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Cumberland Evening Times (Newspaper) - August 2, 1979, Cumberland, Maryland The weather partly Cloudy tonight and Friday. Lows tonight in the 60s. Highs Friday in the 80s. Thech Anceo rain is to percent tomorrow. Euton Berlatt 3-Uenttig Himes local Amtrak train assured see local Page vol.cx.-no.2il associated press new York times news service United press International a laser photo Cumberland Maryland thursday August 2, 1979 published daily except sunday by the times amp albanian co. Baltimore is Cumberland. My 21502 second class postage paid at Cumberland. My 34 pages a 15 cent in a a a1. 4 Mumm Matig await a it protest regulations a a two truck Rolls past the White House As past of a protest by the National Congress of Petroleum retailers. The protest centers around dissatisfaction with Federal gasoline pricing regulations. A laser photo Gas dealers protest pricing regulations Washington up for new Jersey service station dealer Al Becker the department of Energy a gasoline pricing regulations Are a disaster. Becker who joined several Hundred other dealers wednesday in a protest at the White House said he a finding it hard to keep running his Getty station in Passaic n j., because the department of Energy limits his profits on a gallon of Gas to 15.4 cents fore taxes. I was making 29 cents in 1973,�?� he said. A if you were making half now what you were in 1973, could you get by a the dealers who came from around the country said the new regulations which took effect wednesday Benefit the major Oil companies at the expense of Independent station operators. A caravan of about 150 Tow trucks circled the White House while demonstrators carrying signs Reading a no Gas a Call Jimmy and a closed All Day due to . Government bungling Quot marched outside. The demonstration was sponsored by the National Congress of Petroleum retailers which claims to represent More than 60,000 dealers. Dealers want the profit ceilings raised to As much As 18 6 cents gallon Over the wholesale Price. Vie Rasheed director of a local dealers group the greater Washington Maryland service station assoc., said the Energy department favors the major Oil companies at the expense of retailers and is attempting to make dealers Rasheed said the Oil companies Are victimizing dealers by raising their rents. A some dealers have seen their rents doubled or decision delayed Talmadge Case Maryland lotteries super 50 cent and 17 for $1 six digit five digit four digit three digit two digit Bon us 066057 65934 1582 557 37 44 Washington up the Senate ethics committee will not decide for another month whether millionaire sen. Herman Talmadge should be punished for financial misconduct but there Are indications the Georgia Democrat May get off lightly. The six committee members met behind closed doors for More than two hours wednesday to discuss the five charges lodged against Talmadge evidence presented against him in six weeks of disciplinary hearings and the available options for punishment a reprimand censure or expulsion. Chairman Adlai Stevenson dill., told reporters the committee made a a lot of Progress and he is now optimistic the panel will reach a unanimous decision. Stevenson said be will schedule another meeting in Early september when Congress returns from its month Long summer recess and he expects a decision to be made then. During a question and answer session with reporters Stevenson repeatedly left the impression that some discipline of the powerful Talmadge is Likely. But his prediction of a unanimous vote suggests the punishment finally agreed upon May be Light. Reprimand is the Mildest disciplinary option available to the committee. Asked whether the fact that punishment was discussed meant Talmadge would not be cleared Stevenson replied a a in a not going to quarrel with your of the various punishment options he said a nothing has been ruled out. A Quot the Progress today suggests to me that the committees decision will be unanimous a he said. Deeper recession unemployment seen Washington a an internal Carter administration document predicts americans will face a deeper recession with higher unemployment next far than the White House As forecast publicly according to a source. The internal assessment says the jobless rate will hit 8.2 percent in the fall of 1980, meaning a total of 8.2 million americans could be out of work. In june the unemployment rate stood at 5.6 percent. A source who asked not to be identified said wednesday night the projections Are contained in a an internal document Quot that probably was never intended to be made Public. The predictions were prepared by a joint task Force that included senior staffers from the Treasury department and Council of economic advisers the source said. The internal forecast differs sharply from the Economy Outlook the Carter administration released july 12. At that time the administration was projecting an unemployment rate next year of wily 6.9 percent. The latest labor department figures for june show 5.6 million americans were out of work. The internal projection Means an additional 2.6 million americans could be out of work next year. The figures in the More pessimistic forecast closely parallel predictions being made by the Federal Reserve Board. The Board chairman g. William Miller will soon move into the administration As Secretary of the Treasury. It was expected that the internal document would increase pressure on president Carter to propose a tax Cut for 1980 to give the Economy a boost. Numbers game Baltimore up a the winning number in the Maryland lottery a daily numbers game for wednesday aug. I was 824. Raking Garter scores Victory in Egypt in gasoline rationing tripled Quot Rasheed said. A these can eat up a dealers profits. Price controls must be placed on the rents these huge Oil companies can Rasheed said dealers also opposed a measure allowing them to charge for such once free services As cleaning windshields filling tires and checking Oil. Following the White House demonstration the dealers returned their Tow trucks to an Assembly Point at Robert f. Kennedy stadium and took the subway to the Capitol to lobby against the regulations. Camp Sinai Egypt apr . Peacekeeping troops Are packing their souvenirs of duty in the Dusty Sinai wilderness a scorpions Frozen in plastic spent Shell casings and pinup calendars a As they disband and head for Home. Kunef the 4,015-Man United nations emergency Force ceased to exist on july 25, More than 5a years after the . Security Council sent it out to Monitor the truce that ended the october 1973 Arab israeli War. The death of the seven nation peacekeeping Force was an indirect result of the peace treaty signed by Israel and Egypt March 26 even though the treaty envisioned its continuance As a Buffer Force. The soviet Union opposed to the treaty refused to agree to Extension of in eff a mandate from the Security Council. The first to go were 140 swedes who packed their gear tuesday and began moving out of this base Camp nestled in the rolling Sand dunes of the Northern Sinai about 17 Miles East of the Suez canal. The military withdrawal is expected to take up to two months. A number of civilians will remain behind to wind up such chores As shipping Home equipment but Kunef officials say they too should be gone within six months. A your men were All handpicked the Best in the swedish army a said maj. Sven Ullgren a journalist from Goteborg Sweden in civilian life. Quot to serve in Kunef is considered very this is the second time a Kunef peacekeeping army has been sent packing. Originally established by the Security Council on nov. 5, 1956 after a previous egyptian israeli War it was ordered out by Egypt in 1967, an act that set the stage for the third Mideast conflict. No one knows who will replace the Kunef troops although discussions Are under Way to Send in another International Force or a group of United nations observers Israel wants president Carter to fulfil his pledge to set up a new International Force. Washington up the House has approved a gasoline rationing and Energy saving Bill that backers say will set the nation on a a think conservation course and detractors Call an unlimited gift of Power to the president. It was an Energy policy Victory for president Carter who wants standby rationing authority to use As a last resort in a fuel crisis. But the Bill provoked bitter partisan Quarel Ling that involved democratic and Republican floor leaders the speaker and the major Energy legislators and the final version brought the hint of a possible presidential veto. The Bill sent to the Senate on a 263-159 vote wednesday night would let the president order gasoline rationing under a streamlined procedure but Only if fuel shortages were severe and prolonged. The Senate has approved a similar conservation package and is on record in favor of emergency gasoline rationing authority. But the White House made it Clear wednesday night the president wants More work done on the Bill before final passage. A spokesman said the House version Quot clearly needs improvement before the president can sign he said the a a ministration is Quot disappointed that the House has been unable to agree on a direct and Clear Cut Bill that contains a set of measures that would enable the president to protect the country from the kinds of problems we have been experiencing this the House Bill would set up a Federal state program of mandatory conservation in emergencies less severe than those requiring rationing. It has two main parts and Here is How they would work a rationing if fuel shortages reach or threaten to reach for 30 Days a level 20 percent below supplies a year earler the president could president fighting draft registration Washington up president Carter is fighting congressional efforts to restore mandatory draft registration because it is a not needed at this time despite a shaky future for the Volunteer army. Press Secretary Jody Powell said wednesday Carter will a continue to Monitor the situation but feels it is not necessary to reinstate the requirement that 18-year-Olds Register for potential military service. Several proposals have been introduced in the House and Senate for immediate resumption of registration. It would not Mark a return to conscription but merely activate the Means for inductions in the event of an emergency. A the does under existing Law have the authority to do what these proposals before the Congress would mandate to be done a Powell said. A the does not believe it is needed at this the spokesman said Carter a will not hesitate to use his present authority at any time he sees it is necessary for preserving or enhancing our National Security Carter conferred with defense Secretary Harold Brown wednesday a and the Secretary reaffirmed his View that registration is not needed at this time a Powell said. Powell sought to clarify remarks by Carter tuesday in Bardstown by. The president had pointed to the Uncertain future of enlistments in the Volunteer army and observed a we might have to have As a precautionary measure registration for the draft just As a standby Quot the presidents position on registration remains unchanged a Powell told reporters. Quot he does not believe it is presently needed. He also remains opposed to proposals now before the Congress that would mandate registration. A the president has ample authority under existing Law to re Institute registration As Well As to order All necessary processing up to the Point of actual induction a he said. The president wednesday also tried to improve his relations with Congress particular republicans by meeting at the White House with a group of gop leaders from both houses. Order a rationing plan of his own design. Either House could Block its implementation in 15 Days. Carter already has the Power to order rationing but existing Law puts it under a cumbersome congressional approval process the House Bill would simplify. A conservation when fuel shortages hit to percent for 30 Days Carter could direct states to meet Energy conservation targets. Those that failed would have to accept mandatory Federal programs. This is the portion of the Bill that opponents such As rep. Dave Stockman r-mich., called a unlimited Power to the president and fought bitterly As too much Federal control. But rep Toby Moffett d-conn., told a reporter. A this Bill will help get people to thinking conservation on the state level with a trigger hanging Over them to nudge them to do Stockman and other republicans helped frequently by a sizeable sprinkling of democrats succeeded in modifying the conservation Section with a list of potential exemptions for several groups for whom strict conservation May be a hardship. They include Farmers food marketers and processors hospitals Homes for the elderly and approved special set asides of farm fuels and Home heating Oil in certain emergencies rampaging flood Waters claim five Young people i news briefs i ii spill bearing Texas Corpus Christi Texas a globs of or Riding the leading Edge of the worst Oil spill in history Are approaching the Texas coast and worried coast guard officials have begun mobilizing to head off environmental damage. Coast guard spokesman Richard Griggs said wednesday that six 15,000-Pound Quot floating fences were being shipped Here from the coast guards Atlantic and Pacific strike teams. Coast guard capt. Roger Madson ordered the mobilization wednesday after the unexpected discovery of Quot tar balls Quot on a mexican each about 60 Miles South of Brownsville. Law strands tourists Belgrade Yugoslavia up a tens of thousands of tourists have been stranded in their cars in 90-degree temperatures by a new romanian Law restricting the Purchase of gasoline by foreigners to those with hard currency such As dollars or German Marks. The new order designed to provide Romania with much needed hard currency and to Check the cheap Purchase of gasoline went into Force wednesday. Angry and frustrated travellers sat fuming in cars backed up for Miles at Border crossing Points while romanian officials checked whether they had the Correct currency to Purchase Gas coupons. Dollar relatively stable London up a the Dollar opened relatively stable in Europe today after the roller coaster and Downs of the past few weeks. Gold opened at $291.50 in London up $1,625. In Zurich it opened at $292,125 after the on Day National Holiday. The closing Price in Zurich tuesday was $296,625. On the foreign Exchange markets the Dollar opened at 1.8270 Marks in Frankfurt Down a fraction from 1.8287, and dealers reported initial trading was Quot quite in Zurich the Dollar was quoted at 1.6516 Swiss francs compared with 1.6630 Swiss francs tuesday. By United press International rampaging floodwaters killed at least four Young people in Indiana and one in Ohio. Workers in Griffin ind., piled sandbags today on a levee in a desperate attempt to keep the rising Waters out of 10,000 acres of com. Three youths were swept into a storm sewer in Mitchell in wednesday while they were swimming in a water filled ditch but one managed to escape police said. The bodies of Paul Houchin and Greg Massey both 16, were found not far from where they were sucked into a 500-foot drainage pipe by the current. In Southern Indiana two Young girls drowned while playing in a flood swollen Cree bed. The body of another Young girl was found in a drainage ditch in Dayton Ohio where she and three companions sought Refuge from the rain. The other girls were rescued. Thunderstorms rolled through the nations midsection shedding tornadoes Hail and torrential Rains that left parts of Indiana and Texas awash for the second time in As Many weeks. More than 2 inches of rain doused Southern Indiana. Still reeling from floods that caused millions of dollars in damage last week. New flooding was reported along some Rivers and streams some of which still were on the Rise from last weeks Rains. Civil defense officials in Griffin sent for 20,000 More sandbags and issued an emergency Call for volunteers to reinforce a flood threatened levee on the Wabash River. A a it a desperate. We need All the help we can get and we need it now a said Leo Austin Posey county civil defense director. About 250 volunteers responded plugging leaks and throwing thousands of sandbags on top of the levee in attempts to raise it High enough to keep the flooding River out of 10,000 acres of com. A trip by president Carter to the flood ravaged Southern Indiana Community of English a boosted the Peoples morale a said town Board president Gene Howerton. A a they be got a whole new fight in Viets called racists for refugee stand Lusaka Zambia up a Commonwealth nations today branded Vietnam As racist in its handling of the boat people refugees and called for a Radical change in Hanoi s policy. The refugee problem was the first item on the Agenda of the 22nd Commonwealth Summit after its formal opening wednesday during hich Antian explosively confronted Nigeria Over the african nations expropriation of British Petroleum Oil assets. Britain and Australia both denounced Vietnam at the conference a stand supported by the majority of the 41-nations in the Commonwealth. British Premier Margaret Thatcher said the a real source of the crisis., is the policy pursued by the vietnamese government and added a Only if there is a genuine change of policy there can we Hope to Stop the appalling australian prime minister John Malcolm Fraser said Vietnam a attitude was racist a perhaps the most damning word he could use within the context of a conference being held in Southern Africa. At wednesdays meeting Britain said that despite blatant nigerian attempts at diplomatic blackmail it would not change its policies toward Southern Africa especially Zimbabwe Rhodesia. A i can think of nothing More counterproductive and less Likely to succeed in an attempt of this kind to move British government policy on Southern Africa Quot Carrington said. Service stations get full service charge Washington a the Energy department is allowing service stations to charge extra if motorists pay by credit card but a House subcommittee chairman says that a against the Law. A it is unfair to put the service station operator in the Middle on this Issue a Illinois Democrat Frank Annunzio chairman of the House consumer affairs subcommittee said. A on one hand the department of Energy leads the operator to believe that there is nothing wrong with surcharging a credit card when such an action could land the service station operator in jail a a he said. Under Federal Law Annunzio said anyone adding a surcharge to a credit card Purchase can be sentenced to up to a year in jail or fined $5,000, or both Tho g Popou Ivin Arlmon said its lawyers were studying Annunzio a claim. Even before the congressman a warning Independent dealers were lambasting Energy department rules that let them charge extra for such services As washing windshields checking Oil and filling tires As Well As honouring credit cards. Charging extra will Only alienate customers station

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