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Show '6 DESERET NEWS, Monday, 4 June 2, 1969 inraitcatiora 'Undesirable' For infants ' 't - rs associations journal. Life A Hoax, Grad Thinks parent In her valedictory at the private girls schools commencement exercises Sunday, Stephanie Mill, 20 of Phoenix, listeners 1,000 WASHINGTON (UPI) -Members of Congress straggled back to Capitol vHill today after a long Memorial Day weekend. The start of confirmation hearings for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger highlights another week of quiet work and little floor action. has been a great deal of this. He cites as a classic example the giant C5A cargo plane. The C5A will probably cost the American taxpayer $2 billion more than the original contract ceiling of $3 billion," he said. (The Air Force estimates that the cost overrun will amount to about $880 mil- d visibly shaken with a speech she entitled: The Future is a Cruel Hoax. I am terribly saddened by the fact that the most humane thing for me to do is to have the piper no children at all Is finally demanding payment Mankind has spread across the face of the earth like a great unthinking, We have unfeeling cancer horribly disfigured' this planet In her farewell speech, Miss Mill said mankind Is being threatened with the ultimate disrespect of suicide. ... original contract, but the Air Force now says the actual cost may go as high as $360 In Vegas million, extend Nov... Plastic Cream Revolutionizes Denture Wearing For the first time science often plastic cream that holds false teeth almost like Nature herself hold natural teeth. Forms an elastic membrane that holds both 'round-the-cloc- uppers and lowers as nsvs before. Its a revolutionary dis- covery called Fixodent for daily home use. (U.S. Pat 3,003.988) Fixodent holds denturea k. . (hose of civilian durable goods industries. In terms of return on capital investment, defense profits are said to average 13 per cent a year compared to 18 per cent a year for civilian curable goods industries. default SOME SILENT? Pentagon officials estimate that the contractor, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., will lose about $100 million on the work already done, and point to the cancellation as evidence of Lairds determination to take a hard line about holding contractors to price and performance agreements. lion.) TICKS OFF EXAMPLES The Wisconsin senator ticked off other recent examples of big cost overruns: Pratt k Whitney TF30 jet engines for the controversial Fill plane will cost more than $600,000 each instead of the initial estimate of $270,000. The Mark II electronics system for the Fill was priced at $143 million in the GO, NO GO , . 1 COSTS BALLOON The Mark XVII Jventry system for Minuteman missiles ballooned in cost from an original contract of $36.4 million to an eventual $70.2 million. Froxmire said his committee is convinced there also will be a huge overrun bn the SRAM (short range attack missile) project, but cannot pin down the amount because the Pentagon so far has refused to give out the figures. Most of fiie major weapons systems procured in recent years have wound up costing at least twice as much, and some have cost three or four times as much, as the initial estimate," Proxmire said. PARTLY INFLATION Shillito said $875 million for 375 Cheyennes. Dissatisfied with the performance of early test models, Defense Secretary Laird proclaimed the contract in 'called for an outlay of Close Shave For Cyclists OAKLAND, CALIF. (AP) -An honor graduate of Mills College says she is so disillusioned about mankinds present condition that she has decided not to become a Arir, left her Continued from First Pago ' ' whole milk. Imitation Filled milk, unlike milk, is a product It is a combination of skim tion was chief justice. milk and vegetable oil to replace the butter fat The council said the protein content of filled milk generally compares well with fluid whole milk and both have about the same number of calories. The council said, Imitation milks usually provide about the same number of calories as whole cows milk with a greater percentage of calories derived from carbohydrates. LAS 'VEGAS, NEV. (UPI) Such products may not supply Shaved and shorn, 36 disthe other nutrients for which gruntled members of motormilk is noted. In the United States; the cycle clubs went to Municipal use of such beverages that Court today on charges rangare low in protein, minerals, ing from drunkenness to. marior vitamins compared to milk juana possession. in the diets of children and The men, plus 16 women infants Is generally undesirfrom three western motorable and should be discourcycle clubs, were arrested late Saturday in a sweep by aged. Imitation milk, which Is sheriffs officers at Charleston provided and used as a substi-.tut- e Park, 30 miles north of Las for whole milk, should .Vegas. have nutritional value equivaCampers there had comlent to or superior to cows' plained of harassment and milk." fighting. The council did not conThe shaves and haircuts demn either Imitation or filled were administered Sunday milk but advised physicians to ascertain the contents of these over the outraged protests of milk substitutes before recom- the cyclists. Grinning sheriffs officers mending them to patients. The AMAs council noted, denied It was discrimination. They said baths, shaves and In cmmtries with Inadequate haircuts are normal procesubstimilk dairy supplies, tutes are being developed to dure for all men admitted to available milk the Clark County jail. Deputies said that in arrestsupplies, ing the 52 suspects they confiscated two pistols, a shotADVaSTItBMINT gun, four packets of marijuana, pills and a variety of knives. One officer said that when the cyclists complied with an order to disarm themselves at the park It looked like it was knives. raining more comfortably. ..and firmer. Those arrested Included too. Its so elastic you can bite harder, chew harder without members of the Misfits from pun. ..may even enjoy steak, San . Francisco, the Devils again. apples, Disciples from Arizona, and . Fixodent often lasts Resists hot coffee. the Gents of Nevada. They Dentures that fit are essential to assembled at file mountain health. See your dentist regular- campground for file Memorial v : ly. Get Special Fixodent today. Day weekend. milk-base- Hole In Uncle Sam s Pocket Congress Faces Tranquil Week Burger, chosen by President Nixon to succeed Earl Warren after the Supreme Court ends its current session this month, was to appear Tuesday before a friendly but cautious Senate Judiciary Committee in his first step toward confirma- .Imitation milk Is a combination of water, sugar and vegetable fat. The report says it is low in protein, minerals and vitamins compared to A doc-to(AP) group advised today that the use of imitation milk in the diets of infants Is generally undesirable and should be discouraged. The council on foods and nutrition of the American Medical Association gave the advice in a report on imitation and filled milks la the CHICAGO nual tab for military cost a term he prefers to overrun results In part from inflation, and in part from rapidly advancing technology which necessitates hundreds or even thousands of growth The congressional committee finds this survey unconcontractors Since vincing. were free to give or withhold statements of their profits, it contends, the ones with the fattest profits may have chosen to remain silent The committee offers In- high end of the profit scale. The one hard fact about defense profits which emerged from the UPIs investigation is that no objective and comstudy has" ever prehensive been made of the subject, aud the financial reports which the Pentagon requires of contractors are inadequate for anyone to tell with assurance how much corporate profit is included in the $44 billion an CASH BURIAL POLICY - to age 90. 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Each has statistics to back up its position. Are Defense Asst. Secretary Shillito cites a study made for the Defense Department by Logistics Management Institute (a firm of which Shillito was president before he came to the Defense Department.) This study, based on unaudited reports submitted voluntarily by about half the major defense contractors, Indicates of defense Industries are considerably lower, on the average, than , a de- fense contractors earned average profits of 17.5 ppr cent from 1962 to 1965 compared to 10.6 per cent for a comparable group of civilian industries. The Pentagon sniffs at these figures, suggesting that the sample may be loaded with contractors who happen at the are Happy to Announce narcr5re) Joining our family of the FINEST CAMERA EQUIPMENT ADVERTISEMENT He wants to help. Ask your letups. druggist about new SURE-la- x v. With lots of laxatives and lots of claims -- no wonder youre confused. 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REPRICE PACTS -- procure-men- t 152 South Main O TRAVELWARE GIFT SHOP Vice Adm. Hyman B. Ricko-vefather of the nuclear seconded this submarine, statement. He said contractors can and do use change r, orders as a basis for repricing defense contracts. for the Class of '69 They have almost unlimited freedom in pricing change orders, he said. Moot, Comptroller of the Defense Department, denied this. But he agreed that it's jack-Dav- id For all your graduation fashion reeds . . . its lack. David that has the style doss for 69. Come in and see oil that's new in young men s fashions. change orders constitute a problem were trying to get on top of. He said greater efforts will be made in the future to see that price tags on major modifications are negotiated before authorization is given for the change. SOME DONT WORK Weapons projects that dont pan out are a major source of waste in military procurement. A UPI check of Pentagon record i showed that the armed forces during Jhe lart 15 years have Invested at least $9.3 billion In 69 big military contracts that subse- graduation 4-pi-ece suits (Includes: pants, coat vest & extra pant) A fashion move for graduation. The dress suit for the dass of '69 is a complete ensemble of fine wool or wool blends. w.. $4goo.WOO . .. suits Irani sharp graduation coats sport rawest and quently were cancelled. The largest single ra thole to date has been the B70 bomber, which was cancelled in 1967 after costing $1.5 billion. Only two of the bombers were ever completed. One crashed and the other is now an exhibit In the Air Force museum at Dayton, Ohio, HEAVY B70 LOSS Despite file heavy loss on the B70, the Air Force, with the backing of new Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, is now pushing ahead with a The in styling, colors patterns far your graduation party. Coot crisp seersuckers, wools, caid blends. Ail sizes. 1895 from ' just Arrived! wool - vested-al- l ' suits . Sharp new suits in the latest, greatest body styling in navy or prey pinstrips. Come In md see the selection! j similar manned bomber program. Its called AMSA, which stands for Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft. Laird wants to spend $100 mil-lio-n during the coming fiscal year to get AMSA into Now Featuring Catalina swimwear New styles & colors for summer e flair bottom slacks oil new patterns and colors quality V J Playboy Magazine Approved Fashions develop- ment." Proxmire contends that a nation armed to the teeth with missiles needs a new type of manned bomber like a hole in the head. He is alarmed by reports that the Pentagon ultimately plans to buy 240 AMSAs at a cost currently estimated at $50 million each. Even if this cost estimate should hold up instead of doubling or tripling when ao t u a 1 production begins-i- t would mean an outlay of $12 billion. 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