Tuesday, March 6, 1973
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Energy Crisis Fuels U.S. Woes
Editor's Note: By now, everybody knows that the nation faces an energy crisis. This first installment of a four-part look at the state of the energy industry tells how the nation got where it really is.
By BROOKS JACKSON Associated Press Writer
Bundle up. Grab your wallets. Get ready for more big price increases for heat, light, gasoline and everything that uses energy. Count on occasional fuel shortages, too. Don't expect things to stop getting worse before 1980, if then.
That's the general outlook for America's energy problems.
Now for the bad news. The possible side effects of the energy mess are just as bad,
The possibilities include drier oceans, drier foul air, radiation poisoning, more strip mine gashes in the American land even an international currency crisis.
How did the nation get into this mess? BLAME A LAGGARD government that has ignored warnings for at least 20 years. Blame the major oil, gas, and coal companies high profits and low taxes while demanding more economic incentives to production
Blame nature for putting more cheap oil under Saudi Arabia than under the United States.
Blame the American consumer, who makes up 6 per cent of the world's population but gobbles up 33 per cent of the world's energy supplies.
The nation's attention was focused on the energy crisis last fall when an early cold snap forced the oil reserves down. The result was a fuel shortage in some areas. Seven Denver schools closed or curtailed their activities, and many cities remained stranded and no diesel fuel available. Iowa
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bought up fuel and rationed it to the neediest users.
THE FALL SQUEEZE lasted for various periods in different places, roughly from September through January. Now government is taking a standby rationing plans because they are possible gasoline shortages in scattered areas, a summer, and the industry is preparing an "enemy crisis."
That's partially true, but there is still plenty of gas and coal in the world.
The U.S. Geological Survey figures that enough coal has been found in the United States to supply more than five. It also estimates that it will take another 30 years to pump out the bulk of America's domestic oil, and 30 years of oil exploration come close to exhausting foreign supplies.
SO WHY THE shortages now?
A recent flurry of government and in-
creased reports agree on these underlying answers.
"Americans are energy glutons. The Interior Department figures that Americans have increased their use of energy by an average of 3.1 per cent every year since 1947. Lately, the rate has been about 4.8 per cent between 1965 and 1970."
As energy demand soared, the easy-to-guice supplies dwindled. For years the governments of Texas, Louisiana and other oil-producing states kept wells pumping slowly to keep production down and prices up. But in 1970 demand had risen so much that America's oil wells were pumping at full tilt, and still couldn't meet demand.
-WITH DEMAND outpacing domestic supplies, President Nixon reluctantly allowed more foreign oil to flow into the country. Since 1959 American presidents had limited the amount of foreign crude oil allowed to the country to about 12.2 per
cent of domestic consumption. But imports now account for about 29 per cent of domestic consumption.
- Utilities, homeowners and commercial users have begun switching from coal to cleaner fuels because of government rules limiting the use of oil in the pipeline from Alaska, hold up sale of offshore drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico and fingered deepwater East Coast ports that would allow oil supertankers to unload and new refineries to be built. Atomic energy Commission scientists have been unable to predict the predictions of cheap nuclear electricity.
THESE PROBLEMS were compounded by the government's uncoordinated efforts to increase energy efficiency, currently jokie each other to form energy policy. American refineries ran at full blast during the summer turning out profitable gasoline while skimming on less profitable diesel.
Now that refineries have turned to producing winter fuel there is fear of summer gasoline shortages and rationing. Producers have jacked up winter fuel prices so much the Cost of Living Council is conducting a formal investigation.
The Interior Department reports that the refinery problem is going to get worse. It takes two or three years to build a new refinery, but it can be completed two, two to be completed between now and the end of 1975. By then it's estimated that America will need to import more than four million barrels a day of refined fuels to meet demand in nearly double the present 2.2 million.
AMID ALL THIS, the industry had a mediocre year financially in 1972. Profits of the 21 largest firms slipped about 2 per cent while the rest of the economy prospered. A New York Street analyst predicted, however, that oil would be the hottest industry of 1973.
Tournament Draws Top Debaters
Harvard, Georgetown, UCLA and USC will be among the 54 universities from 25 states that will participate in the 18th annual Heart of America Invitation Debate Tournament Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the University of Kansas.
The tournament attracts the top debate teams in the country. Of the 16 teams that have already qualified for the National Debate Tournament, 13 are among the 60 teams participating in Heart of America competition.
A meeting of the National Debate Tournament Committee has been planned
in conjunction with the KU tournament this year.
Kansas . . .
"I said we didn't have running water and that we had outhouses out back. The scary thing was the fact they were there."
Invitations to the tournament are issued on the basis of a school's previous performance and top 75 per cent last year got an automatic invitation. The bottom 25 per cent are not asked back and are replaced by new schools. The performance has improved since they were last at KU.
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It has been said that the Big Eight, on the whole, is weak in debate and as a result will be represented only by Iowa State and Oklahoma. In contrast to Iowa State, the only other Kansas schools at the
that we had outhouse out back. The scary thing was that she believed me, she said. Stuart Rarder, Anchorage freshman, said he sensed culture shock in coming to Hawaii.
"It's like going to France," he said. "The geography and climate are completely different."
"In Alaska you are always in mountains," he said. "Lawrence is not exactly wide open spaces, but I can see farther here than I ever have."
"Campus was a shock. It was so beautiful," she said.
In Alaska everywhere else is outside, he said. He mentioned a commercial on Alaskan television for Western Airlines and the Alaska Airlines website, and every other place looks like Kansas.
When she told her friends that she was coming to KU, they told her she should get a dog named Toto and they kept calling her Dorothy, she said.
In speaking of the Wizard of Oz, Olfard said, "That's the only way we've ever heard of Kansas. It wasn't until I came here that I guess Gunpowder or Dodge City were here."
She said her friends figured KU would be as hicky as the state.
Oldford said that there were misconceptions on both sides and that Kansans tended to think that New Jersey was wall to wall pavement and concrete.
Diane Beecher, Bennington, Vt., graduate student, agreed with Oldford.
"Someone asked if I had ever seen a cow," she said.
She said that Kansas was considered the
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"A lot of people at KU tend to stay in Kansas. They don't know about the East. They tend to generalize about the Eastern states." she said.
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Beecher said that one of the few things she knew about Kansas before she came was the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy. She said she saw that her family was among of her friends was to say, "Kansas?"
stereotype of the Midwest and that she had mentioned Kaptans in relation to the Midwest.
She said some asked, "Why are you going so far away from everything?"
They really don't know much about it, she said.
Robert Schuyler, a Portland senior who has lived in the East and in Kansas City, said, "People in the East consider Kansas to be way out West and people in the West consider Kansas to be way out East or in the South."
Thomas Cobb, Falls Church, Va., junior,
said that people in the East still thought of
cowboys and Indians in connection with
their work in New York. The prevalence
in New York than in Virginia.
Tournament will be Kansas State College at Pittsburg and Kansas State Teachers
Schuyler said that the general conception was that Kanaas was extremely flat and had
He said that the prominent view in the East was that Kansas was primarily rural, and it wasn't so. He said that he was a bit
"People ask if you ride your horse to school." he said.
The University of Kansas has always had a team in the elimination rounds of the tournament but has won only one tournament, the first, in 1956. This year KU will be represented by three teams: Bill Russell, Omaha senior, and Bill Hensley, Wichita senior; Joel Goldman, Shawne Mission sophomore, and Bill Hester, Shawn Mission sophomore, and Lydia Beebe, McPherson junior, and Lynn Goodnight, Houston sophomore.
Cobb said that their general conception of kansas was a place of recall flat wheat; that it was not the result.
He said that Oregonians did not know what Kansas was really like and that his friends thought that KU would be more conservative than it was.
Only two schools, Southwestern Missouri State College and the University of Houston, have won the tournament more than once. The two teams will compete in a tournament for three consecutive years.
"they think you can pull up to one corner of the state and see the other one," he said.
This year's defending champion is USC which won both first and second place last year. USC again will be represented by two teams.
Schools represented by two teams are schools with good second teams. USC received the right to have two teams early in the history of the tournament and has never lost that right. Three other schools have two teams in this year's tournament.
Each of the 60 teams will compete in eight preliminary rounds on Thursday and Friday. Sixteen teams, chosen on the basis of their win-loss record and speaker points, will vie for the crown in the elimination rounds on Saturday.
Preliminary matches will be at 9:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m; 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday. Octave finals will be at
8:45 a.m., quarterfinals at 11 a.m. and
12 noon on Saturday. The finals will be at 3 p.m. on
the Forum Room of the Union
Most preliminary matches and all elimination matches will be in the Kansas Union and anyone may listen to the debates. A reception table in the north lobby of the Union will have a list of times, locations and participants in each debate.
The conclusion that prices are headed up emerges from studies by both government and industry. The only question appears to be how high, how soon.
Foreign oil isn't so cheap any more, either, the reason is that Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Libya, Iran and other big oil-producing nations have formed themselves into a muscular international cartel that has raised its prices.
Student Acquitted Of Criminal Battery
Brit Alley, Wichita sophomore, was found not guilty of criminal battery in Douglas County Court Thursday. Alley had been arrested after allegedly dropping a water balloon on someone from the third story of a residence hall.
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Because oil from the Middle East supplies most of the East Coast's needs, energy shortages could flare up during a coup in war in Iraq, or and-iU S. puge in Kuwait.
Firemen's Wives Back Six Local Candidates
To deal with all these energy problems President Nikon has set up an informal but important security adviser Henry A. Kissinger, domestic affairs activist, Chirchman of the nuclear agency Gerald Gershwin.
Asked what considerations were included in the selections, Nixon said party was one of the main things that they were seeking.
In the 14th-hour pre-election news conference Monday, the Ladies' Auxiliary of Firefighters' Local 1956 presented a list of officers who are endorsing in the primary election today.
"Let's say that we need some people in city hall who will speak out and not be afraid." Nixon said, adding that she did not want the public necessarily reflect upon the other candidates.
Announcing the second annual March of Dimes Walkathon, Carole Clark, Kansas City, Mo., chairman, said Monday that she was looking forward to active participation in the April 14 walk by students at the University of Kansas.
TOMORROW: What Can Be Done
Walkathon Set For April 14
She said that to the best of her knowledge, only one KU student had participated last year in the marathon walk, which raises questions about how well Walkathon are looking forward to much wider participation in this year's walk, she said. The proceeds will go to institutions such as the Martin Luther King Hospital, the University and the Falk Institute in San Diego.
Harold Morris, public relations officer for the Firefighters' Local, said he had called the news conference on short notice at the request of the auxiliary.
Clark said the organizers were hoping to raise $50,000 this year and to improve on the record set last year by George van Comperelo, who raised $17,000 by taking bets in a bar on whether he'd complete the 20-mile walk.
"We are pleased to announce the following six candidates who will receive our support. In alphabetical order, they are Robert Elder, Robert Haralick, Gene Miller, Fred Pence, Gale Pinegar and Tola Ross."
"Careful consideration has gone into our selection and we feel that we have chosen those candidates that will best serve all the citizens of Lawrence.
"The Ladies" Auxiliary of Firefighters' Local 1596 would like to publicly endorse six candidates who are seeking election to the city commission.
Norma Nixon, president of the 12-member
group of firefighters' wives, made this
statement:
"There are 49 people in the Local, and I feel that the Local (members) themselves would come out in support of these people," Morris said.
The Walkathon this year also will cover 20 miles. It will start at 8 a.m. April 14 at Lace Park in Kansas City, Mo. A picnic at Lace Park is scheduled after the walk, she said. The organizers say they are supporting Kansas Union. Those intending to participate should detach the front part of the sheet and mail it to the March of Dimes headquarters, Clark said. Prospective members before April 14 and take the sponsor sheets to the Walkathon on that day.
Under existing regulations for city employees, the firemen are not permitted to actively campaign for or support candidates in a city election.
School Board Boosts Video Tape Program
Approval of a $7,000 capital outlay for video tape equipment and a report on administrative services highlighted the efforts of the Board of Education meeting Monday night.
Neak Fender, district media specialist,
said the money supplied for the video tape
equipment would be used to purchase accu-
sure data from the server and to enlarge the video tape program.
Fontein said the district could obtain video tape for less than the price stipulated in the agreement. He added that equipment would provide improved video tape capacities for seven schools in the district.
The equipment to be purchased includes cameras, lighting equipment and battery packs. An additional purchase of video tape is required for this purpose, as required by the board on the request of Fenter.
The board emphasized that the money
used to buy the equipment came from the district special institution outfalls fund and was not from the same fund that provided for teacher salaries and educational programs
Harold McConnell, administrative director for administrative services, presented for board approval a request for $25,000 for budgetary supplies. The supplants are used by the entire district, include such items as paper, printing supplies and pencils.
Responsibilities of the department of administrative services include equipment maintenance, stock purchasing grounds and boardroom operations and printing services.
In other business, the board dealt with employee contracts for the next school term. This action included extension and termination of contracts for certified personnel and approval of resignations and retirements.
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