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.Several supermarkets and drugstores in Chapel Hill
are joining the fight against inflation by complying with
President Jimmy Carter's plea to place a price ceiling on
hundreds of commonly purchased food and drug
products.
iSpokesmen for Harris-Teeter Supermarkets Inc.,
A&P Supermarkets, Eckerd Drugs and Kerr Drugs said
this week their stores have agreed to comply with the
voluntary guidelines set by Carter. The president has
requested supermarkets to place a freeze on products for
the next 30 to 150 days and drug stores to freeze prices
for, 60 to 90 days.
-The spokesman said all house and generic products
will be frozen at least until A pril 5, with the possibility of
an extention on the ceiling.
Eckerd Drugs issued a statement that all products and
prescriptions will be frozen and Kerr Drugs has placed a
price freeze on all prescriptions.
Carter issued the freeze request for several reasons,
Esther Peterson, the president's special assistant for
consumer affairs said Tuesday.
"He (Carter) wanted to provide the consumer with an
opportunity to shop for nutritionally sound foods, as
well as an opportunity to fill necessary prescriptions,
without having to worry about a price increase for a
specific period of time," she said.
. guidelines mean prices will not rise even if the
retailer's costs increase, but they allow for a price
decrease if producer prices drop.
Peterson said Carter ruled out mandatory wage and
price controls because the president said they are
ineffective in dealing with the causes of inflation, disrupt
the economy and require a massive bureaucracy to
administer.
"The voluntary effort calls upon a major sector of the
business community to impose its own price ceilings in a
way that will benefit the consumer without causing the
economic distortions brought on by a mandatory
freeze," Peterson said.
Although most food and drug chains have followed
Carter's request, there is some opposition to the price
ceiling.
"Carter fails to realize that the grocery chains do not
pack their house products," said Tom Smith, executive
vice president of Food Town, which operates a store in
Chapel Hill.
"The stores can only hold them as long as the
manufacturers do, and if they go up, we go up, Food
Town has been complying with price freezes since the
Nixon administration, and our prices will remain the
same unless our manufacturer goes up." .
A spokesman for Revco Drugs, which operates three
stores in Chapel Hill, said their price increases depend
on the manufacturers and their product prices would
remain the same unless manufacturer prices went up.
Twenty-four of the 50 food chains across the country
that have been contacted by the White House
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announced some form of price freeze. Midge Shubow,
press secretary for the Office of Consumer Affairs said
this week. Of the drugstore chains contacted, eight have
announced price ceilings.
We're pleased with the response to the ceiling so far,"
Shubow said. "We expect to have even more response in
the next few days."
Iranians rally for militants again FePr
From page 1
The Associated Press
Tens of thousands of Iranians chanting "The shah must come
back!" rallied Tuesday at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in a show
of support for the militants inside. The Moslem clergymen
leading them threatened to put the embassy hostages on trial if
the exiled monarch is not returned to Iran.
It was the second straight day that Iranian religious leaders
warned of hostage trials, after weeks of near-silence on the
subject. It apparently pointed to bitter frustration on the part of
the Iranians because the shah, by going to Egypt, may have
eluded their grasp for good.
Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told reporters,
however, that there are no plans to try the hostages and that such
demands are made by "irresponsible people." But he did say an
Iranian Parliament angered by the shah's move might now decide
not to free the 50 American hostages as U.S. officials have hoped.
Ghotbzadeh said the crisis might be eased if the U.N.
investigative commission on Iran released its findings about the
alleged crimes of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi during his
three decades as Iran's ruler.
But U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said after the five
man commission ended its mission in Tehran earlier this month
that the report "cannot be issued.. .until the hostage problem is
solved."
The hostages have been held for 144 days.
The shah's new protector, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat,
visited the ailing exile in a Cairo hospital Tuesday and said
Pahlavi was running a high fever and would be undergoing X-ray
tests preliminary to a planned operation for an enlarged spleen.
A date for the operation has not been announced.
The shah and his wife, Farah Diba, arrived in Cairo Monday
after a flight from Panama, where they had resided for. three
months and where Jawyft fbrTl fan jvqre about to file documents
requesting his extrSdftiorTb'acR t'6msTiorneland for alleged mass
murder and corruption.
Sadat is highly unlikely to even accept an Iranian request for
Pahlavi's extradition.
The Iranians denounced the shah's move to Egypt as the result
of a "treacherous plot" among President Carter, the shah and
Sadat. A crowd estimated by observers to number 30,000 to
50,000 spilled onto the streets around the occupied embassy
Tuesday to protest the shah's transfer.
A resolution issued by Tehran's Moslem clergy in support of
the embassy militants was read out and signed by many in the
throng.
It said a solution to the crisis over the hostages depends on the
return of the shah and his "plundered wealth" to Iran, failing
which "the Iranian nation will demand their trial in Islamic
revolutionary courts," Tehran radio reported.
On Monday, Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, a leading
revolutionary and former chief judge of the Islamic courts, said
hostages accused of being spies believed to number only a
few would be put on trial after the new Parliament convenes.
The Parliament is expected to convene no earlier than mid-April.
A senior Carter administration official said Monday that
hostage trials were "not very probable."
Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini says the
new Parliament, or Majlis, must decide the hostages' fate.
Ghotbzadeh. meeting with reporters in Tehran, said the shah's
surprise move to Egypt would make resolution of the U.S.-Iran
crisis "extremely difficult" because it damaged the trust essential
for negotiating a solution and may turn more members of the
Majlis against releasing the hostages.
In Washington, the State Department acknowledged on
Tuesday there is no end in sight to the crisis and said it is
considering "available options" to obtain the hostages' release. It
'sfdid not d$ccibe the' options- " - , ,
The Soviet news agency l ass, meanwhile, issued a Stern
warning against what it called "the real danger" of a U.S. military
invasion of Iran, a danger it said "is growing with each passing
day."
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Council for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education, the new agency would assume
the work of investigators and auditors
from HEW, the Justice Department, the
Labor Department and five other
agencies enforcing 17 federal laws.
In its final report, "A Program for
Renewed Partnership," the Sloan
Commission presented a number of other
recommendations on state and federal
student loans, research grants, and
minimum standards and - reviews of
program quality for all colleges and
universities.
Friday said the recommendations
concerning student aid were designed to
make government funds available to all
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Kennedy on Tuesday night, but called the
loss "only a dip in the road," and
predicted victory for the president at the
Democratic National Convention.
"Smile. Put a smile on your faces,"
Strauss told Carter supporters at a
victory celebration at New York's
Sheraton Centre Hotel. "When you lose,
lose. with class" ,,,
While ..White House... aides were,
remaining silent on the setbacks Carter
suffered in New York and Connecticut,
Strauss extended to Kennedy and "those
who worked so hard for him, not only my
congratulations, but also those of the
president. Mrs. Carter, the vice president
and Mrs. Mondale. all of whom I have
talked to tonight."
Strauss noted that Carter had won 1 7
out of 19 previous faceoffs against
Kennedy and drew applause when he
said. "We lost a couple tonight including
Connecticut. We'll win in Wisconsin,
we'll win in Kansas and we'll win in
Louisiana and you can bet on it."
Mayor outlines issues at press conference
Chapel Hill Mayor Joe Nassif Tuesday said the town may not be able to buy
Clearwater Lake from the YMCA because the town is facing a difficult fiscal
year. ' "
In his first press conference since taking office in January, Nassif said Chapel
Hill probably will not be able to pay the YMCA's $225,000 asking price for the
recreational site south of Chapel Hill.
Nassif also said he has reviewed the designs for the planned student athletic
center with University officials and has spoken to Chancellor Christopher
Fordham III about the coliseum. The University is expected to apply for a
special use permit from the town to build the $21 million center in April.
Nassif also said he is considering changes in the town's public safety officers
program which has been criticized since its beginning in 1975, especially by
town firemen. The PSO program combines the duties of fire and police
personnel with emergency medical training. Nassif said the town is likely to
revise the firemen's shift schedule, a main source of criticism, in the upcoming
budget process.
Consumer prices jump again...
WASHINGTON (AP) Consumer prices in February jumped 1.4 percent
for a second straight month, providing new signs that inflation was settling in at
an 18 percent annual rate, government figures showed Tuesday.
As a result of the latest rise in the Consumer Price Index, the buying power of
the average American wage earner fell by a record 7.3 percent during the
previous 12 months, the government said in a separate report.
A top Carter administration inflation adviser called the new figures a very
ominous trend, and said consumer prices will continue to rise at nearly the same
rate for several months as recent hikes in interest rates and wholesale energy
prices show up at the consumer level.
...Stock market continues to plunge
NEW YORK (AP) The stock market has taken a $150 billion drop inthc
past six weeks, evoking painful memories on Wall Street of the bear markets
and recession of the mid-1970s.
The oldest and best-known indicator of stock price trends, the Dow Jones
industrial average, this week has fallen to its lowest level in nearly two years.
From Feb. 13, when it stood at 903.84, the average has dropped more than
135 points, or about 15 percent.
Some of this slide has been blamed on disappointment with President
Carter's anti-inflation plan announced 13 days ago. New complications in the
Iranian crisis also apparently took their toll.
But most analysts in the financial world agree the main message in the
market's slump has been a growing belief that the economy is headed for.somc
tough times in the months ahead.
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"1 think the DOT is quite aware ol the
controversy surrounding the southern by
pass." Smith said.I think they would question
the council'seven asking that it be considered."
But council member James Wallace said the
town should not withdraw the proposal alter
endorsing it just last year. Wallace was mayor
when the southern by-pass proposal was
passed and frequently has argued in favor of
the bv-pass route.
-i ' '"The h DOT finds Chapel ' Hilt to te v
notoriously incapable of making up its mind."
Wallace said.
Council members Bill Thorpe and Bcv
K. aw alec joined Wallace in voting against
striking the by-pass proposal.
But the other council members disagreed.
Although council members Jonathan Howes
and Marilyn Boulton said they were in favor of
the concept of the southern bypass, they said
the by-pass should not be proposed to DOT
this year.
Boulton and Howes said the town should
study the by-pass proposal in its thoroughfare
plan, w hich iscurrently being draw n up, before
it asks DOT to consider building the loop,
i "To raise it (the by-pass proposal) now
simply raises a contentious issue." he said.
Smith said he objected to the origin of the
by-pass proposal.
"I think the whole thing came out of or was a
result of our pulling out of the (Interstate) 40
suit and then saying. Til give youthis.""Smith
said.
When the council made the by-pass requevt
last year, it also pulled out of a joint lawsuit
with Carrboro and Orange County against
DOT to block construction of the M0
connector near Chapel Hill. 1 he council
withdrew from the suit p.utly in hopes of
gaining approval of the souttic rn by-pas. I he
' by -pass wasproposcd aVawayto miriiiructhc
effect of M0 on Chapel Hill.
In other action, the council scheduled a
public hearing for April 28 on two proposed
schedules for bus pass price increases. 1 he
council decided not to set tentative prices but
to wait until it receives some feedback from the
community.
Under the current rates a 12-mnth pass
costs $48 and a nine-month pass costs S40.
Town Manager (icne Shipman
recommended that the town approve a rate
schedule that would increase the price of a 12
month pass to $79 and a nine -month pass to
$65. The Transportation Board had endorsed
lesser increases to $67 for a 12-monlh pass
and $5K for a nine-month pass.
The council also voted to appoint tlNC
student Warren Collier to a vacant seat on the
town Transportation Board.
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