Wednesday, August 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Energy plan approval predicted
By TOM RAUM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON-Although important battles loom in the Senate, Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger predicts that Congress will approve President Jimmy Carter's energy plan nearly intact by the end of the year.
schlesinger also said this week that Carter might recommend next month a pipeline route across Canada to transport Alaskan natural gas to the lower 48 states if he decided the route would be most economical for consumers.
THE CANADIAN route generally has been viewed as less costly than a rival "all-American" proposal to build a gas pipeline through Alaska. The gas then would be liquefied and shipped to the United States' West Coast on tankers.
SENATE COMMITTEE action on the plan is scheduled for next month. The House approved the energy package Aug. 5.
Sschlesinger, who is assembling the new Department of Energy, said he hoped the 10,000-employee agency could begin operations by Oct. 1. The department will carry out much of the energy plan Carter wants enacted.
"I think that the rapid action by the House sets a standard for the Senate," Schlesinger said. "I think that we will get an energy act from the Congress this year that will encompass most of what the President asked for."
Local utilities demand steeper deposit fees
In a wide-ranging interview last weekend, his first since being sworn in as the nation's first energy secretary earlier this month, Schlesinger also said:
By CATHY CRIST
Staff Writer
Students renting a house or apartment in Lawrence this fall face a probable $20 increase in water deposits and a minimum $10 increase in gas deposits.
The Lawrence City Commission has approved on first reading a water deposit increase from $15 to $5. If the commission grants final approval, the increase could go into effect by the end of the week, Buford Watson, city manager, said Monday.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager,
said the ordinance probably would pass.
The minimum gas deposit was raised in July from $10 to $20. This deposit is based on past gas usage. It is usually more expensive on houses than on apartments because a house is often larger and requires more gas price, a Kansas Public Service employee said.
Students setting up house also may be asked for an electricity deposit.
The exact amount of the deposit depends on the type of residence. Stouffler Place, for example, has a $20 electricity deposit and an additional $15 on new electric usage and no air conditioning.
Telephone deposits are a flat rate of $55.
Deposits generally earn interest while being held. A water deposit earns five per cent interest and is returned to the depositor after three years or when he leaves his
A gas deposit earns four per cent interest and is returned when the resident leaves or after one year if all bills have been paid. In January, a number of deposits are returned in January and February.
An electricity deposit earns six per cent interest and is returned when the resident leaves or at the end of one year if all bills have been paid.
A telephone deposit earns six per cent interest and is returned when the resident leaves or at the end of one year if the depositor has established good credit.
For all four of these utilities, marital status has no effect on the deposit, the interest rates or establishing credit, employees from each utility company said.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The State Department is going to court today to ask permission to search some 200 packing crates left behind by Richard M. Nixon for items presented to the former president and his family by foreign dignitaries.
Look at Nixon gifts sought
The Post, in a story by Maxine Cheshire,
in the "missing" category from
the "missing" category.
The story said Mrs. Nikon notified the White House gifts unit two days after her husband's resignation that she intended to give a particular gift presented by the Shah of Iran.
THE WASHINGTON Post reported this week that U.S. Chief of Protocol Evan S. Dobeles asked to examine the boxes after they were checked out that no one knew what they contained.
According to the Post, that item now is listed as "missing." Other items so listed include an oil painting from the Soviet Union and a gold pin from bracelet and bracelet from Ghana, a gold pin from Nicaragua, a silver bowl from Ireland, a bracelet from Indonesia, another from Nicaragua and two gold basket wave bracelets with diamond clasps from West Germany.
"THE GIFT WAS described by the gift unit as 'a very fine hand-painted miniature portrait of the President done on ivory, 18karat gold oval frame on easel back surrounded with golden leaves and branches, many blossoms of single and clustered turquoise and sapphire stones,' " the newspaper said.
The State Department has listed a number of the gifts as "missing," possibly only because of poor recordkeeping, and wants to examine the packing crates containing the gifts. The department must see if they are there. The crates are in government storage.
Dobelle was not available for comment but the State Department gave this reply to reporters' inquiries:
“IN ORDER TO be in a position to clarify unresolved questions concerning the whereabouts of gifts from foreign government members of his family, Chief of Protocol Evan S. Dobelle has asked Joe W. Solomon, administrator of general services, to conceive inventory of those foreign gifts to the Nikon, which remain in the possession of the GSA.
- Segments of the oil industry greedy for more profits were resorting to "rhetoric and misguided observations to criticize the industry" (Brown, 2016) and package would give them sufficient revenues.
"The issues involved will be discussed at a hearing on Wednesday, Aug. 25."
—He would give up his White House office and probably his title as special assistant to the President and move to the Forrestal Center in Palm Beach where the new department will be located.
Under U.S. law, any gift worth more than $50 belongs to the government and is supposed to be turned over to the chief of protocol for disposition as public property.
—The administration would continue to press for a standby gasoline tax although congressional enactment of the *roposal* this year—the only important part of the energy plan struck down by the House—now seems doubtful. Gasoline rationing would be considered as a possible last-resort alternative, he said.
- Although the administration did not now support divestiture legislation to break up big oil companies, it was carefully looking at the ownership of uranium interests by U.S. oil companies. Recent disclosures of Gulf Oil Corp.'s participation in an international uranium price-fixing cartel recently triggered the administration's action.
Nixon's belongings have been stored by the government while legal battles are waged over their custody and control.
be over natural gas and oil pricing provisions.
Although the vote may be close, Schlesinger said he expected the Senate to follow the House lead and go along with the administration's proposal to continue price controls on natural gas but at higher rates since its vote last year to lift such price controls.
—The President's nuclear non-proliferation policy had been a "partial success" because it did not seem effective in the United States and nations to delay plutonium reprocessing.
SCHLESINGER SAID the biggest fights in the Senate on the energy plan would likely
"I do not think that natural gas deregulation will come but there may be extended debate about the price," Schlesinger said. He also said he thought a Senate filibuster over the issue was possible but unlikely.
SCHLESINGER SAID another fight seemed to be shaping up over industry-backed proposals to "plow back" some of the revenues from the administration's proposed oil wellhead tax to the industry to help development and development of new energy sources.
"I would hesitate to predict whether the Senateade will add a blowback provision. I would hope not. If so, if it's sufficiently small, we would be prepared to go to conference on the House with that issue," he said.
The House rejected such a plowback proposal and went along with the administration plan to rebase a portion of the tax to consumers, at about $22 a taxpayer. A House-Senate conference committee will vote to resolve House and Senate differences.
Canal treaty opposed
WASHINGTON (UPI)—To retired Adm. Thomas Moorer, the acid test for the new Panama Canal treaty is "Will it work in wartime?"
Mocer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the test must be applied to any diplomatic agreement, and he in turn did not think the new canal pact passes master.
"I have yet to see any solid justification advanced as to why the United States should willingly sacrifice the strategic advantages of this possession of the Panama Canal," he said.
STRONG OPPOSITION is being mounted to the agreement, and in testimony before the House Merchant Marine Committee last week that the accords from a military point of view.
He also questioned whether the current Joint Chiefs really supported the agreement, even though they have publicly endorsed it.
Moorer who retired in 1794, made these points in his testimony:
— if the川城 is to become permanently neutral as the new accords require, the United States would not be able to close it to enemy shipping in wartime. That could lead to encirclement of the United States by hostile powers.
"The United States no longer can claim to have a two-ocean Navy. The Panama Canal is the vital artery through which the Navy navigates its vessels between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
— The U.S. Southern Command, located in the canal Zone, provides vital communication services to the coastal area.
crisis in the Caribbean and should not be dismantled.
—Traditionally, military chiefs go along with major White House policies moves even if they do not agree. Their backing of the Palmyra Canal treaties may be less than usual.
—"Our continuing freedom of action to maintain the canal's neutrality will not be affected."
—U.S. and Panamanian warships will have a right to "expeditions passage" through the canal at all times, including wartime, even after the turn of the century.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT disagrees with the agreement in a fact sheet on the new agreement it said:
—The United States will retain access and
—drives to military installations necessary to
defeat the terrorist threat.
—The United States will end its military presence in Panama after the year 2000. After that, the United States and Panama will jointly assure the canal's neutrality.
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