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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 14,1975
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VAIL, Colo.—First Lady Betty Ford pauses to greet some
fellow shoppers in Vail Village during an afternoon lunch
and shopping excursion. Mrs. Ford had lunch with friends
while the President spent his third day in a row at the golf
course. Hie Fords are spending two weeks vacationing in
Vail. (UPI)
Mrs. Ford doesn’t
mind criticism
VAIL, Colo. (UPI) - Betty
Ford says she doesn’t mind
criticism of her statement that
she “wouldn’t be surprised” if
her daughter had an affair
“because our family was
brought up on the fact that
marriage is the greatest thing
in the world.”
Mrs. Ford was asked her
reaction Wednesday to the
adverse comments from some
clergymen, politicians and oth
ers to her interview on CBS
Sunday.
“Fine. I think it’s coming out
very well and certainly as far
as the family is concerned and
our children ... because our
family was brought up on the
fact that marriage is the
greatest thing in the world.”
She said interpretations of
her answer to the question of
how she would react if her 18-
year-old daughter, Susan, told
her she was having an affair
were “a little distorted.”
The First Lady’s press
secretary, Sheila Rabb Weiden
feld, earlier related the eldest
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Ford son’s thoughts on the
interview.
She said Michael Ford, 25, a
seminarian in Massachusetts,
was “very supportive” and said
in a telephone conversation
with his mother: “You’ll get a
lot of criticism. But I under
stand what you were trying to
say and I am with you ... What
would people want you to do,
kick her out of the house?”
Mrs. Weidenfeld also told
UPI: “Mrs. Ford feels her
statement has been misunder
stood. She is very much for
marriage and the family. She
thinks it has been taken
incorrectly.
“She believes in a close
family where parents and
children can talk together.”
Mrs. Weidenfeld said a
compilation showed 168 tele
phone calls to the White House
criticizing Mrs. Ford’s remarks
and 148 calls favoring her
stand.
There also were 122 tele
grams against Mrs. Ford’s
views and 118 in favor.
Auto buyers
going ‘used’
By United Press International
Car buyers this summer
apparently aren’t letting the
threat of higher prices next
year scare them into buying
now. They are turning to used
cars, according to a UPI
random survey.
“If it’s salable, it will sell. If
it’s clean and in good shape,
you can’t keep it on the lot at
all,” said Tom Felton Jr. at
Johnson Ford in Houston.
“When new car prices go up,
used car prices go up.”
Harry Runfola of Dan Creed
Chevrolet in Buffalo, N.Y., says
“people are still anesthetized
by the 1975 increases.”
In Pittsburgh, Bill Cleber of
C&B Buick said prospects are
buying now because they need
a new car, not because of
higher prices in a couple of
months.
New car prices probably
won’t go as high as the average
S3OO per vehicle increase talked
about earlier this summer.
General Motors then had set its
1976-model prices an average
$206 above final 1975-model
prices.
GM did raise its wholesale
price to dealers by 5.9 per cent,
an average of $216 — meaning
their profit margins (the
difference between their cost
and the suggested retail price)
is smaller and they won’t be
knocking as much off the price
to get a sale.
In New England, two dealers
said there has been resistance
to price increases but that most
customers have accepted the
price jumps.
John Walsh, general manager
of Carlson’s Motor Sales in
Concord, N.H., said he has
noticed an increase in sales in
the past three weeks, although
some buyers are complaining
about prices.
“With electric bills, water
bills and everything else going
up, they’re beginning to accept
it, though,” he said.
The reaction last year was
just the opposite. Prices on the
1974 models had already
increased close to S6OO in a
stream of price announcements,
and the talk was of another
SSOO jump.
“Almost all the people in the
world came in to buy the ‘74s
before the ‘7ss came out,” said
Jerry Richardson, sales manag
er of Richardson Chevrolet in
Houston. “But business hasn’t
changed that much since the
announcements began this
year.”
Houston is one of the few
areas of the nation that has
escaped the recession and
Richardson said business has
been steady since April. Felton
said he probably won’t have
enough cars to meet his
demand.
But in most areas, it’s the
used car business that’s hot
right now.
GM holds
price hikes
to $206
DETROIT (UPI) - General
Motors will hold price hikes on
its 1976-model cars to an
average $206 in hopes the
lower-than-expected jump won’t
cripple the auto industry’s slow
recovery from its worst slump
since the Depression.
The 4.4 per cent increase
announced by the industry’s
acknowledged pricing leader
Wednesday is lower at the
retail level than the average 6
per cent — S3OO — that auto
executives had talked about
earlier this summer.
In the past two model years,
the average car price has
increased by about SI,OOO.
The price changes ranged
from a S2OB decrease on the
Chevrolet Monza Towne Coupe
to an increase of SBOB on the
sporty Chevrolet Corvette.
GM’s top-of-the-line Cadillac
Fleetwood 75 four-door limou
sine jumped $669, to $15,239.25.
The GM pricing decision,
announced minutes after re
ports from the four U.S.
automakers that early August
new car sales fell 29 per cent
from a year ago to a 14-year
low, was expected to be
followed by its competitors.
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|| Ford checks energy
;g;g VAIL, Colo. (UPI) —President Ford probably will not ;g;g
;g;g announce before tomorrow whether he will appeal a court gg;;
ruling that his $2 tariff on imported oil is illegal, says :;gg
gg:; press secretary Ron Nessen. gg:;
g;g; The President met today with Federal Energy :gg;
;gg: Administrator Frank Zarb at his vacation home to discuss ;gg:
;gg: the court ruling and other energy policy decisions facing ;gg:
gg;: Ford.
Nessen said he assumes Ford will take the appeals court g;g;
g;:g ruling to the Supreme Court in order to establish his ;gg;
:g:g authority to impose the import fees, which he was ;gg:
g;g; considering removing.
|| Battery delays Viking
gijg CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - A powered rain in g§;
gg;: the batteries of the Viking orbiter poised for launch to g;g;
:g:g Mars has caused a second delay in the mission. It meant gg;;
:g:g an end to plans to land the space crcraft on the red planet gg:
:g:g on America’s bicentennial. gig:
Engineers today were removing the defective Viking, gg
sig: which had been scheduled for launch today, from atop a gg
gg: Tita-Centaur rocket to replace it with a sister spacecraft gg
gg: that had been set for launch 10 days after a planned liftoff gg
gg today. gg
Orginal plans called for a Viking lander to touch down gig:
gg on Mars on July 4,1976, as part of the nation’s bicentennial gg:
gg celebration. If the launch now takes place as planned, the gg
gg: lander will touch down two weeks later. Viking Program gg
gg: Manager James Martin said.
|| New shuttle in works?
WASHINGTON (UPI) —There are growing indications gig
iggi peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt have
igig reached the point at which Secretary of State Henry gig
gig Kissinger can return to his shuttle diplomacy. igig
gg Kissinger was to fly to Vail, Colo., to meet with igig
gig; President Ford Friday after today’s speech to agriculture
gig: specialists in Birmingham, Ala. iggi
gigi An Israeli government source said Kissinger is likely to gig:
igig begin a new shuttle that would take him to Syria, Saudi
igig Arabia and Jordan next week. iggi
The Middle East negotiations broke off in March with a igig
gigi depressed Kissinger admitting his attempts to get both
gg;i sides to agree could not surmount years of war.
|| Confrontation
igig LISBON, Portugal (UPI) —The Socialist and iggi
Communist parties called rival rallies in Lisbon today, gg-i
setting the stage for a possible confrontation in their gg;i
gig: violent struggle for power in Portugal. igig
•gig But a group of non-Communist military officers igig
gigi condemned both parties and called for the creation of a g;g;
grass-roots populist movement to run the divided country, -gig
gigi In the latest act of political violence, a mob swelled by gigi
igig farmers attending an agricultural fair burned down ;g;g
Communist headquarters in the northern town of Arcos de gig;
ggi; Valdevez. igig
|| Israel more flexible
iggi TEL AVIV (UPI) —Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ggi;
igig says Israel has become more flexible in its demands for a ggi;
gig; new peace agreement in the Sinai Desert, narrowing the ;ggi
gig; negotiating gap between the two countries.
igig Israeli government sources in Tel Aviv also reported ggi;
ggi; progress but said a number of points were still in dispute.
Sadat, in an interview published Wednesday in the gig;
gig; Beirut magazine Al Hawadess, said Egypt has not bowed ;gg;
gig; to Israeli demands but Israel has made concessions to gig:
;g:g Egypt. ;g;g
“Our demands, Israeli withdrawal from the Mitla and ggi;
gig; Gidi passes and the Abu Rudeis oil fields in the Sinai are g;g;
gig; still the same,” he said. “It is not our stand which has i;gg
gg;i changed. It is the Israeli intransigence which has ggji
ggg changed.” g:g:
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Twins separated
MELBOURNE, Australia—Siamese twin girls born here
and separated in a three-hour operation, sleep in
Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital. The girls, Yew
Tze (1) and Yew Sun (r) were born to Singapore nurse Eu
Cheog-Foo by Caesarian section. Mr. and Mrs. Foo left
two other daughters in Singapore, aged 14 and 10 years,
when the Siamese condition was suspected. The twin girls
are reported doing well and on their way to leading a
normal life. (UPI)
Abernathy pushes
for black veep
ANNISTON, Ala. (UPI) — Years of riding in the back of
Southern Chrsitian Leadership the bus?” he said. “Black
Conference President Ralph D. Americans have nothing to
Abernathy Wednesday urged celebrate.”
blacks to shun the bicentennial Abernathy said blacks are
celebration and political party suffering economic bondage in
activities next year unless a the “racist work ethic” and
black person is a candidate for massive redistribution of in
vice president. come j s needed in the United
States
Abernathy, addressing the
SCLC national convention, said “We’re saying to pharoh
blacks should be willing to Gerald Ford and that racist
support a Republican ticket “if pharoh George Wallace; let our
Sen. Edward Brooke of Massa- people go,” he said,
chusetts is nominated as Dr Vivian Hend
President Ford’s 1976 runrung economist and president rs
ma e ' Clarke College in Atlanta, said
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onen” in the Democratic nartv P°P ulatlon 18 out of work and
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and a black vice presidential continue
candidate should be named by ments
one of the major parties.
“We must begin to attack
The bicentennial has little w here the problem is: public
significance to blacks in view of policy,” he said, calling for
conditions facing them, more court orders, executive
Abernathy said. orders and legislation to in-
“What have we got to crease the economic welfare of
celebrate? Years of slavery? blacks.
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