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Thursday, June 26, 1975
University Dally Kansan
NEWS DIGEST THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
California files oil trust suit
SAN FRANCISCO—A multimillion-dollar antitrust suit was filed by California yesterday against 11 major oil firms, charging them with unlawful conspiracy to defraud the company of $10.3 billion.
The complaint, filed on behalf of the state, asks for unspecified damages and an intuition to bar the companies from continuing the alleged violations.
The California attorney general's office said the amount of damages would have to be determined during a trial, but estimated it would run into "the millions of dollars."
The suit claims the defendants conspired and eliminated competition in the production of crude oil and sale of refined petroleum products, fixed prices and capital gains tax.
Scone of CIA defended
WASHINGTON-Director William E. Colby of the Central Intelligence Agency said the agency was engaged in activity beyond its mission of gathering foreign intelligence. He said the activity was legal but wouldn't disclose what it was.
Cohy testified before an open meeting of a House government information subcommittee.
Meanwhile, Atty. Atten, Edward H. Levi, describing himself as shocked by still-secret material he had read on allegation of TA assassination and domestic insurrection, told reporters that he was in prison.
Biased ads declared illegal
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has advised nearly 100 newspapers that they can't legally run classified housing ads which indicate a preference for them.
Such ads amount to sex discrimination and violate the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The letters were sent Tuesday to a public notice newspaper publishers.
"It has recently come to our attention that your newspaper, as well as many others, prints classified advertisements, primarily for the rental of dwellings, which indicate a preference or limitation to tenants of one sex or the other," Pottinger told the publishers.
Cuban to wed Dutch royalty
AMSTERDAM-Jorge Guillermo, a cuban-born New Yorker and a social worker, will be hosting a fundraiser for Orange. The Dutch商会 Saturday. The family will be clearly delighted.
The bride-to-be is Princess Christina, youngest of the royal family's four daughters and the last of them to wed.
More than 1,000 guests headed by Queen Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernard, will attend the royal wedding in the 13th Century cathedral church of St. Peter's Church, Dublin.
The couple have said they will go on working after they are married and will lead the lives of "ordinary people."
Housing veto stands
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic House failed yesterday to override President Ford's veto of a $1.3 billion housing subsidy program for middle-income families, giving Ford yet another chance in this fight with Congress over the economy.
After, Democrats in both the House and the Senate drew up compromise bills which they hoped would meet with Ford's approval.
The 268-157 vote was 16 short of the two-thirds majority needed to override. The House has now sustained all of the six presidential vetoes it has acted on this year.
Sens. William Proxmire, D-Wis, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and John Tower, R-Tex, senior Republican, said their new bill would be passed by the Senate today and sent to the House.
The key feature of their bill would give the President $10 billion of additional authority for buying home mortgages of $42,000 or less to provide construction of 300,000
Ford released $2 billion of such authority, given him under previous legislation, when he was reelected in 1987.
House Democrats drew up a plan to remove cash payments in the original bill.
Ford said at a news conference that the House decision to sustain the veto demonstrated a growing sense of fiscal responsibility in Congress.
He called on Congress to act quickly on legislation to provide loans for mortgage payment relief and guarantee insurance for homeowners to refrain from mortgage foreclosures.
He said this legislation was less costly than the vetoed program and would head off possible foreclosures of homes whose owners are temporarily out of work.
The President said the vote demonstrated 'the realization by an increasing number of congressmen that economic recovery need not be done under the unwise legislation and costly inflation.
"I am prepared to work with the Congress in reaching our common objectives: a revitalized housing industry, more jobs in construction and sound economy."
The Democrats' new compromise was proposed by Rep. Henry S. Reuss, D-Wis., chairman of the House Banking Committee, and former chairman of the committee's housing panel.
To the Kansan editor:
From the opening sentence (Valium is not an analgesic, or "pain killer," but a minor tranquilizers-sedative), Ms. Bruce's article on the FTC proposal to lift the ban on painkillers in Kansas contained a number of erroneous statements and misleading information.
A minimum of research reveals the price ranges quoted certainly cannot be accurate.
Of the six prescriptions surveyed, three of the low prices are less than the average wholesale price (Redbook, 1974) to the pharmacy and the average mark-up for all six, at the low price, is the princely sum of $2.09 per prescription. United States could pay overhead alone, much less wages, at an average gross profit of 30 cents per prescription.
Clearly Ms. Bruce has been had—shammed by the "losser leader" gimmick, a grossly unethical practice which apparently still flourishes in some establishments.
READERS RESPOND
This is not to say that there are not significant differences in prescription prices in the Lawrence area. There are, however, many different differences in the services offered as well.
As a concerned pharmacist, I view with dismay the prospect of prescription price advertising which will inevitably focus attention on patients in the atmosphere that exists in the Lawrence area, services will then undoubtedly be reduced to the bare legal minimum to achieve the lowest possible price, all to the benefit of the overall health care of the community.
A fair survey of prescription prices should list all the ancillary services routinely offered by the pharmacy, including contactless prescriptions drug profile cards, etc., along with the prescription drug for the quoted price. The consumer has the right to know how much the medication costs, and also has the right to know what he is getting (or not getting) along with the drug.
Douglas W. Mendenhall, R.Ph Graduate Student Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Mr. Mendenhall, you have been had—shammed by incomplete research. Your initial point is correct-Vallium is a proper name; you are wrong in doubting our figures.
Associate editor's note:
Upon rechecking, we found that of the six prescription drugs surveyed, four of the lowest priced ones are less than the average price for the drug they aren't, however, reflect the "loss leader" gimmick (selling a drug for less than you pay for it). It does reflect the fact that at least some pharmacists buy drugs directly from the drugstore which means they pay less than wholesale.
The average wholesale price for 100 packs of Valium 5 mg, for example, is $8.52. When 500 packs are purchased the average wholesale price is $40.00, making the cost $8.12. Some drugs can be purchased wholesale in quantities of 5,000 tabs or more.
One local pharmacist said he followed this practice, as well as buying in larger than 100 tab quantities when buying wholesale. This, too, lowers costs and raises profits.
The pharmacist said he sells 100 tabs of
There were also many campers and other journalism students who worked all afternoon painting and sanding rusted equipment.
These people worked hard, and their efforts deserve mention in print. I wish to express my gratitude to them for their work. I will print my printing my thanks as soon as possible.
Thank you for your consideration. Gary Mason
The June 25 Kansan story about the photo lab "flood" omitted mention of the Buildings and Grounds maintenance group—both men and women—who worked to remove debris in the lush horto to remove the water from Flint Hall's photography laboratory.
Assistant professor of journalism
Wind possible jet crash cause
The assertion that there are important differences in the services offered by different pharmacies is debatable. The issue for many is too often whether to buy a drug. The actual value to the consumer of consulted and 24-hour service may well be martial.
NEW YORK (AP)—Wind sheers, capricious and powerful swerves and surges of wind, may have caused the crash of a plane with 727 as it approached Kennedy Airport.
Valium 5 m.g. for $7.88, after paying $7 for the same amount. He said his profit on the six prescription drugs surveyed ranged from $39 to $154 and $1.54 on 100 tabs of Darvon Compounds 65.
However, a safety official said yesterday that a small, light airplane landed safely just ahead of the big jet from New Orleans. The only 100 persons perished in the jet crash.
Lightning also was a possible cause put before the big team of investigators assembled at the airport by the National Transportation Safety Board. A number of witnesses said the jet was struck by a lightning bolt.
The crash late Tuesday afternoon was one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history and the first major crash in New York in a decade.
To the Kansan editor:
The debate will continue, as it should. Mr. Marshall should be based upon well researched figures.
INDEPENDENCE DAY SALE June 26-July 3
There were 109 persons officially counted as dead yesterday and there was strong evidence that one more victim, an infant, was aboard.
The toll in the single-plane crash is exceeded only by the 111 that died when an Alaska Airlines 727 crashed near Juneau in 1971.
There were 14 survivors from Tuesday's crash in hospitals, including two severely injured children.
Impact, rather than fire, appeared to have caused the largest number of deaths.
Among those who lived were stewarthray Mary Elen Mooney, 28 of Tulsa, Oka, and steward Robert Hoeller, 29 of the Bronx. Both were seated near the rear of the jet bridge, crash occurred, but the seat positions of the other survivors was not established.
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