Page Two I THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, March 15, 1973 Buyers refuse high be WASHINGTON () - Orders from food chains for wholesale beef have shown a sudden de- cline in the first hint that con- sumers may be rebelling -in large numbers against higher beef prices. Supermarket industry spokes- men said food chains are order- ing less because consumers are buying less, but they cautioned the decline might only be tem- porary. The Washington, D. C., division of Safeway, Inc., confirmed there was lower consumer de- mand for beef in its 240 stores in Washington, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. "Meat sales are soft," the spokesperson said. "Prices are going up and people are looking for substitutes. The consumer is definitely looking around." The National Association of Food Chains, a trade group, said that in a telephone survey last week of 16 food chains, 15 re- ported they were ordering less beef than before. "But the real question is whe- ther this is going to continue," a spokesperson said. "A one- or two-week decline is not going to have any appreciable effect on the wholesale market." T i m o t h y McEnroe, a spokesman for the National As- sociation of Food Chains, warn- ed against jumping to conclu- sions that the decline in demand would continue or that it would result in lower prices. He noted that choice cattle were reported as selling for $45.50 per hundred weight at Om- aha, a record high, and that choice beef carcasses were sell- ing at 70 cents per pound in Chicago, also a record high. SF 1 00, ef costs He said that in order for the consumer to benefit, the lower demand, "has to go all the way back to cattlemen." A spokesman for a major sup- ermarket chain noted it is com- mon for consumers to reduce their purchases of an item after the price goes up. But he said "beef is one item that is unusu- al in that when the price goes up on beef, quite often people still want it even at a higher price.' At the same time, the Cost of Living Council said it has pre- pared a detailed study of how livestock and meat prices could be frozen at levels recorded ear- lier this year. The food industry's advisory committee, named by President Nixon to watch over food prices, rejected the ide, of a moat tice freeze after receiving the study, but a spokesman said the idea could be revived at any time. The Nixon administration view is that' steadily rising consum- er demands for beef in the Unit- ed States was the reason for higher beef prices. The adminis- tration said it has taken steps to increase the supply of beef and has predicted that prices will begin to do down later this year. The Cost of Living Council study on a meat price freeze sug- gested alternative plans, to freeze prices at each stage of produc- tion, beginning with the farmer, or to freeze them at the packers' or retailers' stage. Opponents of farm price con- trols, including Agriculture Sec- retary Earl Butz, contend con- trols would make matters worse by causing shortages and result- ing in establishment of a black market for food. DANCE with (DETROIT and THE ROCKETS) SOUTH QUAD FRIDAY, MARCH 16 Adm. $1-8:30-1 :30 RAMBLE- 217S 2P.M -2AM FREE BEER 1 a mNNW l.D. REQUIRED CO-SPONSORED BY UAC DAYSTAR I AP Photo Snow-bound breakfast Sioux women prepared breakfast at Wounded Knee yesterday while 60-mile an hour winds battered the town. The government later announced it would permit food and fuel through its cordon. NEGOTIATIONS STALL: '. Bizzard hits Wounded Knee TONIGHT! 8:00 P.M. Sharp! 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The council passed a resolu- servers will be permitted to take tion Tuesday asking the Bureau of food, fuel and medical supplies to Indian Affairs (BIA) to remove the militant Indians, who have all nontribesmen from the reser- held the village 15 days. vation - where 11,000 Oglala Sioux Roads in the Pine Ridge Reser- Indians live. vation area were almost impas- The council also approved a res- sable as a blinding snowstorm olution saying AIM would be held struck the area. Four to five in- responsible for all acts of vio- ches of snow was reported on the lence while its members remain- ground, but high winds were caus- I ed on the reservation. ing deep drifting. ' The continuation of negotia- Dick Wilson, chairman of the tions with the Indians in Wounded' Knee hinges on the weather," said Jack Hushen, a government spokesman. MIDNIGHT MOVIE- Jack Murray, an Interior De- partment spokesman, said no time has been set for another meeting between- government and Indian negotiators. However, he said "one will be held." Federal - "authorities were in telephone contact with leaders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Hushen said. However; he would not connment on conditions'_ in the besieged village as the bliz- zard hit southwestern South Da- kota. Wounded Knee is one of eight villages on the reservation. Harlington Wood, an assistant9 U. S. attorney general who met with the Indians at Wounded Knee' Tuesday, said, "There will be no _ 4 ACADEMY AWARD PANAVISION" TECHNICOLOR. NOMINATIONS ALSO CHAPTER 7 OF OL BEST PICTURE -BEST ACTRESS "Flash Gordon" Cicely Tyson Godo -BEST ACTOR Paul Winfield doors open 1:45 p.r -BEST SCREENPLAY not continuous wi next Fri., Sat.-"CATCH 22" Shows Doily at G 1, 3, 5, G 7, 9 p r. SOUNDER" A R'obrt B. Radnitz/Martin Ritt Film 603 east liberty MICHIGAN"I, Th"r Phone 66546290 "Sounder" Will . N a t Show Tomorrow ( Wed.) D u e to Special Organ Show. 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