Connally schedules meeting with top grocers
Treasury Secretary John Connally will convene a Wednesday meeting with executives from 12 major food chains including Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Safeway, Kroger, Acme, National Tea Co., Jewel, Lucky Stores, Grand Union, Allied Supermarkets, Supermarkets General, First National Store, and Stop and Shop to discuss rising meal prices. Officials say the move aims to persuade stores to curb price increases and may extend controls to raw agricultural products if needed.
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Nixon
Connally
Senate Panel Approves Social Security Increase Plan
The Senate Finance Committee unanimously backed a minimum Social Security benefit of 200 dollars per month for individuals and 300 dollars for couples after 30 years of taxed work. The measure, costing about 110 million yearly at start and 1.4 to 1.6 billion long term, would cover roughly 340,000 retirees now and more in the future, with gradual minimums for those under 30 years of coverage. The committee did not vote on financing taxes, pending whether existing system funding suffices for larger benefits without new taxes. The House had approved 150/225 monthly minimums and a 4 percent general increase for all recipients.
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Russell B. Long
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Advisory Council On Social Security
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means
Mills
Nixon busing plan labeled a charade
The Nixon administration faces House scrutiny as Democrats call the busing bills a political charade. An Education Department spokesman defends the plan as a needed step while opposing a court ordered desegregation moratorium. Critics warn the measures would brutalize disadvantaged children and retreat to separate but equal schooling.
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UPL
Nixon
Elliot R. Richardson
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
House Education and Labor Committee
Health group sues to require warning on meat labels
The American Public Health Association filed suit in U.S. District Court demanding removal of the U S Inspected for Wholesomeness seal from fresh meat and the addition of warnings about possible disease germs. It cites a New England Journal of Medicine finding of Salmonella in over half of government inspected poultry and links food poisoning to millions yearly.
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the Health Association
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Rising food costs widen middleman profits in February
Washington reports the market basket for a year of groceries rose 2.5 percent in February while farmers’ share edged up 0.9. The total would cost 1,297 dollars, with farm value at 516 dollars and middlemen taking 781 dollars. Retail beef prices hit a record near 1.16 dollars per pound. farm value beef at 0.75 dollars per pound. The beef price spread between feedlots and stores rose to 40.8 cents.
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Agriculture Department
Economic Research Service
Labor Department
Nixon
Mail order refund rule urged by White House adviser
Washington VA Knauer, the White House consumer adviser, urged a proposed FTC rule to require all refunds on mail order purchases if merchandise is not shipped within 21 days. She cited 1100 complaints in seven months of 1972 and noted ads should state that if delivery exceeds 21 days or the stated time, all money must be refunded. Rep. Rosenthal cited unfair practices by unscrupulous mail order firms hiding behind box numbers and fake names, delivering inferior or no merchandise and often leaving town.
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D-Nly
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