The Selma Times-Journal from Selma, Alabama • 1

4. (Established 1827) (Established 1890) VOL. 146, NO. 109 Associated Press Leased Wire SELMA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19, 1973 Full NEA Service 18 PAGES TODAY Food Prices Are Ready To Soar As Nixon Takes Off Price Freeze achieve a much more moderate rate of inflation. The President also said he will aim for a balanced budget of $268.7 billion in fiscal 1974.

To meet this goal, he said, a number of civilian government employes will have to be cut from the federal payroll. However, the administration plans to increase the staff of the Cost of Living Council and the Internal Revenue Service by about 1,200 to enforce Phase 4. WASHINGTON (AP) Americans are facing significantly higher food prices now that President Nixon has lifted the price freeze from the food industry as part of his Phase 4 anti-inflation program. Only beef remains subject to strict price ceilings, and then only until Sept. 12.

Lifting the freeze from the food industfj) was Nixons first move into his new Phase 4 wage and price controls system. Non-food items will remain under the provisions of the 60-day freeze announced June 13 by Nixon, until its expiration Aug. 12. At that time non-food goods will become subject to Phase 4 regulations. There will be price ceilings for gasoline, heating oil and diesel fuel under Phase 4, and big business will be required to absorb some of its increased costs by cutting dowmon profit margins.

The President said in a statement issued Wednesday There is no way, with or without controls, to prevent substantial rise of food prices. The evidence is becoming overwhelming that only if a rise of food prices is permitted now can we avoid shortages and still higher prices later, he said. Prices are likely to increase the most in the next few days for poultry and pork products, and fresh fruits and vegetables, all of which were reported to be severely pinched by the price freeze. The President said he would do everything in my power to end wage and price controls by the end of the year, but said he did not think it wise to set a specific date for lifting controls. With President Nixon in Bethesda Naval Hospital recovering from viral pneumonia, Secretary of the Treasury George P.

Shultz released the following outline of Phase 4 to newsmen at the White House Wednesday: The price freeze is lifted immediately for all food, except beef, permitting the passing on to consumers of increased costs for raw agricultural products that have occurred since June 8. Raw agricultural products remain exempt from controls. It will be a mandatory program, requiring advance 30-day notification of price increases by businesses with annual sales of more than $100 million. Small businesses employing 60 persons or less will be exempt. So will the lumber industry, public utilities, rents, interest rates and long-term contracts for coal deliveries.

The guidelines for wage increases will be kept at 5.5 per cent, plus a seven-tenths of one per cent hike in fringe benefits, the same guidelines in effect during the Phase 2 and Phase 3 programs. The Health service industry hospitals and institutions will be exempted from the freeze at once and returned to the mandatory controls that existed specifically for the health industry under Phase 3. It was not immediately clear how doctors and dentists would be affected. The insurance and construction industries will have special regulations. The new ceiling prices for gasoline and the gasoline octane rating must be posted on service station pumps after they take effect Aug.

12. The objective of Phase 4 was stated as to moderate the rate of inflation existing during the first six months of 1973 with a minimum adverse effect on supply. Inflation was increasing at an annual rate of about 9.2 per cent a year at the time the freeze was imposed June 13, with food prices increasing at the virtually unprecedented rate of 22.4 per cent. Shultz told newsmen the administration would make no new forecast for inflation or the increase in food prices. We have not tried to make a precise estimate.

Our record in trying to forecast food prices leaves you a little humble, he said, drawing laughter from reporters. Nixon said in his statement that the increase in prices should be less in the second half of this year than in the first half, and that by next year, we should be able to focus StateLocal Legislative supporters of Gov. George C. Wallace have won a major victory by keeping the Alabama Senate from sending one of the governors major budget bills back to committee. Details Page 6.

The sponsor of a tougher strip mining bill says the measure passed by the Senate Health Committee is useless because it wont meet federal regulations. Details Page 6. An 18-year-old black Montgomery girl has joined her two younger sisters who claim they were sterilized without their consent in a $5 million action against three federal agencies. Details Page 2. A 22-year-old Mobile woman has sued the USS Alabama Battleship Commission asking that she be reinstated as a finalist in the 1973 Miss USS Alabama contest.

Rita C. Caton filed the suit Wednesday in federal court. She asked the court to award her $100,000 in damages and reinstate her in the competition. Miss Caton contended in her complaint that she was removed from the list of five finalists June 28 after the commission and its. chairman, Henri M.

Aldridge, did conspire with others to investigate her background to find an excuse to disqualify her. The Post Office Service said today it plans to operate a new mail processing center at Montgomery, by December, 1974 as part of a modernization program. The former Western Auto Supply retail store in the Capital Plaza shopping center will be renovated at a cost of $457,581 so that the remodeled facility can handle mail for the area surrounding Montgomery. Gunman Frees Hostages, Gets Passage Demand ATHENS (AP) An armed Palestinian gunmen held 15 persons hostage in an Athens hotel for more than four hours today, then released them and was driven to Athens Airport with three Middle East ambassadors. The gunman held the hostages at a hotel after failing to smash his way into the local offices of the Israeli airline.

Late this afternoon he walked out of the hotel in the company of the Iraqi, Libyan and Egyptian ambassadors. All four entered the Iraqis car and drove off toward the airport. The gunman had demanded safe passage out of Greece. At first he had asked to be accompanied to the airport by Deputy Premier Stylianos Patakos, threatening to kill the hostages if his demand was not met. Patakos refused, according to a police official who quoted the deputy premier as saying: I wont negotiate with every bum around.

By then the Libyan and Egyptian ambassadors had arrived at the luxury Amalia Hotel to talk to the gunman. He spoke only Arabic. The hostages included American guests in the hotel, two Greek policemen, a priest, some children and hotel employes. The Palestinian took 40 persons hostage at the hotel initially, but released all but 15 of them. One of those freed was Mrs.

Androniki Ezlambiadoi, 70, of Wilmington, Del. The terrorist, who appeared to be in his late 20s, was armed with a submachine gun, two hand grenades and two revolvers. He fired a burst from his submachine gun, 1 A I am notfcfraid to die, the terrorist told Associated I will pull the pin out of 1 myself and everyone else around. Get me Patakos or else. (See GUNMAN, Page 2) The Alabama House has adopted a resolution to designate a road in Macon County as George Washington Carver Drive in honor of the famed black scientist.

Carver, who died many years ago, was known for his research in peanuts and sweet potatoes while he was on the faculty at Tuskegee Institute. A veteran parole officer, W. R. Robinson of Cullman, watched from the balcony Wednesday as the Alabama Senate confirmed his appointment to the state Pardon-Parole Board. Robinson, a district parole-probation supervisor, was named to the $18,000 a year office last week by Gov.

George C. Wallace. He succeeds Danny Long of Montgomery, whose term expired. Sen. John Sparkman, who recently returned from a trip to China, says the United States will give nothing to the Chinese in exchange for easing of relations.

We Will carry a big stick while we continue to speak softly to the Chinese, he said. A pedestrian, 55-year-old Lloyd Charles Burnett of Clanton, was struck and killed by an automobile Wednesday night on a Chilton County road three miles north of Clanton. snade Zoo near Luton, England. (AP Wirephoto) FEELING GROOVY Hot weather, a pool of muddy water and thou these hippos found all three recently in Whip- Selma TV Station Hopes For September Airing After a brief period of being known as technical colleges, Alabamas technical schools are once again officially, well, technical schools. The State Board of Education, which approved the name change several weeks ago, reversed itself Wednesday and referred the proposed change to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.

With construction completed on the building to house this areas new television station, officials are shooting for an on-the-air date of Sept. 1. George Singleton, operations manager for the station, WSLA, Channel 8, said new equipment is being installed each day. We dont want to go on the air until we get every thing just right even if it is a little late, he said. The station, which will be a CBS affiliate, will carry full color programing from CBS as well as Greensboro and will be strong enough to watch in Centreville, Demopolis and Clanton.

Locally the station will be Channel 10 on the Selma Cable. Selma has been without a local television station since 1968 when fire destroyed the then Channel 8 building. The new station, built on the same site, will feature 25,000 watts about 10 times more power than the first station had. local color broadcasting. Singleton said the color film would be used in covering local news and other events and the studio will be equipped with processing equipment in order to have first day news coverage.

President of Central Alabama Broadcasters, the station owner, is Charles F. Grisham who ownes WHNT TV in Huntsville and WYE A TV in Columbus, Ga. The station will be a full time operation beginning with its initial operation coming on the air bet ween 6-7 a. m. in the mornings and continue broadcasting until after the CBS late movie seven days a week.

Singleton said initially the station will employe 15 persons a majority of from the local community. He also said the station will be on several cable systems in this area. The station will reach a 40 mile radius of Selma which will include Camden, Marion, Prattville, National A preliminary hearing will be held July 21 for Carl Isaacs, one of four Baltimore, Md. men accused in the Alday slayings in Seminole County, Ga. District attorney Ralph Foster of the Pataula Judicial Circuit said Wednesday the 19-year-old Isaacs will be the first defendant to stand a preliminary hearing.

Senate Republicans say that unless a bill to raise the minimum wage is scaled down it faces an almost certain veto by President Nixon. Details Page 2. A Tennessee Valley Authority official said today the agency has a proved and reliable plan for limiting sulfur dioxide pollution at its steam power plants. Dr. F.

E. Gartell, TVA director of environmental planning, told an Environmental Protection Agency panel that TVAs pollution plan is both workable and enforceable. Mix Plan Termed Workable Marengo County Superintendent of Education Fred D. Ramsey has termed the federal court decree on school desegregation in the county as a workable plan. Although it may not be what everyone wants, it is still a workable plan and if all people of both races will accept this plan and work together in good will and common sense, it will succeed, he said.

U.S. District Judge Brevard Hand ordered further integration of schools in the county, a county official said, following a class action suit initiated in Macon County. Officials said the order was at the insistence of the U.S. Justice Department and the NEA. The order was a result of a compromise reached by all parties concerned after a day long session in court in Mobile.

Ramsey said the county will continue to have a public school system for all. People will not lose jobs, racial harmony and cooperation will continue (See MIX PLAN, Page 2) International The proposed marriage between Egypt and Libya comes under new strains as Egypt closes its frontier to thousands of Libyans sent-to pressure Cairo. Details Page 8. Weather Chance of thundershowers through Friday. Details Page 6.

SEPTEMBER DATE SET FOR OPENING OF LOCAL STATION Built in same location as earlier station destroyed by fire in 1968 4.