—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Jan. 4, 1979
Blazing
A crane had to be called early Tuesday morning to re- said that as he swerved to avoid an animal he hit a rise in
move this Blazer from the roof of a summer residence in the road and was airborne, landing on the roof. Decamp
Searsmont, Maine. The driver, Ronald Decamp Jr., 19, was not injured.
Schlesinger urges voluntary gas cutbacks
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Assassinations panel goes out of business
WASHINGTON, (UPI) The House Assassinations
Committee went out' of business yesterday after its
chairman declared it 'had found no link between
organized crime and Jack Ruby's murder of Lee
Harvey Oswald.
In its two-year; $5.8 million investigation, the com
mittee did conclude there were possibilities of con
spiracy in the assassinations of both President John F.
Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
It suggested the Justice Department investigate
some last-minute evidence a second gunman fired at
Kennedy at the same time as Oswald in Dealey Plaza,
in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
The Justice Department showed little enthusiasm to
carry on the work of the committee whose
congressional mandate expired at midnight yesterday.
Ruby, owner of a Dallas nightclub, shot Oswald while
Excavation continues beneath Gacy's home
CHICAGO (UPI) -- Investigators
resumed digging yesterday at the
"orderly, built-in homemade
graveyard" beneath the home of
suspected mass killer John Wayne Gacy,
authorities said.
Cook County Medical Examiner Dr.
Robert J. Stein said workmen used
jackhammers to rip up four concrete
pads under the crawl space of the
Norwood Park Township home. He said
he will return to the home today to "see
what they're doing further."
Only six of the 29 bodies linked to Gacy
have been identified so far.
Mall will not burden utilities, report says
The proposed Ferguson Township Mall would not
overburden Centre Region utilities, according to a
report given to the Ferguson Township Planning
Commission last night.
The report, prepared by the Centre Regional Plan
ning Commission, stated if the mall were built, it would
place "no excessive demands on water, sewer, solid
waste disposal and energy services of the Centre
Region."
Herbert Kauhl, assistant director of the Centre
Region Council of Governments Planning Commission,
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WASHINGTON (UPI) Energy
Secretary James Schlesinger, warning
mandatory conservation measures may
be needed if Iran's oil exports remain
halted, yesterday urged immediate
voluntary cuts in U.S. consumption of
more than half a million barrels a day.
Industrialized nations are "borrowing
against the future" to offset the loss of
Iranian oil by taking an extra 2 million
barrels a day from petroleum stockpiles,
almost double the normal winter
withdrawal, Schlesinger said.
"The situation is serious, but it is not
critical," he told a news conference.
"We should begin to take prudent ac
tions in this country of a 'voluntary
nature.
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He urged Americans to save a total
Stein refused to speculate on the cause
of death, but he said four of the bodies
had ropes around the necks, indicating
strangulation.
"We found an orderly, built-in
homemade graveyard," Stein said of the
crawl space under Gacy's home. "It was
well thought out."
Stein said the 26 bodies were lying end
to end around the perimeter of the crawl
space, with several other bodies in the
center in a pattern similar to the spokes
of a wheel. One body was found under his
garage and two more were pulled from a
nearby river.
he was being held by police on charges of assassinating
Kennedy. -
Committee Chairman Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, said
in a television interview the panel was aware of theories
that organized ' crime had Ruby kill Oswald to erase
Oswald's alleged connections with the crime syndicate.
"We went into the matter quite exhaustively and we
were unable to find that particular type of allegation to
be true," Stokes said.
In its preliminary report, the panel concluded a tape
recording of the sounds in Dealey Plaza at the time of
the assassination indicated a second gunman identity
unknown fired a shot from the grassy knoll ahead of
Kennedy's motorcade almost simultaneously with the
three shot volley fired by Oswald from a sixth floor
window of the Texas School Book Depository Building.
Stokes recommended the Justice Department in-
said the commission contacted the State College Water
Authority about its water supplies. The authority said it
can handle the demand, Kauhl said.
Reading from the report, Kauhl said pedestrians and
bicyclists would experience increased danger from
additional traffic if the present lack of facilities was not
improved.
The facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists are
hazards as they are, Kauhl said. Some streets are
without sidewalks. This is an important point to con
sider, he said.
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600,000 barrels of oil daily by volun
tarily:
Obeying the 55 miles per hour speed
limit, saving 100,000 barrels.
Lowering home thermostats to a
maximum 65 degrees, saving 300,000
barrels.
Eliminating all unnecessary
driving, saving 200,000 barrels.
Schlesinger said the United States will
help Israel find oil to replace supplies
from Iran, formerly the major Israeli
supplier, and if necessary will send U.S.
oil to Israel.
Iran on Dec. 27 halted exports that
supplied 5 percent of U.S. demand and 15
percent of total demand among oil
consuming nations. Schlesinger said the
impact of the cutoff may not be felt for
Cook County sheriff's police said they
expect to dig up what remains of the
concrete floor of Gacy's garage and at
least part of his yard. They also said
they plan to excavate the soil of the
crawl space down to the hard clay that
forms its base. All of the bodies found in
the crawl space were buried in the soil
above the clay.
Gacy, 36, a twice-divorced convicted
sodomist, has been charged with one
murder. .
Investigators said they might also
check the basement of a building on
Chicago's Near North Side.
U. S. plans for. Shah's removal
WASHINGTON (UPI) While still publicly supporting the
shah of Iran, the administration has set up a group of
specialists to assess what could occur if he is ousted, officials
said yesterday.
The review, was undertaken by State Department and
Natibnal Security Council experts headed by assistant
Secretary of State Harold Saunders. The group is part of a
broader task force looking into the Iranian situation and
headed by Undersecretary David Newsom.
Officials said it is clear relationships in the Persian Gulf and
the Middle East will be transformed if the shah's pro-western
ideas are replaced by a neutral or marxist-oriented regime.
With that in mind, Saunders policy committee is trying to
determine what impact such a change would have on U.S.-
Soviet competition and on Arab-Israeli rivalries.
Another group in the Newsom team is assessing the effect of
the Iranian oil strike, which is depriving western nations of 5
million to 6 million barrels of oil per day.
Despite the shah's shaky position, State Department
spokesman Hodding Carter said U.S. support for him "in the
context of his constitutional role" remains unchanged.
By using the words "constitutional role," the administration
Recruits may qualify for bonuses
U.S. Army Reserve recruits may be
eligible for a $1,500 bonus, the State
College Army Reserve recruiter said
yesterday.
Sgt. First Class Herman Potter said
the 318th Light Equipment Maintenance
Company of State College and the 442nd
Field Service Company of Bellefonte
both have been selected for the new
program, designed to hell') the reserves
meet recruiting goals.
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several weeks because much Iranian oil
still is in transit aboard tankers.
Schlesinger's oil supply survey was
less optimistic than one given Tuesday
by a State Department official, who said
oil consuming nations could manage
with "little difficulty" for six months or
more without Iranian oil.
If Iran is unable to resume exports by
this summer, Schlesinger said, it will be
impossible to rebuild world oil stockpiles
enough to avoid shortages next winter.
,He said the Energy Department will
publish a list of proposed standby
measures next week. ,
Among possible emergency measures
the United States might adopt are
mandatory oil allocation and other steps
that were used during the 1973-74 oil
embargo, Schlesinger said.
vestigate the tape evidence further and also make an
expert examination of an amateur film which shows,
according to some viewers, two persons in the . sixth
floor window only minutes before the assassination.
A Justice Department spokesman said neither the
department nor the FBI planned any action until the
committee's lengthy full report, with its supporting
evidence, is issued several weeks from now.
"As members of the U.S. Congress, we can not make
them ( the Justice Department) reopen their in
vestigation," Stokes said.
Stokes did not comment on the suggestion by former
committee counsel Kenneth Brooten in Gainesville,
Fla., Tuesday that a blood clot under Kennedy's
shoulder blade, disclosed in the autopsy, might have
been caused by a bullet fragment from an unknown
source.
A carpenter who did subcontracting
work for Gacy, Joseph Tomaskovic, 53,
Darien, told police Gacy and several
young employees worked nights pouring
concrete, in the building's basement.
Tomaskovic said the basement gave off
a foul stench. Gacy told him the smell
was due to "dead rats."
Stein said he has not been asked to
investigate the Chicago building.
Gacy was being held without bond at
the Cook County Jail hospital. He has
been strapped to his bed, authorities
said, to prevent a possible suicide or
escape attempt.
The report also stated that according to a traffic
study prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation, the streets in the vicinity of the
proposed mall can be made to operate at an acceptable
service level. These report figures, however, are
contingent upon the construction of the State College
bypass. .
The planning commission will receive the remaining
section of the report at its Jan. 11 meeting.
—by Lynn Osgood
To qualify for the bonus, Potter said an
applicant must be a high school
graduate with no prior military service
and he must enlist in one of the selected
active service units for six years.
"If he does qualify for the bonus, the
enlistee will receive the $1,500 over a
four-year period," Potter said. "He will
get the first $750 if he successfully
completes the basic and advanced
training during the first year, $2OO after
each of the next two years and $350 after
the fourth year."
Another new assistance option
available through the program will give
qualified recruits a maximum of $2,000
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is giving a subtle indication that it encourages the shah ,to
remain in Iran, but only as a constitutional monarch whb
relinquishes real power to a coalition government.
The United States is trying to calm the situation in hip
through several means, administration officials said: .-
- The Commerce Department, on the recommendation.o
the State Department, issued license for shipment of $B.l
million worth of American kerosene to Iran to relieve the
heating fuel crisis there. .
White House officials said the Defense Department ad
vised President Carter to move American warships nearer to
Iran, from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean. But they
said the National Security Council and the State Department
were against the move and Carter agreed with them.
The officials said the ships were moved into the South China
Sea in the first place "to underline our concern that there bend
interference by outside powers" during the Iranian turmoil.
In a related matter, an Israeli diplomat said the •Unitecr
States Kis assured Israel, which gets up to 65 percent of its oil
from Iran, that it would get help if the supply is cut off. So far,
the diplomat said, Israel has not had to dip into its strategic
petroleum reserves.
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to apply toward educational expenses.
Along with•a high school diploma, fhe
Army requires bonus recipients to score
satisfactorily .on aptitude and physical
exams.
"Beyond those requirements, the plan
is open to any recruits," Potter said.
Potter added that the program is not;
limited to those who have just graduated
from high school. ..
"I know of one person who was in_ his
last year of college when he decided:tu
apply for the program so he could pay
for the rest of his education," he said.:
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