European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 8,1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 full Aitie Puk a just in of buying Carter s warning of x to conserve fue or face possible catastrophe by Walter r. Mears Washington a instead of kick ing the habit the . Is becoming More addicted to costly imported Oil and mos americans apparently Don t know it. More than four months after preside Tcarter s warning that the Energy problem could become a National catastrophe Good Many people Don t believe there is a real problem. Carter said the problem should be con fronted As the moral equivalent of War but a Public opinion poll ranks Energy seventh on the list of National concerns. According to a lbs news new York times Survey the voters Don t thin Energy is the equivalent of inflation unemployment crime health care education or defense let alone Carter s hypothetical a lists have some heavy convincing to Doon Energy. The Public is not paying attention Carter said a few weeks Back adding that it looked As though Only a series of crises would Spur a National Effort to conserve fuel. The new poll conducted july 27 to 31among 1,463 adults supports that View with numbers. Among them fifty seven per cent of those surveyed said they Don t believe the nation is run Ning out of Oil and natural Gas and do not think things Are As bad As Carter claims. Only 33 per cent said they believed the president s warnings. Forty nine per cent said they thought americans were being warned of Short Ages just so that Oil and Gas companies can charge higher prices. One third of the people polled believed that the . Produces All the Oil i needs and does not have to rely on imported Oil. Forty eight per cent were aware that Oil must be imported but few of them knew How fact the . Buys almost half of its Oil abroad at a Price of about $3.8 billion a month. Oil imports have increased by 31 per cent in the past year according to the Federal Energy the first six months of this year the . Imported an average of 8.8 million barrels of Oil every Day. Imports accounted for 47.3 per cent of the nation s total consumption. The administration cites those statistics As evidence that there must be action tout consumption and thus imports. Three presidents have been saying that Over the past four years but it in t Hap pening. War. Not encouraging those attitudes can hardly be encouraging for the White House team that now must press for approval of Carter s Energy legislation in the Senate where the going is Likely to be More difficult than it was in the Carter program passed the House shorn of one of its stiffest provisions the standby tax with which Carter proposed to increase the Cost of gasoline a Nickel gallon each year the nation s consumption exceeded conservation got most of what he sought from the House and James r. Schlesinger the new Secretary of Energy has said he believes Congress will approve the administration package of consumption taxes and conservation incentives without Many More Carter in t getting what he sought from the voters to whom he turned for a mandate to take firm action on Energy. Instead the reaction seems to be one of disinterest mixed with the exception of preventing War this is the greatest Challenge our country will face during our lifetimes the presi Dent said on april 20, presenting his Energy plan to Congress two Days after a nationally televised Appeal for Public he gained the White House Carter said he meant to use the office As platform to mobilize the nation to action on persistent National problems. But there is Only one platform and there Are Man problems. While the president is campaigning for Senate ratification of new Panama canal treaties his aides and lob police remove a bloodied youth at the end of a Kun flux klan rally in Colum injured at klan rally bus Ohio. Violence broke out monday after the klan left the Capitol Steps and police dispersed the crowd most of whom were anti klan protesters. A picnic gunman was nazi supporter Charlotte . Up a 17-year-old youth who fired 12 shots into a crowd of 200 Blacks at a labor Day picnic killing one and wounding three others was de scribed tuesday As an official supporter of the nazi party who was fascinated byword War ii. Police said Kenneth Neal Wilson parked his Volkswagen near the Small Rural new Jonesville ame Zion Church about 4 30p.m. Monday walked out on a Wallfield and fired 12 shots in Quick succession before killing himself with the 30-30 Rifle. Harold a. Covington commander of the National socialist party of North Carolina said Wilson who wore a Swastika on a re armband on his Green work shirt was an official supporter of the nazi party but the party did not order the shooting of the lacks. A Handwritten note was found on Wil son s body but police refused to divulge its contents. Officers were questioning the youth s parents and relatives in Hopes of learning what prompted the said Wilson s Hobby was guns and he admired the nazis but none of them suspected the High school Junior would resort to violence. He and a Friend were both Daffy about world War ii said Gene Manion one of Wilson s former teachers. You know German planes that sort of thing. The read about it another Friend said Wilson had confided that he admired the nazis. He said he really liked their ways and what they did he said. Manion a special education teacher of time sept. I 1947 the world s most famous bullfighter Manuel Rodriguez known As manolete was gored to death in a Bull ring at Linares . 8, 1957 a Federal judge has sternly rejected the Little Rock school Board s Appeal for a delay in the integration of troop encircled Central High schooling Little Rock Ark. Sept. 8, 1967 the United Auto work ers Union struck Ford motor co. In a Dis Pute Over a new contract idling 159,000workers in 25 states. It was the first walk out at Ford since 1911. Said Wilson was classified As having learn ing disabilities and was frustrated because he wanted to be in Normal classes. Ken came to me for about one year. He went through a lot of frustrations Manion said. He told me he did t want to be treated special and wanted to go into Normal classes in the ninth it was like Vietnam All Over again. Restarted shooting and i hit the dirt. Some thing like this should t happen in Ameri Ca said one Young Man who witnessed the shooting. The dead Church member was identified As Roosevelt Davis 29, of Charlotte. A spokesman at presbyterian Hospital said he died of a gunshot wound in the Chest. Joann Terry 28, of Charlotte under went surgery at the Hospital monday night and was described in very critical condition with a gunshot wound in the Abdo men. Treated and released at presbyterian for a gunshot wound in the leg was 15-year old Larry Eugene Smith of Charlotte. The fourth victim Joseph Walker jr., 29, of Charlotte was taken to memorial Hospital in Charlotte for treatment of a gunshot wound in the at the scene told police two of the victims were playing baseball when shot and a third victim was standing on the sidelines. Tower windows a pain in Maine Boothbay Maine up it does t seem to matter where the Glass panes that were once in Boston s John Hancock Tower Are located. They still crack. Don Leavitt a general contractor in Boothbay put three of the windows fro the skyscraper into a House and they still cracked by themselves. Nobody lives in the House he 4 /a-by-12-foot windows were among those removed from the Boston skyscraper two years ago because of chronic breakage Salvage windows made their Way North to a Waterville dealer where Leavit tand other Maine residents bought the panes for about $80 a piece. They originally sold in the Range of $700 to $800. Other Boothbay area residents who bought the window panes have had trouble with breakage also. Union aide accused As spy Karlsruhe Germany up the Federal prosecutor has formally charged Heinz Durrbeck a West German Labo Runion official with being an East German spy. The 65-year-old Durrbeck a member of the executive of the West German Metal workers Union was charged with passing information on other Union officials to East Germany
