European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 27, 1978 Carter unveils program to Battle inflation and strengthen the Dollar Washington a president car Ter noting that the United states share of world markets has been slipping for 20 years announced tuesday a Broad first step program to fight inflation and boost the Dollar through exports. Our Export problem has been building for Many years and we cannot expect dra Matic improvement overnight Carter said. Increasing exports will take time and require a sustained  he added they Hope to clean up on welfare Omaha neb. Up if you can Pur Chase an electric Toothbrush with your food Stamps and convince the environmental Protection Agency to finance your wife s Hairdo you May be a Winner in the Wel fare  Jean Delehant 23, and her brother Tim 21, both students at Creighton University Are attempting to pay off their federally funded student Loans and get a Start in the business world with their new Board game soon to be marketed throughout the coun try. We re trying to get off welfare and now we re living on welfare said miss Delehant a Sophomore Law student. She said the idea for the game came while sit Ting around the dining room table telling welfare jokes. It s a Lampoon on welfare fraud in Gen eral she said. I never thought six months ago that i d be in the game  she Heads the company she is president of Jed co of Iowa the company formed to Market the welfare  her brother who lives in Council Bluffs Iowa is vice president. She said the game is played with food Stamps instead of Money. You try to get your limping siamese cat in As a disabled Veteran and the environmental Protection Agency pay s for your wife s hair do she said. The object of the game is to buy As Many household appliances like a trash compactor electric Toothbrush Grandfather clock All those necessary vital things by defrauding the welfare office before the finance company can repossess them. The food Stamps have a picture of a Man with a big sack of Money who is smok ing a Cigar outside the welfare  forecasts sales of 100,000 Tim a senior business major handles the purse strings and forecasts "100,000 games to be sold in the next three to  the Delehanty acquired a Patent for the game s idea a trademark for the name and a copyright on the artistry after receiving encouragement from retail distributors to invest in the Enterprise. Delehant said requests for the game have come in from across the country and she and her brother Hope for a Market in Europe. Her brother said the games Cost $8.95 each curfew imposed after clash new Delhi a a curfew has been imposed after 11 persons were killed and 75 injured during a clash Between sikhs and members of the reformist Nirankar movement in Kanpur about 250 Miles Southwest of Here the United news of in Dia reported. If the Challenge is met the Economy will grow new jobs will be created the Dollar will become stronger and inflation will be  Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps said we Are interested Here in expanding heavily Trade with Japan and West Europe where we have been losing competitive  Here Are some highlights of the Carter Export program a proposed $500 million increase next year in the Export import Bank s loan authority to an annual total of $4.1 million. In considering applications for Export licenses involving sales to communist and other countries the government will take into account Export consequences and whether the same goods can be readily purchased elsewhere. The need for environmental Impact statements concerning Export goods will be reduced until they involve less than 5 percent of All shipments abroad. The Justice department will attempt to reassure wary business persons by Edu Cating them on the department s enforce ment priorities under the new foreign anti bribery Law and to emphasize that joint ventures abroad Are unlikely to Lead to antitrust prosecution. The Small business administration will direct up to $100 million a year in loan guarantees to exporters while Carter will budget an extra $20 million for Federal Export development programs. Carter asked Congress to work with the administration to promptly resolve the tax problems of americans employed abroad Many of whom Are directly involved in Export efforts. Carter said until now both business and government have accorded exports a relatively Low priority. These priorities must be  still a ways to go Taber Collins now with a 55-Inch Waist line and at 280 pounds and his tailor audio Cosimo measure an old pair of Collins dungarees in Albany . The pants with a 76-Inch Waist fit Collins in 1976 when he tipped the Scales at 532 pounds. After a two year diet he lost 252 pounds and is still dieting. Up Gas memo obtained by up Griffin tried to shift chief Prober Washington up Robert Griffin fired in july As Deputy chief of the general services administration tried to demote and Transfer his chief investigator for be coming too Strong an influence in prob ing Agency scandals according to a Gas memo obtained tuesday. The memo also charges that Griffin who now works in the White House wanted to fire Gas s personnel officer who rescinded Griffin s order to have the chief investigator removed from any authority Over the Gas investigation. The memorandum obtained by up was written last month by Vincent Alto Gas s special counsel. It charges that personnel officer Albert Petrillo was punished duress and coercion wrought by Gas experts from whom the Kab could learn valuable new  Griffin Given a $50,000 White House Job after Gas administrator Jay Solomon fired him because they could not get along has denied Ever pressuring anybody out of any Agency at any  Alto s memo says Griffin in april of 1976 asked William Clinkscales jr., director of the investigations division if he were . Extends subway hours Washington a Washington s metro subway monday has its operating by removal from any area of Respo Sibili hours to Midnight on weekdays. And Onset. 30, it will inaugurate saturday serv ice Between 8 . And Midnight. Since its opening it has run Only from 6 . To 8 . On weekdays.  said Petrillo named As one of five outstanding Gas employees nationwide eventually was forced to resign through million Dollar Oil fire put out de ground storage Cavern. Fluid was forced into the plug until the Oil leak stopped and about an hour later Hackberry la. Up oilfield disaster fighters tuesday extinguished a raging fire that began six Days ago and burned up $1 million Worth of crude Oil at the Federal government s underground Petroleum Reservoir in Southwest Louisiana. The burning Oil a portion of the millions of barrels of Oil being placed in the nation s Jared in the explosion thursday night that Colt  aft to a rf.1  of 4u.2 al 1_1 1_ j. A 1 _ it at _ pm willing to conduct Bootleg investigations for which no records Are maintained. Clinkscales refused. In a meeting with . Gardner Gas s director of administration Griffin expressed his displeasure Over Clinkscales Independence and aggressiveness the memo says and urged his removal. Gardner defended Clinkscales record and ordered Griffin out of his office the memo says whereupon Griffin recommended to then Gas administrator Jack Eckerd that the investigations unit be re moved from Gardner s authority. Told by Griffin that Clinkscales was too Strong an influence in the office of investigations Petrillo initially agreed to carry out the removal and demotion order the memo said. But a few Days later Petrillo realized his action was illegal and rescinded the action. Thereafter or. Griffin stated on two occasions that he wanted or. Petrillo fired the memo says and Petrillo was subjected to harassment. Told by his Superior that his situation would continually Worsen Petrillo resigned in december 1976 because of the Strain and  Petrillo lost a grievance filed with the the fire went out under a steady Stream of civil  e water and firefighting foam. No injuries were reported in the opera Tion. One Man died and another was in Salt domes sent up a Cloud of thick Black smoke visible in Houston 150 Miles away. Texas oilfield firefighter Asger boots Hansen gingerly mane Vered a seven foot touched off the fire. Gene a fed because Gas attorneys caused Deal of relevant evidence to be  later Petrillo was offered a Job in Florida As a motor i operations would begin at the site ,eiypeesvm.at.tha.t.nearly70.-rubber expansion plug into the pipe that 000 barrels of imported crude Oil at $15 per was spurting Oil into the air from the in barrel went up in smoke. Gas refused to pay Nis moving expenses. Solomon agreeing Petrillo was harassed installed him last month As nation al archives personnel officer