Wednesday, September 18, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three White House criticizes New effort j m Chrysler price rise By The Associated Press A Chrysler Corporation an- nouncement of a priee increase on its 1969 m o d e l s was promptly criticized by White House econo- 'mists as "a severe setback to the cause of price stability." President Johnson condemned the price boost yesterday, saying it would take $750 million from pockets of American families buy- ing new cars if it spreads through- out the industry. "This," Johnson said in a state- ment, "is an onerous and unfair burden on the consumer. "The Cabinet Committee on Price Stability hag informed me that there is absolutely no excuse for the, Chrysler action and that Salazar stl critcally ill;. council held LISBON {/')-Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar clung precalriously to life yesterday as Portugal's Council of State mnet in emergency session. The 15-member body, from which President Americo 'Thomaz must draw advice to name a suc- cessor should Salazar die or be- come incapacitated, conferred for twThere was no communique after I' the meetipg. The 79-year-old Salazar, Eu- rope's most durable strong man, was reported still in a coma but had rallied slightly from the crippling stroke that brought him close to death Monday. Aftter remaining silent Lisbon's controlled newspaper and the na- tional radio informed the people of his condition. Giant, fPoster, from any Photo this p r i c e increase should not stand." * Johnson said the Chrysler ac- tion represents a sharp blow to: the national battle against eco- nomic inflation. He called on car. makers to rec- ognize the public interest and "ex- ercise restraint and responsibilityt at this critical hour" in the bat-' tle against inflation. Chrysler announced Monday it is raising prices on new modelsi an average of $89 a- car, or 2.9 per7 cent. Johnson called this exces- sive, as did Arthur M- Okun, chairman of his price stability committee. OKUN STATEMENT In its statement, issued by com- mittee chairman Okun, the Coun- cil of Economic Advisers said, "We1 urgently request the other auto- mobile manufacturers to head off this -d a n g e r o u s inflationary threat." F o r d, General Motors andt American Motors are expected to announce n e w prices for 1969 models within the next two weeks. Chrysler cited increased labor1 and material costs as key reasonsz for the price boosts on the new cars which go on sale tomorrow. Prices as released by Chrysler] for the 1969 models did not in- clude the seven per cent federalI excise tax, dealer charges fort handling and preparingnew cars for customers, shipping charges1 and state and local taxes. AP ESTIMATES{ An Associated Press computa-t tion put the average pr i c e ofc Chrysler's 172 ,different 1969 mo- dels at $2,917.44, an increase df $128.11, or 4.4 per cent over the average price of the different 1601 1968dmodels which could be com- pared, to the 1969's. In an apparent attempt to meet government criticism ahead of time, John J. Riccardo, Chrysler's group vice president for U.S. and 1 Canadian automotive, includedt the following statement in his p r i c e increase announcement Monday:t "The goverriment's own figures1 from the bureau of Labor statist- ics for July 1968, show that newt car prices have declined by 17.9 per cent in relation to all itemst included in the consumer pricef index, since the 1957-59 base per-1 iod. These same figures also show9 that this is the hest record on re-r tail prices established by any ma- jor group of consumer products in, the past 10 years." t to end N.Y. strike fails NEW YORK (A')-A new effort by School Supt. Bernard E. Dono- van to end a citywide teachers' strike was. angrily rebuffed yes- terday by Rhody A. McCoy, Negro administrator of a Brooklyn school district. McCoy accused Donovan of col- lusion with Albert Shanker, presi- dent of the striking AFL-CIO United Federation of Teachers. Shanker, saying he saw "no agreement on anything of sub- stance," called for around-the- clock negotiations 'to end the strike which has kept most of the city's 1.1 million pupils out of class for five of the first seven days of the fall term. The teachers struck over job security they felt was threatened by decentralization 'of the huge school system-giving more power to neighborhood school boards. )LINES DRAWN The lines have been drawn over the ouster last spring of a group of teachers in McCoy's Ocean Hill-3 Brownsville District, which trig- gered a walkout by their col- leagues in the district. Since the spring walkout, the local board has replaced a number of the teachers involved. The UFT has demanded that they be re- turned to their classrooms. Donovan directed McCoy Tues- day, to reinstate 100 teachers in the mostly Negro and Puerto Rican district and to guarantee a quiet atmosphere for teaching. McCoy fired back at a news conference that Donovan and Shanker were trying to dictate a settlement and said he would not accept it if it cost him his job.- STRIPPED OF DIGNITY Hie said Donovan and Shanker had "stripped the Black and Puer- to Rican man of dignity and self- respect." "They jointly make a decision to determine the actions of a third party. It's indecent," McCoy said. "The public, watching these ad-. tions," he continued, "is witness- ing the death of a Black and Puer- to Rican community whose quest for . self-determination has been killed by one of the most unholy and unprofessional marriages in modern history." At a separate news conference, Shanker demanded further Liego- tiations. I 3 i i 3 I' E i a i I Senate Judiciary approves Fortas WASHINGTON WA - By an 11-6 vote, the Senate Judic- iary Committee approved yesterday President Johnson's hotly contested nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice of the United States. Senate debate on the nomination is expected'!to start the first of next week, with opponents vowing to wage a filibuster if necessary to block confirmation. Leaders of both parties have expressed doubt that a fili- buster can be broken. A two-thirds majority of senators vot- ing is required to invoke the Senate's debate-limiting cloture rule. The committee vote, after precedent-setting hearings at which Fortas was the first nominee for chief justice ever questioned by a congressional committee, turned out as ex- pected. Johnson, who submitted Fortas's nomination to the Sen- ate on June 26, had no comment. An associate justice of the Supreme Court since 1965, Fortas was nominated to succeed Chief Justice Earl Warren, who is retiring. Johnson nominated another old friend and advisor, Cir- cuit Court Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, to replace For- tas as an associate justice. The President has accepted Warren's profferred retire- ment effective upon Senate confirmation of a successor. Thornberry's nomination has been set aside by the Judic- iary Committee pending the outcome of Senate action on Fortas's appointment. - T Kennedy approves Fortas Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) and Birch Bayh (D-Ind) awaited the start of yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee meeting together, be fore voting to approve Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas as chief justice. The nomination has been tied up in the committee for months and was only voted out by a compromise between foes and supporters of his nomination. 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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 In Ottawa, Foreign Secretary 8:30 P.M..... Mitchell W. Sharp said Canada University Special Events will raise the Biafra-Nigeria ques- Building tion in the United Nations if the s f Organization of African Unity does not. Leaders reportedly h a v e made tentative plans to force a vote Sept. 27 on cutting off the expected filibuster. If this fails, a second attempt may be made in the middle of the following week, provided the iirst vote comes close to the re- quired two-thirds majority. Should two attempts to invoke the cloture rule fail, the fight to win Fortas's confirmation pre- sumably would be abandoned. An amendment to the gun con- trol bill now before the Senate may be seized on by opponents to get in some licks at Fortas before the debate on his nomination starts. The amendment, offered Mon- day by Republican leader Dirksen, would bar the Supreme C o u r t from overturning obscenity rul- ings of, federal juries and state courts. Dirksen, who is supporting For- tas's nomination, said that the way tocombat the circulation of obscene materials is through leg- islation, not by opposing the ap- pointment of a chief justice. But senators who have made an issue of Forta§'s support of Su- preme Court decisions reversing obscenity convictions reportedly, plan to emphasize this in debate on the gun bill in an effort to gain votes against his confirma- tion. Some opponents are passing the' word that the'y think it may be possible to defeat Fortas's con- firmation on a straight up-and- down vote, without resorting to a filibuster /' Only Monday, Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N.D.), announced he was switching his position a n d would vote against confirmation because of a 5-4 Supreme Court decision, in which Fortas joined, reversing an obscenity conviction in California involving three strip- tease films. Nuclear pact up for vote; no datef set WASHINGTON (A) - The Seh- ate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday approved a treaty to halt the spread of nuclear weap- ons and sent it to the floor for action. The vote was 13-3,, with three abstentions. T h e majority overrode objec- tions of members who urged de- lay because of the Soviet-led in- vasion of Czechoslovakia. Acting Chairman John Spark-. man (D-Ala.) said he hoped the Senate would act during the cur- rent session of Congress, on the nonproliferation treaty. No date has been set for a Senate vote. A two-thirds vote will be need- ed to give Senate consent to the treaty under terms of the Consti- tution. The heavy endorsement in the committee came after weeks of uncertainty over whether the treaty would reach the floor in view of the Czech crisis and con- cern about other Soviet intentions. Russia has signed th e treaty and Senate.-critics h a d argued i m m e d i a t e U.S. participation would be a gesture of cooperation with that cq ntry at the same time it was being accused of ag- gression. Backers urged that the treaty be considered a step toward head- ing off a nuclear war and not con- nected to the Soviet actions. The treaty would pledge nu- clear nations signing it not to give nuclear weapons or the know-how to make them to countries not now possessing them. Non-nuclear countries would pledge they will not seek or ac- quire such weapons. Senate votes life sentences for crimes involving guns' WASHINGTON (R) - The Sen- ate voted yesterday to make pun- ishable by life imprisonment the use of, firearms in numerous fed- eral crimes. Sen. Peter H. Dominick (R- Colo.) proposed the amendment to. a bill prohibiting interstate mail order sales of rifles and shotguns. Numerous amendments remain to be acted on, including proposed registration of firearms and lic- ensing of owners, but leadiers are hopeful of passing the bill before the end of the week. Dominick t o 1 d the Senate it would serve notice on anyone armed with a gun while commit- ting a federal crime of violence that he was running the risk of life imprisonment. Dominick's amendment provides that in addition to the present penalty for such a crime, a per- son may be sentenced to imprison- ment for an indeterminate num- ber of years up to life if carrying a firearm wile committing the crime. The Senate also adopted by voice vote an amendment to pro- hibit the confiscation by a gov- ernment agency of a n y legally held and used firearm. - Sen. Daniel Brewster (D-Md.) said there is nothing in the bill that would allow confiscation but there is widespread concern among ' gun owners that firearms control could eventually lead to that. Also accepted as p art of the firearms control ; measure was a provision making an exception to an over-all ban on over-the-coun- ter sales of rifles and shotgun~s to non-residents of q state. The exception, written into the bill by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, permits a person to make a purchase in an adjoining state if this complies with the laws of both states. The bill provides that in these sales, as well as mail order sales within a state, a buyer must file an affidavit of eligibility and the seller must hold up delivery for seven days to give police a chance to object. The Senate rejected 45 to 42 an amendment by Dodd to tighten up a requirement that an applicant for a dealer's, license must have premises from which he conducts or intends to conduct business. Dodd's amendment would have specifically required a dealer to have business premises, as dis- tinguished from someone who might handle sales of firearms or ammunition from his home. - NATIONAL GENERAL CORPORAIO FOX EASTERN THEARES(o FOR VILLBE 375 No. MAPLE RD.'769-1300 PRIOR TO BROADWAY! SEPTEMBER 17-29 M OLI ERE'S' 9 4 Resistance Open House WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, September 18 and 19 8-11 P.M. HELD OVER I I in~.u - - ~ - I -E - UUW