Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 151, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1973 Page: 1 of 12
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By GENE CARLSON
WASHINGTON <U P I) -
Wholesale prices of farm
products and most foods went
down in April alter five months
of sharp increases, but these
declines were more than offset
by the biggest jump in
industrial commodity prices in
22 years, the government said
today.
The Labor Department's Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics said
that despite a 0.7 per cent drop
in the price index for farm
products, processed foods and
Joint choir
Lavallaad Junior High Building Trades class has been
constructing two fences on Darrell Street this week. Students
include: Wayne Baldridge, Walter Bridges. Jimmy Bliss,
Freddie Collins. David Toney, Butch Crittington, Bernard
Gilmore, Bill Flowers, Alonso Mendeza, Jodie Garrett, Lorenzo
Childers, CM is Mitchell and Kent Jordon. Instructor is Dick
Bailey.Soferaiisyearthegrouphasbuiltfivefences, completed rnnrorl thrill ko
five concrete jobsanda number of workshop projects. Bailey said twllvcri Will Uc
about thirty boys were in the program. This is the sixth year for
the program at Junior High. (Staff Photo) h©ld Ot SPC
A joint Spring Concert
Program ofChoral Music will be
presented by the South Plains
College Choir and “The Baker’s
Dozen" in the SPC Auditorium on
Tuesday night. May S, beginning
at 8:00 p.m.
of the highlights of the
beaJ
feeds, wholesale prices for height of the Korean War in
consumer finished foods went 1931.
up 1.4 per cent in April after Wholesale prices frequently
adjustment for seasonal foe- are a harbinger of trends at the
tors. retail level.
The lower overall wholesale While many food items were
food prices were led by a 2.9 going down, prices for fresh
per cent decline for processed aad dried fruits and vegetables
meat President Nixon placed increased II per cent and live
ceilings on meat prices in poultry prices went up 12.7 per
March. cent. Cereal and bakery pro-
The BLS said industrial duct prices increased 2 per cent
commodity prices increased 1.4 while sugar and confectionery
per cent in AprR, the largest priceswentup I percent,
monthly advance since a 2.1 But livestock prices declined
per cent jump in January. 1951. 5.3 per cent, egg prices went
Industrial commodity prices down 5 per cent, and prices for
are considered a better barom- meat, poultry and fish went
eter or inflation than the more down 1.2 per cent, with meats
volatile food prices. leading the way with a 2.9 per
The overaH wholesale price cent decline,
index increased 0.1 per cent in The sharp increase in inuus-
April, down sharply from toe (rial commodity prices was led
2.2 per cent increase in March.
1.9 per cent in February. 1.3
per cent in January and 1J per
cent in December.
The report came a day after
President Nixon, predicting Soil tempera hi res for the
"price increases will probably eastern part of Hockley County
be higher than we would like has a 10 day minimum average of
for some months," ordered a 157 degrees, maximum
closer watch on price boosts by Wednesday 63 degrees, minium
, today 57 degrees, '
by higher foel prices, especisliy
for the gasoline that is expected
to be in short supply this
summer. Prices for biHmiuous
coal, electric power, etude
petroleum, natural gas and
residual fuels also went up.
Among other price increases
were those for lumber sad
wood products, metals, teslile
products, machinery and equip-
ment. motor vehicles aad
household furniture
The BLS said that overall
prices for consumer finished
goods (those ready for sale at
retail) rose 0.9 per cent in
April, for less than ihc 2.1 per
cent increase in March.
The 0.7 per cent decline to
prices for form products and
processed foods and feeds
followed an increase of 4.6 per
cent in March and was toe first
monthly drop since October.
In Ag>riL the WPt stood at
130.7 -112 per cent above a
year earlier. This meant
commodities which cent SIO at
wholesale ia 1967 cast $13.07
last month, an increase of 30.-7
percent.
la a stale meat outlining Ida
revised
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•Worthy is the Latob."
Vocal solos of ‘1 Know That My
Redeemer Liveto” by soprano by
Debbie Bridges, aad ’Than
Shalt Break Them" by Jack
Gordon, tenor will alsoadd to this
portion of the Easier music.
Other selections will be three
Jaza-Rock Selections from foe
Christmas program including
“Hope for the Future” “Change
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Eighty “Wight year old J.S. Steele of 10216th St. was busy this week
rrmoviagaa unwanted Elm tree from his flower bed. Steele said
when he got this tree out he was going to remove another oaa in the
back flowerbed. Steele has been a resident of Levellaad for the
pest twenty years and has-lived in the county for the past forty-
seven years. (Staff Photo)
PFiESSTimE
PRIfTraUT...
a summary of the important
nows ovonts of tho day
By Lluited Press International
WASHINGTON —Top former
White House aides H. R.
Haldeman and John Ehrlich-
man were summoned before a
federal grand jury today while
FBI agents sifted through their
personal files for evidence that
might link them directly to the
Watergate scandal. Jlaldeman
and Ehrlich man, who resigned
Monday at the President’s
request, have denied they ever
participated in illegal activities.
But The New York Times has
quoted federal investigators as
saying toey foce indictment
along with former Attorney
General John N. Mitchell,
former While House comsel
John W. Dean, who was fired
Monday, and otoera. Mitchell’s
wife, Martha, was aubpoeaaed
to give swofn testimony in New
York today about the Water-
gate aShir. She often Mu said
that her story would shock the
public If it were made known.
WASHINGTON -The.finance
committee of f resident Nixon's
re-election campaign has been
charged by the Justice Depart-
ment with concealing a $200,000
contribution by financier Rob-
ert L. Vesco. The threc-ccnnt
charge, filed Wedaeaday in U.S.
District Court, accuses the
finance committee toW** 10
make reports and maintaii
records of the contribution
received April 10, 1972, threi
days after foe Federal Electiot
Campaign Act went into effect
This law requires disclosure o
major contributions and expen
diturps. The maximum penalt;
oneach count is a $1,000 fine.
ChougN*
From The Living Bible
“Be sure to celebrate the
Feast of Unleavened
, Bread for seven days,
just as I instructed you,
at the dates appointed
each year in March; that
was the month you left
Egypt. Every firstborn
male ia mine — cattle,
sheep, and goats. The
firstborn colt of a don-
key may be redeemed by
giving a lamb in its
place. If you decide not
to redeem it, then its
neck must be broken.
But your sons must all
be redeemed. And no one
shall appear before me
without a gift. «Even
during plowing and har-
vest times, work only sik
days, and rest on the
seventh.”
Erodtta /
Krliirktei* Meritmw of America
Grand Jury
quizzes
former aides
By JANE DENBON
WASHINGTON (11 P I) —
President Njxon’s former top
lieutenants, H. R. Haldeman
and John D. Ehrlichman, today
faced prosecutors —and possi-
bly a grand jury —investigating
the Watergate scandal while a
third deposed White House aide
was reported bargaining fot
immunity.
Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
who resigned Monday from
their White House duties while
professing innocence of any
wrongdoing in the scandal that
has rocked the administration,
arrived an hour and a halt
early for their meeting with
prosecutors.a pparentlyto
avoid an army of reporters.
They said in advance they
would welcome an opportunity
to respond to allegations said to
have been made to the
proeeditors or the grand jury
by former White House Counsel
John W. Dean III and others
that they had a hand at least in
alleged efforts to cover up the
scope of the bugging plot.
The Washington Stai'News
said today that a lawyer for
Dean, fired by Nixon as his
legal counsel, had been nego-
tiating secretly for two weeks
with government investigators
over Dean's demand for im-
munity from prosecution as the
price for toll testimony on what
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WEATHER
The forecast for Lcvelland and
vicinity is fair and warmer today
through Friday.
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