Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - July 15, 1979, Waterloo, Iowa Sunday 96 pages 10 sections July Waterloo Iowa 50 cents d Carter set Ian to nation WASHINGTON President Carter deeply troubled by a lack of confidence in his leadership ended his domestic Camp David day and returned to the White House for a speech he concedes may be his last chance to rally the nation Carter spent much of the day meeting with speechwriters and top aides polishing the address he will give at 10 p.m EDT Sunday The president's helicopter touched down at the White House shortly after p.m EDT Saturday Members of the press Carter corps who normally are allowed on the lawn to see and photograph the arrival were barred from doing so Saturday White House press officials gave no reason for the change except to say they saw no reason for the coverage Journalists who met with Carter Friday afternoon said he conveyed the im- pression of a man determined to change the direction of his presidency They described him variously as a thoroughly chastened as a deeply troubled and worried and as a man ready to make bold policy proposals and tial staff changes This period of reflection followed a hectic and mostly secret domestic summit at Camp David Carter was reported ready to propose in the Sunday speech a major synthetic fuels program among other things The aim would be to find sufficient alternative fuel resources to replace more than half the oil the United States now imports from foreign countries SUCH A program would cost huge sums in the billions of dollars by one earlier account But this could be covered in large part or entirely by Carter's windfall tax on the profits domestic oil companies reap from the gradual lifting of oil price controls The energy portion of Carter's speech also is expected to contain a call for a new national board to cut red tape and speed energy projects The president is expected to ask for authority to order limits on the amount of oil that may be brought into the country He is likely to plead anew for standby authority to ration gasoline in any fuel supply emergency And Carter probably wUl ask Congress for swift passage of the windfall profits tax However Carter plans to go far beyond energy in his nationwide address which comes 10 days after he mysteriously canceled an address scheduled for the evening of July 5 It is likely Carter will try to rally the nation to cooperate in his battle against a rampant inflation that is running at an annual rate of 13.4 percent and a sluggish economy that may already be in re- cession The president also is expected to dis- cuss what he sees as a sagging national spirit CARTER HAS been pictured as feeling that fuel shortages inflation the looming recession and a sour national mood have made the country hungry for leadership and ready to listen to what he says must be done Oratory to move an entire is the way the Washington Post described the speech in a headline over a story by David Broder one of Carter's Friday luncheon guests He sees his Sunday speech and the other speeches and actions that will follow as an opportunity to reverse or arrest what he sees as a loss of confidence not only in him but also in our institutions and indeed in reported Frank Reynolds of ABC News one of the journalists Carter invited to Camp David Walter Cronkite of CBS said Carter was a deeply troubled and worried man He does not spare himself in acknowledging he has lost the confidence of the people and the Congress John Chancellor of NBC said Carter gave the impression of a man who had made a number of New Year's tions Get out more reorganize speak with a larger voice talk to the people BUKK TO CATCH THE SCHOOL It's no bargain just pricing by half-gallon By DAN DUNDON Courier Staff Writer If you drive into your neighborhood service station this week and see 51.9 cents per gallon posted on the pump don't be misled into believing you have just stumbled onto an incredible gasoline bargain In fact you have pulled into one of several service stations in the area which will be posting half-gallon prices on their pumps this week Under state regulations service stations are permitted to charge half-gallon prices beginning Monday The prices will vary from station to station but motorists may soon be con- fronted with prices as high as per gallon Part of the increase will be due to action last week permitting station operators to increase their profit margin on a gallon of gas A NUMBER OF station operators in the area say they will convert to the gallon system just as soon as they receive the necessary stickers from the ment of Agriculture The department's weights and measures division which regulates gasoline metering has issued rules erning half-gallon pricing The new regulations are designed to establish a uniform method of charging more than a a gallon at all service stations according to Agriculture ment spokesman Jim O'Connor Under the new regulations if a service station operator changes one pump to half-gallon pricing all pumps at the tion must be converted to the system I've been getting some flak from dealers but if we didn't do this it would be a mess of confusion for the O'Connor said STATION OPERATORS will be re- quired to post eight small stickers on each pump four on a side informing motorists that half-gallon prices are being charged One of the stickers will also carry the full gallon price of the gasoline We want the full price always to be posted somewhere on the he said In addition station operators must dis- play a large sign either in the window of the station or along the street notifying customers of the half-gallon pricing In large letters the signs will inform motorists our pumps register by the half-gallon O'Connor stressed that the tion for half-gallon pricing will only be temporary The expiration date is July 16 According to O'Connor tion can be extended beyond that time on an individual basis if station operators can demonstrate purchased or ordered equipment to convert their gasoline pumps It costs about to convert each pump to register more than a gallon According to O'Connor equipment now available will only register up to per gallon and then must be converted again AS AN alternative O'Connor is urging the conversion to metric metering The conversion only costs about and the equipment can be used indefinitely Right now we are trying to convince station operators to consider metric he said Metro area station operators contacted expressed little interest in metric ing now claiming it would only further confuse motorists Standard Oil service stations ly will be the first to go to the half-gallon pricing in order to increase the price for their premium grade Several Standard dealers in Waterloo and Cedar Falls claim they have been losing money on their premium grade because they could not go above 99.9 cents a gallon A number of Standard stations went to half-gallon pricing last week but were forced to roll back their prices when contacted by the Department of Agriculture As a result some Standard dealers say they will increase price this week to recover the losses they experienced because of the state's action Under state regulations it is permissible to increase pump prices if losses were incurred because half-gallon pricing was not authorized In addition dealers are expected to tack on price hikes to increase the profit margin on each gallon of gas Station operators are expected to add from three to five cents for a gallon of gasoline under the new federal rules which took effect Sunday The new rules are designed to allow station owners to better offset the effects of inflation on their profits WITH THE increase profit margins will average between IS and 20 cents per gallon of gasoline according to officials of the Department of Energy The half-gallon pricing will also permit dealers to increase the difference between full-service and self-service gasoline At a number of Standard dealers last week the price of self-service unleaded and pre- was identical to full-service prices 99.9 cents per gallon One of the few dealers in the area to have converted pumps Land Brothers Standard at 230 E Ridgeway Ave was charging per gallon for premium gasoline at full service pumps Friday The increase allowed for higher profit margins could posh that price to the mark in the near future As far as the future is concerned officials of the Iowa Department of estimate that the price of gasoline may reach a gallon by fall and could even exceed the mark by next summer Area gasoline dealers are not even attempting to predict gas prices that far in the future It's hard to know from one week to the next what the price will one Waterloo dealer noted Children become innocent victims as civil war rages in Nicaragua Courier photo by Tim Cochran Once more might buy it There were plenty of buyers on hand to hear Auctioneer Conrad Doan of Waterloo tell the virtues of items sold Saturday at the former main Post Office braiding from a federal former footstool to slabs of marble were auctioned off to help raise money to what will be the new Waterloo Library with books and equipment Story about the auction is on page 13 MANAGUA Nicaragua AP The children of Nicaragua's civil war are bruised and beaten by forces they cannot understand They are wounded hungry and sick with the diseases that prey on the weak and undernourished And all around them a war goes on A boy lies in a Red Cross hospital blind now Something crashed through the roof of his house one day and just lay on the floor He could not resist picking it up and playing with it There was an explosion and the flash was the last thing he ever would see Nearby lies a boy a year or so older He has no legs In the barrio slums of eastern Managua a mortar round ex- The shrapnel flew and the gangrene got him before the doctors There is little medicine for these children little transportation to get them to hospitals and too few doctors Estimates of the number of people killed since Sandinista guerrillas launched their latest offensive against President Anastasio Somoza in May range up to DOCTORS SAY pharmacies and drug supply houses were looted and not enough medicine is coming into the country to make up the difference Yet no bands of homeless urchins roam the streets of Managua There is an unusual thing in said Dr Agustin Cedeno head of the Red Cross hospital here People in refugee centers are taking in homeless tods even though food is in short supply It is the rainy season in Nicaragua and gastroenteritis influenza and bronchitis afflict the thousands of children who drink the bad water and live in crude shelters in the refugee camps May through July is usually the worst time for these things here Cedeno said That plus the war and you have a catastrophe At the Fernando Velez Paiz Maternity and Pediatric Hospital hundreds of children are brought in daily AP news special many in advanced stages of dehydration from dysentery and other illnesses They lie in little cribs and motionless their startled eyes protrud- ing their chests caved in their skin like corduroy where the ribs show through Hospital director Dr Ramiro Abaunza Salinas said the transportation breakdown means many children arrive too late to be helped Mothers may have to walk or hitchhike miles with their children to find help for them An girl lay dead on an examining table in the hallway The young mother who had brought her child 30 miles from Grenada stared blankly at her daughter's body and asked Abaunza who had not seen the child before told her he did not know LIKE I he explained later many of them get here too late It looks like something gastrointestinal He said many new mothers are leaving their children at the hospital hoping the babies will get better care there than at home There are two kinds of abandonment at the hospital Abaunza said Some mothers take the plastic identification bracelets from their babies before they leave These mothers are not coming back If they don't take the bracelets he said chances are they will try to claim their children from foster care centers later They think the children will be better off with Abaunza said He paused a few seconds They're probably right Dr Cedeno said some families are afraid to come in for treatment fearing their wounds might be interpreted by Somoza's national guard forces as evidence of a combat role Others he said simply cannot get to medical help We see 600 people a he said I would estimate that 90 percent of these are children In the refugee camps children 3 or 4 years old wander aimlessly often ing younger brothers or sisters If they are lucky dinner will be rice and beans Lunch was rice and beans And if there was it was beans AT THE Seminario Refugee Center in western Managua where people live in tents and the children manage to smile and ask to have their pictures taken They don't beg Take these children with you wherever you are pleaded a A tearful child looks through the steel mesh of a fence in one of me refugee centers in Managua Nicaragua As civil war con- to rage in Nicaragua children are increasingly becoming the victims of injury hunger and disease mother of eight There are so many flies the children all have dysentery At night we have to cover them over There are so many flies AP Today's Quick Comment FOR SEVERAL days last month two workmen carefully dug out and replaced broken patches of concrete in a sidewalk at the White House A few weeks later while Carter was jetting around the Far East other workers appeared and dug up most of the newly patched sidewalk and replaced it from curb to curb with fresh concrete It's another story il- lustrating the very real problem of waste in Inside Members of the Civil Air Patrol practice locating a sing pilot See story on page 13 Weather Cooler and less humid day with highs in the lower 70s Complete weather on page 2 quips If you're looking for a Big Is Beautiful sign you can 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