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Page 4 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1975 § ^?e c liirquoise G §lipp MANOR EAST MALL (Permanent Location) PRICES FROM S6.00 —UP 10% AGGIE DISCOUNT WITH I.D. CARD OPEN 11:00 A.M. DAILY Store points to human error Feds claim Safeway cheats Cai mm de Recipe #456.78cR The Taxco FlZZ: Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission on Monday ac cused Safeway Stores, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, of over pricing and overcharging on adver tised sale items. The FTC has made similar accusations in the past against the country’s second and third largest chains. The latest complaint alleged that a “significant number” of Safeway stores overcharged customers by failing to mark down advertised specials, and selling those items at the regular price. Safeway said that the overcharges were simply a matter of “human er- Safeway said in a statement: “The FTC complaint is based on a survey in 56 Safeway stores in which less than 150 out of 10,000 advertised items were purchased above the ad vertised price. Because human error cannot be completely elimi nated in the complex and demand ing job of checking out grocery pro ducts, some items will be under charged and overcharged. Safeway said that various industry studies have shown that cashier er rors usually result in a net savings for the customer. The FTC’s proposed order would require that all advertised products be marked at sale prices and sold at or below the advertised price. That would not apply, however, when the price ofan advertised item is determined by the total value of a customer’s order or the use of coupons. In addition, the order would re quire Safeway Stores, based in Oak land, Calif, to post at public entr ances and checkout counters copies of their advertisements and a state ment of policy urging customers to report to the store manager any time that the checker has rung up a higher price. Advertised items would not have to be price-marked if the store is equipped with optical .sciinneis which read coded price information on packages, the FTC said. Safeway operates 1,950 retail food stores in 27 states andtheDij. triet of Columbia, and is the largest chain in terms of sales, whidiin 1973 totaled almost $6.8 billion. Safeway officials were ordered a, appear at the FTC headquarters on Oct. 21 to answer the complaint. 1( Safeway contests it, the case will go before an administrativelawjudge. Teacher complaints still airing ULTIMATE GIFT ★ 2 oz. Jose Cuervo Tequila ★ Juice from one lime (or 2 tbsp.) ★ 1 tsp. sugar ★ 2 dashes orange bitters ★ White of one egg ★ A glass is quite helpful, too. v Associated Press Negotiators in the New York school strike hope agreement can be reached Monday night and the city’s 1.1 million students can be back in class Wednesday. Teachers strikes affecting some one million other students continued in Chicago and cities in six other states. As talks resumed in Chicago, the teachers union said it may set up alternative schools and the school board threatened to seek an injunc tion blocking the strike. And in Wilmington, Del., police held off arresting teachers under' a contempt-of-court order in hopes of forcing renewed bar gaining. A strike in Clover Park, Wash., near Tacoma, was also becoming in- Presnal appointed to council JOSE CUERVO® TEQUILA. 80 PROOF. IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY © 1975, HEUBLEIN, INC., HARTFORD, CONN. Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 State Representative Bill Presnal of Bryan has been appointed to serve on a committee of the South ern Legislature Conference of the Council of State Governments. House Speaker Bill Clayton ap pointed Presnal to the Fiscal Affairs and Government Operations Committee of the conference. The conference, made up of 15 southern states, will consider prob lems common to the South. Clayton said Presnal’s • service would be an asset to the committee. creasingly mired in the courts. The school board said it would appeal a judge’s refusal to grant a strike in junction unless the board resigned. He said the board had not bargained in good faith. Some 15,000 students are out of school in the Clos er Park strike. Meanwhile, classes resumed or settlements were reached Monday in teachers' strikes in Lynn and New Bedford, Mass.; San Jose, Calif, and Cumberland and North Provi dence, R.I. Strikes continued in other districts in Rhode Island, California and Pennsylvania, as well as in cities in New York State and New Jerses. In New York Cits, where the negotiations have been rooted in the worst fiscal crisis since the De pression, kes terms of the agree ment reportedly focused on keeping class sizes the same as thes were last school year, a major demand of the 65,()()() striking teachers. These included a cut in school hours, reduction in teacher prep aration time and possible rehiring of laid-off teachers with some $25 mill ion in salaries saved during the strike and fines paid by teachers for striking. The New York negotiations were to resume Monday evening after a recess called for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, and the United Federation of Teachers (l T FT) scheduled a vote by its union dele gates later in the evening. The dele gates approx al could allow comple tion of a ratif ication by Tuesday and students return to classes Wednes day. Union and school board officials both said after the recess began Sunday that they expected an ag reement before Tuesday. “We are near a conclusion,” said UFT president Albert Shanker. The strike began last Tuesday, virtually shutting down the city s 950 public schools. Major issues have been school board efforts to ward economies rather than salaries, which were $9,700 to $20,350 under the old contract. A return to classes would still leave in question the situation of the UFT and Shanker in regard to the state’s Taylor law against public employe strikes. Under the law, the teachers could be fined two days of pay for even day on strike and Shanker could be jailed. He serxed jail sentences twice in the past for leading strikes, but each time after the strikes had ended. In Chicago, a school spokesman again asked teachers to return to work while negotiations continue. Otherwise, he said, the alternative would be “recommendation of an injunction" to halt the strike. A perfect Keepsake diamond of superb white color, precisely cut EMBREY’S JEWELRY Schieffer for Bentson 415 University College Station 9:00-5:30 Mon.-Sat DAL Connalb she ho another trail. i " Hev lie has tl country while In dress tl Repuhl never g< But N John’s emergei I'nivers Student "I kr :areer, ’ mow h< Since he stei narriag nits tin tad its “The ; ” was tl (Continued from Page 1) held in Max along with the state Schools petition primary. Sexentx-fixe per cent of the Texas delegates to the Democ ratic National Conxention will be elected by x oters through senatorial districts. The remaining25 percent will be chosen at the state conxen tion. Associated Press DALLAS — The Highland Park school district Monday filed a peti tion in federal court asking to be dismissed from the Dallas school desegregation suit. Highland Park was the last of seven suburban school districts to respond to a request that U.S. Dis trict Court Judge William M. Taylor include it in a multi-district de segregation plan. Testimony on the proposal was scheduled to begin Tuesday in Taylor’s court. In the petition. Highland Park s laxvyers claimed the 5th U.S. Cir-• cuit Court of Appeals in New Or leans ruled such an interdistrict plan was not appropriate in the Dal las case. The district claims that if the court allows the establishment of an interdistrict plan, it would make it impossible for Taylor s court to comply with the stringent timetable established by the 5th Circuit Court. The plaintiffs brought six other suburban school districts into the suit. Included are Irving, DeSoto, Duncanville, Wi 1 mer-IIutchins, Carrollton-Farmers Branch and Lancaster. At present, Taylor has two de segregation plans before him, one from the Dallas school board and another from the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Col ored People. The appeals court re jected most of Taylor’s 1971 de segregation plan and he was or dered to draw up a new plan and report back by Oct. 15. “This was a compromise of sorts, he said, "to keep alixcan interest in the party structure. Schieffer said theprimarx will in crease the chances of selecting a nominee who can xvin the general election. The present system, he said, makes it easier lor a "one- issue candidate to gain the nomina tion. THE BED LIOI 3606 COLLEGE AVE. DANCING BEST PIZZA IN AGGIELAND NO COVER CHARGE BEER & SET-UPS GAME ROOM TUESDAY SPECIAL: MEN’S POOL TOURNAMENT 8:00 P.M. “One issue, he said, “will not win an election. The primarx is expected to gixe Bentsen an adxantage in gaining Texas xotes at the national conxen tion because it is designed to aid a moderate candidate. But if he can t com ince the xot ers he is the best man for the presi dency, the primarx won t help him, Schieffer said. Eddie Dominguez 66 Joe Arcmiega 74 Greg Price X iC. Schieffer said he contacted Bentsen about the bill after he in troduced it, because he "knexv it wouldn t pass without his support, fie said Bentsen not onlx supported the hill hut worked eloselx xvith him on it. An amendment placed on Sehiel- fer s hill by the Senate causes it to expire in 1977. Schieffer said he op posed the amendment. “I think it was a great mistake, he said. "I plan to introduce a hill to renew the primarx, hut it was xerx difficult to pass once. The Legisla ture might not want to go through that again. m Hi Ml WAS lential iard M in 300 c :o go on equire Presi :ive on Depart oose ei ram un This mts on leeded nev ge Nia Ni< The 1 return applica agencit archive As o said, l 15,500 elation: 5,361 a rants fc The pardon period mende out un Mrs. N The year aj victed deserti out SOI ond ch Hov mated applie If yon .vant the real thing, not frozen or canned . 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