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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1973
Page
1
Under President Nixon Phase 4 regulations allow small and medium firms to raise prices for cost increases since late 1972 while large companies must give 30 days notice. Exemptions cover firms with 60 or fewer employees, the lumber and public service sectors. Gas and petroleum stay frozen until August 19 and beef until September 12.
Washington AP outlines Phase 4 of the inflation control program as the latest move in reshaping the economy. The plan aims to allow gradual price increases tied to cost, not profits, with uncertain end dates and mixed signals from Shultz on Phase 5. Food costs remain a concern as pork and eggs rise and bread prices may follow.
US move to slow reduction of air power in Southeast Asia after midnight halt to bombing. About 660 planes and 45,000 servicemen to be reduced over months, with B52s remaining in Thailand and Guam while others return home or redeploy. Bases at Sattahip and Nakhon Phnom may stay, as White House blocks faster pullback to preserve leverage for Cambodia cease-fire talks.
U S District Judge Morell Sharp in Seattle was to decide today on Western States Meat Packers Association suit seeking removal of beef price ceilings. Beef shortages worsen as Phase 4 lifts other food ceilings, with military bases rationing and suppliers losing money, urging immediate hike.
National Weather Service report notes a river stage of 3 ft rising, light precipitation. Forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms tonight with partly cloudy conditions Tuesday, lows in mid 60s, highs in low 80s. Indiana and Illinois regions show variable cloudiness, 50 percent rain chance tonight, 20 percent today in Illinois, 50 percent tonight. Dirt dust count 48, sunrise 6:00 am, sunset around 6:48 pm.
Special prosecutor Archibald Cox argues Nixon has an enforceable legal duty to provide material evidence to a grand jury. He contends the court may compel the President and that executive privilege is not a blanket shield against subpoenas. The brief asserts the grand jury seeks evidence Nixon consciously possesses, outweighing secrecy concerns about presidential deliberations. Continued on Page 2.
The phrase Potter's Field stems from Matthew 27 7 describing a field bought by potters for foreigners buried in Jerusalem. The setting links clay and burial space, explaining the origin of the term used for unknown or poor graves.
More than 5,000 black lung benefit applications have been received from Vigo and surrounding counties, with a monthly rate over 100. The Terre Haute Social Security office processes claims from Vigo Sullivan Clay Parke Vermillion and Clark counties, aided by local officials and hospitals. A Chicago lawsuit by coal companies seeks to alter 1972 provisions. UMW denounces it as a tax payer burden and harm to disabled miners and widows. Continued on Page 2, Col. 4.
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