LLJ (1) CLEMENTS LLJ FOR GOVERNOR 2111 N. Akard, Dallas, Texas 75201. Tel. 214-745-1978 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tyler, March 21 Bill Clements, Gubernatorial Candidate, opened his East Texas campaign headquarters here Tuesday with a call for "turning the petroleum industry loose" on the energy problem. At a News Conference in the new office at 2531 East Fifth Street, Clements declaree President Carter's plan is a "disaster." "All he has done is side with (House Speaker) Tip O'Neill and Senator Kennedy and other liberals of the Northeast who are saying to us in Texas, 'you must supply us with cheap fuel'," Clements declared. opposed to it." "And in effort, we are subsidizing their fuel." "This is absurd, and as a Texan, I'm absolutely The oil drilling executive said "as a man who LLJ LLI has spent 40 years in the energy field, we must have a program of production."W Clements said "we must unfetter the petroleum industry and turn loose the great industrial base that represents the free enterprise system of America." "That is what it's all about." Clements said the nation must study nuclear and solar energy but that oil and gas represent the immediate hope, and the alternatives lie in the future. The candidate was introduced by Bill Lust, president of the Republican County Chairman's Association of Texas. At night he was honored at a reception at the Sheraton Inn. NEWS RELEASE Pd. Pol. Adv. by Clements for Governor Campaign Comm., Tom B. Rhodes, Treas.
