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YOUR freedom if'A NEWSPAPER "Freedom is the faculty which enlarges the usefulness of all Kant NUMBER 235 NINETY-THIRD YEAR Member Associated Press TELEGRAM WEATHER OUTLOOK Occasional rain or showers Thursday night and Friday. Lows Thursday night near 40 northwest, mid 40s southeast. Highs Friday low and mid 50s northwest, 55 to near 60 southeast. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1972 14 Pages Today Evening Except Sunday and Holidays- 10c single copy Wholesale prices increase WASHINGTON (AP) Prices of a broad range of wholesale food, industrial raw materials and manufactured products rose an average of three-tenths of one per cent last month, the government reported today. The report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the increase included a rise of six- tenths of one per cent for farm products, processed foods and feeds, while industrial commodities increased two-tenths of one per cent.

The report said that in the past three months, wholesale prices rose at an annual rate of 6.7 per cent compared with 4.9 per cent rate in the first and second quarters of the year, and that food and feeds soared at an annual rate of 17.4 per cent in' the third quarter. In the 13 months so far of President wage-price controls, wholesale prices have risen at an annual rate of 4.3 per cent, compared with a rate of 5.2 per cent in the nine months prior to the controls. The September increase brought the Wholesale Price Index up to 120.2 of its 1967 base of 100. This means it cost wholesalers $120.20 last month on the average for goods worth $100 five years ago. The index was up 5 per cent in the past year, the bureau said.

Dr. Marina Whitman, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, said the September price rise was half the average for the previous two months and that it showed progress in reducing the rate of She said the fact that wholesale prices rose more in the first year of controls than the year before was entirely due to sharp increases in farm prices. Asked why the government extend controls to prices at the farm, she said that would create the danger of shortages and possibly food rationing. Food prices are controlled after sale from the farm, meaning that farm prices increases can be passed along to the consumer. the rate of inflation has come down, still higher than we would Mrs.

Whitman said. feel yet that she added. not satisfied, got to keep coming In food, the report said, fruits and vegetables declined six- tenths of one per cent in September but were up 33.3 per cent from a year ago; meats, poultry and fish dropped five- tenths of one per cent for the month and were up 12.1 per cent over the past year; egg prices shot up 15.7 per cent in September and were 6.6 per cent above a year earlier; milk increased seven-tenths of one per cent for the month and was 3 per cent above a year ago. Among industrial prices, textiles were up two-tenths of one per cent for the month and 4.2 per cent for the year, leather products rose eight-tenths and 18.3 per cent respectively fuels increased five-tenths and 4.3 per cent, lumber prices rose three-tenths for the month and 10.6 per cent for the year. Today's Index Horoscope 2 Editorial 4 Women's News 5 Comics 6 Home 8 Sports 10 Classified 12, 13 Nixon wont raise taxes'; Congress may cause hike Photos by Dick Howe THE CANDIDATES Early this week the Columbus High candidates for homecoming king and queen gathered for their pictures, and the suspense deepened Wednesday as students voted on who will be royalty and who will form the royal court.

Left to right above, seated, are Connie Jones, Jan Blatchford, Kim Tiggei, Debbie Jones and Colleen Liddy; standing, Ed Johansen, Bryan Tuma, Don Soulliere, Ron Ziola and Wes Johnson. Pictured separately, below, are Margo Mueller and Bill Deyke. Royalty will be announced at half-time of the Friday night football game against Hastings. Sounds like rain, colder 67 at 1 p.m. 52 low this morning 74 high Wednesday 75 high year ago 53 low year ago 7:32 sunrise Friday 7:03 sunset Friday By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a possibility of a little wet snow in parts of Nebraska Thursday night and a advisory has been issued for some sectors.

The Weather Bureau said a cold front ran from northeast Minnesota through the Nebraska Panhandle and northwest Colorado Thursday morning. A small low was over central Colorado. Forecasters said the cold front should be through the eastern part of the state by Friday morning. High pressure is moving in behind the front and should reach northwest Nebraska by morning. Precipitation is expected to spread eastward over much of Nebraska, gradually ending in the west and north Friday.

Nebraska Rain or showers west this morning increasing and spreading eastward today over the area tonight, generally ending northwest Friday. Chance of rain mixed with snow extreme northwest tonight. Stockmen advised to take precaution Ivest tonight. Later today and tonight northwest winds increasing to 15 to 30 mph. Low mid and upper 30s northwest, low and mid 40s southeast.

High today cooler west and north ranging from mid 50s and low 60s extreme west to 70 to 75 southeast. Colder Friday. High 40s northwest, 55 to 60 southeast. Three Americans killed in combat last week SAIGON (AP) Three Americans were killed in action last week, the highest toll in five weeks, three died from nonhostile causes, four were wounded and one was missing, the U.S. Command reported today.

Meanwhile, both South and North Vietnamese battlefield deaths fell to their lowest level of the six-month Communist offensive. The Saigon command reported that 352 South Vietnamese troops were killed, 1,458 were wounded and 60 were missing in action during the seven-day F111 gets clean bill SAIGON (AP) The U.S. Command gave its controversial Fill fighter-bombers a clean bill of health today after six days of tests and sent them on missions over North Vietnam, The command said only two strikes were flown overnight, although sources reported that most of the nearly 50 swingwing planes have arrived at Takhli air base in Thailand. The command reported that the Fills attacked an air defense center one mile south of Dien Bien Phu and a railroad siding on the northwest line between Hanoi and China. The command acknowledged publicly for the first time that the Fills had been withdrawn from combat after flying only four missions last week during which one of the jets mysteriously vanished with two crewmen aboard.

The Command claimed that several Fill strikes had been scheduled for Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, but were canceled because of severe weather associated with Typhoon Lorna. The Fills are billed as fighter- bombers and the same day their raids were supposedly canceled, other fighter-bombers without allweather capabilities, such as F4 Phantoms, logged 120 strikes over North Vietnam, according to the communique. When asked for an explanation, a spokesman said, weather conditions where the Fills would have flown were more severe than in the area where the other aircraft were able to The Fill has been enveloped in controversy ever since it first entered combat in March 1968. The first six Fills that arrived in the war zone then were grounded several times because of flaws. They flew only 55 missions before they were returned to the United States that same year after two mysteriously vanished and a third crashed from mechanical causes.

The Command reported that Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter-bombers of all types flew more than 150 strikes across North Vietnam Wednesday, about half the average daily number because of bad weather. More U.S. B52 bombing raids were carried out in the Saigon region. The eight-jet stratofortresses launched 30 strikes to the north, east and south of Saigon, hitting at enemy staging areas and war stockpiles in a new campaign to foil Communist plans for an offensive in the region. Action across South Vietnam was light and scattered.

The Saigon command reported 85 enemy attacks, 63 of them by rockets, mortars and heatrseeking missiles, during the 24-hour period ending at daybreak today. WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon said today will be no presidential tax in 1973 but argued that might make one necessary. Holding a 40-minute news conference in his Oval Office, Nixon also declared that Vietnam peace talks are a sensitive And he said that his search for the quickest possible settlement will in no way be affected by the fact that a presidential election will be held Nov. 7. Nixon, in discussing his tax policy, said he will rarely visit the campaign trail until Congress adjourns because he wants to remain in Washington to the battle against rising He promised a succession of veto messages aimed at last- minute legislation that exceed his budget goals.

The President was first asked tor a response to charges by some Democrats that his administration has been corrupt. He responded by listing such charges made by Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic Presidential nominee, and said some presidential advisers had suggested he respond in kind. He said he rejected such advice because not going to dignify such As for what McGovern has been saying, Nixon declared think responsible members of the Democratic party will be turned off by this kind of Nixon also fielded questions about the U.S.-Soviet grain deal and the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate building. Addressing himself to allegations that grain exporters profited from advance information about the $750 million grain agreement, Nixon said the FBI was looking into the matter and asserted, there has been any impropriety, any illegality, we want to He pictured the grain accord as beneficial to the nation, saying it would add a billion dollars to farm income, create thousands of jobs, save taxpayers $200 million in grain storage charges and help ease the continuing balance of payments crisis As for the Watergate affair, Nixon repeated that he had no personal knowledge of what was going on there and said he is convinced no principal figures of his campaign committee were party to the bugging.

Recalling his probe of former State Department official Alger Hiss as a member of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Nixon said that inquiry was a Sunday-school compared to the City accepts fencing bid period ending at midnight last Saturday. It claimed its forces and U.S. air and naval power killed 1,848 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The drop in casualties reflected a similar general lull in battlefield action last week. The allied commands now have reported these total casualties for the war: American 45,861 killed in action; 10,279 dead not as a result of hostile action; 303,404 wounded; 1,682 missing, captured or interned; and 118 missing not as a result of hostile action.

South Vietnamese killed and 410,964 wounded. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong 895,417 killed. Hartington man faces first degree murder charge HARTINGTON, Neb. (API Richard Kruckman, 31, Coleridge locker plant operator, was held in the Cedar County Jail Thursday on a charge of first degree murder in the death of his wife. He was arraigned before County Judge Bernard R.

Burton Wednesday on a warrant issued by County Atty. Patrick Rogers of Randolph. Kruckman reported to Coleridge officials about 9 p.m. Aug. 30 that he had found his wife, Judy, 29, lying in a hallway of their locker plant, shot in the head.

He said he had heard a shot. Examination showed Mrs. Kruckman had been shot in the left temple with a .22 caliber weapon. At their Wednesday night meeting, Columbus City Council accepted the bid of Viergutz Lumber Co. to supply materials to fence the Loup River dike.

The $5,730.60 worth of fencing will be installed by city workers. One bid was about $85 lower than the successful bid, but was for different posts and not delivered. Others ranged up to just over $6,400. Several councilmen and city officials said they would attend the Oct. 6 final inspection of the dike, at the invitation of Army Corps of Engineers.

During the relatively brief meeting, ending at 9:30 p.m. plans and specifications were presented for the resurfacing of 13th Street from 22nd Avenue to 33rd Avenue. No one remembered when the busy street last was resurfaced, but City Clerk Leo Boettcher thought it beeff in the' late 1940s. The Council received a letter from the board of trustees of a sanitary sewer district asking about hooking into the interceptor sewer running to Platte College. Other business: will be opened Oct.

18 on a new hydraulic sewer cleaner and truck; City Engineer Jerry Stephens was asked to draw specifications for a 1 0 i sewer extension to the Pawnee Plaza area, the expense to be recovered later by water and sewer hookup charges; Meeting was set for next Tuesday to finalize the new job classification and pay scale, and new city policy; a salary increase tabled last month was left tabled until the new pay scale is adopted; Public hearing on a class liquor license for Holiday Inn will be Oct. 18, said Boettcher; To help children get to school without having to walk in the streets, property owners are being ordered to install sidewalks in Siefken, Wunderlich and Wunderlich Second, and Fairview Second additions, Ag Park, and Catholic Cemetery; Insurance was discussed, especially on city-owned vehicles and workman's comp; the insurance board will give advance notice of premium next year, and also give a complete explanation of coverage, said Name it Councilman Ivan Falk; A resolution of appreciation was adopted for retiring building inspector Allen Eggert, who was present and introduced his successor Alvin Siemek; City agreed to pay a share of expenses for a utilities meeting in Columbus in mid- November; Mayor Fred Gerber appointed, and Council approved, appointments: to planning and zoning commission, Paul Abegglen, Wesley Harold Clausen, and Earnest Olson; to housing authority, Ray Aerni. Political roundup NAME-IT Several inches long, this steel thingamabob has clamps on one end and a hook at the other. This was an "outdoors" tool, mostly, and isn't used much anymore. See page 2.

By R. GREGORY NOKES Associated Press Writer Sen. George McGovern spoke today of a to supplant President foreign policy which he described as But while Democratic presidential candidate McGovern was giving his first detailed account of his foreign policy plans, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew strongly denounced him. can believe George Agnew said, adding that the policies only him very popular in some segments of North At appearances in South Dakota Wednesday, Agnew said McGovern is the suspicions of people around the land and relying solely on a campaign of fear and McGovern, in a speech for the City Club of Cleveland today, said the Nixon foreign policies are isolating the United States from allies and trading partners.

are isolated from reality by the insistence that tough talk and big Pentagon budgets are somehow synonymous with national he said. He urged rejection of unconscious isolationism in favor of a new internationalism based not only upon our vital interests, but also upon the kind of nation we can and should The Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sargent Shriver, expressed support in Denver for a decision of the Colorado Labor Council to endorse McGovern against the wishes of AFL-CIO President George Meany. any labor leader, no matter how high he Shriver told the council, you to vote for Richard he is telling you to vote against your own best interests and against Boy, 2, injured in tractor accident Mickey Jarecki, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Jarecki, is reported in poor condition after a tractor accident on the family farm near Columbus Wednesday.

After the boy was struck by the tractor, his parents brought him to Behlen Hospital and he was transferred to an Omaha hospital by the rescue unit. He is being treated in the intensive care unit. The Record New accidents reported 1 Total to date 694 Last year ........................646 Injuries ........................151 Deaths 1 Fire calls to date .........83 Last year 64 Days without call 3 Ambulance calls to date 492 Last the best interests of every worker in the Shriver was to fly to San Jose and Los Angeles today. Meanwhile, an internal confrontation was building up within the AFL-CIO over orders to state groups to repeal resolutions urging defeat of Nixon. He has issued such an order to the state AFL-CIO in California and Oklahoma, and similar orders were expected in Minnesota.

North Carolina, Nebraska, Iowa and Texas, where the state labor conventions have called for defeat of Nixon. Massachusetts Wednesday adopted a similar resolution. In Washington, L.S. District Judge John J. Sirica issued a blanket order against comment on the Watergate case by anyone connected with it.

The case involves the breakin and alleged bugging attempt at Democratic party offices on June 17. Sen. wife, Eleanor, was campaigning in Louisville, where she said Wednesday night that Americans have the feeling have been duped and Watergate investigation. He reported that 133 agents tracked down 1,800 leads and conducted 1,500 interviews in preparing the case that led to grand jury indictments of seven men accused of participating in the break-in and bugging operation. Reminded of his promise to reduce the burden of property taxes, Nixon said he will give top priority to aiding the elderly.

He said one million retired persons with incomes of less than $2,000 a year pay an average of one-third of that sum in property taxes. Nixon termed this wrong and morally and said his first legislative request next year would deal with that area. The President said his goal will be to ease the property tax burden without raising other taxes. Questioned about busing to achieve racial balance in the schools, Nixon called anew for legislation to halt court-ordered busing. He said a new Congress might act quickly on this subject in 1973.

I would he said, describing the congressional route as easier and quicker. But if all else fails, he said, he would back a constitutional amendment to achieve the same end. At one point, Nixon became a bit philosophical about his role as acknowledged front-runner in the presidential campaign. Noting his large lead in public opinion polls, he said he has cautioned his aides, rely on the The problem for a candidate who is far ahead in the straw votes, he noted, is to get his supporters to the polls on election day. we need above all he said, a big In answer to a question, Nixon renewed his support for the welfare reform plan, killed Wednesday by the Senate.

He said he will renew his request for such legislation in 1973 and argued that he would not approve any program that would add to welfare rolls. He said reform plans our would do that. In discussing Vietnam, Nixon said his aim is to end the war as soon as we can get a settlement that is He added: no circumstances will the timing of a settlement be affected by the fact that going to be an election on Nov. While describing the peace talks as a sensitive Nixon said he could not predict when or if the peace search would succeed. Will help residents sign up for Nov.

7 election Deputy registrars will be visiting Platte County communities, including Platte College, in the next few days to help get residents signed up for the Nov. 7 general election, says Platte County Clerk Carl Hoge. Persons 18 years old or older, wanting to vote, must register for these reasons: (1) if they have never registered; (2) if they have moved, either within their precinct or to a different precinct, since they la registered; (3) if they have changed their a by marriage or otherwise. Registration can be completed at office in the Courthouse any time, but must be accomplished by 6 p.m. Friday, Oct.

27, in order to qualify a person for the Nov. 7 election. Later this month, Hoge said, there will be special registration assistance available in the various Columbus wards. The special registrations set up so far are: 10, Creston rural fire hall, 9-11 a.m.; Humphrey city hall, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Cornlea city hall, 1-4 p.m.; Lindsay city hall, 9 a.m.

to 4 p.m.; 11, Tarnov city hall, 9-11 a.m.; Platte Center auditorium, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Duncan rural fire hall, 1-4 p.m.; Monroe auditorium, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; -Oct 13, Platte College, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. U.

S. peace proposals called "unreasonable" PARIS (AP) The Viet Cong declared today that the wide gap between conflicting positions at the Vietnam peace talks the solution to any substantial questions Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, chief delegate of the Viet Cong's provisional revolutionary government, told the 162nd session of the deadlocked talks that U.S. peace proposals are unreasonable and Her statement followed a declaration by the North Vietnamese chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, that to now the positions are far apart on political and military Mrs. Binh told the U.S.

delegation: negotiating position is correct and just, while vours is unreasonable and un just. It is this antagonism which has created the wide gap which makes the solution to any substantial question U.S. Ambassador William J. Porter said the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have missed opportunities to make peace and urged that negotiations not mere restatement of your begin today. Thuy said the Nixon administration intensifying and expanding the war more than.