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TV 1 10 JLJUJLJ 1 II IN VllNlNilll JL SINGLE COPY 13c Home Delivered 6 Days 75c WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1973 133RDYEARNO. 121 FINAL EDITION Bil recasts Year's ID PIT PTWW TTT Ann T7WOII 1 -LLJ A. i vy 20 concerned, it's minus zero," said Frank Gose, meat department manager for an A and lnKnox-ville. Tenn. "We didn't get a piece today." Consumers were taking various steps to combat the rising prices and meat shortage.

A group called Fight Inflation Together (FIT) urged a "Don't Buy Anything Day" in Ls Angeles and officials in New England reported there was an upsurge of cattle rustling. bare where once they were filled with beef. Eill Tait of the Market basket supermarkets in Los Angeles said his beef supplies were down to a quarter of last year's level; a meat dealer in Memphis, predicted the city's markets would be out of beef by next week, and the commissary at the submarine base in Groton, already had run "As far as the beef situation is and won't resume slaughtering until the ceiling prices are taken off," said Joe Boyd Neuhoff, executive vice president of a meat processing company in Dallas. The Agriculture Department of Iowa, the nation's second highest beef producing state, said there were 43,000 fewer cattle sold for slaughter last week over the previous week. More and more supermarket shelves across the country were Columbus, Ohio, went up to 63 cents overnight.

The price of meat was expected to go up too when the price freeze on that item is lifted September 12. Beef producers were not sending their product to market because they claimed they could make no money under the freeze and wholesalers and retailers alike said the situation would probably continue for another month. "We're not buying any cattle 21 In 1947. The experts said meat price': in the second half of the year would be well above the first six months. Consumers already have felt the food price increase since Phase IV was introduced July 18 with the biggest jumps in poultry, eggs and meat.

An uncut chicken cost 19 cents more a pound Tuesday from Saturday in Pittsburgh. Milk, which had dropped to 50 cents a Vt gallon during a weekend sale in By UP International Shoppers were told by the government Tuesday that they faced the biggest food price jump in 26 years and by their grocer that they faced the possibility or little or no beef for a month. Agriculture Department experts in Washington predicted grocery prices this year will average about 20 above 1972 which would be the biggest increase since they jumped Arena Sports eerms Certain On Riverfront A much-talked about Indoor sports arena to be located on Cincinnati's riverfront will apparently become a reality. At a press conference called by the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of merchants enthusi- On Page 13: Downtown astic AP Wirephoto Children Wait For Treatment commerce Tuesday, local city and financial officials announced financing plans for the $18.5 million facility. The bulk of the money, about $10 million, will come from the purchase of state industrial revenue bonds by local banks, and savings and loan associations.

Oliver W. Birckhead, president of the Central Trust Co. and co-or-dinator of the local financing efforts, said the banks will purchase about $6.5 million of the bonds and bombing accident of the Indochina war. On Tuesday, a U. S.

Fill struck a friendly village in another error near the Cambodian naval base. The second bombing mistake In 2' hours killed four persons wounded 25 in a village on a Mekong River Island six miles from Neak Luong. See story on Page 2. that the savings associations will purchase the rest. The local banks Involved Include First National, provident, southern Ohio, Fifth Third, Central Trust and Peoples Liberty of Covlngtcn, Ky.

Birckhead added that other banks have indicated an interest In the venture, including the North-side Bank. He added that another $4 million will be put up by Cincinnati Sports' owner of the World Hockey Association franchise here, part to be a loan from the yet-to-be named concessionaire. Also, city, state and federal funds amounting to $4 million will be used for site improvement. The last $1 million will be raised through the leasing of 42 private boxes to be constructed in the arena. Birckhead said preliminary agreements for the leasing of 32 of the boxes have already been reached.

William DeWitt executive vice president of Cincinnati Sports said the financing plan makes the arena "almost a reality." He said the hockey team will sign a long-term lease for the facility, and that the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association, 40 of which Is also owned by Cincinnati Sports, will make arrangements to play a number of home games In the arena. Although none of the local officials wanted to set a completion date fcr the facility, DeWitt said he hoped construction of the arena could begin in 90 days. Cincinnati Mayor Theodore M. Berry called the announcement a "very significant development." "It Is welcome news to the city and the entire community," he said. CAMBODIAN CHILDREN wounded by an accidental B52 strike Monday near Neak Luong wait for medical treatment Tuesday at a hospital in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

The U. S. Embassy said B52 bombs Monday killed 137 persons and wounded 118. Fifty-six of the 137 killed were said to be government soldiers. The error was the worst Phase IV Price Hikes To Be 10 WASHINGTON (UPI) The administration unveiled its final Phase IV regulations for most of the economy Tuesday.

They will permit firms to increase some prices 10 or more starting as early as Monday. Director John T. Dunlop of the Cost of Living Council said companies will be allowed to raise their prices overall only to the extent of their increased costs. But he said prices of individual items can be raised up to 10, plus additional costs, as long as the overall limit is not excecdefi. Dunlop conceded there would be a "price bulge" as soon as the new Phase IV regulations go into effect Monday, but he declined to speculate on how big the bulge would be or how long it would last.

Sen. William Proxmire, vice chairman of Congress' joint economic committee, predicted earlier in the day that the administration's economic policies would not stop inflation but lead to a recession, with higher unemployment. PROXMIRE SAID the Phase IV controls would help "very little" because they permit a full pass-through of recent sharp increases in wholesale prices that have not yet reached the consumer level. "The nation should prepare for a continued sharp inflation for the next year followed by a rerun of a 1970-type recession with the impossible economic combination of inflation and unemployment increasing simultaneously," Proxmire said in a statement based on hearings by the joint committee last week. "Government policies will do little to abate the inflation but plenty to bring on the recession." The new regulations announced Tuesday cover all sectors of the economy except food, petroleum, insurance, construction and health.

These have been or will be covered by special regulations. Dunlop told a news conference that iirms with sales of $100 million or more a year will be required to give the council 30 days' notice before raising prices above their base levels. Base prices are those that prevailed in the final quarter of 1972 or that had been adjusted legally during the current price freeze, whichever is higher. Firms with sales of $50 million to $100 million a year need not' pre-notify, but must file quarterly reports with the council. Companies with sales of less than $50 million are not required to pre-notify cr file reports with the council, but are subject to spot checks.

Dunlop said that in large measure, the Phase IV price controls are similar to those of Phase II that lasted from November of 1971 until last January. Nixon Tapes Exempt, Say Lawyers He gave no hint or now iung the delay might be. THE NEXT MOVE probably will be Ccx's. Judge John J. Sirica gave the special prosecutor until next Monday, August 13, to reply to Mr.

Nixon's response. Sirica then told Buzhardt the White House could have until the following Friday, August 17, for any additional written response it wishes to make. Sirica scheduled oral argument for 10 a. Wednesday, August 22. Cox had subpoenaed nine con-v a i from among those which were tape recorded by hidden microphones and telephone pickups at the White House, in the Executive Office Building and at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md.

The Watergate committee subpoenas also demanded tape recordings along with related documents and other papers and memoranda in Mr. Nixon's custody. subpoenas for tape recordings and other Watergate-related White Houre material. Its planned lawsuit was aimed at having the subpoenas enforced. Sources, inside the committee said the panel's lawyers are concerned that the federal courts will refuse to accept jurisdiction in the suit.

If that happened, the committee would have to seek either special legislation that could be tested in the courts or initiate contempt proceedings against Mr. Nixon. "The committee met in executive session this morning and decided to postpone filing a suit until counsel for the committee have an opportunity to ascertain and study the reaction of the White House attorneys to the motion of the special prosecutor," committee chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr. said in announcing the decision.

Tuesday because committee lawyers wanted to examine the White House response to Cox. The brief supported Mr. Nixon's previous refusal to honor the Cox subpoena for the tapes of private presidential conversations and said if Mr. Nixon were compelled to produce the material, "from that moment it would be simply impossible for any President of the United states to function." "A President would be helpless if he and his advisers could not talk freely, if they were required always to guard their words against the possibility that next month or next year those words might be made public," the brief said. 'The issue in this case is nothing less than the continued existence of the presidency as a functioning institution." The Senate Watergate committee had served Mr.

Nixon with two WASHINGTON (AP) Lawyers for President Nixon told a federal judge Tuesday that the courts have no authority to force Mr. Nixon to turn over White House tape recordings. Watergate investigators consider the tapes key evidence in determining who knew what about the Watergate affair. In a 34-page brief filed in U.S. District Court, the lawyers said that any attempt by the courts to enforce a subpoena for the tapes from special Watergate prosecutor Arcnibald Cox "would be an un-supportable violation of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers." i Meanwhile, Samuel Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate committee, said the committee is ready to file its lawsuit seeking access lo Watergate-related White House evidence.

Dash said the filing of the suit was postponed Frank E. Smith, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, expressed happiness that the i 's financial community "rallied to the support of the coliseum project." He added that the chamber will immediately resume the leasing of the boxes, which was started May 12 but curtailed until a financing agreement could be worked out. The boxes, which will contain 12 upholstered seats, a bar, toilet, closet and closed circuit television, will lease for $13,600 a year for 10 years. The leasees will also be required to pay the $18,000 initial construction costs. Irate Witness Closes Watergate Hearings WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Watergate committee went on summer vacation Tuesday, in the.

10th week of Its hearings, without quite completing the first phase of "That's what I thought," Talmadge said. "You indicated it was the Senate." "The President didn't want to do it," Petersen responded. "I didn't want to, but I finally recognized it was had been a senator he might have taken the same position. "Who made the decision to appoint a special prosecutor?" he was asked by Sen- Herman E. Talmadge "I think it was the President." His 4n Hers These are modern times, and men and women define roles differently today.

Neither are all one thing or all another. But one thing we can agree on is men and women are people, and Enquirer Classified is the great sell-ing medium for people. Try It now. Call 421-6300 and place an ad. Agnew 'Kickbacks' Probe 3-Pronged The Weather Partlv cloudy today through Thursday.

High both days near 90, low tonight near 70. Air Pollution Index is 144 (poor, worse than Clean Air Standards). Details, Map on Page 23 its inquiry into the Democratic headquarters break-in and the subsequent cover-up. The hearings will reopen "subject to call of the chairman," sometime after Labor Day four weeks hence. Assistant Attorney General Henry E.

Petersen was the final witness. Petersen angrily told the committee he resents appointment of a special Watergate prosecutor and the Senate's championing of that position at a time when the case was nearly solved. "Damn, I think it's a reflection on me and the Department for Justice," Petersen said in a near shout. PETERSEN, the man in over-all charge of the Watergate investigation from the start, strongly defended his prosecutors for their work and he was critical over appointment of the special prosecutor. "We would have broken that case wide open and we would have done it in the most difficult of circumstances that case was snatched out from under us when we had it 90 complete," he said.

The explosion came as Petersen, the last witness before the committee goes into recess until next month with the rest of Congress, was defending the lack of indictments a few months ago when the Justice Department had a great deal of information about the Watergate break-in and cover up. "Forgive my emotions," Petersen said. after his outburst. "I've been there too long and this has been a terrible year." THE BLUNT-SPEAKING Petersen, testifying rapidly and in a gravelly voice said, "I resent the employment of a special prosecutor" but came to the conclusion later that it was necessary "because of the temper and the attitude of the Senate." He said If he Con-Dominion Prison Inmate Sues In Effort To Keep His Luxuries FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) Arizona State Prison officials have ended what they called "the country club atmosphere," and one prisoner does not like the change.

William D. Brown, serving two to five years for running a confidence game, has filed a court petition seeking the return of items confiscated from his cell. The items were taken during June when the Arizona Department, of Public Safety conducted a shakedown of the prison after the slaying of two guards. Gone are Brown's artificial daisies and rose buds, nine foam-filled throw pillows, three lamps, 11 frames, wall decorations, framed mirror and eight cork panels. Also his cabinets and shelving, three 25-foot extension cords, three porcelain light fixtures, a night lamp, paint, two full sheets of plywood, glue and masking tape.

Living is less comfortable since guards took his five ve-lour towels, four sheets, five pair of shoes, a pair of plastic shower shoes, a pair of knot slippers and his entire collection of plastic food containers. Also taken were his 50 items of food including instant coffee and tea, peanut butter, Vienna sausage, potato chips, four cans of meat and candy bars. Brown wants the items returned to his cell and' the Arizona Supreme Court has set a September 18 hearing on the matter. John Moran, head of the state Department of Corrections, says his policies do not include allowing prisoners to keep such items as Brown had accumulated. But officials say if Brown is successful in obtaining return of the items, they doubt the court will order the return of his hammer, saw and chisel.

General Elliot L. Richardson decided to keep the Investigation inside the Justice Department and not turn over the case to special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. THE FUND-RAISING aspect arose when J. Walter Jones of Annapolis, a banker and real estate' developer, admitted in a statement that he "was one of many, including the vice president, under investigation for alleged violations in connection with past fund-raising efforts. Meanwhile, the federal prosecutors subpoenaed the records of the Maryland Department of Transportation for contracts awarded while Agnew was governor.

The prosecutors requested records covering the years from 1967 into at least 1971 so as to include projects which were not completed until after he left office. At least one close friend and former Agnew aide, Jerome B. Wolff, 55, a Baltimore County contractor, has given federal prosecutors details of alleged payments to Agnew amounting to $1000 a week, Knight newspapers learned. Knight Newspapers WASHINGTON Federal prosecutors in Maryland, with help from at least one close friend and former aide of Vice President Agnew, are following three strands of an investigation into allegations of bribery and kickbacks said to have been paid by contractors to Agnew, One strand involves allegations that about $1000 a week was funneled to Agnew from contractors when he was Baltimore County executive (1962-66) and governor of Maryland (1967-69). The payments possibly continued after he became vice president.

Prosecutors also have information that a sum of $50,000 In cash was paid by a contractor, in 1970 or 1971, foi; past and possible future favors. And investigators are looking into information that leading campaign fundraisers for Agnew sought contributions from contractors in exchange for state and federal contracts. Some of the contributions, according to one source, may have been put to personal, rather than political use, by Agnew. At the same time, Attorney Page Graham 7 Horoscope 7 Horse Sense ...7 Jumble 7 Races 29-30 Society Sports 25-30 TV-Radio 1 8 Van Dellen ..16 Viewpoint ....16 Weikel 13 Women's 15-18 Word Game .18 Page Action Line 7 Bridge 30 Brumfield 5 Business Columnists 5 Classified 30-50 Comics 22F Crossword 7 Dear Abby 15 Deaths 30 Editorials 4 Entertainment 10-12 Features 7 Food Pages 1-22F Local And Area News 13, and 14.