refused to cancel the agreements with Brazil and Schmidt said last week his govern ment would fullfil its contractual obligations with But the West German government was reported looking for way to get out of selling the reprocessing plant without jeopardizing the rest of the billion Make the of if old Maggies credo Brown looking for cuts WASHINGTON AP The chair man of the Senate Armed Services Committee said today he is convinced the nation must return to the draft as a source of military Im convinced that like it or not were going to have to go back to the Selective Service system for obtain LATE NEWS WASHINGTON AP The Supreme Court today struck down a federal courts plan to integrate In schools by busing black students to predominantly white school WEATHER Fair through Cold tonight and warmer Low lower High lower Complete details on Page INDEX Bulldogs renew Tall City basketball rivalry tonight in MHS Page Oil and Womens ing some of our John said at the opening of a hearing on defense The principal witness was Defense Secretary Harold who told the committee it would be another month before President Carter will decide what changes to make in the defense budget sent to Con gress a week ago by the outgoing Ford In what he called a statement of my views of the international en Brown told the commit tee that the basic issue is not whether the should have ample military power we must assure that we do but how much is Pentagon sources have disclosed that last the day he was sworn in as defense Brown notified senior military officials of tentative plans to reduce their budgets by a total of about President Carter said frequently during the campaign that billion to billion in waste could be cut from the Pentagon At Armed Services Committee hearings on his Brown told the panel its not going to be easy to cut the defense budget by that Acting on the basis of studies and recommendations by President Carters defense transition Brown proposed reductions in more than 30 including slowdowns and in some major nuclear weapons cutbacks in some aircraft and Navy shipbuilding and a reduction in Arm y The armed services were given an opportunity to argue against the proposed which would hit some of their most cherished Pentagon sources said the reduc tions outlined by Brown would come principally from the final Ford ad ministration but also from the current fiscal years billion To the surprise of the Air Brown did not list cancellation of the controversial Bl although he proposed reducing the number of advance bombers to be built next year from eight to Brown would delay for at least a year full scale development of the big MX intended to replace the present generation Minuteman missiles in the Under the Brown research would be pushed on ways of making the MX mobile to guard it against a surprise Soviet knockout The Air Forces new which showed a big cost jump last would be cut 25 per cent cut or about million next The Army was notified that Brown believes about men can be trimmed from a projected strength of This met immediate Army The generals contend Army troop strength is now close to its lower limits if it is to be able to handle its assigned The Navy faces possible loss of funds to start its first strike cruiser and reduction of its advanced warship a hydrofoil boat and an air cushion l Harold Brown Call me said the frail little whos living alone in her old Youre doing she when you call old folks by their first according to the this naive and sincere woman from the bygone days of passive reckons that shes now entering her second Shes so honest and innocent about it all that you could weep out of But you Old age will claim us if time death Those little children call me she said of a friends tod whom shes so very fond It is sure So is Shes welfare but not frightfully so not to dear has found a rich sweetness in her latter Its not even Thats not Maggies She just accepts and They know me over there at the Salvation and I goes over there and picks up these she said while sitting on a raggedy easy chair in her rundown I bought these shoes for 50 ROUSTIN ABOUT with and you cant beat They were light brown lounging shoes that looked more fitting for a boy than for a poor and leisurely She said so Its been that my feet have been swelling on she and Im sure proud of these Maggie doesnt do a whole lot these She lives on the near eastside of town and sometimes to the store and wherever else she needs to I loves to she Thats my biggest pleasure Friends and kinfolks sometimes drop by for a visit in her dingy but tidy frame She cooks salt pork and stew and keeps her coffee steaming warm atop Continued on Page 2A for every American WASHINGTON AP The Carter administration hopes to provide a cash payment for each including those who are too poor to pay President Carters budget Bert said Lance said the payment would be in the form of a tax rebate for each exemption claimed by a There also would be a cash payment for persons receiving Social Security benefits and for persons who dont pay The total payments this year would be about he Congress would first have to approve the program which still isnt complete in every Lance told a news He also disclosed that President Carter has decided to propose ad help for business by providing an option between a 2 per cent in crease in the investment tax credit to a total of 12 per cent or a tax deduction equal to 4 per cent of em ploye Social Security Lance said it isnt certain that every American will receive exactly a but indicated that this is the goal for the He also said it might be too costly from an ad ministrative to try to provide a cash payment for all low income We will try to reach all we can unfortunately there may be some we cant Carter earlier had disclosed he would ask Congress to propose bet ween billion and billion in tax rebates to stimulate the economy this Lance said the rebates for tax payers would be equal to about per The rebates will but he said it isnt certain that it would be all i
