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Coastal States 'Loans' San Antonio Fuel Oil By JOHN LUMPKIN Associated Press Writer SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) With limited supplies of emergency fuel oil in hand or en route hen, this South Texas city's municipally owned utility now has three weeks to seek further solutions in its electricity crisis. The City Public Service Board says it is accepting an offer from Coastal States Gas Producing Co, of Houston for a "loan" of 200,000 barrels of oil to fire its power plant generators, which normally run on natural gas, A spokesman for the board said acceptance of the loan would not compromise the city's position in a raging feud with Coastal States, which has curtailed the city's daily natural gas supply by two-thirds. The board, in a statement released Wednesday, claimed Coastal States is trying to make San Antonio an example in an effort to obtain higher gas prices than those now stipulated in contracts with its customers. Coastal States said it began loading trucks Wednesday afternoon in Corpus Christl, to bring the first Installments of the ban to San Antonio's thirsty generators.

A utility board spokesman here also said that locally based Tesoro Petroleum has agreed to sell 140,000 rels of oil, once it can be delivered from a tanker which is scheduled to dock on the Gulf Coast in 11 to 15 days. If Coastal States' gas ment continues, the new oil supplies and the seven ply already on hand will be enough to satisfy the city's erators for an estimated three weeks, according to a board spokesman. The spokesmann Jerry ngerl, said the board still tends the gas curtailment is Illegal under terms of a 20-year non-interruptable contract with Coastal States which does not until 1982, 1 Contract is the subject of litigation which has not come to trial Coastal States and San Antonio are also Involved In proceedings before the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates petroleum matters in the state. Coastal States has been ing to negotiate the lowcoit San Antonio contract upward and. the city says, las sought state legislation which would void the contract.

The city says any new contract dealings are contingent on Coastal States showing the city it has quate gas reserves. While the controversy ues, San Antonio businesses and residents have been asked to voluntarily ration their AFTER DISCLOSURE Congressman Found Shot EASTON, Md. (AP) U.S. Rep. William Mills was found shot to death at his home today, apparently a suicide.

The Maryland Republican's death came one day after the Washington Post reported he had received contribution from sec ret funds of President Nixon's 1972 campaign finance committee. The contributions were not reported to the Maryland Board of Election in an apparent violation of state law. When asked if Mills had shot himself, aide Jack Shaum replied. "Yes, from all indications." The body of the 48-year-old congressman was found in a barn at his Mulberry Hill Farm in Talbot County near Washington. The Easton Memorial Hospital said he tad a gunshot wound in the left lower chest.

Dave Tiiackery, a hospital spokesman, said there were powder burns on Mills' shirt indicating he iiad been shot at close range. Mills was first elected to Congress in a special election in 1971, He replaced Rogers Morton who was named secretary of the Interior, The Washington Post, in the story Wednesday, quoted several sources as saying they helped deliver the $25.000 cash contribution to Mills' campaign manager the day before the May 25,1971, special election. Mills then released a statement saying, "I have done nothing wrong." FOUND DEAD-Rep. William 0. Mills, was found dead of a gunshot wound at his home one day after the Washington Post reported he had received a $25,000 contribution from secret funds.

(NEA Photo) Air Force Muzzles Anti-McGovern POW By FRED S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer WASHINGTON CAP) A returned POW who wants to unseat Sen. George McGovern has been advised by the Air Force to stop making politically tinged statements. The Air Force says it acted after an article signed by Lt. Col, Leo K.

Thorsness of Sioux Falls. S.D., appeared in the May issue of "First Monday." an official publication of the Republican National Committee. The article attacked the antiwar stand taken by the senator during his 1972 presidential race. "I would now like to serve my country in another way: as a United States senator," said Thorsness, "I am from the state of South Dakota as is Sen. George McGovern and I look forward to the opportunity to retire him at some future date." This was not the first time Thorsness had expressed these and similar views publicly Second POWs Wife Sues For Divorce REDWOOD CITY, Calif.

(AP)- A former war prisoner's wife who was photographed running toward her husband's open arms upon his return to the United Status has sued for divorce. Loretta Stinn filed the dis- olution petition Tuesday in San Mateo Superior Court, asking that her 18-year marriage to Air Force Lt.CoL Robert Stirm be ended. During their March 17 reunion at Travis Air Force Base, Mrs, Stirm and the couple's four children were photographed racing toward the flier. Stint: later said, '''Has display of warmth is entirely unnecessary, but it further proves to us that we had a cause." Stirm, 41. was shot down October 27,1967, while piloting his F105D fighter over North Viet, nam.

Mrs. Stirm has asked for cus. tody uf cdiliiri ia 11 prodding, and" said a review showed that Thorsness did not violate specific prohibitions in a Defense Department directive. But it also said that Air Force legal officials believed Thorsness'action in connection with publication of his article in the GOP monthly "did violate the spirit" of an.Air Force regulation carrying out that directive. A spokesman for McGovern said the senator had not lodged any questions or protests with the Pentagon as a result of since his return to the United States.

When asked about the political seemed to be reluctance on the part of some military officials to take a public position that might sound critical of an officer who spent nearly six years in North Vietnamese captivity and who reportedly is under consideration for the Medal of Honor. The Air Force was asked for its position a week ago. Its reply came only after repeated Legislators Meet On Drug Revision "AUSTIN (AP) Senate and House members assigned to settle differences on narcotics law revision met today for the first time and quickly decided marijuana was their biggest problem. At the suggestion of Rep, Tim Von Dohlen, D-Goliad, head of the House conferees, the 10- member conference committee agreed to tackle general drug law provisions first, penalties second, and finally marijuana. "I think first we will have to come up with a bill that is acceptable to the public," Von Dohlen said, "Then we have to liave a bill that the governor will not veto," "Our big problem is time but I think we can work out our differences." said Sen, Jim Wallace, D-Houston.

"I think the drug law provisions are a lot more important than marijuana." said Sen, Tati Santiesteban, D.EI Paso, "It's not really that important whether we allow one or four ounces of marijuana. We need a bill the public can live with most of all. Then let the governor decide what he wants to do about it." The Senate bill would make the maximum penalty for possessing up to four ounces of marijuana seven days in jail a $200 fine. The House bill punish tricity to avoid enforced Speaking Inter mi of enforced rationing prospects, Spender raid of the new emergency fuel oili, "It took a little of the preiiure off. but not a lot." City Public Service officials have named this week that mandatory electricity rationing in the rammer months will be necessary If usage Is not tarily reduced by 40 per cent.

The city has been tolJ to expect further natural gas ments. In the first 10 years of its contract with the city, Coastal State curtailments were ly non-existent. In the past six have been 15 cutbacks. Coastal States has said the curtailments are not connected to the negotiations for higher rates. In a 34-page document which, the City Public Service Board nude public Wednesday, It accused Coastal States at "overselling the carrying paclty of its gas reserves, ''These excessive conv mltments to sell and deliver gas were made to maximize prof its at the expense of uing service to the public," the document said.

Coastal States hold contracts with Austin, and also plies natural gas to most of South Texas outside San tonlo. Coastal States vice president Robert Welta of Houston said there would be no Immediate response to the charges In the City Public Service Board ment. He added, "Everybody we have has been cut, but San Antonio Is the only one yelling about According to the board ment. "The real truth Is that Coastal seeks to pressure San Antonio Into accepting new and higher rates, hoping and feeling that this will aid it in picking off each customer one by one and thus accomplishing its desire for increased rates without risking a decision by the road Commission." The board says Coastal States has admitted in rtcent Railroad Commission tags that curtailments nave been due to inadequate supplies to meet demand, Previously, Coastal States gave as resons for the ment temporary technical cuttles, such as defective vejyej at a processing plant or age to a pipefine by a third party, the board says. The board claims it is a get of Coastal States' "attacks" although other major ers are paying substantially less than San Antonio is.

The other major customers, the board says, take 85 per cent of the gas delivered through Coastal States' systems. Mills was seen briefly on the House floor Wednesday when the members gathered for a formal photograph. He was laughing and joking with the members near him. The Post said the $25,000 contribution was relayed by a series of intermediaries before it reached Mills' campaign manager. The newspaper gave this account: Robert Hitt, executive assistants Morton, said Tuesday he received the $25,000 in cash from Hugh Sloan former treasurer of the Finance Committee to Reflect the President.

Hitt said he kept the cash only briefly before turning it over to Mary D. Beall, an Interior Department secretary, Mrs. Beall said she turned the money over to Allison, Trealeaven and Rietz. a campaign consultant firm which worked for Mills in 1971. Jim Allison, a partner in the firm, said Ken Rietz, a former partner, gave the money to James L.

Webster, Mills' campaign manager, was one of three Mills' aides killed in a 1972 traffic accident, Maryland law requires the reporting of any funds received outside the state if they result In campaign expenditures within the state. DEL Rio NEWS-HERALD 2-DEL RIO (TEXAS) NEWS-HERALD, Thursday. May 24,1973 Ford Contacts Red Guerillas GOVERNMENT LEADER RESIGNS Sex Scandal Brings Down Lord Jellicoe first offense possession of up to one ounce with a jail sentence up to six months and a fine up to $1 000, Both bills make comprehensive revisions of the Texas drug laws in addition to the proposed changes in marijuana laws. Both bills contain a provision that would allow persons convicted of marijuana possession to petition the sentencing court to give them a new sentence under the new law, a provision which Atty. Gen.

John Hill said is unconstitutional. Exports Increase MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexico expects to increase its clothing exports this year, Asst, Minister of Industry Jose Campillo Sainz said today. He said exports in the January-November period of 1972 were up to $19,2 million from $11 million in the same 1971 period. The revaluation of the Japanese yen gave Mexico an advantage in selling to the U.S. market, which absorbs most Mexican clothing exports, said Campillo Sainz.

Accordingtothe 1970 census, the clothing industry in Mexico comprised 9,400 uits-, with 80,000 employees and a total of By FRED COLEMAN Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) Lord Jellicoe. son of a World War I naval hero, godson of a British king and bearer of one of this country's most distingulsed his Cabinet post today as government leader in the House of Lords because of "some casual affairs" with prostitutes. Jellicoe. 55, was the second member of Prime Minister Edward Heath's Conservative government to admit consorting with call girls and to resign. Lord Lambton resigned Tuesday from his sub-Cabinet post as air force minister.

Security checks touched off by the disclosure of Lambton's indiscretions turned up the evidence against Lord Jellicoe. Lord Jellice Is the son of the late World War I Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe, and a godson of the late King George V. In 1966 Jellicoe was divorced by his first wife on grounds of adultery with Phillipa Bridge, whom he married that year. He has four children by his first marriage and three by his second. His ministerial position put Jellicoe in charge of running Britain'scivilservlce.

He had a long and distinguished government career, following an outstanding war record, British newspapers buzzed with speculation today that yet more top names would be linrp r)5vice rings. Some suggested a duke was Involved but refused to name him. Government sources said, however, that they believed no other members of the administration were involved, In a letter to Heath, released to newsmen, Jellicoe said: "Whenyou told me yesterday that my name was being linked with allegations about a ring of call girls. I thought it best to tell you that unhappily there was justification for this because I had some casual affairs which if publicized would have been the subject of criticism." Jellicoe, a former navy minister, sat in the cabinet as Lord Privy Seal. Lambton was not a cabinet member.

Heath promised a statement to the House of Commons later today on the growing sex scandal rocking his government. It was the juiciest scandal to hit Britain since War Minister John Profumo got caught in Christine Keeler's bedroom 10 years ago and nearly brought down another Conservative government. Most newspapers declared Bonnie and Clyde Death Car Put On Auction Block ATLANTA Ga, (AP) The 1934 deluxe Ford in which outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow werekilled Is to be sold at auction. Owner Ted Toddy of Atlanta estimates that the car, which cost possibly $1,000 new, has earned about $10 million in fees at exhibits since Bonnie and Clyde were killed by a police ambush near Arcadia, May 23,1934. It will be auctioned at the Bay State Antique Automobile Exposition In Princeton, July 28.

former film producer, said he bought the car in 19 52 for a movie and "found out I had a car that was worth more than the picture," Despite several hundred bullet holes, the car is in virtually mint condition, Toddy said. that a judicial inquiry, or at the least a thorough investigation, was necessary to clear the air. Government informants said Heath already had such an investigation under way, with the counter-espionage agency MIS checking to see if national security had been compromised. The Informants said the prime minister was not likely to agree to a judicial inquiry. Government sources stressed that Heath did not believe Lambton's association with call girls, and presumably similar conduct by any other officials, had endangered security.

Lord Lambton, a 50-year-oW millionaire and the member of one of Britain's oldest aristocratic families, resigned Tuesday, pleading ill health, and went into seclusion in Scotland, But on Wednesday he issued a statement confessing his association with call girls. Later in the day he was charged with possessing drugs marijuana and amphetamine pep pills but said in a telephone interview: "I'm no drug addict." Lambton in his confessional statement said his conduct had caused no security risk, he hadnt been blackmailed, he hadnt discussed his government job with the call girls, and "as far as I know no politician of any party is remotely connected with these events." BUENOS AIRES (AP) Ford Motor Co. reached ment today with urban guerrillas on details of paying out $1 million in protection to prevent the guerillas from ing Ford executives, formed sources disclosed. The Informants said the agreement includes a propaganda statement favorable to theTrotskyite People's Revolutionary Army. Argentina's most active terrorist organisation.

The statement and details of the protection payment were to be published at Ford's head flees in Dearborn, the sources reported. The revolutionary army said Ford's numerous executives in Argentina wont be kidnaped or harassed if Ford pays $1 million in powdered milk for poor children, hospital donations, and 154 ambulances. Ford officials declined to comment, beyond acnkowledg- ing that the company was negotiating by telephone with the guerrillas. Asked what guarantee Ford might have that its people will be left alone after the million dollars is paid, a Ford official said, "It you can use a phrase like good faith in asituation like this, that's what we are operating While the negotiations were under way by telephone, seyen members of the guerrilla army raided the offices here of the U.S. firm, Adams Chiclets, and forced the employes to listen to a talk assailing the visit here of Secretary of State William P.

Rogers. He and other foreign dignitaries are gathering in Buenos Aires for Friday's inauguration of Hector Campora, a Per- ionist as president, A Ford official said a final agreement had not been reached with the People's Revolutionary Army adding that non-money matters still had to be negotiated. The guerrillas said they specifically wanted the million dollars in the form of powdered milk for poor children, hospital donations and 154 ambulances. In two communiques sent to Ford, the guerrillas specified the hospitals to which money is to be donated and shantytowns where milk is to be distributed. Ford is one of Argentina's principal manufacturers of autos and trucks.

Its plant In a Buenos Aires suburb employs 6,800 people. A Ford official said the company regularly contributes $300,000 to $400,000 annually to Argentine charity to buy milk, clothing, medicines and other items for the poor. An official at the company's headquarters in Dearborn. said Wednesday night that Ford would supply 154 bulances and donations to Argentine hospitals as stipulated byjthe guerrillas. Two other U.S.

firms, Eastman Kodak and the First National Bank of Boston, paid a total of $2.5 million in April to ransom two executives ed by leftist guerrillas. In March 1972, Fiat, the Italian automobile company, agreed to a demand for $1 milli to buy school supplies for needy children after the People's Revolutionary Army kidnaped the head of its Argentine subsidiary. But the government rejected a simultaneous demand for the release of 50 imprisoned terrorists, and the guerrillas killed the Fiat executive as the police closed in on the gang's hideout. Meanwhile, Secretary of State William P. Rogers arrived to head the U.

S. delegation for the inauguration Friday of Peronist Hector J. Campora as Argentina's president. Rogers, on an eight-nation Latin American tour, and his delegation were the 26th of the 63 officialdelegationsto arrive. The American secretary is outranked at the festivities by the presidents of Chile, Cuba and Uruguay, the premier of Peru and the vice presidents of 11 countries.

Observers were particularly interested in whether there would be any contact between the U. S. cabinet member and Chile's Marxist president, Salvador Allende Gossens, whose leftist administration has been openly hostile to U. S. interests in Chile and U.

S. policy in Latin America. Elder Rios Zepeda Testifies for Son U.S. Records Trade Surplus By R. GREGORY NOKES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The United States recorded its first trade surplus in 18 months during April, Secretary of Commerce Frederick Dent said today.

Dent noted that April was the third straight month that exports reached new record levels, while imports declined for the second month. But Dent said he could not yet predict that the nation is in a permanent trade surplus position. He released the figures one day earlier than usual at a special news conference. It was unusual for the country's trade figures to be announced in this way. Usually they are announced in a Commerce Department press release.

Exi rts exceeded imports by $196.3 million. Much of the favorable shift in trade balance from a decline in imports from Canada. Dent said the trade figures indicate that the two devaluations of the U.S. dollars in the past two years "are having a stimulating effect on sales of U.S.-made Other factors, he said, are an economic boom abroad and a slowing of purchases of foreign products. The United States had a trade deficit of $6.3 billion in 1972 and a deficit of $2 billion in 1971, the first trade deficits in recent American history.

Dent noted that despite the April surplus, the trade deficit for the first four months of the year was at an annual rate of $1.9 billion, meaning that if the performance of the first four months continued throughout the year the yearend deficit would be $1.9 billion. The last previous monthly surplus was in September of 1971 when it was $308 million. By GARY GARRISON Associated Press Writer EDINBURG, Tex. (AP) A water district employe testified today he saw a girl who looked like one of the two San Benito strangulation victims near the irrigation canal where her body was later found. Antonio Rios Zepeda 20, of San Benito is being tried on a charge of murder with malice in the April 11,1972 slaying of Maria Norma Delgado, 15.

He is also charged in the death of Patricia Segura, also 15. Harvey Smith Sr. testified that he saw a girl who looked like the Delgado girl standing beside a young man on the canal bank about 2 p.m. April 11. 1972.

Smith said he could not say for sure if the young man with her was Rios Zepeda. Earlier, the father of the defendant testified that his son was with him at Brownsville, 80 miles away, for at least part of the afternoon the girls were slain. AnotnioRiosZepedaSr. testified that his son drove from San Benito to Brownsville the afternoon of the slayings, arriving at the Brownsville bus station about 2 p.m. Cameron County prosecutors have alleged that Rioe Zepeda, a migrant laborer, picked up the two girls at San Benito High School during the noon hour.

They also claim he drove the girls to an area called the "waterfall" southwest of San Benito and strangled them. Their bodies were found ing face down in irrigation nals a half mile apart. The defendant's father testified that he rode a bus to Brownsville that morning to look in second hand stores for some items stolen from his home in a burglary. The elder Rios Zepeda also testified that he had told his son to dig three post holes while he was gone to Brownsville. He said the holes were dug, but admitted under cross examination he did not know where his son was between noon and 2 p.m.

Two officers did not find a piece of rope in Rios Zepeda's automobile the father also said. He said he showed Cameron County deputies Ed Moody and Jim Parker another, larger piece of rope, but he said the rope that officers said they found in the automobile was never there. The rope in evidence was similar to a piece of rope found tied around the wrist of the Segura girl The father also denied that his son ever owned a blue T- shirt like the one found near the Delgado girl's body. He also testified that he did not own a blue towel such as the one found tied around the gado girl's neck. District Court Judge J.R.

A lamia Wednesday barred a San Benito woman from the courthouse after a member of the jury complained that the woman made some kind of mark to the jurors. The woman was identified as Elvira Rodriguez, reportedly a relative of one of the two victims. DEL Rid NEWS-HERALD Del Rio, Texas 78840 Published each afternoon except Saturday, and also Sunday Morning by Del R'o Newt-Herald, Inc. Second Class Pottage paid at Del Rio, Texas. in Del By SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By carrier mail in town or out of town $2.10.

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