Arizona Republic, The (Newspaper) - January 10, 1973, Phoenix, Texas Phoenix weather Clearing becoming mostly Fair and cooler High low Yesterdays high low Humidity high low De Page 239 Todays chuckle The wife f and where she got capes her Is why Seven 98 Pages Associated Press Stubborn heifer Peter of has a tough time try ing to pull his Holstein heifer into its stall after exhibition in the dairy competition at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg yester Despite all of Peters efforts in raising and showing the the heifer won no ex jumps n t a record United Press International WASHINGTON Wholesale prices of food and other farm products rose sharply in December for the largest monthly increase in a quarter the government said But the White House again ruled out slapping price on raw agricultural prod presidential press secretary Ronald Zlegler said the administra tion was considering attacking the prob lem of rising food prices by increasing acreage allotments on thus in creasing food The problem at that level raw farm products is one of Ziegler said after the Labor Department reported that the wholesale price index WPI went up per cent in December be cause of a per cent rise in farm product prices and per cent jump in the price processed foods and Processed foods are under price con but raw agricultural products are The Agriculture mean revised an earlier forecast and predicted yesterday that supermarket food prices in the first half of the year would rise as rapidly as last Previous predictions had food inflation decreasing in The departments Bureau of Labor Statistics blamed the food prices on bad weather last fall and on grain shortages stemming from grain sales to the Soviet Union and other coun It said bad weather delayed har vesting of many crops and marketing of The WPI increase in December was the largest monthly jump since January of 1951 during the height of the Korean and the per cent hike in farm product prices was the biggest advance since March of The per cent increase for processed foods and feeds was the largest since July of The Bureau of Labor Statistics said farm prices went up per cent in 1972 while prices of processed foods and feeds increased per Both were the biggest jumps since These far exceeded the administrations inflation rate target of 2 to 3 per cent a year for consumer The higher wholesale food prices were expected to show up in substantially higher food bills for consumers in the coming A Treasury Department spokesman said Secretary George Nixons chief economic policy was ex tremely distressed by the wholesale price which dealt a severe blow to the administrations fight against in Helped by the three month price consumer prices went up only per cent in 1971 and up about the same through the first 11 months of The December report on consumer prices has not been But wholesale after rising only 4 per cent in shot up per cent in the Bureau or more than twice the Presidents inflation target for retail Wholesale prices have risen faster un der the Presidents price control pro gram than before the freeze in The WPI has risen at an annual rale of per cent under Phase II and at a rate of per cent in the last six com pared with a per cent rate in 1971 prior to the 15 Continued on Page A5 Much of nation suffering from bitter cold Associated Press There was snow in Nevada and ice in Georgia New Yorkers and California citrus growers worried about wide sections of the nation reported cold weather and resulting power Atlanta was hit by its worst ice storm in Around customers were without electric service and a spokesman for the Georgia Power said it could take the rest of the week to restore power completely because some distribution systems are going to have to be The storm was blamed for the deaths of two women elderly sisters who perished in a fire started by a broken power The area around Norfolk and Virginia Beach in Virginia dug out from an inch snowfall heaviest since 1958 while Oklahoma and New Mexi co faced new Snow spread as far south as Las Ve gas and more than five inches piled up in Reno as a major system moved across Snow and ice plastered New Mexico and clogging roads and forcing some schools to In Joel Parrish state adjutant said genera tors and blankets have been supplied to nursing hospitals and similar in where power The Weather Service said slightly warmer temperatures yesterday after noon and today in Atlanta would produce some but one forecaster added that there is chance precipita 1 tion might move into tonight amid Citrus growers in southern and central California used heaters keep or chards warm as temperatures dropped below The new cold came as the agricultural commissioner in Kern County reported that recent freezing caused damage to the coun tys crop of navel New Yorkers faced the coldest weath er so far this winter tem yesterday The city reported receiving complaints about lack of heat Monday and another between midnight and a Mon due to inoperative Consolidated Ed ison The company were back in service but office building operators were asked to keep thermostats at 65 degrees to conserve Overnight temperatures in Texas were near zero ip the Panhandle and the northwest third of the state was covered with ice and Furnaces in 31 campus buildings at the University of Texas closed for the holidays until 15 were shut down because of a gas and Austin Continued on Page A5 Hanoi takes new steps raid renewal Associated Press Snipers gun is traced to earlier killing Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Police Superintend ent Clarence Giarrusso said ballistics tests proved the weapon found beside a dead sniper atop a hotel was the same magnum used to kill a young police cadet and wound another policeman on New Years Giarrusso also identified the killed by riflemen aboard a helicopter Sunday as Mark of said to have been living in the New Orleans area about six In a news conference shortly before a funeral for one of the six victims of the sniper Giarrusso said there was evi dence that Essex might have been act ing but there also was evidence he may have been one of a Citing ballistics Giarrusso said magnum was the weapon which cut down cadet Alfred as he stepped in front of police headquarters 10 days ago and wounded Patrolman Ed win Hosli 18 minutes later a few blocks That same weapon also was used Sun day in the downtown Howard Johnson Hotel by a gunman who killed Rob ert a guest at the and Assistant Police Superintendent Louis Police stormed the hotel rooftop Mon then searched the entire but could find no trace of any gunman other than Other info we have is Giarrusso He said there was some evidence of a conspiracy of other but added it is a conspiracy of three or four a small number to kill Giarrusso said police had reason to Continued on Page A9 Legislators want to cut school levies o corporate tax hikes suggested By DON BOLLES A 1 per cent state sales tax increase and boosts in corporate income taxes loom as the most likely method of re ducing school property it was predicted Tony chairman of the Arizona House Ways and Means said this may be the direction of the latest educational financing reform He commented shortly after eight of the 10 lop measures of the 1973 House GOP leadership program were intro op the second day of the Among them was the assigned first House number of It as a all stale taxes presently levied and lines out the cur rent rates without substituting any new Buehl said the Supreme Court probably wont decide until April wheth er or not states may use the property tax to finance It would be he to fashion a plan including some property taxes if the high court says This is just a vehicle to use to raise money for the additional aid to school Buehl All the taxes are in there so we can see which are available for The state sales tax is now 3 per and most major cities also add on er 1 per A boost of 1 per cent would place much of Arizona at the same 5 per cent level neighboring Corporation tax rates now run from 2 to 8 per cent of net An increase in the sales tax is the one thing that can generate tremendous amounts of Buehl This is a possible field to And he said a corporate income tax boost is more obvious as a If the sales tax is increased 1 per Buehl a companion prob ably would be passed to take the sales tax off food One to grant each family a per person annual Continued on Page All RHODESIA CLOSES sia closes its border with Zambia to halt black liberation but wont cut Zambia copper Page TAX Supreme Court gives the government power to seize private records of taxpayers if they have been turned over to an account Page COMMITTEE Senate Re publicans approve major reforms to eliminate seniority as sole criterion for selecting committee chairmen a House Democratic committee recommends similar reform for Page A10 Prescott faces daily fine for not posting guards at airport by JOHN FUHRMAN PRESCOTT The Prescott City Council was notified by a legal repre of the Federal Aviation Agen cy yesterday that the city fages a daily retroactive to for fail ure to provide armed security guards at its meet the requirement according to are and Prescott City Attorney George who contacted Fischer later in Los An said Astrology Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Dean Dear Abby Editorials E 23 B 5 C 523 E 23 B 7 B 1 F 6 A 6 A News Movies Obituaries Opinion Radio Log Sports TV Log Weather E 124 B 46 68 A 7 B 6 C 16 B 7 A 13 F Taylor Hicks who tonight ends his term as said he was notified of the fines in a phone conversa tion with Anthony Fischer of Los An Prescott was one of only four cit ies who have not agreed to the new federal aviation regulation that requires communities to supply armed guards at the nations 531 municipally an FAA The program is designed to reduce plane hijacking in the United The other cities which have failed to Fischer further pointed out that the fine would be increased to per day after providing the FAA had not received detailed reports on the se curity force which we would establish at the Prescott The size of the fine was accord ing to on the number of com plane landings daily at the air Prescott is currently served by only one Hughes flying with a total of four landings Continued on Page SAIGON North Vietnam has or new military and economic meas to renewed bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong because it says the resumed Paris peace talks are unlikely to produce The official North Vietnamese Com munist Party newspaper Nhan Dan re ported there has not been any sign showing that the negotiations will reach any On the said an editorial broadcast very bad signs on the part of the United States have been repeated again and Premier Pham Van Dong ordered a state of emergency last This was followed by a new set of directives yesterday to increase North Vietnams defensive capability in the event of re bombing north of the 20th Paral which marks the cutoff line for the air raid curtailment ordered by dent Nixon to foster agreement in the Paris The premiers directives indicated North Vietnam expected new fighting through the Tet lunar New Year the most sacred and important of Viet According to a Radio Hanoi Dong said This Tet will still be the Tet of resistance against the United States for national In conformity with the above the Tet celebrations will have to be well organized 10 encourage everyone with the revolutionary spirit to push up prod uction combat readiness and good combat The premier banned Tet holiday dis plays and cut the number of days off for civil servants and other workers from three days to Other propaganda broadcasts from Hanoi continued to accuse the United States of conducting air operations above the Sources in Sai gon disclosed that patrols by fighter bombers and reconnaissance planes in deed are boing flown north of that Attacks on preselected targets north of the parallel have not been the sources But it was learned that Nixon has permitted fighter escorts to attack MIG interceptors or surface missile sites above the 20th Paral lel when they threaten operating near the The report appeared substantiated when the in a delayed announced that an Air Force Phantom fighter on a combat patrol shot down a interceptor with an air missile along the 20th Parallel The command said only that the So viet built fighter was shot down north west of Thanh Hoa when it threat ened a flight of Thanh Hoa lies just 10 miles below the 20th The command declined to pinpoint the air battle and this was in as indirect acknowledgement the dogfight extended above the American sources outside the com mand indicated a similar incident oc curred last Thursday when patrols Continued on Page A4 750 layoffs likely by today J V J in cutback Todays prayer Eternal teach us to approach Thee always with obedient Help us to believe that Thy love and grace are greater than our By BRUCE JOHNSTON Layoffs totaling employes by today and possibly a total of by Friday were announced yesterday by key indus tries as the result of industrial natural gas curtailment by Arizona Public Serv ice A spot check of industry in the Valley and elsewhere in the slate indicated that the immediate effects of the curtail effective at 7 were severe cutbacks in production schedules and a turning down of plant healing With all layoffs contingent on contin ued industrial APS said the reduced use of natural gas would contin ue at least until 7 How the prime gas supplier for Kl Paso Natural Gas said the cutback would last in varying degrees for the foreseeable Arizona industrialists pointed out that layoffs would continue to in crease in direct relationship to the length of the APS spokesmen that the curtailment works in this manner It recommends to industry the amount of the cutback if industry does not heed the the latter firm must answer to the Arizona Corporation Unlike which also has announced curtailment to IK construction Tucson Gas in Tucson said no such construction ban is contem plated in that a spokesman said curtailment to oilier industrial users has been under way since the latter half of October as an inherent feature of new rates approved by the corporation com mission as of June The spokes man added that he knew of no perma nent layoffs caused by the Continued on Page All I I
