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WASHINGTON (AP) - The average residential consumer would pay from $25 to $50 per year more for natural gas by 1980 if the government dropped price controls, petroleum industry figures show. These increases would generate between $1 billion and $2 billion additional each year for the gas industry, a study prepared for the American Petroleum Institute disclosed. Industry officials advocate removal of federal price regulation, claiming higher gas prices are needed to stimulate exploration for new gas fields and relieve the growing gas shortage.
The 150-page study, analyzing the impact of removing Federal Power Commission price ceilings, said 39.4 million residential gas customers paid an average of $155.73 last year for natural gas. The study, released Monday, predicted prices would increase from 16.3 per cent to 32 per cent if price controls were dropped. It said the 16.3 per cent increase would correspond to raising the amount paid to the gas producer from the current "field price" of 20.5 cents per million British Thermal Units to 45 cents. That would increase the average household yearly
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Walla Walla public schools reconvened today for some 6,500 young academicians. Above, the photographer captured the slow, sometimes unwilling trudge of several local children back to Green Park Elementary School. Below, Mrs. Joseph J. Paul and daughter Dena Wever shared a good-bye kiss before Dena entered her secondgrade class at Edison Elementary School. See additional pictures on page 5. (U-B photos by John Gallagher, Don dine)
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More than 390 1st graders walked into elementary schools in Walla Walla today clutching pee-chee folders, pencils and, for many, their mother's or father's hand. They had probably received all kinds of advice about what to expect from the teachers, fellow classmates and their ABC's. But who could be more expert at giving advice to the students on their first day in the elementary school system than the students who had just been through it all. Second graders at Edison School had encouraging and cautious advice to give their underclassmen. "Don't be noisy," Kathy Blue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Blue, said in summarizing her advice to 1st graders. 'Td tell them to do what the teacher says," Jennifer Ford
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said. "To be quiet and sit still when the teacher is talking." Out on the playground, Jennifer said she would warn first-graders to "watch out if the ball goes into the street" "You gotta be careful of being kicked around by the big kids too," she said. "You don't want to get your teeth knocked out or anything." Back iri the classroom. Jimmy Weber, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Weber, said first year elementary school students should "not make too big a mess with the clay and paints." "If I had a 1st grade friend,'" he said, "I'd teil him to work and be good." If the friend were having
Shawna Filan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Filan, said she would tell 1st graders to always mind the teachers. "If they want you to do something you don't want to do," she said, "do it anyway." "If you want to talk, you'd better wait until the teacher's finished.'" Karen Slater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Slater, said she would tell Ist-graders their year was going to be fun. "There's lots of fun things to do in 1st grade." she said. But she said she couldn't remember exactly what they were. She did say it was important to be on time. "Teachers don't like it when you're late,"' she said. "I was late sometimes, but not very late, so I didn't get into trouble." Brian Donovan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Donovan, said he would tell his little brother when he enters 1st grade next year that recess will be the best part of the day. When he's out at recess, though, Brian said he would warn him he's going to have to quit throwing rocks "That's what he does all the time at home." he said. "He can't hit people anymore either," Brian said. Tracy Frakes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Frakes said she would tell her younger schoolmates to be careful when they cross the street. "You gotta look out, because there's a lot of cars near here," she said. Many students said they didn't know what kind of advice Brian Donovan to give first graders. ''don't hit people"" Denise Broderson. daughter of Mr. *nd Mrs. Fred Bailey, said, "It's hard to say what I'd teachers questions, too." he tell them," she said, "they just said. have to go and find out."
A BTU is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. The Federal Power Commission is considering raising the price ceiling to this level, meaning the 16.3 per cent hike by 1980 could result with or without controls. The upper increase level of 32 per cent given by the study would correspond to increasing the field price to 75 cents per BTU. This, in turn, would increase the average yearly household bill by $50.27, the report said.
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High food p to stay., desp situation, the organization has called an urgent meeting in Rome on Sept. 20 for By The Associated Press representatives of the world s major A record world grain harvest is wheat exporting nations. predicted this year. But experts say Unless exportable stocks are grain prices will continue to rise because increased, the organization says, the of soaring demand. world's developing countries will be particularly hard hit. These The results will be seen in the prices comparatively poor countries, with an inon the bread and cookie shelves in your satiable demand for grain to build up neighborhood supermarket. The food and feeding stocks, account for hamburger, steaks and roasts in the meat about 50 per cent of world wheat chiller are likely to stay high also, imports. because grains feed the animals that Escalating costs, which the wheat produce the meat. council calls unprecedented, could The paradox of recordjurpduction at seriously, disrupt the economies of the the same time as escalating prices—arid"~~ developing nations and put a pinch on a drop in world gram stocks—is due to a pocketbooks in the rest of the world. "strong, unabated world demand" for The situation where more wheat is wheat, the International Wheat Council being grown but more people are reports. demanding it has led to a serious drop in The U.N. Food and Agriculture world stocks, to what the council deOrganization warns that import demands scribes as the critical level of 23 million can be expected to go still higher in comtons estimated for the 1973-74 crop year. ing years. The Soviet Union's record wheat in an effort to do something about the purchases in 1972 were an important
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HT VMDTA WocVi HIJ\ — Phot-la* OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) Charles Morse, a young New Yorker, was named by Gov. Dan Evans Tuesday to head the state's largest agency, the Department of Social and Health Services. Morse, 33, is deputy administrator for the New York City Human Resources Administration. He will pay a visit to Olympia next week, but will not assume his new position until late next month, Evans said. The salary is $38,000. The governor praised Morse's "imagination and innovation" and said the new secretary has the ability to make Washington's superagency one of the top in the nation. Morse replaces Sidney E. Smith, who served as department head from the time the agency was created in 1970 until he left to join private industry earlier this summer. Smith resigned last December, sparking a nationwide search for a successor. Evans said Morse had balked at leaving his New York post "in the midst of a massive changeover" and that the delay request had been granted. Morse and the new deputy director, Milton Burdman of California, will take "a modern view of prisons and the whole area of corrections," said Evans, a prison reform advocate.
Storm Delia strengthens near Texas GALVESTON, Tex. (AP) - Tropical Storm Delia, poised 140 miles offshore here, gathered strength today and turned slightly north with her ill-defined eye pointed once again at the Louisiana coast. "I wouldn't be surprised to see it go ashore on the Louisiana coast but nght now I'm going to hold off about where," said Davis Benton, chief meteorologist at the Galveston National Weather Service office. "The thing is going to find a more definite track and on a more northerly course." Delia teased Texas coastal residents through the night, hanging offshore with a disorganized center and little movement, but producing swells and high tides from Freeport to Cameron, La. The advisory said six-foot tides and rains of up to 10 inches would accompany Delia when she finally comes ashore.
factor in depleting world stocks and sending prices up, the U.N. food organization says. The Soviets, who used to be exporters, have bought about nine million tons of wheat and 18 million tons of coarse grain in the last 18 months, officials in London report. Soviet leaders are counting on a record grain harvest this year. But Moscow reports it is unlikely to reach the target of 197.4 million tons of grain, so more purchases may be necessary. In the United States, where farmers feed not only the nation but also a large part of the world, soaring wheat and feed grain export brought requttts torn briers and other gram consumers for export restraints. The wheat council suggested that consuming less wheat was one way to balance stocks with requirements. But it pointed out that use of substitutes for wheat as animal feed may be limited because prices of coarse grains and other feedstuffs also have gone up.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A county grand jury meets here today to consider possible indictment of former White House officials in connection with a break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. The panel first was to hear testimony from a few remaining witnesses before making any decision. Officials said a lengthy session could delay the handing down of any indictments until late today or early Wednesday. Sources close to the investigation said those still facing possible indictment are former presidential adviser John D. Ehrlichman; former Ehrlichman aide Egil Krogh; David Young, former aide to Henry A. Kissinger; and convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy. The Pentagon papers trial judge last spring revealed he had been notified that Liddy and Watergate coconspirator E. Howard Hunt had engineered a break-in at the Beverly Hills office of Dr. Lewis Fielding on Sept. 3, 1971. The burglary was undertaken to get Ellsberg's psychiatric records. The trial judge ruled the break-in and other White House involvement in the Ellsberg case constituted governmental misconduct since Ellsberg was under indictment at the time in connection with
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Study says prison doctor was threatened Threats against his life apparently spurred a transfer request submitted by the penitentiary's hospital administrator. The administrator, Dr. Ivan Steams, was to begin interviews last week for a position elsewhere w i t h i n the Department of Social and Health Services fDSHS). The transfer request came after a state study which cleared Dr. Stearns of prisoner allegations of medical mistreatment but recommended the director's removal from the institution hospital. "Dr. Stearns has been the recipient of thi eats on his life if he goes back inside the walls," said state investigators in their report "These threats appear to be serious, and his family wishes that he leave this position." A DSHS press release last week said the study commended Dr. Stearns for his work at the prison However, the release failed to mention
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the threats or the two-man study team's recommendation Dr. Stearns "should not continue working in the penitentiary hospital." In addition to expressing apprehension about the doctor's safety and the concern of his family, the investigators also cited Dr. Steams' "problems with personal relationships." In that category, the study team said the doctor has alienated many of his own staff by his attitude toward them and custody personnel by "apparent failure to recognize the limits of his medical authority as opposed to custody." "Dr. Stearns has alienated the resident patients 'inmates) by his gruff attitude and obvious contempt for them," the study said. It was a 10-day inmate work strike and lockup at the penitentiary last Jane that prompted the July-August investigation. Prisoners said removal of Dr. Stearns because of his attitude headed their list of 11 strike grievances.