Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - August 17, 1973, Lebanon, Pennsylvania GOOD EVENING Celebrity is a person whose name Is everywhere except in the telephone book THE WEATHER Central with of boners late to mid to Hih In No 293 LEBANON FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 17 1973 it dm it n M Art 3 Giv Local Institutions Feel Pinch Of Food Shortage By BERNARD SHIRE Asst County Editor While the housewife has been affected by the increase in the price of Meat and shortages of beef that have developed re cently some of the tions in this area including hospitals retirement homes and schools are also facing problems Although area institutions are being affected only one has gotten to the point where major changes in menus have to be made George Landis food service manager at Lebanon Valley College says that he is daily searching for more corners to cut I hate to do it going to have to serve dishes like spaghetti at dinner instead of just lunch and well have chicken twice instead of once a he said Landis attributes this to the fact that beef is growing scarce and that the prices of eggs and produce are sky rocketing Landis says his chief bargaining benefit is purchasing in large volume To store his good a large freezing unit has been in stalled which the food manager claims will probably be paid for in four or five years from the cuts I get by buying in One Steak Meal Though he keeps an optimis tic outlook Landis is en countering some real problems When his order was cancelled last week he could promise the coaches only one Effort To End Night Meetings Falls Flat By JAMES SHELHAMER Staff Reporter An unsuccessful effort to terminate the night meetings conducted by the county commissioners was made Thursday night Commissioner Harry Fisher made a motion that night sessions be discontinued in favor of day meetings The motion died for the lack of a second by either commissioners Thomas Behney or Philip Feather Fisher noted that the purpose of the night meetings instituted 18 months ago was to give the daytime working citizenry an opportunity to attend meetings Its not doing what it was Election Payments Are Hiked Election board personnel elected in November will be getting a pay hike in 1974 the county commissioners announced Thursday night as they met in weekly session Landlords will also get an increased rental fee for space used as polling places In most instances the members of election boards will be getting a pay increase of The rental allowance for polling places is being hiked from to Compensation for election board personnel will in the future range from to The exact salary depends on the classification and the number of votes cast Pay rates for election board members is based on whether the number of votes cast is 150 or less 151 to 500 501 to or over New Rates The new rates of pay based on the number of votes cast wiH be Judge of election 150 or less 151 to 500 501 to and over The judge will continue to get for making the election return to the county headquarters Inspectors or less 151 to 501 to and over Machine inspector 150 or less 151 to 500 501 to over Clerk 150 or less 151 to 500 501 to over Today In The NEWS Amusements Arcs Classified 222 21 expected to do we thought it would bring in interested Fisher said He then noted that there was only one spectator present This individual Paul Kale is a regular visitor at meetings of local governmental bodies While Fisher received no support from his fellow commissioners his efforts to end the night meetings were cheered by newsmen Inspect Bridges The commissioners made their annual inspection of bridges Thursday morning and found all but two of the 12 bridges in good shape Minor repairs will be required at two of the struc tures The commissioners approved two petitions substituting Republican candi dates on the November ballot Richard L Duffy will be a candidate for Jackson Town ship auditor in place of Jeffrey L Swanger and John G Rauch will be a candidate for supervisor in North Londonderry Township in place of E Cope In another action the commissioners approved a liquid fuels fund payment of to Mt Gretna Borough Personnel Actions Personnel actions approved included these James A Scholl 243 S Tenth and Richard P Shay 371 meal of steaks for their athletes A regular training meal consists of steak or eggs a vegetable and orange juice served nearly every evening in training sessions I used to pay a case for lettuce but now its probably or Landis said Landis was quick to point out that students will not be going hungry in September and that he will be working on a day basis Walter Dillon manager of the Good Samaritan Hospital said this morning that the hospital has had difficulty in getting meat orders filled by its regular suppliers and is being affected by the in creased cost of food but so far no major changes in menus have been necessary Weve had problems with particularly beef and pork and weve had to go to additional Dillon said Will Affect Charges These increased costs will eventually affect patient charges but right now we are limited by the government stabilization program and must take any request for an increase in fees to the economic stabilization pro he pointed out As an example Dillon said that when the hospital re quests 500 pounds of meat from a supplier the supplier says can deliver only 200 pounds We are caught in the supply and demand situation We have to pay more but cannot pass the increased cost along to our Since we dont have a margin to work with it makes it even Peterson associate administrator of the Lebanon Valley General Hospital says that his institution is experi difficulty in buying normal supplies of beef pork veal and lamb We have to take what our regular supplier gives us This hasnt affected our menus so far because we were able to buy some in advance But our supplies will be depleted if the Will Speak On US Problems HORSE MEAT Detroit shoppers of all shapes and sizes crowd around the meat counter at Joe not to be confused with the Wriggley Supermarket chain at the Eastern Market in downtown Detroit where they began selling horse meat Thursday Wiggley had several truck loads of the meat brought into the city and is doing a thriving business by the pound UPI Wirephoto Believes Meat Hoarders Reason For Price Plunge 5 By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Wholesale meat buyers think shoppers who hoarded groceries during Phase 3 price controls have now stopped going to the supermarket and started eating from their freezers This is the explanation given for the sudden plunge in prices on Midwest wholesale meat markets The people just arent buying any meat a spokesman for the Livestock Market News in Des Moines said They are simply refusing to pay the higher prices now Those who have meat stocked in the freezers are living off that and those who dont have any meat stocked are refusing to buy any Continued on I Quaker Co Employes Still Out Quaker Alloy Casting Co employes today continued what the company terms a wildcat strike despite a county court injunction ordering them to work One act of violence marked the strike Thursday prior to the issuance of the injunction It was reported that the car of one of the employes seeking to enter the plant was ruined Foreign matter was poured into the tank Deputy sheriffs and state police were on the scene to prevent the blocking of en trances to the plant A plant official said all of employes were at morning but only to receive their pay checks To Meet Monday The official also said he understands the striking workers are scheduled to hold a meeting on Monday The work stoppage re commenced as the re sult on the part 8 of some workers over griev The com g 2 Women Pagei 15 W 3 WILL SEE LAUNCH Kevin Steen Carefree has a surprise for his friends the spacemen It looks as if hell be able to accept an invitation to watch the joint space launching after all Kevin was 12 and dying of cancer according to his doctors when the invitation was made Now the cancer is in remission subsided and no longer an immediate threat to his life and the medical men cant explain it See story on Page 13 UPI Wirephoto Phase 3 price controls have been lifted for all food products except beef and the ceiling on beef prices ends Sept 12 Grain prices have also taken a dramatic dive since breaking record highs earlier this week but the turnaround is for dif ferent reasons commodity market experts say The prices paid for grain on the Midwest markets later af Hie price of meat since most of it is sold as livestock feed Bread prices are only slightly affected by the wheat futures since there is only about two cents worth of wheat in a loaf of bread Grain commodity experts said traders were waiting for todays weekly report on wheat available for export This they said caused the lack of buying Threaten To Close Stations WASHINGTON UPI With service stations operators in several parts of the country threatening to close in protest the government has delayed until Sept 1 the start of new price rules for gasoline and diesel fuel The present price freeze on gasoline and diesel fuel re mains in effect until then But the freeze ends and new price regulations begin for all other petroleum products at midnight Sunday as scheduled Midnight Sunday had been the deadline also for and No 2 diesel fuel The two week delay was announced Thursday by John T Dunlop head of the administrations Cost of Living Council The new Phase IV regula tions when they do finally take effect for service stations will involve new price ceilings based on the sellers actual cost plus his profit dollars and cents not percent of Jan Many retail dealers complain that this profit provision will mean money out of their pockets and that thousands of them will be for ced out of business Robert Jacobs an official of both the Illinois and Indiana gasoline dealers associations said in Chicago Thursday he expected 90 per cent of the ser vice stations in the Chicago area to shut down in protest Aug 2426 with signs reading This Station Closed By Government Dealers in Michigan had voted to close all next week A Pennsylvania association enthusiasm dragging prices for corn oat soybeans and wheat down as much as WASHING IX W President Nixon intends to em bark on a series of public ap in an effort to refocus national attention on major domestic and foreign policy problems away from Watergate Nixon will use as a spring board his address before the 74th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New Orleans Monday After a brief stop there he will fly on to San Clemente for a prolonged stay through Labor Day Aides said Nixon will be busy as he seeks to recoup his standing in the popularity polls now down to the lowest level of his presidency In California he will hold his first press conference in five months Deputy Press Secre tary Gerald L Warren com that Nixon already has expressed his views and perceptions about Watergate which may indicate he will not be receptive to questions scandal But other White House of are encouraging the view that Nixon may be willing to be quizzed in depth on the subject for the The President appeared to be in a jauntier more confident mood after his Wednesday night televised address on Watergate than he has in recent months Aides indicated his spirits were lifted by wires and telephone calls to the White House after the speech The White House announced they were running 5 or 6 to 1 in his favor A theme of the speech was that the Senate Watergate hearings were absorbed in trying to implicate the President and should be ended and the matter left to the courts The committee chairman Sen Sam J Ervin told a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in North Carolina Home Buyer Is Hit By Tight Money Continued on Page 1 Says Group Not Out To Get Nixon GASTONIA UPD Sen Sam Ervin denied Thursday that his Watergate Committee was out to get the President He ac Nixon of obstructing his investigation by refusing to release certain tapes I deeply regret that the President entertains the idea the committee wants to get Ervin said The com only wants to get the truth I deeply hope that the truth will prove the President innocent Ervin called Nixons refusal to provide Watergate investigators with tapes of his Watergate conversations on fortunate and urged Nixon to release the tapes to bring the summerlong hearings to a close By United Press International A home buyer who postponed purchasing a single family home from June to August will pay for the decision the chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board estimates Harris C Fried man asked about rising mortgage rates said Thursday the delay may have hit the potential home buyer worse by forcing him completely out of the market because of the tight mortgage money supply Despite increases in state usury ceilings in recent months and higher interest charges in states without Fried man Said money available for mortgages declined by more than billion in July and August That outflow of savings funds had the potential of eliminating financing for homes Federal and state agencies have raised usury ceilings to attract larger shares of the shrinking mortgage funds New York and New Jersey raised mortgage ceilings to per cent in recent weeks and the Federal Housing Ad ministration and Veterans Ad ministration increased their maximums to 73A per cent I dont think its going to do any Friedman said in an interview citing many Nixons call to end the hearings made in his televised speech to the nation Wed night was quickly rejected by Ervin He more than any other human being can speed completion of that work by releasing the tapes of recor dings of conversations with former White House Counsel John W Dean III Dean in testimony before the committee at the outset of its 37 days of hearings said he thought Nixon was aware of a coverup of Watergate activities as early as Sept 15 1972 less than three months after the on 7CoL 2 Continued en Page J US Thailand Will Open Talks On Troop Pullout BANGKOK UPI Thailand and the United States announced tonight they will start talks immediately aimed at a partial withdrawal of warplanes and troops from the country The announcement following a meeting this afternoon between Ambassador Leonard Unger and Thai leaders came two days after the total halt of all American bombing missions in Indochina The two govern ments issued a joint statement they said they agreed that initial reductions of forces in Thailand could take place in the near future but at the same time the withdrawal would be gradual and related to the security requirements of Southeast The United States now has close to troops in Thailand as well as mately 500 warplanes the largest concentration of American air power outside the United States The planes are stationed at seven bases in the country sources here said that meetings to discuss the details of the first withdrawal of American forces since the stepped up Indochina air campaign brought addition al planes and men to Thailand in the spring and summer of 1972 would start next week The United States govern ment today indicated that it shares the view of his government that ini tial reductions of United States forces in Thailand can take place in the near the join t statemen t said Starting Aug 20 DIXIE Will Be Opened II to 11 7 Days A Week With this in mind the two governments announce their agreement to proceed with of discussions with a view toward reducing the level of United States forces in Thai continued The two governments however reaffirm their inten tion that these reductions shall be gradual and related to the security requirements of Southeast Asia The represen of the two governments will immediately begin their discussions on plans for reduc RENT A TOOL Unlimited 2731112 94O Cornwall Road BACK TO SCHOOL FASHIONS VISIT TILLtE SPANGLER Third and Cumberland Tonight to 9 Saturday to B Warren R Daugherty Jr John W Schreiber For Of And OFFICES 307 HATHAWAY 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