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ft] Food prices slowly going up THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1976 Associated Press Slowlv over weeks and months yin pennies that add up to dollars, "he prices you pay for food are going liP The Agriculture Department says food prices as a whole may go 3 to 4 , rt .‘at higher through June 011977 ■ an they did in the first half of this , Sugar producers say the price of ,l, e i r product should go up because fPresident Ford’s actions Tuesday a tripling the tax on sugar grown lU tside the United States. And the Agriculture Department also announced that the second in crease this year in price supports for manufacturing-grade milk will have some effect on consumers. The government announced on Tuesday that consumer prices in creased by five-tenths of 1 per cent in August. The rate of increase has not changed in the last three months. Labor Department statistics showed that inflation is running at an annual rate of about 6 per cent, in line with administration forecasts. The department said a decline in meat prices failed to offset higher costs for most other foods, fuel and clothing. On the eve of the first debate of the presidential campaign, the White House noted that consumer prices have been relatively stable for nearly six months, and spokesman Ron Nessen said President Ford feels “it is essential to continue steps to hold down inflation.” And Ford, under pressure from Southern congressmen from areas he will visit next week, took steps to bolster sagging sugar prices. Saying he was protecting domestic sugar producers. Ford tripled the imported sugar tariff from 62.5 cents per hundred pounds to $1.87 1 /2. Sugar producers predicted that the decision by Ford would mean retail prices will increase in the short run by about a penny a pound. Some producers complained that the tariff hike wasn’t enough. At the same time, the Agriculture Department said Americans are eat ing more red meat than they have in four years, and it said that if the trend continues it will insure stabil ity for beef prices. But Rep. William R. Cotter, D-Conn., said Tuesday the depart ment is ignoring the drought and its effect of cattle feed. He said taking the drought into consideration indi cates consumers will have to pay up to 50 per cent more for beef by the second half of 1977 and 1978. Some economists say short prod uction of beef next year will push food prices higher than the Agricul ture Department predicts. The department also said Tuesday that the second increase this year in price supports for manufacturing- grade milk will have only a slight affect at most for consumers. On Oct. 1, the support price for milk used in making butter, cheese, ice cream and other by-products will increase 13 cents a hundredweight, to $8.26. Ecological fantasies’ cited Scientist decries doom warnings :hy Rirfii najor, ill con- Lobby, uit on NASA bout il. H was get an kid e,” uld be soil suit,' , was ith a so; d r intedom iross sail 1 transpoo a 10-fixt tribute it i ankles. isporle; i pounds, has a si can ope; it Davids hours. the medi pe. It w tment ii orking o« not inter- hich dei ■oss said ’Xdl J| n officers I und, E 1 ;! metre® ilture. e and tl* I est in re j ;nbers !l | [east-■'J n of id e of tkt I dedged require to appo d to ae | ofp' 1 n’gn I ining'■ I peases- idappH ed I meat adense I ipus ad I natter* By RAYNER PIKE Associated Press NEW YORK — True or false? 1. Lake Erie is dead. 2. DDT causes cancer. 3. The world’s oxygen is being depleted. 4. Watermelons falling from airplanes are a major threat to life. If you think the first three are true, then you may as well say “yes” to No. 4, too, says a New York scien tist who believes Americans are under the thrall of what he calls ecological fantasies. Cy Adler, oceanographer and en gineer, says messengers of ecological doom often raise alarms about dan gers .almost as remote as airborne melons. "During the 1960s I began to notice that many of the technical re ports crossing my desk conflicted with stories of environmental disas ter then rampant, he said. For example, technical data indi cated air quality improving in cities, but one day his mail brought another message. “This pamphlet from the air pol- ution commissioner said the aver age New Yorker was breathing 730 pounds of air pollution a year. Now that’s a lot. It’s two pounds a day. I figured I should at least he gaining weight from it. As an engineering consultant and former teacher of physics, math and oceanography, Adler says he’d be the last to claim pollution is not a problem. Rut he maintains that much of human progress is marked by acceptance of some undesirable consequences in exchange for tre mendous advances. “Before the era of mass communi cation, myths propagated slowly from individual to individual,’ Adler writes in his hook “Ecological Fan tasies.” “But now a lunatic with a microphone and money can spread his version of unreality across the face of the land. In a recent interview in his journal-cluttered office in downtown Manhattan, Adler said ruefully that scientists who share his outlook ha ven’t access to large audiences. “The media, he said, “are in terested in scare stories: Lake Erie is dead! Big TV thing. ‘Who killed Lake Erie?’ ” Paul Ehrlich, the Stanford Uni versity biologist Adler calls a “stern minstrel of fairy tales, wrote an obituary of the lake that said: No one is his right mind would eat a Lake Erie fish. “He’s wrong,” said Adler. “People in New York and all over the country are eating them, and they re not lunatics. Adler depicts the lake water as wretched smelling and evil looking around industrial sites on its south shore, but says it otherwise is clean, potable, supports more fish than all the other Great Lakes combined. Ehrlich, reached by telephone on a field trip, stood by his description of the lake as dead and added: “The alarm that was raised by environ mentalists about 10 years ago has done a lot to start it on the road to recovery.” As for Alder’s general view of the environmental movement, Ehrlich commented: “If you understand ex ponential growth and the data that exist on the assaults mankind is launching on the ecological systems of the planet, you’ll see that histori cal experience is no guide what soever to the present-day situation, which in fact is unprecedented.” The record shows, Adler coun ters, that individual well-being and life expectancy have improved even Ringleader testifies dope smuggled to U.S. More health-care services needed, HEW witnesses say Associated Press ARLINGTON, Tex. — There is an acute need for more health care services at homes for the elderly, federal Health, Education and Wel fare officials were told Tuesday. The^estimony came from most of the 23 witnesses who appeared be- foreaspecial committee of HEW led by Stuart H. Clarke, regional direc tor for Dallas. The hearing is part of a new HEW policy aimed at gathering public reaction and information before new regulations on medicare-medicaid belp are instituted. HEW is currently considering changes in medicare-medicaid regu lations that would allow some pa tients to receive health care at home instead of at hospitals or nursing bonnes. hoy L. Swift, representing the Texas Senior Citizens Association, told the committee that “the day is a Pproaching when senior citizens "Hist decide between remaining in their homes without health or being kept in nursing homes or hospitals which are really warehouses to wait in until the hearse comes.” HEW officials said that currently home care costs about $500 million annually and includes treatment and care of patients. Swift said the total is only “one per cent of the $100 billion expenditure for all health services and is drasti cally low.” He said that some of the problems faced by elderly seeking home care services under federal programs are the “ignorance, indifference or out right hostility” of physicians. A spokesman for HEW in Dallas said the idea behind the proposed regulations is to “provide health care in a home setting which sometimes can be better than a hospital or a nursing home.” He said this can be done some times even cheaper than it is now done through an institution. The hearing resumed today. Associated Press DALLAS — A former co defendant of accused drug smuggl ing ringleader Joe Dee Hicks has tes tified that he made 40 overseas trips and smuggled cocaine and heroin back into the states 20 to 35 times. Coleman Ray Bandy, 35, testified in Dallas federal court yesterday thpt drug-buying trips were made to Bangkok, Thailand; Saigon; Bogota, Colombia; Peru and Eduador in 1973. Bandy pleaded guilty to two counts of cocaine smuggling last months in return for his government testimony. Hicks, his wife Janet and Charles Lidge Bolts are on trial" on charges of conspiring to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Bandy, who is from Argyle, Tex., said he was paid $2,500 per trip to deliver narcotics to Hicks Plano, Tex., home. He also testified that he 1 had dealings with Mrs. Hicks and Bolts. Bandy said he made at least $40,000 in 1974 and 1975 smuggling drugs into the United States. Seven other defendants have pleaded guilty in the case and are awaiting sentencing. Four others are still at large. Testimony will continue today. A N □ E 5 LTD. RENTALS; low rates for all rivers SALES: Aluminum & ABS Canoes Eureka Tents, Paddles Maps, Camp Trails Packs Your TEXAS CANOE TRAILS Agent for canoe, kayak, raft rentals on the GUADALUPE RIVER. $16/day in cludes shuttle. 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TEXAS RAMADA INN ; RedKpn 846-1441 COLLEGE STATION as industrial pollution has mush roomed. “I’m not arguing that pollution is good for people, but rather that it is a relatively minor nuisance compared with other causes of death and un happiness, such as war, cigarette smoking and alcoholism,” he said. “Without question, most air, water, land and noise pollution springs from our use of internal combustion vehi cles,” he said. As for suburban living, he says, compared to an average family in a Manhattan apartment, a neighbor ing suburban family on Long Island “generates more than three times as much air pollution, about 15per cent more solid waste, considerably more insecticide and pesticide runoff, at least 10 per cent more thermal waste from home heating . . . greater waste of wood and other natural re sources. As for depletion of oxygen, Adler says the earth’s oxygen level has re mained constant for at least the last 60 years. Data and experience also have led him to conclude that other concerns — DDT, mercury levels in fish, phosphates in detergents, thermal pollution from power plants, oil spills as threats to oceans, etc., — may be overrated. 12-year-old cupcake strong Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Carefully protected from the maraudings of ants and mice, a 12-year-old cup cake nestles in a special box at the home of Sara Ogg in Columbus, awaiting its next appearance. The cupcake, with carmel icing slowing losing its color and pecan bits on top held in place by wax, has become a family keepsake, emerg ing from its box on birthdays, an niversaries and special events. Its next appearance is scheduled for October, when Mrs. Ogg’s sec ond child is due. “Some people are mortified that I have kept it,’’ she said. “Others have no idea why I’m keeping it. That cupcake and I had a milestone this summer. It was 12 and I turned 30. “I intend to pass the cupcake down to my children. The cupcake first came into Mrs. Ogg’s life in 1964 as an 18th birth day present from her father’s secre tary . “I just stuck it in a drawer,” she said. “When I came home at Christmas, I discovered it. 1 kept it and next year brought it out for my birthday.” Mrs. Ogg says she’s tried to have the cupcake bronzed, but local out lets have refused. NEED EXTRA CASH? Become a Plasma Donor at Plasma Product Inc. 313 College Main, College Station Cash given with each Donation. 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