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Show Page 36—THE HERALD. Provo. Utah. Sundey, October 27, 1974 +2 At White House Meeting U.S. Auto Makers to Discuss How to Hike Gasoline Mileage WASHINGTON (UPI) —- The Proportion of economical carson quires a lot of money because so estimated at $2 billion to $2.5 nation's auto makers have been the market. i could called to the White House next be expensive — many y » billion annually, these increases machines constructed for build- are considered within the week to discuss how to get most between $50 million and $490 ingasingle car. capability of the 7 industry American cars to run 20miies on tlllion, according to the report. “Since present capital invest- assuming future national ecoa ofgas. Mass production of cars re- -ent of the US. auto makers is nomic viability,”the report said Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. appointed President CSASCRSASSARSASS SESSGE Ses AEES Ford to head the new Enengy z ‘Thursday at the The auto companies will be . ; —_—* AS panel's first meeting. ys ; asked to the White House next fyesdayto meet with Transportation Secretary Claude S. Brineger and other officials. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the average American car about 14 miles per gallon, some as low as seven. If all medels could be reengineered to get 20 miles per gallon,that would be atleast a 40 per cent improvement. In his economic message to Congress C~. 15, President Ford GABRIEL FOX, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fox of suburban Normandy, Mo, near St. Lovis,fina! ly sueceeded in getting his new St. Bernard puppy Hank to fetch the stick. Usfortunately Hank doesn't want to give it up, And eves through Gabriel is oider and more mature than the pup, size seems to be the deciding factor in the argement. More GM Workers Face Layoff Chef at Zoo DETROIT (UPI) — More than 6.0 General Motors workers wili be idied indefinitely in the next month as U.S. automakers trim fourth quarter output by over 100,000 cars because of lagging sales of the 1975 models. The announcement from GM that iL is eliminating second shifts at three plants and cutting the assembly rate at a fourth facility was the latest indication that the hoped for fall sales ‘upturn hasnot materialized. ‘The industrystil! has cl 92,000 workers on i layoffs from the energy crisis: induced winter sales slump that reduced from 70 cars an hour to schedules. Layoffslast year did not begin 60on each of two shifts Dec. 2. GMsaid the cutbacks will will shortly before Christmas, eliminate 36,000 intermediate almost two months after the and compact cars from its Arab oil embargobegan. schedule bythe end of the year However, Ward's Automotive Reports said Thursday that GM will cut 90,000 cars fromits October-December production SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) —~ “Industry executives are more cautious now and are willing to Chef Lee Stephens gets only a make quicker decisions now to grunt or a grow! when his fare avoid taking risks,” said one fails to satisfy his clientele. Stevens, a former Army cook, industry observer. oversees the culinary department at the San Francisco Zoo, but he makes sure the animais are thoroughly satisfied. For anteaters, he mixes horsemeat, eggs and hot water. garnished with bone meal, and Lorke relented. When dawn vitamins and little salt. “It's a horrible looking mess,I approached, May said Lorke suddenly announced he hadto go. know,” he said “To an anteater Mayescaped and took his story thoug, it’s better than a to police, who raided Lorke's hamburger. Why to them, it’s apartment, finding him asleep in even better thanants.” The gorillas prefer their acolfin They charged him with horsemeat boiled, with sweet kKidnaping and causing grievous potatoes and carrols. “They're crazyabout that sugar taste and bodily harm. Neighbors said Lorke told T'mglad to oblige,” he said. Lions and tigers will sniff them to call him “master” or “Count Dracula,” ate only raw disdainfully at such fare. Stevens meat and read aloud at night said they like their horse meat raw and onlythe best cuts. from horror books. Vampire, Yes, But This Guy Went A Bit Too Far HAMBURG(UPI) — Walter al times saw113,000 workersoff Lorke wanted badly to be a the job. In the past year, GMcut vampire. He erdered neighbors to call him “master,” slept in a 73,000 workers fromits payrolls GMalso became the first of the black coffin and spent his free automakers to revise its 1975- nighis prowling through gramodel sales prediction veyards. But then, police said, he downward from its original 10- went too far. million car estimate to $5 Lorke was arrested this week million. Some industry execu- surprised byofficers who found tives this past summer optimis- himsleeping in his coffin tically predicted sales of U.S Police said Lorke, 24, attacked and imported cars might reach and abducted Heimul May. 30.5 million forcing him to his Hamburg GMsaid 1,550 workers will be apartment. There, police said, he idled at its Kansas beat May, put him in a coffin and plant let the blood from his face drip 1,650 af y into bowl at Willow Run, Mich. “Tam going to kill you,’ May shifts at KansasCity, Ta quoted Lorke as saying. * and Van N y the grea! discontinued } iwith t blood speed at Willow” Run being Satisfies His Animais May said he beggedfor mercy antec promised to try to achieve this i “I will meet with top management of the autemobiie industry to assure + eee —either by or by law firm program aimed at achieving a 40 per cent increase in gasoline mileage within a four-year development deadline,” he said. A Department of Transportation spokesman said Tuesday's meeting will be “informal and straightforward —sort of. All right, fellas, here is the goal and how can we get there?”” Morton said the pressure will increase if there is no agreement. “If we do not get the cooperation we need,” he told reporters, “we will have, as the President has said, tough turkey.” In a report to Congress Thursday, EPA and the TranSportation Department said there is no reason manufacturers could not be turning out more economical cars by 1980. If all cars got 20 m.p.g., they said, -the United States could save more than a million barrels of crudeoil per day. Economy could be improved, the report said, by weight reductions in cars. improvements in the drive train, smaller engines for big cars and a larger $1500°° REWARD To thefirst person presenting this Ad teward the purchose of our BEAUTIFUL MODEL CABIN with complete Utility Hookups - Fully Carpeted - Huge Rock Fireplace - Cabinets - Stove and Refrigerator. 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