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GARFIELD, Tex.—Rescue workers search flood waters
for the body of a missing 8-year-old girl, swept from the
car at rear and presumed drowned. Rainfall in the Austin
Death toll rises
in Texas flooding
BASTROP, Tex. (UPI) — Flood waters that already
killed at least 11 persons in Central Texas moved down
stream today and forced the evacuation of some families.
The Department of Public Safety said six bodies .were
recovered from Dry Creek in Travis County and
authorities planned to resume searching today for the
body of a missing child who is presumed drowned.
The Colorado River, swollen by driving rainstorms
Saturday and Sunday, was expected to crest here at 31
feet, six feet above flood stage.
“We’ve had to help a couple of people evacuate,” a
county sheriffs spokesman said.
“The water is supposed to continue to rise another foot
and it might flood some homes especially in the low
areas.”
More than eight inches of rain were recorded in less
than three hours Saturday night and early Sunday in parts
of Travis County.
Austin police said a father and his two children were
killed when their car was washed off a city street by a
Ethiopia
Court -martialing
to follow executions
ADDIS ABABA (UPI) — The Ethiopian military
government plans to follow up the weekend executions of
60 former officials by court-martialing an estimated 140
one-time leaders seized on corruption charges.
Radio Ethiopia said the new military trials would take
place immediately, but the government-run station did
not say whether the regime would ask for more death
penalties.
The radio said 60 of an estimated 200 former officials
arrested by the military rulers since coming to power last
February were put to death for “crimes against the
Ethiopian people.”
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area totaling near five inches caused flash flooding,
driving some person temporarily from their homes.
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rampaging creek. They were identified as Joe Rivas, 28,
Joe Jr., 5, and Cynthia, 8.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety
said the bodies of two women were recovered from a
flooded creek near Kyle in Hays County.
Authorities said seven persons were injured.
Four were hospitalized for exposure after being trapped
in their cars by flood waters Saturday night about 15 miles
south of Austin, and more than 50 motorists were reported
stranded on U.S. 183 for more than four hours until help
arrived.
During the weekend residents were evacuated in the
Austin area and in the nearby communities of Elroy and
San Marcos but most of the families were able to return to
their homes by Sunday night.
“The situation is improving and the water is running
down, but there is considerable damage to county roads,”
the spokesman said. “Whole sections of pavement were
destroyed and washed away.”
“Other officials now in detention on corruption charges
will be brought immediately before the general and
district courts martial,” the station said Sunday in three
identical broadcasts.
The station said the officials, including a grandson of
deposed Emperor Haile Selassie, the head of the military
regime and two ex-prime ministers, were executed for
“attempts to disrupt the country’s popular movement.”
‘ ‘Those executed have been found guilty of trying to sow
dissension and division within the armed forces, of putting
their own personalities above the general welfare of the
state and of grossly abusing authority,” the radio said.
The executions left an estimated 140 former leaders —
cabinet ministers, educators, military men, members of
the royal family and government aides —still being held.
The men executed included Gen. Aman Andom, who
was ousted in a power struggle Saturday as chairman of
the ruling Provisional Military Advisory Council.
The radio said a noncouncil member would be picked in
a few days to succeed the American-educated general,
considered a moderate on the 120-man council.
Others executed included Eskinder Desta, Selassie’s
grandson and one-time deputy commander of the imperial
navy, and former Prime Ministers Aklilu Hapte Wold and
Endalkatchew Makonnen.
There was no mention of Selassie. The 82-year-old ruler
of Ethiopia for a half-century was arrested Sept. 12 and
has not been seen in public since.
The broadcast said all 60 men were already buried, but
gave no indication when, where or how the executions took
place. The radio said nobody would be granted access to
the bodies.
Military patrols were reinforced in Addis Ababa, but the
capital appeared calm. However, travelers reported
panic on the streets of the Eritrean city of Asmara, 400
miles to the north.
Aman was a native of the area and tried to reach a
peaceful agreement between the Ethiopian government
and Eritrean rebels fighting for the province’s
independence.
Sugar prices probed
By MICHAEL J. CONLON
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
government opens an investiga
tion today on why sugar prices
have increased nearly four fold
in the past year, approaching a
dollar a pound.
President Ford’s Council on
Wage and Price Stability will
hear from manufacturers, con
sumer groups and members of
Congress in two days of
hearings on sugar prices and
their effect in pushing up prices
of other products ranging from
breakfast cereal to soda pop.
On Friday, Amstar, which
distributes Domino Sugar, an
nounced it will raise its
wholesale price to about 75
cents a pound —a move that
will probably make the retail
Economy
More auto layoffs
By United Press International
The nation’s automakers an
nounced more layoffs during
the weekend after the latest
figures showed sales off 41 per
cent from a year ago.
As of Sunday, figures gath
ered from the coal, steel and
auto industries showed 344,000
men and women were out of
work, including 120,000 striking
miners.
Government officials say the
coal strike could idle 400,000
workers in various industries if
it continues for another two
weeks.
W.J. Usery, head of the
Federal Mediation and Concilia
tion Service, said “the mount
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on the nation now makes it
imperative that a resolution be
reached promptly.”
The coal strike has already
resulted in nearly 21,000 layoffs
by the steel industry, most of
them by U.S. Steel. Smaller
firms say they will be forced to
make cuts if the strike
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price nearly $1 a pound in a
matter of weeks.
Amstar said in advertise
ments in Sunday newspapers
that raw cane sugar prices
have been “skyrocketing” and
that its own profit margin on
Domino processed sugar is
“still only about 3 cents on
each dollar of sales.”
“I hope it doesn’t go to a
dollar a pound,” said Agricul
ture Secretary Earl L. Butz
said in a television interview
Sunday (ABC’s “Issues and
Answers.”).
He said sugar is “too
doggoned high-priced,” that it
will stay high this year, and
then hopefully come down as
more sugar is produced in
response to the high prices.
continues.
Added to the steel industry’s
woes are those of the automa
kers, who are large users of
steel when cars are selling.
A sales report today by the
automakers shows deliveries of
only 170,000 cars between Nov.
11-20 —the lowest figure for
those nine days since a 1970
industry strike and the second
lowest since 1959.
Loss of customers in dealer
showrooms has meant laying
off 203,000 workers at the
factories.
As of Sunday, there were
86,000 Chrysler employes out of
work. There were 70,000 jobless
at General Motors, 39,000 at
Ford and 8,000 at American
Motors Corp., the smallest of
the top four manufacturers.
Lower car production can be
expected to ripple to other auto
dependent sections of the
economy soon, with tire ma
kers, glass companies and
parts suppliers all facing
cutbacks.
Griffin Daily News Monday, November 25,1974
One reason sugar is scarce,
he said, is that rising affluence
around the world has increased
consumption of sweet foods.
One of today’s witnesses,
Mrs. Virginia Knauer, the
President’s consumer adviser,
says there is a growing
suspicion among Americans
that certain aspects of the
sugar shortage are contrived.
“Sugar with its complex
pattern of subsidies, supports
and quotas has had a long
history of interference with free
market price determination,”
she said in prepared testimony.
She cited reports of high
sugar profits, reports that some
foreign producers foster high
sugar consumption at home at
artificially low prices in order
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to inflate the world market
prices and reports that Middle
Eastern oil countries are using
their new wealth to speculate in
sugar.
Mrs. Knauer believes Ameri
cans should consider cutting
back their sugar consumption
in the same way they voluntari
ly reduced energy usage last
winter.
William A. Quinlan, general
counsel of the Associate Retail
Bakers of America, said in a
prepared statement that the
nation’s 20,000 retail bakers are
in serious trouble because of
steep sugar prices.
“Our industry is suffering a
disaster,” he said. “Never
before have I seen the retail
baker in such a desperate
plight.”
fund, first developed in 1955.
Manufacturers pay part of an
hourly wage into the fund and
it is used during layoffs.
Up to 95 per cent of a
worker’s normal paycheck can
be covered by the fund until it
is exhausted.