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The Lexington Herald Lexington Ky Thursday July 1 1972 39 Shultz Says Meat Prices Should Begin To Slacken lot operators to bring their stock to market while prices are still rising has sent meat prices to record levels The unchecked rise -has been embarrassing to the administration at a time when most prices across the economy are controlled Because food prices are closely watched by conscientious shoppers they have a political importance out of proportion to their economic impact Other Actions In an attempt to stem the rise President Nixon last week' ordered the discussions with food industry leaders plus these other actions: agricultural products such as vegetables fruits eggs and most seafood will be subject to mark-up control after the first sale Meat already is controlled in this fashion quotas that regulate the amount of beef that enters the United States from overseas were lifted tar the rest of the year The hope is that a heavier supply from Australia New Zealand and other foreign beef-producing nations will help drive down domestic prices Secretary James Hodgson was ordered to meet with officials of the Teamsters and Retail Clerks unions to try and ease the cost of food distribution got to make up her own mind I wouldn't presume to tell her" Shultz said Speaking for the grocers Thomas McMaster chairman of Allied Supermarkets Inc Detroit said the meat price crisis stems from the voracious appetite of Americans for beef and pork and the present inability of the system to meet that demand eventual solution has to lie increased supply or less McMaster said The solution he indicated was to boost the supply of meat and not change American's eating liabits 1 believe that there is enough meat in the feed lots now that in a reasonable time this will affect the he said Shultx added that- while the rate of cattle slaughter is up about 1 per cent the number of steers in the feed lots has risen between 6 and 12 per cent This indicates there is an ample supply of beef ready to come to market in the coming months The tactic with grocers is not new Last March former Treasury Secretary John Connally called in heads of large grocery chains to ask their help in holding down the price of meat After the meeting Connally predicted meat prices would drop but all parties conceded that natural supply and demand forces rather than administration arm-twisting would be the chief cause The decline was short-lived In recent weeks heavy demand for meat plus an apparent reluctance of ranchers and feed By GENE CARLSON WASHINGTON (UPI) Ris ing meat prices which have been angering consumers and scaring politicians should begin to stabilize within and perhaps Treasury Secretary George Shultz predicted Wednesday After a two-hour meeting with executives of 15 major retail food chains Shultz said the ample supply of cattle on the hoof should soon begin working its way to the butcher counter and forcing down current record high prices President Nixon's action last week to allow more foreign beef into the United States will also help ease prices Shultz said talking' about months and perhaps weeks when we may see the effects of this" he added Meeting Ordered By Nixon Shultz and other members of the Cost of living Council met with the grocers in the first of three sessions with food Indus try representatives ordered by Nixon to help seek a solution to the continuing increase in the American family food budget The meeting was short on answers although Shultz told the grocers to improve the efficiency of their workers and pay more attention to a buys" list published by the Agriculture Department that stresses good grocery values However he stopped short of telling consumers to cut down on their beef and pork purchases and consider alterna tive cheaper sources of protein such as poultry fish and cheese The American housewife has Treasury Secretary" George Shultz center is flanked by Labor Secretary James Hodgson left and Cost of living Council Director Donald Rumsfeld as ha meets with 16 supermarket executives Wednesday in Washington Shultz predicted an early drop in meat prices (Associated Press Wirephoto) Predicts Price Drop Beattyville Man Hurt In Building Mishap Heirs To Estate Seek De-Annexation Of Tract Walkout Cripples Construction Work A 47-year-old Beattyville man waa listed in fair condition last night at University Hospital where he was taken following a building construction accident on Centre Parkway James Pounders suffered leg injury in the 8:58 am mishap hospital officials said HENDERSON Ky (AP) Highway construction was not Scores of construction Jobs affected Contractors engaged across Kentucky were crippled in road work in Kentucky have 2 Killed 8 Injured On Highway RICHMOND Ky Three measure received a three-two sisters who are heirs to theivote Robinson estate on Magnolia! City Attorney Thomas Avenue requested Wednesday! Shumate told the commission night that the Richmond City the city would have to show Commission de-annex their pro- why de-annexation would be ad- perty vantageous With a vote of four to one aaint I ausie vnuB iiu nut jcbbic the commission decided to invite threw him against several wall Robinson hd ked that the the Bell Engineering Co zoning board and commission' Lexington to discuss the cost zone their property for apart- the survey for new storm ments Residents of the area1 sewers for the city objected and requested that the other busniess the city tract be zoned residential hired Charles Dehord as city Hy WU Mffct Tidd Thieves Get Property Worth $3435 the heirs that would have 1 Miami Votes To Provide Park As A Campground For Demo Demonstrators or shut down Wednesday when mobile equipment operators failed to show up for work William Kressenberg executive secretary of the Associated General Contractors of Western Kentucky Inc said the walkout resulted from a pay dispute between contractors and Local 181 of the Operating Engineers which has headquarters here The local serves all Kentucky except Kenton Campbell Boone and Pendleton counties Delbert Melcher executive secretary of the Kentucky Building and Construction Trades Council said 4000 to 5000 operating engineers belong to the Kentucky union they it put IS? By THE ASSOCIATED PPESS A Detroit man was killed in a collision involving a car and a parked tractor-trailer and a six-year-old Lebanon girl was fatally injured when she was struck by a car as she crossed a road to mail a letter in Kentucky traffic accidents Wednesday Dead were Johnny Lee Stevenson 22 of Detroit and Ron-da Beckham of Lebanon (wanted the newly hired bo approved by the com- City police last night werejreluert or hearing investigating four thefts which! Commissioner netted thieves property valued! McWhorter moved that the! mission before they into a chorus of Shall Not be Moved" Can Coexist Asked by a councilman if he felt his 500 to BOO older black demonstrators could coexist at By LESTER KJOS MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-The were! Miami Beach City Council heeding the demands of young protestors1 and the recommendation of its police chief at a total of $3435 commission contact Lux nnempoye( A 32-caliber revolver a radio: Engineering Firm and Charles and two typewriters total value! Black Engineering firm to $1120 were taken from Shut-determine the cost of a resurvey fett Kenton A Anderson 109 of the newly annexed area and North Mill Street between decide whether to de-annex pm Monday and 8 pm i the newly annexed loop around! Tuesday Thieves broke a the city of Richmond The1 window to enter the law offices a separate contract with the union that calls for retroactive payment of whatever hourly wage is finally agreed on by the union and the other contractors Melcher and other labor representatives said they were unable to determine immediately how many operating engineers are on non-highway Jobs Kressenberg in whose area many of the work disruptions occurred said the union origi-nally asked for an 80-cent-per-hour raise covering one year of new contract and that contractors offered 50 cents" No Picket Signs No picket signs were reported Wednesday but Jobs heavily dependent on cranes hoists bulldozers and similar equipment were hampered or idled completely as operators failed to appear Kressenberg and others affected by the dispute said A spokesman for the Aluminum Co of America which is building a huge plant for the Anaconda Corp in Henderson County said that union operating engineers employes were off the Job He said work is continuing" but that the overall operation which employs about 1-000 construction workers been crippled" Col William Brandes Nash ville District Engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers said most of the $200 million locks and dam project on Dog Island near Smithland had been shut down by failure of the operating engineers to appear Wednesday voted 4-2 to provide the campground with the State Police also reported two city park as a campground I younger demonstrators Aber-deaths Tuesday and another on lor Democratic convention de-jnathy replied: course isn't June 25 to bring the Kentucky monstrators that what America's all highway death toll to 540 for The council accepted the the year compared to 465 offer of Ralph Abernathy head Earlier the council decided July 5 1971 of the Southern Christian: its dispute with the Democratic! Stevenson was killed and Leadership Conference to'party over 17 per cent of the vent others jnthe car jnjured Fischer Spassky To Play Pound Closes Resignation Is Demanded Of Brandt police reported Neil Sorenson Glasgow told officers thieves took a movie camera and some clothing valued at a total of $535 from his station wagon while it was parked at 1825 Liberty Road between 10 pm Tuesday and 9 am yesterday proceeds from the convention! when it crashed under the rear food concession should be of a parked tractor-trailer decided in court i Interstate 75 near Greater The council decided to put the Cincinnati Airport Wednesday the council during a day-long money in escrow until Iheij' Stevenson the hearing on the controvereial (courts settled the matter then i was slumped over tte wheel before Higher By IAN WESTERGREN REYKJAVIK (UPI) -The Boris Spassky-Bohby Fischer world chess championship match will open Sunday or campsite question and said he I agreed to turn on the electricity 'would hold conversations with in a series of mobile homes BONN The opposition Tuesday at the latest the! ika rfaal imh mm A il a -a of' International ProlPSt leader to wtj behind the Convention Hall The m' (FIM) rule for th camPslte city refused to turn the power! f'Jral "DE) Flamingo Park a on The injured Kentucky from Hospitalized just the crash that sheared off the top of the car most of them in were taken to hospitals at turning over proceeds were Mrs Re-the concessions to the city jhecca Stevenson 21 wife of the SSE voted 5-2 last month to prohibit nf camping on city property Veve'and- Ohio and her children Tracy 7 public tract only five blocks from the Convention Center Thieves picked the lock to enter the car of Phillip Slusher 235 Castlewood Drive while itdemanded the was parked at his residenceiWest German Chancellor between 11 pm Tuesday and Brandt Wednesday 8 am yesterday iof the tendered resignation ofi fu)E President Missing were some clothes a his economics and finance sw -id he felt Upe recorder a television Karl Schiller ne eit and a guitar total value $880 a government spokesman Sim Russell 703 North Upperjuaid Brandt had intention" Street reported that thieves heeding the demand made entered his residence through a Wednesday by Rainer Barrel resignation president of the sancellor Will Owns Federation in the wake-esriy iL-sday" outstanding been settled at between FIDE the organizers and ending early Dr the major differences had a meeting Icelandic Spassky's advisers Thursday match will start on Sunday" or at the latest Tuesday" Dr Euwe told newsmen But Lother Schmid the FIDE arbiter of the match ws-neo Max bathroom window between leader of the opposition Chris- where the Democratic party opens its nominating convention Monday Promise To Keep Peace The council had voted 5-2 two weeks ago against offering a campsite inside the city limits to protestors Since then such groups as the Yippies Youth International Party Vietnam Veterans Against the War and a coalition of and 4:30 pm yesterday'tian Democratic party and took a television set andj Government sources con-a console stereo system valued firmed Tuesday that Schiller at a total of $900 61 had sent a five-page letter 71 Retire From Local Army Depot 4 Structures Condemned Repairs Set to Brandt asking to be relieved of his post effective Friday The immediate reason wasthat lhi if everything goes convention protest groups have insistence t0 Things can' emphasized their intention to week in pushing through rigid stl11 'rong" he added keep demonstrations peaceful controls on movements of! Schmid said the draw- of lots! A spokesman for the Yippies capital Schiller said the action 0 decide who is to play white however said Monday night meant end of free the if the 24 games in that if the youth group Chrysler Asks Panel For Right To Hike Prices Twenty nine Lexingtonians are among 71 employes of the Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot retiring from federal service This is the largest single the $250000 match will be held given a campsite by the city group of employes ever to retire at the same time Several of the retirees were among the original workforce have to take one" This presented the prospect of a confrontation with police The council voted Wednesday international menl" A government spokesman said Brandt would his decision" on Schiller Friday Government sources said they were convinced the chancellor would accept the resignation A at 8 pm (4 pm EDT) Thurs day Dr Euwe said a new meeting also Involving Fischer advisers would be held Thursday He also said he felt the Soviet DETROIT (AP) Chrysler Corp announced Wednesday it has asked the US Price Commission for authority to in crease prices for its 1973 model cars and trucks by an average of $182 per vehicle Chrysler became the second hired in 1941 when the old on the recommendations of Signal Depot was LONDON The pound shot higher the dollar remained weak and the' price of gold soared in European markets Wednesday At the same time the Swiss government clamped on its toughest protective currency controls in 40 years The new raft of restrictions to hick out unwanted dollars unfurled by Swiss President Nello Celio reinforced an 8 per cent penalty on incoming foreign hinds imposed Tuesday The new rules halted trading in Swiss francs This development in the world currency turmoil trig' gered 12 days ago when Britain floated its pound and the mounting pressures on the dollar helped markets take the French government's resignation in stride The Paris news caused a very slight tremor for sterling The pound gained nearly three cents and hit $2441 up from its Tuesday low of $2413 It then settled near $24385 A huge buying order for pounds from the Middle East spurred price higher in a thin sensitive market speculators also were grabbing some profits dealers said The weakness of the dollar helped the pound to improve they said The price of the dollar stayec pinned at or very near its lowest agreed floor because of selling pressures in main European markets such as West Germany Switzerland Belgium and Holland State banks in Europe were either supporting the dollar's price or poised to prop up the US currency Market sources in Iondon said a flood of dollar selling in Japan swamped the Tokyo market and forced the national bank there to support the currency Nervousness about paper currency values promoted new burst of gold huving hv financiers which shot the London free market price bv one dollar an ounce from Tuesday to hit $68 an ounce Police Chief Rocky Pomerance City Manager Clifford Lexington formed Through demand for a penalty for the! and Washington DC Deputy three wars this automaker to serve notice it cabinet meeting was held Kennedy lr Kevin 8 and Anthony 7 Sgt Charles Kallen of the Florence Ky police department said the Stevenson car was sideswiped by a pickup truck apparently injuring Stevenson before the car ran under the trailer Ruth Coy 46 of Fulton died at a Paducah hospital Tuesday from injuries she received Sunday when she was hit by a car as she walked along a Muhlen-burg County road The acrldent oc cured seven-tenths of a mile west of Fulton in Hickman Countv on Kentucky 166 May-field State Police said Troop ere said no charges were placed avainst the driver Billy Rav Moffitt of Mavfield William Da rid Odom 28 of Beaver Dam in Ohio County was killed Tuesday night in a car-truck collision State Police said he was dead on arrival at Ohio County Hospital after the car in which he was riding struck a tractor-trailer truck about seven miles north of Hartford on US 231 His death brought to 12 the number of traffic victims during the July Fourth holiday weekend The driver of the car Jack A Hill 33 also of Beaver Dam was admitted to the hospital for treatment of injuries suffered in the crash police said Tn a delayed report State Police reported the death of David Casehier 18 of Drakeshoro on June Troopers said his car ran off the roadway 23 milea south of Greenville In Mulen-burg County on Kentucky 176 without Schiller Wednesday to American challenger Police Chief Ted Zander acting group formed the nucleus of Ji I fW ltlA(Sin(( Itea Isia trsm 4ka a- ammciiU anfr 4a Miami RaSoh lf Sli 1 4 for showing late for the consultant to Miami Beach wants to raise prices for 1973 workforce that projected the three men had recom-Lexi ngton installation into only use of the softball (prominence among Army Ma at the park but the terial Command depots discuss his case up In a statement released jatart matcb originally ing the prices of its Jeeps andlWednesdty opposition leader cnedulwd for July 2 he Barrel said way things at the FIDE have worked out the chancellor congress later this year in council passenger cars by an average of about 5 per cent ar The mended field One house and three garages were condemned yesterday by the Minimum Housing Standards Board which also set repair time limits on four other substandard properties Condemned were a house at 488 Price Road owned by Jackson and Fred Williams and garages at 845 Bennett Ayenue owned by Harris and Gertrude Dedman 849 Bennett Avenue Melvin and Mary Stokley and 517 West Third Street Claude Ratliff George Green waa allowed 60 days in which to make the necessary repairs to a house at 426 Illinois Avenue and 30 days were allowed for repair of the following: a house at 431 Illinois owned by Bean Properties Inc a house at 457 Bradley Court Acme Realty Co Inc and a three unit structure at 175 North Hanover Avenue owned by Kentucky Tower Apartments Continued were hearings on shed at 505 Willy Street owned by John Logan and house at 371 Woodland Avenue JoAnn NoeL no limitation park in its imposed use of the The following depot employes are among more than 25000 on motion Use of the park was-federal employes throughout the of Neither General Motors Corp nor Ford Motor Co yet has indicated how much of an increase it will seek although both have Indicated they will apply for authortiy to 'add to price tags Chrysler estimated the increases it Is asking will be approximately 5 per cent for its Skopje Yugoslavia But Schmid said the Sovie demand that Fischer loses the first game and a crucial point the battle for the world still not completely solved Chess sources said Gudmun-dur Thnrarinsson president of must now resign Barzel noted Schiller's abdi-cation followed the resignation of two ministers and four state secretaries from a t's government in little more than a year All were connected with problems of the domestic left to the discrimination O'Key and Pomerance recommendation to the council is that the request be granted because I feel it's the right thing to do" said O'Key who had advised the council two weeks ago to reject the plea from demonstrators Fewer Protestors Expected Zander said that when he first arrived here several weeks ago he was opposed to economy Inflation has forced the Icelandic Chess organization was communicating with the Soviet chess federation in country expected to retire: William A Baker Orville Boone Jr Leo Ceaser James Campbell Helen Crady Henry Cornish' Arvin Duncan Henrietta Fisher William Francis John Griffin Waiter Hocker Harry Hall Nannie Hawkins Henry Johnson Claude Kilburn Roy Lantz Charles Long Jess Litton Olin Light George McCray Jr Decoursey Moore Fred McGuire William McNeil Cora Maurer Dorothy concerning the de- passenger cars and Dodge Brandt's government to aban trucks don ambitious plans for domes- Chrysler said it will pass on'tic reform because of shortage to buyers of 1973s the $82 money says is required to meet in-j Even passage of Moscow mand One other point to be settled budet thwarted 1 Spassky's demand for an etblishing campsite because emment-mandated safety and fa months Following dcfec-aPology from Fischer with the he did not feel there VH ilSIAlt frftllt nmssnt 111 a a il I A aiifM a 6 I4 emission equipment No adequate facilitis available to accommodate as many as Louisville Girl Hurt In Wreck lions at 10 members of the signature on it Chrysler said it also is asking jCoaliticm the lower house of: such document has yet been a $70 increaxe to cover l'l Parliament is stalemated with presented to the Russian world for 250000 demonstrators expected for the convention But hsaid Frncis c- Roder HK Staffer Gets Putnam Award bor and material cost increases government and opposition con- champion hut Dr Euwe said Charles Stivers William he was satisfied that it would that estimates of demonstrators Webb and William Yates and an additional $28 tor current optional equipment which is being made standard on 1973s trolling 248 votes each Because of this Brandt has announced he plans to hold elections in November a year ahead of schedule Mazzoli Speaks To Teen-Agers Striking Charge Jails Local Man Teen-Age Boy Hurt When Hit By Auto US Rep Romano Mazzoli Democrat from the third Hancock Names Assistants To Staff had dropped sharply sinca then and believe we can accommodate the number of people that wa'ra talking Officials recently have estimated an influx of under 10000 for the Democratic convention but have indicated they expect the figure to be much higher for the Republican Convention Aug 21 Voting against the motion were rouncilmcn Harold Rosen and Herbert Magnes Rosen Isaid believe that this be forthcoming Fischer presented an apology of sorts Wednesday when he broke his silence with a statement regretting the delay of the match Fischer said it was not Spassky's fault that the match had been delayed and said he grandmaster Spassky as a player and man" Russian officials said the statement waa expected to satisfy Spasksy if delivered to him with Fischer'a signature attached Dr Euwe already fulfilled two other Soviet demands' A 5-year-old Louisville girl was listed in fair condition last night at University Hospital where she was taken after the station wagon in which her family was riding overturned on Interstate 64 Sherry Sipes suffered broken collar bone and collapsed lung in the accident which occurred about 2 pm Tuesday Her father Richard Sipes 35 her brother Richard Sipes Jr 18 months and Esther Thompson Ashland were treated at the same hospital and released Brenda Sipes 28 also of Louisville told county policed district IHiisvllle yesterday addressed the opening session of the Kentucky High School Speech Institute at the University of Kentucky Mr Mumli discussed tne importance of communication Dr Michael Harris 229 Savoy Road recently was named recipient of the Putnam Honor Fund Award during the final general session of the American Library Association'! 1972 annual conferenca in Chicago HI Dr Harris who Is with the College of library Science at the University of Kentucky was presented the award In recognition of his and scholarly approach to a longterm research project based on his personal concern with the investigation of the influence of reading on human behavior" A graduate of the University of North Dakota and the University of lllLiois he has published several works including in American library History" A 13-year-old Lexington boy hit by a car last night on West Main Street was listed in satisfactory condition at Good Samaritan Hospital Alonza Amon Slaton 636 West Main suffered fractures of the pelvis and collarbone hospital officials reported The driver of the car Edwin Davis 51 of 942 Highland City police yesterday arrestw a 49-year-old Lexington man and charged him with malicious striking and wounding after annther local man was hit in the face with a bottle Tuesday Sammy Cowan 144 Race Street waa arrested at 1:25 pm at 415 Race by Detective Lt Howard Cowan is accused of striking Ernest Henderson 61 of 512-C South Asnendale Drive about 11 am Tuesday Henderson was treated University Hospital for a broken nose and facial lacerations am released hospital officials said between those present and proposal was made out of fearstressed that many future con- Wednrsday night when helnrf I don't like to vote on filets could be settled by Issued a condemnation of measures out of fear" argument" rather Fisrher'a behavior iA failing to ean assure you each of than by war FRANKFORT Ky Atty Gen Ed Hancock Wednesday announced the addition of two legal assistants to his staff and the appointment of administrative secretary to the consumer protection division Legal assistants are Frankcnburgcr Lexington and Tat Kimhcrlin Louisville Mrs Margaret Lowry was appointed administrative secretary turn up in time and a Iso! you you rote to do this you admitted that he himself had will he proud of your decision' Eighty three high school students from the state and surrounding areas are attending Fark Drive told city police he was driving east on Main at Georgetown Street about 5:25 pm when the boy ran from between two cars in the right liana into the path of his vehicle was driving west on the Interstate when she hit a large puddle of water and the car went out of control ran off the right side of the pavement and flipped Abernathy said when he ap violated the FIDE rules by granting a postponement at the first mstch peered before the council Kis the institute which will be In supportere cheered end broke! session through July 22 at UK I sr 11 "9 fWWjrf!.