The Daily Collegian Tuesday, May 8, 1979
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Survey finds auto shop fraud
WASHINGTON (UPI) —An un- American consumers spend each
dercover survey of auto repair shops year on car repairs —53 cents of each
shows the Ainerican consumer had dollar —is wasted on needless work.
only a 50-50 chance of getting a car The biggest problem area, Adams
fixed correctly and for the right told a news conference, is engine
price, Transportation Secretary repairs where it is "almost a sure
Brock Adams said yesterday. thing" that the repair will not be
The survey was conducted at 62 made properly.
dealers, service stations and in- "When we took test cars into repair
dependent repair shops in Atlanta, shops at random, we found we had
Philadelphia, Miami, Nashville, only about a 50-50 chance of getting a
Houston, New York . City and White car fixed right and for the right
Plains, N.Y. No shops were iden- price," Adams said.
tilled, but Adams said the in- "What we have ... is a variety of
formation is being turned over to wasteful practices, including
local law enforcement officials for habitual overrepair or package deals
possible prosecution.. . . . and just plain old lack of com-
He said the survey showed that petence to do the job right," Adams
more than half of the $5O billion said.
Hoffa linked to Kennedy death
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) The
House Assassinations Committee has
found "significant indications" that
organized crime and former
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa
were behind the assassination of John
F. Kennedy, WCMH-TV reported
yesterday.
WCMH-TV newsman Frank Seltzer
said in a copyright report that he has
learned from "a highly placed
committee source" that Hoffa and
two top mobsters have been,linked to
the assassination in an as-yet
unpublished committee report.
"According to information un
covered by the committee," Seltzer
said, "there are significant in
dications that Kennedy's murder was
arranged and executed by members
of organized crime and their
friends."
There was no immediate comment
from the assassinations panel on
Seltzer's report
Seltzer said "the committee, in its
report, will name Hoffa and mobsters
Carlos Marcello of New Orleans and
Diplomat freed in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador bassador had been taken following
(UPI) Rebels holding the French his release, the foreign minister
and the Costa Rican ambassadors replied, "I don't know."
hostage freed the Costa Rican He refused to elaborate further or
diplomat last night but rejected an indicate whether the government had
offer of political asylum if they ended made any concessions to the leftists
their occupation of the two em- to win the ambassador's release. .
bassies, officials said.
Jose Antonio Rodriquez Torth But police said the leftists were still
announced late yesterday that Costa holed up inside the Costa Rican
Rican Ambassador Julio Esquivel Embassy, where they were repor-
Valverde, one of 10 hostages being tedly holding two more embassy
held by 18 leftists occupying both the employees hostage as the siege
French and the Costa Rican em- dragged through its fourth day.
bassies, had been freed. Another seven persons, including
"He (the ,ambassador) has been ,French Ambassador ,: Michel Dcm
freed," , -Rodriguei • : forth told , denne, were also behig' weld hostage
reporters. Asked where the am- `in the French embassy.
Station owners plan shutdown
ST. LOUIS (UPI) Gasoline Dealers are protesting Department
station owners from across the of Energy regulations limiting them
country decided unanimously to the same profit margin allowed in
yesterday to ask their colleagues to 1973, although they have reduced
stage a four-day closing protest gasoline allocations.
against government pricing policies. "Since 1974 we have not been able
Jim Campbell, executive director to pass on one cost labor, social
of the California Service Station securing, nothing," Campbell said.
Association, presented plans for his "The oil companies aren't frozen.
state's pumps to be shut down May They can't push OPEC around.
17-20. "They can't push the major oil
A statement released after the companies around. So who do they
hastily arranged, closed-door push around the service station
meeting said the 40 officials owners. Would you be working today
representing station owners coast-to- for the same salary you earned five
coast would endorse the shutdown years ago? Neither can the dealers."
plan.
Senate approves liquor warning
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Senate voted yesterday to require a
health warning label on all bottles of
hard liquor similiar to the one on
cigarette packages.
An effort to kill the proposal failed
68-21, and by voice vote it was ap
proved as an amendment to a three
year extension and revision of the
government's alcohol abuse
programs.
A short time later, by voice vote,
the Senate approved the $669 million
authorization bill and sent it to the
House.
The warning label, which would
have to go on all bottles of liquor
containing more than 24 percent
alcohol, would read: "Consumption
of alcoholic beverages may be
hazardous to your health."
The amendment was a compromise
proposed by Sen. Jacob Javits, R-
N.Y., and accepted by the sponsors of
a proposed longer and wordier
warning teetotaling Republicans
S. Africa drops hiring policy
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Wiehahn, last week published its
(UPI) The government yesterday recommendations that wide ranging
accepted proposals that could wipe changes be made in the country's
out one of the cornerstones of South labor legislation, including an end to
African apartheid the reservation racism at the factory.
of certain jobs for whites only. The White Paper endorsed the
A white paper representing the proposal that blacks compete equally
government's thinking on sweeping with Whites for all jobs and for an end
labor law changes suggested by the to regulations demanding separate
Wiehahn commission report was eating and toilet facilities in in
submitted in Parliament in Cape dustries.
Town for debate within the next two
weeks.
The paper said statutory work reserved for whites and be allowed to
reservation has proved to be an do so in white areas, the paper said.
"impractical and inadequate Changes were not expected to come
measure which harms race relations about overnight both the Wiehahn
and is out of keeping with the needs of commission and the White Paper
modern times." urged the streamlining be done with
The government-appointed caution and after "consultations with
Wiehahn commission, headed by Nic all the parties concerned."
Santos Trafficante of Miami as the
three most likely participants in a
conspiracy" to kill Kennedy.
He reported the committee will say
two gunmen fired at Kennedy in
Dallas and that Lee Harvey Oswald
was one of them firing three shots
and killing the president while the
other gunman, who missed, remains
unknown.
"This contradicts the Warren
Commission report," Seltzer said,
"and the committee will be highly
critical of the Warren Commission
investigation for ignoring the
possiblity of a conspiracy by
organized crime."
The FBI will also be faulted, he
said.
The committee, formed in response
to public demand for a new look at the
Kennedy assassination, is chaired by
Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, while Rep.
Samuel Devine, R-Ohio, is the
ranking Republican, Seltzer pointed
out in the first of a four-part series on
the assassination report. .
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina
and Orrin Hatch of Utah.
The vote was forced by opponents
of any warning label, led by Sens.
Walter Huddleston and Wendell Ford,
Democrats from the bourbon
producing state of Kentucky.
"The liquor industry don't want
this amendment,'? Thurmond said
after accepting the compromise.
"They don't want anything that
discourages the drinking of liquor."
Neither Huddleston nor Ford
argued against the objectives of
Thurmond's amendment. But they
said the liquor industry is working on
a major public information program
on the hazards of drinking too much,
in cooperation with the Treasury and
the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Huddleston, calling the amendment
"precipitous," said: "There may be
other warnings that are better and it
would be prudent to wait and see
what the best method is to do this."
Black apprentices should also be
allowed to train for jobs presently
Everybody loves a bargain
These motorists are part of a line more than 100 cars long, along New London
Turnpike in Clastonbury, Conn., waiting Sunday for regular gasoline priced at
29.9 cents per gallon,That price was a 20-year rollback, held as a promotion for
a car dealer and a radio station.
Nader says officials
allow nuclear danger
WASHINGTON (UPI) Ralph Nader
charged federal nuclear power officials
yesterday with "monumental neglect"
of nuclear emergency plans and
congressional investigators said tran
sport of nuclear materials endangers the
public.
Nader, the consumer advocate, told
the House Government Operations
environment subcommittee the Three
Mile Island nuclear reactor accident
was a "spectacle of federal confusion
and indecisiveness over how the public
should be protected from the'release of
radioactivity."
In an interview with Cox Newspapers,
Nader 'said* yesterday all U.S. nuclear
power plants a $lOO billion industry
that generates 13 percent of the nation's
electricity should be closed. Two
thirds of the 72 nuclear plants now
licensed could be shut down at once with
little economic disruption, he said, while
Contaminated water to be
processed at nuclear plant cf
MIDDLETOWN (AP) Technicians uranium fuel. But company officials told
will start work in three weeks to clean up a 15-member congressional panel that it
an estimated 600,000 gallons of water may be a year before it is safe enough to
that was badly contaminated in the go inside and assess the damage.
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, The NRC estimates that some 400,060
federal officials said yesterday. gallons of water have formed a 5 1 / 2 4°04% 1
Victor Stello, the Nuclear Regulatory deep radioactive pool on the con
Commission's operations chief, said a
tainment building floor.
system designed to process highly r •
radioactive liquids will be in operation at In addition, about 85,000 gallons of
the end of the month. water used in the primary cooling
"This is the beginning of the plant system and more than 100,000 gallons of
restoration," Stello said at a briefing. contaminated water now being stored in
"We will be removing the contaminated tanks must be purified. r
1.
water and treating it through various Richard Vollmer, an aide to Stello who
kinds of decontamination efforts." is now taking charge of operations, said
Stello could give no timetable on when radioactive resins can be filtered or tlie
technicians can enter the sealed reactor water will be boiled down to isolate the
building and remove its 100 tons of residue. ~ ,
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' the rest could be closed within a year.
At the same time, the General Ad
counting Office, an investigative arm df
Congress, issued a report that: "Feder,*
agencies responsible for the safe
transportation of nuclear materials'have
not developed and enforced policies and
regulations which adequately protecil
the public from exposure to radiatioh
from such shipments." .
The problem is made worse because
state and federal officials do not keep in
close enough touch, the report said. '
The GAO report said inspection of
shipping containers is too lax, tl
allowable levels of contamination of
packages is too high and some weapons:.
grade plutonium can be shipped without
any special security measures.
The GAO covered all types of
radioactivity, from medical to military.
Nader zeroed in on the.reactors used tot,
generate electricity. ,