The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, November 29, 1978-Page 7 Businesses unhappy with new bottle bill Dollar sinks to half of '67 value (Continued from Page 1) IN SOME CASES the retailers will have to hire more personnel and add storage space to handle the bottles and cans. Campus Corners, Village Corner, Big Ten Party Store, and Main Party Store all have renovation plans. Village Cor- ner will double its space within the next two months, and many items will be unavailable until the space is added. Many of the slower moving beers will be eliminated from retail lines because of the space problems, and stores will be looking for items which move, quickly. SEVERAL DOMESTIC beers will be unavailable because manufacturers and distributors don't intend to make special provisions for sale in the state of Michigan. Retailers still don't know which beers they will not be s lling until the use of returnables is well nderway. The foreign beer line will also be cut because, as one retailer says, "A Ger- many brewery won't make a special bottle for the state of Michigan." Steve Kurtti, manager of Ann's Party Pantry explained his store came up with a hand-out explaining the bottle bill to customers, detailing procedures for handling. The hand-out also makes custemers aware of cost increases. HUCKLEBERRY PARTY Store manager Robert Jousma said his business is hiring someone to work everyday for-two hours just handling the return of bottles and cans. Josuma said most stores won't be handling half the brands they offered before the bot- tle bill takes affect, although exactly what will be unavailable has not been determined. Josuma said a beer has to be a full case item before it can be returned, and he is looking for items which will go quickly. The store will no longer be selling 7-Up in bottles or cans. The domestic beers they will be dropping include Hamm's and Black Label. The Keg in Ypsilanti has an area set up specifically for the return of bottles and cans. It has also established a procedure for handling the returns. The business reports long lines for retur- ning of bottles. DAN SHARP, an aide to state Representative Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) who drafted the first version of the bill, said that although the public and businesses are complaining about the bill, and think it won't really make a difference, he believes people will begin to notice less litter along the highways. "People will be less apt to throw away bottles and cans that cost them money," said Sharp. Sharp said distributors and retailers are involved in "the biggest lie cam- paign" and are making the bill difficult for the public. He said, "Businesses are using harassing tactics to get their customers to complain about the bill." A retail group recently announced it would launch a petition drive for repeal of the bill. Sharp said Bullard is drafting legislation designed to clear up some aspects of the law, including whether. businesses will be forced to accept crushed cans for return, a practice which is discouraging to many customers. Currently, all retailers require the cans be clean and in their original condition. WASHINGTON (AP) - A dollar will buy only half as much as it did 11 years ago, the government said yesterday as it released figures showing a new surge in food prices last month. In its monthly report on inflation, the Labor Department said hikes in beef, poultry and pork prices in October helped push consumer prices up 0.8 per cent for the second straight month - a rate of 9.6 per cent if averaged over the entire year. ALFRED KAHN, chairman of the Council on Wage -and Price Stability, said the October price increases show inflation is now running near 10 per cent, nearly two per cent higher than any administration official has yet ad- mitted. Prices have risen 8.9 per cent in the past year, and most economists have. predicted the 1978 inflation rate will end up between 8.5 and nine per cent. Government figures on personal in- come, adjusted for inflation and taxes, show that the average annual income per person in the United States is almost $300 above what it was 11 years ago. But one private study concludes that it will take until 1983 for an average family to recover the buying power it lost in the recession that hit the United States in 1974-75. ECONOMISTS SAY the government figures mask some dramatic changes in an inflationary economy. "We probably are a little better off than we were in 1967," said Jay Siegel, a consumer economist at Data Resour- ces Inc., a Lexington, Mass., economic- research company which completed a study on consumer prices. But he added that 1967 is a relatively favorable year for comparison because consumer prices were rising at three per cent to four per cent a year in the late 1960s. The new figures prompted George Meany, presid nt of the AFL-CIO, to repeat his call for mandatory wage and price controls to replace Carter's voluntary anti-inflation program. "The average workers' wages ... just cannot keep up with the price tag in essentials," Meany said. "It is obvious that speeches and threats not based on legislative authority will not cure inflation. The need for a statutory, across-the-board controls program becomes daily more ap- parent." THE HIKE IN the Consumer Price Index triggered automatic 19-cent-per- hour wage increases for about 820,000 hourly workers for the Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp. Food prices have increased 116 per cent in the past 11 years; fuel cost 120 per cent and housing, which also hits young families, is 109 per cent higher than in 1967. Although Social Security benefits are now tied to the government cost-of- living index, the American Association of Retired Persons argues that since 1970 prices for the elderly have risen about four per cent faster than overall prices because more of their budget goes for items hardest hit by price in- creases. Romania angers Pact members RoneCountiy Ski Weeks 8 Christmas New Year's Dec. 22-2 7 Dec. 2 7-Jan. f $60 per person/per week INCLUDES " 5 nights lodging at CAMP SEA GULL overlooking beautiful Lake Charlevoix " Full Breakfast & Dinner Daily * X-Country Trails (Beg. to Expert) * Minutes to Boyne Mt. & Highlands 9 Skiers'lodge with fireplaces, rec room and T.V. lounge CALL 313-355-3114 VIENNA, Aistria (AP) - Maverick Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauscescu's opposition to increasing Warsaw Pact defense spending has prompted other pact members to recall their envoys from Romania, sources in Bucharest said yesterday. 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