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The Michigan Daily-Friday, January 13, 1978-Page 13
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushed by
hi her food costs, wholesale prices
inreased 0.7 per cent in December
an d brought the total increase for the
year to 6.6 per cent, the government
reported yesterday.
The 12-month price rise was twice
the 3.3 per cent gain in 1976 and
reflected a quickening in the pace of
inflation during the year, although it
was in line with government fore-
casts.
GM
re'veals
pollution
controls
MILFORD (UPI) - General Mo-
tors Corp. yesterday unveiled a new
emission-control system it said will
eliminate its cars as "significant con-
tributors" to air pollution in the
1990s.
The system, called a three-way
catalytic converter, already is being
installed in some GM cars sold in
California. It is the first converter
made by GM that controls all three
federally regulated pollutants.
FRED BOWDITCH, executive as-
sistant to GM's vice president for
environmental affairs, said the sys-
tem is the first to reduce emissions of
nitrogen oxides from auto exhausts
while doing the same job as current
atalytic converters, which clean up
arbon monoxide and hydrocarbons.
The converters are now used in
four-cylinder Pontial Sunbirds, the
Chevrolet Monzas and Oldsmobile
Starfires sold in California. They will
be installed in all GM cars, except
diesels, in 1981 to meet the anti-pollu-
tion standards of the Clean Air Act,
officials said.
The new system is expected to add
from $165 to $185 to the present cost of
GM emission systems, which aver-
age about $200, officials said.
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le prices ri
WHOLESALE PRICES had ad-
vanced 0.4 per cent in November and
0.8 per cent in October.
Prices of foods ready for the
consumer rose by 1.5 pe cent in
December, up from an 0.4 per cent
gain in November and the biggest
one-month jump in seven months.
The December rise in food prices
signaled higher grocery bills for
consumers, especially for pork, poul-
try and vegetable oil products, all of
which rose substantially.
PRICES ALSO increased for fish
ahd dairy products, processed fruits
and vegetables, and eggs, while there
were declines for fresh and dried
vegetables, fresh fruits and coffee.
Changes in wholesale food prices
frequently show up in supermarkets
s
e by 6.6%
within a few weeks.
'However, other than food costs the
price trends for consumers in De-
cember were favorable and did not
indicate that the 1977 speedup in
inflation was getting any worse as
the year drew to a close.
THE CARTER administration is
expecting inflation to continue at a
rate of between six per cent and
seven per cent in 1978.
Prices for finished goods, other
than foods, rose 0.3 per cent in
December, down from 0.4 per cent in
November and 0.9 per cent in
October. Finished goods prices in-
clude both goods ready for the
consumer, up 0.2 per cent, and
producer goods such as machinery,
up 0.5 per cent.
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