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YEAR-END REPORT:
Inflation up 3.4%
Hippies flock to N. Sumatra
for cheap grass, easy living
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Chester Himes'
Ossie Davis'
WASHINGTON (M) -- Consumer
prices rose moderately in Decem-
ber, closing out 1972 with a 3.4 per
cent increase in the rate of infla-
tion, the same as 1971, the gov-
ernment reported yesterday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS), said, however, that prev-
iously reported sharp increases in
wholesale prices, particularly for
food, were not reflected in t h e
December Consumer Price Index
report.
Consumers may be noticing the
increase this monthbthe BLS hint-
ed.
Herbert Stein, chairman of t h e
President's Council of Economic
Advisors, said rising retail f o o d
prices are to be expected in the
months ahead."
He noted that the administra-
tion has decided to retain price
controls on food and is trying to
increase food production as well
as reduce the amount of food held
in stocks.
As for other price increases,
Stein said, "the administration has
and will use, if necessary, manda-
tory authority to prevent excessive
increases."~
There were lowerrprices report-
ed for meat, fresh fruits, and used
cars, the BLS said. But increases
in new car prices, mainly because
of a Price Commission order allow-
ing price boosts on 1973 models,
pushed up the index for nonfood
commodities.
The 3.4 per cent annual increase
in inflation was over the Nixon
administration's target. It h a d
hoped to cut inflation to the range
of 2 to 3 per cent by the end of the
year.
Stein said that the December in-
crease was well within the target.
The administration never said whe-
ther the target applied to one
month, a quarter, six months or a
year.
"Conditions have improved for
reaching reasonable price stabil-
ity," Stein said in a statement.
In another report, the B L S
said that average weekly earnings
of American workers rose 2.7 per
cent in 1972. The figure is adjusted
to eliminate the effect of inflation.,
INDONESIA (Reuters) - West-
ern hippies are flocking to North
Sumatra around the city of Me-
dan, attracted by the cheap mari-
juana and easy living.
Marijuana grows in profusion in
this part of Sumatra and the local
residents have used it for years-
to spice their food and cure upset
stomachs and sore feet.
For years government officials
ignored the fact that the sale and
purchase of genja (its local name)
by the kilogramm was as simple
and about as risky as buying ciga-
rettes.
But North Sumatra's sudden
popularity among young western-
ers and a growing smuggling trade
which brought pressure from other
governments, along with signs
that young Indonesians were start-
ing to cmoke it in large numbers,
has brought about a police crack-
down.
Police have brned off more than
240 acres of marijuana plants
aroundrCedan in the past few
months and farmers have been
sternly warned about growing it.
But supplies show no signs of
drying up. All police have appar-
ently succeeded in doingso far is
pushing the sources of supply far-
ther from the city.
Genja's most famous traditional
use here is in curries. The dried
marijuana leaves give a fine flav-
or to the food and Indonesian cab-
inet ministers have been among
those to praise its excellence.
One government official, de-
scribing how good it was, said,
"after eating it you feel satis-
fied. And yeah, rather light in the
head."
Farmers use it as an herb to treat
foot trouble in their cattle and also
feed the green leaves to them. The
leaves, boiled in water, are also
a traditional cure for human stom-
ach ailments.
Farmers who have long made
marijuana a profitable sideline
have defended their crops from po-
lice raids by planting it further
from the roads.
Several foreigners have been ar-
rested for trying to smuggle mari-
juana abroad from here or for
possession of the drug.
The major case to come before
the courts involved a young Aus-
tralian, David Theiler, 22, of Mel-
bourne, who was arrested in Ja-
karta as he arrived from Medan
with two suitcases allegedly pack-
ed with marijuana.
He was sentenced to two years
jail in October last year.
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