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Show 16-- THE Page HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday; August 21, 1974 r a I n ' I rceaucron Plans lOKen Of Price Hike for 75 Moces GVI - General DETROIT (UPD Motors Corp., bowing to White House pressure, today announced a token reduction of $54 from its planned price hike of $500 for 1975 model cars and trucks. GM said the reduction was in response to an appeal from President Ford to roll back the increase and help fight inflation. The average increase on GM's 1975 model cars, which are being put on sale as soon as dealers receive them, is now $446, to $160 for $100 including control emission equipment, $20 for higher destination charges and the remainder to cover the higher costs of labor and materials. The move by the nation's No. 1 auto maker, the acknowledged price leader, was seen as a gesture to take off the pressure that has been building since Aug. 9 when it announced the 9.5 percent increase. President Ford was sharply critical of the hike and had called for a reduction. "This reduction is our response to President Ford's . appeal to all segments of the American public to help fight inflation," GM chairman Richard C. Gerstenberg said in a three-pag- e news release. Gerstenberg said the new increase would average six per cent for cars and 10 per cent for trucks. On cars, this would include between $100 and $160 to cover the cost of adding new emission control equipment. Ford Motor Co. president Lee A. Iacocca said Tuesday the No. 2 auto maker has little choice but to follow GM's lead on prices. Ford indicated in late July its increase on cars would average $418. But Iacocca said the hike now probably would be in the same range as GM increase. Neither Chrysler Corp. nor American Motors has made any on their public disclosures pricing action for 1975 models Gerstenberg, complaining that GM will be absorbing about $100 per vehicle in unrecovered cost increases when the 1975s debut, said he shares the president's concern with inflation. ' "The national problem does not yield to an easy solution, nor can it be solved by one segment of our society, one industry, or one company," Gerstenberg said. "We can say this if every industry had a price record equal to that of the automobile industry, the nation's inflation problem would be solved." Gerstenberg, who had resisted the White House's jawboning for just over one week, hinted there would be further increases if inflation pressures don't moderate. "We feel that, in these times, we are extraordinary forcJ payS Tribute tO DavieS Cuba, Panama Will Resume Bows to White House Pressure WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pled the nation's tribute today to Rodger P. to Davies, the ambassador PANAMA CITY (LTD -P- Cyprus who was killed Monday anama has decided to restore by gunfire in the U.S. Embassy diplomatic ties with Cuba, the in Nicosia. The White House said Ford doing our part," the GM chief third Latin American nation to would attend a memorial service executive said. "Whether there do so. for Davies at Andrews Air Force will be further price increases on The Panamanian national Base our products will depend on the just outside Washington at legislation council voted unani11:30 a.m. EDT, when an Air extent to which others exercise similar restraint and the forces mously Tuesday to renew the Force jet arrives with Davies' relations broken in 1962. of inflation can be brought under body. Secretary of State Henry "There are no valid reasons for A. Kissinger also was scheduled control." Iacocca said his company must continuing the isolation of toattend. The slain ambassador was to have a big increase because the Cuba," said Foreign Minister before-ta- x salute and receive a profits per car in the Juan Antonio Tack. Panama joins Argentina and prayers offered by a Washing-iUnited States are now under $100 i! ties with ion episcopalian with costs increasing at the rate Peru in renewing pnesi. Castro's government. The Air Force jet, after of $50 a month per car. resident Ford DiplomatTies n r- : refueling here, was to fly to San Francisco. Davies will be buried in Berkeley, where he lived. The plane left Beirut late Tuesday with Davies' 1wo children aboard. Anna, 20, and John, 15, accompanied by U.S. ambassador George McMurtrie Godley and a Lebanese official, were waiting at Beirut airport when the plane arrived from the British Akrotiri air force base in Acting ambassador to Cyprus Dean Brown said on his arrival Tuesday that Davies' assassination would not affect U.S. policy toward Cyprus. Cyprus. Anna is a student at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and John is a high school student. They were taken from Cyprus July 23 to the the USS Coronado. have been staying with . . : m i mends in beirui since, ineir of cancer. mother died last year "It looks as if the shot that killed the ambassador came from a building some distance away and that the bullet entered through a window leading down a hallway where the ambassador and some of his staff were standing," said spokesman Robert Anderson. L "It was an unfortunate incident. Our policy will not be affected at all," Brown said. The State Department Tues. day gave its official account of the shooting. (rips ymwit all ( Some Concessions Made To Texas Jail Inmates continue, we're hopeful," Baker said. Herman Thiel, 33, Wichita ounty officials negotiating with five inmates who took a deputy Falls, husband of the woman hostage at knifepoint said today inmate, Barbara Thiel, 40, talked to his wife and Darvin Merharg, some of the prisoners' demands Wichita Falls 39, a former had been agreed to during talks but that the inmates police officer and the alleged their ringleader of the escape attempt. .no longer demanded Mrs. Thiel and Merharg were freedom. The spokesman, Sheriff's Capt. arrested in New Mexico and Arthur Fields, did not reveal charged with the July 1 armed what concessions were made but robbery of a liquor store. "He ( Merharg ) said he wanted they involved the cases against each prisoner. Attorneys for to see his lawyer in the morning each prisoner were expected at before doing anything else," Thiel said. "He didn't mention the jail sometime today. At no time has Sheriff T. L. any demands, other than an Baker agreed to let the prisoners attorney. I think it may be all over then." go free. Wichita County sheriff J. M. "They no longer are trying to escape," said Fields. "They gave Voyles, who knows Merharg and up their demands yesterday for a acted as mediator, said Merharg car and money and have never wanted a new attorney. asked for weapons. The other, prisoners in the "The trusties have been escape attempt were identified allowed to clean up and presently as Kenneth Oliver, 27, charged are fixing breakfast to be served with a beating death; James Al to all 118 prisoners." Petty, 26, who pleaded guilty to a Hostage deputy Stan Snitker holdup and was to be transferred was free in the seventh and to the state penitentiary Tuesday eighth floors the jail area of to serve an eight-yea- r term, and the Potter County courthouse James Quinn, who escaped from and was seen drinking coffee a federal prison in Florida. near one window after dawn. The Thiel told Merharg Tuesday prisoners kept the lights on in the night he would be willing to jail all night. become a hostage if Merharg The inmates, apparently led by would agree to free his deputy-hostag- e a former policeman and a and Mrs. Thiel. Merwoman who allegedly helped him harg rejected the offer. commit a liquor store holdup, Thiel said Merharg is a "crazy took over the top two floors of the man who likes to beat people in Potter County courthouse, where the head." the jail is located, Tuesday. They He doubted his wife was a two for grabbed deputies hostages, but released one of willing participant in the escape them 13 hours later so he could attempt. "That crazy SOB receive medical attention. (Merharg) is holding her by "Both sides are talking back force. I believe he'll kill her if she and forth and as long as the talks resists," he said. By MICHAEL O. WESTER Tex. 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