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Show Two New Agencies to Control Wages, Prices After Freeze wiry iISjCAllO S5$' STRIKE i&jsssa J iN-ll- t . :: -- S. . i 1 4 y? J w' lrrt7 ! ' $&, r.tXM - By Frank Cormier Associated Press Writer fsrifr -- , , s& vhi S)$':; vs-- JJ K r1 v J 5 1 ill tl lid ha wV ",j7 j!'?'w :;t 4 h Krrj - ife V ' i v. prices and wages that fairness demands, Nixon said, but we will not permit inflation to flare up again. The President said he wras turning over the job of fixing specific wage and price standards to two newly created bodies whe major decisions will be subject to governmental 4 , , President Nixon WASHINGTON refreeze announced his wage-pric- e markably successful Thursday night and announced plans for continuing a program of economic restraints after the current freeze ends Nov. 13. We began this battle against inflation for the purpose of winning it, he n auditold a nationwide ence. We are going to stay in it until we do win it. We will permit some adjustments of the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 legal basis for the entire Nixon program for one year beyond its scheduled expiration next April 30. We will continue price and wage restraints until inflationary pressures aie the President brougiit under control, said, but we will not make controls a permanent feature of American life. When hey are no longer needed we will get rid of them. As of now, the stabilization measures will remain in force indefintelv. 5 ,-- Wholesale Price Seasonally Adjusted- - IndeX veto. Because the task of formulating specific guidelines has been lett to the Pay Board and Price Commission, officials said they could not begin to guess the amount of increases that might be allowed. Nixon said windfall profits created by the Phase 2 program would be wage-price-re- trimmed by cutting prices. A White House official told reporters this would be handled by the Price which could force a rollback in Com-miss'o- By Eileen Shanahan LJ' 4 - Associated Press Wirephoto day until ordered back to work by union leader Harry Bridges. Pickets were still on duty at the San Francisco waterfront Thurs- - Chief Orders Longshore o Strikers Back to Work elevator workers in the Chicago area announced that they would bow to a simk order from a Federal ilar Court and return to their jobs. Both court orders were obtained by government attorneys Wednesday night after President Nixon decided to invoke Act powers to end the strikes. Nearly 140,000 east and gulf coast dockworkers and some 80,000 coal miners United Press International West Coast longshore larry Bridges told union 15,000 striking leader dock-rarke- back-to-wor- rs Thursday to begin returning to rork Friday and moving cargo Saturday with a Federal Court n compliance order. Bridges instructions appeared to sig-ldock tieup at 24 an end to a Pacific ports. It was the longest strike in he coasts history. The union leader of 225 striking grain Taft-Hartle- y y extended stoppages into a second week with no signs of early settlements. To Send Mediator ILS. Faces Defeat send- The White House was reported mediator to sit in on ing a high-levNew York talks between shippers and the International Longshoremens Assn. The ILA executive committee issued an order demanding that dissident members still working in Gulf and South Atlantic ports join the strike at midnight EDT. By 13 Votes on Key U.N. Ballot Los Angeles Times Service Mike Trbovich, chairman of the dissident miners for democracy, called on United Mine Workers president W. A. Tony Boyle to officially declare a UMW strike so idle miners can use union funds for strike benefits. The UMWs stand so far has been that miners merely stopped work because they had no con- - Ireland and UNITED NATIONS Panama Thursday joined the parade of nations shifting from suppoit of the U.S. effort to keep Taiwan in the United Nations to a position of all-obacking for Peking alone. Irelands and Panama move to the Peking camp would indicate a defeat by at least 13 votes for the United Stales in its effort to win a majority for making the expulsion of Taiwan an important question, according to a Los Angeles Times survey of the 130 member-stateDebate on Chinese representation was set to begin Oct. 18 by the assembly leadership Thursday, with 12 meetings, morning and afternoon or both consecutively, fixed for its conclusion. The Albanian resolution to seat Peking apd oust Taiwan won a bare majority of 51 to 49 last year but only after a majority of 66 to 52 had voted to make the issue an important question requiring a approval. This year, the United Slates has reversed its stand and will seek an important question vote of only for the expulsion of Taiwan and will accept a simple majority vote for admitting the mainland. but the administrations over-a- ll objective is to hold the annual rate of inflation to from 2 to 3 percent by the end of 1972. The White House made available a background paper that cited such an objective, as measured by monthly living cost statistics, and said continued reduction of the rate would be the goal thereafter. This in'enm goal for the end of 1972. said the document, would be an inflation rale about half the rate that prevailed in 1971 before the freeze. Nixon, who had been saying for months that 1972 would be a very good auyear for the economy, told radio-Tdience he wanted to broaden his estimate. Saturday." Union and shipowner attorneys asked federal court to poslpone a hearing which had been scheduled for Friday on whether to extend a temporary restraincooling-of- f ing order to a full peri'The hearing was od under reset for Oct. 15. two-thir- y Press Wlrephote Used by Doctor He said; The coming year can be more than a very good year for the American economy, it can be a great year for America and the world. It can be a year, for the first ime in 15 years, in which we can achieve our goal of prosperity in a time of peace. e Key features of Nixon's program include: Appointment of a Pay Board, giving equal representation to mangement, labor and the public, that will set wage guidelines and, if it so decides, prohibit, reduce or defer pay hikes it deems inconsistent with its standards. Establishment of a Price Commission of seven public members to administer price and rent restraints it will formulate. A presidential request for standby which Nixon said he does authority not plan to use to regulate dividends and interest rates. A request that Congress exrnd the Satellite Saves5 Two Alaskans post-freez- - - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Space Agency said Thursday that two women in remote villages in Alaska mav owe their lives to a earth - orbiting sat- ellite. A week ago, a doctor relayed instructions via ATS-- (applications technology satellite) to a nurse in Tinychalkyitsik in northeastern Alaska to help a pregnant woman who was hemorrhaging severely. About the same time, the doctor used ATS-to instruct a medical aide in Anatubuk Pass about a woman who was having an appendicitis attack. Both women were transferred the next morning to medical facilities. -- The wholesale price WASHINGTON index, which can foreshadow trends in retail prices by a month or more, declined in September, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The index of wholesale prices of industrial commodities alone, considered a more accurate measure of the basic price trends in the economy, also declined, though not as much. Paul W. McCracken, chairman of President Nixons counci1 of economic advisers, called the statistics encouraging although he said nobody pretends the problem (of inflation) is solved. Pi ice Report Good 1 (Copyright) Arnold Weber, staff director of the administrations cost of living council, said the price report was good news for all of us it is encouraging evidence that Americans are cooperating with the wage and price freeze and indicates the general compliance of businessmen. The Labor Department noted that nearly all the prices that went to make up the September Index were those in effect after President Nixons announcement Aug. 15 of a price freeze. Some, including the prices of industrial fuels and electric power, actually reflect price changes that took place in July or August and were not reported until September, officials said. The fuel and power section of the index showed 0.5 percent. the largest rise ... declined 0.4 perThe index, over-alcent after allowance for normal seasonal variations. The index of prices of industrial commodities went down 0.1 percent. l, 1 Scientists Link Planet, Other Developments By far the largest declines in the index were in the food sector. The prices of fresh and dried fruits and vegetables, lambs, grains other than wheat and hogs all went down significantly. In other economic developments: Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally told the Senate Finance Com Mini-Moo- n - d Prize-winnin- 1972. It could be called a quasi-nioon- system because it is gravitationally coupled. The new little brother of earth was actually discovered in 1964 by Dr. Samuel Herrick, professor of astronomy at the University of California at Los Angeles, and was named Toro. But, Alfven said its tie witn the earth-moosystem has just been determined after computer studies by two of his colleagues: W. H. Ip, like Alfven a prolessor at U.C. San Diego, and Dr. NiK Colbort of the University of Stockholm. Alfven discovered the Alfven Waves, the waves that travel through ionized gas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics jointly with a French earth-moo- n A DIEGO, CALIF. qtiusimoon" only a mile m diameter is linked to the earth and the moon in a kind of g triplet system, Nobel physicist Hannes Ahum said Thursday. It travels to within 9.3 million nules of earth in eight-yea- r cycles, Alfven said. Its next close visit is expected in August, SAN Nixon, Freeze Federal Payroll By Spencer Rich Washington Post Writer WASHINGTON In a major victory for President Nixon on economic policy, the Senate voted 51 to 32 Thursday to uphold his freeze on federal employe pay raises. The vote means that a pay increase of about 6 percent for nearly 1.5 millon federal employes will be deferred until July 1 of next year, as ordered by the President, instead of going into effect Jan. 1, 1972. Mr. Nixon, under powers granted in a federal pay law, had announced he would postpone tiie scheduled Jan. 1 increase for six months as an measure. Back up Nixon present. By Dan Zedtiek Associated Press Writer pint-size- Senators Uphold Under the pay law, the deferral of the raise could have been overridden by a vote of disapproval in either chamber, but the House upheld Mr. Nixon earlier this week and the Senate Mowed suit Thursday. Several senators said they would try to revive tiie pay raise some jther legislative way, but prospects appear slim at Our Earth Has a New Little Brother Refrain from Work tvvo-ihir- Associated Chart shows decline of Wholesale Price Index, first drop in a year. a Great Year Can Be tract. West Coast longshoremen and the Chicago elevator workers stayed aw'ay from work Thursday despite the federal court orders. But late in the day Bridges sent telegrams to locals of the International Longshoremens and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) instructing that men needed to perform preliminary work should be passed through picket lines Friday. He advised them to get ready for resumption of work as of the first ship Source: Dept, of Labor mittee that Nixons new economic is succeeding and that prompt ac- tion on the $15.4 billion tax cut bill is essential for further progress. He was the opening witness as the committee ' started hearings on the bill passed Wednesday by the House. Ralph Nader criticized a consumer protection bill due to reach the House floor next week as a fraud ana a Republican White House bilL He accused the White House of undermining legislation designed to protect the consumer. Secretary of Commerce Maurice II. Stans reported that all of 1,250 large companies he contacted have agreed not to raise dividends above the rates in effect before Aug. 15, when the current y wage-pric- e freeze was announced. pro-gra- m New York Times Writer JFMAMJJASOND ' Wholesale Prices Decline, Economists Encouraged Further Explanations Nixon announced that Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally, who heads the Cost of Living Council, will go on radio and television Friday with further explanations of the continuing program. The time was set for 1 p.m. EOT. (11 a.m. MDT) Nixon did not specifically mention it, prices when windfall profits are discovered. The White House refused to provide even an approximate guideline for permissible wage settlements; an official said the Pay Board wall have to provide "standards or guidelines before Phase 2 begins on Nov. 14. However, some economists estimate that wage increases of up to 5 to 6 percent a year would meet the Presidents See Page 2, Column a ," said the Swedish scientist, who is known as father of plasma physic. It is part of the matter of this region. It belongs to the n man last fall. He lives several months hens and several months in Stockholm. In Alfvens view, the planets of earths solar system were formed from dust swirling clouds and debris left over when the sun was crental from a cloud of gas. Toro may be a planet which didn't quite make it an asteroid that was simply left over from the process that created the earth and the moon, or whose orbit has degradal since it was captured by earth. The studies by Ip and Colbort show that Toro circles the sun live times every six years, said Alfven. This orbit brings it into the gravitational field of earth, which circles the sitn eight times in the same eight years. Administration spokesmen argued that to override the Presidents order delaying the pay raise would shatter his efforts and endanger the entire economy. Called Unfair Federal employe union spokesmen like Frank E. Moss senators and Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. responded that it would be unfair to freeze federal employes at their current levels for six months while workers in the private sector of the economy would be getting at least some raises during that period under Phase 2 of Mr. and .) Nixons wage-pric- e hold-dow- According to the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, holdup of the' 6 percent raise for about 1.5 million federal white collar employes will save the government about $650 million in the costs during payroll deferral. Cancer Patients Used by Pentagon Radiation Study partial body radiation the combat troops might expect to reerve in an exchange of tactical nuclear weapons. It is my belief my experience that this is a helpful way of beating said Dr. Eugene Saenger, the patients. radiologist at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine who heads the research project. "We have neve, felt we have been doing those patients anything but good." lie tidded in an interview. But other experts in the use of radiation to treat cancer patients disagree. They said that with the exceptions of cancers such as Hodgkins disease and leukemia, whole or partial body radiation By Stuart Auerbach and Thomas O'Toole Washington Post Writers WASHINGTON - years, the Pentagon For the past 11 contract Cincinnati to study 1ms had a with the University of the ettecis ol atomic radiation on human beings. The prime purpose of the study according to the contracts has been to ' understand better the influence of radiation on combat etfectivene.'S ot troops. To uinlet stand how irradiated troops might function on the battlefield, die University of Cincinnati has chosen to irradiate cancer pal tents who could no longer be helped by surgery. The patients were total body or given the same kind of jgk Ak M & A 1 (A Zr is not an accepted means of treatment for cancer. Instead, radiologists prefer to focus a high dose of radiation directly on tiie part of the body most affected by the disease This localized use of radiation prevents the large-scalkilling of white blood cells and the infection that genthat accompanies lota, erally follows body radiation. Whde body radiation is used in leukemia, however, because the cancer is in the white blood cells. And new studies at the National Cancer Institute, to lie reported on Friday by Dr. Ralph E. Johnson, show that the best treatment for Hodgkin's disease includes e radiation of all the lymph nodes which are spread through most of the body. With those exceptions, said Dr. Seymour Hopfam, a radiologist who specializes in the treatment of cancer patients at tiie Sloan - Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York, nobody to my know ledge is using this whole-bod- y radiation as a theiapeutic measure. It approaches what happens m an atomic accident. The coniract the University of Cincinnati has with the Pentagons Defense Nuclear Agency (formerly the Defense Atomic Support Agency) has paid it $850,000. This has been enough to study and be. it 111 patients in 11 years. IiiMde The Tribune Tribune Telephones on Page A-- 2 Page Business Classified Columnists t onnes 15 9 t-4- , 5 Editorials 8 Page Obituaries Sports Star Gazer Television 6, 8, 9 3 Valentine Wash. Nut! 12, 20 Womens 0, AND MORE telex ision section. C-l- B-- 4 D-- 6 Theaters Foreign IN Section A-- C-- 8 ... a B-A-- 3. l 4 The Senate Armed Services Committee said the government will also save about $600 million on military pay increases which would have become effective automatically Jan. 1 had the civilian increase gone into effect on that date. Among the Republcians, only Mathias and J. Glenn Beall whose state has many thousands of federal employes, and Clifford plus Ted Stevens P. Case voted to kill the freeze Thursday, with 38 other Republicans backing Mr. Nixon. Most of the 13 Democrats who voted to uphold Mr. Nixon Thursday were southerners. An exception was Sen. Frank Church of Idaho. ), special Today's Chuckle Friday's Forecast Salt Lake City and Utah mild. Weather map on Page Fair and C-- There you are, dear, said the little wife, putting a plate before her husband, just the way you'd better like it." |
