Oil-Producing Nations Given Tough Warning
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PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS Oil-Producing Nations Given Tough Warning DETROIT, Mich. (UPI) - Admittedly The trip was Ford’s first visit to his “In the immediate future,” he added, tive to producers but which do not serious speaking in "doomsday language,” Presi native Michigan since he became Presi "we will expand our efforts to increase ly disrupt the economies of the con dent Ford today warned the Middle East dent. our energy efficiency. This will reduce the sumers,’’ said Ford. oil producing nations of "disastrous con He flew here from Washington following growing dependency on foreign “We recognize the desires of the sequences” if they refuse to lower prices an early breakfast at the home of Senate petroleum. Project Independence will also producers to earn a fair price for their oil or share their resources with dependent Majority leader Mike Mansfield. require us to increase the output of ' as a means of helping to develop their own nations. Michigan’s Gov. William Milliken, a existing domestic energy sources.” economies,” he added. “But exorbitant "Sovereign nations cannot allow their Republican and Sen. Robert Griffin, R- Ford’s remarks displayed growing U.S. prices can only distort the world economy, policies to be dictated, or their fate Mich., met him at Detroit’s Metropolitan frustration with the failure of Iran and the run the risk of world-wide depression and decided, by artificial rigging and distor Airport. Ford also arranged to meet with Arab oil producers to lower the market threaten the breakdown of world order tion of world commodity markets,” Ford Coleman A. Young, Detroit’s first black prices of crude oil. At its meeting in Vien and safety.” told the World Energy Conference. mayor after tbe speech at Cobo Hall. na Sept. 12, the Organization of Petroleum “It is difficult to discuss the energy "No one can forsee the extent of the Exporting Countries (OPEC) refused to problem without lapsing into doomsday damage or the end of the disastrous con lower prices that have risen 300 per cent in language,” Ford declared. ‘‘The danger is sequences if nations refuse to share the past year. clear. It is severe. I am nevertheless op nature’s gifts for the benefit of all Steps To Be Taken timistic. The advantages of co-operation mankind,” he added. "We will take tough steps to obtain the Global Strategy Needed are as visible as the dangers of confronta Toughest Speech to Date degree of self sufficiency necessary to "A global strategy must seek to achieve tion. And that gives me hope as well as op avoid disruption of our economy,” Ford fuel prices which provide a strong incen timism.” His remarks, his toughest on record, said. "We will make sure there’s heat for were a follow up to a hard hitting speech our homes and power for the people who before the United Nations less than a week work in our plants. This does not mean ago in which he denounced the use of oil as zero imports. a "political weapon.” Kennedy Will Not NEWS CAPSULES Seek Presidency BOSTON (UPI) - Sen. Edward M. the decision. 1 will not accept the nomina Kennedy, the leading Democratic tion. 1 will not accept a draft. I will oppose any effort to place my name in nomination Flowers For Nixon presidential hopeful and only surviving Aral) World Divided son of the ill-starred Kennedy family, in any state, or at a national convention, LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI) - Well- Jordan left the Arab world sharply today said he would not be a candidate for and 1 will oppose any effort to promote my wishers sent flowers and telegrams to divided today, angrily breaking off president in 1976 because of personal and candidacy in other ways. former President Richard Nixon at Long negotiating strategy talks because of family commitments. atelSlFWlrr ^ Beach Memorial Hospital Sunday even Egypt’s support for the Palestinian The 42-year-old senator, who lost two before he was to arrive today for a series Family Disrussifin guerrilla movement. brothers to political assassins, said his The Jordanian move complicated of tests and treatment for phlebitis in his ‘‘1 reached this decision after discussion ‘F e, The People.,.^ decision was due to family and personal with my wife and the other members of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s left leg. considerations, including cancer in his attempts to get the stalled Geneva peace The length of Nixon’s stay was in my family. I’ve chosen to announce the “We, the people of the United Church read the preamble of the son, Ted Jr., who will be 13 Thursday, and decision now in order to ease the ap conference moving toward an overall definite, but a hospital official said it his wife, Joan, who has been hospitalized States,....” are what Mary Sinnamon Constitution to the other troop settlement in the war-torn region. would be at least three or four days. prehensions within my family about the three times recently due to mental possibility of my candidacy, as well as to of 29 Bigelow St. and Gail Christensen members preceding a discussion of An Amman government announcement A 10-room section was sealed off on the fatigue. of 128 Wetherell St. are reading in un the Constitution at their meeting Sunday said Jordan refused to join a policy sixth floor and reserved for Nixon and his clarify the situation within my party.” Finn unil Final Kennedy was accompanied by his wife ison from a parchment copy of the Thursday night in observance of coordination conference with Egypt, Syria family, the Secret Service and other uses. Joan. Constitution of the United States. and the Palestine Liberation Organization Nixon was to be treated for phlebitis, ‘‘Therefore in 1976 I will not be a can Constitution week which ends today. didate for president or vice president of Ted Jr, had his right leg amputated last Members of the Cadette Scouts of to protest Egypt’s recognition of the PLO painful blood clots in his left leg which (Herald photo by Dunn) have worsened since his resignation Aug. the United States. This decision is firm, November to stop the spread of bone Troop No. 10 of St. Mary’s Episcopal as the "sole and legitimate” represen tative of the Palestinians. 9, under the supervision of family physi full, final and unconditional,” he said. cancer. The Amman government and the PLO cian Dr. John C. Lungren, former chief of "My responsibilities are at home. It has Most political observers believed the have been locked in a dispute over who staff at Memorial and now an internist. become quite apparent to me that I would Democratic presidential nomination was represents Palestinian refugees living in be unable to make a full commitment to a Kennedy’s for the taking if he wanted it. the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Fall Starts Wintery full campaign for the presidency. I simply He is the youngest and last surviving son cannot do that to my wife and children and of a family .which produced a President Honduras Issues Jordanian-controlled East Bank of the Today is the first day of fall, but in some Jordan River. the other members of my family.” and another U.S, senator —both gunned areas, it seemed more like winter than Speaking at a news conference in down by assassins in the 1960s. autumn. Boston, Kennedy said, “There is absolute Efforts were made to put Kennedy on Frost settled over the farmlands of the ly no circumstance or event that will alter the ticket in 1968. ‘World SOS’ upper Midwest and the Northeast early Transportation today as the first day of fall signaled an “Please, we desperately need Session Tonight end to the growing season. CHOLOMA, Honduras (UPI) — Army helicopters,” the emergency committee Fall officially arrived at 5:59 a.m. EDT troops burned the bodies of thousands of said in an appeal to foreign newsmen in Manchester’s transportation needs will and frost or freeze warnings were in effect Hurricane Fifi victims today and sent out Steele Suit Seeks Tegucigalpa. “Please send out a world be the subject of an informal public for much of the Northeast. a desperate "world SOS” for help in SOS.” meeting tonight at 7:30 at Nathan Hale The warnings were issued for portions of saving survivors stranded in villages The United States, Cuba, West Ger School, 160 Spruce St. Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, swarming with poisonous snakes. - many, Australia, Mexico, Colombia, The meeting, scheduled by Mayor John New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Connec Equitable Oil Supply “This is the worst moment in the Panama and Nicaragua v.'ere among the Thompson and Human Resources Director ticut and Massachusetts. Scattered light nation’s 150-year history,” Juan Bautista first countries to heed Honduran calls for Alan Mason, is. being held in response to frost also was forecast for northern New The GOP contender said utility Vaca, a government civil defense NEW HAVEN (UPI) - Republican help. interest expressed by several local England and northern West Virginia. customers in the state are suffering from spokesman, told newsmen in the Hon gubernatorial contender Robert H. Steele Shuttle Flights Started organizations. skyrocketing bills and the utilities are duran capital of Tegucigalpa. today filed a suit against Federal Energy The U.S. Southern Defense Command A number of local groups as diverse as 3,U0U Dead Coordinator John Sawhill to insure an having increasing difficulty in raising suf flew shuttle flights from the Panama the Chamber Of Commerce, Board of ficient capital to expand. The National Emergency Committee, equitable supply of petroleum products for Canal Zone to the flood-stricken region, Education, and League of Women Voters Connecticut.