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Ale441kt' 1 ..,,,5 45, 5' ii, t.410liki," ,5554,5, ot, Ni :,::1 Le Jitr? 4., See Stories, Pages 2 and 7. By United Press International Americans should have no trouble getting gasoline for summer vacations, but the end of the oil embargo by roost major Arab nations is seen by much of U.S. industry as only a short term answer to the nation's energy shortage. The federal government and the American petroleum institute representing the oil companies reckon It will be two or three months before the lifting of the fivemonth-old ban is translated into full tanks for U.S. autos.

And then, said a spokesman for Gulf Oil in Houston, it will mean higher prices. The embargo that heightened energy problems in the United States curtailing travel and forcing lower thermostats throughout winter was ended Monday by most of the 10 nations of the organization of Arab petroleum Exporting Countries (0APEC). Saudi Arabia, the world's largest petroleum-exporting nation, even went so far as to promise the U.S. "all the oil it needs." The action brought sighs of relief from the hard-hit auto industry and other sections of the economy, but caution quickly settled in as shown by stock prices that briefly rallied on the New York Stock Exchange then dropped to close lower. "The degree to which Arab oil will help alleviate this country's short term supply ituation will depend on ers in the United States.

Of our energy supply problems." Shell Oil Co. said lifting of the embargo "is good news, hut it is no sign the nation can revert to historical energy consumption patterns and uses." Imports Still Important A spokesman for Exxon the nation's largest oil company, said the U.S. "will remain substantially dependent on imported oil to meet its growing energy require. merits for a number of years. Efficient use and conservation of all forms of energy will tontinue to be important Detroit welcomed it as a much-needed tonic for the sagging auto industry which has nearly 1.75 million unsold cars on U.S hands.

The United Auto Workers estimates at least 100,000 workers have been cut from auto company payrolls because of the sales slump. I Apartment Folk I A bank robbery suspect is held captive by a Memphis policeman as two others approach a car in which three holdup men had tried to make a getaway. Pollee said one suspect shot himself. (AP wirephoto.) Davenport Rates Being Increased i "Sheer Anger" currently paying rates which probably will continue to be acceptable. Some, Van Marter noted, are renting apartments there for as little as POO per month.

Sen. Buckley Urges Nixon to Quit Office Riled Hoffman Halts Bank Robbers Fuel Supply Outlook Up Across U.S. he, too, rammed the robbery vehicle with his car. Samples was also listed in satisfactory condition. Police earlier had trapped the robbers inside a suburban branch of Union Planters National Bank after the holdup men scooped up $49,778.

But police kept their distance when the trio emerged with the hostages, all bank employes, and drove off in a car commandeered from another bank employe, Polic4 said the money was recovel'ed. across a department store parking lot. "I saw him hit that police officer and knock him 15 feet and I just lost control," said Anderson. "I ducked down and floored it and rammed their car and I stayed ducked down while the shooting was going on." Police said one of the gunmen, Clyde M. Hyde 43, Shreveport, killed himself with a shot in the chest when officers encircled the getaway car.

The other robbers released two women hostages and surrendered. A third hostage had been released earlier to tell police to stop the chases authorities said. Police did not identify the two men taken into custody. No charges were immediately filed. The officer hit by the getaway car, Benjamin Payne, 28, suffered a broken back and was hospitalized in satisfactory condition.

'The second policeman, James Samples, 29, was wounded in the leg and hip by gunfire from the robbers when MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) A news cameraman says he acted out of "sheer anger" when he rammed his car into another car carrying three bank robbers and two hostages. His action halted a chase which ended in death for one of the three gunmen Monday. Two policemen were injured in the incident. Bill Anderson, 27, of WHBQ-TV, who was filming the pursuit of the robbers, said he was enraged when he saw the getaway vehicle run down a policeman dashing Long-term residents of the Davenport Hotel have been notified that rates under which many of them currently occupy apartments in the structure will be changed.

The letters, which affect probably 25 residents of the hotel, carry out the requirements of the plan of reorganization for the hotel recently confirmed in Federal Court here. Charles F. Van Marter, Spokane attorney for the hotel's owners, Lomas Nettleton Financial Corp. in Dallas, said tooay some rates charged after April 16 could go as high as daily room rates in the rest of the hotel, but tenants are being invited to negotiate new lease agreements with the hotel's management. The plan of reorganization, Van Marter said, "contemplated running the Davenport as a hotel in as efficient manner as possible.

It has been our desire to implement the plan In the least harsh and most understanding manner possible." Some "period-to-period" residents, he said, do not actually hold leases, and others are Rates Explained A list of daily room rates which accompanied the letter and raised the ire of some Davenport residents, was included, Van Marter said, to give the tenants knowledge of how the rates could change. "Nobody has set rates for these apartments," he said. "We thought the tenants should be advised that to implement the reorganization plan, we would have to change terms of many of the leases." "The philosophy of the reorganization is to do what is best for the hotel. Obviously and regrettably, that may mean raising some rates. "A year from now, there has to be a report on what's happened to the reorganizea hotel's financial situation.

It's a problem of economics, and we will need to show creditors that the hotel was managed in an efficient way." florth-Sough Freeway ci uraine 0 A kem athns WASHINGTON (AP) The number of service stations pumping gasoline at night and on weekends increased again in the past week, and the American Automobile Association said gasoline supplies were the best they have been this year. The motorists' organization said spot checks of 6,225 stations around the nation showed only three per cent of the stations contacted were out of gas when questioned. Last week, 5 per cent of the stations were out of gas and two weeks ago 20 per cent had dry pumps. Fewer stations are limiting purchases, more stations are open after 7 p.m. on weekdays and fewer stations are staggering hours between early morning and late afternoon shifts, AAA said.

AAA said 16 states continued to use the odd-even license tag a soline distribution plan. Hawaii motorists pay the highest average price for regular fuel 56 cents per gallon but motorists in Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Mississippi and New York are just one cent per gallon behind. Five states Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York and Hawaii share the highest average price for premium at 59 cents, AAA said. Texas motorists pay the lowest average prices 48 cents for regular and 51 cents for premium, AAA said. Decision Duo on TV Appearance E7equest WASHINGTON (AP) Sen.

James L. Buckley, today called on President Nixon to resign because of Watergate. "I hope and pray be will realize that the greatest and culminating action he can now take for his country is the renunciation of the world's highest office," the conservative senator told a news conference. Edward R. Brooke, Is the only Republican senator previously to have called for Nixon's resignation in the aftermath of the Watergate scandals.

Buckley said Watergate has now reached such a stage that Americans must come to terms with it "if Watergate is not to end up drowning all of us." "There is one way and one way only by which the crisis can be resolved, and the country pulled out of the Watergate slump," Buckley said. No Guilt Implied Buckley said that by asking Nixon to resign he is not implying any belief that Nixon is legally guilty of any of the accusations that have been leveled against him. He said Nixon must resign to save the office of the presidency itself. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, asked about Buckley's comments, said, "I think It expresses the conviction of a very conscientious and very honorable senator." "While I do not join with Sen. Buckley in his request at this time," Sen.

Barry Goldwater, said, "I wish to make it plain that if any evidence of a criminal act ott the part of the President is proven, I shall change my position and support the Buckley proposal." Sen. Jesse helms, said that "if the President is guilty, he should resign." But helms added, that "on the other hand, if he honestly feels that he is innocent, he should stand his ground." By JOBN J. LEMON Chronicle Political Editor Some options for improving north-south traffic flow through north Spokane may be 'developed as "interim" projects, pending actual construction of a north-south freeway, rather than substituting for that project. That is what A. H.

Parker, chairman of the State Highway Commission, said here today after the commission received results of a Spokane north-south traffic study plan developed by the highway department staff. Eight options have been de lug Alameda County is scheduled to rule on the same request Wednesday. HILLSBOROUGH, Cali f. (AP) A Judge is set to rule on a request by two alleged Symbionese Liberation Army members to make a televised statement they claim could help save the life of Patricia Hearst. The SLA, which says it kidnaped the 20-year-old newspaper heiress 44 days ago, has Foes Battle for 8th Day campus, Warren Bishop, vice president of the university, told the commission.

The commission at its session in Olympia yesterday listed the Pullman bypass as one of several projects that may be postponed, due to reductions in gasoline tax revenues. Bishop was accompanied to Spokane by a delegation from the Pullman City Council and Chamber of Commerce and the Whitman County Board of Corn missioners. Shop Center Threatened He said that, unless the state goes ahead with the project soon, Pullman could lose a $14 million shopping center to Moscow. The planned shopping center would be located north of the campus, near the new road's interchange with a proposed highway into the university area. In addition, Bishop said, it would relieve a "critical traffic problem existing in the central business district of Pullman." State Highway Director George Andrews said there may not be a delay if the flow of gasoline tax dollars improves by fall.

An alternative would reserve lanes for rubber-tired transit (buses) only. A fifth option is to widen Divisionclose some intersecting streets, provide left turning lanes at five intersections, construct a new wider bridge across the Spokane river. That option would cost $3.9, million. An alternative to that plan is to reserve outside lanes for buses only. Anotheroption which planners term would update signalization at some Division intersections, reduce some cross traffic and left.

turn movement and close some driveways to improve the traffic flow. The other alternative would be to establish a special transit route on the Ruby-Lidgerwood couplet, so that speeds on Division could be increased to between 35 and 45 miles an hour. Delay Upsets Pullman Pullman residents are shocked that the State Highway Commission considers delaying first-stage construction of a highway bypassing the Pullman business district and Washington State University Woman Free; Man Charged veloped with first consideration given to the development of a full freeway in the Nevada-Helena corridor and the secondary plan to construction, of an expressway rather than a fully limited-access freeway. Parker said the major consideration between a freeway and expressway is cost. Current estimate for a proposed freeway is $74 million, with six lanes from the Liberty Park to Francis and four lanes north of Francis to Dartford, with interchanges at one-mile intervals.

Parker said a $33 million expressway, following same route, would have four lanes within the city and two lanes instead north of Francis. In addition, "at grade" intersections would replace the planned interchanges, with cross streets limited to one-half mile intervals. Phases Planned The highway commission members said today that either type of roadway would be done in sections, starting north from Liberty Park as funds would permit, Because of the number of bearings and other procedures that must be undertaken before actual construction earl take place, it is estimated that the first stage, from Liberty Park to Trent, could not be completed earlier than 1979. The highway staff, Andrews said, also is offering a $6.6 million modified version of the Division-Ruby anti Lidgerwood couplet, which Includes a new 'bridge across the river east of Division. Northbound tr a 1 would be routed on Ruby north to Euclid, where the new road would go northoost to Lidgerwood, then north to Francis, then to State Route 2.

threatened to break off all BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) communication with her fami- Syrian and Israeli forces on ly unless Joseph Remiro, 27, the Golan Heights exchanged end Russell Little, 24, appear more heavy tank and artillery on nationwide television. fire today. Syria said Israeli Contra Costa County Superl- shells hit a United Nations obor Court Judge Sam hail said servation post, wounding two be will rule today on requests U.N. soldiers and a Syrian lifor Little or Remiro to make aison officer. a 5- to 10-minute televised It was the eighth consecustatement before a single live day of fighting along the cameraman and newsman.

No 40-mile Syrian front and the questions would be permitted. longest stretch of daily clash-A second judge in neighbor- es since the October war. :11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Insiclo A strike hi defiance of a court order kept Kansas City's school system "dangerously low" on teachers today. Page 2. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.

(AP) Eunice Kronhohn, reunited with her husband 312 days after she was kidnaped, remains In seclusion. Her family says she will tell newsmen on Wednesday the details of her abduction. James W. Johnson, 35, Lakeville, was arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate J.

Earl Cudd, who set a cash bond of $100,000. Johnson was charged with extortion of $200.000 ransom paid by Gunnar Kronholm, president of Drovers State Bank in South Paul, for his wile's 1111111111111P1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Check-Out Costly Report of 7ragedy Termed a Hoax Weed Honored In the town of Vineland, New Jersey, March is the time of the Dandelion Festival. The lowly dandelion is honored this month for its beauty, and as a salad green and a vegetable to be boiled, fried or used in making wine. Whatever vegetables you favor, you're likely to enjoy them more in pleasant surroundings. And March can be the month when Want Ads Jike this help you move into attractive quarters: s15s, 1 YEAR old, 2-bodroom duplox, air conditioning, carport, patio, carnitt, applianr.ta, no pots.

705 Broad, 326 OW. The former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors says he expeets a slight rebound fit the economy during the second half of 1974. Page 7. About 50 persons offered personal letters, high school essays and other papers to tho IRS in protest against the President's tax credit claims. Page 2, Also In today's Chronicle: American still Lost Forests Cited "When we find any accident where it had been reported, we then carefully spent more than an hour checking all side roads to make sure there really hadn't been such an accident." The WSP also checked with all school districts in the area to make sure none of their buses were missing, the captain said.

Armstrong said other sheriff and police units in Whitman County and Spokane County also assisted in the search. "A thing like this was costly it probably cost the taxpayers $1,000 for the time and gas expended but we had to make the search after getting such a report from a reliable person," Armstrong said. A false report of an accident involving a school bus and a gasoline tanker truck cost taxpayers "probably $1,000" before it was disproved last night. Triggering the incident, said Capt. Elmer C.

Armstrong, district commander of the Washington State Patrol, was a call from a Thornton, woman who reported that she was monitoring a citizen band radio channel at 5:30 last night and heard a call for hell). The xvoman told authorities the radio message she heard told of a school bustanker collision, 30 miles north of Colfax on the Pullman highway, with several dead and 25 injured and the bus on fire. "We got the message and immediately checking things out," Armstrong said Obituaries 5 Outdoors 18 Radio 7 Society 10 Sports 13-14-15 Television 7 Weathcr 3 Women's 11 Business 17-18 Comics 23 Comment 4 Drama 8 Editorial 4 Markets 1748 Mines 17-18 Northwest 6 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina CAP) American oilman Vie. tor E. Samuelson was 'loved still held by leftist guerrillas today, despite PaYment of a record $14.2 million ransom for bk release, A spokesman ot Esti, local branch of Exxon Oil said lie had "no Information on Mr.

Samuelson and assume he is In captivity." NVASIIINGTON (AP)President Nixon Monday aigned a proclamation asking Americans to Join with other nations in recognizing March 21 as "World Forestry Day," and designated the week March 17-23 88 "American Forestry Week. Mrs. Jim Brown, N8209 Country Homes says: "I had very good results with nty Chronicle ad, renting my duplex to the first callers." Let a Wont Ad work for you. Call 8384064. I 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111: sl oTM ..1.

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