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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 10,1973
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CHlCAGO—Unidentified persons attempt to cover face of Giordan Soubasefski, 66-year-old
immigrant from Yugoslavia, upon leaving police station yesterday. Soubasefski, who was
returning to his native country after earning his “fortune” here, went to the airport July 6
with $25,500 in cash and traveler’s checks in a suitcase and a .22 caliber gun. But he never
got on the plane because he was arrested for carrying the gun. Then, after he was released
on bond July 7, he was robbed of his fortune by two strangers who had promised to get him a
lawyer. (UPI)
Shoots his wife
7 did it for my honor’
FROSINONE, Italy (UPI) —
“I did it for my honor,”
explained Salvatore Nappo.
“She was not a virgin and she
did not have the courage to tell
me.”
And that, Nappo said when he
surrendered to police, was why
he shot his bride of four days.
His bride, Anna Nenna, 21,
had been shot four times at
point blank range in the neck
and throat and left at the side
of a country road 46 miles
south of Rome.
It was a familiar story in
Italy, where until a few years
ago a woman, but not a man,
could go to prison for adultery
and where a sexual code of
“honor” once let men some
times go free even in cases of
murder.
But in the Nappo case there
was a bitterly ironic twist. A
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lawyer hired by the Nenna
family announced it Monday.
“Anna was a virgin,” attor
ney Gennaro Fusco said.
In his prison cell in nearby
Ferentino, Nappo wept.
Both the 28-year-old Nappo
and his bride were Neapolitans.
They married June 1 and set
out by car on a honeymoon.
Nappo told police he felt an
incontrollable rage after be
coming convinced that his wife
was intimate with someone else
before their marriage. In his
hometown, he said, honor was a
life and death matter.
But, he said, he waited to act
until they went for a drive on a
quiet country road. There, he
said, he parked, fired four
shots, threw his wife’s body
from the car and drove off.
Several hours later, Nappo
went to a lawyer who advised
him to surrender to police.
The men of Mrs. Nappo’s
family came to Frosinone the
next day, convinced even
before the autopsy that it was
her honor that was wronged.
“I have always checked
closely around my four daugh
ters because I am an old
fashioned man,” said Giuseppe
Nenna, “and I have a highly
developed sense of the serious
ness of a woman, of her honor.
“Not one single time did
Anna leave the house without
my sending my little grandson
together with her,” he said. “At
night, she never returned after
8 o’clock, otherwise there was a
scene.”
After the autopsy was com
pleted, they took Anna home
for burial.
Nixon sees
hostile
signs
By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon saw evidence
of a drop in his popularity
caused by the Watergate
scandal Monday when he
stopped in Kansas City, Mo., en
route back to the White House
from California.
Hostile signs appeared in the
crowd when he swore in
Clarence M. Kelley, the Kansas
City police chief, as new
director of the FBI.
Some of the signs said:
“Impeachment with Honor.”
“Conspirator or Uninformed
Fool? ” “Impeach Adolf Nixon.”
“Honesty, Now More Than
Ever.”
About 12,000 persons turned
out for the ceremony staged in
front of the federal building
where Nixon, in off-the-cuff
remarks, sought to reassure the
nation that Watergate disclo
sures involving the FBI had not
shattered the FBI.
“I have often said, and I
have visited most of the
countries of the world, that the
best national law enforcement
agency in the world is the
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion,” Nixon said.
“It is still the best. And
second, I will say that the best
national law enforcement agen
cy in the world deserves the
best law enforcement officer in
the world as its director.”
“Chief Kelley is that man,
and he is going to demonstrate
that to the country,” he said.
As he spoke a voice yelled
out: “What about crime in the
White House.”
Some 200 young demon
strators, shunted off to the side,
booed and chanted “racist pigs
have got to go” as the
President ticked off a litany of
his achievements including the
fact that he had ended the
draft.
The crowd reaction was
unenthusiastic although there
was polite applause. Spectators
on the street smiled or waved
but the turnout did not match
Nixon’s previous visits to the
“Show Me State.”
Dr. Abernathy charges some
blacks have abandoned SCLC
ATLANTA (UPI)-The black
middle class has abandoned the
civil rights movement, accord
ing to Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy,
and “it is hard to ask for
money from white people be
cause you can’t beg a man and
fight him at the same time.”
Thus Abernathy, who took
over the presidency of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) when Mar
tin Luther King Jr. was slain,
announced Monday he was re
signing.
He made it clear that he felt
SCLC was on its deathbed, its
staff cut back by more than 50
per cent from King’s heyday in
the 19605, and its finances $50,-
000 in red.
Blames King Widow
He blamed affluent blacks in
general, but mentioned by name
only King’s widow, Coretta. Al
though she “still receives 100
per cent of my backing,” Aber
nathy said, she singlehandedly
could have saved the organiza
tion her husband founded by
sharing money she had raised
for the Martin Luther King Jr.
Center for Social Change.
“lam resigning because of a
lack of financial support,” Aber
nathy said at a long, emotional
news conference.
He said blacks had attained
high positions through the strug
gles of SCLC and “the struggles
of other poor people, but will
not support SCLC financially
and make it possible for this
organization to meet its obliga-
An open letter on the gasoline shortage to:
Representative:
John J. Flynt, Jr.
We are publishing this letter in your home
town newspaper, and in those of the other
Members of Congress, because we want
you and your constituents to have the facts
about the gasoline shortage as we see
them. We are doing this because many
people are being misled by the absolute
nonsense, totally unsupported charges,
and outright lies being spread around by a
variety pf people. For example:
"There are sufficient supplies available to
the oil industry so that there need be no
serious shortage of gasoline or any other
petroleum product for any purpose in this
nation’.’
"But the fact is, much of the so-called en
ergy crisis is being concocted in the board
rooms and public relations offices of the
nation's major oil companies'.'
“I suggest that circumstantial evidence
supports the conclusion that the major oil
companies are using the fuel shortage they
helped create to drive out their competition?
What these and other such statements
boil down to is a series of charges that the
shortage is contrived. That it is a hoax per
petrated by oil companies to raise prices
and drive unbranded marketers out of busi
ness. That it is a massive conspiracy, a price
gouge to end all price gouges.
Not one of these charges is true. All are
based on misinformation. Some are out
right lies. Here are the facts.
I. Gasoline production is at an all
time high
When they hear the word "shortage’,’
many people think the industry must be
supplying /ess than before. Far from it.
The U.S. oil industry is making more
gasoline than ever before-5% more than
last year. That translates into an increase of
13,700,000 gallons a day above 1972-
which would have been more than enough
to meet the demand growth of almost any
previous year in history. The problem is that
with gasoline production up 5% over last
year, demand is up about 6.2%. The short
ages, which may come and go due to tem
porary swings in demand and supply, have
shown up in the fact that some service sta
tions occasionally run out of gasoline, and
many dealers have chosen to operate on
shorter hours and to close on Sundays.
11. Political decisions have pro
duced the shortage
The following factors, all essentially re
sulting from political decisions, have pro
duced today's shortage:
(1) While potentially large oil reserves are
believed to lie off the U.S. East and West
Coasts-our most promising oil province,
since the onshore U.S. has been more
heavily drilled-up than any other part of the
world—these offshore areas are barred to
exploration, and U.S. crude production is
dropping. Oil companies had no control
over this.
tions and commitments.
“If poor people are unable to
finance the movement but can
and will supply the troops, then
certainly the middle class black
people who have arrived and
now receive fairly decent sal
aries should supply the fi
nances,” he said.
Abernathy had criticized Mrs.
King earlier this year for not
sharing with SCLC the money
made at a benefit performance
she organized.
Mrs. King issued a brief state
ment Monday which ignored
Abernathy’s criticism of her
and praised the 44 - year -old
Baptist minister.
“I regret that Rev. Abernathy
felt it necessary to resign be
cause his efforts had not been
adequately supported,
especially by many of those
persons whose needs SCLC had
served.
“His long years of dedicated
service to SCLC and the move
ment place him in the forefront
with those who have given lead
ership in a most difficult period
of our nation’s history,” she
said.
Abernathy said he would re
main a member of SCLC to help
it stay on the path of non
violence laid out by King. He
refused to recommend a suc
cessor, brushing aside mentions
of Jesse Jackson, one-time
economic director of SCLC, on
grounds that Jackson is no
longer a member of SCLC.
Jackson, who left SCLC after
a squabble with Abernathy over
a “black Expo” which he organ
ized, is heading the Chicago
based PUSH economic improve
ment program.
SCLC was formed in 1958, an
outgrowth of the Montgomery
Improvement Association,
which carried out the successful
bus boycott in the Alabama
capital. King led the
organization through a pattern
of sit-ins, mass protest marches
and frequent jail terms, much
of which resulted in massive
civil rights legislation in
Congress.
Abernathy was chief financial
and budgetary officer of SCLC
and a close friend of King when
the latter was assassinated five
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(2) Over five years after the largest oil
field ever discovered in North America was
found on the North Slope of Alaska, con
struction of a pipeline to bring this oil to
market is still stalled. Oil companies had no
control over this.
(3) The United States is short of refining
capacity, and will be critically short in a year
or two, as a result of erratic government
import policies, environmental constraints,
and inability to bring the largest, most eco
nomical tankers into U.S. ports. Oil com
panies had no control over this.
(4) In terms of volumes, demand for
gasoline is growing well over twice as much
as it did during the 19605, with pollution
control eguipment and convenience de
vices such as air-conditioners accounting
for a large part of this year’s increase. Oil
companies had no control over this.
(5) The shortage of natural gas caused
by ill-advised government regulatory poli
cies has forced industrial users to use large
guantities of heating oil, which has caused a
shortage of that product for the consumer.
Oil companies had no control over this
(6) Two of the major oil-exporting coun
tries in the Middle East and North Africa
have reduced crude oil production. Oil
companies had no control over this.
(7) Price controls are impeding the im
portation of higher-priced oil products into
our country. Oil companies had no control
over this.
111. Is there a conspiracy? Is the
shortage contrived?
If there was ever an industry in which it
would be impossible to conspire, it’s oil.
Conspiracy reguires secrecy. If you stop to
think of all the bodies of government-in
every branch of government, at every level
-that have long involved themselves in our
business, you’ll realize we couldn’t conspire
if we wanted to. We operate in a fishbowl.
Dozens of agencies of the federal gov
ernment, a horde of Congressional com
mittees, and agencies of the 50 states and
various municipalities regulate, investigate,
or monitor the oil industry’s activities.
Further, oil companies-even the largest
ones-are so widely divergent in their size,
their interests, their needs, their opportuni
ties, and their views that it would be impos
sible to put a conspiracy together. Oil is one
of the least-concentrated major industries
in the world. No oil company supplies as
much as 9% of the U .S. gasoline market.
IV. The “independent” marketers
You have doubtless seen charges that
“the major oil companies" are cutting off
gasoline supplies to non-major-brand
("independent") marketers to drive them
out of business.
You should know that the overwhelming
majority of service station dealers in this
country are independent businessmen,
whether they sell under the Mobil brand
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years ago in Memphis while
leading a sanitation workers’
strike. After assuming the pres
idency, Abernathy continued the
trend away from general civil
rights and into specific areas of
economic betterment for blacks.
But he could never win the
wide popularity accorded King,
despite traveling widely
throughout the world, including
a visit to Russia. He con
sistently refused to become
involved with more militant
black organizations, such as the
Muslims and Black Panthers.
When the Panthers opened an
office in Atlanta, Abernathy wel
comed them but said SCLC was
“not even in dialogue with
them.”
name or the brand of one of our major
competitors or under their own private
brand. All these dealers set their own retail
prices, their working conditions, and usu
ally their hours of operation.
Many non-major-brand marketers have
in the past chosen to rely on day-to-day
purchases of gasoline from oil companies
instead of entering into long-term supply
arrangements. This policy worked to their
advantage as long as supplies were ade
guate, and especially when there were
surpluses. Now that the surplus has dis
appeared, they are having difficulty obtain
ing gasoline.
As for Mobil, we have established an al
location system to ensure fair treatment of
our customers. We believe this system will
enable us to supply these customers at
least as much gasoline and other refined
products this year as last year.
V. Where do we go from here?
It’s going to take several years to remedy
the situation. A pipeline has to be built to
move the oil discovered over five years ago
on the North Slope of Alaska. The outer
continental shelf off the U.S. East and West
Coasts has to be opened to exploration for
new reserves of oil and natural gas. Super
ports have to be built. Oil companies must
be enabled to obtain satisfactory sites for
new refineries. Massive research and devel
opment programs have to be undertaken
to make the production of non-conven
tional oil and gas from oil shale and coal
economically feasible and environmentally
safe. Construction of nuclear power plants
to generate electricity must be accelerated.
All of these reguire long lead times, and
they can’t be accomplished by the oil indus
try alone.
This is why Mobil has been running news
paper ads across the country, and doing a
good many other things, to urge people to
conserve gasoline and to use all energy
more efficiently. As a further step in this
direction, we have totally eliminated our
gasoline advertising and are focusing our
efforts on providing greater public informa
tion on how our country can tackle its
energy problems rationally and eguitably.
VI. Why this letter
Our intention is not to get into a posture
of chargesand counter-charges, but rather
to accomplish two things:
(1) To set the record straight on the gaso
line shortage and to put the lie to the charge
of conspiracy; to help people understand
the shortage is real and will be with us for
some while; and to suggest practical ways
to cope withit.
(2) To try to elicit from you and your con
stituents a national effort, such as our coun
try has not seen since World War 11, to use
wisely the energy resources available to us
and to establish new policies to alleviate
energy problems in the years just ahead.
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of which are for construction of
40 bridges on 1-95 in Camden
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is for 10 miles of paving on
1-95 in Liberty County.
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interstates call for improve
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