European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 30, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 Gas guzzlers Ford motor May have to discourage sales of its big cars to meet fuel efficiency Laws new York a the Ford motor co., to meet Federal fuel efficiency Laws May have to discourage sales of Large cars through pricing policies and delay accepting orders for the bigger vehicles Ford s president said wednesday. Lee Iacocca president of the nation s second largest Auto firm said Ford would have to watch its sales of 1978 Model cars daily to insure that the firm will be in compliance with Federal Law. He raised the possibility of curtailed production of the larger cars. In addition Iacocca hinted that Ford soon May begin using foreign steel a severe blow to the already hard hit . Steel Industry. He said Ford which imports virtually no steel soon might look Long and hard at foreign steel which he said Sells for about $50 a ton less. Lower foreign steel prices Are one reason imported cars Are so at Tractive to . Consumers he said. Meet standards the Federal mileage Law requires Auto manufacturers to meet a minimum fuel Economy Standard of 18 Miles per gallon on All 1978-Model cars produced in the . Each company s total Fleet is averaged to determine whether it reaches the Stan Dard. If not there Are fines of $5 for each one tenth of a mile under 18 ., Multi plied by the number of cars produced. The Federal Standard increases to 27.5  By 1985. This could create some problems for us in the next 12 months Iacocca said at a meeting with financial writers. It is conceivable. That we d have to curtail production at some big car plants until we were Able to sell some Small cars to make up in the average for the big  Tough time of the four major Auto makers Ford generally is thought to be having the Tough est time meeting the Federal fuel Standard. Its smallest most fuel efficient car is the new fiesta but that car is an import and its 38-. Mileage won t be counted in the Federal average. In addition there was a surprisingly Large demand for Ford s Large cars last year and Iacocca said the demand is continuing. People must think they re going to be extinct As the Dodo Bird and they re just buying them he said. I mean boy Are they buying them. They re hotter than a  that s not necessarily Good news for Ford. Each time a Large fuel inefficient car is sold in 1978, a smaller More efficient car must be sold to balance it in the Federal average. It s this simple Iacocca said. A Guy of time sept. 31, 1947 Moscow rejected . Demand that Russia disavow a soviet writer s article comparing president Truman with Hitler. Foreign minister v. M. Molotov rejected the american protest sin a bitterly worded note that attacked the american press for its criticism of the soviet Union. Sept. 30, 1957 mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann at Little Rock ark., said that gov. Orval e. Faubus had Only himself to blame for the presence of Federal troops Here. Sept. 30,1967 Chancellor Kurt geor Kiesinger broke with precedent and pro posed direct negotiations with the East German government with the aim of reducing the effects of the Iron curtain that has divided the nation for More than 20 years. Walks in and says he wants a Lincoln. He the dealer won t say it this Way but what he s going to be thinking is can you wait three Days. I be got to sell two pintos before i can order that in effect that s what s going to happen because he can t place the order and we can t ship it unless we watch that we re always 18  Or higher. If i sell a Guy one station Wagon at 14 ., i be got to sell his wife a 22-. Car. I be got to average that family out. It won t happen quite that Way but the . Is one big Happy family for  said the Price Gap Between Small cars and Large cars will continue to widens Ford attempts to sell More Small cars. If the Small cars Aren t going Well reduce the Price of the Small cars he said. Well put More value in  asked if Large car prices would in crease he said we re not deliberately pricing them up but you have to average them out to stay in business he predicted that Price increases on 1978 Ford models would average just below the defense notes to addiction prosecutor won t ask death penalty for boy Miami up Ronald Zamora was described alternately wednesday As a cold blooded killer who used his victim s Money for a Lark at Disney world and an illegitimate child turned by television Vio Lence into a sociopathic personality who had no  prosecutor Tom Headley told a 12 member jury the 15-year-old Junior High school student executed mrs. Elinor Haggart because she caught him robbing her Home and he feared she would Call the  defense attorney Ellis Rubin began building Zamora s temporary insanity plea in his opening statement. He said Zamora was the victim of to intoxication and his Case would demonstrate the creation and destruction of a to  Headley told the nine Man three woman jury that because of the defendant s age the state will not ask that you recommend a sentence of  he said testimony from state psychiatrists would prove Zamora is presently sane and like Wise was competent on the Day he killed mrs. Haggart the prosecutor said Zamora took $415 from Haggart s Home killed her with a .32 Caliper pistol when he was discovered then stole her car and treated himself and four friends to a weekend spree at Disney world near Orlando. Zamora was arrested june 8, the Day the 82-year-old widow s body was discovered and Headley said the youth confessed to the murder. Rubin in a dramatic opening statement told the jury this is a documented Case both before and after of an immature adolescent boy a sociopathic personality who at the moment of his crime could not distinguish whether he was in a television play or whether it was cold blooded premeditated  Zamora according to his defense attorney was born of an illegitimate love affair in Costa Rica was brought to the . By his Mother at age 4 and was Ronald Zamora. Glances at jurors plopped Down in front of the tv.", Zamora s Mother told him we found you in a garbage can Rubin said. Zamora s Stepfather beat the tousle haired boy frequently he added. So Ronny Zamora retreated to the one Friend he had the unreal fantasy world of Kodak Baretta Heller shelter and police woman the bizarre abnormal and unnatural situations presented to us in the form of realistic episodes in the life of the everyday police officer Rubin said. Rubin said the Young defendant devel oped a sociopathic personality somebody who has no  he said Zamora was emotionally Cool aloof and callous because that s what they teach you on  Hawaii Volcano s crust can t Stop lava geysers Volcano Hawaii up fiery lava geysers raged 350 feet High wednesday As the crust of Kilauea Volcano gave Way to intense underground pressure. Scientists worked round the clock at the hawaiian Volcano Observatory Monitor ing the underground flows by instruments and making Aerial inspections of two sur face flows creeping toward the Ocean chief scientist Gordon Eaton said a new fracture May be occurring about four Miles East of the vigorous foun Taining near an old cinder Cone called Hei Heiah la. Fingers of steam Rose from the Hotshot throughout the night. We Don t see any red from the air so we Are not concerned about it at the moment Eaton said but if we began to have lava production from the new Frac Ture we would be concerned about the Black Sands  the subdivision is i a Miles below Hei  army team and a geologist were stranded for three hours tuesday evening within 1,500 feet of a vent gushing lava 200 feet High. Their helicopter broke Down an another chopper flew in to make repairs. National inflation rate of about 6 per  motor corp., a Small car specialist and general motors corp., which improved mileage in 1977 and again with the new models should not have trouble meeting the 1978 Standard. In 1977, pm also added the Chevetta a .-made, fuel efficient Small car. Chrysler corp. Has eliminated two full size models and added two new sub com pacts to its line to meet the Federal Stan Dard and All the firms have raised dealer profit margins on Small cars to boost sales. Kids will beg to save drum Bugle corps Chicago a Paul j. Hall plans to Send hundreds of inner City youngsters into the streets Friday to beg illegally for Money. That s a Radical departure for the 30 year old social worker who has been trying for years to keep youths out of Trou  he says it s the Only Way he sees to save the championship drum and Bugle corps that forms an integral part of the club he founded while he was a teen Ager in a nearly All Black South Side neighbor  week $10,000 Worth of musical instruments were stolen from the group � clubhouse. The boys and girls Are just sick Hall said. Without these instruments the whole club might go Down the Drain. That d be a disaster. If it was t for this club these kids might be out snatching purses or stealing cars. The club has had chronic Money prob lems and Hall said he has tried unsuccessfully three times during the past seven years to get a permit from the City Council to solicit donations. I be had More help from god than from City Hall he said referring to a Kneel in he held five years ago in the downtown civic Center Plaza to draw attention to the club s need for space. Club Given $15,000 police arrested Hall that time for Block ing traffic and disturbing the peace. But a private philanthropic group moved by Hall s pleas gave the club $15,000 enough for a Down payment on the present clubhouse and instruments and uniforms for the drum and Bugle corps. Bennett Stewart Alderman of the 21st Ward where the club is located said he was not aware that the club had Ever re Quested a permit from the City Council finance committee. If they qualify for one i la try to get them one said Stewart who sits on the committee. We can t afford to let the club die. They re doing a terrific Job of getting kids off the  Hall was 14 and living in a battered Public housing project when he organized the club. It started As a baseball team with equipment supplied by the Chicago housing authority but quickly grew into a year round organization which has attracted some 400 ghetto youths. The drum and Bugle corps was formed in 1969. Its 125 members who Wear Snappy Black uniforms with red and Green trim and Call themselves the warriors have won several trophies. Hall says the club did receive an $lri,000 Grant in Model cities funds in 1970, but the Money was not renewed the following year after the group ran into trouble with the internal Revenue service Over withholding taxes. Hall says he was not Given proper guidelines about the need to withhold taxes from salaries paid with the Grant. Last july the City picked up the $8,000 tag for the warriors appearance at an in dependence Day Parade in Washington