by Ralph Nader 7 WASHINGTON—With all the flap about the Pay Board, too little attention has been given to the Price CéRmission. Headed by amiable C. Jackson Grayson, a former business school dean, the Commission is crucial to any attempt to cool the fires of inflation. Yet it is failing. “ Since Phase II began last November, all components of the Wholesale Price Index have been accelerating faster than before the 90 day freeze im- posed in mid-August. For goods have increased during Phase II at twice the rate ob- served before the freeze while industrial cgmmodities are galloping along at a 6 percent annual rate. This wholesale bulge is passed. on to consumers at retail. Predictably, corporate profit forecasts for 1972 are up as well. A little-noticed study done last December by the New York investment banking firm, Goldman, Sachs and Co., profit margin and price guidelines and concluded that corporations Rill be able to boost their after-tax profits by 17 to 22 percent in 1972. Since few industries are boasting about their productivity in- creases, it is clear that the consumer will pay for the Price Commission’s rubber-stamping of industry price increases. Figures put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that despite inflation, the average worker during the six months preceding the freeze.got a 2.8 percent increase in real ear- nings. But during the past half year of economic controls, real worker-earnings declined .34 percent. | Since Phase II started, the Consumer Price Index has gone up at an annual rate of almost 5 percent — twice the goal of the President’s stabilization program. (During the six months before the freeze, the Consumer Price Index was up at a rate of 4.1 percent.) The Wholesale Price Index during Phase II has increased at an annual rate of 7.7 percent. Consumers need these un- feeling statistics only to confirm what everyone is observing in the supermarkets and depart- ment stores. It’s not just meat Lois Stredney, R.N. March 19—Arline Loucks, New Goss Manor to Nesbitt Besecker. March 23- McDade. General Hos Ed Roth; Bob Besecker. March 30¢ Dick Disque Ted Wright. April 2—Charles Goodrich, Kunkle-Alderson Road to VA by Nelson Woolbert Trucksvill¥ Volunteer Fire Company will meet in the fire hall tomorrow night at 8. The auxiliary will meet in the municipal building Monday evening at 7:30. The WSCS of Trucksville United Methodist Church an- nounces a fy thday tea to be held April 4 at 8 p.m. in the educational building. A musical program by the ‘Miss-Chords’ of Plymouth promises a most entertaining evening. Refresh- ments will be served and tables decorated to depict the four seasons of the year. Donations one dollar; everyone welcome. Mrs. Harold Croom is chairman of program; Mrs. Thomas Williams’ and Mrs. Ernest Norrie head the refreshment committee; Mrs. Vern Prit- chard is in charge of tickets; Mesdames Sheldon Bennett, George Peirce, Herman Reese, Frank Pokorny, George Lid- dicote, S@lnley Cashmark, William Clewell, Gertrude Smith, Raymond Metzgar, Arthur Gensel, Allan Nichols, William Dickson, John Dukes, Laing Coolbaugh, Lynn Ash- worth and Thomas Williams will serve as hostesses. Mrs. Warden Kunkle, former resident of Carverton Road, is a medical patient in Mercy Hospital. Her room number is 444. Cards will be appreciated. Donald, and Mrs. Loree Fry, Minerva, Ohio, were recent weekend guests of Mrs. Wallace Perrin Sr., Holly Street. Jean Spears of Carverton Road will serve as co-chairman when the Back Mountain Federated Democratic Women’s Club in cooperation with the Kingston Club will present ‘Fashions for Everyone’ April 18 at the Acme Auditorium, Gateway Shopping Center. Deborah Moskaluby, Chase Road, is vacationing in Quadalajara, Mexico. Deborah attends Lake-Lehman High School. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Roberts, Sutton Road, will entertain at a small cocktail party April 15 at the West- moreland Club. Mrs. Robert’s son, John Sicher Jr. and his fiancee, Susan R. Cullman of New York, will be honor guests. The couple will be married in May. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Croom, Carverton Road, entertained their families at dinner Easter Sunday. Guests numbered 13. Louise Hazeltine, New York City, spent several days with her father, Ralph Hazeltine, Harris Hill Road. Maureen Brown, a student at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., is spending the spring vacation with her parents. Atty. .and Mrs. J. Lenahan Brown, Westmoreland Hills. Residents of Trucksville- Carverton Area are asked to make their donations to the Kingston Township Ambulance and Trucksville Fire Company fund drive. John Stephenson and Wayne Long head the drive. Bertha Evans, Holly Street, has returned from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Hillard prices and other fresh foods that are climbing: many other products and services are, too. Some businessmen like to blame it all on unions. The facts contradict them. The large majority of American workers are not unionized and do not receive the highly publicized percentage wage increases that a few relatively strong unions get. Moreover, families earning less than $6900 a year are bearing the brunt. The Price Commission’s closed door procedures make it almost impossible for a citizen Companies submit information to back up their price increase requests. The Commission keeps the information secret and releases its one-line price decisions without sub- stantiation. The Commission has refused to hold any formal public hearings on any proposed change in prices, rents, interest though the law urges it to hold such hearings ‘to the maximum extent possible.’ There is no consumer par- ticipation in the Price Com- mission’s work. Only com- panies participate. When companies make contacts with Commission staff on the sly, the public cannot find out about it. In addition, there is no disclosure of price increases made in violation of the law. So despite nearly 20,000 cited violations, consumers don’t have specific information on which to base demands for rebates, but which might total millions of dollars. : Unless the Price Commission throws open its doors to con- sumers it will continue to be the captive of special corporate pleaders who routinely get the price increases they want. Firebomb Tossed At Dallas Church A “Molatov cocktail” type firebomb was thrown at a church under construction on Hildebrand Road, Dallas Town- ship, March 30, and the State Police fire marshal’s office is investigating the incident. ~The firebomb was tossed at the Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall at about 12:40 a.m. It started a small fire. Dallas Borough Patrolmen Sev Newberry and Ronald Dudik arrived on the scene and put the fire out with fire extinguishers from the police cruiser. The Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company, Dallas, also responded to the alarm. Fire Chief Donald Shaffer reported police found glass and fuel from the bomb on the which was charred. Also some siding on the building was slightly damaged. There were no in- terior damages. Fire marshals gathered pieces of glass from the bottle which was thrown. The in- vestigation is continuing, with the assistance of Dallas Town- ship Patrolman Carl Miers. a « Page 3 £5 : is ssi Dallas Borough Four members of a Kingston family were taken to Nesbitt Memorial Hospital March 30 after they were involved in a two-car collision on Route 415, near Crown Bowling Lanes. After treatment, the parents and their two small children were released. According to police records, Robert M. Hanchulak, 27, of Kingston was operating a late model station wagon which was traveling north on the highway at 7:58 p.m. In the vehicle were Romaine Hanchulak, 25, and children, Lisa, 2, Tracy, 1. A second car, driven by Robert Lee James, Box 155, Hunlock Creek, was proceeding south. A witness stated that the James car stopped in center of road to make a left turn and that statewide interest. Several readers have posed this question tous: How can you call The Express a ‘family newspaper’ and justify running ads for those X-rated movies? We assure them that we are not an X-rated newspaper. We think of ourselves as G; all ages recommended. We support on principle the Motion Picture Code of Self- Regulation, the industry’s at- tempt to police itself through a rating system. And on even stronger principle, we oppose censorship because it is anathema to the concept of freedom. We decline to preach against the prurient screen although we find much of it junk and repugnant. Maybe some of it, as its defenders say, is truly art and not just stag films. We decline too to try to keep anyone from exhibiting or viewing such films: we are not holier than thou. We also decline to tell the people who run movie houses for the public—legitimate businesses—that they cannot pages.-Some newspapers refuse all ads about X-rated movies. That is censorship. We can, however, insist that they clean up the ads, on both X and R-rated movies. That is not censorship, but editing. It is not prudery, but responsibility. It is not avarice for the advertiser’s dollar, but public service. We already have been exercising some pressure to screen out particularly lurid come-ons for the X-rated films, and we're going to set down even stricter ' guidelines, ef- fective immediately. As for our feeling a respon- sibility to accept such ads, we think we would be doing a disservice to the moviegoing public—especially to parents of moviegoing youngsters—not to tell you what is showing where and how it is “rated.” The public-service respon- sibility carries over from the ad pages to our news columns where the Movies segment of our Community Calendar will continue to list area cinema offerings. But we’ll add the when the Hanchulak station wagon was about 10 feet away, the James vehicle ‘‘darted into the path of the station wagon.” The witness stated there was no way the Hanchulak machine could have avoided the ac- cident. Mr. James told police that he taken to the hospital in the Dallas Community ambulance. Dallas Township A utility pole guy wire was snapped by an out-of-control automobile April 1. Patrolman = Carl Miers reported Charles F. Goodrich, 45, of RD 1, Harveys Lake, was traveling north on Legislative Route 40019, at 9:45 a.m., when the vehicle left the right hand side of the roadway, struck and snapped off two guard rails and tore out an additional three guard rails. It then struck the guy wire and finally came to rest in an adjacent field. Mr. Goodrich had visible signs of injury, but refused medical treatment. Damage to the Goodrich sedan was estimated at $175; to the utility pole, $25. The operator of a motorcycle suffered injuries to his right knee after the machine ‘‘spun out” from under him. Robert E. Johnson, Wyalusing, was operating the motorcycle on Route 309, about 50 feet north of Alderson Road at 12 p.m., April 2. The accident was not reported until about 4 p.m., after Mr. Johnson was taken to Nesbitt Memorial Hospital by his wife. ! Mr. Johnson stated he was traveling south on the highway and was attempting a right turn into a service station. When he down-shifted, the cycle spun out from under him. The investigator Patrolman Carl Miers. Kingston Township A rear-end collision of two cars occurred on Route 309, 30 feet south of Center Street, Shavertown, at 7:10 p.m., April 1 Patrolman John. J. Appel reported Andrew Gulla, 51, of 6 Warren Dr., Dallas, and Russell C. Kuncenski, 20, of West Wyoming, were the two operators. The Kucenski. car had stopped for a red traffic signal, but the Gulla automobile failed to stop and hit the other car at the rear. Neither driver was injured. Approximately $400 damages was it will be up to you to exercise your judgment. We hope our small start toward discouraging the movie industry’s X-ploitation of society will help shorten what we believe is a passing fad. does not remember anything. He refused medical attention. Patrolman Ronald Dudik was the investigating officer. He estimated damage to both cars at $3,400. The Hanchulak family were FOR THE RECORD is a weekly report of all votes of record and the position taken on measures by your Congressman. Daniel J. Flood April 10 Misericordia at 1 p.m. April 11 © Lunch will be also be served. April 12 April 15 April 17 TUESDAY—Macaroni creole with beef, Parmesan cheese, but- tered mixed beans, Italian bread and butter, gelatin with topping, milk. WEDNESDAY—Veal Parmesian, (Jr. and Sr., & Inter.); veal steak with sauce (elem.); mashed potatoes, tossed salad with Italian dressing, Parker House roll with butter, pudding, milk. THURSDAY—Turkey barbecue with special sauce, French fries, (Jr. and Sr. & Inter.); potato chips (elem.); buttered carrots, raspberry zinger, milk. FRIDAY—Fish-in-round, catsup and tartar sauce, cole slaw, stuffed celery, chocolate cup cake, milk. The Food and Drug Administration, for the first time in history, released in Washington this week what it considers to be “tolerable filth levels’ in processed foods sold to Americans. As examples of its tolerance levels, the FDA said that chocolate is okeyed by the agency unless it contains more than 150 insect fragments and four rodent hairs per half pound. Popcorn is okey unless more than one rodent pellet is found Jin a five-pound sample; or unless the FDA finds that rodents have gnawed away at a minimum of 20 kernels per pound and there are rodent hairs present in the same popcorn sample. More than 100,000 tons of American grain, intended for emergency assistance to East Pakistan, has apparently been lost. “Dispatch News Service ‘reports that the U.S. Agency for International ‘Development ‘Aid has been unable to locate ap- proximately 100,000 tons of wheat which had been sent in Pakistan last year. AID and Department of Agriculture officials reportedly have sent out a call to all United States embassies throughout Asia for some clue as to where the grain ended up. So far, however, no answer has arrived. Sen. Edward Kennedy backed up the charge of the missing wheat during hearings recently in front of his Senate Sub- committee on Refugees. Kennedy said that his own first-hand visits to East Pakistan indicated that only $10 million in U.S. aid actually reached East Pakistan last year. AID officials continue to insist, however, that $65 million in food and essential relief had been sent to East Pakistan. Doctor Louis Leakey, the discoverer of the oldest human remains ever found on Earth, says that man is not only the most dangerous species on Earth, but that he is also one of the most endangered. Dr. Leakey, speaking at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, stated that if man did not immediately begin to use his powers of ‘Reason and Thought’, he is “perfectly certain” that man will “disappear from the face of the Earth.” = Dr. Leakey said that if something is done about pollution and population growth, then man could survive at least another 20,000 years. Added the Doctor: ‘If not, goodbye—possibly in as little as 50 years.” An American journalist and Asian scholar has returned from a tour of North Vietnam to charge that American war planes had ‘intentionally attacked” a North Vietnam hospital with anti-personnel bombs. Benning Garrett, a scholar at the Pacific Studies Center in Palo Alto, reports that he visited a bombed hospital site which was struck by American planes in December of last year. The hospital is called the Thanh Ho Provincial Hospital—and is located about 80 miles south of Hanoi. According to Mr. Garrett, two of the hospital’s 30 buildings were completely destroyed during five days of intensive bom- bing in late December. Mr. Garrett talked to the hospital’s vice director, a man named Dr. Chi, who insisted that the facility was carefully marked as amedical building, and that the air strikes could not have occurred as accidents. Mr. Garrett said he talked to numerous patients who were severelywounded by the raids, and to the relatives of many patients who had been killed. The North Vietnamese insisted that the American bombers were using a new kind of anti-personnel bomb for the first time during the December raids. According to the journalist: ‘The new bomb is constructed with a special alloy so that the entire bomb casing shatters into hundreds of splinters of irregular shapes and sizes,” Mr. Garrett continued: “(The new bomb) contains more explosive power (than the older one), giving the splinters a velocity of 1200 meters per second, approximately that of a bullet.” Tw Mr. Garrett charged that the new bomb was being used as part of a conscious American military strategy to strike at Mr. Garrett’s first-hand account is copyrighted by Alternate \ Features Service and is being distributed by Dispatch News Service in Washington, D.C. A Temple University law student has filed a $200 million class action law suit against ITT—charging that the company’s ‘secret arrangement’’ with the Republican Party is going to cost ITT shareholders at least that much in profits. John Rafal, who claims to own 125 shares of ITT stock, filed the suit Friday in a Philadelphia federal court. Mr. Rafal claims that because of ‘‘bad publicity’ arising from the ITT-Justice Department involvement, all shareholders will lose money. i, 11th Congressional District, Pennsylvania Thursday, March 30, 1972 EASTER RECESS . . . At the conclusion of business on Wednesday, the House adjourned until April 10th.. Accordingly the next issue of CONGRESS VOTES will be published on Thursday, April 13th. ; Debate on the FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT of 1972 (H.R. 11896) began on Monday and continued through Wednesday. The act authorizes $24.6 billion to improve national water quality. Before the final vote, there were eight record teller votes on proposed amendments: Whether to require that by 1981 all polluters shall use the best available waste treatment technology. Ayes 140. Noes 249. Rejected, Mar. 28. MR. FLOOD VOTED NO. Whether to delete a provision: granting exemptions to the i$ filing of environmental impact statements. Ayes 125. Noes 267. Rejected, Mar. 28. MR. FLOOD VOTED NO. Whether to delete from H.R. 11896 a requirement that in- dustrial users of municipal treatment plants pay, in addition to user charges, a portion of the federal investment in the plant. Ayes 66. Noes 337. Rejected. MR. FLOOD VOTED NO. Whether to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to review state-issued effluent discharge permits. Ayes 154. Noes 251. Rejected, Mar. 28. MR. FLOOD VOTED NO. Whether to substitute annual funding for the three-year contract authorization contained in H.R. 11896. Ayes 161. Noes 232. Rejected, Mar. 29. : : MR. FLOOD VOTED AYE. Whether to authorize E.P.A. to conduct hearings on the economic effects of water pollution control measures, including decisions to close down plants because of such measures. Ayes 274. Noes 118. Agreed to, Mar. 29. MR. FLOOD VOTED AYE. Whether to direct E.P.A. to encourage the recycling of MR. FLOOD VOTED AYE. Whether to permit the states to prohibit the discharge of sewage from boats. Ayes 210. Noes 173. Agreed to, Mar. 29. MR. FLOOD VOTED NO. Whether to pass the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended. Yeas 380. Nays 14. Passed, Mar. 29. Photo by J. Kozemchak Sr. a
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