OREGON
daily emerald
World News & Sports
Supplement
Vol. 75 No. 12
Monday, July 23, 1973
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They We visiting the U.S.
while the price is right
By ROBERT E. DALLOS
(C) 1973, The Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK—When foreigners arrive at
national parks these days, their ticket of
admission is their passport.
In New York, the Warwick Hotel prints
some of its menus in German and in San
Francisco the St. Francis Hotel gives its
foreign guests maps of the city printed in
their native tongues.
In Washington, the White House has
prepared brochures in seven languages,
including Russian and Japanese, for
walking tours of the executive mansion.
For Foreigners traveling by rail, Amtrak
gives a 25 per cent fare discount, and for
those traveling by air there are discounts
of up to 50 per cent.
These are some examples of what the
American government and the American
travel industry are doing to welcome the
burgeoning number of visitors from
foreign lands. Such amenities aren’t
altogether altruistic. It is all part of an
effort to reduce this country’s balance of
payments deficit by bringing the
American dollar home.
A visitor spends an average of $400
during a stay in the U.S. exclusive of
transportation costs, according to the
United States Travel Service, which
promotes tourism for the department of
commerce.
Two devaluations of the dollar in the
past 18 months have contributed to the
invasion erf foreign tourists. As the dollar is
devalued, foreign currency buys more
here, making travel chearper.
MORE THAN BARGAINS
But there are a variety of other reasons
for the foreign tourist surge, according to
travel officials.
mere s been a pent-up demand tor
travel to the United States by people from
many nations,” says Michael Miller,
deputy assistant secretary of commerce
for tourism, “Part has been released by
higher spendable income, part has been
released by relaxed currency restrictions
in some countries and part has been
stimulated by prices in the U.S.
Foreigners are becoming aware of the
bargain prices of U.S. travel.”
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But says beef shortage coming
Butz rules out food rationing
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Agriculture
Secretary Earl Butz Sunday ruled out food
rationing by the government during Phase
IV but conceded that “spot shortages” of
beef iikely would develop in the months
ahead.
Another of President Nixon’s confidants,
Chairman Herbert Stein of the Council of
Economic Advisers, said retail food prices
would begin to climb this week, especially
for eggs, poultry and pork.
But Stein said lifting the price freeze
now and substituting the more flexible
wage-price controls of Phase IV was “the
only way to assure an adequate supply of
food and less rapidly rising food prices a
year from now.”
With the incentive of higher prices ex
pected to spur farm production, Butz said
consumers could be confident of no
government food rationing.
“I’ll give them assurance,” he said. “As
long as we pursue the present policy we
have of relatively free prices in the
market, obviously there will not need to be
rationing.”
Beef prices, however, remain under
ceiling rules until Sept. 12 and there are'
fears that cattlemen will withhold
livestock from market as the deadline
nears, creating a temporary shortage
followed by a boom in supply at higher
prices later.
Butz said, “we may have some spot
shortages of beef and some cuts of beef
may be in short supply in some locations in
the months ahead.”
And Stein, asked if he expected
housewifes to begin hoarding beef, said,
“it depends on how full she’s already got
the freezer ... and whether she thinks it’s
better to invest in steak than in the stock
market.”
Inside this issue
WORLD NEWS
• A tie and jacket are still mandatory dress for men at most of the nation’s
companies (page 3).
• Boozing by soldiers and officers is becoming a serious problem, military
medics say (page 5).
• Senator Ervin of North Carolina makes full — extravagantly full —
disclosure of his campaign finances (page 7).
• Drought in the Sahara desert has wiped out many a rich herder (page 9).
• Airlines are tired of passengers failing to show up to claim reserved seats
(page 6).
SPORTS NEWS
Hank Aaron is getting closer to the magic number of 714 home runs, but not
everyone is rooting for him (page 11).
The NAIA has announced plans to investigate drug use in small college
athletics (page 12).
Labor Secretary Peter Brennan,
meanwhile, said the 5.5 per cent guideline
on wage increases would be administered
with flexibility in Phase IV.
Stein also implied that poultry raisers
had contributed unfairly to consumer
hysteria during the price freeze by
publicizing the drowning of thousands of
baby chicks.
Male chicks are routinely destroyed
since they don’t produce tender meat, he
said. But he acknowledged that high feed
costs during the freeze undoubtedly
resulted in the destruction of more chicks
than would normally be the case.
Butz took issue with a fellow Cabinet
member, Treasury Secretary George
Shultz, who said last week that rising food
prices meant that “farmers were crying
all the way to the bank.”
Even with recent sharp increases in
agricultural prices, average per capita
farm income is still only 80 per cent of the
non-farm citizen’s income, Butz replied.
Grape hassle
arrests reach
more than 1700
FRESNO, Calif. (UPI) — With some,
jails jampacked, more farm workers were
arrested Sunday in a labor fight that one
county sheriff described as like “sitting on
a powder keg.”
But in two of three central California
counties sheriff’s deputies gave up trying
to enforce court orders limiting picketing
by Cesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers
Union (UFW) after arrests reached 1700 in
five days.
Melvin Willmirth, sheriff of Fresno
County in the heart of the lush San Joaquin
Valley, said a half-dozen arrests were
(made Sunday, bringing to about 600 the
: number of farm workers and supporters
locked in his jails.
“It’s a volatile situation,” he said.
“We’re sitting on a powder keg.”
Willmirth said his deputies had orders to
arrest violators of court injunctions that
limit pickets outside farms to one or two
every 100 feet.
The arrests were made after Chavez
addressed a group of about 250 of his
followers, urging them not to engage in
violence in defying court orders. Chavez
labelled the court rulings unconstitutional.
Arrests in the three-county area seemed
to taper off over the weekend when hun
dreds of Chavez supporters arrived from
San Francisco, Los Angeles and other
cities to join farm workers in a rally at
Delano, birthplace of the tiny AFL-CIO
affiliate. Among the supporters were some
Teamsters who back the UFW in the fight
with their own parent organization.
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