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Little Change Found In Beef Prices As Freeze Ends Umd bttle Mtffe far jwt what wmid Mfpa later the week. for Saieway stores hi the Waatinttao, D.C., am, said: "Aa af right now noUuof has eaaifed. We an stil) study the regulations. Wc need to vfeat tht vhok aurtet to do The story was the same Miami. Roe Pitts, the manager of a Publix supermarket, said ha was waiting to see what would happen when suppliers issue new price lists, reflecting not only the end of the beef ceiling, but also the be ginning of new regulations on other foods.

For now, Pitts said, "all our THE MATHER MOSTLY clear tonight, low in mid 50s. Tuesday partly cloudy, high near 80. Details on Page 12A VOLUME 161, NO. 62 friccs stayed toe sane not euL The awaounc said. Maty iuuuHtry apfceswea said eausumer buytog patieras would be a major factor to the price tread.

"If the housewives oedde the price is too high and don't buy, the price is going to have to come hack down," said Ed Spear, a ipokfKmait for Armour A Co. "On the other hand, if they continue buying, it may go up some." The manager of MP store to Detroit said there was no change in prices this morning. "It's too early to toll what effect it (the lifting of the ceiling) will have on consumer demand," he said. "We haven't noticed anything yet." A spokesman for the Path mark chain, which about 100 stores along the East era Seaboard, said meat prices won't change before Wednesday the day the beef ceiling originally was scheduled to 2 Die In Road BULLETINS WASHINGTON (AP Nixon's lawy era urged an appeals court today vacate federal Judge John J. Sirica's Watergate tapes ruling.

Ultimately, the ruling impllei "fir Im Ugh a price to pay for atonement of Watergate," the lawyers said. The President's lawyers maintained that the judge had no authority to issue his Aug. order that Nixon ton aver for Sirica's private inspection tape recordings of wmie we oreer was not broad en court's eariier Vision van us siaii not Sirica foun(1 no evidence of invasion should bear from the tapes. WASHINGTON (AP) Atty. Gen.

Elliot L. Richardson today offered the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a glimpse at the summary of an FBI report on national security wiretaps. The committee put off until later today a decision on whether to pursue the material, requested in its consideration of the nomination of Henry A. Kissinger to be Secretory of State. Shark Kills Refugee HONK KONG (AP) A shark killed 20 year old Tsang Kai shing as he was escaping from China by swimming across Mirs.

Bay to Hong Kong. Two other Chinese with him were not hurt, and a police launch pulled them from the bay along with Tsarig's body. tsang was the second refu gee killed by a shark this year. ON INSIDE Page Astrological 5A privacy or malicious in tent, out lanea to enter a directed verdict, the suit was filed by Mar Friday that the freeze would Most supermarket officials need is? received thii ewiaciM an early storautf coat hum eeats a to prevent shortages cheek today said it a as too poutTksc than tost week. tto early to tell where There Is pktty beef time is that there could be tow gome i.

Hmtw Crash Kv wruAitn haic Daily Matt Bmwess Editor Local food store officials today echoed the national uncertainty about the imraediate effect the lifting of beef controls will have on meat prices. William Hamady, president of the Charleston based Food Haven Big SUr Super Market chain, predicted it would be two to three weeks before customers could begin to get a firm reading on beef prices. Stores, he said, will begin raising their prices within the next week, testing customer resistance. Following this, be noted, there will be a period of adjustment before prices reach a stable level. "I'm much more optimistic than I have been In several weeks," he said, noting that he doubted the early predictions about skyrocketing prices would prove accurate.

A lO to 30 Elderly Lincoln Countians Killed By BOB ADAMS Of The Daily Mail Staff Two Lincoln County residents were fatally injured today in a three vehicle smashup on U.S. 60 at the Davis Creek Bridge in South Charleston, police said; Dead on arrival at Thomas Memorial: Hospital of head and. other injuries shortly after the 11:03 a.m. accident were Sesco McMellon, 77, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Iva Egnor, 70, both of Yawkey, medical spokesmen said.

Complete details of the accident were ribt available, but police said preliminary investigation indicated McMellon and Mrs. Egnor were in a pickup truck that collided with a tractor trailer rig at the bridge. about 1000 feet east of Jefferson Road i One motorist who passed the wreck age said another tractor trailer rig ap parently had struck the other two vehicles after their collision, but. this had not been confirmed by South Charleston police. No other injuries were reported in the mishap.

Witnesses said the pickup truck was headed east and the rig with which it collided was traveling west. There is a median strip on the highway at the crash scene. Attendants from Keller Funeral Home at Dunbar took the victims to the, hospital. City. Ambulance Service" of South Charleston a 1 so had 'a vehicle at the scene.

South Charleston firemen b.s tf "down the roadway to 'prevent 'fire from leaking oil, and gasoline as ritv police worked to prevent a major traffic tieup. IN BRIDGE STORY Rule Says Enter Directed Verdict CINCINNATI, Ohio1 if) The' 6th S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a federal court to: consider again an invasion of privacy suit filed against a Cleveland newspaper, The Plain Dealer, by survivors of a victim of the "Silver onuge ot The action direpfo 'ife IT District Court for the North conversations on sAi nnMaJ Watergate. Special Watergate as SOyght by plain Dea7 prosecutor Archibald Cox con s' in a separate filing that It reverses the lower Business w. fiair Comics 2B Crossword Hot Lice IB Obituaries 2A TV BA Women's MA garet Mae Cantrell on behalf of herself and her family.

She "is the widow of Melvin Aaron Cantrell, one of 44 Dersons killed when the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, W. collapsed Dec. 15, 1967. Mrs. Cantrell contended that a feature story that ap Two cood reasons for not Go ing In Europe right the Sec BRIDGE, pg.

J2A, Col. 5 cholera and the dolJar a. CARP TO FEED FROM BOTTLE HELD BY MRS. JO WELBER and the I i to drop In Florida, officials said, many slaughterhouses had resumed full production last een ana mere er prices on the more import Bert Brantley, a South Cam said "so in th.it k. premctea act beef cuts, the Pathnark Una wholesaler, said howev expect the market to be flood able today Doyle Conner, Meat Picture Fuzzy In Local Markets Bob Haddy, vice president of Haddy's, an East Side beef specialty shop, said the early change in the beef price controls will correct the meat shortage in some Charleston area stores during recent weeks.

Haddy's, he said, plans to use this week for reordering and restocking and will open its retail division next Monday. He predicted a 10 per cent rise on most cuts of beef, but said the price situation was difficult to gauge. The vice president of Kroger's Charleston division was unavailable for comment on the meat price situation. As the company which controls more than half the grocery store sales in the Kanawha Valley, Kroger action on meat prices could set the pace for other chains and independent grccers. Without, or With, Offence to Friends or Foes, I Sketch Your World Exactly as It Goat CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1973 the state agriculture coaauaus sioaer, said he still expected a price boost at kast temporarily.

"The price will be tower when it settles down," he said Philadelphia shoppers faced an additional problem. Retail clerks voted Sunday to walk out today at Acme, Food Fair and AlcP supermarkets in a contract dispute. The leaders of local 317 ef the Retail Clerks Union recommended acceptance of a contract that would have boosted wages immediately by $20, making the average weekly wage But the 6, 5 00 union members turned down the pact, saving they were afraid the Cost of Living Council would reject the contract as inflationary. The ceiling on beef was lifted at midnight Sunday after more than five months of gov erament controls. At the same time, new rules went toto effect permitting; price fleet the af things like wages and overhead, Herbert Kramer, head af the New Orteans Retail Gre eers Association, said wfll foot the bill for higher operating costs.

"We try and determine what price items are going to be oa the shelf based on what they (suppliers) charge us," Kramer said. "Right now, we're working on a dol lar for dollar increase the increase that's passed on to us. we pass along." Beef was the big question mark. Many cattlemen withheld livestock from market during the freeze and scattered shortages developed. The freeze was scheduled to end at midnight Tuesday add the early ead to the ceiling caused some confusion.

"The cattlemen are very See BEEF, Pg. KA, Col. 4 FINAL EDITION TEN CENTJ BRIDGE COLLAPSES AFTER AGCIDENT The roadway of the Mystic River Bridge leading from Charles town to Boston collapsed Monday morning after a truck struck ah abutment of the tw calory CHARLEY WEST SAYS: structure. The upper road collapsed on the bottom tier. The truck driver died in the AP Wirephoto ixon Opposes Tax Boost, Defense Cutbacks, Busing WASHINGTON (AP) In and impound appropriations, branch more prominently there should be no monopoly a major new effort to put Wa He also said he "will con than the willow switch, how of power." tcrgate behind him, President tinue to oppose all efforts to ever.

If we proceed in a spir Nixon told the Democratic strip the pres'dwey of pow Asscrlinu a belief in a it of constructive partnership, controlled Congress da mat ne is ready to compromise "on solutions to our national problems." Submitting a special 13, 000 word State of the Union ers it must bave to be effec strong Congress as well as a. our varying perspectives can live" an apparent threat to strong presidency, he said, be a source of great creative veto any legislation rlhat' "There canoe no monopoly I rather than, a cause of would limit his war powers. of wisdom on cither end of deadlock," Nixon said. Nixon displayed the olive Pennsylvania Avenue and Sec NIXON, Pg. Col.

1 this yea; on his priority legis PUTNAM MARIJUANA CROP tions he opposes: a tax in crease, red ink spending, hefty defense cuts and Ihe busing of school children lo achieve racial balance. Mingling compliments with criticism, Nixon said he welcomes "a congressional renaissance" and is "ready to find workable compromises wherever possible on solutions to our national problems." Wh i 1 making repeated pledges of cooperation, the President emphasized that if Squirrel Scout Suspicious Of Garden Deep In Woods By BOB ADAMS Or The Daily Mail Staff WINF1ELD A man who to arrests Saturday of four persens accused of farming had never seen a marijuana Putnam County Sheriff Don plant in his life provided the Wrinht said the man became Congress votes more money lip that led sheriff's deputies suspicious when he found wan ne wants, ne will not lo ine largest naut ol "grass sucn an extremely wen hesitate to veto spending bills in Putnam County history and tended, well cultivated garden A FISH STORY CULLMAN, Ala. Jo Welbcr, operator of a marina on Smith Lake, has trained a school of carp to surface beside the dock and suck food from a baby boltlc. She feeds the fish, ranging in size from 3 to 12 pounds, several times a day, depending on the number of visitors to the marina in remote norlh central Alabama. The baby bottte is filled with a mixture of chicken mash and stale bread, and the end of the nipple is cut off.

Mrs. Welbcr squirLs a little of the mixture on the water lo lure the carp, then holds a bottle out for them to take more The a scavenger sucker can emply a bottle with two or three quick sucks ok the nipple in a few "I've lost several bottles and I don't know bow many nipples," Mrs. Welber said in an interview. "They jerked them right out of my hand, they sacked so hard." It all began, ste said, when her husband Charles put some captured fish in a wire cage to see how long they would live. "I noticed when feeding them stale bread that other fish would come up close to the lo try getting some." she said.

"So I decided lo try feeding some alongside the marina dock." Some bream came first and now they swarm in by the hundreds lo eat stale bread frcm her hand. The carp soon followed, and If? different carp have surfaced to feed from the bottle. Mrs. Welbcr said she decided lo try a baby bottle because of Ihe shape of the carps' mouths and the way they sucked the bread from her hand. "I thought I'd never stop laughing when the first one took the bottle.

It was the runniest thing I'd ever seen. They took it as naturally as a newborn baby," she said. Mrs. Welber also has trained several bass that bang around tlie dock to fake minnows from her fingers. The fish sometimes leap a foot or so out of the waler lo get the tiny fish.

It took her two months lo gain their confidence. plot in the deep woods." The man was doing a little pre season scouting for good squirrel hunting sites, Sheriff Wright said. Wright said he would confer with the prosecuting attorney's office today about burning the marijuana. The field was staked out i after the report from the "squirrel scouter." Four young people were arrested Satur day at about 6:10 p.m. when they strolled into Ihe field and began inspecting the plants, Sheriff Wright said.

Charged with manufacturing and possessing marijunna were Larry Pauley, 26, Jane Mills. IR. and Michael Kelly, is. all of Scott Depot in Putnam County. A male juvenile from that area also was arrested on the same charges.

They were released after appearing before Justice of the Peace Van McClaskcy and posting $3,000 each. They will have a preliminary heirine before the magiMra'e Salurdav at II a.m. at Win field. The "grass" garden was in an isolated forest area about five miles south of Wnfieid. Nearly 300 plants, some 10 feet high, were cut down.

Sheriff Wright said they were healthy plants that apparently had been growing all sum.