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Show Him inflation may force end to controls WASHINGTON (UPI) -Uibing inflation and unemployment in 1973 despite economic controls could mean an end vKin to the administrations w regulations ape-pric- At the same time. Sen. Hugh said a White Scott, House briefing on ihe Fiscal 1975 budget Friday produced about discussion lively extending rmtrols past April 30 In an annual report to Co- the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) slid Friday the controls have failed It predicted consumer prices would n-- e 7 per cent this year, less than the 8 8 percent riH last year, which was the biggest yearly increase m three decades ngress The CEA prediction, however. said the economy would recover somewhat during the second half of the year Scott also said the $304 4 billion budget, to be sent to Congress Monday, will be "antirecessionary and " billion inctease m defense spending, he said, was unavoidable because of inflation and previous commitments to military pay raises In the council report, CEA chairman Herbert Stein, said controls ending wage-pneA 18 after 30 months would result In another round of consumer price increases But the report said, "The controls have not recently been very effective in restraining inflation Cost of Living Council T Director John (CLC) a Dunlop appears before House committee next week and his testimony could reflect a decision by President Nixon on the future of controls. percent of the nation's retail economy remains under control after the CLCs exemption Friday of another quarter of the retail industiy Only 28 Food, motor vehicles and petroleum remain products subject to the wage-price e u. s. scene The 10 largest department stores chains promised Friday to hold down profits to last y ear's levels through Aug. 1 Although Nixon in his State of the Union message Wednesday ana Stein in his report Friday said there will be no recession, a top government not was as statistician optimistic. Julius Shiskin, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, agreed Friday the nse in the unemployment rate from 4 8 per cent in December to 5.2 per cent last month may be foreshadow mg events. He responded to Sen. Wi- Proxmires question whether the latest increase, the largest since 1969, "is a lliam 'V'X'M TzMvy;- PEOPLE typical sign of a recession.'' Recession is generally defined as two straight quarters of negative economic growth. The Wisconsin Democrat said at a Joint Economic Committee hearing that recessions followed the past two dramat- Combined wire services for Venus in set 78 e president George Meany said the figures demonstrate anew the economic mess were m. "He never gave up. said Robert Brown, a friend who was with Lewis when he died. Lewis became ill recently but until then he was a vertiable dynamo who could outrun and outwalk men half his age. Lewis, a waiter at the St. Francis Hotel, celebrated his 102nd birthday by running 100 yards in 17.3 seconds, half a second faster than on his 101st birtndav UJORLD - The Yablonski murder trial of MEDIA, Pa. (UPI) former United Mine Workers President W. A. "Tony Boyle will begin March 25 at the Delawaie County Court House. (AP) Attorneys for two militant Indians charged in the 1973 takeover of the village of Wounded Knee. S.D.. have asked the court to suppress a letter writ ten by an ousted militant. Defendant Dennis Banks, a leader of the American Indian Movement, told a reporter Friday that the letter, allegedly written by ousted AIM member Carter Camp, borders on a confession." Church files cloture petition WASHINGTON Sen. Frank Church. (UPI) has filed a cloture petition attempting to force a vote on the genocide treaty which the U.S. has refused to approve for a quarter of a century. Althouth the treaty was signed in 1949 by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. a coalition of Southerners and conservatives, primarily concerned the treaty might be invoked against race crimes in the U.S.. have successfullv stalled action on final American ratification. Mercy killings ' trial nears close Ready to cooperate Whut is - AcWASHINGTON (UPI) to two cording Republican leaders who met with President Nixon Friday, the President is ready to cooperate with a House Judiciary Committee inquiry Into grounds for impeachment and furnish all relevant information The committee earlier this week expressly rejected any effort to limit the scope of the information it requests from the White House to relevant material. It passed unanimously a resolution to give it to subunqualified power poena anything and anybody, including the President. But Senate GOP leadei told reportHugh Scott. ers after meeting with Nixon: Relevant information. I am sure, will be made available after consultation with majority and minority counsel and I would have confidence that relevant information ... will be made available. ., House GOP leader John J Rhodes. said the relevant? committees resolution sent to the House floor "means that only reasonable and relevant requests will be made" to the White House. The resolution was expected to be passed by the House. "I am sure that this means that there will be reasonable requests for information, not like the Senate Watergate committee, and that reasonable requests will receive reasonable responses. Rhodes said. He added he and Scott had not discussed the resolution with Nixon, but it was their belief Nixon would cooperate. Nixon said in his State of the Union speech Wednesday night that he would "cooperate in any way that I consider con- sistent with my responsibilities for the office of the presidency of the United States. If there is to be a confrontation between the White House and the committee over what is relevant material, it could come as earlv as next week Slowest auto January in 4 years DETROIT (UPI) U.S. auto production last month was the lowest for any January in four years a drop of 31 percent as automakers trimmed thousands of workers from their payrolls and big car sales plummeted. The outlook for the first three months isnt much brighter with tentative production schedules showing the poorest first quarter in 1970. 6 die in truck station wagon crash A semitractor-traile- r Tex. (UPI) a slammed disabled into station wagon carrying 13 today or 14 persons west of New Boston, killing six persons. Police said most of the victims burned to death. NEW BOSTON, The Department of Public Safety said the dead were members of the J C. Zachary family of Dallas. Because of the number of persons involved, officers were unable to determine exactly how many were in the car. It 1 - The (AP) of Transportation WASHINGTON Department has recommended the abandonment of 15.757 miles of railroad track as a first step of eight in the reorganization rail lines serving the The proposal, announced Friday by Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar. could mean hundreds of small towns would lose their rail freight service unless their state was willing to subsidize it. Passenger service run by Amtrak and commuter lines would not be affected. Brinegar said the move, which must be approved by Congress, is needed to streamline freight service in the northeastern United States. He said much of the track that would be removed is potenin that it tially excess parallels other lines or is not heaulv used. Bnnegars recommendations involve about one fourth of the 61.000-mil-e system, composed of the massive Penn Central and seven other lines in the region These hr.es are undergoing the reorganization under federal bankruptcy laws. The Interstate Commerce Commission says it will start public heanngs on the proposals in March m selected cities. The recommendations, and the public comment they generate, will be used by the newly formed U.S. Railway Association to decide what tracks to use in reorganizing the northeastern rails - Rhyne also said the experts appointed to study the tapes had already prejudged the fact that they were deliberately erased. Miss Woods, after she emerged from testifying, said she told the grand jurors "Pd come back a thousand times if they want me to." "I have only one story to tell and Ive te'd it a dozen times , . . I've ioiq only ihe truth all the way through and I will repeat it to everybody In the world, she said. Edward In another Watergate development, President Nixons tax lawyer said the original deed transferring to the National Archives Nixon's vice presidential papers valued for tax purposes income at has apparently $578,000 been destroyed. But Frank Demarco Jr. said in a telephone interview from I am mtA1 He aIum lttt kIzC U3 4170 A Uliilt Uldl believed the transfer and thus Nixons claimed tax deduction was legal He said in his opinion Nixons gift qualified for the tax deduction because "physical delivery of the papers with intention to make a gift had taken place before the July 25, 1969 date which Congress set for ending such deductions. Demarco said his secretary had the deed making the transfer on March nine monuis after 27, i57G the July 25 cutoff date. The new deed was not signed until April 10, 1970. M. Kennedy son Jr.. of the Demo- been hospitalized for tests and treatment aimed at recurpreventing of rence bone cancer. The boys was teg right amputated above the knee Nov. 17 after doctors disa covered rare bone tumor. The family and Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Boston said in a joint statement Friday night that there was no evidence of persistence of the tumor and that the treatment was intended to "diminish chances of Pax wildcat strike by tin miners increased tensions in Bolivia today as the miners declared solidarity with peasants who food have been protesting May limit gifts Sen. Jacob Javits, a limit on the amount of contributions he will allow an give at two state-owne- campaign. Naturalist Eueli Gibbons, mines in Oruro Province near La Paz on Friday surprised leaders of the National Federation of Mine Workers, who earlier had reached an agreement witn the government for a pay Belfast extremist Protestant organization threatened today to assassinate members of the ruling Northern Ireland asAn sembly unless it cracked down on violence by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Hours before the threat, the IRA attacked a joint police-armpost on the County with border Fermanagh rockets and machine guns, an army spokesman said. y Karachi Three gunmen seized two aboard a Greek hostages freighter in the port of Karachi Saturday and demanded the release i two Palestinian terrorists sentenced to death in Athens, police sources reported. The scurfs said the nit set a deadline their demands to be met Police said the men bo. i J the freighter V'ori at about 5 p.m. ana took the chief office-anchief engineer as d Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev will end a week-lonvisit to Cuba Sunday morning when he leaves Havana for Russia, radio reports from Havana said today. g Russias Communist party chief arrived in Havana Monday for talks with leaders of Prime Minister Fidel Castro's government. Bio De Janeiro Federal police today confirmed a report by Scotland Yard that one of Britains Great Tram Robbers had been captured in Brazil. Earlier tney denied rt. A police spokesman said itonaid Biggs was arrested Friday in his hotel room overlooking Copacabana thereafter. estate Key for archbishop popular Mayor Abraham D. Beame gave the kov to New York City to Dr. Michael Ramsey, the archbishop of Canterbury, at an ecumenical gathering of religious leaders in City Hall. The Anglican archbishop noted Friday that he had v noted I here many times and said. have a great love for New York City." Beame said. I told our visitors that we have the problem of a $1.3 billion budget gap, and I urged them to pray very hard A letter bomb exploded injured Reginald P former Maulding, BritConservative ish home secretary. Maudhng said the bomb was among some mail that had accumulated at his country house in was waiting when he arrived Friday He said it was Maudling and removed some skin from my lelt thumb Maudling. 56. one of the simor politicians m the Conservative partv, said the bomb "was a paperback book with a handwritten address. DESERET NEWS SAir lAKl CUT, Karpov vies for slot Anatoly Karpov, whom thu Russians favor as the next world chess champion, was considered the favonte todav as he tries to win the semifinals of chess tournament The Karpov resumes game No 7 his match m Moscow with fellow Russian Lev Polugaevskv after the game was adjourned Friday night. Experts said Polugaevskv made several positional errors early in the game, but that Karpov failed to capitalize on them by playing too carefully and would Karpov leads win the match if he won today's game and go on to master play Soviet grand Boris Spassky in the semifinal round. Spassky, who lost to world champion Bobby Fischer in 1972, already has defeated Robert Byrne of in11 United States m their quarterfinal match in San Juan island and slightly Essendon. and Hertfordshire, Chess matches Spanish I Injured by bomb Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and Mrs. Douglas arrived in Lus Angeles Friday night to be the guests of honor at a movie premiere tonight Douglas was invited to be the guest of honor at the premier of "Where the Lilies Bloom. said producer Robeert B. Radnitz, because "no man has been more courageous and effective in the protection of freedom of the arts, including motion pictures, than Justice William O Douglas the 1 lish some limitations. Javits said Javits Friday. He estimated his campaign might cost as much as SI. 5 million Justice at premier Op I announce (his cantor didacy or shortly authority on edible wild foods since he began doing televi-- , sion commercials for a breakfast cereal. may have destroyed a popular mytn h nday. Gibbons admitted over a plate of bacon and eggs during a visit to Detroit that foods wild only play a small part in Ms diet and that of his wife. Freda, i don't think there is any particular virtue in eating wild foods, said Gibbons. 62. who has written several articles and We don't even go books on the subject. after it for the nutrition I do it for fun Associated Press Havana a that will, when Eueli cops out d is to individual to his My belief is 4.800 prices The walkout Beach. full-tim- e cratic senator from Massachusetts, has A some Willard II. Douglas Jr. has been black sworn in as the first judge in Virginia since Reconstruction. Amherst County native ear-olTiie to tobacco pay his wav through picked here. He Virginia Union University to fairly justice dispense Friday pledged as a judge of the and impartially Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relation'- Court lets else Kennedy in hospital The broadcasts, monitored m Miami, gave no exact time for Brezhnevs departure and offered no further details. was a set up lawyer says A WASHINGTON (UPI) lawyer for President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary that Woods, has charged Nixons Watergate lawyers set her up to take the blame for erasure of one of the Watergate tapes. Charles S. Rhyne talked to reporters Friday as his client testimony begave fore a federal grand jury inthe erasure vestigating which tape experts have said ef IS?j minwas deliberate utes of a key Watergate tape day-lon- g Trackage cut urged La First black judge 41-- Nixon called the conference for Feb. !1 to get the worlds biggest importers of oil together on dealing with shortages and high prices. And the Common Market foreign ministers arc to gather this Monday to plan strategy for the Washington session. - Defense attorneys could conMINEOLA. N.Y. (AF) clude their case Monday in the murder trial of Dr. Athony A. Montemarano. accused of giving a terminally ill cancer ptaient a lethal injection. Nassau County District Attorney William Cahn on Friday completed his cross examination of the star defense witness. Dr. Alfrred Angrist. Later, character witnesses described Montemarano as compassionate, popular and dedicated. everyone themselves get out of shape. The Common Market meets next week to discuss President Nixons world oil conference, with some members saying the Americans may be trying to go too far, too fast. Yablonski trial March 25 St. PAUL, normal woodchuck weathercasting in favor of modern media. sliouldn t be Its just that Brussels n Suppress letters court asked He once said his feats considered so remarkable Combined wire services The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Friday that Hughes Airctaft Co., based in this Los Angeles suburb, will build a twin space-craf- t system for the p. joct under a contract CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) Attorney C. D. Lambros says he will appeal the dismissal of two motions seeking the end to Ihe federal grand jury probe of the 1970 Kent State University shootings. Motions to "dissolve, discharge and excuse the panel filed by Lambros on behalf of Ohio National Guard troopers Okev R. Flesher and James Pierce were dismissed Friday by U.S District Judge Frank J Battisti. The eountrys chief groundhog would roll over in his den at how Paw Paw his long-rang- e Woody of Michigan gels forecast. Paw Paw shuns Lewis was reared on a Navajo Indian m Arizona and left at 15 to join the P.T. Bamum Circus as an acrobat and arialist. For 33 years he was Houdinis assistant. to discuss Nixon meet g Kent lawyer seeks dismissal it Doctors at Hahnemann Hospital sa'd Lewis died of cancer of the fiver. AFL-CI- Euromart - The trial date was set Friday in a meeting between President Judge John V. Digging Judge Francis J Catania, who will preside at the trial, and defense and prosecution attorneys. Special Prosecutor Richard A. Sprague said pre-trimotions would begin Feb. 19 and should take about iwo weeks. suit reservation EL SEGUNDO. Calif. (AP) With Mariner 10 due to mission glide by Venus on Tuesday, a twin aimed at garnering more data about the planet in 1978 has been announced photo-landin- 'sh&i running Larry Lewis, a centenarian who ran six miles through Golden Gate Park in San Francisco almost every day of his life, died Friday at the age of 108 DflTGUflES Twin mission 2A 1974 Larry dies nses in unemployment. The jobless rate reflected the loss of 370.000 jobs, mostly because of ihe energy shortage. the Labor Department reported It also said the average worker was working a shorter week and gating a smaller paycheck ic li NEWS, DESERET WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY Running By Walt Kelly POGO j of Majorca, meanwhile. Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union and Lajos Portisch of Hungary played to a dull draw Friday m the seventh game of their quarterfinals match Petrosian, world champion and 1986. leads bv one in 1963 game. They will play eighth game Sunday The two o t quarterfinalists. Viktor Korchnoi of the Soviet Union and Henrique Mocking of Brazil. play their ninth game Saturday at Augusta, Ga Russian leads . 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