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Committee approves extension of presidential control powers THE IOLA KANSAS REGISTER, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1973 PAGE 3 WASHINGTON (AP) Gasoline-rationing authority for President Nixon is included in a Senate committee's recommendation for a one-year extension of his powers to control wages and prices. The President would be directed, under the bill approved Thursday by the Senate Banking Committee, to report every three months on what steps he has taken to hold down food prices. The approval came after the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in its monthly report, said wholesale prices for farm products and processed foods increased in the last three months at a seasonally adjusted rate of 56 per cent. Petroleum products cost 12.5 per cent more than a year ago. The committee defeated on tie votes amendments to make Phase 3 tougher by imposing rent controls in metropolitan areas and to return to the kind of wage-price control system, known as Phase 2, that Nixon abandoned Jan.

11. Sens. William Proxmire, D- Monkeyshines get gorilla into trouble OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Mighty Casey strikes out. It was a springlike day in Omaha and Casey, a 506-pound male gorilla, apparently was feeling his oats when he decided to tease two females by grabbing at them through the barred door separating their cages.

He had plenty of room, too, having ripped out two one- inch bars in the door. But Casey's timing was poor. Both Benoit and Brigitte apparently are expectant mothers, more interested in peace and quiet than Casey's antics. The teasing went too far. One of the aren't sure which Casey his comeuppance.

She took his hand in hers and bit off the tip of one finger and nipped another. Zoo veterinarians had to knock Casey out With a drug and sew up the finger. Casey belongs to the Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minn. He is on loan to Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.

and Harrison Williams, D- N.J., promised a floor fight on this when the bill is before the full Senate. Sen. Thomas Mclntyre, D- N.H., originally had offered an amendment in collaboration with Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D- to give the president authority to allocate and ration any scarce commodities. But several senators said the authority was too broad Mclntyre changed it to read "petroleum products," which have been in short supply, especially in New England.

"This is standby power," Mclntyre said. "I'd rather have the President do this than Mobil, Shell, Exxon, etc." Mandatory controls over petroleum products were reim- posed by the Cost of Living Council Tuesday. Petroleum price hikes were listed as 5.7 percent last month in the Wholesale Price Index. The committee also approved Food up sharply requiring corporations to publicly disclose the arithmetic behind the price hikes they seek from the Cost of Living Council, which now keeps the information confidential. The intent is that publicity will help hold down prices.

The committee also raised the wage-exemption guidelines from $2.75 an hour to $3.50. Those earning below that would not be subject to the 5.5-percent-a-year guideline. White House urges patience WASHINGTON (AP) Despite the sharp rise in food and fuel prices in the latest wholesale-price report, the White House is sticking to its economic policies and urging the American people to be patient. The situation will get worse before it gets better for the consumer, the Nixon administration says. Or, as one official of the Cost of Living Council put it: "It's going to be tough the next few months, really tough." Treasury Secretary George P.

Shultz has been saying in recent days that despite big increases, retail food prices will be no higher at the end of the year than they were at the beginning. In his recent economic State of Union message to Con- Air traffic slow (AP) Traffic at PARIS continued to an extremely low level today as a strike of civilian air controllers went into its 18th day. Only eight foreign airlines maintained service into Paris. Pilots of many lines have stopped flying to France because of a lack of confidence in military air controllers called in to replace the striking civilians, who want wage adjustments and the legal right to strike. If you miss your Register: First, call your carrier, Jf you can't contact him, please call Delux Taxi, 365-3571 after 6:30 p.

m. gress, President Nixon said food prices would continue their sharp upward trend for the first half of the year. But he said his action to increase supplies would have a powerful impact on prices in the second half. Stuffed steak IZMIR, Turkey (AP) An Izmir butcher was arrested Thursday when he sold a Turkish narcotics agents two bars of hashish inside a slice prime steak, the Anatolia news agency reported. The report said Ali Kantar admitted he had been combining meat and drugs for some time.

Nose for drugs WASHINGTON (AP) The Bureau of Customs predicts a bright future for its drug-sniff- This means the administration expects many food probably not meat decline sharply after July 1 because of its emphasis on increasing supplies by changing government agricultural policy. Meat prices probably will continue at a high level, Meanwhile, the Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to give Nixon standby authority to ration petroleum products, JngTuding gasoline, as part of a bill extending his wage-price- control authority. The bill also directs the administration to. report every three months on steps, taken to hold down food prices. The administration has rejected a freeze on food prices and direct controls on farm products despite the latest increase in food prices.

It contends controls would only make the situation worse and lead to Judy Lynch Judy Lynch to be June bride Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lynch of Piqua announce the engagement of their daughter Judy to Mr. Buddy D. Baker, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Middleton. Miss Lynch is a 1970 graduate of Wichita State University with a bachelor of music education degree. After her graduation she taught elementary music in The bureau said Thursday its dogs sniffed out $27.5 million in narcotics and drugs last year, including 25,200 pounds of marijuana, 15.85 pounds of heroin, and 2,793 pounds of hashish. Red China to join U.N.

food group ROME (AP) China will become a member of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization on April 1, Director- General Addeke Boerma announced today. He noted that the only major country still not a member Of the organization is the Soviet Union. -black marketing and rationing, to teach elementary music in the Iola public schools. Mr.

Baker was graduated from Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia with a bachelor of science degree in political science. He has taught history in the Atwood and Topeka public schools, and is currently employed at KALN radio. The. wedding is planned for June 16 at thejCalvary United Methodist Church. Michelle Wille bride of Jerry Lott Miss Michelle Willi, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Jerome and Mr. Jerry Lott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frazier of LaQuincy.

were married Friday evening March 2 in Iola. Veterans benefits tax exempt The Veterans Administration today reminded veterans preparing to file federal income tax returns that veterans benefits, in general, are exempt from taxation and need not be reported as income. George B. Lappin, director of the Wichita VA Center, said the only exception was interest on government life insurance dividends on deposit or credit with the VA. Dividends and proceeds from G.

I. insurance policies are not subject to federal income tax but the proceeds must be included on the return for federal estate tax purposes. Tax exempt VA benefits include compensation and pension. G.I. Bill and other educational assistance, subsistence payments to vocational rehabilitation trainees and grants to severely disabled veterans eligible for homes and The bride has been employed as a recpetionist in Danville, Va.

The groom is district sales manager for Airborne Freight Corporation in Wichita. After a wedding grip to the. Mardi Gras in New Orleans and a visit with the groom's parents, they will be at home at Kingston Cove, 515 W. 27th St. South, Apt.

201, Wichita. Man dies in fire TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man was fatally injured Thursday evening in a fire in his apartment just a block from the state office building. The victim was Robert F. Watkins, 60, a resident of a unit in the Curtis Apartments.

Fire department officials said the blaze apparently resulted from the victim smoking while resting on a divan. The blaze was confined to the one apartment. cars. USED AUTO PARTS DIRECT LINE TO FOUR STATES 24 HOUR WRECKER SERVICE Lang Motor Co. 365-5620 The Cost of Living Council, in what was called a consumer- protection move, earlier in the week reimposed price controls in the oilindustry.

The February Wholesale Price Index released Thursday showed that the price of petroleum and other fuels was one of the main reasons for non food price increases. The area most commonly hit by U.S. ice storms extends from Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma eastward through the Middle Atlantic and New England states. USDA optimistic though signups lag Urge continuation of farm programs WASHINGTON (AP) Fifteen Midwestern Democratic senators from nine states called today for continued farm legislation along the-basic lines of the 1970 Farm Act. Speaking for the group, all members of the Midwest Democratic Conference of Senators, Sen.

Harold E. Hughes, D-Iowa, told the Senate Agriculture Committee that new legislation should include these features: for Peace program. "reasonable" increase in the minimum loan rate levels for grain to provide for increases in production 1 costs since 1979. Hughes said what he called "a combination of freakish circumstances" might lead some members of Congress and the White House into thinking farm programs can now be abandoned altogether. Those circumstances, he said, port program including some means of supply adjustment.

up a strategic reserve of wheat, soybeans and feed grains. of food stamp, child nutrition, school milk and school lunch programs. of the Food CUT FLOWERS PLANTS PLANTERS Iola Greenhouse 704 E.Lincoln 365-2631 have resulted in commodity shortages and comparatively favorable farm prices. "Some current farm prices reached their high levels because of an unprecedented immobilization of much of the nation's total feed grain supply, owing to weather and transportation tieups," Hughes said. "In consequence, central market bids focused only on the supply that was readily available and deliverable to terminal points.

It was almost as if a substantial part of the 1972 crop didn't exist." WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Department officials say goals are still realistic for sharply expanded corn and soybean production this year, despite a lag in farm signups for feed grain set-aside options. The feed grain, program opened this year so farmers could plant all their land and still qualify for price supports and partial payments as long as they held corn plantings to 1972 levels. But field repcrtS 'by the servation Service show farmers are going mostly for another option that requires that 25 per cent of their feed base acres be idled in return for full payment benefits. Department planners had hoped that the zero-acreage set- aside chosen- by more producers with the goal that they would plant soybeans on the extra acres. Glen A.

Weis, associate administrator of ASCS, admitted in an interview Thursday that the signups so far were "awfully slow" but said many producers may be hanging back until the deadline for applications, March 16. "We think we're still going to get in the ballpark as far as what we want in acreage for corn and beans," Weir said. The department's target is for farmers to plant about 54' million acres of soybeans this year, a boost of about 15 per cent from 1972. The corn goal is for plantings of 74 million acres, compared with 66.7 million seeded for the 1972 crop. Department officials will issue on' March 15 a report show- now many acres' farmers intend to plant to spring-seeded, crops this year, including corn and soybeans.

Weir said many farmers may be holding back on enrolling in the feed program until they the plantings report. Meanwhile, the ASCS says Feb. 5 to March 2, 553,564 farms were enrolled. Of those, 84.5 per cent, were signed for the full-benefit option that requires 25 per cent of base acres to be set aside from production. That left only 15.5 per cent of the farms enrolled in-the zero- acre option.

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