Ford tells oilmen 'no
HOUSTON (UPI) - Shaking his fist
lor emphasis. President Ford told
cheering Texas oilmen yesterday there
would be.gasoline rationing only “over
my dead body.”
Ford pledged his' energy policies
would mean development of “American
oil on American soil,” and accused his
congressional critics of favoring a “bet
a-million philosophy” of depending on
foreign oil.
Ford flew yesterday to Houston, the
nation’s oil capital, for a second round of
direct salesmanship on behalf of
his controversial economic and energy
conservation proposals. He got a warm
and noisy reception from an audience of
000 oil industry leaders.
"This is what they want to hear,” said
Texas Republican Sen. John Tower. “It
goes down well in these parts."
Things were going down so well in the
Emerald: Room of oilman Glenn Mc-
Carthy's'Shamrock Hilton that Ford
departed from his prepared text for an
off-the-cuff condemnation of rationing
policies favored by some Democrats in
Congress.
Loaning forward from the podium,
gesturing with his fist. Ford said: “If we
get into gas rationing it will be over my
dead bodv!"
The oil management and labor leaders
Kissinger ‘hopeful'
Israeli troop pullback discussed
JERUSALEM (UPI) Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger began meetings with Israeli leaders last
night, “hopeful" of working toward agreement between
Israel and Egypt on a further Israeli troop pullback east
ol the Suez Canal. ,
Kissinger and his key assistants held a two-hour
working dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and his leading ministers after the secretary flew
here to begin a 10-day tour of the Middle East and
Europe.
U.S. spokesman Robert Anderson said after the
dinner that the new round of talks had begun with a
general review of the situation.
‘The secretary is still very hopeful,” Anderson said.
Kissinger said he had ideas from both sides but, no.
concrete proposals. The major question was whether
and how far the Israelis would withdraw and what
Egypt .would give in return.
At stake was Kissinger's step-by-step approach to
peace in the Middle East.
An Israeli spokesman described the talks! as “very
iriendly." •
Opposition denounces peace trip
By United Press International
Israeli opposition leaders yesterday
demanded new elections to stop the
government from surrendering
strategic Sinai passes and oil fields to
Egypt? They denounced Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger's latest peace
mission as false security.
The opposition outcry coincided with
Kissinger’s arrival in snowy Jerusalem
on the first stop of his renewed rfiissign
to seek agreement between Israel and
Egypt on a second disengagement
accord. Under the lirst agreement,
signed in January. 1974. the Israelis
pulled back 13 units.
A public opinion poll showed only one-
Killings precede IRA qease-fire
BELFAST (UPI) An Irish Republican Army cease- merit refused but the truce was announced anyway,
lire went into effect last night following a wave of It was preceded by a wave of apparently Protestant
sectarian killings that left four Roman Catholics dead in attacks against a Catholic community whose members
48 hours. The truce was to extend indefinitely. support the IRA, the latest violence in the four weeks
The latest victim, a 19-year-old street sweeper, was since the previous truce expired,
shot to death in south Belfast less that 20 hours before Coming 25 days after the end of the IRA’s 25-day
the start of a surprise 6 p.m. truce announced by the holiday cease-fire, the unexpected truce announcement
IRA from Dublin. -i Sunday night even took the IRA political wing, Sinn
Secret negotiations between British officials, and Fein, by surprise,
leader of the IRA political wing, Sinn Fein, were skid to “I just do not believe it,” said an IRA politician in
have led to the truce. Terms of the agreement were not Dublin. “It must be a mistake.”
P 0 * s *] o - r Last week Sinn Fein vice president Maire Drumm
[R A. leaders had said there could be no cease-fire said there could be no cease-fire while a hunger strike
unless the demands of 15 of its hunger strikers from by 15 IRA prisoners in the Irish Republic continued.
Ireland s Portlaoise jail were met. The Dublin govern- But IRA sources said the truce had no bearing on the
PSU students will
Editor’s note: Following is another in a
continuing series of articles examining
the Penn Slate athletic budget.
By RICK STARR
Collegian Sports Writer
Athletics at Penn State is big business.
As Penn Stale Athletic Director Ed
Czekaj said, "Penn State processes an
awful lot of athletes every year.”
The cost is expected to exceed $4
million next year, but expected revenues
will not cover the bill.
In the end, the additional money will
come from a variety of sources 1 —
students, Lion fans, and, indirectly, the
taxpayers of Pennsylvania.
Penn State’s athletic department is
not independent of public tax support.
Like most athletic programs across
the country, the Penn State athletic
department receives exclusive use of
lacilities such as Rec Hall for athletic
Collegian
the
daily
roared approval, so loud it momentarily
interrupted Ford’s speech.
When he was able to continue, Ford
said supporters of rationing claim it
would last only six to 12 months.
"No,” he said,~“at least five to six
years, ” Once more the cheers swelled.
“We must pay a price now to ensure a
more reasonable pricp for our oil in the
future,” Ford said. “And that price is
what it will cost us to produce American
oil on American soil, right here in the
state of Texas, in Alaska, in the outer
continental shelf and elsewhere...”
“We have to look for a silver lining in
the energy problem.’ The longer we take
to protect ourselves against embargoes
(he more vulnerable our economy
becomes to foreign decision beyond our
control.”
“We must never again be forced to pay
the inflated cartel manipulated prices of
foreign oil.”
Implicit in all Ford’s warnings was the
suggestion Congress was frustrating his
attempts at vigorous and immediate
energy action. At one point he held up a
copy of his 167-page energy policy
proposals to contrast it with the four
page bill passed last week by the House.
That bill, still under consideration by
(he Senate, would delay for 90 days
Ford's order placing tariffs on imported
A senior official aboard Kissinger’s plane said the
secretary did not plan to complete the agreement on
this trip, but would return to the area next month to try
toclinch.it.
He called Kissinger’s mission “extremely important
and extremely delicate.”
After his plane landed at Ben Gurion airport in
blustery weather, Kissinger hailed the decision of the
Israeli cabinet to stand by his step-by-step approach to
Middle East peace.
But taking note of an apparent split in the cabinet
itself, where some ministers favor a return to the
Geneva conference, he said the United States was
willing to explore other means and other forums
because its main interest was quick progress.
“I welcome ’ the decision that was announced
yesterday by the Israeli cabinet endorsing my step-by
stepl approach. The United States, of course, is not
committed to any particular approach. It is committed
to rapid progress,” he said.
But whatever we, do, it will be in the spirit of
iqurth of the Israeli population now
supports Kissinger’s step-by-step ap
proach . !
Opposition Likud party leader
Menahem Begin said if Kissinger wants
Israel to give up the Sinai passes and
oilfields without a peace treaty, the
government should tell him it doesn’t
have a mandate todo so in a state of war.
“It is the moral duty of the govern
ment to go to the people and ask for a
mandate,” Begin 1 said.; “We are calling
tor new elections as soon as possible.”
Elimeiech Rimault of Likud’s liberal
faction’ said. “We oppose the step-by
step withdrawal policy because we
events, even though it was built by state
and tuition money.
The Lion swimming team gets ex
clusive use of the Natatorium for
practice and meets. The Natatorium
was built entirely with state money,
according to Robert Sdannell, dean of
the College of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation.
The Rec Hall wrestling room, fencing
room dnd south gym also are state
subsidized for instruction, Penn State
varsity teams use these rooms ex
clusively during certain hours of the day
in the winter.
However, i the Penn State athletic
department paid the total cost of Beaver
Stadium, a nfiajor addition to the football
locker room; the Astro Turf football field
anU the outdoor swimming pool. These
lacilities sometimes are shared Svith the
University. The pool is run, on a fee
oil. Ford has said the tariff is necessary
as a first step to reducing dependence
upon foreign oil by raising its price to the
consumer.
He hammered away at the in
dependence theme in Houston.
“This bet-a-million philosophy, that
we can continue to import the entire
million or a significant part of the
million barrels a day that. I propose to
cut back—is a very high risk and a
reckless-gamble,” he said.
“Instead of betting on what foreign
sources may do-, we should put our
money on what Americans can do and
will do. If we offer sufficient incentives,
American enterprise here at home will
solve our energy problems.”
As one such incentive, Ford repeated
his call for an end to federal regulation
of natural gas to encourage greater
production. He was preaching to
believers, and he drew more prolonged
applause when he expressed sympathy
for the high costs of exploration borne by
the oil companies. „
After the speech, Ford met with state
GOP leaders and had a private chat wlith
John B. Connally, the former Texas
governor and Treasury Secretary, who
faces a bribery-conspiracy trial.
Connally said they “just talked golf,”,
but Ford’s press secretary, Ron Nessen,-.
believe that it does not lead to peace.
What it means is to buy time and to lose
peace and to lose security.” <_
The poll published by the newspaper
Ha’aretz said 25.4 per cent of the
population supported Kissinger’s
mediation compared with 63.8 per cent
last June.
Israel has said it might withdraw
another 19 to 31 miles in the Sinai but
would not return the Mitla and Gidi
passes which guard approaches- to the
heart of Sinai and Israel beyond, or the
Abu Rodeis oilfields, while a state of war
existed with Egypt.
Kissinger’s talks with Prime Minister
Scannell said all repair, and im
provement work on athletic department
offices! is paid for by the department,
although it doesn’t rent the offices.
Scannell, chief administrator of the
athletic department, draws his entire
salary from the President’s budget,
which is state and tuition funded.
At Penn "State, coaches’ salaries are
split between the state funded college
budget (for teaching) and the athletic
budget (for coaching). Faced with the
current deficit situation, the department
is shifting more of the coaching salary
load to the college. c !
“Our staff is going to be asked to do
more teaching,” said Lion football coach
Joe Patemo. ’
The coaching budget is the depart
ment’s biggest item, Czekaj said. Penn
State’s, coaching expenses totaled
ration'
said: “Connally and the President are
old friends. The President invited
Connally to see.him and spent 40 to 45
minutes with him discussing energy and
economy.”
The President then met with 16 other
state Republican leaders and, according
to. Harris County T GOP chairwoman
Nancy Palm, assured them that Vice
President Nelson A. Rockefeller is
“much more conservative as vice
president than he was as governor of
New York.”
Palm later told reporters “a Ford-
Rockefeller ticket will not carry the
state of Texas and would not carry
Harris County.” She described
Rockefeller, 67, as “too rich, too old and
too liberal.”
Ford, who began campaigning for his
energy policies a week ago in Atlanta,
was dining with Southwestern state
governors last night.
He is moving his campaign today into
the Midwest, at Topeka, Kan., after
breakfasting in Houston with newspaper
and broadcast executives.
In Topeka, Ford schedule a meeting
with midwestern governors, a news
conference and an address to the Kansas
legislature before returning to
Washington.
friendship. The survival and security of Israel are the
basic American concern.”
talks will continue today and Kissinger is
scheduled to meet President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in
Cairo tomorrow.
r Defense Minister Shimon Peres told Israeli editors
that !the Israelis would pull back up to 31 miles in
response to concessions from Egypt but would not give
up the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes and the Abu
Rodeis oilfield, captured in 1967.
Diplomatic sources in Cario said Sadat will insist that
the Israelis give up the passes and the oilfield and that
Egypt . would not now declare termination of
belligerency with Israel.
The senior official with Kissinger said the,secretary
and his party would have no contact with the Palestine
Liberation Organization during his 10-day, nine-nation
tour, - .. .
After leaving the Middle Kissinger will confer
in Switzerland with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko and possibly the Shah of Iran. •=
Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Yigai
Allon and Defense Minister Shimon
Feres will continue today. Tomorrow he
is scheduled to meet President Anwar
Sadat in Cairo.
His mission will .take him to nine
countries in 10 days and will include at
its end a meeting in Switzerland with
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko and possibly the Shah of Iran.
In Moscow the Tass news agency said
Kissinger’s “formula is United States
support for Jel Aviv’s striving to prolong
the settlement process through in
termediate steps and other half
measures.”
prison protest. They said the hunger strike was a
separate issue and solely a dispute with Premier Liam
Cosgrave’s government.
Ireland's Minister of Posts and Telegraph, Connor
Cruise O’Brien, also said the cease-fire would not affect
the government position of the hunger strike.
The prisoners began fasting Jan. 3 in a strike for
political prisoner status. Several are seriously ill, ac
cording to IRA sources.
A spokesman for Northern Ireland Secretary Merlyn
Rees, who returned-to Belfast to assess the new
situation first hand, said Rees’ conditions for peace
were unchanged.
help pay
$385,580 in 1971-72, with $194,517 at
tributable to-foot ball.
Students also will help close the deficits
through higher rates for athletic '
department auxiliaries such as the golf
course. Students paid $2 for golf last
year but the fee will go up, according to .
several athletic department ad
ministrators.
Penn State football fans may be
paying more for parking, programs and
tickets this fail.
“We will probably increase parking/’
Scannell said. “Whether this will extend
to football tickets or not we’re still not
even agreeing among ourselves.”
Penn State football tickets now cost $7
each.
Scannell said indoor winter sports at
Kec Hall have financial potential, in
spite of an agreement with Penn State
students.
Ten'cents per copy i
Tuesday, February 11, 1975'
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'A hell of a good contract'
•YfIKE TRBOVICH. vice president of the United Mine Workers of
America, voices his support for the new UMWA contract to a Deike
audience.
UMW contract
given support
by union leader
By JACK MUNSCH
Collegian Staff Writer
Mike Trbovich, vice president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
last night described the new UMW
contract, costing the coal industry
$4.6 billion over three years, as “a
hell of a good contract.”
Trbovich manged the 1969 UMW
presidency campaign of Joseph
(Jock) Yablonski, who was
assassinated soon after he lost the
election. Trbovich became UMW vice
president in 1972 under Arnold Miller.
Speaking before about 75 people in
Deike, Trbovich said the new con
tract is concerned largely with mine'
safety and is not inflationary.
He said that some coal companies
have profit margins of more than 150
per cent, and that the new costs can
be absorbed by. the industry without
severe price increases.
“Sure, it’s a costly package.”
Trbovich admitted, “but we're not
going to endanger the coal miners just
because of the economic and energy
crisis—people have been getting
killed for too long."
The new contract states that every
miner has a right to a safe working
environment. Trbovich noted that
this means miners can walk out if
they consider a mine unsafe.
sports deficit
"Another area that needs in
vestigating is if our long-standing
agreement with students on indoor
events has been negated by attendance
records,” Scannell said. “We agreed not
to promote the sale of tickets for cash
because it would drive away the student.
It works against us and for-the student.
“Over the last three years it’s very
seldom we’ve had capacity, so if we went
on a campaign to sell season tickets to
basketball, wrestling and gymnastics,'it
could' occupy seats that are presently
empty. That’s a possibility," Scannell
said.
The final ingredient in the budget
balancing plan is a cutback within the
athletic department.
Cutback decisions are now under
study.
Scannell said football is not immune to
his “financial surgery.”
3 CCPIS3
The contract prohibits local
agreements between individual coal
companies and UMW members. It
also guarantees a pension of as much
as $5OO per month after 40 years of
employment.
The previous pension after 40 years
was $125 per month. Trbovich said the
industry will contribute $1.9 billion to
the retirement fund alone.
He also said the new contract
provides for miner education. All new
miners will undergo a one-year ap
prenticeship before they receive full
working status.
Trbovich called the U.S. Mine
Safety Administration “a farce," and
said about 2,500 coal miners still die
of black lung disease every year.
He said the new contract will en
lorce the law; which requires every
miner to carry an air sampler once
everI}' 1 }' 180 days to ensure that coal
dust does not exceed acceptable
limits.
Stan Subolaski. instructor of
mining at the University, noted that
many unsafe conditions in the mines
are created by miner absenteeism.
"Pm not blaming the industry for
all unsafe conditions." Trbovich said.
"The > UMW workers are just as
responsible as the industry. That’s
whv we need more education in the
"You can’t lull yourself to sleep,”
Scannell said. “I know football is a
tremendous revenue-producing sport,
but it’s the first thing that’s going to get
a long look when we get ready to make
cuts."
Scannell said he hopes to balance the
budget in a few years, although he
doesn’t make budget projections
anymore.
“That all got thrown out with the
economy." Scannell said. “Right now,
frankly, we’re working from year to
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flurries today. High 34. Light snow or
sleet tonight and early tomorrow Low
28. High 33.
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