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Show to f P PJrtB9nt .ioxials Order of University CM112 p f. thi p-t- s I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 236 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1973 Steel Output Boomed in 73; See Good 74 Utah Stars News Last reason the Utah Stars in late Novemmber were two games below the .500 level, deep in a slump and in fourth place in the ABA western division standings. They then embarked on a seven-gam- e home stand, won all of the, and went on to win the western division title. This year the picture is somewhat similar. It's nearly a month later, the team is above the .500 level and at the top of a heated divisional race, even though as of Friday only three and a half games seaprated the first place Stars from the last place San Diegp Conquistadors. The similarity to last year, and obviously the Stars are hoping for similar results, is that the Stars' starting Saturday night in the Salt Palace against the Kentucky Colonels comhome stand. mence a long, eight-gam- e While it may be wishful thinking to hope for a complete sweep like last year with great improvement in the valibre of all ARA teams, the friendly Salt Palace court should serve as a warning to the rest of the league that the Stars intend to put some daylight between themselves and the rest of the By Rudy Cernkovic PITTSBURGH (UPI) Steel production boomed to a record 110 million tons in 1973 and an industry - spokesman d in our three major steelmakers said fuel shortages may force production and employe If it On Nov. 30, believes that 1974 should produce not too much less unless the fuel shortage becomes criticial. While production will dip somewhat, mills should continue to operate at full capacity next year," the spokesman said. In 1973, we produced and shipped at capacity levels. Many mills had high inventories which they sold, adding to ARA west. The Stars close out 1973 action next Friday, Dec. 28, when the powerful New York Nets and superstar Julius "Doctor J" Erving invade the Salt Palace. It will be Interstate-Unite"Game Nigh with the Stars with ARA basketballs and tickets to future Stars' games being given away. shipments. But next year there will be no inventories. total cutbacks in early 1974. While there were no immediate energy problems, U.S. Steel, Jones & Laughlin Steel and Wheeling-Pittsburg- h Steel Corps, said oil could strike at the heart shortages of the steel industry unless sufficient fuel allocations are maintained. We need oil for fuel injunctions Study Group on Federal Elections is Named by ABA President Utah Supreme Court Decisions The American Bar CHICAGO, Association has created a special committee to study and recommend federal proposals for improving the ' elections process, ABA President Chesterfield Smith announced. The group, Smith said, will explore such controversial subjects as the financing of national political campaigns, the constitutionality of placing limits on campaign spending and of disclosing the names of contributors, the method of nominating and electing the President and Vice President of the Untied States, and the effectiveness of the 25th Amendment in for a successor to the vice providing ' presidency. Chairman of the Special Committee on Election Reform is Talbot D'Alem-herte- , a Miami, Fla., attorney and former state legislator, who served as chairman of the legislature's Judiciary Committee and has been active in the state's constitutional and judicial reform. Other members include: John D. Feerick, New York City; Daniel L. South River, N.J.; Stephen I. Schlossherg, Washington. D.C., and William P. Trenklp, Jr., Dodge City, Kans. was Smith said the commit. created because of lawyers', concern for assuring fair actions at every level of government. This has been given added impetus by developments such as Watergate and recent use of the 25th Amendment in the selection of a new Vice President, he said. Chairman D'Alemberte said his com'mittee will hold its first meeting in Washington, D.C., on January 26. The committee, he said, will study proposals from many sources, including legislation now pending in Congress. Recommendations of the committee will be submitted to the ARA Board of Governors or the House of Delegates for approval and further action. D'Alemberte expects the committee to make an interim report before the ABA annual meeting next August. Created by resolution of the ARA Board of Governors, the new com- sequently was approved by the U.S. Hosse of Representatives but failed passage in the U.S. Senate. mendations, he said, were incorporated in a proposed Conwhich stitutional amendment, sub 4 Bill Would Let TVA Charge Off Pollution Costs -EWASHINGTON (UPI) area Tennessee Valley ighteeen Congressmen have joined sponsoring legislation to help counteract cost factors that are forcing electric rate increases by in the Tennessee Valley Authority. llie proposal, drafted by Reps. and Robert John Duncan, would set up a credit Jones, system, to offset expenditures for pollution control by the TVA. Duncan said the bill would credit D-Al- the certified expenditures for control against the interest payment the TVA makes each year to the federal government. Annual interest payments current range from $55 million to $05 million. Hie TVA estimates that its expenditures for pollution control fall between $100 million and $150 million annually. If the pollution control costs pollution exceed the annual interest payments, Duncan said, the excess would be a credit toward a $20 million annual repayment of federal monies. If the costs also cover the $20 million, the additional excess would be credited against the total outstanding appropriation to the TVA. The lawmakers said their bill would help ease the cost bind that has forced the TVA to announce several rate hikes for electric power in recent years. Although TVA power consumers pay the cost of operation and construction of new faci lilies for electric power, the system itself is owned by the federal government, (I'-lden- mittee is an extension of past Association activities in the area of election reform, Smith explained. He pointed out, for example, that the ARA helped to draw up and was a major supporteer of the 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967. He said the Amendment was based upon recommendations made by the ABA Commission on Presidential Disability, created in 1964. The ARA president noted also that the Association created a Commission on Electoral College Reform which made a study of the provess for electing the President and Vice President. The commission's recom in 1966 Ihe na6 plant was shut down in early November, the spokesman said, but few workers were affected and were shifted to other operations. As of now, no one can really predict whats going to happen," he said. Steel Hie Wheeling-Pittsburg- h all said energy and spokesman most raw materials are in tight supply. worlds largest specialty steel i-- pdtfgVef ou ALASKA PIPELINES NO NEAR-TERFACT M NEW YORK Todays column answers reader questions: As expected, everybody wants to jump on the Alaska oil g g ment. Specialty Steel, previously hit by foreign imports, enjoyed a boom year. Allegheny Ludlum, the i- - policy-makin- & 1969. , rnn-tinuin- blast and coke furnaces," Laughlin spokesman said. got real bad, the whole could be hit at the level of steel production." A U.S. Steel spokesman said the no, 1 steel producer did not face any curtailments as of this moment except for a temporary closing at our ammonia plant at Clairton (Pa.), and thats because of a curtailment in the natural gas we need to drive certain equip- Jones What we are getting is like pulling teeth. In 1972, the industry shipped 92 million tons of steel, two million under the previous record set in five-ma- n See dattSa page ' pipeline bandwagon. The springboard is the governments acknowledgement that the nation faces an energy crisis. Congress at long last legislated approval of an Alaska oil pipeline. Now U.S. energy czar William Simon is ready to ask for a second pipeline. And, the Defense Department is set to ask for a third a military oil pipeline. At this writing, neither the Simon nor the defense pipeline proposals have been formally presented to Congress. That action is essential because these two would be financed by the government And they will be multibillion-dolla- r costly. From what your reporter observed and learned when he covered Alaska a couple of months ago, from the top north to the southern tip, it will take up to five years for the legislated pipeline to be in operation, not the two years being mentioned. The governor of Alaska and local bankers were serious when . they predicted to your reporter the blueprinted pipeline will cost up to $5 billion rather than the $3 billion previously estimated. Also, the governor is worried about a flood of unskilled workers at a time when the state has an unemployment problem. Contractors on the blueprinted pipeline say they will hire up to 13,000 workers in 1975 and 1976, but mostly skilled hands. 796-mi- i le According to the Oil & Gas Journal, December 1972 issue, the worlds known oil reserves and percentages are: Middle East - 53 per cent; Africa .16 per cent; Soviet and other Communist countries 15 per cent; United States, including Alaska - 5 per cent; Europe - 2 percent; Canada - 2 per cent; Venezuela - 2 per cent; Indonesia - 2 per cent; and Mexico, Caribbean and other South American countries - 3 per cent. -- -- Apropos of the stock markets latest price rally, it started on widespread rumors of an immediate let-u- p of the Arab oil embargo. But, even at that, knowledgeable energy sources see the UJS. crisis situation holding at least into 1975. fo the economic front, the best of highly respected investment managers say when the economy recovers from the in 1974, it will be at a much slower upcoming brink .pace than in any of the previous 10 years. Also, 1973 was a year of two bear markets (the year of the s bear) and year-en- d selling is expected to be heavy. As one investor said: We are all caught and everybody will be doing it. tax-los- producer, said stainless steel would reach 1.1 million mill product tons of production in 1973. This is a substantial increase from 855,000 tons in 1972 and 718,000 tons in 1971. Noting the relative decline of foreign imports and the strong U.S. demand for specialty steels, Roger S. Ahlbrandt, chairman of Allegheny Ludlum Industries, Inc., said: These factors combine to make 1973 an exceptional year for stainlea with prospects that 1974 will be another outstanding year. But the prosperous picture for 1974 could be blurred by the energy crisis and pollution control. Probation Expert To Head Criminal Justice Center CHICAGO Meeker, veteran (ACCN) a Ben S. federal official, is the new administrator of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at The Unversity of Chicago Law School. Meeker, who spent the last 23 years as Chief of the Federal Probation Office in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, replaces Michael corrections Tonry who has accepted a faculty qjpointment at the University of Birmingham, England. As administrator, Meeker is responsible for coordinating d of variety a. Center-sponsore- research projects and publications dealing with major issues in the field of criminal justice. The Center, by Norval Morris and Franklin Zimring, also conducts a series of institutes and ed seminars each year. is |