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Show ff PEOPLE DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, MAY Machine is promising Shirley visits Actress Shirley MacLalne returned to Hong Kong Sunday from a month's visit deleto China at the head of a gation and recounted a meeting with U Combined Wire Services ,.JW c ' , The theory behind a perpetual motion machine is that it provides source without having to be fed any energy source like gasoline or steam. In other words, it just keeps rolla theory considered impossiing along ble. Frank Rcnfrow, president of Management Marketing Research Inc., believes so strongly in Webbs wonder that h s company is making a $100,000 down payment on it. initial impression is that we hav into the Buck Rogers area come again which we have looked at and laughed at Renfrew said Sunday. in the past, My Chinese I En-La- i. U" Idaho's first lady, Mrs. Cecil D. Andrus, and seven other persons were injured Saturday when a stagecoach in which she was riding dunng a parade in Payette, Ida., went out of control and turned over. Mrs. Andrus was treated at an Ontar, Ore., hospital for cuts on the head and hands, then released. Womens rights advocate Gloria Steinem told commencement exercises at Simmons College in Boston Sunday there must be a humanist revolution against all things that divide men and women. We need a humanist revolution against ail the things that divide us, the Ms. Magazine editor said. We need to humanize the roles of both men and women, not to liberate sameness but to Former Pennsylvania governor P. Shafer, chairman of the Premiers wife, s Steinem speaks Assesses effects senMac-Lam- jT Hurt in parade found e Miss sitive, said of the Unless the moving parts wear out, it would run Webb, of forever, Ripley, Okia., said. Ying-Cha- of her bright and h r-- r wife Premier Chou 0. Webb beheves he can solve the nations energy crisis with his perpetmodel ual motion machine, a three-incof which he ran on room his living table for three hours without any sign of power loss. John IV? Trng whom she met at a May Day reception in Peking. The miers wife had ap- Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, said Sunday he thinks the commission's findings have had an effect on the country. Speaking to a conference of the Law Pennsylvania and Justice Institute, Shafer said he beheves the findings will have a long term effect on the way Amen-o- f Shater cans view drugs. proached her without identifying herself and that they talked a whde before Miss MacLaine asked the woman who she was. The delegation entered China Aprd and visited Peking, Canton, Shanghai, Hangchow, Sian and Yenan. 20 Opposes hiring Regent Geraldine Bean of the University of Colorado says she opposes plans to hire Dr. Edward Teller, thp father of the hydrogen bomb, to head a think tak at the university next fall. Frankly, Im afraid that this ting is going to be more than just a think tank, Mrs. Bean said Sunday in Boulder. 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CPI, for Consumer Price Index, is a monthly measure of inflation, a vital economic indicator showing price trends for food, clothing, housing, health care, transportation and recreation. Not only is the information useful to housewives in planning family budgets, but also to labor leaders in drawing up new contracts. To pensioners it could mean higher incomes, and to divorcees bigger alimony payments. The next report, on Aprils living costs, is due Tuesday. The rise or fall in the cost of living is computed by the Labor Departments Bureau of Labor Statistics from information sent in by 240 men and women in 56 cities across the e country. These part-tim- nt workers roam through 18,000 retail stores and service establishments, checking prices on 400 items. are Mailed questionnaires used to collect figures on apartment rents, bus fares, utility rates, newspaper prices and other items not requiring personal visits. Housing costs, college tuition and used-ca- r prices are collected by other government agencies. All totaled, information on 120,090 individual prices pours into the bureau where it is sifted by government clerks, statisticians and economists. Fed into a computer, the data emerges as the Consumer bberate individuality. Deaths Jeannette Rankin, 92, the first woman elected to Congress, who served from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1941 to 1943,. died Friday m Car-mel, Calif. A Re-- j publican and leader in the womens sufmovement, frage (the congresswoman from Montana was one of 56 members . ( who voted against entry into World War I. She also the only member of vote to gress against declanng war on Japan in World War II . . . Dr. Casper C. Warren, 76, former two-terpresident of the Southern Baptist Convention, d.ed Sunday in Charlotte, N.C. Dr. David Milford Hume, 55, a pionepr specialist, died Saturday in the California crash of his private plane. Wet Bet, a frog, has earned $300 foi his owners by outhopping the competition in the 1973 International Jumping Frog Jubilee at Angels in his winning Camp, Calif. Wet Bet turned 4 inches 17 feet Sunday after performance of Bill Proctor and owners he was urged on by Calif. (Shown of above, Leonard Hall Lafayette, airline and an pilot, right and left). Proctor, been have estate broker, entering a real Hall, 16 years and have finfrogs in the jubilee for ished in the money nine times. Proctor said Wet Bet hails from a pond near Bakersfield, Calif. The annual jumping contest, which attracts entrants from Australia to Ireland, is patterned after the frog competitions staged by the 49ers back in the days of the Gold Rush. There were 68 frogs in the finals. About 5.000 weather. persons watched the hops in i I ;U.S. xtlwas Con-Rank- Heath wins British Prime Minister Edware Heath has skippered his yacht to victory in the Tor-ba- y Royal Ocean Racing Clubs race. Heaths Morning Cloud was thd or the finish line Sunday in Portsmouth with a time oi 40 hours, 20 minutes; but 260-mi- le it took first olace on handicap. Report due on April's costs DESERET NEWS 2A 21, 1973 Price Index. The bureau has been compiling the living-cos- t reports since 1913, periodically updating the items sampled to account for changing spending patterns and new products. The latest revision was completed in 1964. Janet Norwood, the bureaus associate deputy the commissioner, claims index has no mere than 1 per cent erroi For the nrst three months of the year, the index has shown a sharp rise in prices at a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.8 per cent, the worst inflation in 22 years. Land deals will be bared (AP) WASHINGTON The White House said today it will disclose on Friday details of President Nixons land transactions in California and Florida. The statement was first promised a week ago when presidential spokesman vigorously denied a report by the Santa Ana, Calif., Register that Senate investigators were looking into the possibility that campaign funds may have been used to finance Nixons San Clemente, Calif., estate. Deputy press secretary GerThe March mdex for all ald L. Warren said the White items showed a climb of 1.2 House decided to set a date index points from February, certain for release of the inup from 128.6 to 129.8. This formation rather than face represented a rise of .9 per daily questions on when the cent for the month. data would be available. kidney-transpla- - Safety panel denies charge WASHINGTON hairman John (UPI) -C- Reed of the National Transportation Board denied today the administration tried to pressure the board to stop criticizing government safety policies. We call the facts as we see them, he said. But the former Maine governor acknowledged he was contacted by a Transportation Department official who said that the administration would look with disfavor on the boards continued attempts to exert its independence. Reed told the Senate Commerce Committee that the official, Assistant Secretary William S. Heffelfinger, indicated Republican members of the board would be disciplined if they did not change their ' Reed also conceded he had hired employes for the board who had been recommended by the White House. But Reed contended that the board lad in no way compromised its inI am proud of dependence. the boards record, he said. Under law, the board was set up to be independent. Its job is to investigate major transportation accidents and to make recommendations. exert an independent role b adhere closer to positio taken by the Transportati Department. 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