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University of Southern California
Volume LXVI, Number 61	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, January 8, 1974
Flournoy Gives Support To Gas Rationing Plan
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Editorial Director
State Controller Houston Flournoy endorsed gasoline rationing Monday as the most equitable means of distributing supplies and conserving energy.
He also said that the oil shortage was not a manufactured crisis by the oil companies.
Flournoy, one of two major Republican candidates for governor, spoke briefly before political science students on campaign finance, and was then questioned extensively on his views on the energy crisis.
“Rationing is a better answer than pricing people out of the market,” said Flournoy. He added that the government should not use economic restraint or the ability to pay as means of energy conservation.
“This is totally unfair, particularly to the working man.” he said.
“A RATIONING program can provide a basic availability of gasoline to those people who need it and at a reasonable price.”
In answer to a question as to whether or not the oil shortage was real. Flournoy said that if the price continues to increase, the supply would meet the demand, because the cost would curtail consumption.
The state controller said that there were many economically feasible alternative sources of energy that the state should develop.
“We must face up to the fact that we need additional generating capacity in this state,” said Flournoy. “Growth and construction will outstrip the capacity to
generate.”
HE PREDICTED that
California would make wide use of nuclear-power plants within the next 15to20years. “They will be the only answer; we will have to turn to them,” he said.
An effective rapid-transit system will soon be planned and developed, also, Flournoy predicted. “Mass transit is going to be far easier to develop and get now than before,” he said.
He said property taxes would pay for this development. The reason that this
has not happened before, said Flournoy, “was the idea that any transit system should pay for itself out of the fare box—which will never work.”
FLOURNOY LISTED several reasons why this situation had changed. A major cause was the fact that Los Angeles now has a mayor whose first priority is the development of an effective mass-transit system, he said.
He pointed out that a bill had been passed and signed to use the sales tax for subsidization of rapid-transit development or retirement of bond costs.
Flournoy predicted that the state highway trust fund would be broken to provide revenue for rapid transit. He said he expects a proposition to be on the June ballot that would open the fund.
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HOUSTON FLOURNOY
LITTLE CHANGE IN USC FUNDS SEEN
Nixon Signs Student Aid Bill
BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
President Nixon has signed a key bill that will provide $1.6 billion in student financial aid for the 1974-75 academic year.
The funds were part of an appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Wel-
fare for 1973-74. The total appropriations was $32.9 billion—$1.3 billion more than Nixon requested.
THE MONEY is divided as follows:
Basic Opportunity Grants Program. $500 million; Supplemental Opportunity Grants Program, $210.3 million; State Student Incentive Grants Program, $20 million; College Work-Study Program. $270.2 million; National Direct Student Loan Program, $293 million: Federally Insured Student Loan Program, $310 million.
This is believed to be the first time in the five years of the Nixon administration that Labor-HEW funds have been approved without a
GRANT TO FUND
prolonged struggle between Nixon and Congress.
In comparison, here are the total for 1973-74:
Basic grants, $122.1 million; supplemental grants, $210.3 million: state grants, nothing; work-study, $270.2 million: direct loans, $269.4 million, and with carry-over funds, $293 million; insured loans, $215 million.
FEDERAL AID administered by USC in four separate programs totals $4.6 million this year. This does not include state grants or $4 million in insured loans or 7%, which are determined by banks and other lending institutions.
Students here can generally expect their federal aid
HOSPITAL
to remain at the same levels or possibly even decrease, although individual circumstances will vary.
This is because three of the major programs—supplemental grants, work-study, and direct loans—will be funded in 1974-75 at the same levels they were for this year.
Yet because of the $210 increase in tuition next year, more students will qualify for the federal funds that USC will administer.
The basic-grants program may prove to be of additional help, however, although USC students did not get much this year.
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Cancer Center Given $6 Million
CLAIMS SEX STEREOTYPES—Judith Friedman, assistant professor of sociology, says that children's books are sexually stereotyped. See story on page 2.
photo by Gehrig Ikeda.
BY KARI GRANVILLE
Assistant City Editor
A grant of nearly $6 million from the National Cancer Institute has been given to the County-USC Cancer Center.
It is the first major contribution toward construction of the center’s $36-million Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, to be completed in 1978.
Two earlier grants, totaling $7.5 million, were awarded to the center in June. 1973, for the development of research programs and renovation of facilities for cancer treatment and research.
AT THE TIME of these awards the National Cancer Institute designated the County-USC Cancer Center as the firsi comprehensive cancer center in the Pacific Southwest.
Comprehensive cancer centers are intended to improve cancer treatment in the entire region.
USC was designated as one of the first eight centers established under the National
Cancer Act because of its extensive cancer research and the numberofpatients ittreats.
“These characteristics of USC. together with the strong support of Los Angeles County, made County-USC Cancer Center a logical headquarters fora regional program,” said Dr. Denman Hammond, director of the Cancer Center.
IN DISCUSSING the planned hospital and research institute, Dr. Hammond said the building “will greatly strengthen the ability of the Cancer Center to perform its mission of bringing the best care and latest advances in cancer treatment to every patient in the region in the shortest possible time.”
The hospital is planned for 124 beds, of which 74 will be for patients who need advanced types of cancer treatment and 50 for ambulatory patients.
Patients will be admitted in accordance with the development ofthe clinical research needed to treat their type of cancer.
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