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Tuesday. February 11, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Committee keeps ERA
TOPEKA—A move to rescind Kansas ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment will be scheduled by the Federal and State Affairs Commission at the Kansas House.
the Kansas Legislature ratified the amendment in 1972. Sporadic attempts have been made since then to get the legislature to rescind its
However, an opinion by the Kansas attorney general has held that once a state ratifies an amendment to the Constitution, the action is final.
Portugal free election set
LISBON—President Francisco da Costa Gomes on Monday set April 12 as the date for Portugal's first free election in 50 years.
The president's announcement, in a televised address to the nation, went far to dispel doubts that the armed forces who took power in the name of democracy last April 25 would keep their promise to hold elections within a year of their revolution.
The voting by universal suffrage on April 12 will be to choose a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution.
Rowmar files bankruptcy
NEW YORK—Bowman Instrument Corp., said Monday it would file for reorganization under federal bankruptcy law since it was unable to make current payments on $35 million in loans called due by institutional lenders.
Bowmar, incorporated in September 1951, makes electronic calculators, precision components, electronic digital watches and other
The company also announced that Edward A. White, chairman, president and chief executive, had resigned, along with the chief financial
Muskie defends deficit
WASHINGTON—Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, says it may be economically sound to increase President Gerald R. Ford's $52 billion deficit to spur recovery from the recession and limit future federal budget deficits.
But Muskie said he didn't know whether the idea was politically "sailable" even if it made sense economically.
Muskie cited estimates by some economists that the unemployment rates projected in Ford's budget for fiscal 1976 meant a $750 billion loss in production and a $250 billion loss in federal revenue below what otherwise might be possible during the next few years.
HOUSTON (AP)—President Gerald R. Ford declared Monday that gasoline rationing would be enacted only "over my dead body."
Ford travels to promote policies
Invoking the strongest language to date in sounding his opposition to rationing, Ford told an energy conference here that such a system would lead only to "a jungle of red tape, bureaucratic judgment, inequities and other problems."
Ford, stepping up his campaign for public support for his energy proposals, departed from his prepared text to accuse Congress of being shortsighted and of taking a step backward by attempting to block his recommendations.
He attacked Democratic moves for gasoline rationing and pleaded with his audience to "not succumb to what some say is an answer to the energy problem . . . Gasoline rationing is about the poorest answer I can imagine."
He said gas rationing would last for five to 10 years and declared, "If we get into gasoline rationing. . . it will be over my dead body."
Many oilmen in Ford's audience of about 600 applauded his call for end to armade warfare.
The President rejected suggestions that he ease off his proposal to cut oil imports by a million barrels a day. He said, "This bet-a-million philosophy—that we can continue to import the entire million or a significant part of the million barrels that I propose to cut back—is a very high risk and reckless gamble."
In his appeal for support for his proposals,
he filed a motion to the 167-page bill
pursued by his admin. counsel
In contrast to his "comprehensive program," Ford said, the House had passed a four-page bill to suspend his import quotas and extend the terms of his implemented by executive order last month.
Holding up a copy of the measure now before the Senate Finance Committee, Ford dawn applaud when he said it was "so important," according to a plan is needed—not a step backward."
The President talked, too, about "the sorry history of natural gas policy in the United States" and urged Congress to act promptly to deregulate natural gas to spur it before the nation is faced with the hard choice of supplying homes or industries."
About 12,000 members of the Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 went on strike at the McDonnell Douglas plant here at midnight Sunday, saying the company had failed to meet their demands for higher wages and benefits.
On Monday, about 200 machinists walked off their jobs at the McDonnell Douglas plant at the Kennedy Space Center at Capecilla to build booster rockets are prepared for launch.
McDonnell workers strike
The address to an energy conference sponsored by the Houston Chamber of Commerce was the first in a two-day series that began on Tuesday, Midwest. Ford will speak in Teokau today.
on strike at plants in Santa Monica, Hun-
erland and Palmdale. Vanderberg Air Force Bases and Palmdale.
At Cape Canaval, officials said a continued strike would immediately stop preparations on the Delta rocket but would not be used unless the strike extended beyond July.
Ford's jetted lander at Ellington Air Force Base near here at 1:46 p.m., and he headed by motorcade for a downtown hotel where he addressed the conference.
ST. LOUIS (AP)—More than 19,000 production workers have gone on strike at McDonnel Douglas plants in Missouri, Florida and California in a wage dispute. Company officials said production of jet fuel could be halted if the strike was a long one.
union and company representatives accused each of taking unreasonable positions and said negotiators remained far apart. No further talks were scheduled.
District 837 members now average $8.2 an hour in wages and $1.61 an hour in benefits. Under the company proposal, they receive $3.43 an hour plus more benefits.
Before leaving the White House, Ford conferred for 90 minutes with his economic advisers on steps to take if the nation's recession deepens.
In California, 7,000 union members went
Nessen, presidential press secretary, said there were four or five different possibilities for presidential action but refused to give examples or to discuss the range of options.
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, who conferred with Ford during the three-hour flight to New York, will comment on possible presidential actions.
Greenspan said executive action wouldn't be triggered by any single economic indicator like unemployment but rather by the "whole plethora of statistics."
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Stennis begins investigation of Saudi deal
WASHINGTON (AP)—Chairman John C. Stenis, D-Miss., of the Senate armed Services Committee began an inquiry Monday into a Pentagon contract with a company that has issued national guardsmens protecting oil fields. Stenis said he asked Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger for an explanation after disclosure by The United States on day of the #74-million Defense Department contract with Vinnell Corp. of Los Angeles.
Vinnell is recruiting former U.S. Special forces soldiers and other war veterans for the Army.
The Pentagon confirmed the contract.
Stennis told newsmen he hadn't previously heard of any Defense Department contract with a private corporation to train military forces of a foreign country.
"I 'r raises questions," he said. Stennis declined further comment before learning "the facts," but said he understood that the contract was "based upon legal precedents." In his U.S. foreign Military Sales Act, a part of the U.S. foreign military assistance program.
At the State Department, a spokesman said the Defense Department frequently contracted with civilian companies to carry out their missions and responsibilities under similar circumstances.
Maj. Gen. Winan Sidle, Pentagon spokesman, said Vinnell would train the Saudi Arabian National Guard forces for the exercise as well as protection of oil fields.
"We do have a number of programs in the economic and security fields in implementation of our long-standing policy in the United Arabia," spokesman Robert Kuepeh said.
When told that senators Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., and Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., had called for an investigation of the contract, Funesh said, "We are always cooperative with Congress."
The State Department announced last April 15 a $300 million arms sale agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia to modernize and re-equip the Saudi Armed, supplying infantry weapons, communications equipment and other items.
One such program, he said, is the modernization of the national guard.
He said the same sort of services had been provided in Saudi Arabia before. He cited Northrop corp. personel's teaching Saudi Arabian pilots to fly the F5 fighter and Raytheon Corp. personel's demonstrating the use of the Hawk anti-aircraft missile.
Sidle said that the force being assembled by Vinnell Corp. would teach the Saudi Arabian guardmets to fire various weapons but wouldn't train them in field tactics.
Sidle said Saudi Arabia would pay the $76.9 million involved in the Vinnell service contract, so "it won't cost the taxpayers a penny."
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