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FBI seeks to find
who erased tapes
By JANE DENISON
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
FBI has launched an investiga
tion to determine who erased a
key portion of one of President
Nixon’s Watergate tapes.
An FBI spokesman confirmed
the investigation is under way,
but gave no details. It was
reportedly requested by Special
Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. The
Westinghouse Broadcasting net
work said Jaworski had been
assured by FBI Director
Clarence Kelley that the
investigation would be safe
guarded from any White House
influence. The Justice Depart
ment declined comment.
Court evidence now seems to
indicate at least part of the
erasure occurred at the White
House within a 40-minute period
in the early afternoon last Oct.
1, shortly after the machine
believed responsible was delive
red.
Although both the tape and
the recorder at the time were
in the possession of Nixon’s
secretary, Rose Mary Woods,
the evidence does not show who
was responsible for pushing the
buttons that caused the erasu
re.
Miss Woods says it was not
she, and the White House said
Wednesday it was not the
President, either accidentally
or deliberately.
Chief U. S. District Judge
John J. Sirica will continue his
efforts to solve the mystery
today, as two more Secret
Service agents whose respon
sibilities included care of the
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White House tapes are recalled
to the stand.
Sirica said Wednesday he
hopes to wrap up his hearings
on the tapes case—which began
Nov. I—by the end of the week.
He said he is considering
whether to recommend that it
be referred to a grand jury for
possible criminal action.
At issue is the tape of a
conversation Nixon had June
20, 1972, just three days after
the bugging arrests at the
Watergate, with then-White
House Chief of Staff H. R.
Haldeman. The tape is marred
in the middle by a loud buzz
lasting 18-% minutes that
obliterates any voices.
Haldeman’s own notes of that
meeting, introduced as evi
dence before Sirica, show that
the discussion concerned Water
gate and a need to “be on the
attack for diversion.”
Miss Woods, assigned by the
President to transcribe portions
of that and other tapes
subpoenaed by Watergate
prosecutors, testified in late
November that she had an
“accident” while working with
the June 20 tape the afternoon
of Oct. 1.
She said she had been
distracted by a telephone call
and might have pushed the
“record” button by mistake
istead of “stop” while keeping
her foot on a pedal that kept
the machine moving, thus
perhaps erasing 4-M to 5
minutes but no more.
This past Tuesday, a panel of
six audio experts jointly ap-
proved by the White House and
Watergate prosecutors reported
to Sirica that the erasure could
only have happened through
hand operation of the keyboard,
not by means of a foot pedal.
Further, the experts said, the
buzz resulted from at least five
and perhaps as many as nine
separate erase-and-rerecord ac
tions, each requiring manual
operation of the controls. And
they said the Uher 5000
machine Miss Woods used
“almost surely” was the one
used to erase all 18-% minutes.
Nader says crisis
oil fabrication
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Terming the energy crisis an
oil industry fabrication, Ralph
Nader urged Congress today to
legislate new controls on the oil
industry to keep consumer
energy costs down.
With new and sometimes
conflicting supply and demand
statistics coming out daily from
the industry and government,
congressmen, mostly Demo
crats, are also pressing for
action to soothe the public.
Five senators and three
representatives Wednesday
jointly called for a 90-day
freeze on prices of domestic
crude oil and petroleum pro
ducts, charging the Nixon
administration with giving in to
“the extortion of the American
people by the major petroleum
companies.”
Sen. Richard Schweiker, R.
Pa, said he will propose a bill
to create a federal commission
to subsidize domestic fuel
production for the purpose of
making the country self
sufficient in energy and to
regulate U.S< oil firms.
Unless the lawmakers act,
“the fabricated energy crisis of
1974 will generate a trillion
dollar trauma for consumers
over the next 20 years,” Nader
said in prepared testimony
before a House Small Business
Subcommittee.
He asked Congress to set up
a government-run corporation
to explore for gas and oil on
federally owned lands.
A House Interior subcommit
tee was to begin hearings today
to determine the extent of oil
and natural gas under public
land.
Nader said oil from federal
lands could be sold cheaply to
small independent dealers who
are “now being squeezed out of
business” because they are
forced to buy high-priced
imported oil and cannot com
pete with the cheaper domesti
cally produced oil sold by many
of the major producers.
He also urged Congress to
issue federal charters to oil
corporations, which are now
chartered by the states, and to
enforce the antitrust laws “to
break up the power of the big
oil firms and promote a
competitive industry from the
Board wants
pay plan
voided
ATLANTA (UPI) -The Geor
gia Supreme Court has been
asked by the Chatham (Savan
nah) County School Board to
void an agreement a previous
board made to give teachers a
S2OO annual pay supplement.
Arguing before the high court
Tuesday, the board contended
that earlier board had acted il
legally in hashing out an agree
ment with the Chatham County
Association of Educators (CAE)
for the hike. Attorneys claimed
the board was a public body and
therefore barred from collective
bargaining negotiations.
oil well to the gas station.”
As oil industry leaders heard
from government officials and
congressmen Wednesday that
there is public suspicion about
the reality of an energy crisis,
the American Petroleum Insti
tute (API) said domestic crude
oil production and crude
imports were lower last week
than the week before.
API said gasoline stocks were
down along with the “middle
distillate” fuel used for diesel
oil and home heating oil, but
substantially higher than they
were a year ago.
Federal Energy Office chief
William Simon said fuel sup
plies are expected to be 13 per
cent below demand during the
first three months of this year,
but that “the magnitude of this
shortage should not cause us to
panic.” He said gasoline
consumption in the last week of
December was 18.7 per cent
less than normal.
FEO policy analysis chief
William Johnson warned oil
industry leaders that among
congressmen and the public
there are “major suspicions of
the oil companies that could
have ugly results.”
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis.,
asked API to explain why oil
prices are climbing when
supplies are higher and demand
lower than last year. He
charged that fuel stocks in the
country are 28.5 per cent higher
than a year ago while demand
is up only 5.4 per cent.
Rep. Henry S. Reuss, D-Wis.,
said he is introducing a bill to
roll back recent price increases
on crude oil from well that
were already producing before
world prices began soaring.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., said in Boston Congress
should put higher priority on
legislation to set up a “Federal
Bureau of Investigation” within
the oil industry to locate
reserves and monitor market
ing cost and company profits.
API President Frank N.
Ikard said industry profits were
at a 10-year low in 1972 and
profit increases last year
“barely bring the industry back
to the level of previous years.”
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White House, shows President Nixon conferring with
Kenneth Cole who the President has promoted to the rank
Auto dealers
change pace
By EDWARD S. LECHTZIN
UPI AUTO WRITER
DETROIT (UPI) - With
hundreds of thousands of unsold
large cars cluttering up dealer
lots, U.S. automakers are
switching their advertising
campaigns to show the big
models aren’t as gas-hungry as
drivers might think.
In Oregon, 17 auto dealers in
the Portland area have formed
a group to conduct an
advertising campaign to halt
what they call panic buying of
small cars.
One newspaper ad asked:
“Now that speeds are down to
50 and 55 miles what’s
happened to your gas mile
age?” The ads cited cases of
increased fuel economy in all
types of cars.
“From a strict business point
of view, we shouldn’t care what
size car you buy,” the ads said.
“But we do.
“We don’t want our custom
ers ever to be unhappy with
any car we sell. We don’t even
want you coming back to us
even before your car is a year
or so old saying, ‘look, my
family doesn’t fit in that small
car. I’ve just got to trade back
up to a bigger car.’”
The automakers are trying to
fight the trend away from big
cars caused by the combination
of a gasoline shortage scare,
higher fuel prices and mileage
figures from the environmental
protection agency that showed
an average 5,000-pound car—a
full-sized Ford, Buick or
Plymouth — averaged around
nine miles per gallon.
Buick dealers are now
running ads based on a recently
completed San Diego to Wash
ington economy run that
showed a luxury Electra
averaged 18.3 m.p.g. at 50
m.p.h. and a full-size Le Sabre
got 18.9 miles per gallon at the
same speed.
General Motors has a new
full-page series of ads with
three big boxes.
The first says: “If you’re in
the market for a small car, see
a GM dealer. After all, GM
makes more kinds of small
cars than anybody.”
The second continues: “If you
just don’t feel comfortable in a
small car, see a GM dealer.
After all, GM makes more
kinds of regular-size cars than
anybody.”
And GM concludes in the
third box: “And if you’re
simply shopping for a deal—
whether for a Small car, a
regular-size car or anything in
between—see aGM dealer. You
Bing Crosby
BURLINGAME, Calif. (UPI)
— Entertainer Bing Crosby
remains in stable condition and
is making satisfactory progress
from last weekend’s lung
surgery.
A hospital spokesman said
Bing’s mail has been swamped
with get-well cards from the
young and old who remember
him from film and scores of
best-selling songs.
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life.”
Television personality Hugh
Downs is featured in a new
series of Ford ads in which he
talks about taking part in a fuel
economy run that showed five
big Ford LTD models averaged
18.8 m.p.g. His car, with a 351
cubic inch v-8 engine, averaged
19.7 m.p.g.
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Calhoun firm gets loan okay
ATLANTA (UPI) - The first
loans under a new bill guaran
teeing government backing for
rural area business and indus
trial development have been
granted to a Calhoun business
firm by banks in Atlanta and
Calhoun.
Three loans totaling $1,033,500
were closed Wednesday by Cal
houn Padding Co. with the Trust
Co. of Georgia here and the Cal
houn First National Bank, en
abling the padding company to
build a new facility for making
sponge rubber underlays for the
carpet industry.
The loans are administered by
the Farmers Home Administra
tion acting under the Rural De
velopment Act of 1972 sponsored
by Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-
Ga. The program objective is to
bring in new industry to areas
whose main population center
have less than 50,000 people.
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GENEMUIDEN, The Nether
lands (UPI) — A wild goose
shot by farmer Wim Van der
Voort, 72, fell on his head. Van
der Voort suffered a concus
sion.