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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 1,1975
Page 6
Ford delays
gas showdown
By EDWARD K. DeLONG
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford has pushed his
energy policy deadline back
another month, hoping Con
gress will act before the time
runs out and thus avoid a
showdown over unilateral ex
ecutive action.
The President’s latest strate
gy calls for a decision by June
I—9 O days behind his original
schedule —on whether to raise
the tariff on imported oil to $2
per barrel. The hike would
boost gasoline prices about one
cent per gallon.
Ford’s new strategy also sets
the stage for a gradual lifting
of controls on domestic oil
prices, adding five cents per
gallon to the price of gasoline
by mid-1977, but places final
responsibility for that action on
Congress.
Ford imposed a $1 per barrel
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oil import tariff Feb. 1. He
originally planned the tariff to
go up to $2 per barrel March 1
and to $3 per barrel April 1, but
about two months ago he
delayed the second and third
steps for 60 days to avoid a
showdown with Congress.
Under the original delay,
Ford set today as the deadline
for Congress to come up with
an acceptable energy conserva
tion policy. He threatened to go
ahead with the unilateral tariff
increase if Congress missed his
deadline.
But the President yielded to
the pleadings of congressional
leaders Wednesday and put off
the tariff hike until about June
1.
Federal Energy Administra
tor Frank G. Zarb, who
announced Ford’s decision, said
the President based the latest
delay on requests from Senate
Majority Leader Mike Mans
field and Rep. Al Ullman,
chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee, and on
energy policy progress made by
Ullman’s committee.
But Zarb said this was the
last such postponement Ford
would grant unless he sees at
the end of May “the prospect of
fairly imminent legislation that
is going to give us a
comprehensive program.”
“We are hopeful still that
Congress in a very short time,
possibly before they go into
recess, will produce a bill and
that the bill will be satisfac
tory,” he said.
The President’s new plan for
a gradual decontrol of domestic
oil prices represents a reversal
of previous administration
proposals, which called for
immediate decontrol.
Zarb said public hearings on
decontrol would be held quickly
and said the proposal could go
to Congress for approval before
the scheduled May 21 Memorial
Day congressional recess.
“Congress will have the last
say so (on decontrol),” Zarb
said. “They have five days to
override the President’s action
in this area.”
He said Congress also will by
law have to review and grant
new approval for the program
every 90 days.
People
By United Press International
Queen
She’ll dance and sing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) — The unsinkable Martha
Mitchell has come to Music City to “sing and dance” on
the Grand Ole Opry stage for a television show taping.
Asked what she would do for her appearance on the
Mike Douglas Show produced this week, the tall blonde
dressed in red, white and navy blue said, “sing and dance.
Don’t I always?”
When asked if she considered a career in show business,
the smiling Mrs. Mitchell said, "I’ve always been in show
business.”
Queen plans to visit family
HONG KONG (UPI) — Queen Elizabeth will visit a
typical poor Chinese family living in a large government
housing project during her three-day visit to the British
Colony beginning Sunday.
Local government officials say they hope to give the
Queen “a fair idea of how thousands of Hong Kong
families live” when she visits a two-bedroom apartment
in Oi Man Estate.
A government spokesman said the identity of the family
would not be revealed until Saturday night.
He didn’t want to leave South Korea
TOKYO (UPI) — The Rev. James Sinnot, an American
Roman Catholic priest who was ordered to leave South
Korea, says that country was like a fatherland to him and
he did not want to leave.
Sinnot, 46, of New York City, told newsmen on his
arrival that South Korean authorities had declined to
renew his visa on grounds that he was engaged in
unauthorized political activities.
Sinnot, who had lived in South Korea for the past 15
years, said he will stay in Tokyo for three days before
leaving for the United States.
Ushers
called
in suit
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UPI) -
Volunteer ushers who allegedly
screened antiwar demonstra
tors from an address by former
President Richard Nixon were
to testify today in the trial of a
sl.l million civil suit against
White House aides and others.
Several Secret Service agents
testified Wednesday they had
no part in preventing demon
strators from entering Char
lotte Coliseum Oct. 15, 1971 at
an observance honoring evan
gelist Billy Graham.
Eighteen persons contend
their constitional rights were
violated because they were
excluded from the event featur
ing an address by Nixon and
they are seeking $60,000 each in
damages.
Defendants in the case
include former Nixon aides
H.R. Haldeman, William Hen
kel, Ronald Walker and Micha
el Duval, Secret Service agents,
Charlotte policemen, and mem
bers of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars who served as ushers at
the event.
VFW members were expected
to take the stand today after
the Secret Service finishes its
case. One of the VFW members
is Ernie Helms who allegedly
participated in exclusion of
several of the planitiffs.
Secret Service agents testi
fied Wednesday that White
House aides were responsible
for erecting a “chute” through
which protestors were sent. The
protestors were told their
tickets were fake and were led
down the chute to a door
leading outside the coliseum.
C.V. Lyda, head of the Secret
Service detail for Nixon’s visit,
said he was advised by Duval
that VFW volunteers would
“screen out any undesirable,
potential demonstrator that
might try to enter the
coliseum.”
Lyda said he told Duval at a
meeting the night before the
event that the Secret Service
“would have nothing to do with
the screening process.”
Lyda said the Secret Service
had been furnished intelligence
reports from local law enforce
ment agencies that about 150
demonstrators planned to enter
the coliseum and protest during
Nixon’s speech.
Richard C. Stokes, a Secret
Service defendant, said he
excluded one woman from the
coliseum who refused to have
her large purse searched and
tried to kick him.
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REIDSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) -
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base of the skull by correction
al officers Wednesday was still
undergoing surgery early today
at Talmadge Memorial Hospital
in Augusta.
John Ross Sanders, 43, of
Decatur, was shot and seriously
wounded by an officer about
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group of inmates on a
maximum security detail
jumped another officer, Depart
ment of Offender Rehabilitation
spokeswoman Sara Passmore
said.
She said late Wednesday that
Sanders, who was serving 10
years for rape and incest, was
expected to be in surgery until
2 or 3 a.m. today, but that no
official word had been released
on his condition. Sanders was
flown by helicopter to the
hospital after the incident.
Mrs. Passmore declined to
release the names of the
officers involved, saying it was
against the department’s poli
cy-