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More Gas Price Hikes May Curb Buying: Simon

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed- eral energy chief William E. Si- mon says further gasoline price increases may help discourage purchases’ enough to reduce gasoline shortages across the nation to as little as 1.5 per cent. , Lifting of the Arab oil embar- go will leave the United States with estimated gasoline short- ‘ages of 5 to 8 per cent during the rest of this year, President Nixon said. at a news confer- ‘ence Tuesday. . ‘ Nixon ended’ the voluntary ban on Sunday gasoline sales but said the energy squeeze would ‘still have to be offset by conservation measures such as carpools and- lowered speed limits. Simon told a House Appro- priations subcommittee Wednesday: that: drawing down on gasoline inventories could reduce the shortages to about 4 to 7:per cent. -.-- He added that gasoline ‘prices possibly rising as high as 70 cents a gallon could help dis- courage consumption and thus shrink the shortages to the range of 1.5 to 3 per cent. Last week the average price for regular gasoline was about 53 cents a gallon, up from an average of 39 cents in 1973. Gasoline shortages in Febru- ary and March have been fig- ured at about 17 per-cent — sulting in long lines at service (See ‘B’ on Page 2)'

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Study Reveals Alcoholic. Beverage Consumption Heavy Among Tar Heels

RALEIGH (AP) — More than half of all North Carolinians above 14 years old drink alco- holic beverages and some 240,- 00 Tar Heels are heavy drink- ers, according to a study con- ducted for the North Carolina Drug Authority. The study also said that at least 143,000 people in the state have smoked marijuana in the last six months. Just over 100,- 00 have done so in the last month, the study said, Alcohol is the most abused drug in the state and mari- juana is the most abused illegal drug, the report said. ° The four-month study, pre- pared by a Washington con- sulting firm and directed by Dr. Car] D. Chambers, cost $66,000 and was paid for with federal funds. Tn addition to the findings on the extent of drinking and marijuana use, the study, out-. lined by Chambers at a news conference here Wednesday, made these other major. points: ~-Most marijuana users are between 18 and 24 years old and are fully employed. High school students using miari- juana outnumber college users by 2-1, Neither race nor sociceco- nomic status was an indicator of marijuana use. -~-There are about 20,000 cur- rent users of LSD and 20,000 users of methedrine (speed) in the state. White males under 25 are the major abusers. —There are fewer than 8,000 current heroin users in the state. Most are employed and middle class. —There are 16,000 current users of cocaine and 5,300 cur- rent users of solvents and in- halants.. | —The -.use of . amphetamine pep pills. ison ‘the. decline, but -over half ‘the users obtain pep pills without a prescription. “Smoking among adolescents is the greatest predictor of fu. ture illegal drug use,’’ Cham- bers said in explanatory re- marks before the presentation. The study was drawn from 2,- 007 face-to-face interviews . be- gun last November with per- sons 14 years ofd and above. In addition, 250 interviews were _conducted with active drug users in nine major North Carolina cities, “hamherg said.

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More Documents Are Subpoenaed At White House

WASHINGTON {AP) — The special Watergate prosecutor’s office has subpoenaed addition- al documents from the White House, it was disclosed today. A spokesman for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said the subpeena directed to Presi- dent’ Nixon was served on the White House last Friday, Dead- line for compliance is Monday. The spokesman declined to say what the subpoena de- manded. ’ Earlier, James D. St. Clair, President Nixon's chief Water- gate lawyer, acknowledged in a television interview that a sub- poena had been received from the special prosecutor. St. Clair appeared on the NBC “Today’s show. Jaworski disclosed on Feb. 14 in a letter to Sen. James 0. Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, that Nixon had refused to give him material he consid- ered vital to his investigation. Jaworski told Eastland that the material Nixon had refused to supply included 27 tapes sought for the investigation of the Watergate cover-up as well as evidence relating to investi- gations of contributions from the dairy industry and the ac tivities of the so-called White House plumbers unit. __ The President has contended {See ‘F’ on Page 2|

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Wyatt Earp’s cousin was a soldier here

Wyatt Earp’s first cousin was a soldier at Fort Walla Walla when it was a cavalry post D. D. Earp later quit the Army and sold real estate between Walla Walla and Pendleton, according to George Gradwohl, of 118 Newell St. He died in the early 1930's when he was in his 90's at the home of Gradwohl’'s parents here in Walla Walla. Gradwohl still has his black coat and cane. Gradwohl, 77, and Carl Jacky. 80, last week visited the fort, now the site of the Veterans Hospital, to reminisce about Earp and about Old Fort Walla Walla, their favorite childhood playground between 1907 and 1911. Jacky, who co-owns Jacky and Fiedler Florists, 2 E. Alder St., delivered newspapers mornings and evenings by bicycle to the cavalry post when he was a y. One foggy morning he bicycled full- tilt into a cavalry captain on his way to the parade grounds to take the morning salute from his men “I don’t remember if it was Captain Pope or Captain Converse, but I hit that guy and knocked him over. Papers flew everywhere,”’ Jacky said. “It was six o'clock in the morning and foggy as the devil. He said, Boy, are you hurt?’ and | said, ‘‘No, I'm not hurt.’ So he turned around and ran like hell out there to take the salute. That was 67 years ago. As boys, Gradwohl and Jacky often prowled through the fort's dump for brass buttons and discarded canvas, cavalry leggings. The knee-length leggings were issued’ to the soldiers for use as ‘‘chaps’’ when they were riding. The boys liked to wear them and pretend they were soldiers. “They (the leggings) cost the government four bits, and the soldiers threw them away if they had a scratch on them,’’ Jacky said. Officers wore leather leggings, which were less often discarded, he said. Fort Walla Walla was established in 1850 and deactivated in 1910. When Jacky and Gradwohl played there, it encompassed 640 acres and housed a regiment, some 1,000-1,200 troopers and 800 horses. Its population alternated between white and black soldiers every four years. White soldiers were stationed in Walla Walla for a tour and then sent to the Phillipine Islands and a regiment of black troopers was transferred here. “The majority of them were really gentlemen,’ Jacky said. “They were pretty nice people.”’ And they were tolerant of small boys who got underfoot, he said. As in most Army towns, the citizens didn’t particularly like soldiers, but in Walla Walla, the attitude softened because many of the white troopers married local girls and settled here, Gradwohl said. “The feeling in town was a little better than in most towns,”’ he said. “The decendents of those soldiers are the best citizens of Walla Walla today. They were the people who built Walla Walla. They were the pioneers,”’ he said. There was no lack of entertainment for off-duty soldiers in those days. Walla Walla had 37 saloons and an opera house. And there was a bawdy house, popularly known as ‘‘The Idle Hour”’ at Fourth and continued on page 5 _s.

By Dick Cockle of the LU nion-Bulletin

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In today’s Union-Bulletin

Living on a curtailed income causes difficulties for senior citizens. See family forum ............. pages 6-7 John Ehrlichman says oil firms should not be blamed for not using complete candor in release of oil supply figures .............. page 11 Vance Orchard writes about outdoor recreation .............. pages 19-20 Golden anniversary high school bas- ketball tournament salutes Wa-Hi. ae pages 21-23 Comics, TV schedules ...... page 24 Obituaries, markets. ....... page 25

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Billy goes back to school

HOUSTON (AP) — US. District Court Judge Woodrow Seals ordered Wednesday that Billy Epperson. 5. be readmitted to kindergarten pending a hearing on the youngster’s suspension for having long hair. Billy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Epperson, contend the long hair is necessary to prevent the boy from being embarrassed because of an ear deformity. Billy was suspended from Golden Acres Elementary in Pasadena on Feb. 22. A state district court suggested a com- promise and a new hair cut but this was rejected by the Golden Acres principal. the superintendent of schools in Pasadena, and by the Pasadena school board. The Eppersons then filed suit in federal court.

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$1 million in contributions ? Demos said stallino reform

WASHINGTON (AP) — Common Cause, the self-styled citizens’ lobby, said today that Democratic congressional candidates received more than $1 million from special interest groups in 1972 and accused the Democrats of Stalling electoral reform. The foot-dragging charge was contained in a full-page advertisement in today’s editions of The Washington Post. appearing on the same day the party holds its annual fund-raising dinner. The figures on 1972 Democratic receipts from special interest groups were contained in a report to be published by Common Cause next week on the role of special interest money during the presidential year campaigns. Common Cause said various political committees gave Democratic House candidates a total of $667,226 while senatorial candidates received $550,947. The largest single donor on the list was the National Committee for the Re- Election of a Democratic Congress. a quasi-official fund-raising committee headed by Robert Strauss. who later became chairman of the party. The Strauss committee was listed as having raised $376,507 for House candidates and $260.802 for senatorial hopefuls under the party banner. The largest giver among business and professional ranks was the Committee for Thorough Agricultural Political Education. the political wing of the Associated Milk Producers Inc. It gave $87.500 for Democratic House cam- paigners and $72,000 for senatorial candidates. The biggest labor union gifts came from the national AFLCIO Committee on Political Education. which gave over $43.000 to Democratic congressional candidates. Common Cause has been active in electoral reform and is a chief advocate of public financing for federal elections. It was a Common Cause lawsuit that forced President Nixon's re-election committee to disclose the sources of his early campaign receipts. including money that figured in the Watergate scandal. However. Common Cause contends that it is Democratic leadership in Congress. particularly Chairman Wayne Hays of the House Administration Committee. which is holding up elec- toral reform.

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Cost-of-living jump second biggest since 195]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pace of inflation quickened in February with food and fuel prices pushing the cost of living up 1.3 per cent, the second biggest menthly jump since 1951, the government said today. The Labor Depa:tment said last month's rise sent consumer prices 10 per cent higher than a year ago and marked the first time since 1948 that the United States experienced double figure inflation. It was the highest 12-month increase in the cost of living since consumer prices rose by 10.2 per cent in the 12 months ending January 1948. Nearly half the February increase was attributed to higher food prices with the price of beef raising 7.5 per cent, the Sharpest jump since a 9.6 per cent increase in June 1947. Gasoline and other energy items were responsible for about a fifth of last month's increase in prices. The Consumer Price Index climbed last month to 141.5 of its 1967 average. meaning that it cost consumers $141.50 to buy the same amount of retail goods and services that $100 bought in 1967. While consumer prices continued their rise, real spendable earnings of workers dropped another six-tenths of one per cent in February and were down 4.5 per cent from a year ago. This was the largest decline over a year since the government began keeping that statistic in 1964. The February price report showed inflation holding a firm grip across the economy. Food prices rose 2.5 per cent: non-food commodities, 1 per cent, and services seven-tenths of 1 per cent. The Nixon administration has said it expects inflation to continue its sharp pace throughout the first half of the year before beginning to ease during the final six months. Director John T. Dunlop of the Cost of Living Council said Wednesday that February's surge in food prices would be followed by more moderate increases in March, April and May. “Our own estimate is that it will be the last month with a really poor record,” Dunlop said. Soaring gasoline and motcr oil prices played a large part in the over-all increase in consumer prices last month, rising 5.3 per cent to a level 30.9 per cent above last February. Fuel oil and coal jumped 3.8 per cent, the smallest increase in five months to a level 58.8 per cent higher than a year ago. Average prices for gasoline alone increased 5.5 per cent. The average price for regular jumped to 49.1 cents per gallon and for premium to 52.7 cents per gallon. Prices of regular gasoline have now risen 22 per cent and premium gasoline 19.8 per cent since the Labor Department began publishing average prices four months ago after the start of the Arab oil embargo. Grocery prices — the major portion of the food index — jumped three per cent in February, substantially more than usual for the month. The price of restaurant meals and snacks — food away from home — was up seven-tenths of one per cent The big increase in beef prices followed a smaller increase in January and declines in the last three months of 1973. Fresh vegetable prices also were up last month instead of declining as they usually do. About the only decline in food prices was that for poultry, The Agriculture Department has forecast record crops of wheat and corn this year, but the full impact of those crops will not reach consumers for many months, They are, however, counted on heavily by the administration for a boost in livestock production through mid-1975. Meanwhile. Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz said his department's earlier prediction that grocery store food prices are ‘most likely” to rise 12 per cent this year still is sound. In 1973, food Store prices jumped 16 per cent, according to the USA method of averaging them.

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Gas savers begin to organize

Spurred by gasoline shortages and approaching warmer weather, Walla Walla’s bicycle enthusiasts are beginning to organize. At the same time, more action is expected on a proposal to establish a network of bicycle paths in this area. The Walla Walla Wheelmen, a new club for the two-wheel set, will hold its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. March 28 at Cascade Natural Gas Corp., 324 W. Rose St. The club is geared to anyone who wants to participate in bicycle touring, racing, or who “just wants to get together as a community of bicycle riders,”’ according to Bryan Hendrickson, 1067 Boyer St., one of the organizers. ‘‘Myself and some of the other fellows are more interested in racing, but that’s our little off shoot,’’ Hendrickson said. The club will help novice bicyclers get started in group touring, recreational riding or racing, he said. It is open to everyone and all ages. Hendrickson expects about 30 persons to attend, he said. Within two weeks, John Lang, city engineer, will ask the Walla Walla City Council to appoint a committee to assess this area's bicycle needs, he said. It probably will be divided into three or four subcommittees with instructions to study bicycling safety in the urban areas and the transportation needs for those using their two-wheelers to take them to work and school, Lang said. The community's recreational desires also will be examined, he said. The committee also may be asked to recommend when thoroughfares should be striped to seperate bike riders and traffic, and under what conditions, if any, separate asphalt paths for bicycles are necessary. Lang met with Walla Walla city school principals yesterday to learn their views on bicycle safety, he said. I thought that (safety) would be their biggest concern . . . but a lot of them were interested in recreational riding,”’ he said. A bicycle network map for the Walla Walla area has been under design by Lang and Dennis Skeate, Walla Walla County engineer, for several months. Lang plans to meet with the College Place City Council Monday to request its approval of a resolution for a joint appeal with Walla Walla City and County for state Urban Arterial Board money for bievele paths.

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House ok’s minimum wave increase

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed legislation raising the minimum wage from $1.60 an hour to $2 this vear for most workers covered and to $2.30 for all by 1978. The bill. approved Wednesday 375 to 37. also would increase by 7 million to 56.5 million the number of workers cov- ered by the minimum wage laws. The bill is a modified version of one President Nixon vetoed last year. However. he is expected to sign this one if it is finally approved after adjustment with a similar Senate-passed measure. although it does not meet all of his earlier objections. For most workers covered by the minimum wage. the minimum would increase to $2 this year and then in two Steps to $2.30 in 1976.

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K-Mart gets building permit Appellate court considers blocking grand jury report

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US. Court of Appeals today studied requests that it block transmission of a grand jury report on President Nixon’s alleged role in Watergate to the House Judiciary Committee for its impeachment inquiry. The report was scheduled to go to the committee at 1 p.m. PDT unless the appeals court intervenes. Attorneys for two of the seven defendants in the Watergate cover-up case urged the court to withhold the report from the House on the grounds it would prevent their clients from receiving a fair trial. But counsel for the special prosecutor’s office told the court during oral argument today the focus of the secret report was President Nixon, not tne seven defendants. “They are not the focus of this report,” said Philip Lacovara. ‘The references to them do not go beyond the allegations in the indictment.”’ John J. Wilson and Frank Strickler. attorneys for former presidential aide H. R. Haldeman, and John Bray, counsel for former White House aide Gordon Strachan, asked the appeals court to direct U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica not to send the report to the Judiciary Committee. Wilson argued that “It is a moral certainty that this material is going to be made public’ if it is sent to the committee. The grand jury gave the sealed report and a satchel filled with evidence to Sirica March 1, the same day it indicted Haldeman, Strachan. and five other former administration or campaign officials in the Watergate cover-up. On Monday. Sirica ordered the report sent to the House. Meanwhile, the special Watergate prosecutors office has subpoenaed additional documents from the White House. A spokesman for special prosecutor Leon Jaworski said the subpoena directed to President Richard Nixon was served on the White House last Friday. The deadline for compliance is Monday. News of the subpoena was disclosed today. The spokesman would not say what the subpoena demanded. At the White House. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said the subpoena was under consideration and as for the likely response declared. “I don't have any guidance to give you on that.” Responding to another question. Warren said no consideration was being given to firing Jaworski because of his move to subpoena White House mate- rials. Told that Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler had flatly denied Wednesday that any subpoena had been received. Warren said he could not explain that and felt any attempt to do sc in Ziegler’s absence would be unfair. Ziegler was at his White House desk but did not conduct the day’s news briefing.

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