Ames Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - June 7, 1973, Ames, Iowa Ames mm DH Tribune Ames Iowa Thursday June 7 1973 Volume No 286 Ten Cents Noon Temperature Thursday 77 High Wednesday Low Barometer 3020 steady Humidity 44 per cent Sunrise am Sunset pin AMES BOONE NEVADA Sunny and warm this afternoon with highs in upper 80s Partly cloudy tonight lows near 65 Considerable cloudiness Friday with chance of showers highs mid 80s South to southwest winds 10 to 20 miles per hour this afternoon and tonight Probability of rain near zero per cent this afternoon 20 per cent tonight and per cent Friday Focus EXEMPT AMISH little discussion the State Board of Public Instruction Wednesday voted to exempt two Amish schools in Johnson County from state school laws for the next two years The boards action will exempt 41 children from compulsory attendance and exempts the schools from complying with state educational standards Last month the board continued exemptions for 14 Amish schools attended by about 320 children LAWMAKERS House leaders revealed today they have enough bipartisan support to pass a increasing legislative salaries by a year from to effective in 1975 GOP leader Edgar Holden and Democratic leader Dale Cochran made the statement after party caucuses law the legislators cannot raise their own salaries so any action this year could not take effect until after the next general election The last pay raise occurred in 1969 with a switch from a day compensation to an annual salary STOCKS an emergency cabinet meeting called by President Nixon today might lead to tighter wageprice controls boosted stocks sharply by noon in light trading on the New York Stock Exchange The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 1076 to 9089 American Stock Exchange prices gained in quiet trading page 12 PASS 94 BILLION House Appropriations Committee approved a billion money today to finance farm environmental and consumer protection programs in 1974 Included were billion for farm programs million for rural development projects billion in en programs and billion in consumer programs measure includes million for rural water and sewer construction aid billion for rural development loans in housing billion for the food stamp program and million for free or school lunch programs and other food programs for the needy THE Fill CANCEL Fill Pen tagon Wednesday announced production of the controversial Fill which is still flying missions over Cambodia will be halted late next year after the plane General Dynamics the manufac turer said it was flabbergasted by the decision The Pentagon said it had higher priority items than the Fill initiated in 1962 plans were for 1726 Fills for million each But the 543 planes are costing million apiece a cost overrun of 430 per cent The Senate Permanent Investigating subcommittee charged in 1970 the plane was a fiasco But despite groundings for technical problems and 31 crashes the plane has drawn praise from the Air Force for its performance VIETNAM South Viet command reported today Wed was the fourth consecutive day of some of the fighting in the Mekong Delta Since Sunday fighting in the area has claimed 205 Communist lives with the South Vietnamese toll at 30 dead and 76 wounded Meanwhile presidential adviser Henry Kissinger and Le Due Tho are meeting on the problem of ceasefire violations Story page 24 MIDEAST Hassan of Morocco chairman of the Organization of African Unity OAU told the UN Security Council Wednesday it must force Israel to observe UN resolutions in the Mideast that call for Israels withdrawal from Arab territory it occupied in the 1967 war The council is conducting a general review of the Mideast crisis Record increase in wholesale food prices Inflation indicators jump again 13 m By NORMAN KEMPSTER WASHINGTON UPI Farm prices after showing an unusual decline in April resumed their sharp upward movement in May pushing up wholesale food prices since the spring of 1972 by 39 per cent their biggest increase on record the government reported today Coupled with another hefty rise in in prices wholesale prices moved up 21 per cent in May the Labor Departments Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS reported Prices of farm products processed foods and feeds leaped upward by 47 per cent in May Revised figures showed that prices in this category declined 07 per cent in April Excluding processed foods the May rise was even higher per cent Nixon Ponders New Action sour news for the ion economic strategists came as President Nixon pondered a new attack on inflation He hopes to come up with a single weapon to combine control of costs at home and to defend the dollar abroad Government price controllers through a variety of stabilization measures have been struggling to slow the rise in wholesale prices which inevitably percolate in the form of higher retail prices in ensuing months ahead Whatever new economic plan is for by the administration it seems certain that something will be coming in a matter of days likely to go well beyond meat price limits announced over two months ago since costs of food and other consumer items have continued to soar In the new wholesale price report in prices which comprise about three quarters of the index and are con a more significant measure of in than volatile food prices 11 per cent in May Kami Prices Up That was slightly less than Aprils 14 per cent rise but far higher than government economists consider to be within ad NONCONFORMING NO today began removing equipment from the service station at Riverside Drive and Lincoln Way owned and operated by the Standard Oil Co for many years The station a nonconforming commercial use in an area zoned residential long has been the subject of controversy Tribune photo by Rod Riggs Close controversial gos station here An oil company service station at Riverside Drive and Lincoln Way long the subject of controversy apparently is to be a service station no more Workmen for the Standard Oil Co which owns the station today began removing equipment from the building and site It had been reported earlier that Standard Oil was considering terminating operations at the site and that the company might give the property to the city of Ames for use as a park Jack Linder attorney here for the company told The Tribune the gift of the land was under discussion by company of Final Decision To Come Larry King Des Moines district manager for Standard said today there has been no final discussion of disposition of the property but added the station is definitely permanently closed A final decision on what will happen to the property will be made by company officials in Standards Chicago office King said Meanwhile a crew headed by Jim Craig Nevada an employe of Standards Des Moines office was removing company equipment from the location Gas pumps lights signs a heater an air compressor and other equipment were being loaded into trucks this morning Citizens Went To Court The oil company had sought on several occasions a building permit to enlarge the small oldfashioned building on the site Because the station is a use not permitted in a residential zone and thus did not conform to city zoning ordinances the permit had been denied on several occasions On one occasion when a permit was granted residents of South Riverside Drive combined to take the matter to district court and won a court order prohibiting expansion of the station House unit votes to limit Presidents troop commitment power WASHINGTON UPI By a 304 vote the House Foreign Affairs Committee ap proved today a resolution to bar the President from committing the United States to any overseas wars without authority of Congress The measure is similar to legislation already approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee It appears certain that a war powers of some kind by Congress at reclaiming its powers over commitment of US troops will emerge in this session There is a strong possibility President Nixon will veto it The House resolution would bar a President from sending GIs into combat abroad without the express approval of Con gress except in very limited emergency circumstances The President would be required to with draw any troops he had committed if Congress failed to give him specific authority to use them within 120 days Ames man nominated for district judgeship Jack B Linder of Ames and Keith Richardson of Jefferson have been nominated for appointment to fill a vacant district judgeship in central Iowa The nominations by the district judicial nominating committee for the second judicial district came out of a meeting at Webster City on June 1 Names of the two men were forwarded to Gov Robert D Ray who will make the appointment The vacancy occurred under reorganization of judicial districts which provides 13 judges instead of the present 12 Members of the nominating committee are attorneys W K Doran Boone Whitley M Hemingway Webster City Craig L Johnson Marshalltown Thomas L McCullough Sac City and Edward S White Carroll and laymen Dr Paul Ferguson Lake City Jon E McClure Fort Dodge Chase McLaughlin Humboldt Frank Cervetti Marshalltown and Mrs Carolyn Mouk Jefferson Now serving as district judges are C H Wild Ed J Kelley Ames L E Plummer Northwood A J Braginton Manson John F Stone Mason City Paul E Hellwege Boone E J Flattery Fort Dodge B C Sullivan Rockford Newt Draheim Clarion James C Smith Carroll George G Fagg Marshalltown and Russell J Hill Webster City Bookkeeper identifies exhibits in IH trial A bookkeeper for an Everly International Harvester dealer convicted of charges of conspiring to fix prices appeared as a wit ness Wednesday in the current IH trial in session in Story County District Court Sue Rayberg bookkeeper for Harms Implement Co Everly for 10 years identified 49 exhibits most were records seized from the files of dealer Jack Harms by State Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents on a search warrant Aug 31 1971 Harms and nine other IH dealers were convicted of conspiring to fix prices Oct 6 1972 in Story County District Court All were fined and received suspended sentences of one year in Story County jail Exhibits Identified Among the exhibits identified by Mrs Rayberg were a memo referring to having price books printed by a Huron S D printer the price books allegedly reflected costs 10 per ent higher than price books supplied by the Harvester Other exhibits Mrs Rayberg identified included two cancelled checks to pay for the printing of the books a list of IH dealers who paid each for the price books and an at tendance sheet from a meeting of IH dealers in Ames at which time price books were handed out Besides her bookkeeping duties at Harms Implement Co Mrs Rayberg testified she also kept records and did correspondence for the Iowa dealers council an organization of Iowa IH dealers formed to promote better relations between the International Har vester Co and Iowa dealers she said Different Series Number Mrs Rayberg testified that Harms her employer promoted the dealer council Earlier a BCI agent Michael Marlin testified IH dealerships he visited in Holy Cross Learning and Elkader were charging prices 10 per cent above those in price books provided by the International Harvester Co though they were not using different price books According to the states evidence the price books reflecting the 10 per cent higher prices were identified by a series JX number International Harvester Co price books were identified by the series number JB ministration goals Increases in gasoline and other petroleum products were the biggest factor in Mays industrial price rise Metals and most lumber and wood prices continued to ad vance but soft wood plywood prices turned downward Farm prices advanced on a broad front with oil seeds grains livestock fresh and dried vegetables raw cotton and fluid milk prices all moving up Eggs live poultry and fresh fruits were down for the month Dramatic Gestures Administration officials said a number of possible moves are being discussed Although the officials declined to provide details it seems certain the President is looking for a dramatic gesture like the wageprice freeze be ordered 22 months ago Former Treasury Secretary John B Connally now an unpaid adviser to Nixon is understood to be the leader of the activist faction which appears to have won the President over to its point of view Treasury Secretary George P Shultz and Herbert Stein chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers are considered the leaders of a faction counseling restraint Astronauts free jammed power wing HOUSTON two spacewalkers today opened a jammed solar electric generating wing critically needed to end the space stations power cris and prolong the productive life of Americas first space station We got the wing out and locked reported Skylab Charles Pete Conrad after struggling for more than two hours outside the huge research station Mission control reported jubilantly that he glassy solar cells in the panel were successfully converting sunlight into electricity First The success of mission and possibly two flights for six other astronauts hinged on the outcome of the historic effort to end power problem It was the first walk in space lo repair a damaged spaceship The plan was for Conrad to move hand overhand 25 feet along a hand rail and attach bolt cutters to a wide strip of aluminum wrapped around the folded solar wing Kerwin bracing himself struts to solar observator then was to pull a rope to close the tools sice jaws 5050 Chance Engineers figured several cuts would slice through the strip lodged over one end of the beam holding the solar panels Then Conrad was to pull a rope hooked to the wing break two frozen brackets and slowly open it all the while struggling to maintain stability in the weightless vacuum Conrad and Kerwin predicted Wednesday they had only a 5050 chance of opening the balky wing and giving Skylab a new source of electricity to supplement four overworked solar panels Those on the ground were more optimistic Skylab started out with two of the hig solar wings but one was ripped off during launch May 14 Engineers said he jammed wing however could generate 3000 watts and give the ship a total capacity of about 7000 watts Without the winy the astronauts would have to turn off all their experiments on June 16 when the wo fuel cell generators in the docked Apollo will run out of oxygen and hydrogen That would mean the pilots would accomplish lilde research during their final six days of flight President Nixon will nominate the Kansas City police chief as the new FBI director See page two The Iowa House passed legislation allowing Sunday beer and liquor sales See page 17 The Iowa House approves new methods for chiropractors See page 17 Two Nixon campaign officials are prepared to testify Jeb Magruder pressured them to commit perjury See page 12 Cambodian forces reoccupy the town of Ang Sec page 16 General Motors will not bow to Argentine guerrillas demands 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