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Carter’s energy plan
faces stiffest tests
WASHINGTON (AP) - Votes
• on the Senate floor and in the
Senate Finance Committee this.
1 week will give President Car-
J 'tor’s energy plan its stiffest
' congressional test since the
package was first sent to Capi
tol Hill last April.
1 An extremely close vote is
1 expected in the Senate on the
critical issue of lifting federal
controls over the pricing of nat
. ural gas.
The President’s plan, ap-
I proved in the House, would re
tain federal regulation but
would permit the price per
! thousand cubic feet to rise from
i the current 11.46 ceiling to $1.75.
In 1975, the Senate voted 58 to
32 to deregulate natural gas
] prices, ling urged by producers
who argue that freeing prices
from government restrictions is
necessary to provide enough
I economic incentive to encour
age the search for new re
serves.
i But Carter’s energy advisers
say the $1.75 price will provide
enough increased profits to en
courage added production and
avoid shortages like those that
closed factories and schools last
Winter.
At least two versions of dere
gulation will be voted on some
time after the natural gas de
bate begins on Tuesday.
Whatever the Senate and the
house eventually agree on will
mean higher fuel bills for
homeowners.
Before moving to the natural
gas bill, the Senate scheduled a
vote today on continued federal
financing of legal help for the
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The Senate Finance Com
mittee, meanwhile, will begin
crucial votes on the tax portions
of the energy plan. Sen. Russell
Long, D-La., who heads the
panel and is among the most
powerful committee chairman
in the Senate, said last week the
panel will set aside Carter’s
proposals for rebating heavy
taxes on crude oil to consumers.
Instead, Long is urging that
new taxes on the oil companies
be turned back to the companies
to encourage the search for new
reserves.
In the House, Carter faces
another uphill fight on the ques
tion of whether the United
States should continue devel
oping a fast breeder nuclear
power plant, which uses pluto
nium for fuel.
The plant, scheduled for con
struction in Clinch River, Tenn.,
would mark a commitment to a
type of nuclear technology that
Carter contends would lead to
California ending
mandatory retirement
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — They may still do it to
horses, but starting next year it will be illegal to turn most
California jobholders out to pasture at a certain age.
To keep on working after normal retirement age, most
jobholders will need only the desire and the ability.
Maine is the only other state with a law modifying man
datory retirement. The Maine law, which takes effect
next July, covers civil service workers only.
In Washington, the House was to vote Wednesday on a
measure dropping the mandatory retirement for federal
workers. The proposal contains a provision to extend the
private sector’s mandatory retirement age from the
present 65 to 70.
Under the new California law, the employes of the state
and local governments will need only a state certificate of
continued competence to stay on the job. The law won’t
apply to fire and police officers or schoolteachers.
In the private sector, an employe could stay unless his
or her employer went through a state agency and
demonstrated that the employe’s abilities would be
reduced.
Gov. Edmund Brown Jr., who signed the end of man
datory retirement into law late last week, said, “I see this
not only as a matter of individual liberty, but also as a
necessity for collective survival.”
While the retirment legislation drew little attention
before it was passsed, supporters said Brown had come
under pressure from the business community to veto it.
And Brown has taken heat inside his own cabinet.
the proliferation of nuclear
weaponry and make it possible
for terrorists to manufacture
small nuclear bombs.
The plutonium used in fast
breeder reactors can also be
used tofnake nuclear weapons,
and Carter has said the United
States should take the lead in
discouraging its production and
use.
Despite Carter’s opposition,
the House is expected to defeat
moves to kill the program and
instead vote to continue the
project.
The House is also scheduled
this week to decide whether to
permit the Pentagon to go
ahead with production of the
neutron bomb, a small nuclear
device designed more to kill
people than damage buildings
or property.
Other votes are also planned
on funding for black lung dis
ease treatment and on the nu
clear nonproliferation treaty.
Tug-o-war
LIZARD LICK, N. CL— After seeing his daddy take part in
a tug-of-war at Sunday’s Lizard Lick community festival,
two-year-old Robert Ramsey grabs hold and digs in for
some serious pulling. The fact that no one was on the other
end of the rope seemed to bother Robert not at all. (AP)
Shift of people and income
to suburbs has accelerated
ATLANTA (AP) — Despite continued economic erosion
of America’s inner cities, the downtown business district
remains “the single most important area within the city
and normally within the metropolitan area,” a federally
funded study concludes.
The study, prepared for the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, said the shift of people and income to
the suburbs has accelerated in the past two decades.
The report, done by the Real Estate Research Corp, of
Chicago and the International Downtown Executives
Association, also said:
—Downtown areas of older Eastern or Midwestern
cities are no more likely to be decaying than newer
Southern and Western urban areas.
—There is no correlation between an influx of minority
and poor families and a decline of the central business
district.
—There is no correlation between the percentage of
minorities in a city and its retail sales.
—The key to revitalizing the downtown area is
cooperation between public and private sectors.
From 1950 to 1960, surburban areas of the 25 cities
studied grew much faster than the central cities, and in
the decade from 1960 to 1970, the trend accelerated, the
study said.
In 1960, average household incomes in the suburbs were
nearly equal. But by 1970, the study said, the income of
inner city dwellers dropped to 89 per cent of that of the
entire urban area.
The health of a downtown area depends on “the number
of jobs the city, itself, can offer; the competiveness of its
housing stock and facilities to retain the city population;
and the access to and servicing of its downtown em
ployment facilities,” the report said.
Population loss and competing centers cannot explain
the loss of downtown retail sales, it also said. Much of the
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Article charges Oswald
planned to shoot Nixon
NEW YORK (AP) - Lee
Harvey Oswald planned to shoot
Richard Nixon in Dallas seven
months before the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy
but was stopped by his wife,
Marina, according to an article
in the current issue of Ladies
Home Journal.
In a copyright excerpt from
Priscilla Johnson McMillan’s
book “Marina and Lee,” Ma
rina Oswald Porter is quoted as
decline “can be attributed to downtown merchants who
have not remained competitive.”
The study said there was no significant pattern to the
success of programs to upgrade downtown areas, except
for urban renewal, undertaken by 13 of the 25 cities.
Urban renewal was found to be “quite successful in
halting the spread of blight, strengthening the local tax
base and stimulating new employment and develop
ment.”
The cities studied were: Allentown, Pa.; Baltimore;
Burlington, Vt.; Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; Cincinnati;
Clayton, Mo.; Clearwater, Fla.; Dallas, Tex.; Evanston,
111.; Kalamazoo, Mich.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Lincoln, Neb.;
Minneapolis; New Orleans; Oak Park, DI.; Pittsburgh;
Portland, Maine,; Roanoke, Va.; St. Louis; Santa Monica,
Calif; Seattle; Spokane, Wash.; Tulsa, Okla.; and
Wichita, Kan.
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saying Oswald was angered by
a speech Nixon made in Wash
ington on April 20,1963, attack
ing Cuban leader Fidel Castro
and calling for the ouster of the
Soviets from Cuba.
After reading accounts of the
speech the next day, she said,
Oswald, who was slain by Jack
Ruby in the basement of the
Dallas police station after being
arrested for Kennedy’s killing,
put a pistol in his pocket and
said: “Nixon is coming to town.
I am going to have a look.”
Taking that as a threat to
Nixon, Mrs. Porter said she
asked Oswald to follow her into
the bathroom, then ran out and
braced the door closed to lock
him inside.
She said she warned him that
if he did not agree to stay home,
she would tell police about an
assassination attempt he
allegedly made 10 days earlier
against former Maj. Gen.
Edwin A. Walker.
At the time, Nixon was in pri
vate law practice following an
unsuccessful campaign for gov
ernor of California in 1962.
Explosions
rock hotels
MIAMI (AP) — Four major
Miami area hotels were hit by
small explosions early today in
what an FBI spokesman called
a terrorist action.
No injuries were reported,
and little damage was visible in
the areas where the blasts oc
curred. Most guests were sleep
ing at the time.
Minutes before the ex
plosions, a man called The As-'
sociated Press and said, “We
have planted several bombs at
Miami Beach hotels.
“Unless our demands are met,
there will be more actions.
Freedom to all Cuban political
prisoners.”