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Tuesday, September 18, 1973
University Dally Kansan
Finishing Touch
Kamman Staff Photo by CARL DAYAZ
Henry Beers (left) and Don Dlevin of the Buildings and Grounds Department install a video camera to monitor construction progress.
as a simulational operation is under way at the Kansas Union.
Price Ceiling Pinching Gas Dealers
By BILL WILLETS Kansan Staff Reporter
Lawrence gasoline dealers are feeling the pressure of living Council's Phase 4 price cutrols.
The controls, implemented Sept. 8, impose a seven-cent a gallon price ceiling; dealers cannot sell gasoline for more than $10 per gallon above what they pay wholesaleers for it.
into effect, their wholesale price had increased 1 cent a gallon.
All three they had filed or intended to file applications with the Cost of Living Council for special permission to raise their prices.
All three indicated that, because Phase 4 prohibits increasing retail gasoline prices, they were being forced to absorb the wholesale price increase.
"There is only one station that I know of that hasn't gotten a raise in prices," said Don Potter, owner of Potter's Southside 6 Service at 23rd and Louisiana streets.
New Consumer Agency Policy Will Utilize Small Claims Court
The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has decided to channel more student complaints into the Douglas County small PA CPA director Linda Triplett said yesterday.
The new CPA policy is an alternative,
Triplet said, to the existing practice
whereby the student's complaint is handled
out of court.
The small claims court opened in Douglas County July 1. Of 31 claims, five have been filed by individuals against businesses, Triplett said.
According to Triplett, the plaintiffs won judgments in two of those five claims and a guilty plea.
Triplet said complains that remain unresolved after CPA intervention would be referred to the small claims court if the CPA thought the consumer had a good case.
Over 80 per cent of complaints filed with the CPA during the 1972-73 school year would have been eligible for trial in the small claims court, Triplett said.
Potter said that Phillips (66 Petroleum Co.) raised its wholesale price three days after the strike.
Wes Grimes, owner of Wes Grimes
Standard Service, 2301 Louisiana St., said
he was very happy with the new
product.
"I'm expecting the telephone to ring any day with the bad news," he said. Grimes said he was operating at the seven-cent profit ceiling. He could not make a profit, he said, without cutting the salaries of his employees.
"I'm not making a dime on gasoline," said Ted Beach, owner of University Mobile Service, 1206 W. 23rd St. "If they'd let us go up about four cents, we might be all right."
Beach said his wholesale price increased one cent a gallon the same day he had to
"The government has got me down and Moli is kicking me while I'm down," Beach said.
Jerry Collins, owner of Jerry's Texaco,
206 Iowa St., said he received a similar
offer.
"No, it's not enough to make any money on." Collins said. "My only recourse is to file for special permission to raise my orices."
A spot check of seven service stations in Lawrence showed prices of premium gasoline at 89 cents a gallon to a gallon at 94.0 to 95.0. Our octane ratings varied from 94.0 to 95.0.
Docking Says Economic Policies Russian Grain Sale Hurt Farmers
In remarks prepared for a Kansas Master Farmers and Master Homemakers dinner here, Docking said there was no excuse for the farm worker to handle the grain sale to the Soviet Union.
HUTCHINSON (AP)—Gov. Robert Docking said yesterday the "bungling manner in which the national administration mishandled" the 1972 wheat sale to Russia is a "prime factor in boosting agricultural prices during the past year."
"Only recently, Secretary of the Treasure George Shultz conceded that the United States burned in the Soviet wheat deal," Docking said at the expense of the American farmer.
THE RUSSIANS ARE reported now selling some of that wheat to Italy at a price nearly three times greater. Russia paid U.S. exporters $1.65 per bushel for the wheat which would bring about $4.65 on the current world market.
"It appears that many other countries knew more about world grain conditions than the U.S."
"This lack of knowledge at the national level, coupled with the fact that we did not know the massive amount of grain to be grown in the U.S., has cost most American farmers millions of dollars.
"This concerns me because Kansas
Citing uncertainties of the economy and shortages of fuels, bailing water, fertilizers and rail cars as elements which have led to the collapse in car prices, fears "among the farmers." Doking said:
DOCKING SAID THAT even a generation ago no one "could have imagined the current worldwide demand for agricultural production and demand."
produces more than 20 per cent of the nation's wheat."
Blackout Ban Hurts Crowds, Claims NFL
By the Associated Press
The National Football League has begun the era of the blackout ban to the accompaniment of a bedside sign expressing its concern with underscoring the concern of the league.
"Will Swap Two Season Tickets, Umbrella and Steeler Pennant for One Color TV," read a banner at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium as the NFL season ended. But also a congressional ban on Silicon Valley jobs that were sold out 72 hours in advance.
"I can't do anything but live up to the letter of the law," said Tose.
Nine games were affected by the ban, and the NFL said Monday those contests totaled 49.313 "no-shows"—tickets sold which were not used.
"The prime factor that has created the situation which caused the instability in our economy was the national administration's economic policies.
"We will not go out of our way to prove our point," said Roizelle. "All we can do is develop the figures and prove what we have been saying all along."
He said that he would sell seats with obstructed views and would not allow another home telecast of a home game to be shown. The seating seats normally do not figure in sellouts.
What Rozelle has been saying about the lifting of the blackout is that this could be the biggest threat in the history of pro football.
NFL COMMISSIONER Pete Rozelle said he was not surprised at the number of ticket holders who stayed away Sunday. He held that sure would grow as the season progressed.
One owner, Leonard Tose of the Philadelphia Eagles, who had 4,617 noshows, said he planned to do something abut the threat.
And a lot of ticket holders agreed with theanners, stayed home and watched the game.
But a question about the validity of the no-
show figures was raised Monday by Sen. John Pastore, D-R.I., one of the major sponsors of the legislation prohibiting local blackouts.
"If the game hadn't been televised here, a $6 seat would have brought at least $12." said one young "businessman" outside New York. "If I were today, if I were lucky, I will get $10 for a $6 seat."
He said that if the NFL was going to make a point about the no-shows, he wanted to see the rosters of these people who bought big blocks of tickets.
"HOW MANY OF those tickets are in the bands of scalpers." Pastore said.
"Controls, freezes, rollbacks and ceilings will not work in an industry such as agriculture which for years has operated mainly on the principle of supply and demand.
Also feeling the pinch were people involved in concessions and parking, as well as mutels and bars which did drisk business in drawing fans from blacked-out areas or which showed blacked-out games with special television equipment.
An NFL spokesman said the league had no further comment on the matter of noshows. As for scalpers, at least one was unhappy.
The biggest number of no-shows Sunday were 16,031 at Kansas City, with Miami next at 11,537. The lowest number was 1,437 at Pittsburgh.
"These actions and conditions do not create the necessary climate for increased production of raw agricultural products. This creates the crust of the solution to rising food prices."
Actual prices of regular gasoline ranged from 36.9 cents a gallon to 39.9. The gasoline selling for 38.9 cents had an octane rating of 85.0 and for 39.9-cent a gallon gasoline had a rating of 88.0.
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process of getting 112,000 striking production workers back on the job by approving the contract 23-0 with three members absent.
UAW Vice President Doug Fraser, head of the union's Chrysler Department, said the voluntary overtime issue was a key cause of the strike since in many Chrysler plants it was essential workers work at "full capacity. seven days a week, every week."
IF THE AGREEMENT is ratified by 117,000 production workers, the 68-hour strike will be the shortest in UAW history. The agreement is allowed by the union to stav on the job.
--continued while the union sought its pattern contract at Chrysler.
Woodcock refused to predict earlier whether the rank-and-file union members had been employed.
Neither the company nor the union would say how long it will be until production resumes. Union procedures to ratify any new contract ordinarily take at least a
The UAW's International Executive Board and the local presidents met yesterday afternoon in Detroit to receive details of the agreement.
The contract would not cover the approximately 10,500 white-collar workers who are also represented by the UAW. They were covered by the workers' picket lines during the strike.
"If it becomes necessary, yes, there will be a strike deadline" for a white-collar cost.
"WE'RE CONTINING to bargain" on the contract for white-collar workers, Woods.
WHEN ASKED WHAT the union planned to do about a settlement at those firms, Woodcock said. "We will dispose of the business." He said personally think of going anywhere else."
Chrysler also withheld the pact, but called it "in the best interest of Chrysler workers, the company and its stockholders and dealers."
News of the tentative agreement followed nearly 23 hours of negotiations through the
The strike had cost Carlisle more than $30 million by the time the agreement was completed.
In 1988 a seven-day strike by salaried workers shut Chrysler even though a settlement covering production workers had been reached.
Chrysler is the only one of the Big Three automakers where the UAW represents a major part of their revenue.
Production at other members of the Big
Three—Ford and General Motors—
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Beef Scene Is Looking Brighter As Prices Drop in Local Stores
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The worst may be over for beef buyers in Lawrence, as beef prices have begun to rise.
Several local stores announced price reductions on some cuts of beef would be available.
"Beef is cheaper to us now than it was," Young said.
Jerry Young, meat manager for Dillon at 1740 Massachusetts st., said yesterday that the price of nearly every cut of beef in his store had been reduced five to ten cents a pound, and that he expected the price to stay down for a while.
Young said the price change meant round steak, which had been selling for $1.45 a pound, was now priced at $1.29. The price of T-bone steaks declined twenty cents a pound to $1.59. The price of ground beef was unchanged, Young said.
Young said Dillon's was going to resume buying meat from packing houses this week, but he did no expect the price of beef to rise again as a result.
"We've been promoting beef for two years, and we do a very large beef volume," Xiang said.
He said this was because Dillen's had been buying the beef live and paying for the processing, instead of buying the butchered meat from a packing house.
Business at the meat counter yesterday,
the first day of price reduction, was a little
bigger than last week.
Young said he expected an increase in business as the public became aware of the
A spokesman for Kroger said many, though not all, of the prices on beef had been
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reduced in the past week due to the lower cost of wholesale beef. Kroger price decreases ranged from five to ten cents a pound, with round steak going from $1.99 to $1.98.
Spokesmen for local safety and A&P stores said prices on some beef items were down last week, but a few were up. The spokesmen agreed that more prices had decreased than increased, and that there was a call lowering of beef prices in their stores.
Spokeness at the Rusty's IGA Stores said the knew of no immediate plans to lower beef from the menu.
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