The Memphis Press-Scimitar from Memphis, Tennessee • 2

1973 PAGE 2 MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR SATURDAY OCTOBER High Cost of Living Hits Food for Family Pets PEOPLE most sold for two cans for 29 cents For large animals and for families with more than one pet dried dog food is the rally economical answer Veterinarians also say all animal foods have gone up drastically Dr Kenneth Whittington a Memphis veterinarian said this topic will touched on at the convention of the Southern Veterinary Medical Association to be held at Holiday Hall of the Rivermont this weekend He said standard diets are up as are packaged diets for animals with kidney and heart disease and those on reducing diets Yes he said there is a reducing diet food for cats and one that will bring the family pet down to more pleasing slim and healthy that is if you get him to eat it Dr Whittington suggested adding milk or gravy to dried foods to bolster protein content He said small amounts of cooked starches such as rice and potatoes may also be added to any of the foods this lowers your protein Pet foods cost more for the same reason the American the high cost of ingredients Bob Adams district sales manager for the dry pet food By DOROTHY WARD Staff Writer The high cost of feeding the family has spilled over into the high cost of groceries for and Purchasers of food for family pets have noticed a steady climb in the prices of their pet foods over the past year but In recent weeks with the removal of controls the hikes have been much greater and faster Dog or cat foods now hike the family grocery bill by several dollars depending on the number and size of the animals A spot check by several large Memphis and grocery chains revealed that a 50-pound sack of nationally advertised dry dog food has gone up in price within the past two weeks from $715 to $869 A 25-pound sack ranges in price from $484 to $539 depending on the brand and the store Canned foods for dogs range from about 22 cents to 36 cents for a 154 ounce can The burger types went up this week on one brand from $105 to $119 for a six-pack A 16-ounce box of dry cat food sells for 41 cents most places up from 37 cents about three months ago division of Carnation Milk Co in Memphis said one of main reasons is the tremendous increase in the price of soybeans a principal ingredient in dry pet foods Another is the high price of fish and poultry and variety meats such as liver and kidneys all of which have been the mainstays of canned foods along with soybean additives (the manufacturers) are really caught in a prize squeeze" he said price of soybeans from the farmer has gone up about 300 per cent We can't possibly pass all of that along to the middle man and thus to the consumer" Maybe the answer is as an owner of eight dogs said: just have to learn to get along on what you can afford to feed them like the rest of the 1-65 Complete In Tennessee NASHVILLE Tenn -(AP) The final two-mile stretch of Interstate 65 in Tennessee was officially opened Friday in Nashville Gov Winfield Dunn Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley and Transportation Commissioner Robert Smith participated in ceremonies opening the highway link The interstate is now complete between Decatur Ala and Chicago It will eventually extend to Mobile Ala Dunn said the ceremonies marked the completion of 8453 miles of the 1045 miles of interstate allocated to Tennessee Press-Sdmltar Staff Photo by John Georg BIG PET 3-year-old St Bernard really think he does eat much but Julie Graham art teacher at Immaculate Conception High School says he packs away about $15 a month in vittles Canned cat foods sell for about 29 to 23 cents a can at most stores with at least one chain still carrying a well-known brand at two cans for 37 cents A year ago Procuring for Porn Eight men including the son of actress Loretta Young have been arraigned in Superior Court in Los Angeles on charges of procuring boys ages 6 to 17 to appear in pornographic movies and photographs The Los Angeles County district office said today 14 persons in all were indicted by the county grand jury in secret indictments handed down Thursday Among those named were Miss son Christopher Paul Lewis and William Byars an heir to the Humble oil fortune Lewis and seven other defendants pleaded innocent Friday and were ordered to return Nov 2 for further proceedings Byars 37 reportedly is in Morocco Hurts to be Little Twenty-five years ago he was known to radio audiences as a bellhop named who cried out: for Phillip Today Dale Paullin 50 no longer does cigarette commercials He is a window display man for a department store in Marshalltown Iowa Paullin who stands 4-foot-6 was in Des Moines this weekend for a district convention of Little People of America Paullin said their plight is the same as that of other minority groups except discrimination is for us The civil rights legislation mention physical trying to tell all little people and the general public that despite our handicap we can lead normal he said Money Buys Hot Air Millionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes has come half way across the United States to Dix 111 in his hot air balloon and predicts he will be in New Jersey in about two weeks Forbes 54 of Far Hills NJ is the founder of Forbes Magazine a business weekly He lifted off from Coos Bay Ore on Oct 4 in his blue-and-gold balloon Following his route on the ground are two buses equipped with beds a kitchen beer and a staff of 16 Why has he attempted such an improbable feat? things One is adventure and two I can afford he said Vietnam Remembered Jane Fonda urged about 3000 listeners at the University of Cincinnati to work to free in South Vietnam to your Congressmen and Senators and tell them they will not be re-elected unless they cut off funds to support prisons in South said Miss Fonda She contended there are 200000 prisoners in the jails of the US-sponsored Miss Fonda also called for support of amnesty for Americans who refused to fight in Vietnam attacked the Nixon administration and the regime of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu lSorry It Was Yours Telly Savalas who plays a tough detective in got a first-hand dose of crime while filming a segment of the television series Savalas returned earlier in the week to the spot where he parked his car while filming in downtown Los Angeles to find an empty parking space Quick work by real police recovered the car and a man was booked for investigation of auto theft After being arrested and handcuffed the man was taken to meet Savalas said the guy apologized and that he really felt sorry for a spokesman for the television series said later MISSIONS CONCLUDES Services 10:50 AM and 7:30 PM Press International Telephoto 10-GALLON Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz who has denied allegations that he attempted to impede a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into the acquisition of a California wine cooperative by Heublein Inc arrived in a lb-gallon hat at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for the opening of the Grand National Livestock Show A Washington newspaper reported that Butz tried in 1972 to pressure then chairman Miles Kirkpatrick into dropping the inquiry into the merger Not Another Battle Tennis star Billie Jean King says she accept a challenge from Sen Lowell Weicker R-Conn to participate in another of the think the senator has bigger and better things to worry about than playing me in a tennis Mrs King said in a telephone interview from her Waikiki Hotel suite in Honolulu Friday night Weicker a 52-year-old member of the Watergate committee issued the informal challenge Thursday at the end of a telephone question-and-answer session with high school students in Glastonbury Conn New Game Plan Former Vice President Spiro Agnew entertainer Frank Sinatra and an entourage of friends and security men are occupying two floors of the fashionable Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago The 17th and 18th floors of the hotel are guarded by a large force of security men While the purpose of the visit is not known there was a report that Agnew and Sinatra were there in connection with the formation of the new World Football League Banned for Attitude The East German interior ministry has banned Cardinal Julius Doepfner Roman-Catholic Archbishop of Munich from attending the 200th anniversary on Nov 1 of East St cathedral a West Berlin church spokesman has announced The spokesman said the ministry barred the archbishop on the grounds he had an toward East Germany He was bishop of Berlin from 1957 to 1961 and was responsible for the rebuilding of the bombed-out cathedral fyOuC PSC Probes Increase In Phone Rates NASHVILLE Tenn -(AP) The state Public Service Commission will begin Monday considering motions challenging a proposed $31 million South Central Bell Co rate hike The commission must decide by Dec 22 whether to grant the increase the largest ever filed by a Tennessee utility Commission spokesman said written opinions on the motions will be issued later in the week Under the Bell proposal monthly rates on private one-party lines would jump from $685 in Nashville to $825 from $685 to $850 in Memphis and from $660 in Knoxville to $775 Among the motions before the commission is one by the equipment suppliers asking the commission to subpoena business records from the American Telephone and Telegraph Co and South Central Bell Attorneys for the Tennessee Consumer Alliance filed a motion seeking dismissal of the rate request on the grounds that Bell to sustain its burden of proving that the changes and increases are reasonable and The US General Services Administration also filed a motion asking Bell to provide records of extraordinary expenses incurred after floods and the fire-bombing of a Bell facility in Soddy-Daisy Tenn earlier this year Staff Pliolo by Ken Ross A CANDY BAR will be the Halloween treat for any Shelby County child who waves at a police or department car during next observance Y'outh Services 910 McCall Bldg is helping load up the candy a gift from the manufacturers With one supply are from left City Patrolmen Jerry Lawson and Statzer with Father Don Mowery head of Youth Services Morris Plotts Kenya East Africa HARRIS Africa EdSPULER Spain SPECIAL MUSIC Directed by KEN CARTER Featuring TV Chorus Sanctuary Choir The Weather NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7AM EST tO-2-75 00 77 Ch 13 and WHBQ Sunday 8:30 AM WMSO 1590Kc Sunday 4:00 PM that was the first in the na-tion covering an entire industry from apprenticeship to firing Judge Wellford heard 25 days of testimony in the action between Dec 5 1971 and March 16 1972 Andrew Barrick an attorney with the US Justice Civil Rights Division said the Memphis suit involved more time in the courtroom than any other discrimination case ever brought by the department Memphis and Vicinity Mostly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with showers and thundershowers likely this afternoon and ending tonight Decreasing cloudiness Sunday morning becoming partly cloudy by afternoon Cooler tonight and Sunday High this afternoon In the mid 70s low tonight in the upper 40s high Sunday In the mid 60s Winds southerly 10-15 mph this afternoon becoming northwesterly 10-15 mph tonight Probability of rain 70 per cent this afternoon and 50 per cent tonight Union Ruled Liable In Discrimination Federal Judge Harry Wellford has signed a consent agreement making Local No 1 of the Bricklayers Stone Masons Tile Setters Terazzo Workers Pointers Cleaners and Caulkers Union liable for $35000 in compensation as a result of racial discrimination Earlier Judge Wellford had held that a major portion of the Memphis area masonry contracting industry was liable for damages because of its pattern and of discrimination against blacks settlement was only with the 600-member union and further hearings before US Magistrate Aaron Brown Jr will be held to determine the amount of damages the contracting firms must pay 500 to the black members $1500 to Louis Lucas their attorney and $1000 to the government for its expenses in the case Judge ruling included a permanent injunction forbidding the union its FIRST ASSEMBLY 255 Highland at Waynoka JAMES HAMILL PASTOR "A CHURCH WHERE JESUS IS REAL" Bid Is Lowest fcudoha Sapiiil £tAc! 10:50 AM YOU WANT TO CROW LIVE A PURE 7:00 PM CALL TO A RELUCTANT 1 (HAG Ufl WEATHER fOTOCAST Joint Apprenticeship Committee and the contractors from excluding blacks as potential workers It also established a referral system to insure the assignment of black union members to contracting jobs in proportion with whites The action stemmed from a suit filed by the Justice Department in federal court FAIR SKIES ARE FORECAST across most of the Mid-South according to the national weather map which projects the situation through 6 am tomorrow Judge Wellford ruled that any black bricklayer who belonged to the union from Jan 1 1966 through Dec 31 1971 was eligible for a settlement if he could prove he suffered damages directly attributable to racial discrimination by the defendants The agreement provides that the union will pay $32- Temperatures DR FRED WOOO PASTOR A gro wing church for growing Christians 484 FORLAR AT FIRKINS Mississippi River Three-day forecast: The river a Coruthersvllle will fall Tl feet fall 0B foot fall 08 foot at Memphis It will fall 09 foot fall 11 feet fall 09 foot River stage: 1st figures flood stage In feet 2nd figures stage at 7 am today 3rd figures 24-hr change 4th figure rainfall SI Louis 30 181 22 Coruthersvllle 32 180 00 MEMPHIS 34 138 -05 00 Helena 44 218 -03 44 Greenville Bridge 48 303 05 00 Another Autumn Sunday Evening at 5:30 PM MADISON HEIGHTS UN ITED METHODIST CHURCH 1300 one block north of Methodist Hospital THE PILANT FAMILY SINGERS -WHEEL CHAIRS- Station Albuauorque Atlanta Birmingham Boston Chicago Cincinnati Da I -Ft Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Houston Indianapolis 70 Jackson Miss Jacksonville Knoxville Little Rock Los Angeles MEMPHIS Miami Beach Mlnn-St Paul Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Phoenix Pittsburgh St Louis San Francisco Seattle Shreveport Tampa Washington Barnett Construction Co is apparent low bidder on a contract for construction of the new Bellevue Transfer Station The station is to be the first of three at which garbage compactors will trans-f their loads to larger trucks for hauling to landfills The aim is to reduce travel time for the compactors allowing more time for actual garbage collections The Barnett bid calls for a 240-day construction period at a cost of $398500 A Lucchesi Construction Co Inc bid $438000 but specified a 180-day building period Maynard Stiles city sani- tation services director said the city will have to decide I whether to pay more for a I shorter construction period or pay less and sacrifice time In other bid action the city: bid on Improving Mill-branch from Raines to Winchester The apparent low bid of 133562925 was submitted by Rcoaor contractors bids for resurfacing work for a portion of Airport industrial I Park The apparent low bid of 596736 50 was submltled by Asphalt Co bids on resurfacing curb onrl gutter work for Bulterworth Eost Old Ralolgh-LoGrange Farrow Ridgeway Ralolgh-LoGranoe Weaver and I Winchester The apparent low bid of 32975 was submitted by DIF Construction Co Inc contracts totallno 11780- I 890 to three companies tor construction I of a new fire and police communications system The companies ore Motorola Inc 8111837550 Technical Products Engineered Co $455984 and Acme Visible Records Co 16530-50 the only bid received for collection ef oarbag and trash In the Penal Form area to be annexed by the city Dec 31 Independent Service Co which now collects In the Raleigh area hid 132974980 tor a one-year contract a protest by Moody Equipment Co on the award of a contract to Scruggs Equipment Co lor 30 oarbag compactor bodies Moody still may oooeol to Mayor Wytth still may Chrome Plated Ball Bearings Vinyl Seat Back with Strong Lining Adjustable Foot Plates Arm Rests A Quality Chair OHIO RIVER 25 164 52 259 55 100 39 154 40 240 Pittsburgh Cincinnati Louisville Paducah Cairo 02 01 -01 02 -10 Mid-South Weather TENNESSEE: Zones 13 and 14 Mostly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with showers and thundershowers likely this afternoon and ending tonight Decreasing cloudiness Sunday morning become portly cloudy by afternoon Cooler tonight and Sunday High this afternoon in the mid 70s low tonight In the upper 40s high Sunday In the mid 60s Winds southerly 10-15 mph this afternoon becoming northwesterly 10-15 mph tonight Probability of rain 70 per cent this afternoon and 50 per cent tonight ARKANSAS: Zones T2 13 and 14 Showers and thundershowers likely this afternoon and tonight Decreasing cloudiness with only a slight chance of showers Sunday morning Fair Sunday afternoon High this afternoon mid to upper 70s low tonight near 60 high Sunday In the upper 60s Winds southerly 5-15 mph this afternoon becoming northerly 10 mph tonight Probability of rain 70 per cent this afternoon 60 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Sunday MISSISSIPPI: Zones 1 4 and 5 Partly cloudy with showers and a few thunderstorms likely today and early tonight Fair Sunday Mild todov turn-Ing cooler early tonight and Sunday High today about 80 low tonbht In mid 40s high Sunday In mid 60s Winds southerly 8-16 mph gusty near thunderstorms northerly tonlnht Probability of roin 60 per cent today and 50 per cent tonight MISSOURI: Zone 14 Several periods of showers and thundershowers likely today and tonlnht Cooler today with high around 70 Low tonight 45-50 Clearing Sunday and cool with high 60-45 Winds southerly 10 mph today shifting to northwesterly 10 mph tonight Probability of rain 70 per cent today 50 per cent tonight Betty Ann Hunt Soprano Colie Stoltz and Bran Message by Dr Paul Tudor tones Idlewild Presbyterian Church ST FRANCIS RIVER Fisk St Francis 20 18 ARKANSAS WHITE TRIBUTARIES tittle Rock 23 Vere Marjorie Gary Doug and Greg 47 23 5 Inch Front Wheel (Shown Above) 9950 (8 Inch Front Wheel 11950) 353 107 26 (5 32 4583 26 160 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