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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1973
Page
1
President Nixon announced a price ceiling on beef pork and lamb to freeze meat costs at current levels. He linked the move to public pressure from housewives and boycotts and signaled broader economic measures to curb inflation while warning Hanoi and appealing for public support in the budget fight.
President Nixon announced a ceiling on wholesale and retail meat prices to hold down costs, excluding payments to farmers. Local responses varied as a meat market owner a housewife and a farmer weighed the impact amid months of rising prices and changing buying habits.
The meat price ceiling limits charges to levels based on the past 30 days sales, excluding poultry and seafood. By April 9, price information must be posted at meat counters and IRS agents will police compliance. Imported meat cost increases may pass through, unlike domestically produced meat. Nixon urges Congress to authorize tariff suspensions on scarce imports.
In New Orleans Lynne Morvant owner of Jerusalem Gardens promotes meatless meals and a 50 cent special while denouncing meat as harmful. In Topeka Senator Bennett reports Republican leaders and Gov Docking differ on major legislation but have identified only a few disputed areas.
H. Rap Brown and three codefendants are convicted of holding up a West Side Manhattan bar and assaulting a policeman. The jury found the robbers did not murder police, and the gag order on other charges was deemed hopelessly deadlocked. Brown’s attorney denounced the verdict as a miscarriage of justice. the prosecutor called it a fair and honest verdict.
Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally told reporters in Lawrence Kansas that a switch from Democrats to Republicans is not imminent. He spoke to about 1200 at the University of Kansas and said he has not yet decided and wants to consult many people.
Communist forces shelled four outposts around Hue while pressing a siege on a ranger base 50 miles north of Saigon. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong reportedly fired over 1300 artillery shells at Tongle Chan base and conducted a ground assault. one government soldier was killed and 25 wounded.
District forester Jerry Bratton launches a city contest to find Kansas native trees of largest size by circumference at 54 inches. Entries via the forester’s office, 431-1530, within one week. State records held by Neosho County trees include elm, pecan, catalpa, and Osage orange near St Paul. Arbor Day origins traced to J Sterling Morton and Nebraska law.
Several small towns in the area will elect officials by write-in votes as no candidates filed. In Neosho County Earlton Stark and Galesburg. in Wilson County Buffalo and Benedict. Allen County hosts three Board of Trustees seats for Allen County Community Junior College with six candidates listed. Humboldt voters choose a mayor and eight councilmen with multiple ward contests.
Returned prisoners of war from Indochina began describing torture, degradation, and endurance they endured during Communist captivity. As the final 587 POWs were released, they spoke at news conferences and interviews about beatings and brutal diets endured in captivity.
Baltimore Sun reports James W. McCord Jr. told Senate investigators that H. R. Haldeman was aware of the plan to wiretap the Democratic National Headquarters. Haldeman was described as not active in planning but informed, according to congressional sources familiar with McCord’s testimony before the Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in.
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