THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
THURSDAY JULY 19,1973
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Food Goes First in President's New Thaw
By BILL NEIKIRK Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON—President Nixon ended the price freeze in the food and health industries Wednesday but announced it would remain over the rest of the economy until a tough, selective new system of price controls goes into effect Aug. 12.
Nixon took the wraps off proposed Phase
4 price rules severely limiting businesses in the amount of cost they can pass on to consumers in price increases when the freeze expires.
He announced that gasoline, crude oil, heating oil and diesel fuel would be put under new price ceiling when Phase 4 takes effect.
G! DROPPING the freeze in the food
President Nixon's Doctors Say He's Basically 'A Well Man'
WASHINGTON—President Nixon's doctors report he now is "essentially a well man" and that his mood is "very good" as he looks forward to leaving his hospital suite Friday. Wednesday, however, Nixon confined himself to handling paper work and holding brief meetings with staff chief Gen. Alexander Haig Jr., and Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ex-Nixon Men Get the Jobs
WASHINGTON-Eighty-four persons formerly employed by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, the White House or other executive offices have gone to work for independent government advisory agencies since last Oct. 1, Rep. Harley Staggers, D-Wa. said.
Staggers, chairman of the House Commerce Committee, released the results of his inquiries to 13 government regulatory bodies.
Among heads of regulatory agencies are two former White House aides, Lewis Engman, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and Alexander P. Butterfield, head of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Med Center to Get $1.8 Million
KANSAS CITY—Health profession schools in Missouri and Kansas are receiving more than $8 million in fiscal 1973 under authority of the Comprehensive Health Manpower Training Act. Max Mills, Department of Education, said Iowa and Nebraska, said $14.7 million had been distributed to eight medical schools, three osteopathic schools, five dental schools, seven pharmacy schools and three veterinary schools in the region. In addition, the University of Kansas Medical Center, $1.18 million; KU School of Pharmacy, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, $29,891.
Beef prices will remain under the separate March 29 meat price ceilings, but the ceilings on pork and lamb prices were lifted. All the food industry rules will remain in effect until Sept. 12, roughly a month after Phase 4 goes into operation.
Senate Adopts Dole Proposal
WASHINGTON -The Senate has adopted a price free escape clause that Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., proposed on foods. The vote was 90 to 4 on authorizing the secretary of agriculture to adjust prices on agricultural commodities that are in danger of falling into short supply as the result of a price freeze. Dole said many food producers and processors would be forced out of business if they were not afforded relief from the squeeze between soaring prices for raw products and retail ceilings on the things they made and handled.
Mizzou Journalism Prof Dies
COLUMBIA, Mo.-An apparent heart attack has taken the life of William Bickley, 60, managing editor of the Columbia Missourian and professor of journalism at the University of Missouri. Bickley held the tenure of any member of the journalism school's staff and had been mentored by a friend who was a 1934 graduate of the university. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Parker's Funeral Home at Columbia.
Lansing Desegregation Sought
TOPEKA—The Kansas Commission on Civil Rights will have a hand in formulating a plan for desegregating two medium security cellhouses at the state penitentiary at Lansing that have been racially segregated for several months because of tensions. John Hazelet, assistant state penal director, said the idea for seeking help from the Civil Rights Commission came from personnel at the prison, who considered it a logical step in the prison's moves to get the penitentiary back on a normal program. The two cellhouses have been segregated since a racial confrontation at the prison within the last year, Hazelet said.
Coup in Afghanistan Reported
NEW DELHI-Unconfirmed reports from Afghanistan say that tribal uprisings against Tuesday's coup toppling the Afghan monarch have already taken 36 lives. A wave of executions is said to follow the declaration of a republic by the king's brother-in-law, and refugees have crossed in large numbers into adjoining Pakistan. (Details on P. 4.)
Cloudy and Wet Today
Clouds are expected to obscure the skies, and sadly, the sun, for the better part of today. It's going to be wet, in spells, all day long. Highs for today will be in the low to mid 80s.
industry, the President said that food prices could go up only to reflect the increased cost of raw agricultural products. He said that the food prices must not be kept so low as to cause shortages, as the current freeze was threatening to do.
Basic Plan for Phase 4
WASHINGTON (AP)—Here, at a glance,
are the basic elements of President Nixon's
presidency.
GENERAL.—The price freeze is lifted immediately on food and health industries. All sectors of the economy remain frozen until January 28, when inflation. At that time,price increases will require 30-day prior notification and will be required to dollar-for-dollar reflection of actual currency changes.
EXEMPTIONS—Controls will be lifted
in plants.
WAGES—the general 5.3 WAGE in effect during Phase 2 and 3 conti-
nues to be the same.
Aug. 12 on public utility rates, interest rates and wages, rents and wages in lumber and plywood industries and small businesses with fewer than 60 employees.
FOOD—A two-stage program will permit price increases only when they reflect an actual dollar-for-dollar increase in the cost of raw agricultural products since June 8. Beef prices will remain frozen until Sept. 12, when manufacturers and processors will be allowed to pass on all cost increases on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
PETROLEUM - Price ceiling will be imple-
mented 12 on gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel.
Besides disclosing the shape of Phase 4 price controls, Nixon said he would strive to achieve a balanced budget in fiscal 1974. He suggested tax increase as a way to cool the economy.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY George Shultz, announcing details of the program as Nixon recovered in a hospital from viral pneumonia, told newsmen, "The budget policy is a return to that old-time religion: balance the budget."
The Phase 4 system is the most complex one that the administration has turned to in trying to combat runaway inflation that has entered into the purchasing power of the dollar.
SOME INDUSTRIES will be exempt from Phase 4 controls at the outset. They include the lumber industry, most of the regulated industries and the price of coal under long-term contract.
Exempted in the health industry are hospitals, clinics and other institutions, but doctors and dentists are still subject to the freeze.
THE BASIC RULE is that prices will be allowed to go up only as much as business costs rise, Nikon said. This differs from the old Phase 2 rules when businesses were allowed to mark up, or profit from, their revenues by raising prices to consumers.
As expected, the President kept the wage standard of earlier phases in effect. This means that pay increases are generally greater than the wage guideline plus 0.7 per cent for fringes.
Companies with 60 or fewer workers also will be exempt from controls.
In the health industry, the mandatory rules governing price increases in effect during the previous Phase 3 will supplant the freeze.
Reacting to the announcement, the Chamber of Commerce issued a critical statement, saying the new program "is an effort to freeze the freeze—which has been a disaster."
AFI-CIO PRESIDENT George Meany withheld comment pending the federation's executive council meeting in Chicago next month. Jerry Wurff, president of the City of New York, state, County and Municipal Employees, will administer to talk about tough en-
See NIXON, Back Page
Welcome Night for Archie
Several hundred members of the KU alumni association listen to the introductions to Archie Dykes' first major role in "The Lion King" university. They'd just finished off a
banquet in the Kansas Union Ballroom as part of the association's evening to welcome him to his new job. (Story on Page 4.)
House Approves War Powers Curb
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defying President Nixon's veto threat, the House Wednesday approved a 120-day limit on a president's travel to Europe and abroad without congressional approval.
Rejected were a crossfire of amendments from opponents contending the war powers
bill was both too strong and too weak. Then the full bill was passed 244 to 170.
Nixon served notice in a telegram that "If I am unalterably opposed to and must veto any bill containing the dangerous and unconstitutional restrictions" in the bill,
He identified those restrictions as the bill's two major features:
A requirement that a president pull out any U.S. combat force commitment or force enlargement abroad that he makes on his behalf will significantly approve the commitment by then.
Kansas Congressmen Express No Surprise at Nixon's Bugging
By BETSY RIORDAN
Kansas State Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
WASHINGTON—The news of President Nixon's bugging of White House conversations is a surprise to many, but Kansas congressmen's reactions are ruid.
Most of the Kansas senators and representatives, contacted by telephone Wednesday, said that all of the Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt had had some means of recording or transcribing comments to Seen in Robert Dolez. Roosevelt had built a building into his office and a secretary sat behind it, recording the conversations.
Dole said that he was surprised at the news of the bugging, but that he wouldn't change any of his conversations with the President.
Alexander Butterfield, a former White House staffer who now heads the Federal Aviation Administration, told the Senate Watergate committee Monday that Nixon ordered recording devices placed in his offices and on his telephones beginning in 1971. The White House has confirmed Butterfield's testimony.
"The practice has been around for some time," Dole said. "But that doesn't make it a law."
Rep. Larry Winn expresses disapproval of the bugging but said that there were unanticipated problems.
There are certain circumstances, say that the President is negotiating with foreign leaders on a matter of importance.
direction of the government." Winn said. "He would want the conversation recorded for his own protection and for the record of the country."
Rep. Garner Shriver said that he didn't have enough bulging was necessary, even for historical reasons.
A provision that any time during the 120 days Congress could vote the war commitment halted with a House-Senate committee would not be subject to a president's veto.
"I don't approve of it," Shriver said.
Sen. James Pearson declined to comment because, he said, all the facts weren't in it. He said that he thought the responsibility to send the investigation until the investigation was completed.
"unless the person knows. It wouldn't bother me if statements I made were taken
As the House approved the bill, the Senate took up its own war powers bill for a possible vote Friday. An early showdown between Nixon and Congress over the issue.
Senate Committee Plans Investigation of Wiretaps
By JEAN HELLER Associated Press Writer
Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., chairman of the permanent subcommittee on investigations, said Wednesday his staff would look into the wide range of wiredapart agencies and government agencies and private industry. The probe could lead to new legislation, he said.
WASHINGTON -Spirred by disclosures of White House tape recordings, a Senate subcommittee is opening an investigation to try to untangle conflicts between electronic bugging practices and the individual's right to privacy.
He said his investigation would include a
at the practices of past presidential
advises.
The committee chairman, Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., D-N.C., said Wednesday he had not received any response from the White House.
Meanwhile, the hot-potato question of access to the White House tapes for the Senate Watergate committee was back in President Nixon's lap. A White House spokesman said that "shortly we would something further to say about the tapes."
Samuel Dash, the chief counsel, said the committee would wait at least until today before considering further action to obtain the material. The possibility of a subpenaing the material remains open. A majority of the seven-men committee is on record as favoring a subpenaion should Nixon refuse access to the material.
"PRIVATE LIVES," with its famous balcony scene, will be shown at 7 tonight in the Woodruff Auditorium. Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer portray two young men, again on the night of their second marriages and realizing that they are still in love.
George Bancroft and Fay Wray star in "Thunderbob," a movie about a convict on death row who frames his former girlfriend's lover for murder and plans to kill him on the night of his own execution. It will be shown at 7 p.m. in Woodruff.
A PROGRAM OF 19th-Century music inspired by scenes from Shakespeare's plays will be performed by faculty and student solists from The School of Fine Arts at 3 p. m., Sunday, in SWarthwout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
SHAKESPEARE'S "Othello," starring Laurence Olivier, will be show at 7 p.m. Sunday in Woodstock auditorium. A New York Times best-seller, "one of the boldest you will ever see."
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