Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 2

2-A FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Saturday Evening 10 1973 Baker Says Nixon Still in Control Male Honoree Candidate Withdraws From Campaign EARLIER HE said he planned to withdraw also because there had been talk the school might be in a less advantageous position for collecting (money) from supporters of the school" Decision on Skylab 3 Set Tomorrow CAPE CANAVERAL FTa (AP) The space agency will decide tomorrow whether to launch the Skylab 3 astronauts on Thursday or again postpone the shot Launch director Walter Kapryan told newsmen yesterday have all the confidence now that going to make it on Thursday But be in a much better position to make an assessment on Sunday make a decision at that Work crews continued the tedious task of replacing eight defective stabilizer fins on the first stage of the Saturn IB rocket The work started Thursday after the launch had been delayed five days because of the discovery of hairline cracks in all eight of the nine-foot-long fins They were caused by a combination of salt air corrosion and weight stress placed on the fins when the rocket was fueled during a test last week When the first fin was removed yesterday small rust blemishes were found on the side that attaches to the rocket And the new fin would not fit properly because of some roughness and unevenness in the paint Miller said he had received several anonymous telephone calls one threatening kidnapping and another my life might be in The calls he stressed did not influence his decision He said he was surprised at some of the opposition to his candidacy because he thought the body was more He received a standing ovation from the crowd at the end of his announcement during the pep rally MILLER FROM Indianapolis Ind will graduate in December after completing his education in only five semesters At times he took as many as 30 hours of classwork instead of the traditional 15 hours in a semester He has still maintained a 34 grade point average out of a possible 40 and is participating in the TCU honors program Miss Colley was to officially represent the school at the homecoming game with Texas Tech today She is a member of Delta belt Delta sorority Homecoming activitie will be concluded tonght with the Exes-100 homecoming dance for alumni at 9 pm at Colonial Country Club Honors come easy for Steve Miller But sometimes it's not so easy to give the honors away Miller a senior honor student at Texas Christian University last night turned down the chance to become of the annual TCU homecoming after receiving the most votes in an election Before relinquishing his chance of becoming what has previously been called homecoming queen Miller stirred up quite a bit of interest on campus He was the first man to ever run and win the traditionally female title on campus HIS RESIGNATION at the homecoming pep rally last night opened the way for Claudia Colley of Vernon to win the title In a prepared statement Miller said he was stepping down because he had my goals in this and because he feared his winning would embarrass the university community He said he decided to run for the homecoming post in an attempt to a new Student Bill of Rights passed last spring which says no student will be denied equal treatment of race sex religion this time I feel I have proved that which I set out to Miller said Star-Telearam Photo HONOREE Steve Miller second from right with friends Request to Divert Gas Dismissed DALLAS (AP) the President has rot lost his ability to govern never seen a man so obviously in control as during the Middle East crisis The government is going US Sen Howard Baker R-Tenn said here last night Confident that the Water- Ruling in Murder Expected CLEBURNE A ruling is expected within a few days on whether charges will be dismissed against Roy Dale Green confessed killer of a 16-year-old Fort Worth girl in Johnson County seven years 'ago Green was a companion of Kenneth McDuff in the killing of two teen-age boys in Tarrant County and the rape and killing of the Fort Worth girl Green as serving two prison sentences five years for the murder of Marcus Dunnam and 25 years for the murder of Robert Brand His lawyer Brantley Pringle has sought to have dismissed charges of murdering the girl Edna Sullivan for lack of a speedy trial The mother Mrs Ruth Hughes spoke out in a hearing yesterday and said man is going to get by with murdering my daughter not much Dist Attv Oran Smith Jr of Johnson County said he would not oppose the motion to dismiss in view of the two convictions already against Green and because prosecution depends on Green's testimony Pringle has filed a writ of habeas corpus in Criminal District Court No 1 in Fort Worth asking that the murder with malice conviction in slaying be overturned on the grounds of double jeopardy Files Rate Increase Requests DALLAS (AP) Texas Power and Light Co began filing for 10 per cent rate increases in 240 cities yesterday the second rate hike sought within two years The last increase six per cent was granted in January 1972 The increase is the first of a series expected to come at two-year intervals for 10 years and which will pay for the construction of huge new coal and atomic power plants Right of Reply Decision Held Advance for Press Freedom Austin the Lower Colorado River Authority and the UT system The commission said the application concerns in litigation in both state and federal courts and issues are not subject to Railroad Commission The commission said arguments and evidence presented raise a multitude of issues regarding title and property rights which are judicial in and beyond the powers of the Post Office Deadlines Set Earlier Postal officials have announced earlier deadlines for mailing packages for the holiday season to help in the present energy crisis Fort Worth Postmaster Jack Watson said yesterday he received word from the US Postal Service Headquarters in Washington to urge residents to mail at least two weeks ahead of suggested deadlines Surface domestic parcels should be mailed by Nov 20 to Alaska and Hawaii and by Dec 3 to the rest of the states' Christmas cards and other first class letter mail in the United States should be mailed by Dec 8 Airmail letters and parcels to Alaska and Hawaii should go by Dec 14 and those to other parts of the United States should be mailed by Dec 15 Florida Supreme Court against the Miami' Herald might spell a new direction for the question of public access to the media HE SAID however that the ruling the language of freedom not Traynor spoke at the 19th annual convention of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors He said the decision has good and bad points but no and shut simplicity is in fact a classic hard case and no one can predict whether it will finally lead to bad law or good Journalists as well as lawyers must confront squarely all the arguments that must be mustered for both sides of this vanguard The issue was last decision by the Florida court upholding the constitutionality of a 1913 state law requiring newspapers to grant candidates for office equal space to reply to editorials or columns Fire Destroys Historic Hotel MENA Ark (AP) A fire destroyed the historic Queen Wilhelmina Hotel near here early today Odell Egger chief of the Mena Fire Department said He said no estimate of damage has been released There were no injuries Egger said he does not know what caused the fire which apparently began in the kitchen about 3 am The hotel is located at the Wilhelmina State Park on top of Rich Mountain near Mena in Polk County Egger said getting water to the fire site was a problem trucks could only hold about 450 gallons and every time we ran out we had to drive about six miles to he said was really nothing we could do" gate tapes have not been altered and prone to believe the president is innocent of any political wrong-doing until proven otherwise Baker said he sees no reason for President Nixon to quit and does not think he will BAKER CAME to Dallas to attend a $100-a-plate dinner honoring US Rep Alan Steelman R-Tex Nearly 1000 Republicans attended the affair at the Fairmont Hotel Baker said there has been discussion of impeaching the President or advocating that he resign but he said there has been no serious debate on the issue Baker is vice chairman of the Senate Watergate Investigating Committee whose report he said will be ready for public release by March 1 Baker said however that he does not think it for an impeachment inquiry to go on feel it is entirely he said is a wide gulf between such an inquiry and an actual THE SENATOR said he feels Americans will cooperate in call for energy conservation and felt televised speech earlier in the week was a foreign policy be blackmailed by someone he asserted Baker said he does not feel the national news media is waging a vendetta against Nixon despite White House charges of unfairness in reporting the Watergate scandal disagree with the President on this but I dispute his right to feel the way he does been on the firing line he said FCC OKs Purchase Of Station by CBN DALLAS (AP) Thie Federal Communications Commission has approved the acquisition of KDTV Channel 39 by the Christian Broadcasting Network a network spokesman said Robertson head of the network that owns four television stations and six radio stations said the channel 39 facilities become a major production headquarters and distribution center for Nov 14 as been designated as the day the network will move from its old facility KXTX Channel 33 to channel 39 and the old facilities will be leased said the spokesman that reason I have reluctantly decided to retire from the Congress at the end of public career began as county attorney in Tom Greeen County in 1931 He also was a state legislator and district attorney before being elected to Congress in 1941 He underwent by-pass heart surgery last June His 21st congressional district stretches from northern Bexar County in South Texas through the Texas Hill Country far into West Texas He has about 500000 constituents Fisher declined yesterday to endorse a successor ploying a large orchestra grand chorus and three soloists These were Nina Ermin-ger soprano Ira Schantz tenor and Jack Coldiron baritone With Guenther conducting all forces had their efforts solidly in hand THE REGULAR conductor John Giordano conducted the orchestra in the earlier portion of the program Ray was a study in quick jelling of ideas in different sound idioms It is interesting that he along with other composers is beginning to imitate electronic sounds with traditional Instruments JOSEPH Cohen an experi ing a character or attacking his official Newspaper publishers in Florida are appealing the decision and have indicated they will go to the US Supreme Court if necessary Traynor said the National News Conference formed this year plans to conduct a study of public access to the media Prof Beraio Schmidt Jr of Columbia University Law School will conduct the study Nixon GOP Chiefs Talk Watergate ifemfenoOl Nixon promised to hold further meetings with congressional leaders he said The meeting was called late yesterday by the President Anderson the third-ranking party leader in the House indicated he had not made up his mind about the extent of participation of Nixon in the Watergate case NOR DID HE know he indicated whether what has been called the credibility problems of the President could be solved Anderson said it was of these attending the session that the part played by the President in the Watergate case could be cleared up by full disclosure of information on the tapes and other Also attending the White House meeting were the Vice President-designate Gerald Ford Mich and Rep John Rhodes Ariz and Senators Hugh Scott Pa Robert Griffin Mich John Tower Tex and George Aiken Vt Dr Fred Beckman Optometrist Announo th rmrtvtJ at tun of fica to 2H17 Stark St Suite L(0)ifMiU tty National ftanlu 467-1661 1 if Texas Representative Announces Retirement Rites Being Set for Crash Victim WHITE SETTLEMENT -Funeral arrangements were incomplet today for Katherine Lou Barrett 23 of 402 Don--aid who was killed in a two-car accident about 11:15 pm yesterday at Western Hills Boulevardand Meadow Park Miss Barrett was dead on arrival at Peter Smith Hospi-al The driver of the other vehicle Clarence winters 53 of 8319 Hanon was in fair dondition with head cuts White Settlement patrolman John A Brouse said Miss car was westbound on Western Hills when it was in collision with pickup truck There were no other occupants in the vehicles Brouse said Miller-Baumgardner Funeral Home will announce arrangements Texas Inventors Surprisingly enough one your neighitors may lx an ii ventor CharlcH Brock of Worth for instance will tell that it takes time and patient with extensive profession refinement and promotion 1 get a product on the tnark Other individuals whose pro ucU have been placed wil manufacturers are James bams Irby Jiodifo rd Curt 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this month 30 days after they were filed with the council Council Deputy Director James McLane said the council will closely study the impact that further auto price increases could have on the in its investigation to see if the price hikes are justified Readers Pick Up Paper 23 Times NEW YORK On the average readers pick up their daily newspaper 23 times before they have finished witii it according to a survey made for the Newspaper Advertising Bureau About 42 per cent pick it up once 28 per cent twice and 23 per cent three or more times Star-Telegram Austin Bureau Members of the Railroad Commission said yesterday questions in a request to divert natural gas from North Texas are judicial in The commission dismissed the diversion application from San Antonio Austin the Lower Colorado River Authority and the University of Texas System Board but scheduled hearings to determine if there is a need to establish a mandatory statewide apportionment program ALL gas utility companies plus owners or operators of Texas' gas pipelines are being notified that the commission will begin hearings Nov 26 to determine if the available supply of natural gas can be shared voluntarily or apportioned on an equitable basis among the utility firms to alleviate shortages commission is of the opinion that its legal duty and responsiblility to protect the public interests extends statewide and that it can require gas utilities in Texas to augment or apportion gas supplies when it is necessary and practicable to do so the order signed by Commission Chairman Jim Langdon and Commi-sioners Ben Ramsey and Mack Wallace read The commission said it plans to rules regulations procedures and orders needed to determine emergencies and to prevent or lessen the adverse impact a serious shortage of natural gas could have on the citizens and ecenomy of THE REQUEST from South Texas had asked the commi-sion to divert gas from Texas Utilities Fuel Co a gathering company for Texas Electric Service Co of Fort Worth Dallas Power Light and Texas Power Light Co The South Texas groups said power shortages could result without the gas TUFCO said it had bought the gas in question from the Lo-Vaca Gathering Co Lo-Vaca supplies San Antonio enced facile and competent composer furnished for Violin and Orchestra" Kenneth Schanewerk played the solo competently and apparently with a taste for the work It catches the listener by surprise at times but the solo writing sounds idiomatic and logical A rather intellectual-popular work rounded out the nf-f 1 Norman incorporates the TCU fight song a Failing Our and a structured aleatory pep-rally to recall his student generation It was fun the audience and players laughed some but there was a lot of musical meat on those novelty bones WORCESTER Mass (AP) A court decision that Florida newspapers must grant a right of reply to candidates criticized in editorials has wide implications for press freedom the chairman of the National News Council says Roger Traynor a former chief justice of the California Supreme Court said yesterday that the decision by the Hearings Price Hikes THE COUNCIL granted increases to the four auto manufacturers in September but the firms say these only covered the cost of installing federally mandated safety and antipollution equipment American Motors is seeking ah average increase of $114 per car Chrysler two increases of $73 per car and $63 per car totaling $136 per car Ford $1 per car and General Motors $208 per car Romans of Means Owned Gold Spoon ROME Ancient Roman and Greek spoons resemble modern ones in shape size and metals chiefly used Sib ver spoons were the most common Until the lush days of imperial Rome when every citizen of some means had at least one gold spoon utensils of gold were restricted to sacred services in the temples Nepal Farmers Aided KATMANDU Nepal -Nearly 20000 subsistence-level farmers are expected to benefit from a $10 million irrigation project under way south of Katmandu When completed in 1980 the project is expected to double the output of food grains an increase of $7 million a year parking spaces would wipe out almost one-third of the existing downtown meter spaces He said these amount to about 2000 The city council voted Thursday to issue $115 million in revenue bonds to finance Tranquility Park garage subject to EPA approval of the facility SMITH BROTHERS CARPEL OPEN TODAY 508 CARROLL 334-8761 WASHINGTON (AP)-US Rep O- Fisher the third ranking Democrat of the House Armed Services Committee says he is relinquishing his Texas congressional seat at the end of the current term Fisher 69 of Junction announced his retirement yesterday in a statement read by his aide Ed Chandler The 16-term congressman said in the statement I am feeling real good and will continue to work full-time following a medical checkup my doctor thinks I would be well advised to try to reduce some of my activities for awhile Celebration 1 Festive Work for TCU Centennial Concert Series Garage to Be Approved If Spaces Eliminated By ROBERT DOUGLASS To this point Texas Christian series of Centennial Concerts has been the musical aspect of a larger celebration 1 Last night with text by James Newcomer and music by Ralph Guenther assumed a much greater a festive if not jubiiant work The lengthy text traces in quick slashes a heritage from across the water through a period of 1 1 1 and working of the land It then turns to the heritage of mind and there was the strength of both poetry and music GUENTHER moved rather stroivtly into ncoclassicism for the massive work em- wGMnrEE) Experienced industrial mainte nance man to work in corrugated container plant Mechanical ana electrical experience desired Good pay and benefits Apply 8:30 AM to 4 PM or call Packaging Corporation of America 1 0OO Great Southwest Parkway Arlington Texas 817261-4433 Days 817274-6971 Nights An Equal Opportunity Employer HOUSTON (AP) The City of proposed Tranquility Park underground garage will be approved by the Environmental Protection Agency if the city eliminates 625 existing downtown parking spaces or takes other steps to hold down downtown traffic David Waterhouse a Dallas regional EPA spokesman said yesterday permit application is the only one filed so far in the five-slate EPA region and first nationwide to be this far along" Jerry King city traffic and transportation director said eliminating 625 on-street.