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The Vernon Daily Record from Vernon, Texas • Page 5

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VERNON DAILY RECORD. Vernon, Teias, Jufaf S. im-5A isiimers Find Warning Higher Meat Prices Tr By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Consumers warned by stiper- market officials to expect er meat prices are fimUng the warning all too true. An Associated Press survey of aboitf two domi cities shows that grocery bills particularly for the better cuts of beef and for poit have increased anywhere from a dime a pound on up in the two weeks since AFTER DELAY BY SOVIET Chess Match Scheduled To Start on Thursday REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky now is scheduled to start Thursday Area Deaths services for Mrs. Fred 79, Electra resident since 1940 who died Monday, were held Wednesday in ttie First Methodist Church in Electra.

Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery in Jacksboro under direction of James B. Totten Son Funeral Ifome. Mrs.J. S. Taylor rites for Mrs.

J. S. Taylor, 72, former Nocona resident who died Sunday in Bartlesville, will be at 2:30 p.m. lliursday in the First Qiristian Church of Nocona. Burial will be under of Scott Bros.

Funeral Home. Herbert Hudson WICHITA FALLS-Services for Herbert Hudson, 78, Wichita Falls resident 47 years who died Monday, will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in Antioch Bapitst Church. Burial will be in Lakeveiw Cemetery under direction of Nelson-Matthews Funeral Home. V.

E. Deweber services were held We(hiesday in Post Oak Baptist Church for V. E. Deweber, 76, farmer and rancher who died Tuesday in a Wichita Falls hosptal. Burial was in Post under direction of prumley Funeral Home.

afternoon following aiMither postponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champion. After holding out for more money and getting it, the American challenger came to Iceland for the postponed opening match Tuesday. But Spassky walked out of ttie drawing to decide who would move first because Fischer was not present. He had sent his second, a Roman Cattiolic priest. Officials announced a new 48- hour postponement of the opener, originally scheduled for last Sunday.

They hoped both ers would be ready to meet on Thursday. Fischer arrived in Reykjavik early Tuesday. The Icelandic Chess Federation had rejected his demand fw 30 per cent of the gate receipts, iHit he agreed to come after a London investment banker doubled the $125,000 purse which he and Spassky will divide. The 29-year-old American grandmaster was resting from the overnight in a guarded villa at the of town when Spassky counterattacked in the holdout department. The 35-year-old Soviet champion read a prepared statement calling the conduct insulting and intoleraMe.

It said Fischer, by refusing fo appear at the opening ceremony last weekend, had insulted Spassky personally and the Soviet Chess Federation and had jeopardized his right to play for the title. The statement demanded that Fischer be punished. the latest warning was inued. Cabinet officials scheduled a meeting in Washington today with officials of food chains and called in farmers far a Thursday sesskm to hdp in preparing a food prices report that President Nixon has requested by July 10. Shoppers, meanwhile, issuing their own reporU.

food prices are just terrible said a woman in a Seattle, supermarket. loiow how much the prices have goiw up became I just started regularly a year and a half ago when I was are out said a man in a Kansas City store. very first thing Uie government should liave dime in its economic (vogram was to put controls on food Supermarket executives warned considers June 16 to expect a rise in prices, particularly of meat, lliey said that wholesale costs have been going up and the retail outtets no could the increase. The AP diecked prices in a dozen cities on June 16, then checked again two weeks later to see if there had been any change. Amrnig the findings: In Seattle, the prices of 10 items were checked.

Five went up, one went doim and four remained steady. Increases included veal round Meak, which went from to $2.39 a pound, and rib pork chops, up two cenu to $1.09 a pound. Stable items peanirt butter crackers, fruit juices, cheese, mayonnaise, butter and milk. In the Chicago sutnirb of LaGrange Park, pwk loin end cut went from 79 to 85 cents a pound and jumbo increased from 59 to 65 cents a Sirloin steak dropped from $1.59 to $1.39 cents a pound, but the manager said the decrease was temporary, due to a holiday special. In Los Angeles, ground beef went from 73 to cents a pound, sirkiin tip steak fnmi $1.49 to $1.67 a pound One Killed, Dozens Injured by Fireworks By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS One man was kUled and more than a docen penoni were injured as a result of miahapa during two Fourth of July fireworks demooitratiom.

Five pyrotechnidans escaped serioui injury in a third incident. Police in Wauconda, said Edward G. Bulger, 24, was killed when some kind of firework device exploded in a crowd of spectators observing a display at Bangs Lake, 40 miles northwest of CMcago. Eight other persons were treated and three of them were foUowing the explosion Tuesday night. All three were reported in satlsCactoiy condition early today.

Seattle, an errant skyrocket expkided in a crowd gattMred near a fountain at the Seattle Center. Up to a dozen persons were injured and three of them were hospitalized. om wtt bdleved in serious condition. WitnesMS said the skyrocket started upward but appeared to and expkxled in the crowd. The fireworks display in Elsinore, went off all at once when a spark from a skyrxket touched off $3,900 worth of ster bursts, fire balls, aerial bombs and rockets.

Hie pyrotechnics were loaded aboard a barge in Lake iHrich was by thousands of spectators. No spectator was hurt and the five technicians conducting the dove overboard and escaped with minor powder bums. GOVERNMENT STUDY REPOR TS Vonphosphate Deteregents G)uld Cause Blindness $1.1 Billion in Subsidy Checks Being Mailed WASHINGTON (AP)-Gov- emment subsidy dMdu totaling $1.1 bilUon are being mailed to 955,000 farmers as part payment for cooperating in acreage set-aside programs for feed grain, wheat and cotton this year. (Xficials said most eligible farmers should have their checks by the end of July. Eventually, including final settlements later on, the pay- marts will total a record $3.7 billkm in compensation to farm- Youth Shot, Killed Following Robbery HOUSTON (AP)-Police said Isaac Colton, 17, was shot and killed Tuesday after he and a companion robbed a service station.

Officers said the night operator told them he shot Colton as they struggled over tlw .38 caliber pistol. Hie other man ocaped. ers, the department said today. Local announcements of the preliminary payments also are bdng made by county officers of the Stabilizati(m and Service, officials said. Early payments are made so farmers can have additional income to help pay costs and other expenses.

In 1971, payments for the crop set-aside program totalled about 2.8 billion. The previous high was $3.3 billion in 1970. When final settlements are made, the 1972 payments will inclucte an estimated $1.9 billion for feed grain producers, $825 million for cotton and about $1 billion for wheat. WASHINGTON (AP) Some on the market can cause irreversible Mindness if accidentally rubbed into the eye, according to an unpublished government study. results of this study indicate the rather shaip demarcation between moderate ocular damage caused by soap in phosphate detergents and the intense causticity of carbonates and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences concluded.

The Food and Drug Administration, chained with protecting the public from hazardmis substances, has reacted to the report with disdain. are treading outside the realm in which they should be said an official in Bureau of Product Safety. have the charter, we have the The official asked not to be named, because he said it would violate protocol to criticize a The institute's study, con- Agnew To Keynote State Bar Meeting HOUSTON (AP)-The State Bar of Texas opens its annual three-day convention here today with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew scheduled to give the keynote address at the general session Friday. About 4,000 lawyers and their wives are expected for the 90th annual convention.

At least 50 speakers will discuss various phases of civil and criminal law during the meetings. Leon Jaworski of Houston, president of the American Bar Association, is also one of the featured speakers. ducted by Dr. David P. Rail, the director, said NIH veterinarians Dr.

Donald B. Feldman and John A. Moore, concentrated on nine synthetic-detergent products purchased near its Triangle Park, N.C.. facilities. Seven were laundry products, of which three contained phosphates (Tide, Ajax, and Dash); two contained carbonate (Sears, and Arm and Hammer), one had metasiUcate (Ecolo-G); and one was a soap powder (Ivory Snow).

Two were dishwashing compounds, one containing metasilicate (Electro-Sol), and one with phos(4iate (Cascade). Material was put into the left eyes of New Zealand white rabbits and reactions were recorded at one, two, three, seven and 14 days. The researchers said all the products tested irritated the eyes and caused an inflammation, known as conjunctivitis. and some clouding of the cornea. The soap-powder eyes began clearing by 72 hours and were healthy again at seven days.

The eyes cleared in all but one of 24 rabbits by 14 days. reaction to carbcmate and metasilicate detergents was more the report said. Carbonates caused chronic opacities on 14 of 18 rabbits. Eleven animals suffered partial or total destruction of the ea and a of tissue in the eyelids. Test results were similar for dishwashing detergeits.

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