increases announced
U.S. Steel raises pri ces
: PITTSBURGH (UPI)
.United States Steel Corp., the
nation’s largest steel
producer, yesterday an
nounced 6 per cent price
increases on steel products
that will mean higher con
sumer costs for such items as
automobiles,' kitchen ap
pliances, and TV sets.
! Inland-. Steel and Amrco
'also raised prices an average
of 6 per cent. Wheeling-
Pittsburgh’s increase was
reported slightly higher, but
company officials would not
quote a percentage.
There ; were indications
another round of increases
would come later, including a
comment from an Armco
official that “further hikes
will be needed later this
year.”
, When one steel company
Church membership on
WASHINGTON (UPI) Church
membership in the United States,
generally in decline since the; intense
social and political involvement in the
/60’s, has begun to rise again, according
to statistics released yesterday.
The 1976 edition of the Yearbook of
American and Canadian Churches said
total U.S. church membership now
stands at 132,287,450 a gain 'of
1,042,311, with 62.3 per cent of the
population claiming membership.
Yearbook figures come from both 1974
and 1975 because not all of the 223
religious bodies surveyed have com
pleted 1 ’ their 1975 membership com
pilations.
'Liberated' women, crimes linked
EASTBOURNE, England,
(Uf?I) Women are com--
mitting crimes of violence at
a . greater rate than men in
countries where they have
become “liberated,” says
Daphne 'Skillern, Britain's
only woman police com
mander. ■
“It is in countries where
women’s emancipation' is the
greatest that* women par
ticipate in crime,” Skillern,
head,of personnel research at
Scotland. Yard, told crime
experts at the Royal,Society
of Health. “One has found this
in America and Japan.”
if‘One opjnion is that owing
tditheir improving status, and
their-’ release ,from; com
mitments of heme , and
family, they ;, are-; able to
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raises prices, others follow
suit.
There was no immediate
reaction from the White
House on the latest increases.
U.S. Steel said its increases
would take effect June 14 for
sheet and - strip, products.
Sheet steel is used in auto and
appliance making and, as one
steel company official said,
“just about " everything.”
Strip is a speciality steel used
in such items as color
television sets.
i A spokesman for U.S. Steel,
. which raised its prices 3.8 per
cent last August, said the '
latest increase was due to.the
“rising cost of just about
everything." He cited higher
costs for goods and services,
specifically employment, raw
materials, energy and
transportation.'
“Church membership in the U.S. grew
most dramatically in the 50’s, leveling
off or even decreasing in some religious
groups in the 60’s,” said Constant
Jacquet Jr., yearbook editor. “By
contrast, church membership in the 70’s
has climbed slowly, although increases
have not kept up with growth in the U.S.
population as a whole.”
Most significantly, the 1976 yearbook
suggests a leveling off in the trend
toward membership loss of the large,
mainline Protestant denominations
which were considered theologically and
politically liberal, during the turmoil of
the 60’s.
exercise latent greed and
viciousness,” she said. ,
“Another viewpoint is that
women, bewildered, because
of the rapid alteration of'their
lifestyle, are now more in
secure and uncertain,”
Skillern said.
“Young women are a threatened the assistant
special problem in Britain shopkeeper with a knife and
and crimes committed, by escaped with 19 rings worth
girls aged 17 to 21 reached a more than $20,000.
peak in 1974,” she said, ex- , .... ,
plaining that the present “The traditional philosophy
increase in indictable crimes of women be «?g tbe eentier
is among older women. “x - more sinned against
. than sinning and deserving
“In the past, crimes more lenient punish
committed by women were ment —is open to serious
usually limjted,to shoplifting; question,” Skillern said,
and petty theft,” she said., Even though there is an
“Now they are taking part in increase in the number of ,
and even organizing serious women committing crimes,
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A spokesman for another
steel company, who declined
to be identified, said industry
officials would not comment
on the price increases
because, “We don’t want to
put ourselves in a position of
being responsible for a $5O
increase in the price of a car.”
“Obviously, this makes an
increase in the cost of con
sumer products, but the steel
industry can’t help it,” he
said.
- The spokesman said higher
prices were needed because
“first quarter earnings were
way off mainly because of the
distressed cost-price
relationship on strip and
sheet products.”
U.S. Steel, whose 1975 first
quarter earnings were off $4O
million compared to last
year, said the price increase
It cited as a prime example the
and violent crimes.”
As if to illustrate her
remarks, a 15-year-old girl
was sentenced in Norwich
Crown Court Wednesday to
Borstal Prison for armed
robbery of a jewelry store.
Disguised as a man, she
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Episcopal Church, which lost some
225,000 members between 1970 to 1973.
Between 1973 and 1974, the last year for
which figures were available, the church
lost only 9,872 members, “indicating a
possible stabilization of membership in
that church.”
The Roman Catholic Church, with a/
membership of 48.7 million, continues to
be the nation’s largest religious body.
The Southern Baptist Convention, with
12:5 million members, is the nation’s
largest Prptestant denomination.
The yearbook also reported that about
4o per cent of U.S. adults attend a church
or synagogue in an average week, a
figure unchanged since 1971.
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would raise revenue on steel
mill products about 2 per
cent.
The steel industry, caught
up by the recession, suffered
its worst year in a decade
during 1975. The mild price
increase announced in August
did not begin to take effect
until October as the industry
felt its way out of the
economic slump.
But orders for steel
products picked up in the late
fall and industry spokesmen
said 1976 should be a good
year. But along with the rosy
predictions, U.S. , Steel
President David Roderick
predicted in December there
would be price increases this
year as the industry tried to
recoup from last year’s
reduced earnings.
the rise
according to statistics, their
numbers still fall far below
the number of males who are
involved in serious crime.
' “The situation is now very
interesting,” she said. "There
is no doubt that if women,
become as criminal as
men, without any decline
among the males, then we
will be in a jungle.”
“At the same time, though;
it could be that men may now
become less criminal and
take a more passive role.”
She said that despite all this
she did not believe in turning
back the tide of women’s
liberation'. ’ - • '
“Nothing would be a good
reason for slowing down
emmancipation,” she said.
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