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UPI Roundup Girl becomes House page person WASHINGTON — An attractive 18-year-old Oklahoma girl broke the all-male page-bov ranks in the House Monday. Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla.) picked Felda Looper, a constituent from Heavener, to break the all-boy tradition largely because of pressure from the girl. “I’m not a women’s libber but I’m for equal rights for women,” the girl told reporters who delayed her first day on the House floor with a series of news conferences. The Albert appointment fully integrated the Congress. Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) appointed the first girl Senate page three years ago; two others named shortly afterward started work on May 14,1971. There are still three girls on the 30-page Senate staff, and one on the four-page Supreme Court staff. Albert predicted that Felda soon will have female company on the 50-member House page staff. She has served as a page in the Oklahoma state Legislature and has been “going to state legislative hearings with my mother and father since I was five years old.” Her father, Dr. O.J. Looper, is a general practioner, and her mother, Maxine, is chairwoman of the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women. Felda’s job—which pays $500 a month—will be short-lived because of her plans to enter the University of Oklahoma in September and because there are only 10 weeks left before Congress. Rogers asks Venezuela for more oil CARACAS — The United States, in the midst of an energy shortage, last week asked Venezuela to increase its crude and fuel oil exports to America. “Petroleum dominates our economic relationships,” Secretary of State William Rogers told a luncheon here, “and prospects are good for Venezuela in maintaining and expanding its substantial share of the United States petroleum market.” Rogers made his remarks in the first major address he delivered on his 17-day Latin American tour ending this week. Punch not juicy enough for FTC WASHINGTON — The makers of “Hawaiian Punch” have agreed to stop promoting the drink in a way that could lead people to think it contains more fruit juice than it does. The firm, RJR Foods Inc., and its advertising agency, William Esty Co., both of New York, also will be forbidden for one year to use any ad or label depicting fruit or fruit juices unless the fruit juice content is clearly given or the product contains 100 per cent single strength fruit juice, the Federal Trade Commission said Sunday. First Superman comic sells for $1,800 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The 18-year-old “King of the Comics” has paid what is believed to be a record amount— $1.801.26—for an original copy of the first Superman comic book. “It’s the ultimate comic book,” said Mitchell Mehdy of Carmichael. “I finally got my baby. Money is nothing to me—it’s the comic book that counts.” Mehdy, crowned the “King of the Comics” by his friends and fellow collectors, said there were only nine known copies of the 1938 Superman edition, Action Comics No. 1. Comic book stores in Hollywood and Berkeley confirmed that $1,801.26 is a record price. The comic book explains the origin of Superman and shows him lifting his first car into the air. There originally were 500,000 of the edition, but most of them have been destroyed, Mehdy said. “My copy isn’t perfect,” he said. “It’s used. But it’s still beautiful.” He said he purchased the comic book from a friend, Theodore Holstein, 26, who had bought it for $1,500 from Bruce Hamilton, 40, a Scottsdale, Ariz., collector. Meh dy id he has a collection of about 2,000 comic books worth $20,' D. VOA tells it like it is, may lose funds WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Voice of America is pulling no punches in reporting the Watergate scandal overseas, and this has landed it in trouble with some senators. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted on May 14 to cut the VOA’s operating expenses and salaries from $203 million to $189 million for the fiscal year starting July 1. The Senate is expected to act early this week on the authorization bill for the U.S. Information Agency, the VOA’s parent body. Examination of news reports and commentaries broadcast by the U.S. government radio in the past four months shows its Watergate coverage has been open and quick. It has been carried regularly in English on a service operating around the clock and in 35 other languages ranging from Albanian to Uzbek. VO A reports refer to “the Watergate political spy scandal.” Nathan Kingsly, VOA program director, justifies the straight forward reporting of the Watergate scandal this way: “If we don’t tell it like it is, there are Clinics begin drug testing LOS ANGELES—Two clinics here have cautiously begun treating heroin addicts with a drug the staff believes may be as good or better than methadone, the most widely used drug ad diction treatment. Unlike methadone, the new drug appears to be nonaddictive, according to Dr. Forrest Tennant Jr., of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. Like methadone, it seems to enable addicts to function nor mally but without methadone’s objectionable side effects, such as male impotence, Dr. Tennant said in an interview. The Drug is propoxyphene napsylate, the trade name for which is Darvon-N. Darvon-N is similar to Darvon. A commonly prescribed pain killer whose drug name is propoxyphene hydrochloride. However, ac cording to Tennant, confusing the two drugs can have disastrous results because dosages are very different. The physician emphasized that 200 addicts on the new drug have been followed for only four months—too short a time to make a comprehensive evaluation. Women’s bank to open in New York New York — A group of leading feminists plans to open a special bank for women here next year. Although male customers will be given equal service, the First Women’s Bank and Trust Co. aim is to treat women depositors with a concern and trust that is rarely shown them in American . banking circles. Discrimination against women by banking and credit companies has been a persistent complaint of the women’s movement in the United States. Feminists are infuriated about the difficulty a working woman has obtaining credit in her own right once she is married, and the greater difficulty if she is a widow or divorcee. (The Oregon Students Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) released a study earlier this year documenting instances of discrimination against women in credit policies and practices of Oregon banks, savings and loan institutions, department stores and credit card companies.) Eileen Preiss, vice chairwoman of the New York State Democratic party, and Betty Friedan, founder of the women’s liberation movement in America, announced their plans for the bank last week. Both said they had no difficulty in raising the money to start it from investment companies that deal with large numbers of women. They said three fourths of the starting capitalization of $3.75 million already has been pledged. Young women coming out of college have a tremendous problem, Preiss said. They often need loans to pay off tuition fees or to get established in a profession, but while banks will help out young men ..in this situation, they feel women are too high a risk because they may soon marry. "We feel that women should be evaluated with different criteria from in the past. As banks we shall assume that they are as financially responsible as men.” Services offered by the new bank will include financial counseling for women about to start their own businesses, and for widows and divorcees suddenly faced with handling money matters to which they are unaccustomed. Preiss hopes to attract special investment from foundations to provide loans for needy women usually written off by conventional banks as high-risk cases. plenty of people who will tell it like it ain’t.” Kingsly told UPI in an in terview that the hundreds of foreign correspondents in Washington and the voluminous reports distributed by the in ternational news agencies could effectively destroy the credibility of the VO A if it tried to “sugar coat the pill,” or ignore significant developments. VOA tries to add its own per spective. “It is being said that the political system has failed the American people,” one VOA commentary said early this month. Bakers claim they need more bread WASHINGTON (UPI) — The baking industry says it is now losing money on bread. It wants the Cost of Living Council to permit industry-wide price hikes. Richard Daspit, president of the American Bakers Association, Monday reported an industry survey showing that the average firm was losing about one-tenth of a cent per loaf in January because of rising costs. The survey showed that the wholesale value of a one-pound loaf of bread during the month was 2>.P7 cents, while costs added up to 25.16 cents. The survey covered commercial bakeries excluding those owned by supermarkets. In 1972, prices averaged 24.73 cents, and costs were 24.06 cents, leaving a pre-tax profit of nearly seven-tenths of a cent for the wholesale baker. “We are dismayed but not surprised at these latest figures. We saw it coming last September when we asked the Cost of Living Council for relief. It is imperative that we get some response from them," Daspit said. Agency gets word from outside WASHINGTON (UPI) — The National Transportation Safety Board, supposedly an in dependent agency to investigate accidents and recommend safety measures, was the center of a controversy today on just how independent it is. Sen. Warren Magnuson, (D Wash.) says he has been told the board’s chairman, John Reed, was ordered by an ad ministration official “to cease issuing such reports which might in any way be construed as critical” of the Transportatpon Department and the Federal Aviation Administration. Magnuson did not name the official. Congressional sources said it was Assistant Transpor tation Secretary William Hef felfinger. He denied the charge. _ charge. The Senate Commerce Com mittee, headed by Magnuson, held a hearing Monday to look into the report. Reed, a former Republican governor of Maine, was alleged to have informed other members of the board that they would be “disciplined” by the ad ministration unless they con formed. 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