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Daily Times Herald Vol. 104 No. 223 Ruturn Postage Guaranteed Carroll, Iowa 51401, Friday, September 21, 1973 Pages Delivere'i by Carrier Boy Each Evening for 50 Cents Per Week Copy Biggest 1-Month Food Jump Since 1933 Price Surge Sharpest in 26 Years WASHINGTON (AP) Consumer prices jumped 1.8 per cent in August, the sharpest rate of increase in 26 years, the government reported today. The biggest one-month jump in 'food pi-ices since 1933 was to blame. The rise in over-all consumer prices was 1.8 per cent unadjusted and 1.9 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis, both the highest since September 1947.

The Labor Department said surging prices for meats, poullry and eggs accounted for about 80 per cent of the steep rise in the Consumer Price In- dex last month. Consumer food prices leaped a record 6 per cent in August, more than in any month since the 9.4 per cent increase in July 1933. Government economists had predicted the disastrous price report for August following the record-breaking boost in wholesale prices recorded earlier following the removal of frice restraints. A price freeze that began June 13 ended for food on July 18 and for almost everything else on Aug. 12.

Food prices included in the index were collected between Aug. 7-9 an prices for other items were collected throughout the month, the government said. Nonfood items jumped five- tenths of one per cent after seas a 1 adjustment, slightly above the average for recent months. The cost of services, soared seven-tenths of one per cent, the largest monthly rise in nearly three years, was due primarily to increases in mortgage interest rates, the department said. The figure showed that the prices of food purchased in grocery stores increased more in August than in any other month since World War surpassing even the inflationary post-World War II surge.

Grocery prices were up 7.4 cent unadjusted and 7.7 per on an adjusted basis, the lighest since the government began keeping records on a seasonally adjusted basis in 1946. The government said most of the August Increase was due to unusually sharp advances in poultry, eggs and pork. Beef and veal prices also rose sharply even though the freeze on red meat prices was not lifted until' early in September. Prices also rose for bread, milk and most other food items except tables. fresh fruit and vege- Americans also paid more to eat out, with the cost of restaurant meals and snacks rising 1.1 per cent.

With the August report, consumer prices have risen at an annual rate of 10 per cent over the past six months and 7.5 per cent over the past year. The August jump in consumer prices pushed the overall consumer price index to 135.1, meaning that it cost consumers $13.51 to buy a variety of goods that cost $10 in the 1967 base period. L.B. Rupiper Dies; Farm, Civic Leader ROSBLLE Louis B. Rupiper, 83, well-known Roselle farmer and civic leader, died of cancer at 4:10 p.m.

Thursday at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll, where he was a patient for the last five weeks. He had been ill for 13 months. Requiem mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Holy Angels Church, Roselle, by the Rev.

Richard Macke. Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll after 7 p.m. Saturday. The rosary will be recited Saturday at 8 p.m.

and Sunday at 3, 8 and 8:45 p.m. The 8 p.m. recitation Sunday will be by the Holy Name Society of the parish. Mr. Rupiper, who spent his entire life on the same farm one mile west of Roselle, was vice president of the Roselle Mutual Insurance Company for over 50 years until retiring in 1972.

He served as treasurer of the Roselle township school board from 1922 until it became a part of the Carroll Community School district. From 1940 until 1960, he was director of the Halbur Telephone Company until it became part of the Manning Telephone Company. While he was director, Halbur became the firs community in Carroll County to switch to the dial system. An avid softball fan, Mr. Ru piper donated a portion of his Louis Rupiper Rupiper See Page 2 Agnew and Nixon Meet WASHINGTON (AP) Amid continuing rumors that Vice President Spiro T.

Agnew may 36 considering resigning, he and President Nixon held a lengthy private meeting Thursday afternoon. A White House spokesman said today that, "the President and the vice president both agreed there would be no report or discussion on the meeting." Further, the spokesman said the two agreed that "there would be no discussion or com ment on the various rumors and stories based on uniden tified sources." This referred to the continuing reports, in eluding one from a high Re Agnew See Page 2 ELEVATOR FIRE GRAETTINGER, low fire of undeterminec origin gutted the Terminal Co op Elevator and attached grain storage buildings Thursda; night, causing an estimated $250,000 damage. Death Takes Daughter of Early Settlers Mrs. Glenn N. "Peg" Weeks, of Carroll died Thursday evening at the Carroll Health Center after a long illness.

She vas a descendant of a pioneer Carroll County family and the widow of a Carroll businessman, Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the United 'resbyterian Church in Carroll, with the Rev. Allan M. Peterson officiating. Burial will be the Carroll City Cemetery.

Wends may call at the Dah- Friends may call at the Dahn- Woodhouse Funeral Home from p.m. Friday until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, at which time the casket will be moved to tihe church. for viewing until the hour of services. Mrs.

Weeks was the former Leah Luthera Pelsue, daughter of Edson and Emma Gilley Pelsue. She was born at Carroll Aug. 25, 1895, and graduated from Carroll High School in 1914. She also graduated from St. Angela Academy in secretarial administration.

On Oct. 4, 1919, she married Mr. Weeks, who owned and operated a jewelry store in Carroll from 1919 until about 1963. He died in 1965. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.

Charles C. (Jane) Ingersoll of Des Moines and Mrs. James B. (Marcia) Porter of Kalispell, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death Mrs.

Weeks See Page 2 Mrs. Glenn N. Weeks Stabbing at Prison; Fires FORT MADISON, Iowa shops foreman at the Iowa State Penitentiary was stabbed Friday and prison officials reported that as many as three fires broke out in the shops section of the prison. The prison employe, George Medland, was under treatment at a hospital. Authorities said they took an inmate, Leonard Meharry, 27, Davenport, from the burning area and were questioning him.

Meharry Is serving 25 years on a Scott County conviction for robbery with aggravation. Fort Madison firefighters were called to battle the fires. New Comet to Outshine 1910 Halley's ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) If it measures up to expectations, the 1973 Kohoutek comet will far outshine the famous Halley's comet of 1910. Astronomers at the Fernbank Science Center here and scientists at observatories around the world are preparing to study the rare phenomenon which may be bright enough be seen in daylight.

The Kohoutek conpet will appear late in November and remain visible to the naked eye until mid-FebruarY. After Dec. 28, the comet wil begin to increase in brilliance. Astronomer Bob Hayward says that at its brightest, the comet could be 100 times more brilliant than the brightest star and its tail could extend in an arc 60 degrees from earth's horizon. Hayward said some scientific calculations indicate the comet is streaking toward the sun from some 279 billion miles out in space.

That's beyond Pluto, the most distant known planet in our solar system. The comet's eliptical orbit around the sun indicates it is part of the solar system. Astronomers predict the comet will not reappear for 50,000 years if it remains within the sun's gravitational pull. The comet, named for the A sampling of prices showed that meats, poultry and fish rose 16.6 per cent from July to August and were 40.7 per cent higher than a year ago. In the nonfood area, apparel prices rose in August instead of declining as they usually do in the summer months.

Prices for houses, home maintenance and repair commodities and fuel oil also in- reased. However, the government laid the effect of these increases were moderated some- vhat by declines in prices of new and used cars. A companion report said that real earnings of the average worker dropped 1.9 per cent in August as a result of the increase in consumer prices and average weekly earnings were down six-tenths of one per cent from August 1972. Real spendable earnings, after deduction of Social Secur- ty and income taxes, also dropped 1.9 per cent last month and have declined 2.1 per cent since August 1972. Likes Cubs You'd think "clawstropho- bia" would be suffered by Mary Ann Moore, a keeper at the zoo in St.

Louis, but actually she enjoys having the 3-month- old tiger cubs climb on her. The zoo has 15. Some Iowa Veterans May Get Bonus in Time for Christmas Prison See Page 4 Highway Unit Names Pinnow Frank Pinnow, manager of the Holiday motel here, was named secretary-treasurer of the Iowa Highway 30 association Thursday at a meeting of directors at Tama. He succeeds Leland Brauh of Boone, who resigned. The organization will hold its next meeting at Tony's Restaurant in Carroll at 11 a.m.

Thursday, Oct. 18. A. J. (Tony) Vorsten, manager of the restaurant, said about 25 are expected to attend.

The meetings are open to all interested persons. Purpose of the association is to promote modernization of the east-west highway across Iowa and development of the road as a tourist route through Iowa. The association has been assigned matching funds by the Iowa Development Commission, Vorsten said. West German astronomer who Comet See Page 4 Bulletin WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate today approved Henry A. Kissinger as secretary of state to succeed William P.

Rogers. Kissinger will retain his White House position as the President's assistant for national security affairs. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in approving the nomination 16 to 1 Tuesday, said its doubts whether one man could do two jobs were resolved in favor giving the new arrangement "a fair try." DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Some Vietnam veterans entitled to an Iowa bonus may get it in time for Christmas, Ray Kauffman, Iowa Bonus Board executive secretary, said Friday. The bonus board is rapidly gearing up to handle an anticipated flood of applications from some 88,000 eligible armed seryice veterans or survivors starting in October. "We 'don't know how long it will take to the indi- i a 1 applications," said Kauffman.

"But we hope to get a few checks out in time to give some veterans a Christmas present." The last legislature appropriated $28 million to pay a bonus to Vietnam veterans and the bonus board has been since tooling up to administer it. Oct. 1 will be the day when veterans first will be able to pick up application forms from their county recorder's office, Kauffman said. The forms wi llbe handed to Iowa highway patrolmen on that day at Camp Dodge as part of a ribbon cutting ceremony dedicating a new building that is being constructed adjacent to the bonus board headquarters to house the Vietnam bonus administrative staff. The patrolmen will deliver the forms to all 99 county recorders in the state before the day is out, Kauffman said.

He and state Auditor Lloyd Smith, bonus board chairman have sent out letters on behall of Gov. Robert Ray to several hundred government officials veterans organization members and others inviting them to at tend the ribbon cutting ceremony at which Ray will officiate. The same letter invites at tendance Sept. 28 at a "public service school" at Camp Dodge or persons interested in help- veterans fill out then- bonus application forms. "We don't know how many will show up for the ribbon-cut- ing ceremony," Kauffman said.

"But we expect about 750 'or the service and local officials, the 99 coun- recorders, representatives of veterans organizations and oth- er interested people." Bonus application forms will also be available at the Veterans Administration headquarters in Des Moines; VA hospitals in Des Moines, Iowa City and Knoxville: affairs department headquarters organizations, John B. Brokens, formerly is 'the Vietnam Bonus See Page 2 of all veterans Kauffman said. Rock Star Croce Killed NATCHITOCHES, Rock recording La. (AP) star Jim Croce, whose latest record 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" sold million with five copies, was other people killed when their chartered airplane crashed on take off from the airport here. Croce, 30, who has been doing series of one-nighters on a college tour, had pleted a concert western Louisiana here.

just com- at North- University The others killed in the Thursday night crash were identified from papers on their bodies as Maurice Muehleisen of Trenton, N.J., the only musician who appeared on stage with Croce, George Stevens of Englewood, a comedian who appeared before Croce took the stage; Dennis Rast of Chicago, Croce's manager; Kenneth Dominick Cortese of Chicago, a member of the agency which booked Croce for the college tour; and Robert Newton Elliott of Dallas, Croce See Page 2 Appointed Appointment of Robert A. Wright of Carroll to the Agribusiness and Rural Affairs Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce was announced Friday -'by President Edward B. Rust in Washington, D.C. Wright operates a livestock farra near Coon Rapids. The committee is responsible for guiding the National Chamber in its policies, programs and legislative work relative to agricultural and rural development.

Members help develop views and positions; of national and international issues. Fail to File; 4 in Area 120 Towns May Lose $472,499 New Classrooms Construction is nearing completion on the wood-frame building which will house two special education classrooms. The new building (above) is being built adjacent to the Carroll Community School central building on North Main Street. The two special education were previously located in the central building, but were needed for high school students this year. The Carroll County Board of Education voted Monday to rent space in the Carroll Knights of Columbus Photo hall for the two classrooms until the new building is completed.

Baumhover Construction Company workmen shown working on the building, from left, are, John Heuton, Steve Bird and Duane Kirsch, all of Carroll. Area Forecast (Carroll, Ida. Sac, Caihoun. Greene Crawford, Shelby, Audubon anU Guthrie Counties) (Mora Weather en 2) Rain threat ending early Friday night, becoming ipartly cloudy Saturday. Lows Friday night 50-55.

Highs Saturday around 70. Winds becoming west to northwesterly Friday night Rain chance in per cent: Friday night 30. By HARRISON WEBER (Iowa Daily Press Association) DES MOINES One hundred and twenty Iowa communities stand to lose $472,499 in federal revenue sharing funds because they haven't filed the necessary documents in Washington, D.C. (Four towns in the Carroll area are among those which the Office of Revenue Sharing in Washington said had not filed the needed reports. Revenue sharing payment which could be lost by these four towns totals $31,680.

(Guthrie Center is second on the list of 120 hi the amount of 1974 payments with $29,419. (But Guthrie Center City Olerk Merle Reeves said Friday morning he has published and mailed all documents which he has received concerning the 1974 revenue sharing payments. He said all forms were mailed to Washington in August. (Gray, which was listed as in danger of losing $1,625 in 1974 payments, has sent in all necessary forms, according to Richard Morrell, town clerk. Morrell said he mailed the documents just recently.

(Ralston town derk Mi's. Wayne Seaman said she has mailed all but one of the necessary forms, which keep a town eligible to receive revenue shar- ing funds. The 1974 Ralston payment is listed at $342. (Mrs. Seaman said she had mailed all forms, but then got two back because they had not been posted.

One of these two forms have been, mailed back to Washington and the other will be mailed soon, he said. (According to Iowa law, towns without local newspapers can post a document in at least three public places to fulfill the publishing requirements. (Willey stands to lose $294 in revenue sharing payments. However, Willey Town Clerk Arthur Greteman was not available Friday for comment on the documents.) Hugh Clarke, administrative officer in the state comptroller's office, has been busy telephoning local officials the past two days to inform them of'their status. But Clarke has only been able to contact a relatively small number of the affected officials, many of whom live in small towns.

i State officials received a letter, dated Sept. 17, from Office of Revenue Sharing in Washington asking for assistance in contacting 120 cities and towns, plus the Sac and Fox Tribal Council in Tama, too inform them they are in danger of losing their eligibility Revenue See Page 4 I.