Thunday, May 5, 1977
Sen. Morgan Reports: CIA Gathering Info on Future Oil Shortage
The one topic in
Washington that dominates
everything else at present is
7®nergy.
President Carter, of
course, turned the national
attention to energy when he
went before the Congress a
few nights ago and - an
nounced that unless we
started using less energy
and finding new methods to
produce energy that the
nation and the world will be
in trouble in a few years.
Probably one of the
hardest tasks the President
faces as he asks Americans
to modify their life style is in
getting the public to believe
that there is, indeed, a
danger of running short of
energy by 1985.
Hie people are suspicious,
and it must be
acknowledged that they
have cause to be skeptical.
Many feel that they were
dipped off when the
government, under a
Kim Thebault
Miss Thebault
Pageant Finalist
Miss Kim Thebault, 18,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Thebault of
Fryeburg, Me., has been
selected as a finalist in the
1977 Miss Maine National
Teen-Ager Pageant to be
held at Thomas College,
Waterville, Me. May 26-28.
The Miss Maine National
Teen-Ager Pageant is the
state final to the Miss
National Teen-Ager
Pageant, August 1-6, 1977
held in Atlanta. Gail Alice
Berube of Sabo, 1976 Miss
Maine National Teen-Ager
will crown the new Queen.
Contestants from
throughout the state will
participate. The 1977 winner
will receive the all expense,
paid trip to Atlanta for the
x National Pageant, cash
scholarship, full tuition
scholarship from Barbizon
International, merchandise,
and a portrait.
Contestants will be judged
on scholastic achievement,
leadership, poise, per
sonality, and appearance.
There is no swimsuit or
talent competition.
Miss Thebault is the
granddaughter of Mrs. E. B.
Ambrose, 803 Second Street,
Edenton.
Mrs McCollum
Taken In Death
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.
Mrs. Mary Frances
Britton McCollum, 51, sister
of Clarence Britton of
Edenton, died Sunday in a
hftpital.
A native of Hertford
County, she was the wife of
Edgar P. McCollum. She
was a member of the Church
of the Good Shepherd,
Episcopal, Midland Park,
N.J.
Besides her husband and
bitother, survivors include
two sons: David McCollum
of Atlnata, Ga.; and Bill
McCollum of the home; and
one other brother, Lin wood
Britton of Ahoskie.
A graveside service was
held Wednesday at 11 A.M.
in Highland Memorial
Gardens by the Rev.
Stanleigh Jenkins and Dr.
W.DJ Morris. A memorial
service was held Monday at
3 P.M. at the church in
Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Counselor to visit
f Hazel Tayloe, Job Corps
counselor, will be at the
Chowan Aunty Department
of Social Services during the
morning hours of May 18.
Anyone interested in
learning more about the Job
previous administration,
sold huge quantities of
wheat {to Russia at favorable
prices and the cost of bread
jumped at the supermarket.
Many fed they were hit in
the pocketbook needlessly
when the price of oil more
than tripled in 1974 as the
result of the international oil'
cartel. They remember the
recent sugar shortage when
the price of sugar rose to
outlandish figures and they
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wonder if the same thing
isn’t happening now with
coffee.
Furthermore, the real
crunch in 'energy probably
won’t occur for another ten
years or so, and it is hard to
get some people concerned
about something that far in
the future.
But the President was
taking his text from what I
regard as probably the best
authority there is in
THE CHOWAN HERAT. n
gathering world wide in
telligence and that is the
Central Intelligence
Agency. No matter what
mistakes they may have
made in the past in their
zeal to protect this country’s
interest actions that were
taken on orders from higher
authority the ClA’s
agents have the highest
capability to get and
evaluate the facts about the
world’s energy now and in
the future.
Because of its
sophisticated instruments
and its world wide sources
of information, it seems to
me that we cannot disregard
the ClA’s evaluation of the
energy outlook to 1985,
which is just eight years
away.
“In the absence of greatly
increased energy con
servation,” says the CIA
report, “projected world
demand for oil will ap
proach productive capacity
by the early 1980 s and
substantially exceed
capacity by 1985.” That
simply means that by 1985
the world will not be
producing as much oil as it
is using and we’ll all be in
trouble.
There is much more to the
report, but given that simple
assessment, there seems to
be ample justification for
the President to call upon
the country to start con
serving now.
There will be some real
battles, no doubt, as
Congress seeks to come up
with a program that will
work and which will be fair
to everyone. The large oil
companies have already
started to attack the Carter
program, and the
automobile manufacturers
will also be unhappy. There
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will be other groups with
their own interests.
But if there is to be a
workable program at all,
then the great majority of
the American people must
believe there is a problem to
be faced and solved. And
once they do believe in the
problem, I have confidence
that they will work together
to conquer it, just as they
have done in critical times
in the past.