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\ P erspective COMMON SENSE By RONALD REAGAN It was quite a weekend sight: the Los Angeles freeways almost empty of autos. Word of gasoline shortages had ballooned into panic buying by Friday and tens of thousand of motorists found themselves grounded for the weekend. It had happened as quickly as it did in early 1974 when the Arab oil embargo was on. At that time, when I was governor of California, we instituted a plan to sel> gasoline on odd- numbered days to car® with odd numbered 'licenses; and on even days to even numbers This quickly reduced the panic aspect of the problem and in little over a month most of the counties that had adopted the plan were able to phase it out. When the panic hit this time the state government dusted off the 1974 plan, added a few new touches and offered it up to grateful county governments. It should have the same effect. It is symptomatic of the no-win character of the energy problem, however, that on the day of the worst panic buying and longest lines in Los Angeles - a warm day with tempers mounting - President Carter arrived and the Los Angeles Times headline read, "Gasoline Shortage to Worsen, Says Carter". Since then, government of­ ficials have been frequently quoted in the news media to the effect that the California-style shortages will begin to work their way across the country. Who's to blame? According to some public opinion polls, many people suspect the oil companies have plenty of gasoline and are just waiting for prices to go to $1 a gallon to lossen up the supply. At the same time, the Department of Energy is pressuring refineries to step up production of heating oil (instead of gasoline) to provide ample reserves for the Northeast next winter. And, the effect of the interruption in the flow of Iranian oil is just now being felt. Add it up and you get reduced deliveries to gasoline stations and thus shortages. Souther California, which grew up with the automobile and is thus dependent on it, has been especially hard hit. Despite the appeal of oil company conspiracy theories, one nflust wonder if it isn't really government tinkering that is at the heart of the problem. The federal govern­ ment allocates gasoline geographically, it pressures refineries on product mix and it artificially controls pump prices. Then, when this com­ plex system, overseen by thousands of Department of Energy bureaucrats, doesn't result in more supply, the politicians scold motorists and rail at the oil companies. Now, with the ad­ ministration's "windfall profit" tax being debated in Congress, we are faced with the prospect of decontrolled prices but with the money which would come from higher prices being channeled right into the government's bottomless money pit rather than into ex­ ploration And production. . What is needed, instead, is a provision exempting from such taxes those new funds which the energy producers plow back into exploration, development and production. Whether this will happen is problematic. At times, com­ mon sense seems in as short supply in Washington as gasoline in in Southern California. Hospital Names Director If Aay what's a sinking ,rPa, fund?" "A place, my son, where they hide the profits from the stockholders." So says the V A. YOUNG OR. KILOARE By Ken Bald THE VA PROVIPES COMPLETE HOSPITAL CARE COVERING THE.PULL RANGE > OF ME&CAL SERVICES FOR ELIGIBLE VETERANS Contact nearest VA office (check your phone book) or a local veterans group. LEROY PESCE LeRoy Pesce, 38, has been named executive director of Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, Farlin Caufield, president has an­ nounced. Pesce, associate director at Riverside Medical center in Kankakee, will assume his new duties June 4. He and his wife, Karen, and their three children are seeking a home in the Woodstock area. They now live in Bourbonnais, a small town near Kankaee. Their children are Julie, 15; Chris 13; and Matt, 9. The Pesces moved to Kankakee in 1975 when Pesce was named assistant director at the Riverside Medical center. For two years he was responsible for environmental services, maintenance, food services, materials management, pathology and pharmacy at this 322-bed facility. He also directed a $5 million construction program from design development through Md selection, incuding several successful certificate-of-need applications and financial feasibility studies. In May, 1977 he was promoted to his present position as associate director. For the past two years he has been responsible for pharmacy, r a d i o l o g y , p a t h o l o g y , anesthesia, social service, mental health, respiratory therapy, risk management, and materials management. Caufield said among Pesce's achievements the past year was the start of the risk management function and a group purchase program that resulted in a $90,000 annual savings. Pesce entered hospital ad­ ministrative work after seven years' experience in personnel and labor relations. He had obtained his Bachelor of B u s i n e s s a d m i n i s t r a t i o n degree in 1962 from the Un- viersity of Wisconsin. In 1968 he obtained his Master's degree at Mankato State university, Mankato, Minn., in the same field. He shifted to the health care field in 1970 when he was hired by two hospitals at Minneapolis to develop a new human resource program based on his industrial ex­ perience. Mrs. Pesce is working as a physical therapist but she is also going to graduate school part-time at Loyola University to obtain her Master's degree. PAGE 9 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, IVUY 25, 19iv Too Nice He (at movies)--Can you ;• see all right? She-Yes. He--Is there a draft on you? She--No. He-Seat comfortable? 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