Vol. 75 No. 17
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Monday, July 30, 1973
It worked for cherry-lovers
Our feedback on foods
can make a difference
By PATRICIA McCORMACK
NEW YORK (UP!) — Calling Con
sumers of lard, lovers of pizza and users of
feminine deodorant sprays: Uncle Sam
needs your help.
Consumer Register, which lists sum
maries of major consumer proposals
before Federal agencies, invites com
ments on these three items. The
statements, we are assured, will be con
sidered in changing some regulations.
This response from the lowly customer
is something Uncle Sam’s standards and
regulations writers seek with regularity
and pay attention to, says the Office of
Consumer Affairs.
After a lot of hearings, for example,
Uncle Sam’s Food and Drug Ad
ministration announced that effective Dec.
31, standards go into effect for frozen
cherry pie.
This is a first. It will require a minimum
amount of cherries in a pie. Not Iras than
25 per cent of the weight.
The effect of this regulation: if there is
less than the minimum, manufacturers
will not be allowed to call their pies frozen
cherry pies.
Here are the details on standards now
under consideration:
—Pizza. Aug. 31 is the deadline for
comments on a proposal to change stan
dards for cheese and meat content of
pizzas produced in food processing plants.
Proposal would require that pizza contain
at least 12 per cent cheese, permit raw as
well as cooked meat in pizza with meat,
and continue the requirement that pizzas
with meat contain at least 15 per cent
meat. By permitting raw as well as cooked
meat, Agriculture says consumers should
have a wider selection of pizza products.
Send comments to Hearing Clerk,
Agriculture Department, Washington D.C.
—Lard. Aug. 17 is the deadline for
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Chief investigators
may hear tapes alone
By WESPIPPERT
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Moving to
avoid a constitutional confrontation, Sens.
Sam Ervin Jr. and Howard Baker Jr.
proposed Sunday that they and Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox make a private
inspection of President Nixon’s Watergate
tapes.
The proposal might permit an out-of
court settlement in the Senate Watergate
committee’s legal actions to force Nixon to
produce the secret tapes of his con
versations. A suit, probably to be'filed in
U.S. District Court today, almost certainly
would be decided by the Supreme Court.
“I think it would be fine,” Ervin (D
N.C.), the committee chairman, and
Baker, (R-Tenn.), the vice chairman, said
in identical comments on the proposal first
made in the Baltimore Sun on Saturday.
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of
Pennsylvania also urged Sunday that
there be some outside access to the tapes,
although he said it ought to be done
through Cox and the grand jury, not the
Senate committee. Cox also has sub
poenaed the White House tapes and a
federal judge has set a show cause hearing
for Aug. 7.
“By settling it out of court is meant that
some means might be found by which the
President’s replies, the President’s in
formation, can be made available to the
American people. We’re uncomfortable, of
course, until it is,” Scott said.
“If any disclosure of the tapes is to be
made, it ought to be made in that forum
(Cox and the grand jury) rather than to the
Ervin committee.”
In this issue...
WORLD NEWS
• A young Chinese-American man returns to his ancestors’ village in the People’s
Republic, and is amazed at how directly things get done (page 9).
• Drive-in churches seem to help people keep their faith — if church attendance is
any measure (page 3).
• The men in the cotton coats hold frenzied sessions at Chicago’s Board of Trade,
watching the price of corn futures (page 5).
• The ranks of professional musicians are diminishing, partly due to the success of
electronic media (page 6).
SPORTS NEWS
• Duane Thomas reported to the pro football Washington Redskins and suddenly
he’s not a bad guy at all (page 12).
• The AAU penalized swimmers and coaches for taking part in a goodwill tour of
China and now the fiery battle for control of amateur athletics has been refueled (page
11).
All the senators were interviewed on
television — Baker and Ervin together on
CBS’ Face the Nation program and Scott
on ABC’s Issues and Answers.
Baker and Scott also signaled the White
House to indicate which additional wit
nesses should testify in the Senate
hearings before Nixon makes his promised
statement on Watergate.
“If the President’s testimony on making
a substantial or important statement in
terdepended with our finishing a given
number of witnesses or a particular wit
ness, I would finish those witnesses if we
had to stay here all of August,” Baker
said.
“I expect him to respond as soon as the
major witnesses have been (ward by the
Ervin committee,” Scott said.
The hearings begin their 10th week
today, with John Ehrlichman, formerly
one of Nixon’s top two aides, expected to
finish his testimony after five days in the
witness chair.
Baker also said the committee will
“certify” any apparent perjury by its
witnesses to the Justice Department for
prosecution.
Sky lab crew is
queasy up there
By ALROSSITER Jr.
HOUSTON (UPI) — The Skylab 2
astronauts interrupted work in the space
station Sunday to settle persistent motion
sickness symptoms they feared might
delay the first spacewalk planned for the
59-day research mission.
Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack
Lousma took antinausea pills and a NASA
physician reported they were showing
signs of improvement late in the day.
“I think we’re really going to wait until
tomorrow morning and see just how the
crew is doing,” Dr. Royce Hawkins said in
the late Sunday briefing. “If they have in
fact made the adaptation, I would say that
we could go ahead and stay right on
schedule. If they are not, we’re certainly
going to have to give them more time and
this would mean some changes.”
(The crew left earth Saturday morning,
beginning the planned record-length
mission with a flawless liftoff from Cape
Kennedy. They successfully docked with
the giant orbiting laboratory after eight
hours of flight.
(They carried with them a menagerie of
spiders, mice, minnows and ghats for
experiments designed to investigate how
living creatures fare in outer space.)