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Show WESTERN AMERICANA Faria Is, OrJ:r D:(.jr University nf Uth Fait tukeCity, Ut h tf;-.- n UU2 SALT LAKE VOLUME 17, NUMBER 3 CITY, UTAH THURSDAY, Cost of Living Rise Per ils Stability Goal - Pushed WASHINGTON (UPI) of round another by higher food prices, the cost of living edged up 0.2 The November increase in the governments consumer price index was the smallest monthly price rise since a similar 0.2 per cent .unadjusted gain in August. Adjusted for seasonal factors, the November rise was 0.3 per cent, the same as in October. After laying down its control program months ago, foe administration said if But food prices, the biggest it would be pleased inflation could be cut to an annual rate of increase bugaboo for the administrations 3 cent by the inflation fighters, jumped 0.4 per of between 2 and per 1972. of cent in November and a whopping end 1.1 per cent seasonally adjustment, Using the Consumer Price Index, the biggest gain in nine months. the most comprehensive measure of Instead of the usual large November retail price movements and the most decline in grocery prices, food widely quoted inflation index, the prices rose, led by beef and fresh overall cost of living has risen 3.5 vegetables. per cent in the past year. Food prices have gone up 5.4 per cent, commodities 2.5 per cent Fall and winter clothing prices non-foo-d and the cost of residential gas adand services 3.5 per cent. vanced more than usual. Gasoline The latest price report, just a and tire prices declined, however, month target and rents rose less than foe monthly shy of foe year-en- d shows date, seasonally adjusted norm, the Department said. Inflation remains a national annual rates of increase for the cost problem, said Herbert Stein, of living of 3.6 per cent, food 13.2 per chairman of the Presidents Council cent, nonfood commodities 1.2 per cent and services 2.4 per cent. These figures assume that prices will rise for a year at the November rate, an unlikely occurrance. At month end, the consumer price index stood at 126.9, meaning that a 2 shoppers basket worth $10 in 1967 cost $12.69 last month. . 13 This would indicate that Nixons economic tacticians have virtually ruled out extending a m follow. Two McGovern Aides Win Back - Pay Ruling WASHINGTON professional-leve- . I l aides (UPI) Two in Sen. McGoverns Presidential campaign are entitled to more than $2,000 in back wages, a wage board has ruled. The wages had been withheld in the final weeks of the campaign because of a shortage of fends. Joseph M oh bat, press aide to McGoverns Campaign Manager Lawrence J. OBrien, and Susan Davis, a secretary, contended that foe campaign committee paid off debts and loans to big donors at foe expense of staff workers. George S. Alaska Case Legal Fee: now-close- economic raw controls to cover agricultural products or tightening price restraints on foe food industry. The administration has consistently benefits argued that any short-terfrom such action would be gobbled up in the rationing and black market profiteering that would be sure to now-exem- pt Program Funds $7 Million v. SALT LAKE CITY, Defendant Trial Court: Summary Judgment in favor of defendant Supreme Court: Affirmed. The Legislature in enacting the Act in the public interest to convert existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground locations and declares that a public purpose will be served by providing a procedure for accomplishing such conversion by proceedings taken pursuant to the act Plaintiff counsel: Louis H. Callister Jr., 800 Kennecott Bldg., H. R. Waldo, 800 Walker Bank Bldg. Defendant counsel: John Preston Creer, 1700 University Club Bldg., Salt Lake City See details beginning page 3. .... price problem. Farm In a prepared statement, Stein said sepcial attention" would be WASHINGTON (UPI) Acting given to food in foe redesigned 1973 on orders from White House budget stabilization program to be unveiled officials, foe Agricultural Departby the White House early next year. ment announced, December 26, On December 21, the ad- elimination of two popular conservation programs which Congress had earmarked for $235.5 million in spending in 1973. . The surprise cutoff, expected to produce protests from Capitol Hill, was put into effect, December 22. It was described as part of a government-wide crackdown cm federal programs which can be reduced or eliminated wihout serious economic in a drive to hold consequences, AttorWASHINGTON (UPI) total federal spending in the current billion. to $250 budget year neys who represented Alaska The major victim of foe spending natives in connection with the $962.5 million settlement of their historic crackdown was the Rural Environmental Assistance land claims have filed for more than Program (REAP). Under the $7 million in legal fees. But only about $3 million has been REAP, Congress had approved spending of $225.5 million far 1973 appropriated by Congress to settle and foe Agriculture Department had the claims of the attorneys and allocated part of it $140 million consultants. for actual use. An official of the U.S. Court of In addition to the now ter- Claims says that 30 claims totaling minated" REAP, officials said they more than $7 million were received had also halted further contracting before the Dec. 18 deadline set by with farmers, as of December 22, Congress when it passed the Alaska Water Bank native Claims Settlement Act. under the year-ol- d The task of determining how much Program. with each lawyer would receive for his REAP, long popular offers land and work in behalf of the natives was farmers, Congress owners annual payments covering assigned to the Court of Claims by part of the cost of installing ap- Congress. Claims Court Commissioner proved conservation and pollution d control practices. The Harry E. Wood has been assigned offered contracts the task of holding hearings on the Water Bank for foe protection of wetlands for lawyers claims and to make an initial determination as to how the migratory water fowl. Administration officials had available money will be distributed. After the hearings are completed, frequently, in the past, tried to curb REAPs spending, and had proposed Wood will submit his recomcomplete elimination of the program mendations to a special panel of 1971. In all past cases however, three judges of the Court of Gaims ji ' vm and Congressional pressure for a final determination. No date has been set yet for had forced at least partial fonding of foe program. beginning the hearings. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF BURYING OF OVERHEAD UTILITIES ACT AFFIRMED I. J. and ILEXE J. WAGXER and WALLACE A. and JERALYX T. WEIGHT, Plaintiffs and Appellants, in 1969. More than 300 rank and file miners jammed into the unions national policy committee room in the basement of the union headquarters for the swearing in. They gave Miller a loud, standing only effective, way to attack the food White House Blocks - Capsule - six-mon- th post-free- ze wage-pric- e JANUARY 4, 1973 Utah Supreme Court Decisions ' ministration said it would continue foe suspension of meat import quotas through 1973 in an effort to boost the supply of table meat and hopefully reduce the cost to consumers. Meat, poultry and fish prices soared 11.3 per cent in the past year, the biggest rise in any segment of the consumer budget. Such measures to increase supply, Stein said, are foe best, indeed the the problems of coal mining, or suffer the consequences. Miller and his slate of candidates were installed at the union headquarters building shortly after Federal Judge William Bryant declared them the winners in the election Bryant had ordered earlier this year, voiding Boyles of Economic Advisers. In a separate statement, the Department reported a 0.5 per cent November decline in real earnings, the amount of money a worker has to spend from his weekly pay check after taxes, social security benefits and the effects of inflation are deducted. It was the first drop in the earnings figure since May. The administration has pointed with pride to past gains in real earnings as proof that the average worker is getting ahead of inflation. per cent in November, the Labor Department reported, December 22, casting doubt whether the administration can meet its antiinflation goal for 1972. "r (iNiVLHV - ' Henry A. Kimelman, McGovern's campaign finance chairman and a millionaire developer in the Virgin Islands, had said that some wages would be withheld so that major debts could be paid. Mohbat said $1,730 was due him for the final three weeks, and Miss Davis said $726 was due her. They filed formal complaints with the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Board. Martin Katz, representing the McGovern committee, argued before the board that Mohbat and Miss Davis were administrative workers and thereby exempt from laws governing wage collection. The boards chief wage investigator, Louis J. Lamanna, ruled December 20, for Mohbat and Miss Davis and said that if the committee failed to pay by December 27, it could be prosecuted in court. But the committee was allowed the opportunity to appeal. Last week foilie Schlesinger, a campaign secretary, was awarded $557 by the board in similar action. Mohbat said that in all, about 100 workers had been withheld a total of $100,000 in wages. ovation when he entered the room and again when he was sworn in by Morton Plans Orville Robinette, president of Millers local union near Charleston, Interior Dept. Revamp in '73 Va. The ceremony had almost a carnival atmosphere, complete with W. a three-piec- e band from West Virginia to entertain the miners until Miller arrived from Judge WASHINGTON Bryants court. Millers first words into a battery of microphones This is the greatest moment in my life were drowned out by foe throng. After the crowd quieted, Miller said he and foe other new officers faced tremendous problems, and he appealed to all foe warring factions in foe union for unity that we need to solve these problems. two, Morton said. The administration has accepted the resignations of several senior officials, Morton said. It is human nature for an individual to change after a long period in foe same position: he becomes an advocate rather than a challenger of the status quo: he begins to run out of ideas..." Before the vacancies are filled, he said, the organization chart at Interior will have some new lines. He gave as examples: A new management of energy programs: Centralized research and development authority: A separate Indian Bureau, cut away from its present link to land management policies: New directions for the Bureau of - SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The cost of trying Ruchell Magee, the other" defendant in the Angela Davis kidnap-murde- r case, is expected to be over $150,000, compared to $5,000 spent in the average criminal trial. The Magee, already serving a life sentence for armed robbery, is flown by helicopter from murder-kidnap-conspirac- If Santa its top men and is headed for a reorganization in the next month or Top $150,000 y of charges stemming from the shootout after spending a year in jail and going through a trial that cost. California almost $1 million. The cost of keeping 21 sheriffs deputies over the expected trial period was estimated at $36,000 and an additional security force of 20 - Morton reviewed the past year December 22, at a news conference. His Department has let go many of Ruchell Magee Trial Cost May San Quentin prison across San Francisco Bay to the San Francisco Hall of Justice and back again each day of the trial, which after a month, still has no jury. Magee is charged with shooting Superior Court Judge Harold Haley in the Marin County Courthouse escape attempt in August, 1970. Miss Davis, foe black militant and Communist, was acquitted last June (UPI) did his best for Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton, he brought him a Mr. Energy, an end to the status quo in Indian programs, and orderly program for use of public lands. Mines. "We need an energy of energy has to come into the American consciousness as the protection of the environment has," he said. He added, I want a Mr. Energy, if you will, in the Department of Interior." He did not elaborate on candidates or what powers that title ethic-conserv- ation ; ' would involve. a very Morton called 1972 to but failed he eventful year, the of tense takeover mention the Bureau of Indian Affairs building by militant Indians last month. police at $68,500. The hotel bill for the jury that will "I am not as satisfied with the be sequestered for the duration of execution of our plans and programs the trial is put at $27,000 and their' as I am with the soundness of our food tab at $9,800. Indian policy," Mortion said. What A bullet-proo- f and steel is needed is not a change in direcglass shield separating participants in the tion, but a more vigorous and efcase from spectators cost $15,000 to fective execution of what we have install. planned." ek I |