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Friday, December 8, 1972
University Daily Kansan
News Briefs By the Associated Press Prices Go Up
WASHINGTON - Wholesale prices surged ahead sharply in November, the Labor Department said Thursday in a report that dampened government hopes of slowing the rate of inflation at least 3 per cent by year's end. Wholesale prices usually are reflected at the retail level soon. The Labor Department said that the wholesale price index increased by 0.6 per cent in November, the biggest monthly increase since July and a contrast to slower price rise at the wholesale level in September and October.
Drug Use Down
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department's chief doctor, Dr. Richard S. Wilbur, said Thursday the "totally out of hand" abuse of heroin by American troops in Vietnam in early 1972 prompted the Army. He said the Defense Department's drug abuse program of identification, treatment, rehabilitation and education was successful in reducing heroin abuse by GIs from its previously high levels to a level he termed still severe. The Army also said that the fact that heroin was still freely available throughout Southeast Asia.
Gulf Oil Sale
TOPEKA—An official of the Gulf Oil co. said it had put up for sale all the service stations it owned in Kansas as part of a $250 million worldwide cutback, the Topeka State Journal reported Thursday. "We will retain no facilities we own in Kansas," the governor said. The Gulf Oil president as saying. Lewis was contacted in his office in Houston.
Sailor Convicted
NORFOLK, Va.,-Seaman Apprentice Jeffrey Allison was convicted Thursday of setting the $7.5m fire that damaged the aircraft carrier Forrestal July 10. The military judge, Capt. William E. Neey, found all庐ison guilty of arson, sabotage, torture, and militant property, and harrassed a vessel, and guilty also of six specifications involving possession and distribution of the drugs LSD and mescaline.
Hijack Trial
ST. LOUIS—An American Airlines pilot testified in U.S. District Court Thursday that he got a good look at the hijacker of a jetliner in St. Louis last summer when he accidentally knocked off the hijacker's sunglasses. Art Koester, one of two pilots on the plane, described the previous flight crew, described the incident Thursday at the trial of Martin J. McNelly, 28, of Wyndotte, Mich. McNelly is charged with two counts of air piracy.
Marcos' Wife Injured By Assailant's Knife
MANILA (AP)—Imelda Marcos, the Philippines' First Lady, was attacked Thursday by an unidentified assistant while she was traveling, and survived with injuries requiring 75 stitches.
The assailant was slain. The motive of the assault was unclear.
Imelda Marcos, 42, was badly cut on both arms and hands when the man attacked her during a beautification awards ceremony in neighboring Pasay City.
Thousands of television viewers in the Manila area saw the attack.
President Nikon telephoned Marcos to offer his sympathy and any possible assistance.
Following three hours of emergency treatment at the Makati Medical Center, Mrs. Marcos managed a weak smile as she wheeled out of the operating room on to a ninth-floor presidential suite. She was accompanied by the grim-faced president.
Doctors said Mrs. Marcos suffered four major cuts which included cut tendons on both hands and three fractured fingers on her right hand.
Officials said a label in the assailant's suit jacket indicated he was from southern Davao City, 610 miles south of Manila. They ordered the Davao police commander to bring the tiger of the suit to Manila for help and retrieve the person who was carrying no identification papers.
With no definite word on the identity of the assailant, speculation included theories that he was an isolated fanatic, that he was part of a premeditated plot by political enemies or that he was part of a classical Moslem military force. He was armed forces in southern Sula Province.
Truman Is Improving Still on Critical List
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Former军官 Harry S Trump was reported in improved condition by medical authorities Thursday after a touch-and-go night in his battle against lung congestion and cancer at胸门。Doctors kept him on the critical list.
Last month presidential press secretary Francisco S. Tatad said the government had broken up a major plot to kill the president that included the use of hired American assassins backed by rich right-wing Filipinos.
"His age and the potential of sudden change require that he continue to be described as critical," said a spokesman at Research Hospital and Medical Center, in Chicago. The chief executive was taken Tuesday evening from his home in Independence, Mo.
During the night Truman had passed through what his personal physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, called an ultracritical period.
"His general response is better today than yesterday," the hospital reported in one of several periodic statements to the press. "The major concern is still heart failure."
Wayne Conery, the hospital's assistant director of professional services, said doctors had described last night's episode as acute pulmonary edema, which is a manifestation of heart failure, but presently have no evidence of myocardial infarction.
The same statement also mentioned the continued presence of infection which doctors indicated was in the bronchial tree. An edema is the presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the intercellular tissue spaces of the body.
In laymen's terms, Conery said, doctors are indicating that the patient is an important patient. Toward this end,
Truman's wife, Bess, and their only child, Margaret Danuel Daniel, were at his side during most of the night. They left shortly before dawn, but were back by 11 a.m.
Mrs. Daniel, wife of New York Times
executive Clifton Daniel, arrived here just after midnight Thursday from Washington.
Meeting with reporters less than an hour afterward, she voiced great faith her father had for her.
"He is in serious condition, but he has been before," she said. "He's a strong man and he's got the edge."
Supreme Court Rules Against Union Fines
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that labor unions could not fine workers who quit the union during a strike and return to their jobs.
The 8-1 decision, written by Justice William O. Douglas, said that a union had no more control over a former member than it had over the man in the street.
The case involved a strike in 1968-69 by the Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, against the Nashua, N.H., plant of the International Paper Box Machine Co. All but one member of the local voted to strike and, after the strike started, the members agreed that defectors were subject to a $2,000 fine.
Thirty-one members eventually quit the union during the lengthy strike and went back to work. The local tried to fine them a day's wages for each day worked.
The court agreed with the National Labor
relations Board that the lines were illegal
and that Mr. Schaefer was unlawful.
"When a member lawfully resigns from the union, its power over him ends."
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