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Home Papet of 70 Communities Galesburg Cloudy, Chance of Rain Low Tonight 403 Mild, Showers Thursday High Around 60 A Better 'Newapapev VOLUME 1-XXXII 74 GALESBURG, ILL, 61401 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1973 PRICE TEN CINTS Spiraling Food Prices Become Public Enemy No. 1 By United Press Intemaitional Everybody from meat packers to cattle rustlers and politicians to moonshiners involved themselves today in maneuvers affecting the cost of the family '3 food budget. There were calls for price controls and warnings of higher labor demands if upward price spirals aren't slowed. There was evidence that the message from a mounting revolt was beginning to be heard as livestock markets reported a sharp drop in prices, though there was a warning the tactic could backfire. Oren Lee Staley, president df the National Farmers Organization (NFO), hinted that farmers may counter with a strike of their own if consumers drive down meat prices by successful boycotts.

He said NFO will hold a series of meetings this weekend to plan action and said "The sharp decline in livestock prices caused by the chain store boycott is going to mean positive NFO action next week." AFL-CIO President George Meany urged Congress to clamp price controls on farm products, reimpose rent controls and enact an excess profits tax. He warned that unions will be forced to demand wage increases if prices continue to climb. The promoters of "April Fool's Week" meat boycott said they were surprised at how talk of the protest has spread all across the country, even though there was no central organized effort beliind it. Hog prices were off $3 to $4.25 at markets in Nashville, Memphis and the Georgia- Florida-Alabama market at Thomasville, Ga. At St.

Louis hog prices dipped by $3 per hundredweight, the sharpest one-day decline on record, and prices were as much as $3.75 ower at Omaha, Louisville, and Joliet, 111. In Oklahoma, cattle prices recorded one-day drops of $3 to $5 per hundredweight. "It is our biggest single day drop," Troy McKalvey of the United Livestock Commission reported. In New York, the city Health Department released a "money saving menu" based on low- cost high protein foods. It contained no meat and was dominated by cheeses and seafood.

Official Pleads Innocent An official of a New York City supermarket group pleaded innocent to federal charges of conspiring to bribe meat buyers and labor officials to overcome resistance to boxed beef shipped from Nebraska and Iowa to the New York area. Cattlemen in California's Sierra foothills armed selves to hunt rustlers who have been stealing and butchering cows to cash in on skyrocketing beef prices, and warned "there's going to be some killing." Lawmen in Florida reported that moonshiners and safecrackers were turning to cattle rustling because it promises bigger profits. In Portland, Ed Carroll, owner of the J.H, Horsemeat Market was out of stock again Tuesday. Carroll opened for business at 9 a.m. Monday and by 2 p.m.

block-long lines that ran five-deep at his counter had disappeared. So had his 3,700 pounds of horsemeat, which sold at a top price of 95 cents a pound for tenderloin horse steak, compared with $2.95 for beef tenderloin. Consumers Supermarket, a food store cooperative in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of Washington, announced those stores would be closed this Saturday in a "protest aimed at stimulating the White House to (Continued on Page 11) Where to Find It 4 SECTIONS Abingdon 27 Amusement 6 Bushnell 5 Classified Ads Comlcs-Radio 35 Editorial 4 Food Section 27-34 Galva 10 48 PAGES Hospital Notes 11 Knoxville 27 Markets 42 Monmouth 34 Obituary 11 Sports 25-26 Weatlicr 2 Women in the News 8 9 Fun and Games Over PINE RIDGE, S. (UPI) The government says the "fun and games are over" at Wounded Knee and promised to end the four-week armed occupation of this historic Oglala Sioux settlement "one way or the other." Assistant Attorney General Kent Frizzell Tuesday announced the government's attitude hours after a U.S. marshal was seriously wounded during the heaviest outburst of gunfire between federal marshals and militants since the Indians stormed the Wounded Knee Trading Post Feb.

27, taking arms, ammunition and 11 hostages. The hostages were released two days later. "This is senseless," Frizzell said of the shooting. "It has got to stop and it is going to stop one way or the other by negotiation or otherwise The fun and games are over." No Changes in Policy By United Press International Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and a cabinet containing six generals take office today with the announced intention of a "total confrontation" with Israel. Cairo newspapers said Sadat and the cabinet would take oaths of office today.

In Israel, first reaction came from newspapers that said the new government did not indicate a marked change in Cairo policy on resolving the Middle East crisis. "Sadat has pointed out no change in Egyptian thinking said the Tel Aviv newspaper Ha'aretz. "Therefore, there is no room for hopes and expectations for flexibility on the part of Egypt and movement toward some sort of political settlement in the near future." Sadat announced a 36-man cabinet late Tuesday and assumed the prime minister's post himself thus copying a step taken by the late Gamal Abdel Nasser after the 1967 Middle East war. "The stage of total confrontation has became inevitable and we are entering it whether we like it or not," Sadat said. "The military situation with Israel must be made to move, with all the sacrifices that this entails." ISorth to Discuss MI As CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (UPI)-A Pentagon official in charge of prisoner of war activities said today the North Vietnamese have indicated they will talk about the 1,300 Americans missing in action once the POW return is completed.

Brig. Gen. Russell G. Ogan, 49, Reading, the director of the Pentagon's Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Office, said Hanoi also indicated a willingness to discuss men killed in action and the return of bodies. "We have been led to believe they have done a very good job of record keeping," Ogan told newsmen.

"They will have this type of information available." Ogan acknowledged the information so far gleaned from returning POWs on the missing and dead was less than anticipated "I'd say there is some information but not as much as we probably hoped for," he said "I wouldn't want to say anything that would falsely raise the hopes of those families who do have missing men" Student Unrest in Chile SANTIAGO (UPI) President Salvador Allende formed a new cabinet Tuesday, rival student organizations fought riot police and thousands of leftwing workers demanded pay raises. Allende replaced his three military ministers with civilians in a partial reorganization of his 15-man cabinet that gave greater power to four small leftwing groups within AUende's coalition. Socialists kept four cabinet positions and Communists three and together retained their over-all supremacy in the government. Allende said the new cabinet would try to overcome serious economic problems facing Chile and warned that the government would crush any violent challenge to it. As Allende swore in the new cabmet in the presidential palace, riot police fired tear gas to prevent a student clash five blocks away outside Catholic University.

Students were demonstrating for and against the government's opposition to a university-sponsored television channel in Concepcion, 350 miles south. Group of POWs Receives Wild Welcome Home Today CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (UPI) Scores of American fighter pilots and a beautiful blonde stewardess staged a wild, tumultuous welcome today for 40 U. S. war prisoners released from captivity in North Vietnam. The 40 POWs, all young Navy, Marine and Air Force fliers captured within the last or so, were released from Uieir prison camps in Hanoi flown here for processing bjfore returning to the United Slates.

Also released today 10 U.S. POWs from Laos, hose detention at one point threatened the Vietnam peace agreement. The twin release left 67 in North Vietnamese prisons for one more night. I (leir freedom flights scheduled for Thursday are to coincide with the final U.S. troop withdrawals from South Viet- II m.

Forty-five pilots from an Air 1 3rce fighter wing and about 20 Navy pilots from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea converged on the flight line when a C141 carrying the 40 ex- prisoners arrived today from Hanoi. The most tumultuous welcome yet seen at Clark broke out as the ex-prisoners stepped from the aircraft into bright television lights. "Welcome home Davy," boomed one of the pilots from the crowd as Navy Lt. Cmdr. David W.

Hoffman, 32, of San Diego walked to a waiting hospital bus. Hoffman stopped, peered into the crowd about 50 (Continued on Page 11) Mrs, Mitchell Can 'Name In Watergate Scandal NEW YORK (UPI)-Mrs. John N. Mitchell says she is afraid that somebody is trying to make her husband take the blame for the Watergate scandal. Mrs.

Mitchell, the former attorney general's wife, said in a telephone call to the New York Times that "I'm really scared. I have a definite reason. I can't tell you why. But they're not going to pin anything on him. I won't let them and I don't give a damn who gets 1 can name names." Three Men Hijack Bus Released by PathetLao Lt.

Henry J. Bedinger, 28, of San Diego, Bedinger and six other American POWs were flashes sign after leaving hospital released Tuesday by the Pathet Lao. transport plane today at Clark Air Base. UNIFAX BANGKOK (UPI) -Three men took over a loaded bus at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport today and demanded to be provided with a plane to fly them to Peking. Troops were rushed to the airport and ringed the bus.

Prime Muiister Thanom Kit- tikachorn and other ment officials sped to the scene. Police said there were 40 to 50 passengers being hostage aboard the bus by three men wielding hand grenades. They said the bus was believed to have arrived from Korat, 130 miles northeast of Bangkok where a large U.S. Air Force Base is located. McCord Goes Before Committee WASHINGTON (UPI) Convicted Watergate conspirator James W.

McCord begins closed-door testimony under oath today before a special Senate committee probing political espionage in the 1972 campaign. McCord, former security chief for President Nixon's reelection campaign, had said he wanted no more interviews with committee lawyers but instead wanted to speak to the full seven-member committee, Senate sources reported. The sources said McCord's reason for this request was that parts of interviews he had held Ship Missing The Norwegian ship Anita is reported missing off the eastern coast of the United States in the same area where her sister ship, the Norse Variant, sanlc last week. The Anita carries a crew of 32. Coast Guard officials disclosed today that 28 of Norse Variant's 29 crew members were killed when the freighter sank in a fierce Atlantic storm.

UNIFAX Friday and Saturday with Samuel Dash, the committee's chief counsel, and Fred Thompson, its Republican counsel, had leaked to the press. Sen. Howard H. Baker R- committee vice chairman, said the members voted to "invite" McCord and his attorney, Bernard Fenterwald, to appear at the session set for 1:30 p.m. EST today.

Preparation for Hearings Baker said the testimony would be "fully sitoject to the penalties of perjury." He said questions would "range over a wide spectrum" and that the session would be "a full and thorough interview" in preparation for later hearings in open session. These have been scheduled for May. The committee undoubtedy will want to question McCord under oath about his charges during the earlier committee interviews that White House Counsel John W. Dean III and former Nixon campaign official Jeb Stuart Magruder had prior knowledge of the June 17 bugging of Democratic headquarters at the Watergate. These charges have been categorically denied by the White House on behalf of Dean and by Magruder.

Committee Chairman Sam J. Ervin will not be present for the session. He was flying to North Carolina for the funeral of a brother who died Tuesday. McCord was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and electronic eavesdropping. On Friday he charged in a letter to District Judge John J.

Sirica that "others" as yet unnamed were involved in the case. His sentencing was deferred. Other Developments In other developments: Watergate defendant, former White House (Continued on Page 11) This fact may have been the cause of unconfirmed reports that the hijackers were American GIs. Newsmen at the scene said the three longhaired men were Thai. Kittikachom and Thai officials persuaded them to free their hostages in exchange for a flight to freedom in Cairo.

Last Troops Will Leave On Thursday SAIGON (UPI) Another 1,800 American servicemen headed home today, their departure timed to coincide with the release of 49 U.S. POWs by Hanoi and the Pathet Lao in Laos. The departure aboard gleaming "freedom birds" left 2,501 American servicemen in South Vietnam. They will leave for home Thursday, one day after the deadline set by the Paris truce agreement. Nineteen transport planes, including for the first time giant Boeing 747 jets, began airlifting the U.S.

servicemen out of South Vietnam two months to the day after the start of the Vietnam cease-fire. Military spokesmen said the exodus from Tan Son Nhut Air Base on Saigon's outskirts also involved 707 jethners, C141 Starlifters, 727 aircraft and propeller-driven C130 Hercules transports. The "Operation Countdown" withdrawal program will end Thursday when the 2,501 remaining GIs depart for home aboard military and charter planes. Release of the last group of U.S. POWs, 67 men held by the North Vietnamese, also is planned Thursday.

Almost 1,000 of the 6,300 American troops left in Vietnam pulled out Tuesday when the withdrawal program resumed after a 12-day halt (Continued on Page II) Downtown Galesburg Unlimited's 'Spring Fling' Starts Thursday.