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Stricter controls sought for energy conservation

By TERRY RYAN Associated Press Writer Voluntary efforts to conserve energy have lost some of their steam and experts are calling for stricter controls on the eve of President Ford’s economic and energy message to Congress. Reduced demand has improved the prospects of meeting the nation's oil needs this winter, but administration officials have emphasized the necessity of reducing oil imports to combat inflation. Energy conservation measures will be included in the President's address Tuesday, but White House spokesmen refuse to say whether they will be voluntary or mandatory. White House spokesmen say Ford will not request gasoline rationing or an increase in gasoline taxes.

An Associated Press survey shows that Americans are still driving slower, turning out lights and lowering thermostats. But many state energy officials said those efforts are declining and further action is necessary. “I’m for more mandatory conservation,'' said New Mexico’s energy chief. Frank DiLuxio. “That’s our only shortterm hope.” Electric consumption has increased only a fraction of what was expected this year, but utility officials attributed most of the diminished demand to higher costs and industrial recession. Odd-even gasoline sale plans have been scrapped and the 55mile per hour speed limit is widely' ignored. Cars on Interstate Highway 90 in South Da-

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WAUKEGAN. HI. (AP) - A shadowy figure weaves in and out of the remains of wrecked ships that litter the floor of the Great Lakes It's a man leading a double life-style. Every weekend from April through Thanksgiving. John R. Steele leaves his desk as chairman of the board of the First National Bank, takes his scuba diving gear, and goes exploring watery graveyards “I’m more curious than afraid and it's an obsession more than a hobby,’l says the robust, mustachioed executive who learned skin diring 16 years ago. Steele. 46. and his companions work from a converted fishing tug equipped with a sonar device. “There are some estimates that 10.000 wrecks are at the bottom of the Great Lakes but I think it is closer to 600.'' he says. "There are about 300 in diveable depths of 250 feet or less and we have found about 40 of them. ’ Steele explores with a cam-

era more than with a crowbar and has thousands of feet of film that he shows to clubs and organizations during the winter. “It’s ghostly down there, but no. we haven't seen dhy bodies," he says. "The Milwaukee, sunk in 1929. had 25 freight cars aboard, most of them with bathtubs and toilet bowls, plus three or four brand new Nash autos." Steele said. “The cars still look new. their odors bright, but are rotted out inside.” Rolls of nickels dating back to 1860 were found in the safe of the Wisconsin, which sunk in 1929. * * The Lakeland had a cargo of new 1924 Kissel automobiles. Under a table in the pilot house of the John B. Cowle, sunk in 1909. part of a Great Lakes pilot book was found, sealed and perfectly preserved. Salad oil, relishes, and apple butter — all still edible — were found aboard the Philadelphia in Lake Huron. She went under after a collision in 1893.

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kota. for example, now average 61.9 miles per hour. A relaxation of conservation efforts is wrong for now, energy experts said. Foreign oil, which has quadrupled in price, still fills a third of the nation’s petroleum needs.

The billions of dollars flowing out to pay for it is a major cause of inflation, analysts said. “We’ve been shaken by the international cartel,” said Maurice Adelman, an oil economist at Massachusetts

Institute of Technology. “We’re trying to do everything at once. It’s not clear that there’s any statement of objective.” At least for the present, the only real weapon against oil

exporting countries is conservation at home, according to Treasury Secretary William E. Simon. The question is how to do it. “It will either take a price rise to surpress demand or

some kind of mandatory conservation measure,” said Gerald P. Thurmond, a vice president of Gulf Oil Co. But Frank Ikard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, an industry organization, said voluntary meas-

ures might be enough. “I feel that voluntary measures will work if people are brought to understand the seriousness of the energy supply situation and that it is not just going to disappear overnight,” Ikard said.

Ford calls anti-inflation program ‘fair"

By GAYLORD SHAW Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Personally ruling out higher gasoline taxes, President Ford said Sunday the anti-inflation program he will present to Congress and the nation on Tuesday “will be a fair one.” As he walked back to the White House from worship services, Ford told newsmen, “We’re in very good shape" in preparations for the national televised and broadcast address. The President summoned Treasury Secretary William Simon, chairman Alan Greenspan of the Council of Economic Advisers and other aides to the Oval Office Sunday afternoon to review the package of proposals he will

outline to a joint session of Congress. A White House spokesman said Ford has yet to make final decisions on the program. But administration sources indicate the President is moving toward proposed changes in the tax structure, to ease the impact of inflation on lower income families. Under the tentative plan, these families would receive a tax cut while those in higher income brackets would face a tax increase to make up the difference and bring the federal budge* into balance. Aides reported that the President remains opposed to mandatory wage and price controls and also firmly opposed to gasoline rationing. They acknowledged that his

anti-inflation program will have some mandatory features but refused to give specific An Associated Press survey shows Americans still are driving slower, turning out lights and lowering thermostats. But many state energy officials contacted said those efforts are declining and further action is necessary.

details. Presidential spokesmen said last week Ford would not seek an increase in the federal excise tax on gasoline, and Ford gave personal emphasis to that decision Sunday. The President is expected to call upon Americans to conserve fuel voluntarily, and as if

to set an example, he decided to walk the 150 yards from the White House to church rather than ride in the presidential limousine. Grain exporters have been invited to meet with administration officials Monday to dis-

cuss voluntary cooperation and reporting that would assure reasonable supplies to both domestic and foreign users. On Saturday, Ford won cancellation of contracts by two exporters to ship $500 million worth of grain to the Soviet Union.

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