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flHM A A Traffic Spurs Texas' Violent Death Chart During Holidays White Fears Farmers To 'See Red' By The Associated Press Texas' violent death toll took a tragic upsurge as the extended Thanksgiving weekend neared a close. The grim tally, recorded from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday, reached a total of 47. It included 19 traffic fatalities, a dozen shootings and six deaths in an oil field accident. Poisonous methane gas spilling from a break in a crude pipeline killed six workmen repairing it Sunday near Abilene, but a seventh man escaped.

The dead were listed as T. P. Rains and Robert Redman of Sweetwater; Don White and Stanley Holderman of Roscoe, Robert Arellano of Colorado City and Cody Cox of Eastland. Two gunmen disguised by black stocking masks killed Armando Virto, 20, a Mexican national, during a holdup Sunday at a Dallas rooming house, police were told. The bandits escaped after robbing two other Mexican nationals.

Police acting on a tip surprised four men during a food store robbery Sunday in Tyler, and one of the bandits was slain in the ensuing Shootout. He was identified as Theodore Ross. Minor wounds were suffered by a policeman and two of the intruders. Fellow officers said city policeman Matt Murphy, 33, of youth was held for questioning. Rule Watson Weaver, 64, of Gatesville, was killed Saturday when he was hit by a truck and then by a hit-and-run driver about half a mile east of Del Rio on U.S.

90. Gary Conner, 13, of Dickinson was killed Saturday in an apparent hunting accident on a ranch nine miles east of Brack- etville. Authorities said his rifle apparently discharged when he stumbled. Roger Jimmy Keyes, 27, of Baytown, was shot to death in Houston Saturday night in what police said was a scuffle involving Keyes, a companio and four other men. Officers said one man was arrested.

Martha Jane Spivey, 50, of Highlands died Saturday' night of injuries suffered earlier in the day in a two-car collision in northwest Harris County. Revolutionaries Might Be Getting Firearms Growth Noted In Southland Hy The Associated Press North Central Texas and Northeast Texas: Fair and cold Wednesday. Clear to partly cloudy with a slight warming trend Thursday and Friday. Highest temperatures lower 50s to upper 60s. Lowest temperatures near 30 to upper 40s.

South Central Texas and Southeast Texas: Partly cloudy and mild Wednesday through Friday. Lowest temperatures ranging from the mid 30s northwest to the low 50s extreme south. Highest temperatures ranging from near 60 northwest to near 70 extreme south. Northwest Texas and Southwest Texas: Fair and dry Wednesday through Friday. Near normal temperatures with mild days and cool nights.

Highs 50s and 60s to 70s Big Bend. Lows 20s Panhandle and mountains to low 40s extreme south 30s elsewhere. AUSTIN (AP) Agriculture Commissioner John White said today that 1974 might be a red ink year for Texas farmers and ranchers. White testified before the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee that when the books are closed, production costs might exceed receipts. He said current predictions for 1974 cash receipts by farmers and ranchers total $5.5 $1 billion from last year.

Production costs in 1973 were $5.2 billion, and prices have risen dramatically since then, White said. "This year, we are faced with the very real possibility of our production costs equaling or even exceeding our income in agriculture," White said. He added that not all segments of agriculture will suffer equally. Livestock and dairymen have been especially hard- hit by high production costs and low, unprofitable prices, White said. Other sources of losses include cotton abandonment, floods, drought, unhar- vesled acreages and lower prices, he said.

White told the subcommittee thai stale government has a "moral duty as well as the legal responsibility" to seek solutions. "We must be certain that current legislation is not unnecessarily restrictive to our agricultural enterprises under conditions which now prevail," he said. He mentioned several possible actions the legislature might lake: in pesticide control laws. in the grain warehouse law to "offer more adequate safeguards lo depositors of grain." to the Texas Seed Act and the Plant Certification Act to seek ways for obtaining highr yields. UJexta lailtj MFXI TKXAS MONDAY.

DECEMBER 2.1974 PAQEJL Energy Usage Cutdown Is Real Possibility MADESTO, Calif. (AP) A wave of firearms purchased or stolen in California by aliens may be flooding across-the border into the hands of Mexican revolutionaries and drug barons. Federal, state and local authorities say they are aware of the problem, but the purchase of weapons by aliens apparently violates no California laws. In a two-week period last month, 27 of 56 handguns sold in the Modesto area were pur- George West was shot Sunday chased Mexicans be ieved to t0 Ping a aliens, according to Stanislaus County sheriff's Lt. Jack Zietan.

If an alien is in the United fie violation, and he died soon afterward at a hospital in Alice. States legally, he can own a gun These were among other vie- after9 odays, said Charles Nixon, tims: information Bosque County authorities said W. J. Cox, 71, of Laguna "We have unconfirmed reports that weapons will be taken back to Mexico by the people who run illegal aliens into the country," he said. "They take guns down and bring back aliens." But authorities say this type of weapon is difficult to trace, and because aliens usually have no criminal record in the United States, even fingerprints and the other usual tools of the law enforcement trade are often useless in Governing suspected burglars.

"We see our role as mainly in support of federal authorities," said Fresno County Asst. Sheriff Americo Papaleo. "We tend to think that in addition to guns, however, quantities of ammunition are also finding their way into Mexico." Park, and his daughter Virginia officer for the Bureau of "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. To meet federal requirements, Greene, 37, of Fort Worth, were buyers simply provide iden asphyxiated Saturday when gas tjfication such as a driv er's ro a Los Angeles gunshop to heaters apparently used up the Ucense and sjgn a fom arm a revo i tionary band in his oxygen in the house where they (hey are not a convicted fe ion, a were staying near Lake Whit- narcotics user) under 2 1 or Nixon cited the case of a Nicaraguan who purchased more than 60 semiautomatic rifles ney. Cox's wife and son-in-law where hospitalized.

The four occupants of, the house were found by a neighbor. Clinton Butler, 19, of Houston, was killed Sunday when his 19- year-old hunting companion mistook him for a wild hog and shot him with a rifle, Newton were hunting in rural Newton arrive in County. purchase a David Earl Kotrola, 20, of Weimar was killed Saturday when his pickup truck left a road at Weimar and slammed dishonorably discharged from the armed forces, Nixon said. "People in Mexico will give turquoise, narcotics anything guns;" 'NiXon said. "Some are criminals, some are' rebels the kind of person the government doesn't want to own country.

When a large purchase like that shows up, ATF officers investigate. They kept the Central- American under surveillance. "He planned to drive the'lbad and more than 8,000 rounds of ammunition to Nicaragua through Mexico in a camper," The main attraction for gun Nixon said. "Of course, we County sheriff's deputies said. running is fabulous sums to stopped him before he crossed Officers said the two youths fae made and when the guns our border." Mexico.

"You can good handgun in California for $130 to $140," Nixon said. "You can sell it for five times that much in Mexico." A gun's great value south of the border stems mainly from the People In The News For Industry NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A Texas economist says manufacturing jobs, although declining in the nation, are growing rapidly in the rural South. Ray Marshall, staff director of the Task Force on Southern Rural Development and an economist at the University of Texas, said research shows there are two stages of industrial development. The first is an influx of manufacturers attracted to an area by low wages, he said, succeeded by a second wave of manufacturers who hire away some of the trained people and raise incomes.

"Then it becomes a policy question of whether or not you can leapfrog to the second stage," he said. Marshall said a manufacturer looking for a new location tends toward black areas. "It's difficult to avoid the conclusion that racial dis- crimination is involved," he said. Training programs for labor have helped in the South, he said. But Marshall added that many rural poor are neglected by the location of new industry, if left to the natural selection process.

Food Labeling Plans Shelved Six Months WASHINGTON (AP) A new study published today estimated that major industries could get by on one-third less energy if existing technology were fully applied. The study, "Potential Fuel Effectiveness in Industry," said actual fuel savings probably would fall short of the Ideal savings. But a companion study found industry already is reducing its energy use and predicted even faster improvement during the next few years. Both studies were published by the Ford Foundation's Energy Policy Project as research backs backing up the project's report on U.S. energy policy issued last month.

Phrased largely in technical langugage, the new study on industrial fuel efficiency concentrated on six industries that consume about 16 per cent of the nation's energy. The six are the iron and steel industry, petroleum refining, paper and paperboard, primary and scrap aluminum, copper and cement. It concluded that about one- third of the energy these industries use could be saved in theory by applying existing technology. The report suggested, for example, that industries using steam could save energy by generating their own electricity with the steam, Instead of purchasing electricity from utility companies. The companion study, "Energy Consumption in Manufacturing," found that the manufacturing sector improved Its energy efficiency about 1.6 per cent a year from 1954 to 1967.

This report predicted that the rate of improvement might Increase to about 2 per cent a year from 1967 to 1980 because of high energy prices. WASHINGTON (AP) A six-month delay has been ordered for implementing the government's sweeping new food labeling regulations because I of fears they would fuel inflation. The Food and Drug Administration said Monday its 42 rela- beling rules will become effective next June 30 rather than on Dec. 31. Even so, the agency said 95 per cent of food labels are expected to meet the earlier deadline.

Commissioner Alexander Schmidt said the delay was granted in response to President Ford's directive to weigh the impact of regulations on inflation, and the plight of a small percentage of food companies which were experiencing difficulties in making the changes. The FDA said a small number of food companies would been unable to meet the Dec. 31 'deadline because of "serious and unanticipated economic problems which have caused sales declines for slower-than-planned movement of some stocks." The FDA said it would grant additional six-month extensions beyond June 30 "on a case by case basis if good cause is shown" and even more time in extraordinary circumstances. The first of the regulatons require the manufacturer of any food making a nutritional claim to publish full nutritional information on the food's protein, vitamin and mineral content. Elimination Of Middleman Object Of State Ranchers Settlement Due In Antitrust On Drug Firms SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Up to a million persons in six states will divide $25 million by next spring in an antitrust settlement from five major drug companies, according to directors in charge of refunding the money.

But one claimant who may run into difficulty is Eva Gabor. A clerk said Monday that the actress submitted a form requesting a refund but didn't list her age. The form was sent back, the clerk said. She didn't know if Miss Gabor had returned it. The refunds are for persons who bought medicines containing the drug tetracyclene from 1954 to 1966.

A class action suit accused the companies American Cyanamid, Bristol- Myers, Pfizer, Olin and Upjohn of overpricing the drugs. WASHINGTON (AP) Two Texas ranchers have proposed a plan (o eliminate (he middleman profits by sending beef from ranches direct to packing house and then to consumer distribution points. This would cut chain stores out of meat sales, ranchers R.L. Moore and Lee Perkins Ramsey Chairman Of Oil And Gas Regulatory Body AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) The three-member Texas Railroad Commission has elected Ben Ramsey, a commissioner since 1961, as chairman of the state oil and gas regulatory body.

Ramsey has served as state' senator and secretary of state and was lieutenant governor from 1950 lo 1961, when he was appointed to the commission. His term as chairman extends from next Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1976. He also was chairman from 1963 through 1967 and in 1969-70.

said Tuesday. The consumer would buy the men! cut and frozen, they told a news conference. "I don't say it will cut out the middlemen, but it will cut out the middlemen's profits," said Moore, president of the Independent Beef Producers of America. Moore said chain stores were the root of high beef prices and low prices paid to beef producers. "The chains are dictating what they'll pay for it," the Avery rancher said.

The ranchers have met with civic groups in Dallas lo get endorsement for their plan. Perkins, of Clarksville, said imports of foreign beef should be reduced. Thirty million pounds were rejected by the government last year as unfit for sale jn the Unjted Slates, he said, but thai large amounts of uninspected meal was still sold here. He said one prospective outlet for the moat sold in the pilot program, in addition to individual consumers, would be institutions serving large amounts of beef. r-- "I into a tree.

Larry Martin Aldrich, 18, was facttna it is in most cases illegal killed on his family's farm 15 to QWn one ther6i Nixon said miles west of Beaumont Sunday yke Prohib i tion the 1920s, when he was pulled into the cuttlng off the legal sources has Rocke feller's doctors say can- combine he was operating. Jus- created a mammoth and cer tnat was apparently devel- tice of the Peace L. R. Dou- lucrative illegal trade. Although selling guns to aliens By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) Happy cette said several other people working in the field were too js not a i ways illegal, shipping far away to help the youth them across the border is.

clotching when his the combine. caught in oping in her right breast, which was removed on Monday, did not extend beyond the breast. The wife of Vice President- designate Nelson A. Rockefeller was in good condition following Nixon said taking guns into Mexico without a permit is a In Harlingen, Randy Sparks, serious violation of federal law ner seconc mastectomy at Me- 17, was fatally wounded in a and international treaty'. A mor a i Hospital, gun battle with officers who an- permit is very hard to obtain, he swered a silent burglar alarm added.

at a discount score. Police said Tulare County sheriff's Lt. two youths running from the Jerry Barker says many guns state began firing when officers which wind up in the hands of ordered them to halt. revolutionaries or narcotics Rogers Mouton, 16, of Beau- smugglers are originally stolen mont was fatally shot Saturday in residential burglaries, then night. Police said a 14-year-old purchased by aliens.

ASSORTED RAG DOLL COVERS LONDON (AP) Helen Morgan, the 22-year-old unwed mother who won the Miss World title last week, has resigned the title, a spokesman for the contest's organizers said today. She became the second Miss World in a row to vacate her title prematurely. Last year, Marjorie Wallace of Indianapolis was stripped of the honor by the organizers after 14 weeks because of publicity over her relationships with pop singer Tom Jones and former soccer star George Best. Eric Morley of the Mecca organization said Miss Morgan "mentioned there is a possibility of a divorce case and she thinks in the circumstances she should resign." WASHINGTON (AP) While President Ford was traveling last week, renovations were begun on his Oval Office. Out went a blue rug and the battle flags that stood behind the desk when Richard M.

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