.
orld oil crisis hurts South Africa
·d pay-
Africa - The or d
oil c .. has sho increasine
effects on intanational poJi­
ti in the so-called de elop-
n tio • and particularly
so in southern Africa. In the
Republic of South Africa, the
oil squeeze led to more
than 40 percent price inCJ1
in the past , and tbe price
prom· to continu to ri
. th line cos ing more
than S2.SO per gallon.
Oil imports in South Africa
have been reduced much
40 percent, ith the result
that commerce, industry anet
agriculture ha e had to anti­
cipate 20 percent reduction
in their up . . Ho old
are hit the ard .
i eria, one of the
orld's major oil producers,
i seen in South Afri
. eldin po ibly increased
political and economic influ-
ence throu hout outhern
frica and aIDong South
Africa' . in Europe and
the estern Hemisphere.
counter that histo ical d'
crimination ' Hillman id,
"It' important to b r in
mind that the t also
intended to alleviate
tiona! un mploy nt
timulate local economie
by building Deeded facili­
tie.' ee after.
cate
. Cb they could
br der than
the defendents.
85,000
or e 1"
dter ould
price in , one of
ver announced in recent day by m [or oil com­
pani , a ttributed by the company to the more
than 20 percent ri in orld crude oil prices since
autumn.
PLAZA ERe UY ORE PROTECI'IO
Police and rue protection ere in th forefron t
di 'on during th Benton Township Board of
ruste meeting 1 t Tue day night.
A big boo t for th police department cam in
the form of a che for 4,823 pre nted to the
b rd by Joseph Giannola, manager of F irplain
Plaza Development Co.
Giannola id he s repre nting Concerned
Citizens fOT Benton Township Police Department, a
gr p of b . from throughout the towrnlllln
spearheading a fund drive to elp p y for a police
. tdler in order to reinsta the night patrol