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sau Daily Record- WAU VOL.65 No. 119 4 SECTIONS WAUSAU, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1973 15 CENTS U.S. moves indicate Viet peace pact may be coming apart in North Vietnamese waters last May. Confirming the action Thursday, Jerry W. Friedheim, the Pentagon spokesman, blamed "continued cease-fire violations by the other side in South Vietnam and Laos." But the foreign ministry in Hanoi said the suspension was evidence of a premeditated plan to prolong the sea blockade.

Besides, only three mines of the tens of thousands in the By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) In a series of tactical moves, the United States has served notice on Hanoi that the Vietnam peace agreement may be in danger of flying apart. First the Navy suspended minesweeping operations in North Vietnamese waters. Then the chief U.S. delegate to Paris talks on reconstruction of the war-torn country was U.S. officials noted privately that there still was considerable room for diplomacy.

At least two trump cards that could be played would be sending Henry Kissinger to Hanoi or to Paris for another round of negotiations or reconvening the original 12-nation Paris peace conference. North Vietnam made the initial announcement that the United States had suspended the sweeping of mines it placed its troops from Cambodia and Laos. Rogers acknowledged that the United States had intensified its bombing in Cambodia, as well as carrying out a two-day raid in Laos, and he recalled the threat of "appropriately vigorous reactions" issued jointly by President Nixon and South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu on April 3. Although these actions were intended to be taken seriously, "The North Vietnamese and their friends cannot reasonably expect to pick and choose as to those portions of the agreement which they wish to observe and those which they wish to disregard," he said. The State Department spokesman avoided a direct response to a newsman's suggestion that the cease-fire agreement was now "in a state of special jeopardy." Water called home for 'con- sultations." And finally, Secretary of State William P.

Rogers told Hanoi Thursday that the administration would drop its assistance plan unless North Vietnam lives up the pact signed in Paris Jan. 27. The three pressure moves were designed to persuade North Vietnam to stop infiltrating men and equipment into South Vietnam and to withdraw wymmmmfy Hunger strike planned despite his I Mi r.rtim 'wii I tZuiMm i linn Sources close to the Senate Watergate investigation have told The Associated Press that the Justice Department expects to see all three of them indicted, along with others. Magruder, who was Mitchell's second-in-command at the Nixon campaign, reportedly has told federal prosecutors that Mitchell and Dean helped plan the Watergate bugging and later arranged payoffs to buy silence from men convicted of the crime. Magruder has been unavailable to newsmen, but his lawyer says he intends to testify voluntarily when called before the grand jury.

For his part, Mitchell told newsmen Thursday that the WASHINGTON (AP) Former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell was quoted today as accusing other Nixon campaign officials of planning the Watergate bugging, and more extensive intelligence operations as well, over his personal veto. Mitchell spoke to a reporter in the offices of federal prosecutors prior to an appearance before a federal grand jury.

He confirmed a news account that he had told friends he attended three meetings at which plans to bug the Democrats were proposed, and had rejected the plans. "I want to add the plans were not just to bug somebody," Mitchell said. "They were for more detailed intelligence. We were not there arguing that state sales tax begins at 13 cents. The state says the law is 4 per cent of gross receipts and forced Rand to close March 31st for failure to pay taxes.

George Rand, a Green Bay sandwich shop owner, says he'll carry out a hunger strike begun Tuesday to the death. He protests having to pay sales tax on gross receipts that include 10 cent candy bars, SilMHHHiiHNK Green Bay man vows hunger strike over state sales tax just to discuss bugging." Mitchell's conversation was cut short as the reporter, Lesley Stahl of CBS, was asked to leave. What Mitchell was quoted as confirming was a report in The New York Times saying Mitchell told his friends that Jeb Magruder and G. Gordon Liddy proposed bugging plans on three different occasions and that he vetoed them. Magruder was Mitchell's second-in-command at the campaign, and has reportedly told prosecutors that the bugging operation was planned and approved by Mitchell and White House counsel John W.

Dean HI. Liddy was a lawyer for the campaign and is serving a jail term after being convicted in Prices soared for meats and poultry, and supermarket -prices jumped 3 2 per cent in This is a rate unequal-ed since the bureau began computing grocery prices in 1952. Seasonally adjusted, grocery prices were up 3.1 per cent, also an all-time high. March prices for meats, poultry and fish were up 6.9 per cent unadjusted and 6 per cent seasonally adjusted. Both were record figures.

The surge in consumer prices pushed the government's retail price index up at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 8.8 per cent for the first quarter of the year, compared to an advance of only 3.2 per cent for the final three months of 1972. March food prices rise at highest rate in 22 years waters had been deactivated by the U.S. Navy, the ministry said. The Jan. 27 cease-fire agreement calls for removal of the mines.

Recall of Maurice Williams, Deputy director of the Agency for International Development, from the Paris reconstruction talks was announced by Charles W. Bray, the State Department spokesman. the bugging conspiracy. Mitchell's statement today seemed to conflict with a sworn statement he made in a civil case last Sept. 1, when he said he knew of no one higher than Liddy who was involved in the burglary, wiretapping and bugging incident.

But Mitchell said all his previous statements remained "operative," particularly his insistence that he didn't know about raid plans in advance. Mitchell, Magruder and Dean are now engaged in a three-cornered argument, carried out through public statements and news leaks, over which of them should bear blame for planning the Watergate operation. These youngsters enjoy the rounding their trailer home on Morgan City, La. Over 600 National Inflation pressure WASHINGTON (AP) An inflation rate that, if continued, would take 6 cents out of each consumer dollar by year's end is creating new pressure for tighter wage-price controls. President Nixon is resisting any such move, but the resistance appears to be weakening as reports of sharp price increases continue to undermine his largely voluntary Phase 3 control program.

The latest Gross National Product report, announced Thursday, shows inflation during the first three months of 1972 up by 6 per cent on a yearly basis. The immediate effect of the inflation spiral, already felt by most shoppers, officially is recorded today with Labor Department release of the March consumer price index. It reflects the 2.2 per cent hike in March wholesale prices, highest in 20 years. Although the President is BIBLE TEXT "I can do nothing on my own authority; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment Is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me." John 5:30. ys I I I1' TWIN'S "That is entirely a function of the actions of the other side," he said without subscribing to the descriotion.

In Paris, the Hanoi delegation said Williams' recall had the effect of sabotaging the joint U.S.-Hanoi economic commission set up under the peace agreement "to help heal the wounds of war and contribute to the postwar reconstruction" of North Vietnam. veto Magruder report is "nonsense." Today the New York Times said Mitchell had told friends he was present at three meetings last year when Magruder and G. Gordon Liddy, later convicted in the conspiracy, proposed plans to bug the opposition party headquarters. But the Times quoted sources as saying Mitchell insisted he rejected the plans at all three meetings. Dean was present at one or more of the meetings, Mitchell reportedly said.

An associate told the AP today that Mitchell has said privately if he had known of the See WATERGATE, Pg. 8, Col. 7 wirtphoto but is in an Easter recess and will not return until April 30. The administration won its fight on Capitol Hill against proposals to freeze all prices at their March 16 levels and direct the President to order price rollbacks. The GNP report released Thursday showed that inflation in the first three months of the year rose at an annual rate of 6 per cent, the biggest quarterly bulge in prices since the 1970 recession, and more than double the inflation rate the administration would like to see by the end of the year.

Both Congress and the business community are clamoring for tougher government action against the inflation problem. The administration says that the federal budget and the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve Board now must play the key roles In halting the inflationary spiral. The President Is committed against another economic tactic that could slow down the economy and the rate of inflation-raising taxes. Jest a minute Income tax: The fine you pay for thriving too fast. gate the tax, keep records, pay the state and even pay the state for taxes they are unable to collect." The state says Rand owes $557 in back taxes.

His retailer's license was revoked on March 31 for non-payment and the store has been closed since then. Wisconsin retailers are required to collect and forward to the state a 4 per cent tax on their gross sales, but the customer does not pay any tax on items costing 12 cents or less because 4 per cent of that amount is too small to round out to a penny. Most of his business was with children who bought low-priced WASHINGTON (AP) Food prices climbed to record levels for the third straight month in March, propelling the cost of living to its highest rate of increase in 22 years, the government said today. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said the cost of living jumped nine-tenths of one per cent last month, the sharpest increase since February 1951 at the height of the Korean War inflationary period. Taking into account normal seasonal fluctuations, the March increase was eight-tenths of one per cent, matching last February's jump which was the biggest increase in 22 years.

I i Jf I aw rtee i -o I'm ff wireptioto items such as gum and candy bars. Rand also said lie objects to a $500 deposit required by the state. "Why doesn't every professional man, industry, wholesaler, even wage earner, not have to post $500 for the right to make a living in Wisconsin," he said. Rand, who is married, said he will sit in the window "with only water until the majority of the people of Wisconsin and especially the retailers help me have this phony sales tax removed." Students from West High School across the streetstop by to talk to him, and he reads and watches television. Hundreds of persons took communion from the hands of the Pope.

The holy rites concluded with the stripping of the richly decorated alter as a symbol of the stripping of Christ's garments before the crucifixion. In Jerusalem, thousands of tourists and pilgrims crowded into the walled Old City for the Easter celebrations and for the Jewish Passover, which this year coincide. The government strengthened its security guard because Israel is also celebrating its 25th anniversary as a state, and it was feared that Arab guerrillas might try to make new headlines with attacks on the visitors. ers of Wisconsin something more than campaign oratory," Lucey said. His budget included provision for a record $521 million in tax relief.

Within the committee budget recommendation is some $60 million of "surplus" funds carrying no designated use. Lawmakers may spend it throughout the session on other legislation. Among amendments passed Thursday was a compromise plan to keep the Green Bay Reformatory open at reduced inmate and employe levels. Lucey had originally recommended shutting it down. Enjoying the high water celebrate Good Friday GREEN BAY, Wis.

(AP) -George Rand describes himself as a very stubborn man. And Wisconsin's sales tax has made him an angry man-so angry, in fact, that he's staging a hunger strike in the window of his small dairy store on Green Bay's West He has been in the window since 11 a.m. Monday, and says he plans to stay there until he starves or until he gets considerable help in having the sales tax removed. Rand, 63, said Wisconsin's 4 per cent sales tax is discriminatory and unconstitutional. "It discriminates against only one group of people-retailers," he said.

"Retailers must collect Christians By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Christians around the world attended Good Friday services today to usher in the Easter weekend, and many prepared to flee crowded city life for holidays in the country or at the seashore. Pilgrims were to retrace Christ's steps to Calvary through the narrow streets of Jerusalem, and in Rome Pope Paul VI was to preside over services at noon in St. Peter's Basilica. After dusk the Pope, who will be 76 this year, was to carry a cross from the Colosseum to the ruins of the Temple of Venus in the annual Way of the Cross procession. $2.77 billion high water sur- been called into the area that is threatened with the the outskirts of possibility of additional high water.

Guardsmen have On the inside Park Department to operate recreation program Park Department will operate summer program in Wausau area. Page 3. Marathon County Board committees are announced. Page 3. Lincoln County Board approves new personnel ordinance for the sheriff's department.

Page 25. is creating new for price controls Page 3 Business 22 25 Comics 24 4 Horoscope 6 19 Farm 23 6 Wausau area churches 18 8 Merrill churches 18 Classified 10 Wausau news Merrill news Editorial Sports Family Living Weather Obituary Putting aside his gold and white mitre and chasuble for a deacon's vestment and apron, the Pontiff left his throne in the Lateran Basilica Thursday to wash the feet of 12 children in the annual papal re-enactment of Christ's washing the feet of the 12 Apostles on the eve of his death. The Lateran Basilica is the Pope's cathedral as bishop of Rome, and in a 10-minute homily he told the crowd of 6,000 that he was their host just as Christ was host to his disciples at the Last Supper. "A duty that we must revive in our hearts is that of remembering Jesus the way he wanted to be," the Pope said. however, said the two proposals should not be compared until committee amendments are more thoroughly analyzed.

Neither Lucey's original budget plan nor the committee's altered version includes provision for any state tax increases, the first time that has happened in six years. When he made his budget request to a joint session of the legislature Feb. 1, the governor said his spending levels represented an austerity budget. His proposal was a 43 per cent increase over the current $1.9 billion level, and it included "an opportunity to offer the long-suffering property tax pay Legislators advance state budget considering ways to toughen his Phase 3 program, his economic advisers are not convinced that any tightening will be effective. They feel this way because the economy is reaching boomlike proportions with heavy demand for a number of products, an economic condition that tends to push prices up.

The administration's economic officials feel that a return to mandatory wage-price controls such as existed prior to Jan. 11, or even a freeze, would blow up in the face of the fast economic expansion. Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz, who is closest to Nixon on economic matters, is opposed to tougher controls and wants to return to a free economy as soon as possible. But Shultz is reported to feel that the recent sharp increase in prices has made it necessary to tighten up for psychological reasons, at least for a while.

The administration is expected to move soon, according to officials close to the situation. One report circulating is that Nixon will act at the time he signs the bill extending his authority to control wages and prices for another year. That authority expires April 30. Congress has all but completed action on the measure, In order to get to the 300-man limit at Green Bay, state officials would transfer inmates to other institutions. The compromise, which put $5 million back in the state budget to operate the institution, passed 8-5 over GOP objections that the prison should continue operating at least until the annual budget review in January, 1975.

The committee approved $2.1 million for remodeling the Fox Lake Correctional Institution, the Kettle Moraine Boys' School and the Mendota State Hospital. See STATE, Page 8, Column 1 The compromise was introduced to the panel with Lucey's blessing after the governor learned that the prison's population was growing instead of declining as had been predicted. It would allow the reformatory to remain open at least until April 1, 1974, with an inmate population of no more than 300 men and a cut in staff from the present 260 to 160. The prison presently holds about 600 inmates. But if the state's inmate population after April 1 averages 1,900 or less for three consecutive months, the reformatory would be closed.

By WILLIAM S. BECKER Associated Press Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) The legislature's Joint Finance Committee Thursday approved its version of Wisconsin's no-tax-increase budget for the two-year fiscal period which begins July 1. The 8-6 action along party lines, with Democrats in the majority, sent the budget toward introduction in the Assembly. The Joint Finance proposal, totaling $2.77 billion, appeared somewhat smaller than Gov.

Patrick J. Lucey's original document for $2.78 billion. The finance committee staff,.