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Poll indicates
shopper fury
over food costs
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(AP) - Supermarket shoppers are
angrier over food bills than they have
been since 1977 and more than one-third
blame the government for high prices,
says a study on consumer views of the
economy in general and grocery stores
inparticular.
The study, by Louis Harris and
Associates Inc., also shows that
Americans think unemployment would
be a more serious problem for the
nation than inflation - a change from
recent years when people were more
worried about rising prices than about
joblessness.,
THE STUDY is one of a continuing
series, begun in 1974 and sponsored by
the Food Marketing Institute, a trade
association representing grocery stores
and supermarkets.
The latest findings, made public
earlier this month at the institute's
convention in Dallas, are based on in-
terviews with a sample of 1,007 men and
women interviewed by telephone in
January."
The researchers calculated an
"Outrageous Food Price Index" - a
composite figure based on the number
of shoppers who say they are outraged
by the price of 11 food items.
AS OF JANUARY, the index stood at
18.5- - up four points from the 1980
reading of 14.5 and higher than at any
time since 1977 when it was 2.1. The all-
time high for the "Outrageous Food
Price Index" was 28.2 in 1974.
Asked who was to blame for high food
prices, 34 percent of those questioned -
just over one-third - pointed the finger
at government. In 1980, 42 percent of
the survey participants said the gover-
nment was responsible for the high
prices.
One-fifth of those questioned for the
1981 survey said middlemen were to
blame for food prices, although there
was no definition of the term given. The
remaining respondents blamed the
public itself, unions, food manufac-
turers, supermarkets and a variety of
other people.
SHOPPERS GENERALLY are not
optimistic about the economy or their
own financial future. Sixty-eight per-
cent said it was harder to make ends
meet; only 28 percent expect'their
economic situation to improve in the
next year; and 72 percent said prices
were rising faster today than they were
a year ago, despite the fact that the in-
flation rate has eased recently.
When asked whether rising prices or
unemployment would be worse for the
country, 50 pereent of the respondents
said joblessness would be a more
serious problem. Thirty-sevenapercent
said inflation was worse. The Harris
researchers said the finding may show
that public attention has turned to the
issue of jobs because of "the new ad-
ministration's perceived policy
toward inflation - to stop rising prices
even if it means bigger unem-
ployment."
Today
Daylight savings time
THE UNIVERSITY Cashier's Office - the place where students go to
pick up their Guaranteed Student Loans or to pay their tuition bills -
has announced that it will be cutting back its office hours ly one hour. James
Gribble, the University cashier, announced that the teller windows in the
LSA building will open at 9 a.m. - instead of 8 a.m. - effective Monday,
June 1. "This change is being implemented, in response to budget
limitations, to improve staffing and procedural efficiencies in the processing
of transactions and the timely deposit of funds," Gribble said in a press
release. The office closes at 4 p.m.
Today's weather
Scattered showers today with a high in the upper 70s.
Happenings ...
SATURDAY
FILMS
Alt Act - Grateful Dead Movie, 7:30 & 10 p.m., MLB 3.
AAFC -Eraserhead, 7 & 10:20 p.m.; Freaks, 8:40 p.m., MLB 4.
CG - The Man Who Fell to Earth, 7 & 9:15 p.m., Lorch Hall.
C2 - Night of Cabiria, 7:30 p.m., Juliet of the Spirits, 9:30 p.m., Angell
Aud.A.
MISCELLANEOUS
WCC - Women's Speak-out, conference on how the state's economy affec-
ts women, with state Rep. Perry Bullard and state Sen. Ed. Pierce, 10 a.m.-1
p.m., Washtenaw Community College, Aud. II.
Solo Alliance - Concert, 8p.m., Canterbury Loft, 332S. State.
Border's Books - Book signing by author Al Slote, 2-4 p.m., Border's Book
Shpp.
Theosophical Society,- discussion, "The Occult Anatomy of Man," 3 p.m.,
Carriage House, 1917 Washtenaw.
SUNDAY
FILMS
CG - Stage Door, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Lorch Hall.
MISCELLANEOUS
SYDA - Open House, 1520 Hill.
Karma Thegsum Choling - Discussion, on Buddhist Texts, 4 p.m., 734
Fountain.
SOTF - Conference for Save Our Tim Foundation, 727 Packard.
SEVA - Send-off Party, hot-air balloon rides, bands, sports, 2 p.m.
Buhr Park. MONDAY
MISCELLANEOUS
Council of Black Students Org. - Mtg., 7 p.m., Trotter House, 1443
Washtenaw.
Med Center Bible Study - Mtg., 12:15 p.m., W5603 Main Hosp. Nuc. Med.
Conf. Km.
SACUA - Mtg., 1:15 p.m.,,4025 Administrtation Bldg.
Blind Pig - Parformance, Boogie Woogie Red, The Blind Pig, 208 S. First.
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Vol. XCI, No. 18-S
Saturday, May 30, 1981
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Seoul government
shrugs off protests
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The
government is shrugging off the week
of anti-government protests at Seoul
National University as an isolated in-
cident that poses no threat to President
Chun Doo-hwan.
Whether the demonstrations - which
erupted on campus for three days this
week - will continue, is hard to say.
But the revival of student unrest this
spring term stirs memories of the role
students have played in modern South
Korea.
Campus demonstrations charging
election fraud sparked the downfall in
1960 of President Syngman Rhee, the
conservative who dominated South
Korean'politics since the republic was
established in 1948.
WEDNESDAY WAS the first an-
niversary of the day military forces
moved to crush a 10-day uprising in the
southern city of Kwangju. Authorities-
said 189 people died in the rebellion;
unofficial sources say many more were
killed.
Some student activists called for ob-
servance of the anniversary, and up to
1,000 students gathered on the
sprawling campus, some throwing
rocks, in periodic demonstrations
broken up by tear gas-firing police.
Wednesday, a 22-year-old student
plunged to his death from a fifth-floor
balcony of the school library after
shouting slogans denouncing the gover-
nment. Whether he was pushed or jum-
ped is under investigation by
authorities.
YESTERDAY, ABOUT 700 students
massed, chanting for freedom and
justice, but riot police moved in quickly
and they dispersed.
Asked yesterday how long the
demonstrations would go on, a student
replied, "Maybe as long as Kukpung."
He referred to "Kukpung '81," a big
folk festival that opened Thursday in
the city and is to run through Monday.
The campus, built in the 1970s on an old
golf course, is on Seoul's outskirts.
Some say it was deliberately moved
from the heart of the city because of
student Agitation.
THE FOLK festival is sponsored by
the state-run Korea Broadcasting
System, and student critics have ter-
med it an expensive, government-
backed effort to divert students from
protesting.
A government official said the
festival drew 800,000 people on its first
day.
Authorities began planning months
ago for spring demonstrations, sources
who asked not to be identified have
said. Professors were told to develop
close contacts with groups of a dozen or
so students in an effort to keep unrest in
check, sources said.
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