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SPEECH CLASS SURVEY
Report aids food shoppers
By TERRI SMITH
Students who buy their own groceries could be reducing
the buying power ol their dollars considerably if they do
not shop around and compare prices. A very recent survey
by a group of University students “'Everything a
student's always wanted to know about grocery pric-
As a rule, stores that
sell their own
name-brand products
and those that carry
more obscure labels can
offer lower prices.
ing" can serve as an aide to those in doubt.
During February and the first half of March, six
University students conducted a survey of grocery prices in
Athens. TTiey priced some 40 food and food related items at
14 stores in the area. At the end of winter quarter, 250
copies of the report were distributed at 2S different
locations around Athens.
According to Wendy Jackthuber who headed the group.
the report itself is "as objective as possible in order to
allow people to draw their own conclusions and decide for
themselves where to shopThe members tried to select
items to be priced which would be purchased by the
average student
Their decisionswere based on listings from outside sources
and personal experience In each case they recorded the
price of the cheapest item of equivalent weight and volume
on the shelf
While admitting certain discrepancies in a survey
comparing large and small stores on an equal basis,
Jackthuber maintains that certain trends remain valid She
pointed out that in almost all cases the closer a store is to
campus the higher its prices are
As a rule, stores that sell their own name-brand products
and those that carry more obscure labels can offer lower
prices to consumers, according to the report Although
smaller markets are at a disadvantage in this instance,
they often undersell larger chain store commodities such
as produce and meat.
She also warned students against the practice of some
large stores, especially those clustered together, of
advertising certain goods at extremely low prices as a
“come on" while keeping other prices high. The survey
also included information regarding parking, extra
services, and the check and credit card policies of the
various stores.
The study was done as part of a final project for Speech
256 which was taught by DR. John Hocking. The only
requirement was that the project be "socially significant
Jackthuber said that the group members decided on this
project primarily on the basis of their own shopping
experiences in Athens
The printing and distributing of the report were done by
the group as a service to the community. In addition to
Wendy Jackthuber. students who worked on the project
were Ruth Anderson, Barbara Christmas, Bill Gibbs, Deb
Smith, and Bob Worley.
Shooting death
Houston woman sentenced
By JANE SINGER
The 20 year old Houston
woman arrested in connection
with the shooting death of
former University student
Kandy marlowe, 23, on New
Year's Eve was found guilty of
murder by a Dallas jury
Friday and sentenced to 50
years in jail.
Shirley Mae Thomas was
also found guilty on two counts
of attempted murder resulting
iri the wounding of two other
former students, and received
sentences of 15 years tor each
of these offenses
Judge John Vance has not
yet decided whether the addi
tional sentences are to be
served concurrently or consec
utively.
The three men. all from
Gainesville, along with another
companion who was uninjured
in the incident, were in Dallas
to attend the Cotton Bowl
loolball game lie I ween the
Georgia Bulldogs and the Ark
ansas Kazorbaeks when the
shootings occurred.
The three survivors told the
court they had picked up
Thomas at the Wild West
Saloon, a bar in downtown
Dallas across the street from
the Statler Hilton where a
party sponsored by University
alumni was being held
They said Thomas willingly
went to their motel room after
Plans set for Ag banquet
The Ag Hill Council held its
first meeting of the quarter
last Thursday and announced
plans for its annual awards
banquet.
The banquet will be April 27
at 6:30 p.m. in the Agriculture
Engineering building. The $3
ticket will include a barbeque
chicken dinner provided by the
Poultry Science Club.
Ray Wilkenson of WRAL
radio and television in Raleigh.
North Carolina will be the
speaker at the banquet Wilk
erson gives farm reports and is
also a well-known humorist in
North Carolina, according to
Gary Carlson, president ol Ag
Hill Council.
Tickets for the banquet will
be available after April 8 from
members of the Ag Hill Coun
cil.
In additon to planning (he
banquet the council finalized
plans for a softball tournament
between teams from the var
ious clubs in the schools of
Forestry. Agriculture, Home
Economics, and Veterinary
Medicine that make up the
council.
The games will begin Satur
day. April 3 and will be played
in a field at the southern end of
College Station Road. The
playing field is a former pas
ture that the Agronomy Club
has prepared for the games.
having agreed to have sexual
relations with them. Once
there, however, they said she
first performed a strip lease
and then suddenly danced over
to her purse, pulled a .22
caliber pistol from it and
started firing.
Despite attempts to grab
her, (he men said she then ran
nude to the door and escaped
to a waiting gold Buick parked
outside
Police initially assumed
Thomas' actions to be an
attempt at robbery which led
to panic, causing her to begin
shooting
Thomas told the jurors she
had been abducted in Houston
and taken against her will to
Dallas and then to the men's
motel She claimed to have
been raped between Houston
and Dallas
She said she pulled the gun
from her purse in self-defense
when one of the men tried to
attack her in the motel room.
She then fled the room wearing
only her bra and panties and
was picked up by a man who
took her back to Houston, she
added.
Hearst arraigned in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Pat-
ricia Hearst, already convicted
of bank robbery, was whisked
into Los Angeles yesterday for
arraignment on charges of
kidnaping, robbery and assault
with a deadly weapon in a
hearing which took only five
minutes.
Defense attorney Albert
Johnson did not enter a plea to
the charges at this tic e, but
was granted a continuA ee in
the case until April 14.
District Judge Jacx E.
Goertzen also set that date for
arguments on a motion by
Johnson for severance of her
trial from that of Elntiy and
William Harris, her kidnapers
and former companions in the
Syinbionese Liberation Army,
who are charged with the same
II counts in the indictment.
Johnson also filed a motion
challenging the right of the Los
Angeles court to try Miss
Hears! on grounds it was a
situation of "prior jeopardy.”
The motion was in effect an
attempt to get the charges
dismissed because details of
the sporting goods store shoot
ing had been fully covered in
the first trial.
The 22-year-old Miss Hearst
was flown here from San
Francisco in Coast Guard ojane
early yesterday morning. She
was taken by sheriff’s helicop
ter to a parking lot near the
men's countv tail and then
driven in a three-car caravan to
the Criminal Courts Building.
Miss Hearst was to be re
turned immediately to San
Francisco where she is sched
uled for sentencing April 12
after her conviction of the
robbery of the Hibernia Bank.
The brief hearing yesterday
was in a tiny “maximum
Miss Hearst, however,
seemed more animated than
during the San Francisco trial
as she strolled into the court
room with an apparent air of
confidence, accompanied as
she had been for weeks, by
U.S. Marshall Janey Jiminez.
Judge Goertzen read the
defendant her constitutional
rights as she stood at the
counsel table and asked her if
she had any questions.
“No," Miss Hears! said,
shaking her auburn-haired
head.
Attorney F. Lee Bailey
skipped yesterday morning’s
session because of a speaking
appearance in Bermuda and
turned the task over to John
son, his associate.
More
bicycles
Less
smog.
security" courtroom with bul-
zeet
letproof glass betweet the
spectator section and the well
of the court where the judge
attorneys, the defendant and
bailiffs were seated.
Miss Hearst’s parents.
Randolph and Catherine
Hearst. who had sat through
every day of the eight week
trial in San Francisco, were in
a back row of the spectator
section. Mrs. Hearst looked
grim and tense as she walked
down a corridor into the court
room. ,
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