European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april 1977 Fea says Oil firms will demand refunds Washington pitl the govern ment wednesday accused 20 multinational Oil companies with improperly hiking prices million by Selling Oil at inflated prices Between foreign subsidiaries and us Parent the Federal in orgy administration issued milieus the companies that it in tends to Roll Hack the prices Anil give the a Juicy Hack u ii gave the Coni Jaftas 10 itys to reply the notices w have sent to the 20 Oil companies Artther result of a lengthy of animation the very Complex transacting of he inter natural my said ebon faces charges in foreign Bank Deal  Ilii former Loreign minister Abba Khun prosecution for foreign currency violations despite Testi Mony ii Pming his Eifim lie was author maintain hink accounts Treasury  the ii trials sail Are Ali citing the return Home from of attorney Jen Eril Aharon Harak to deride i khans cae Treasury said Tiluy tend to accept claim that he was issued an inning am to Oriun Hank at1 of kinds Iii tears oven though neither the former tuning it Stev the trea sury have Iii Anasih i it ale copies of the him ziment All Khan attic to an official j copy t his original application to Nuin imn a total abroad ii now Bitinis out his present Hank holdings m York and Umidon total about Kea chief John they fulfil a commitment the Agency has made that the prices Consumers pay for their Oil products be based on fair Market values for crude Oil rather than artificially High prices paid by Compa Nies to their own foreign an aka spokesman said some of the Dis allowed prices May be offset by Banks of allowable Oil costs those paid by the companies but not yet passed on to con Sumers in the form of higher but he said Agency analysts believe a substantial portion of the disallowed costs will be refunded to the result might be that Hie companies involved would have to lower gasoline pump prices u Penny or two a gallon fur several the spokesman the of the alleged overcharges by each company ranged from a High of million for Gulf to a Low of for cities the aka spokesman said the companies involved inflated their Oil costs by paving inflated prices for crude Oil produced by their own lie said some of the payments were in while ill hers took the form of Oil aka analysts discovered the inflated prices by comparing sales Between foreign subsidiaries and Parent firms with Compa Rable but arms length sales Between tin affiliated foreign firms and companies the Agency said the which violated aka Transfer pricing cover transactions that took place from through a spokesman said the new notices re put the two previous groups of notices issued during w75 that alleged overcharges total ing million mantis wins vote lawmakers approve 4th graders prayers Lull the Connecticut House of bowing to inc wishes of 25 fourth Grad has agreed to make the praying mantis the official stale the vote of 98 to 51 in the House wednesday brought students at the Center read school in near to Victory in their four month the measure now goes in the the Var non youngsters have been relentless in their struggle to win their favorite Bug a special Billing in the mate of connect cuts insect some of the Belte paid lobbyists in this Capitol could take lessons from these said Chester sponsor of the Bill to recognize the praying in the government administration and policy committee killed the praying mantis Bill because it had More important legislation to consid but the fourth graders mounted a lobbying Blitz which received consider Able press they succeeded in lining up enough legislative signatures to have their Bill by the committee and ultimately brought to the House an other attempt to kill the Bill failed Elmer asked with a straight face whether Morgan would consider an would you consider replacing the praying mantis with an endangered species he How about the Wasp White Anglo Saxon protes panel head gloomy mail delivery system decline is predicted Washington i api the chairman of a commission that studied the future of the nations mail Venice predicted thursday the decline of the postal service As a de livery Gaylord chairman of tin commission on postal responded to congressional criticisms of the panel by 1 share your disappointment that we could not reach the conclusion that services should be expanded rather than but the evidence would not allow the Anderson quintuplets of Brush were four years old but they rushed things u bit one birthday plus five tuesday and appeared to enjoy u by joining their in Cele Brating kick they farm Hiil we contracted with tour reputable All possessing expertise in postal affairs or in the Field of electronic commune All predicted that the postal service in its present form simply cannot survive unless postal rates Rise beyond a politically and publicly acceptable level or unless subsidies arc greatly he in its report last week to Congress and president the commission pro posed cutting mail delivery from six to five Days per week while increasing the  have been criticized by a number of members of Freeman was told by chairman James m in who opened the hear ing by renewing his criticism of he com i frankly hoped that the commission would have spent More time trying to pursue ways service could be improved and rates held at a relatively reasonable level rather than in accept at face value the doomsday prophecies of the postal services management medical detective Milton Helpern Dies new York a Milton help who won recognition As one of the worlds Foremost medical detectives during More than 40 years in the office of uie medical examiner of the City of new has died at the age of 75 in san Helpern retired As chief medical exam Iner of new York a former professor at new York University and chief of its department of forensic medi he was professor emeritus of fore Misc Medicine there at his Helpern went to san Diego last month to fulfil a speaking an Nyu spokesman he suffered a stroke and was admitted to the University of califor Nia medical Center Hospital where he 2nd nuclear test of 77 Yucca up the committee Lor their Eric who is to join Quile a to Numbat them at a photo thump at the test site but apparently not Felt 70 a Niles away in Las